Difference Makers Discuss

Why your next opportunity is hiding in your weakest connection

In the final episode of Season 4 we met Kingsley Aikens, a man who has built a career out of understanding how relationships work. Season 5 opens with part two of that interview.  This time Kingsley tells us why friends, family and close colleagues are the least useful part of your network.

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Kingsley

Kingsley Aikins: Why your next opportunity is hiding in your weakest connection

Difference Makers Discuss, season 5, episode 1. Sinead Donovan talks to Kingsley Aikins, founder of Diaspora Matters. This is the second of a two part conversation, the first of which closed season 4.

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Difference Makers Discuss Season 4 Highlights

Six conversations, one thread: the best of Difference Makers Discuss Season 4

Season 4 of Difference Makers Discuss covered a lot of ground. Six guests, six very different lives, and on the face of it not much in common beyond a professional qualification and a willingness to talk honestly. Watch them back to back, and something else emerges. Every one of these stories turns on the same thing: the decision to connect with another human being when it would have been easier not to.

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We created this podcast in order to celebrate the lives and work of people who have transformed communities, businesses, and the wider world, making a real difference in the lives of others. We call them “Difference Makers”.

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