I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to slow more. going to take me a bit of time to introduce my guest for today.

So you may have enjoyed our conversation back in November 2020. Bruce Dasely was my guest here on

Slomo where we spoke about the joy of work, how we can include happiness in our workplace.

It was episode number 59 if you'd like to go back and listen to it. He used to be the head of YouTube in the UK for four years before he became

the president of Twitter in Europe, which he was for 12 years. And then he decided to shift his career to focus on creating work

environments that are joyful not only productive his first book book, The Joy of Work, has been quite a success. It's been a Sunday Times

number one bestseller in spring 2019. The Financial Times made it the book of the month and it was shortlisted for

CMI Management Book of the Year. During lockdown he had an audible original, no office required, which was in the top 10 audio books on its release,

date January 2021, and he keeps writing, and his book that we're going to discuss today is about resilience driven by what I believe is a very personal

approach to the topic a very personal story if you want it's called Fortitude and it is really, as Bruce always does, a less harsh take that brings a bit of joy, a bit of community, a bit of understanding of what it is that we actually need to find

resilience and fortitude. I'm scrolling through my phone because there is so much and I don't want to

forget it. In his business career he was awarded the greatest

individual contribution to new media award by Media Age. He's been rated as the top leader in the UK sector by campaign magazine.

In survey of CEOs and MDs in 2020 he was named the Fantasy Hire, which is one of the leaders that is most desired to be hired in an organization,

which other candidates were or other winners of that award before him were Jeff Bayshors and

Elon Musk.

I don't think that it's just his knowledge that really brings a difference to the workplace.

I think it's his commitment to understanding that there are certain human qualities

that are not just part of capitalism and working hard and pushing hard that makes

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