The Happiness of Pursuit

Achieve Any Goal | Michiel Stokman | Co-founder & CEO BOTS

Michiel and his co-founders and team are on a big mission. They want to make investing possible for anyone with 10 bucks and a smartphone. He and his co-founders are well on their way with a team of 50 and a presence in 13 international markets.  To enable the team to achieve their big mission, Michiel is writing a book: The BOTS secret to achieve any goal. For Michiel, one of the most essential secrets to achieve any goal is to make goals big so it truly activates every nerve cell in your body and becomes a magnet for anyone who will help you reach it.  He will let you in on his story of business and personal growth: * How he and the team went from impossible mission to impossible mission and somehow reach them * When getting money from family and friends as an investment in BOTS really got him the shivers * Why focus and having your story straight will result in finding a solution for any problem

Growth | Daan Bakker (Tech Growth Leader)

There is a realm of understated and neglected growth overseen by most people. And that is personal growth. In this podcast we explore how growth in any domain, follows personal growth as the leading influence. A genuine story by Daan Bakker of the adventures of growing business and growing personally, including all the obstacles. Listen in on how he got in to working with big brands like 365Scores, 433 and Virtuagym. He suggests focus as a means of personal and career growth: "Do you want to watch videos of cats? Or do you want to learn from people who are at where you would like to be?". Learn from Daan's perspective on patience, not worrying about the opinions of the external environment, making your own choices and to DO rather than only strategize.

Happy Work | Maaz Kahn (Happiness & Design Researcher)

We spend 1/3 of our waking hours on work. But we do not always succeed at making work a contribution to our happiness. It’s not an easy exercise to figure out what you want to do and how you want to do it. So it requires work to figure out your work. Maaz Khan published his research on happiness within organizations. Listen in on a conversation about our human needs that need to be fulfilled in a working context. How can we reflect on what work makes us happy? How can sharing your personal story help in being more happy with work? And what can you do to better understand who you are and what you need to be fulfilled?

Core Values | Rody Turpijn (Head of Organization Wundermart)

Our core values define our deepest beliefs. Our beliefs govern our decisions, our decisions generate our actions and our actions become our behaviours. The core values of a startup define the primary beliefs of the company based on which the team acts. Core values echo the company’s soul. So why would you define your core values as a company and why should you embrace them as an employee? In a conversation with Rody Turpijn (Heart of Organization at Wundermart) we highlight why core values are important for a company and what they can mean in building the team and running the team. Wundermart is a fast growing Dutch retail and SaaS startup (wundermart.io).