NICE47 - Consciousness, spirituality, and entrepreneurship with Loic Le Meur

Loic Le Meur is a seven-times entrepreneur. He has invested in one hundred startups. Loic is the co-founder of PAUA, a conscious conference and community. He is a Sundancer who trained with the Yawanawa tribe in the Amazon forest.

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What we talked about...

  • Loic's Newsletter & Podcast. loic.substack.com

  • On becoming a father again at fifty.

  • Growing up in Southern France near Spain. 

  • Loic was inspired by his parents, who sold sailboats. He's worked for himself since he was twenty-three when he started a website agency in 1996. 

  • On managing one hundred employees.

  • He started the LeWeb conference in 2003 about blogging.

  • The early days of online communication from bulletin board systems (BBS) to CB radios.

  • All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin.

  • Lying by Sam Harris.

  • On honesty in business and life.

  • Seesmic, Loic's early video social network. 

  • PAUA community and conference, at the crossroads of business and consciousness, and spirituality.

  • What Loic learned on a one-year, solo, silent retreat in the Amazon forest and his experiences with ayahuasca. 

  • On worrying and stress. 

  • Read The Mysticism of Sound and Music by Hazrat Inayat Khan and Not in His Image by John Lamb Lash.

  • Contact Loic at loic.substack.com

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