The Mojo Sessions

The Mojo Sessions

The Mojo Sessions features in-depth conversations with the world's most interesting people. Hosted by Gary Bertwistle, who has collected a catalogue of over three hundred interviews with some of the world's most interesting minds, The Mojo Sessions podcast series takes a minimalist approach that focuses on the guest and brings you valuable and memorable conversations.

Episodes

EP 611: Jeffrey Sanow - Reading People in High-Pressure Environments

June 12, 2025 • 82 mins
Jeffrey Sanow, a former senior intelligence officer with the CIA, spent decades navigating high-pressure environments where reading people wasn’t just a skill—it was a matter of survival. How do you make decisions when the stakes couldn’t be higher? Starting as a Peace Corps volunteer, followed by over two decades of service in the Central Intelligence Agency, ...
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EP 610: Anne-Laure Le Cunff - The Scientific Method of Running Tiny Experiments

May 29, 2025 • 62 mins
Anne-Laure Le Cunff, a former Googler, decided to go back to university to pursue a PhD in neuroscience. The founder of Ness Labs and author of the widely read newsletter, Anne-Laure is the foremost expert on mindful productivity and systematic curiosity. As a neuroscientist, Anne-Laure writes about evidence-based ways to navigate uncertainty and make the most ...
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EP 609: Jenny Wood - What Could You Do If You Had Wild Courage?

May 15, 2025 • 62 mins
It was a spur-of-the-moment decision. Former Google leader Jenny Wood chased an attractive stranger off the subway, and later married him. That moment forever changed Jenny's life. It took courage - Wild Courage. In her new book, 'Wild Courage: Go After What You Want and Get It', Jenny challenges conventional wisdom about achieving your goals, giving the permis...
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EP 608: Melli O'Brien - Developing Deep Resilience to Face Today's Challenges

May 1, 2025 • 78 mins
Melli O’Brien wrote ‘Deep Resilience: A Four-Step Journey to Unshakable Inner Strength,’ giving us a step-by-step guide to navigating life’s challenges. The book is for those who might feel overwhelmed by life’s whirlwind pace, crave calm, and seek the strength to build confidence. In 2025, Mindful magazine named Melli one of the most powerful women in th...
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EP 607: Michele Rigby Assad - The CIA Undercover Operative Breaks Cover

April 17, 2025 • 70 mins
Most of us have heard stories about the CIA, but we rarely get the chance to look behind the curtain and gain insight into their secretive operations. Michele Rigby Assad lived a lie during her career as a CIA operative in the Middle East. With extensive experience in the Arab world, she developed the ability to interpret and navigate risks while designin...
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EP 606: Martha McSally - Do Things Afraid, Dare to Fly

April 3, 2025 • 70 mins
Former US Senator Martha McSally was the first ever US female combat fighter pilot, and then became the first female Air Force officer to command a fighter squadron. Having survived a sexual predator in high school, rape by a military superior and the many bureaucratic barriers that were put in her way, Martha had the iron constitution to deal with these many s...
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EP 605: David Robson - The Profound Impact Expectation Can Have on Our Lives

March 21, 2025 • 59 mins
David Robson is a British award-winning science writer specialising in medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. David's work has appeared in the Guardian, the Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic. He's worked as a features editor at New Scientist and as a senior journalist at the BBC. He's written a number of books, including The Intelligence Trap, The E...
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EP 604: Rajeev Peshawaria - When the Mission Really Becomes the Mission

March 6, 2025 • 61 mins
Rajeev Peshawaria, CEO of Stewardship Asia Singapore, is the former Chief Learning Officer: Coca-Cola and Morgan Stanley, a TEDx Speaker, and a Wall Street Journal bestselling author. His latest book, "Sustainable Sustainability", discusses why frameworks such as Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) are insufficient to address today's existential challenges, both global an...
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EP 603: Dr David Lipman - The Healthy High Performing Corporate Athlete Playbook

February 20, 2025 • 84 mins
Dr David Lipman is a medical doctor & exercise physiologist who’s transitioned into startups. David specialises in what he calls the nexus between health and performance, specifically focusing on longevity, healthspan and our use of technology. He would describe himself as a ‘specialist generalist’, and he takes pride in a macro approach while remaining firmly rooted in science, ...
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EP 602: Dan Cockerell - Lessons From a Lifetime of Leadership at Disney

February 5, 2025 • 71 mins
Dan Cockerell started at the Walt Disney Company as a parking attendant and 26 years later was it's Vice President, leading 12,000 cast members at the largest theme park in the world, the Magic Kingdom Park. Dan had nineteen different roles with Disney, including 5 years at the Disneyland Paris Resort. Dan left Disney to start...
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EP 601: Jay Malkoun - A Life From the Comanchero & Pentridge to the Corporate Boardroom

