Passion Struck with John R. Miles - Yemi A.D. on Being a Systems Catalyst: How to Shoot For the Moon

Episode Date: July 31, 2024

In this captivating episode of Passion Struck, we're doing something special by sharing an episode from the System Catalysts podcast, hosted by my friends Jeff Walker and English Sall. They interview Yemi A.D., founder of Moonshot, an accelerator for young changemakers. Yemi shares his inspiring journey from his childhood in the Soviet Union to his success in the arts, entertainment, and advertising industries. His story underscores three key principles: dream big, be authentic, and collaborate.If you like what you hear today, make sure to follow this link to subscribe and listen to more of their episodes.System Catalysts is produced by Hueman Group Media.Growing up amidst the limitations of the Soviet Union, Yemi refused to let constraints define his aspirations. His belief in the power of imagination and setting ambitious goals exemplifies the impact of dreaming big. This visionary mindset propelled him beyond his circumstances, enabling him to succeed remarkably.Yemi also emphasizes the importance of authenticity. For him, being authentic means staying true to oneself, embracing personal values, and fostering genuine interactions. This approach helped Yemi build trust, establish meaningful connections, and create a resonant personal brand.Collaboration is another cornerstone of Yemi's philosophy. He highlights the power of working with like-minded individuals, pooling resources, and leveraging strengths to achieve collective success. Through collaboration, Yemi amplified his impact and realized his visions on a larger scale.Yemi A.D.'s journey is a testament to the transformative power of dreaming big, being authentic, and collaborating. These principles are vital for individual success and also apply to organizations, communities, and movements aiming to make a positive impact in the world.All things Yemi A.D.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemi_A.D. Catch More of Passion StruckWatch my solo episode on The 6 Key Steps to Bold Risk-Taking for Personal Growth.Can’t miss my episode withMorley Robbins on How You Reclaim Your Health and VitalityListen to my interview withDr. Will Cole on how to restore your gut-feelings connectionCatch my interview with Dr. Kara Fitzgerald on How to Become a Younger You by Reversing Your Biological AgeListen to Seth Godin on Why We Need Systems Change to Save the PlanetLike this show? Please leave us a review here-- even one sentence helps! Consider including your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can thank you personally!Order a copy of my book, "Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life," today!  Recognized as a 2024 must-read by the Next Big Idea Club, the book has won the Business Minds Best Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, the International Book Awards for Best Non-Fiction, the 2024 Melanie P. Smith Reader’s Choice Contest by Connections eMagazine, and the Non-Fiction Book Awards Gold Medal. Don't miss the opportunity to transform your life with these powerful principles!

Coming up next on Passion Struck. It's important to understand that for you, what you experience is a baseline, and then you judge the other world from that baseline. So when I think about it, it took me the whole life to find the path that makes sense, that feels good, and that is effective for what I want to achieve. Welcome to Passion Struck. Hi, I'm your host, John R. Miles. And on the show, we decipher the secrets, tips, and guidance of the world's most inspiring people and turn their wisdom into practical advice for you and those around you.

Our mission is to help you unlock the power of intentionality so that you can become the best version of yourself. If you're new to the show, I offer advice and answer listener questions on Fridays. We have long-form interviews the rest of the week with guests ranging from astronauts to authors, CEOs, creators, innovators, scientists, military leaders, visionaries, and athletes. Now, let's go out there and become Passion Struck. Hello everyone and welcome back to passion struck and episode 488. A heartfelt thank you to each and every one of you who

return to the show every single week, eager to listen, learn and discover new ways to live better, to be better and most importantly to make a meaningful impact in the world. Today, I have a very special episode for you, but if you're new to the show, I wanted to welcome you and for those of you who would like to introduce this to a friend or a family member, we have episode starter packs. And I can't believe that we're almost at 500 episodes. So we have a lot of content. So we created these starter packs to give any new listener a great way to get acclimated to everything we do here in the show. They're organized in a convenient

