"We didn't start a company and decide to give back. We decided to give back – and so we started a company!"

– Wade & Koddi Dunn, Co-Founders of Love Mobile, in conversation with Anurag Aggarwal

A single mom. A single dad. A nine-hour online conversation that lasted until sunrise

Eighteen years of marriage, seven children, two companies, and one powerful idea –

What if your monthly phone bill could change the world?

That's the story of Wade and Koddi Dunn!

In this episode of Humans of Telecom, Wade and Koddi open up about:

💕 How they met online before DMs were even a thing – and talked through the night until the sun came up

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Building a blended family of seven children spanning two decades – and why their favourite destination is the family group chat

📱 Love Mobile – the cell phone company built entirely on the belief that every phone bill should give back to the community

🏫 Four pillars of giving: education, the environment, community services, and pet adoption – hyper local, hyper meaningful

🌊 A first date at the aquarium – because when you've talked online for weeks across 600 miles, you make the first meeting count

🎬 A national TV appearance on House Hunters on Vacation – six kids, matching outfits across three days of filming, and memories they still laugh about today

🚗 Wonder trips – no destination, just a full tank of gas, an open road, and a conversation that solves the world's problems before they get back home

📺 Koddi's secret passion – international dramas watched only in their native language, subtitles and all, with their nine-year-old locked in right beside her

❤️ And their shared philosophy – don't just build a business, build a legacy that your children can point to and say, my parents saw a problem and tackled it head on!

From a kitchen table conversation about the state of the world…

to a telecom company that turns every subscriber's bill into an act of love –

Wade and Koddi are proof that the most powerful businesses are built not on strategy, but on purpose, partnership, and an unshakeable belief that people come first!

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“Life is an Adventure. Jump out of a Plane. Live your Ikigai. Find your Happy Place!” — Veni Folta, Chief Happiness Officer at The Inspired Action Group, in conversation with Anurag Aggarwal

From Portuguese Macau to British Hong Kong to the United States…

from a Category 5 hurricane that wiped out her dream job in a single day…

to nearly three decades in telecom, two of them in international roaming…

to becoming the Chief Happiness Officer helping leaders reclaim their lives —

Veni's journey is unlike anything you've heard on this show before!

In this episode of Humans of Telecom, Veni opens up about:

🌏 A life that began in Macau, moved through Hong Kong, and eventually landed in Seattle — shaped by colonial history, cultural richness, and remarkable resilience

📖 Her bestselling book "I QUIT: How To Lose Your Job and Find Your Dream Career" — and why losing your job might just be the best thing that ever happens to you!

🧠 How a decade of studying neuroscience and cognitive positive psychology became her second calling — and ultimately her life's purpose

✈️ The pandemic that stopped all roaming traffic — and paradoxically launched the most meaningful chapter of her career

🪂 Skydiving at 14,000 feet over a coral reef in Saipan at sunset — as a team building exercise — because why not?

🌊 Snorkeling between two tectonic plates in freezing Icelandic waters — and accidentally meeting the former president of Iceland, who had quietly become a park ranger

🚶 Walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain and the Kumano Kodo in Japan — because some journeys are meant for the soul, not the schedule

💔 The health crises — cancer, depression, a brain bleed from a concussion — that taught her the most important lesson of all: you cannot serve others from an empty cup

❤️ And her life's mission — helping people break old patterns, rewire their brains, reclaim their power, and finally come alive

From roaming partnerships to the science of happiness —

Veni is proof that sometimes the most extraordinary career pivots begin not with a plan, but with a crisis, a curiosity, and the courage to begin again!

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"I would tell my younger self – stop playing it safe. Be braver. Be bolder. And believe, really believe, that you are capable of more than you think!" – Mike Mills, Managing Director (Service Providers) at Gamma, in conversation with Anurag Aggarwal

From handing out free internet CDs at a PC World store in the north of England…

to discovering the company that built all the infrastructure behind those very CDs…

to joining them and building a career that has spanned 25 extraordinary years –

Mike's journey into telecom is fascinatingly brilliant!

In this episode of Humans of Telecom, Mike opens up about:

💻 How a single day spent at an internet company during university changed the entire direction of his life

📈 Inheriting a declining, unloved division at Gamma – and growing it from £12M to £96M almost entirely through organic growth

🏆 Three consecutive wins at the Global Comms Awards for Best Sales Team – a feat that very few teams anywhere in the world can claim!

👯 The world of 'twincidents' – life with an identical twin brother Steve, who also works at Gamma, and the endless cases of mistaken identity that keep the industry on its toes!

🐕 Three Hungarian Vizslas who have made countryside walks a non-negotiable part of his daily life – and he wouldn't have it any other way

🏃 The 13-year-old who cleared over five metres in long jump and represented his county – until fate had other plans at 14

💪 Six Tough Mudders completed, electrocution and all – before finally drawing a very firm line in the mud

⚽ A lifelong Newcastle United fan – more heartbreak than glory, but last season gave him just enough reason to keep believing

❤️ And his quiet but powerful north star – be a good person, treat people with kindness, and invest genuinely in the success of others!

From Newcastle to Surrey, from dial-up internet to UCaaS and beyond –

Mike is living proof that staying curious, staying loyal, and daring to be bold can take you further than any shortcut ever will!

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