Today’s episode is a special one, recorded to announce an exciting and important new partnership between ISF and the organisation Prostate Cancer Research. Joining the show is PCR CEO Oliver Kemp, who for nearly a decade has worked to ensure fewer men suffer and die from prostate cancer. Steve and Oliver talk about how prostate cancer screening works and the importance of catching it early. The two also talk about the partnership and how it will help PCR’s efforts across the UK.

Key Takeaways:

1. Early detection saves lives. If you find prostate cancer before it has reached stage 3, the survival rate is 100%.
2. A cancer battle will affect people around you, but they will also be the people whom you can draw strength and support from.
3. Access to cancer screening varies between regions and demographics.

1. What PSA is and how testing for prostate cancer is done (5:28)
2. The new partnership between ISF and PCR (18:58)
3. How AI and new technologies can help in cancer detection (22:34)

1. “I think us men are not always the best at going and looking after ourselves and we often need to be nagged to go out and do something. But if you've got prostate cancer, it's gonna get you one way or another, and it'll gradually grow inside of you. And it's far better getting it early and having a relatively simple procedure, which you can now be in and out of hospital in a single day rather than late-stage prostate cancer, which will have very different consequences.” - Oliver Kemp
2. “I think one of the great things about this partnership is first of all, we're aiming at people who often don't get tested. And there are lots of PSA tests happening across this country, but they're often focused on regional areas. So southeast of England, London has lots of testing. It has lots of the best hospitals in the world, whereas other parts of the country don't have access to that.” - Oliver Kemp
3. “And for people in cybersecurity, it's about being as proactive about your own health as you are about protecting your organization. So it isn't about waiting for symptoms. I didn't have any. Look at PSA tests. We've said on this show it's a very low cost. And the people that I've come across who've certainly taken that step, and sadly there are more of us than people might think, all tell me the same thing. And as for partners, families, friends that are listening, don't underestimate the power of your encouragement just being there. That's really important. You don't have to do anything big. It's just a quiet conversation that could genuinely help.” - Steve Durbin

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In today’s episode, Steve speaks with Martina Navratilova. Martina is one of the most accomplished tennis players of all time, holding the record for most open era titles and Wimbledon wins. Since retiring from tennis, Martina has been a vocal advocate for gay rights and cancer awareness. In her conversation with Steve, she talks about the importance of screening and early detection, and why self-awareness and kindness to yourself are essential when you’re going through something difficult. The two also discuss adapting to change, how to read your opponents and why rehearsing matters – both on the tennis court and in the world of cyber. Martina also gives the audience a piece of advice on staying resilient in the face of uncertainty, from the perspective of a champion.

Key Takeaways:

1. If something doesn’t feel right in your body, get tested. And even if you’re feeling fine, do that annual physical.
2. There is no substitute for practice when it comes to crisis preparedness.
3. Breaches will happen, it’s about how you respond – with clarity and honesty – that matters.

1. Some news from Steve (1:33)
2. Building the right team (10:18)
3. Recovering after a breach (13:24)

1. “We tend to overreact and overcorrect. Less is more in just about everything in life. Less is more. You can always add to it. But if you go too far, you've gone too far.” - Martina Navratilova
2. “At the end of the day, if you are the big boss, you are making the decisions, you have to trust your gut. So you take all the information in, but you have to say, ‘Okay, what really feels right with my knowledge, with my intelligence, with my history, what is the best way forward?’” - Martina Navratilova
3. “No system is bulletproof no matter what. You may hit the best serve ever, but that person guessed and they get it back. It's how you bounce back from that. But nothing is bulletproof. You just need to figure out where was the breach, how can we fix it and avoid doing it again?” - Martina Navratilova

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In this week’s episode, Steve sits down with conductor, pianist, comedian, and broadcaster Rainer Hersch. Rainer leans on his orchestra experience to explain how leaders outside the concert hall can build deep trust and strike a balance between discipline and adaptability in a rapidly changing world. He also reveals his secret leadership weapon: humor.

Key Takeaways:

1. Conducting an orchestra has many parallels to leading a business.
2. Not every team member must know the entire business, but the leaders do.
3. Good conducting—and by extension, good leadership—is a back-and-forth effort between leaders and those being led.

1. How conductors make different parts of the orchestra function in harmony (1:53)
2. Flexibility in an orchestra and in business (6:59)
3. How Hersch uses humor in his work as a conductor (14:54)

1. “These analogies are very similar to how any large organization works. The only person actually who's got the kind of blueprint for the product that the orchestra is presenting to its customers, that is the orchestra score, is the conductor. Everybody else has just got their individual parts of the project. So coming together in that way musically, well, requires listening, it requires following in certain occasions, leading in others.” - Rainer Hersch
2. “The conductor is the person who's given that one job of examining this plain piece of writing and going, okay, this is what is intended, this is the emotion that is intended. And in order to bring that emotion out, we need to do this in a certain way, and inspiring and motivating everybody else to participate in that irrespective of how they would personally go about it.” - Rainer Hersch
3. “There are mistakes that happen in a performance, and I'm not going to stop every single mistake and go, ‘Duh-uh, bar 24 flutes.’ No. There are some things that happen, I know they will be fixed by the individual players. In a rehearsal, something happens, they miss the queue. I'll say, that'll be all right in the performance, won't it? Yes, it will. They've seen that I've seen it, and that's enough for them.” - Rainer Hersch

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