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Hosted by Jonathan Griffiths · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 29 episodes
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The Brilliant Humans Podcast is a show that celebrates extraordinary people, but with a twist...our guests never talk about themselves. Instead, each episode shines a light on a Brilliant Human who inspired them, changed their life, or helped them see the world differently. From everyday heroes and unsung champions to iconic figures and innovators, you’ll hear stories of kindness, courage, creativity, resilience, generosity, and love. These conversations, with host Jonathan Griffiths , are real, uplifting, and full of the lessons that make us more connected and more human. This is not a podcast about success. It’s a podcast about the best of humanity. And in a world that often rewards self-promotion and noise, The Brilliant Humans Podcast creates space for reflection, appreciation, and acknowledgement - for saying thank you to the people who helped make us who we are. If you’re looking for thoughtful, movin
Jonathan Griffiths hosts The Brilliant Humans Podcast, a society show with 29 episodes published.
What does it mean to truly live — and what does it cost when the person who showed you how is suddenly gone? Hendrika Willemse was 23 years old. After working late with her brother Andre a phone call changed everything.
Before Sam Leyden played his first gig, before the tens of thousands of streams, before the song that stopped someone in their tracks at 3am — there was Betsy. A woman who raised three daughters largely on her own after
What does it look like when someone chooses to stay — not because it's easy, but because they can see the gold beneath the surface? Heather Alford is a legend in the IT channel and founder of Counting Creators ( counting
What does it look like when someone genuinely doesn't run from discomfort — they run toward it? Mitch MacEachern walked into a stand-up comedy course at Toronto's Second City, threw out his entire prepared set at the sho
Before the awards. Before the comedy stage. Before the sign language, the podcast, the fearlessness — there was a woman who looked at a child the world had written off and decided to write a different story. Siobhan Dodd
What if a DNA test didn't just reveal a name — it revealed a woman who had already changed the world without you ever knowing she existed? Five years ago, Dan Albaum received a message that would rewrite his family's sto
Nine episodes. Nine guests. Nine brilliant humans who changed a life - and were publicly told so. Before the next chapter begins, host Jonathan Griffiths pauses to do something simple but important: say thank you out lou
What happens when a fresh-faced kid in a Depeche Mode t-shirt walks onto your track and quietly dismantles everything you believed about winning? For Kriss Akabusi MBE — Olympian, world champion, and one of the most icon
He grew up in a children's home in East London. Roger grew up as a grammar school boy on the South Coast, heading for a career in medicine. On paper, their worlds should never have touched. But geography — and a shared,
What kind of man puts money behind the bar of a local pub for strangers, quietly funds redundant journalists, and turns down a fortune just to keep his concert tickets under forty pounds? Paul Heaton — singer, songwriter
What do you do when two years of pain, specialists, and dead ends leave you wondering if this is just your life now? For Anna Stewart — adventurer, singer-songwriter, and former English teacher in Nepal — that question b
What does it look like when two people spend a lifetime quietly making everyone around them better? For Tom Barnes - sports media executive, endurance athlete, and one of a handful of people to have ever rowed an ocean -
Colonel Ray Rider flew F-16s, survived Vietnam, graduated top of his class at the Air Force's elite Fighter Weapons School — the real-life equivalent of Top Gun — and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, the United Sta
What happens when a brilliant coach sees potential in the kid everyone else wants to kick out? Coach Ed Harris didn't just teach Steve Price how to play American football — he saw something in a hyperactive 11-year-old B
Content Warning: This episode contains references to drug use and the death of a teenager. Please listen with care. Angela Mabbs never thought of herself as brilliant. But when her daughter Fiona's world shattered with t
What does it look like when one person changes the entire direction of someone's life? For happiness researcher and BU Happiness College founder Declan Edwards, the answer has a name: Sebastian Terry - known to many as "
"I am officially overwhelmed. Thank you for listening." When I started The Brilliant Humans Podcast, I wanted to shine a light on the people who make our lives better. I didn't realise quite how many of you across the wo
#BrilliantHumansPodcast #KindnessMatters #ChristmasEpisode In this very special Christmas bonus episode of The Brilliant Humans Podcast, I’m joined by my son, Logan , for a short, joyful, and surprisingly wise conversati
#MentalHealthAwareness #MensMentalHealth #BrilliantHumansPodcast Content Warning - This episode of The Brilliant Humans Podcast contains references to suicide. Please take care while listening, and if this feels too heav
In this episode of The Brilliant Humans Podcast , Jonathan sits down with PR and communications professional James Sweeney . A natural storyteller, community builder, and advocate for people with stutters, James brings w
Tom Barnes
President and CEO of Category Partners · Jump Master X
1 appearance on this show
Declan Edwards
happiness researcher and workplace consultant · BU Happiness College
2 appearances on this show
Roger Black
Three-time Olympic medalist and two-time World Champion
1 appearance on this show
Steve Price
Australia correspondent · BWP-Inspire
2 appearances on this show
Ed Harris
Chopped Champion Caribbean Chef · Valley Forge Tourism and Convention Board
1 appearance on this show
Sebastian Terry
the Bucket List Guy · 100 Things
1 appearance on this show
Paul Mort
author, speaker
1 appearance on this show
Conan O’Brien
1 appearance on this show
Conan O'Brien
1 appearance on this show
Steve Shaw
co-founder and CEO · AutoPylot Technologies
1 appearance on this show
Chris McIntosh
Always Forward
1 appearance on this show
Helen Amery
Wild Fig Solutions
1 appearance on this show
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