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Comedy, therapy, and the healing potential of business with Richard Atherton of First Human [#40] The Ideas Lab Podcast

27th November 2019 By John Williams Leave a Comment

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Comedy, therapy, and the healing potential of business with Richard Atherton of First Human

Richard Atherton was a consultant at Deloitte when I ran into him in the basement of a SOHO comedy club.

He ended up quitting Deloitte to try his hand at Standup comedy. He also created a Burlesque comedy night called ‘Bonobo Presents’.

It was then that he embarked on a deep psycho-therapeutic journey before going on to found First Human with some colleagues. First Human takes part of what Richard learnt in the consulting world and parts of the therapeutic world in order to bring humanity back into corporations.

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