Vladi and Nektarios are back together for the first Naked episode of a new year. They discuss a topic that they have touched upon previously: the power of speaking up and feeling empowered to call out someone’s bad behaviour, something that is often difficult to do in a business situation.

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As we come to the end of another year, Vladi and Nektarios pause and look back on the past 12 months. Topics they cover in this episode, include: imposter syndrome; co-founder conflict; investors and the role they play; neurodiversity; self-awareness; identity, and many more.

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“My escape was to try and be good at things, for no other reasons than for people to like me… I was seeking validation.” Our next podcast guest is Chris Howard, a reluctant founder and somebody who prefers the term ‘creator’. Chris joins us to talk about how he started building a business to fix things in his life and to seek validation from others.

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Vladi and Nektarios are back with a new episode, covering a number of themes we’ve heard on Naked before. They catch up and talk about being triggered, the power of visualisation in times when you’re feeling overwhelmed and having a choice.

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“Entrepreneurship has definitely been the most challenging thing I’ve ever done, forget about the army.” Imagine you show up to a meeting and you can sense that people don’t know what to do with you. Imagine you go for a job interview and you hear “you’re not what we are looking for”. These experiences open up a lot of questions and our podcast guest, Nemo D’Qrill, has started a business to address them from their own experience.

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Vladi and Nektarios reconnect and share what’s been happening in their working and personal lives over the past few weeks.

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In our first LinkedIn Live episode of NAKED, Vladi and Nektarios discuss the dynamic between entrepreneurs and investors, and the impact that relationship can have on an entrepreneur's mental health.

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At the same time as drawing attention to the subject of mental wellbeing for entrepreneurs, we must acknowledge that the reasons why entrepreneurs experience mental health challenges are still largely unaddressed. Lisa Mikkelsen, Head of Global Human Capital at Flourish Ventures, joins NAKED for this special investor focused episode, to share how the Fund’s partners lead by example.

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This week’s episode is a special one as Vladi and Nektarios talk about the role of investors on entrepreneurial mental health and the fundraising experience.

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This week Vladi and Nektarios discuss a topic we’ve talked about a few times on NAKED - co-founder conflict. They talk about the constant work that is required and their relationships with their co-founders.

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Vladi and Nektarios reflect on their past conversation with Dame Kelly Holmes after she came out as gay at the age of 52. Nektarios shares his views on how this news impacted him, as well as Pride month and sexuality.

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“I can’t do this, I have to let you down. And I walked away, without any real idea as to what I was going to do next.” This is the moment that Drew Graham realised how broken he was, and had to prioritise his health over business. Drew is a serial business builder and joins NAKED to talk about his entrepreneurial (& corporate) journey.

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Vladi and Nektarios revisit the recent conversations they’ve had on the podcast about neurodiversity. They reflect on the episodes with Nick Cavuoto and Sam Handfield-Jones.

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“I think we should all be our own magical versions of weirdness. And if someone doesn’t like your weirdness, it's probably because they’re just hiding their own.” Continuing our neurodiversity series, Sam Handfield-Jones joins NAKED. Sam is an angel investor, builder of things and advocate for talking about ADHD, something he lives with himself.

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“The path of entrepreneurship is one of the hardest. You have to open every closet and confront every demon in your life that’s going to hold you back from every business opportunity. It's a mirror to self.” In the first episode of our neurodiversity series, Nick Cavuoto joins NAKED. Nick is a serial entrepreneur who discovered late in life that he has ADD, Attention Deficit Disorder.

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Vladi and Nektarios are back together after a few weeks away. They reflect on their last NAKED conversation about grief, their current energy levels and recognising behaviours that have an impact on their mental health.

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Andra Sonea joins NAKED to talk about her journey from corporate career to entrepreneur, and the obstacles she faced along the way, including a tough immigration process, imposter syndrome, belonging and identity.

“But where is that coming from? Why is that a thing? Why is it maybe a man thing, I actually, the more I talk about it, the more I personally think on this topic, I tend to talk about it more as a patriarchy thing than a man thing..”

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“You’re not special, and that’s OK - and your business wasn’t that great anyway.” A key point in our conversation with Dr. Michael Freeman, who returned to the NAKED podcast to talk about the relationship between grief and entrepreneurs, and the learning process of business builders.

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“As entrepreneurs we don’t like the phrase ‘work life balance’ because it indicates that work and life are like Ying and Yang. We like work life integration.” Serial entrepreneur, Bjorn Lee, joined our first live episode of NAKED, as part of Audacity’s Permacolony week in Singapore.

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In this week’s episode Vladi and Nektarios talk about grief, health and conflicting emotions, amidst the current state of the world. They discuss how to deal with a situation and having a platform and a voice, as well as whether there is a line between business as usual, and an awareness of what is happening.

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