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meaning and connection. And I know we and our guests love to hear from our listeners. Today we're going to do something a little bit different. Instead of our regular episodes, we're giving you a taste of a podcast we think you'll enjoy. Hosted by English Saul and Jeff Walker, System Catalysts share stories of changemakers who put their egos aside to improve the systems that run the world. If you like what you hear today, make sure you follow the link in the show notes to subscribe and listen to more episodes of System Catalyst. I hope you really enjoy and I do want to remind you that we have another great interview tomorrow

with Erin Ahuvia and this one we're going to do a deep dive into brand love. Thank you for choosing PassionStruck and choosing me to be your host and guide on your journey to creating an intentional life. Now let that journey begin. I'm English Saul. Welcome to System Catalyst, the podcast that cracks the code for making the world a better place. Ever stopped and wondered, am I really making a difference? It's one of those big questions that sneaks up on us from time to time. Not to get too existential here, but if you want to become a system catalyst, it's something

that you should be asking yourself. Today's guest, Yemi Adi, is here to offer some guidance. After working in the arts, entertainment, and advertising industries, he now runs Moonshot, an accelerator for young change makers. Having grown up in the Soviet Union, Yemi later achieved success that was once unimaginable. His secret?

Being authentic, forging effective collaborations, and dreaming big. So today, Yemi will be sharing some of that wisdom with us. One of his crazy dreams was to go to the moon, and guess what? He will. More on that later. Alright, let's get into it. Here's my interview with Jemi. I'm so excited to talk to you. How are you doing? How's everything? Yeah, everything is well. I am slowly preparing for my next stretch of a tour. I came back three days ago and I'm leaving again on Wednesday. So I'm very happy to be home, to be just like relaxing here. And I went to spa on the weekend.

I had a beautiful dinner with my friends in the city. So I'm like soaking in. Nice. That's awesome. So where are you off to on Wednesday? I'm going to Boston and then I'm coming back and then flying on Monday to LA, then Santa Barbara, then SLN Big Sur, then San Francisco, then Ireland, Dublin, then Prague, and then New York again. Oh my gosh. So you've got a whirlwind tour coming up. So, Jemi, as someone who travels quite a bit, do you have like a packing routine or do you have like essentials that you have to take with you? Like what's your secret?

Do you have like some face serum that we should all be buying? You should see my packing routine. It would be something between an explosion of an atomic bomb and improv dance in between the pieces of my clothes. But sometimes when I get back, I have to leave again so soon that I just leave some stuff in my suitcases and I bring some out, I leave some in. So it's been really kind of crazy one and a half year since the announcement of the space mission. So I've been traveling much, much more than before.

But honestly, I think that the best skin product is a good food, a good sleep and a good mood. I think those would be the things that I would suggest for everyone to pack when going somewhere. As you can probably tell, Jemi keeps busy. He works on many creative and tech projects and runs his organization Moonshot, an accelerator for the new generation of changemakers. We support young people who are doing social innovations in every way possible. How we measure it? We measure it through SDGs, the Sustainable Development Goals, which is a metric that's used across the world. And how we do it is we create it to programs.

One is Moonshot Awards, which is our solution crowdsourcing mechanism, where we announce these awards, we give about $100 thousand dollars to different people who come forward and show us that their social innovation is really changing lives or changing environment and that it needs help that it needs boost to accelerate to scale up to be transferred to different places because sometimes people are solving problems that are problems in so many other places and the solution doesn't get the right distribution and then when they win it we take about 30 to 100 of the best ones of the most like promising ones and we bring them to acceleration camp it's called moon shot

camp and in this moon shot camp I bring and our team bring probably the best mentors you can ever meet. Like people who have exited multi-billion dollar companies, professors from Harvard, Yale, Oxford, leaders of NGOs, but also examples of young innovators who have made it, who have made and scaled up their innovation so they could also kind of these young people that we bring they can identify. So we really care about inclusion and diversity and I don't mean I don't want to say these words because I know this is such a buzzword

out there but we take this differently for us. It's not a spreadsheet that we fill in. As an artist coming from environment of culture, we really look at diversity of people, not because of how they look, but because of what their life experience is and what their kind of mind perspective is. That's the most important thing for us. And I think that is the magic mixture

