Desh Amila: Hip Hop & The Advancement of Humankind

As the product of immigration, integration, and innovation, Desh Amila is a Documentary Filmmaker and a Serial Entrepreneur who founded This Is 42 and Think Inc. His life mission is to make being intelligent cool.

In this conversation, Allie and Desh explore: 

• His journey from growing up in Sri Lanka and living through a civil war for over 2 decades to moving to Australia and becoming an entrepreneur, entertainer, and educator on a global scale
• How Desh is out to revolutionize the ultimate cool — intelligent conversations — and how this vision started by running large scale events for hip hop and R&B artists
• Desh's passion for ‘edutainment’ — part education and part entertainment — and how he creates global movements led by scientists, philosophers, and the greatest thinkers of our time around this concept
• How progress has happened throughout history in 2 ways — violence and conversation — and why now is the time to advance humankind and lead societal change through civil dialogue
• Tools for productive conversations with people and communities we fundamentally do not agree with
• The truth about overnight success: it takes over a decade of hard work to create it
• The keys to living a life full of confidence, drive, and freedom
• Desh’s second documentary Better Left Unsaid about the current polarizing environment of politics

Resources: 

• Desh’s Instagram: @iamdesh
• Desh’s Website: deshamila.com
• This Is 42’s Instagram: @thisis_42
• Watch the trailer to Desh’s second documentary Better Left Unsaid here.
• Watch Desh’s first documentary Islam and the Future of Tolerance here.
• Allie’s Instagram: @allienunzi
• Nunzi Consulting Group’s Website: www.nunziconsulting.com

This episode was co-produced by Lucca Petrucci and Allie Nunzi mixed and mastered by Alec Kwo.