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09/02/2023

🚨 New episode alert: Chris Hitchins - ‘A Hitch in the City’

This week Vivian is joined by Christopher Hitchins, UK Managing Partner of ‘Transatlantic firm of the year’, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP.

As well as being one of the UK’s top employment lawyers and leading one of the city’s fastest growing firms, Chris is also that rarest of beasts; a straight-talking lawyer who isn’t afraid to be brutally honest about his own privilege, his personal failings and the sometimes-toxic culture of top law firms.

Like many lawyers, Chris feared his biggest failure was (initially) not making partner, but the real ‘failure’ came after he’d made partner when, at a previous firm, he found himself presiding over the very type of toxic culture he’d strived to avoid.

At that point, Chris’s story took a dramatic turn when a health crisis threatened to destroy his career but also left him with a strange ‘superpower’ and new sense of perspective.
Listen here to hear Chris’s story and the lessons he’s learned about building a positive work culture: https://smarturl.it/TheFailureHypothesis

09/02/2023

New episode alert: Chris Hitchins - ‘A Hitch in the City’

This week Vivian is joined by Christopher Hitchins, UK Managing Partner of ‘Transatlantic firm of the year’, Katten Law .

As well as being one of the UK’s top employment lawyers and leading one of the city’s fastest growing firms, Chris is also that rarest of beasts; a straight-talking lawyer who isn’t afraid to be brutally honest about his own privilege, his personal failings and the sometimes-toxic culture of top law firms.

Like many lawyers, Chris feared his biggest failure was (initially) not making partner, but the real ‘failure’ came after he’d made partner when, at a previous firm, he found himself presiding over the very type of toxic culture he’d strived to avoid.

At that point, Chris’s story took a dramatic turn when a health crisis threatened to destroy his career but also left him with a strange ‘superpower’ and new sense of perspective.

Listen here to hear Chris’s story and the lessons he’s learned about building a positive work culture: https://smarturl.it/TheFailureHypothesis

01/08/2022

A great quote from .lucca on why we shouldn’t be prisoners of our job titles…

Check out the full episode to hear the whole discussion on this and also Roberta’s take on the classic founder v CEO conundrum.

Tap the link in our bio to listen 🎧 🎙 📱

21/07/2022

This week’s guest is Roberta Lucca, the BAFTA-winning founder of leading games developer Bossa Studios, host of the podcast ‘Hyper Curious’ and ‘The Apprentice’ guest judge. Roberta joins Vivian to share the story of her ‘difficult second album’. From the high of winning that BAFTA with Bossa (which Roberta says taught her nothing except that it was possible!) to the painful and personal lows of having to close down her next business.

As you’d expect from someone chosen to advise Lord Sugar and a self-described ‘entrepreneurial anarchist’, Roberta doesn’t hold back in challenging traditional thinking or cosy assumptions. Whether it’s the need for founders to be honest with themselves about where their strengths lie, how leaders can become trapped by job titles or her thought-provoking take on the failure hypothesis.

As Roberta says ‘low moments happen in slow motion, high moments happen on fast forward’ which is why recording this episode flew by for us.

Listen to the episode in full here: https://smarturl.it/TheFailureHypothesis

15/07/2022

Amazing response to Fortune-500 CEO turned private equity titan turned author Scott Mackin's () episode.

Thanks again to Scott for his brutal honesty in sharing his story of facing corporate bankruptcy, divorce and the prospect of fatal heart disease.

And thank you also to the hundreds of people who’ve already listened to Scott’s story over the last week and everyone who has followed, shared and liked the show.

For those who haven’t had the chance to listen yet here’s a snippet where Scott talks about the encroaching shadow of the Enron scandal as he battled to save his own Fortune-500 company.

Tap the link in our bio to listen to the episode in full!

07/07/2022

This week’s guest is private equity titan-turned-author, Scott Mackin, who went from being made CEO of a Fortune-500 company at 42 to facing bankruptcy, divorce, and the prospect of fatal heart disease soon after. Scott joins Vivian Chan to discuss all these topics and more.

No subject is off-limits as Scott shares the hard-earned lessons of this lowest point of his life, a difficult childhood, and a long career spent at the sharp end of the energy industry. From leading an energy company in the shadow of the Enron scandal to investing in the energy technologies and leaders of the future.

Scott’s remarkable journey is a testament to the power of sticking to your values, living up to your responsibilities, and treating those two imposters of triumph and failure just the same.

Listen here: https://smarturl.it/TheFailureHypothesis


23/06/2022

In our first episode, our host Dr Vivian Chan takes up the challenge to be brutally honest about failure by going first in the hot-seat. To find out how Vivian’s inability to let go of work led to a personal and health crisis point and how a simple question from an old-friend led to some life-changing realisations about the true meaning of failure and success listen to the episode here: https://smarturl.it/TheFailureHypothesis

The Failure Hypothesis

13/06/2022

Introducing... The Failure Hypothesis!

Over the course of this new podcast series, Dr Vivian Chan takes us on a deep dive into the hidden failure stories of some of the world’s most interesting and successful leaders. Among an incredible array of guests are a private equity titan, a BAFTA-winning Apprentice judge, a renowned scientist, and a Webby-award-winning podcast legend.

Stay tuned later this week for more info!



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