when you have them in the room. And just to give you an example, for example, one of the winners of moonshot idea board was a Matthias Bohacek who developed a translator for sign language so you have it in your phone somebody signing you point your camera at someone and you read the text and he he offered it as open source and so anybody could use it. And it became the most precise and the fastest translator in the world. So we take this person and if we see that they are groundbreaking or if we see that what they do is definitely worth attention, we expedite their journey from that

place right to the right table, to the table where there are decision makers that can fund you, that can help you carve the language around your campaigns, that can introduce you to new customers, to partnerships. And I think that is what actually can accelerate partnerships, is what can accelerate the sustainable development goals. And that can bring much more inclusion and much more, just healthy advancement into the society. That's amazing. One of the things that strikes me so much hearing you speak about these amazing entrepreneurs and these amazing ideas is,

you know, with this podcast, one of the things that Jeff and I are really trying to do is elevate and highlight the stories of system catalysts. And the reason, obviously, that we wanted you to come on here and talk to us is because the system, in my mind, that you really are not only trying to cultivate, but shape is really that of collaboration. And it's that of this sort of locally driven network supported model that we speak about a lot of sort of saying, hey, what are the spaces in which we can bring in really amazing people with really great ideas to then be able to collaborate

and go further together? As I'm hearing you and as I'm listening to you talk, I just hear the passion and excitement in your voice that you have for the change that these various individuals can bring about both individually but as well as you know when they're all sitting at the table together and when They're all in collaboration and conversation together Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate you So, Yemi back to something that you also just actually said

in this conversation around kind of the moon mission. And, you know, full disclosure, you are the first guest that we've ever had on the podcast that I think is actually on a mission training to go to the moon. Can you tell me about how this happened? Can you tell me about what inspired you to apply to Dear Moon and sort of how this all kind of came about? So it was one of these like days when I was back home in Prague

and I was just working on an event. I had like an event agency and creative studio and talent agency. And I started many different things like ventures around entertainment industry and art. And my friend Peter, who is a great cinematographer and we work together, he came and he showed me this article and a video and he was like, hey, you know what, you're doing these things here in Czech Republic for so long and you're always stressed about these different campaigns and your clients are stressing

you, you should just go to the moon. And he showed me this article on the video and I couldn't get it out of my head. I was thinking about it for months and I was kind of picking courage to believe that it's even possible for me to sign up and to make it. In this time, it was a very special time for me because I also applied for scholarship to Aspen Institute, a Henry Crown Fellowship.

The Henry Crown Fellowship, Yemi just referred to, is a two-year program by the Aspen Institute. It's all about bringing together business leaders who want to do more than just climb the corporate ladder. They also want to make a positive impact. After I worked in the entertainment industry, I've achieved like probably everything that I kind of dreamt of, you know,

working with Kanye West, working with Virgil Abloh, doing these big shows like VMAs and Southern Night Night Live and Coachella and doing different tours, choreographing and directing live shows. And then I still didn't feel like this is not my final destination. It's not my home. It's not like it's not where I want to spend the rest of my life. So when I retrieved and went like, okay, what's the next thing? Because I love to kind of reinvent myself every two, three years, because I think it's very healthy and I just love to start from the beginning

and just keep my feet on the ground while dreaming big. And this was probably one of the hardest moments for reinvention, because before, when I was moving from different industries, like dance and choreography and theater and advertising agency and founding different businesses, it was not that hard because I could always kind of feel my guts. But when I stopped working with Kanye and did this like big like Hollywood productions and so on, I felt I had to take

a couple of years to really find myself. In this instruction point I found Aspen Institute and I found, okay, this is a great program. So I went and it took a couple of years for me to get there because it's very competitive, it's not easy to get in and I finally did. So this moment I was in this class and then I saw this article and I had these classmates which are fellow fellows who were Americans, most of them. Very diverse, like different descents, but Americans. And there's one thing that's great in America and I know like many people around the world when

you tell them about America, everybody has an opinion about the United States of America, but a good thing that people know about the United States is that people often encourage each other much more than anywhere else in the world. You know, I was raised in Eastern Europe and it's not a common thing that you come with a crazy idea and people tell you, hell yeah, this is what you should do, like you can do it, like you got it. So when I shared with my class my dream to go to the moon, they were really, really encouraging to the extent that I did not expect that. And they named the class, because there is like a vote in the end of each class, they named the class moon shot just to support me. So I remember I was leaving after

the first seminar, going back home and I felt like the weight on my shoulders. I felt like, oh yeah, you're so silly. You don't even deep inside, you don't believe you can win the seat to go around the moon. But these old people, they all believe in it. So why can't you believe in it? So this was an experience that I realized that really it's so important who is around you because this just gives you, I always say that it moves the wall of the room, it just expands the room. So you can dream bigger or achieve more when you see these great examples of people.

