MEDIA KIT

MADS FRIIS

Founder of Growth Island and Associate Partner at KRING venture studio

Contact details

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.growthisland.com

Instagram: @madsmfriis

Linkedin: in/madsmfriis

Biography

Mini Bio (100w)

Mads Friis is an entrepreneur, adventurer, and knowledge junky.

He is the author of the bestseller "Winning Habits and Routines"

He has co-built successful health ventures as a Partner at the Venture Studio KRING.

His experience as a management consultant in Deloitte, then founder of tech startup let him to teach and work with 150+ global startup teams.

As the founder of the Growth Island podcast, he interviewed 100+ experts on health, performance, business, and life's bigger mysteries.

These experiences have allowed him to coach some of the world’s top athletes, entrepreneurs, and individuals curious about growth as well as speak regularly at companies and conferences.

Full Bio (200w)

From playing different sports at a high level to discovering books by the Dalai Lama and Anthony Robbins, Mads has always been interested in personal growth and high performance. On this journey, he completed different studies and degrees in Psychology at Copenhagen Business School and Harvard University. In his research, Mads found that many of the resources focus 80% on the problems we are facing and only 20% on the solutions. He is on the mission to flip this statistic around to help more people. This has led to his bestselling book "Winning Habits and Routines".

One of Mads’ biggest passions is building health, performance, and wellbeing-related ventures and projects. Also, exploring what helps individuals feel extraordinary - perform better, live a more meaningful life, and be happy. Mads has co-built 3 successful, impact-driven ventures with KRING. A few years ago he started Growth Island, a podcast on health, performance, business and life's bigger mysteries. health and human wellbeing, where he interviewed 100+ of the world’s experts - doctors, scientists, psychologists, and entrepreneurs.

With his management consulting experience from Deloitte, Mads started actively training and consulting startups globally - he worked with +150 startups from all the continents, guiding them through the business model validation and preparation for scale.

About Growth Island Podcast

Growth Island is a podcast on health, performance, business, and life's bigger mysteries. It covers over 100 episodes with experts from all around the world - doctors, scientists, psychologists and entrepreneurs. Past guests include John Grey, author of "Men are from Mars, Women Are from Venus", Sean Percival, former VP at MySpace, Dan Brule, breathing master and Tony Robbins’ breathing coach and Dr. Olli Sovijarvi who co-founded The Biohacker Summit.

Each episode with the experts aims to extract the tips, tools, and routines you can implement to live a more happy, healthy and meaningful life.

Listen to the Growth Island podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Soundcloud or access it on the website.

What Mads speaks about - Talks, workshops & podcasts

Introduction to Nordic Biohacking

Nordic Biohacking is the science and art of optimizing your health, performance, and wellbeing with the help of technology and nature. It combines ancestral wisdom and modern science. In this introductory session we will deepdive specifically into the concept of Nordic Biohacking: N=1, framework for action, concrete tech and non-tech biohacks, and discuss some personal biohacks that were selected after a dozen of experiments.

Common questions:

What is Nordic Biohacking?
What does the N=1 mean?
How to select what biohack to start with?
What are your top biohacks?
What are the potential negative effects of biohacking?

Habits for top performance

Habits are our own rituals that we often perform without even thinking about it and we activate hundreds of them every day. We can significantly change our lives just by implementing good habits and getting rid of the bad ones. Mads’ session on habits explains the three levels of change, covers the specific habits for top performance, the TAR model and actionable steps that everyone can take right away to find wonderful new ways to change their daily routines for the better.

Common questions:

Why do habits matter?
How do you build new habits?
How do you get rid of bad habits?
What are the positive habits for a good life?

Growth Island's Toolbox

Tools and actionable practises how to live a happy, healthy and meaningful life. The session is inspired by all the global experts who shared their knowledge and experience on the Growth Island podcast. These hand-picked tools and practices will help you navigate when setting career/ professional and life goals, prioritizing, boosting daily energy levels, working on clarity and directions, improving general health and building better habits. The Growth Island toolbox also provides access to several canvas, cheat sheets and other guiding materials.

Common questions: