#130 Sam Conniff Allende: Why We Need To Rewrite The Rules
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emma gannon
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🗓️ 18 May 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Sam Conniff Allende is a multi award-winning serial social entrepreneur, acclaimed public speaker, consultant and author of Be More Pirate.
Be More Pirate (or How To Take On The World and Win) is out now by Penguin Random House and is a manifesto for radical action and change based on the true and untold strategy and success of the Golden Age of Pirates as agents of change, leadership and social innovation.
Sam is a brilliant public speaker on a range of topics and has worked with clients ranging from Netflix to PlayStation, Facebook and Google.
He is on board of Livity, a youth-led creative network and has helped thousands of young people across the world.
In this episode we discuss trusting your instinct, defining success, how success is a mess, why you should break rules and how to take back power into your own hands.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Control-Or Delete is sponsored by King Fisher, the company behind |
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| 0:55.3 | for sponsoring this podcast. Welcome back to another episode of Control-Alt Delete. |
| 1:00.3 | I'm back in your ears with another amazing guest. People often ask me how I choose my |
| 1:06.8 | guests for this podcast and it's a really hard one to really sum up or tell anyone about because it really is on gut instinct. |
| 1:15.2 | I just want to interview people that have a good vibe about and I guess that's something |
| 1:20.1 | that you can't really put your finger on. |
| 1:22.2 | But it's definitely the case for this |
| 1:24.5 | guest. I have wanted to interview Sam Conif, Alende for ages. He has a book out. It's just |
| 1:30.8 | come out called Be More Pirate or How to Take on the World and |
| 1:34.9 | win and it's out now with Penguin and it's really quite amazing the book and the |
| 1:40.3 | message behind it is something I totally agree with and all of my work totally aligns with. |
| 1:46.4 | So really so happy to have him on the podcast. |
| 1:50.0 | The book is a manifesto for radical action and changed and it's based on the true and untold successes of the golden age of pirates. |
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