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Forum Radio

Forum Radio

33 episodes

2 weeks ago

Send us a text In this episode, host Jessica Fellowes talks to Arnaud Saint Paul (New York/LA/Paris) during Forum 500 in New York. Arnaud's purpose is to help one billion people to open their hearts by pioneering his Heartful Method™. A philanthropist and award-winning serial software, finance, and social impact entrepreneur for more than 20 years, Arnaud has supported leaders around the world in building a heart-based economy — an ecosystem where inner alignment becomes the driver of outer s...

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Entrepreneurship

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Send us a text In this episode, host Jessica Fellowes talks to Arnaud Saint Paul (New York/LA/Paris) during Forum 500 in New York. Arnaud's purpose is to help one billion people to open their hearts by pioneering his Heartful Method™. A philanthropist and award-winning serial software, finance, and social impact entrepreneur for more than 20 years, Arnaud has supported leaders around the world in building a heart-based economy — an ecosystem where inner alignment becomes the driver of outer s...

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Entrepreneurship

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Forum Radio

Forum Radio: Arnaud Saint Paul

Send us a text In this episode, host Jessica Fellowes talks to Arnaud Saint Paul (New York/LA/Paris) during Forum 500 in New York. Arnaud's purpose is to help one billion people to open their hearts by pioneering his Heartful Method™. A philanthropist and award-winning serial software, finance, and social impact entrepreneur for more than 20 years, Arnaud has supported leaders around the world in building a heart-based economy — an ecosystem where inner alignment becomes the driver of outer s...

3 weeks ago

22 minutes

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Forum Radio: Simon Kaye

Send us a text Forum Radio talks to Simon Kaye, an Englishman in New York. Simon is a third-generation transportation professional as CEO of Jaguar Freight, founded by him just over thirty years ago. In this episode, Simon talks about the challenges of international logistics and how these have changed in the last five years, as well as moving from a company that had several offices to managing an entirely remote team. 'We do a number of things to ensure that we keep the company c...

3 weeks ago

16 minutes

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Forum Radio: David Kirshenbaum

Send us a text Jessica Fellowes talks to David Kirshenbaum (Chicago), founder of MeadeCo, a Chicago-based merchant bank that works with companies on capital needs, business sales, restructuring and strategic connections. Given his extensive professional experience, we discussed the evolution of his career, what he's focused on now and how he believes larger economic and geopolitical trends are shaping the landscape. As well as the difficulty of describing what it is he does: "My family ...

1 month ago

20 minutes

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Forum Radio: Patrick Aisher

Send us a text Forum Radio this week talks to Patrick Aisher (Gstaad), an Anglo-Austrian entrepreneur who has been involved in early-stage ventures since 1990. Over the course of his career, he has created or invested in more than fifty companies and has seen exits through IPOs in London, New York, and Madrid, as well as multiple trade sales and licensing deals. Patrick is Chairman of Kinled Holding, a private investment company originally founded in Hong Kong, which now operates from offices...

1 month ago

27 minutes

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Forum Radio: Lila Charif

Send us a text Lila Charif (Milan) is a Naturopathic Nutritional Therapist, cookbook author, former fashion entrepreneur and wellness advocate. Born in Iran and raised in France, Lila spent two decades in New York, a decade in London and several years in Paris before settling in Milan in 2025. Passionate about her work, Lila talks to Forum Radio host Jessica Fellowes about her rigorous training and her approach to nutrition and health, one which integrates food, culture and lifest...

1 month ago

26 minutes

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Forum Radio: Steven Hirth

Send us a text Steven Hirth (New York) is a longstanding friend and member of Forum 500. Both the consummate East Coast gentleman and a true international, Steven travels widely throughout the year for both work and pleasure. He is the Founder and Principal of S.H.Hirth and Associates, an international merchant banking boutique modelled after pre-World War II European merchant banks. His family office concentrates on North and Central American real estate and global private equities. St...

1 month ago

26 minutes

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Forum Radio: Nathalie Latham

Send us a text Nathalie Latham (Tamil Nadu) was a documentary film maker and photographer until cancer halted her life. Now, she has re-emerged as an artist, with a beautiful book about her treatment, recovery and emergence into her new phase of life. 'I AM ALIVE" is a testament to resilience and creativity, and how the two intertwine. With eloquence and humour, Nathalie talks to Jessica Fellowes about how it felt to surrender to the process of intensive treatment, her move to India and her w...

2 months ago

30 minutes

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Forum Radio: Elizabeth Linder

Send us a text Elizabeth Linder (Florida/London) has spoken at several Forum events, and we are honoured to have her as our guest this week. She has an extraordinarily insightful mind that manages to encompass the ever-expanding worlds of geopolitics, social media and leadership. She is so clever, in fact, that she although she has worked for Google, YouTube, Facebook and Chatham House, she has never held a position with an existing job description. Now founder and Chief Diplomatic Officer of...

2 months ago

26 minutes

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Forum Radio: Roozbeh Aliabadi

Send us a text Roozbeh Aliabadi (Lisbon) is an AI education entrepreneur, geopolitical commentator and former military service member with expertise in the Middle East, Central Asia and geo-economics. His insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the BBC, USA Today and now Forum Radio! Roozbeh talks to Jessica Fellowes about his mission to make AI education accessible worldwide, as co-founder of ReadyAI. Roozbeh is also an enthusiastic resident of Lisbon, keen to welcome his fel...

