Rahim Hirji is the author of SuperSkills: The Seven Human Skills for the Age of AI (Kogan Page, 2026) and founder of The SuperSkills Intelligence Company. A London-based keynote speaker and advisor, he helps organisations build the human capability to thrive alongside AI. He believes the future belongs to people who can think clearly when machines think faster. That the skills that matter most in the next decade are not technical. They are curiosity, judgement, adaptability,...
Jun 25
53 min
Masuma Ahuja is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, strategist and author. She works with founders, funders, and institutions on designing solutions to sticky, systemic problems. Her upcoming book, The Infrastructure of Belonging, is out October 2026 and is the subject of this podcast conversation. She talks about the power of scaling down the world to a dinner table - which is where our worlds collide and how this conversation begins. You can read her essays on Substack: https://sub...
Jun 11
1 hr 7 min
Dr Anna Sulan Masing is a Writer, Poet and Academic. In her book "Chinese and Any Other Asian: Exploring East and South East Asian Identity in Britain", she explores the vast history of othering and belonging for East and Southeast Asians in the UK, and what it means to be East and Southeast Asian in Britain today. She says this: "I sometimes say I am half white or half Iban Malaysian, but I feel much messier than a half. I feel like my identity spills out of everything and doesn't easi...
Apr 28
51 min
In this episode of Let’s Crew & Riot, I speak with Nicholas Thompson - CEO of The Atlantic and author of The Running Ground. We begin with a line from his book that I couldn't stop thinking about: "A parent has one obligation… unending love. There's no blueprint and there's only one rule. The kids get to decide if the parent meets the standard." From there, we explore the complexity of loving someone who is both formative and, at times, damaging - and what it means to hold contradi...
Apr 3
28 min
A departure from regular programming to share a conversation with my 16 year old daughter on Mother's Day, sitting on her bed in our pyjamas, speaking into a phone. I asked questions like : When do you feel most like yourself? What do you think adults forget about being young? What does power mean to you? When do you feel powerful and when do you feel powerless? What do you think mothers worry about too much? I parked my mummy brain, I got curious, I took feedback, I got a peek into h...
Mar 16
39 min
Amy Daroukakis is Founder of Culture Concierge, providing global businesses, agencies and innovative start-ups with strategic insights (culture, category, citizen, company) and emergent trends. Amy is 'curious agnostic' and enjoys getting 'lost on purpose.' In this conversation, we get lost on purpose with a 'brain dance' in that liminal space of being messy, inquiring, and inherently human. Find out more here: https://cultureconcierge.co/ Learn more at https://www.cre...
Jul 13, 2025
1 hr 3 min
Haris & Chloe are a a husband and wife duo who photograph and film multicultural weddings. Haris is of Italian-Pakistani descent from London, and Chloe is a Chinese-Malaysian who grew up constantly on the move due to her father’s profession. In this conversation, we explore everything from the need to hold space for cultural nuance and unspoken dynamics in weddings to breaking free from pre-determined 'wedding formulas' in order to capture the complexity of multicultural unions. &nb...
Jun 28, 2025
52 min
Rajeev Balasubramanyam is a British writer. His first novel, IN BEAUTIFUL DISGUISES won a Betty Trask Prize and was nominated for the Guardian First Fiction Prize. In 2004 he was awarded the Clarissa Luard Prize for the best British writer under the age of 35. His latest novel is PROFESSOR CHANDRA FOLLOWS HIS BLISS which is translated into six languages and was the Bookseller’s book of the month in June 2019. Rajeev holds a PhD in English, and degrees from the universities of Oxford and Cambr...
May 26, 2025
52 min
Rebecca Robins is co-author of 'Five Generations at work: How we Win Together for Good. The book starts with a quote by Anne Carson - ‘To stay human is to break a limitation.’ Ultimately this is what we discuss (alongside core themes in the book - Intergenerational Collaboration, Respect, Curiosity and most of all - Mutuality). A linguist and philosopher by background we go down many rabbit holes that are ultimately about what it means (to quote John Berger) "defy the space...
May 18, 2025
1 hr 1 min
Dr Rageshri Dhairwayan is an NHS Consultant in Sexual Health and HIV Medicine. Her book 'Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing' takes us on a journey through history to show how not listening to patients has been ingrained in medicine from its inception. Western medicine has been built on the assumption that power should always lie with the doctor, and that patients should be powerless to decisions made about their body if it is done to make them well. This, alongside the pr...
May 2, 2025
48 min
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