And also it's not about what they achieve, it's about how they do their work. Eventually, Yemi adopted the name Moonshot for his accelerator. Inspired by his peers, he also applied to Dear Moon. And he was selected among one million people to be one of the first eight civilians to fly around the moon. This was probably the biggest shift in my awareness that I've ever went through because when I first told my mom, you know, and of course she was worried and proud and we cried together, there was this moment of connection that we looked back at everything that we went through, all the crap, all the damage, all the bad stuff, you know, growing up in Czechoslovakia in a communistic country

under the Soviet rule, a lot of bad things happened. And this one moment when I got the seat, we kind of looked at each other as we were crying and we understood that all of the other as we were crying and we understood that all of the bad things also were good for something. And I am very grateful and very humbled by this potential. You know, I know I haven't flown to the moon, I haven't been even, I didn't go through any electoral trainings yet. But just the fact that you can dream so in such an extent and that someone from such a small and like insignificant beginnings can get this far, I feel really much better about the world and about young people growing up because they see like so much as possible today. Wow. I mean, it's just hugely inspiring. And I think that your story in

itself is hugely inspiring, the narrative of growing up in the Czech Republic, and all of the things that you have done that are both kind of in the vein of being just an artist, a social entrepreneur, and a system catalyst. So tell me a little bit more, Yemi, about, I mean, you obviously are a very creative person, a very visionary person. Tell me about how you've sort of been able to capture that creative and visionary passion and direct it more on like kind of the social sector and what you're doing now, right? And what sort of inspired you to go from kind of this career in the arts and creativity and now sort of focusing that on the social sector and draw, thread that line of safety for me a little bit

more. Very often people ask me about my strategy, right? What was the one point that changed everything? And it's really not that. It's more about equations. So my equation is always surrounded by excitement. So if something really excites me, if I really feel happy, I wanna follow it. And another thing is, I don't think that when you just copy someone else's success, like

you see someone is doing great and you say, okay, this is the profession I want to do, this is what I want to do, you kind of disregard the path to there. So in my life, I always just went from one thing that excites me to another. And that's why I went through so many different professions. I was very kind of awkward kid because I was growing up in the 80s in Czechoslovakia. It was communism. I was the only black kid in the whole city. I saw another black kid when I was 15.

And my father, he unfortunately lost his freedom when he was visiting his parents in Nigeria and there was a revolution and the borders closed and he could never come back. So it was just me, my mom, my grandma and my great grandma, three white women that would raise me. Just recently was visiting my friend Ranji and she and her daughter gave me this new term. She said, you are a coconut. You are white on the inside and black on the outside. And I love the term because it's like being raised among white people. So being completely, uh, you know, like raised in that way, but then being reminded from outside that you're not really,

you're not really them. It's important because this kind of created a foundation as a kid you look from your head outside you don't look on the in or you don't look back. It's important to understand that for you what you experience is a baseline and then you judge the other world from that baseline. So when I think about it, it took me a long it took me the whole life To find the path that makes sense that feels good You know and that is effective for what I want to achieve I had to start working very young

