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The Ideas Lab Podcast

Sep 23, 2020

What is the impact on us as human beings when we never have a single spare moment, when we fill every minute with doing something productive, or even looking at our phones in order to kill time?

That's a question that gripped Laurence Shorter after he'd written a really successful book and toured it around the world...


Sep 17, 2020

This episode of the podcast is a real adventure. It's one of my favourites. Charlie Thuillier was on a world record breaking kite buggy adventure with his brother Harry in Brazil, when he had a great idea, which was partly inspired by reading my first book, Screw Work Let's Play on a beach in Brazil.

That idea was to...


Sep 10, 2020

A special episode on John’s new bestselling book ‘F**k Work Let’s Play: Do what you love and get paid for it’ and how to get a free ticket to the world’s first F**k Work Day.

See fworkletsplay.com for more details on the special offer


Sep 9, 2020

If you want to start a movement that changes the way people all around the world think about a particular topic, then this will be a really interesting conversation for you to listen to.

Jody Day is the founder of Gateway Women, which has helped millions of women around the world to come to terms with involuntary...


Sep 2, 2020

When I first met Sam Bombas and Harry Parr over a decade ago, they were just a couple of young guys doing some wacky things with food, including creating breathable cocktails and designer jellies.

I thought what they were doing was so interesting and so playful, that I featured them in my first book Screw Worl...