January 23, 2025 • 68 mins
Jay Malkoun served 10 years for heroin trafficking, was the president of the feared Comancheros motorcycle gang, and in March 2019, a car bomb outside a gym in Athens detonated the Mercedes he was sitting in. It was an explosion heard around the world as global media, law enforcement agencies, and underworld cartels speculated on who had moved to assassinate the former gangster a...
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EP 525: Matthew Dicks - The Building Blocks of Great Storytelling

December 19, 2024 • 72 mins
Matthew Dicks makes stories come alive. He began competing in live storytelling events in New York City in 2011 and is a record 58-time Moth StorySLAM winner and 9-time GrandSLAM champion. Fortune 500 companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Slack, and Salesforce hire Matt to inject the power of storytelling into their sales and marketing, corporate trainin...
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EP 524: Nick Kush - The Mindset of an Explosive Ordnance Device Specialist

December 5, 2024 • 95 mins
Imagine kneeling before a bomb. Your job, deactivate. How do you calm your nerves? Nick Kush was a Seal Team Explosive Ordnance Device Technician serving 20 years in Special Ops. With combat tours to Iraq and Afghanistan, Nick was the EOD for Task Unit Bruiser under the command of JOCKO Willink in Ramadi. The EODs are the guys called to deactivate an IED improvised explosive devi...
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EP 523: Rajeev Kapur - Generative AI. Why It Matters & What’s to Come?

November 20, 2024 • 82 mins
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is advancing so rapidly that entire industries are being reshaped as we speak. There's an urgent need for leaders to understand the impact of this technology on their company and their people. Rajeev Kapur, author of 'AI Made Simple', has vast and deep experience in high-tech and media and understands AI's impact and the complex challenges to come in ...
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EP 522: Judd Shaw - What's Really Hiding Behind Your Armour?

November 7, 2024 • 79 mins

On the outside, we see a lawyer with the external trappings of success, the office, the suit, the watch, the car, the home and assume they have the perfect life. Right? But often, behind the armour, it's a different story. Judd Shaw is a guy who blends his work as a lawyer/CEO of Judd Shaw Injury Law with his deep desire to help others. Judd chased success as a lawyer and made it to the top of the hill only to discover its hollow r...

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EP 521: David Avrin - Why We Lose Customers & What To Do About It

October 24, 2024 • 71 mins
David Avrin consults on Customer Experience and Strategic Brand Development. The author of five books, his new book 'Ridiculously Easy to Do Business With - A Practical Guide to Giving Customers What They Want-When and How They Want It', takes a critical topic we take for granted and brings it front of mind. David has a remarkable ability to take everyday business topics and pres...
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EP 520: Alicia Rodriguez - The Intuitive Mojo of the Shaman

October 10, 2024 • 83 mins
Alicia Rodriguez is a writer, storyteller and personal coach. Based in the beautiful Algarve region of Portugal, Alicia runs retreats for people going through a transition or facing a challenging period. She works with entrepreneurs who need to step away from the noise in their lives to rest, recalibrate, and renew their vision for their lives. Her memoir, 'The Shaman's Wife: A M...
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EP 519: Jason Ferruggia - How to Live your Best Life Without Limits

September 25, 2024 • 70 mins
Jason Ferruggia has been helping people become the strongest version of themselves since the early 90's. Most want to be better, improve, and see what's possible. Jay helps us create a life with more health, wealth, happiness, less stress, and fewer regrets. He is credited as the guy who created group fitness and his work has been featured in Fast Company, Men’s Health, Muscle & ...
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EP 518: Billy Broas - Implement Effective Marketing for Your Company Brand

September 12, 2024 • 82 mins
The marketing game has changed; well, the fundamentals of the brand are the same, but how we express it has changed in many ways. Billy Broas, author of 'Simple Marketing for Smart People', outlines the playbook we didn’t know we needed. Billy shares a thoughtful, educated approach to marketing that demystifies the complex and often misunderstood world of selling your business wi...
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EP 517: Dr Meg Jay - Understanding the Life of Today's Twentysomethings

August 29, 2024 • 81 mins
Understanding twentysomethings as a company owner, C-suite Executive, parent or leader is a hot topic. The NY Times called our guest Dr Meg Jay “the patron saint of striving youth”, and her TED Talk “Why 30 Is Not the New 20” is among the most watched ever.  Dr Jay earned a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and maintains a private practi...
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