So I had to I had my first business when I was 16 and so I kind of couldn't just like decide what I want to do But I just had to do it. I had to know how to buy and sell, how to make business. And so I could never just be an artist. So which was a great advantage. I didn't think of it back then, but it was a great advantage later on because I started these different companies

and that it allowed me to really expand and travel around the world and do different things. So I had these businesses running but then I felt like hey and it was one of my friend, amazing, amazing Estonian entrepreneur David Henrikos. He was the first employee of Skype. He started Transfervise and he asked me, hey, Yemi, so what would happen if you didn't do it? And I was like, well, if I didn't do it, I think someone else would do it. And he says, oh, you see? And I was like, oh, this is such a simple question, but actually, it's very profound

because am I that privileged that I can think about it in this way? Can I do something that if I didn't do it, it would really be a loss? And I started to think about this and I started to kind of transition because I realized that in the entertainment industry, there was so much fun already. There was so entertainment. I don't think we have a lack of entertainment in this world. So I had to kind of face a real question, ask myself, like am I being useful? But then I was thinking, hey, I'm making people buy more stuff they don't need and I don't think that's being useful. So yeah, so that's how I transitioned

and when I entered the space, it was both the technology, which was already there, but more in artistic way. When I transitioned, I was like full on in technology and impact space because it's the best way, right? Combination between the art and culture, technology, and the impact space. Like this is a very special equation that can really move mountains. I love the question Yemi's friend offered to him.

What would happen if you didn't do it? As a system catalyst, find something that excites you and that you are uniquely positioned to do. For Yemi, it is supporting emerging entrepreneurs and collaborating to accelerate impact. You have worked with a lot of institutions. you've worked a lot across various sectors. What is some advice that you would have for system catalysts in wanting to bring people together and wanting to work with institutions and wanting to collaborate and wanting to get funding for their ideas. What's just some advice that you can share with us based

on your experience of kind of how to just be patient and sort of continue that work and have that spark and that passion? Interesting. If there was one thing that I would suggest or recommend for other system catalysts to do so they could bring people together and have a community to work with. Because this is a work that would be both absurd and very ignorant if one wanted to bring upon any change on their own. Because we are biased creatures. And if we don't share, if we don't really use the

collective direction or let's say inclusive co-design, we're not doing good work. So I think that's number one. I think it's important for those system catalysts to first recognize their motivation. In the time of social media and in the time of cancel culture and in a time of all these different new terms, it's really important to spend some time alone, digitally detox and really ask yourself the hard questions of why are you doing it. Because if your motivation is external, it's not going to last. And you're gonna... maybe it's still worth it. You're gonna do some good job, you're gonna do some good work, you're gonna learn something, you're gonna meet amazing people, but in the end you're gonna end

up elsewhere. But it's okay because it could just be a transition moment for you. It doesn't have to be the destination. But still, it's very healthy to understand your motivation. I remember, I give you one example, I had one moment in my life that was kind of hard, something traumatic happened and I needed to do this kind of reset. So what I did is I decided that I'm gonna stay off for two years. So in my country, I used to have a TV show and I go to different events and I do a lot of interviews and podcasts and so on. So, it is like a thing if you decide to withdraw from a public eye.

And I did it and it was very interesting. It was a beautiful cleansing process and it was one of the most valuable ones. It changed a lot of decisions that I've done. It changed the trajectory of my life and it was very healing. And also the people who were around me have changed. Some people left and different people came in the circle. So I recommend it. And one of the reasons, and this is kind of also kind of intimate, but it's useful only if it's authentic. I was doubting myself also in like, why do I do this impact space? Because is it because I like the way it looks? Because I was a performer. So I also always was like, learned how to perform. So then if you're on the stage and you're

receiving an award for something, or if you are on the social media and you are being, you know, applauded for something, you kind of are still the actor in all of it. You're in the middle of it and you have people admiring what you do. But then is that the motivation? Sometimes it doesn't matter because as long as you're doing good work, it's good enough. But I wanted to go one step deeper and see how I like doing this work without all this. And that was like a just self-reflective process. The second thing I would say I would recommend is choose the right partner. I think that both on your own team and on the team that sits across you, it's really important who you work with. And sometimes I was very naive and I wanted to change things that I was not supposed to change. You know, like this like

a messiah complex that you want to change people or you want to change the things they are done. But you know what happens when this will be maybe a little harsh, but when you have a bowl of rotten apples, you know, for the fresh apple, it's gonna rot, you know. So you have to first protect yourself and work with people that excites you, you know, that you know they have integrity, you know that they will see things through, you know that they also like you for what you're bringing to the table. And it's not just a transactional relationship. So choose the partner wisely and have integrity, not just with the world, but with yourself

