EPISODE 7 - with Ben Keene. Breaking the Rules of Convention.
For the past 20 years Ben has built his career by growing communities. One of the first was Tribewanted. Which was crowdfunding sustainable-tourism villages on an island in Fiji (which was turned into as a 5 part BBC series and book), a beach in Sierra Leone and a farm in Umbria. Since then Ben has worked on a number of social enterprise and startup projects including Right to Dream(sports development and leadership in Africa), Escape the City (helping 1000s quit their corporate jobs to do something different), Virgin Startup (small business loans and support for startups), and THNK (a creative leadership school). Ben has shared his adventurous startup stories and learnings with audiences all over the world including at a CIA conference in Las Vegas. Ben has most recently spent 6 months living on a Thai Island with his wife and 3 young kids, whilst working remotely as a business mentor and building Rebel Book Club, a growing community of 500+ subscribers in 5 cities which is now his main focus.