2 months ago

20 minutes

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Forum Radio: Doris Hangartner

Send us a text Doris loves gemstones. After listening to this episode, you'll understand why – and perhaps have a different appreciation for them yourself. Sitting in her beautiful atelier in Zurich, Forum member Doris Hangartner talks to Jessica Fellowes about her passion for gemology, how she matches personalities to stones, and the changing landscape of gem portfolios with recent discoveries of new and valuable stones. "I started buying stones for myself and the company in 2012 ...

2 months ago

27 minutes

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Forum Radio: Jan Garde

Send us a text The luckiest amongst us will enjoy living to a grand old age, but are any of us looking forward to those years? Zurich member Jan Garde is on a mission to ensure that we are... As founder of The Embassies of Good Living, Jan is building mixed-use developments combining retail, leisure and serviced living in the hearts of the world's most amazing cities. The focus on 'contemporary hospitality' is all about what's possible rather than necessary. Most surprisingly, the entry point...

3 months ago

21 minutes

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Forum Radio: Raphael Roettgen

Send us a text Would you invest in space? Raphael Roettgen (Zurich) talks to Jessica Fellowes about the ever-expanding universe for investment and why you don't have to be a rocket scientist to get into it. Raphael is the founding partner of E2MC, a space-focused early-stage venture capital firm with over 25 space investments to date. As a pioneering and complex VC, he lectures on space entrepreneurship and finance at several universities, is an accomplished podcaster in his own right w...

3 months ago

24 minutes

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Forum Radio: Tracy Hall

Send us a text Tracy Hall is a former speaker for Forum in Singapore, talking here to Jessica Fellowes about her devastating experience as ‘the last victim’ of serial conman Hamish McLaren, currently in jail for fraud estimated at the value of $60-80m worldwide. Tracy talks to Jessica Fellowes here about the financial and emotional fall out of realising that the love of her life, the man she knew as Max, had defrauded her of her life savings and broken her heart. There’s practical advic...

3 months ago

21 minutes

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Forum Radio: Bala Chandra

Send us a text Bala Chandra (Dubai) talks to Jessica Fellowes this week about ‘inorganic growth,’ how having a performance psychologist in his staff transformed his company and what Harvard Business school did teach him. Bala grew up in India and when he first arrived in London as a programmer, he came down to breakfast and couldn’t understand why he was the only person in the room. He had no idea that such a concept as daylight saving time existed! Now, Bala is the founder of technolog...

3 months ago

20 minutes

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Forum Radio: Parag Khanna

Send us a text This week’s episode of Forum Radio is with Parag Khanna. Technically a Singapore member, Parag is perhaps more accurately a citizen of the world, having travelled to more than 150 countries and lived in several of them. A leading global strategy advisor, founder and CEO of Climate Alpha, author of several books – most recently, 'Move' – and a frequent speaker at Forum events, you can hear in this interview about the childhood that inspired his career, how he learned to challeng...

3 months ago

19 minutes

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Forum Radio: Erkin Bek

Send us a text Series Two of Forum Radio begins with Erkin Bek. As most of us would like to find a way to prolong the tranquility of our summer rest into our autumn work schedule, Erkin is the one to teach us how to do it. Founder of the All Here Organisation and the World Meditation League, Erkin is a scientifically accomplished meditation practitioner but comes to it from a background as an entrepreneur – albeit one who wanted to make the shift from the material world. 'What I was looking f...

4 months ago

21 minutes

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Forum Radio: Juliet Stannard

Send us a text Juliet Stannard is our guest this week on Forum Radio. A longstanding member, Juliet moved to Singapore from Britain in 1993, and has built a successful career in property in the region. Juliet also talks movingly about the tragedy her family suffered in the Asian tsunami of 2004, and how they came through it with the support of friends. Since then, there have been further challenges but Juliet's extraordinary resilience, and that of her children, has kept them close.&nbs...

5 months ago

14 minutes

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Forum Radio: Simon Jacot de Boinod

Send us a text This week is a special edition of Forum Radio – an interview with Forum’s founder, Simon Jacot de Boinod. Interviewed by his wife and co-founder, Jessica, Simon talks about how he came to create Forum and the exciting plans that are now in place for Forum 500, our future iteration of the club, launching in Singapore later this year. ‘I do see an opportunity for Forum 500 to be a think tank of practitioners. With careful positioning, I can see the outside world looking in...

6 months ago

26 minutes

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Forum Radio: Ziad Salloum

Send us a text Ziad Salloum (Abu Dhabi) talks to Jessica Fellowes about his legal practice, advising governments and corporations in the UAE and elsewhere, his knighthoods from Italy and the Vatican, and how his father inspired him. Ziad grew up in the UAE – 'I used to be asked if I went to school on a camel' – and discusses the common misconceptions of the region that still exist today, as well as the exciting and fast-paced developments currently happening. 'Women enjoy the ...

6 months ago

18 minutes

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Forum Radio: Betsy Pearce

Send us a text Betsy Pearce (New York) talks to Jessica Fellowes about her work as a lawyer and strategic advisor for creative businesses. In the past, Betsy has overseen deals with with fashion giants such as Alexander McQueen and Gucci. She talks about how investors need guidance into how creatives work, and creatives need to understand the demands made by investment – sometimes the twain do not meet! 'Ninety to 94 per cent of investors have to go through a succession crisis, whi...

6 months ago

14 minutes