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🗓️ 7 May 2017
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Paul Lindley is an award-winning British entrepreneur and children's welfare campaigner. He founded organic baby and children's food brand Ella's Kitchen in 2006, and later launched organic toddler toiletries brand Paddy's Bathroom. He also co-founded a social enterprise called The Key is E with former child soldier and international hip-hop artist Emmanuel Jal, and was previously deputy managing director of Nickelodeon UK.
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Paul Lindley on Twitter
https://twitter.com/Paul_Lindley?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Ella’s Kitchen
https://www.ellaskitchen.co.uk/about-us/
The Key is E
Paddy’s Bathroom
https://www.paddysbathroom.com/
Paul Lindley on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lindley
Books:
Little Wins: The Huge Power of Thinking Like a Toddler
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Wins-Power-Thinking-Toddler/dp/0241977940
Topics discussed:
Sir Ken Robinson TED Talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Now-Guide-Spiritual-Enlightenment/dp/0340733500
We shape our buildings…….
founders4schools
https://www.founders4schools.org.uk/about/#/
Westminster Kingsway College
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Kingsway_College
Ashoka
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashoka_(non-profit_organization)
Bite The Ballot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bite_The_Ballot
Toast Ale
Sesame Street
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street
Every Child’s Plate (rap song featuring Paul Lindley & Emmanuel Jal)
https://www.reverbnation.com/emmanueljal/song/22119670-every-childs-plate-feat-paul-lindley
Virgin StartUp
https://www.virginstartup.org/
Mayor of Oklahoma TED talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/mick_cornett_how_an_obese_town_lost_a_million_pounds?language=en
Stuart Brown TED talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/stuart_brown_says_play_is_more_than_fun_it_s_vital
Marshmallow Test TED talk by Peter Skillman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p5sBzMtB3Q
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0:00.0 | What we tend to do as adults is parent our children to conform, whereas they should be discovering the world. |
0:10.0 | But my advice is think like a toddler. Think, think as you once did years ago. |
0:15.0 | But these are kind of the traits of the toddler. Be confident, be creative, dive right in, never give up, get noticed, be honest, show your feelings, have fun and involve others. |
0:27.0 | You know, the work that I do is really around children's welfare to create smarter, stronger and kinder kids. |
0:35.6 | That's what we want. |
0:38.6 | We need innovation in our society and this is where thinking like a toddler, being an outlier, being a risk-taker, is needed. |
0:47.0 | Otherwise we don't move on. Oh, uh, you, uh, you, uh, you, uh, you, uh, you, uh, you, uh, you, uh, you, on you, |
0:59.5 | on you, and on you. I'm going to do. Have you ever been told to stop acting like a baby. |
1:32.6 | Well, this week on the show, we have Paul Lindley, |
1:34.8 | and he's just written a book called Little Wins, |
1:37.4 | where he explains that we need to embrace |
1:40.3 | our inner toddler, as in our little children that are age one to three, |
1:45.0 | they have so many good habits |
1:47.0 | that as adults we should embrace to make our lives better, |
1:50.0 | to make the workplace better. |
1:52.0 | And Paul's actually the founder of Ella's kitchen, |
1:54.1 | which revolutionized baby food here in the UK. |
1:57.0 | And his message is to really embrace these base feelings |
2:01.1 | we have as a human and to act on them and that's actually |
2:04.4 | going to make us more successful people in the workplace and really just better |
2:08.6 | as humans and I love spending time with Paul he's got a real heart for charities all around the world in Africa |
2:15.4 | because he was actually born there and he named his companies after his kids because |
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