when you do that. And I think the third thing, and I spoke about this already a lot, is just make it exciting. But when you do it, make it exciting not just for yourself, make it exciting for the people. And to make things exciting for the people you work with, for your community, it means to learn something much more than just foreign language. So I speak Czech, a little bit Slovakian, I can understand some Polish, I learned German for a little bit, I learned French for a little bit. I can understand some things but not really speak it. But when

you learn languages, you realize that every new language has a whole different personality. The way people call things, it changes who they are, how weird, how they were raised. So if you don't know as another language, it's kind of hard to get this, what I'm trying to explain, but there is a different type of languages which has nothing to do with foreign countries and is the languages of our personalities. Whether you are an introvert, whether you are an extrovert, whether you are an analytical mind, when you are a conceptual mind, you know, like there are people who like to start in the detail and go really deep and that's

how their brain is wired and they can get best out of it. But then there are people who really want to just like one, two, three, and then they need freedom. They need to step back and have freedom to think on their own. And if you don't understand this and you want to lead a community and you're explaining yourself to people or building structure the way you understand it, I don't think you're doing well enough. Because if you see people are not excited and you blame them for it, I'm like, no, it can be done. Even things that are sad, even things that are hard,

we don't have to bring toxicity into work that's already so hard And I think people deserve to be excited to wake up in the morning. That's beautiful So I think that what I heard is number one It's really about the authenticity. It's really about how you show up it's about how you show up for yourself and it's about how you show up for the people around you and Doing what you need to do as a person to heal, to be your authentic self, to show up in a way that really is truthful

to your motivations and your intent on what you're bringing to the world. I think number two is partnership. It's finding the right partner and so much of that, right, the first thing kind of helps you get and achieve the second thing. If you're showing up authentically, then that partnership will become more organic and you'll know you'll it'll be clear about who that right partner is and who the right people are to surround you with. Absolutely.

And the third thing I think that you spoke about just so eloquently is it has to be fun, it has to be enjoyable, it has to be delightful. Building community and being in community with others has to start from a place of joy. Even if the work itself is hard, even if the issue itself is sad, working to better a system, it has to be a reason that people want to keep going, right? And a lot of that is being in the right community. And if you're helping try and change that system, or if you're helping try and lead that community, doing it in a way that really honors everyone else

that's showing up at the table, and the languages that they speak up at the table and the languages that they speak and the intention that they have and the personality that they bring to it. Is that a fair summarization? You did a great, amazing job because I was mumbling for so long and you were able to really summarize it precisely very well. I would say I would add one more thing and that is that today we use a lot the word authenticity and it doesn't mean the same for everyone so that's why when I pointed out the first thing I'm like do you know

what your real motivation is like did you look inside really really well you know not in a group of people, but really just for yourself. Because sometimes people use out use the word authenticity just to be lazy because they are like, oh, this is my authentic self, you know, but they don't really realize this is just another layer of compensation or or who they became through different events. So it's it's simpler when when you focus on the motivation. Well, I mean, this has been so wonderful.

I'll sort of leave us the final question here. Is there any final message that you want to leave our listeners with? You have just given so much wisdom and I appreciate you talking about your various adventures of the Moonshot platform, the work that you've done in the entertainment space, and then of course, you know, just your adventure going to the moon. We're so excited to be able to follow along with you on all of that. But any anything else, any sort of final words of wisdom? Well, thank you so much for having me.

I think I just have an invitation. I think it's important for the people who are listening to know that Moonshot Platform is there for them. It's not a closed community and it doesn't matter whether you are 15 or 55, even though the awards are, we are giving the awards to the younger people, but then we are looking for mentors. It's just a community. So if you go to moonshotplatform.org,

you can sign up into the community and just be with us through this movement, through this movement when we want to bring young people into spaces where they can contribute and co-design and shape the future that they will inherit. Amazing. And we will make sure to put all of the relevant links to everything that you've talked about in our podcast notes

and our show notes as well. So thank you so much, Jemi. Thank you, English. It was great. That's it for today. We hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, please like, share, and subscribe. And if you have any questions, please leave a comment below. That's it for today's show.

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