Oct 8, 2026 · 45 min · 10 segments
As an Australian teen, Benjamin Mitchell was offered a National Rugby League contract. He turned it down, volunteered two years of missionary service, and spent the next several years as a full-time…
Sergio LewisHostI actually had to use different AI models to give all my resume, all my data from all my socials and just really incubate it.
And to break that down a little bit more, it's kind of like, A lot of problems can arise in business, in politics, in indigenous communities, even on the diplomacy aspects and in any aspect in life.
A lot of the problems arise, but then if you look at the problem, it's not really the right problem and it's a symptom.
And so me being a systems thinker, a systems thinker likes to see patterns.
And so the way I explain it is, is if I were to introduce myself, it's I build systems that enable indigenous people and communities that are left to the side.
I build systems enabling people less fortunate to own, lead, and scale their own future.
And whether that's business, whether that's innovation, whether it's even counseling and giving some advice to greenies starting off their bachelor's, I think if you can really understand the pattern, you can understand what's the root cause of problems and all the challenges in life and in the world and start to build systems around that.
And I specialize in, you know, all things indigenous affairs, communities, diplomacy, as well as like innovation, enterprise building capacity and all those things.
And so, yeah, I just, I like looking at problems as a, in a system sense, like engineering and then to find the root causes the bottlenecks and fix that.
But then even a step further, like when I just got back from Fiji, and there was the locals, communities, and indigenous peoples platform.
And what it is, it's basically a platform to get the stories and the data and the indigenous knowledge and communities, basically get that data and put in a report towards the UNFCCC.
And it's basically trying to use those stories to influence international policy and diplomacy.
I envision like these indigenous communities globally to have these innovation hubs and to become economic engines for themselves and to pump out, you know, we hear Stanford every year pumps out 17 global firms.
Like these are graduate students from Stanford building businesses, not just businesses, but global firms.
And so I'm basically going, how can we learn from the Western society, culture, and the system structures and bring that deep into indigenous communities? And so one of the, one of the examples that we just went through a few of the examples is in Fiji in the Naidili village where we just visited.
There were these kids that had limited education, and the oldest was probably 16, and they started the Ngai Diri Marine Conservation Park.
I actually had to use different AI models to give all my resume, all my data from all my socials and just really incubate it.
And to break that down a little bit more, it's kind of like, A lot of problems can arise in business, in politics, in indigenous communities, even on the diplomacy aspects and in any aspect in life.
A lot of the problems arise, but then if you look at the problem, it's not really the right problem and it's a symptom.
And so me being a systems thinker, a systems thinker likes to see patterns.
And so the way I explain it is, is if I were to introduce myself, it's I build systems that enable indigenous people and communities that are left to the side.
I build systems enabling people less fortunate to own, lead, and scale their own future.
And whether that's business, whether that's innovation, whether it's even counseling and giving some advice to greenies starting off their bachelor's, I think if you can really understand the pattern, you can understand what's the root cause of problems and all the challenges in life and in the world and start to build systems around that.
And I specialize in, you know, all things indigenous affairs, communities, diplomacy, as well as like innovation, enterprise building capacity and all those things.
And so, yeah, I just, I like looking at problems as a, in a system sense, like engineering and then to find the root causes the bottlenecks and fix that.
But then even a step further, like when I just got back from Fiji, and there was the locals, communities, and indigenous peoples platform.
And what it is, it's basically a platform to get the stories and the data and the indigenous knowledge and communities, basically get that data and put in a report towards the UNFCCC.
And it's basically trying to use those stories to influence international policy and diplomacy.
I envision like these indigenous communities globally to have these innovation hubs and to become economic engines for themselves and to pump out, you know, we hear Stanford every year pumps out 17 global firms.
Like these are graduate students from Stanford building businesses, not just businesses, but global firms.
And so I'm basically going, how can we learn from the Western society, culture, and the system structures and bring that deep into indigenous communities? And so one of the, one of the examples that we just went through a few of the examples is in Fiji in the Naidili village where we just visited.
There were these kids that had limited education, and the oldest was probably 16, and they started the Ngai Diri Marine Conservation Park.
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