In this interview Joana talks to trans-personal psycho-therapist Jasmin Bloch. Jasmin grew up in Switzerland and moved to New York City when she was 18. There, she studied theater at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy and went on to get a BA in psychology at the New School for Social Research. In this conversation they delve deeply into Jasmin’s world, her lifelong fascination with dreams, her relationship to nature and mysticism, and what learning and creativity have meant to her throughout her life. We hope you enjoy!

In this episode Joana interviews Israeli actress and mystic Brit Schneuer. They discuss how she awoke to the wonder of life and God, and her lifelong path of honoring this connection. She discusses her experience in the army as a young person, and afterwards her career in the theater. However, since the age of 12, Brit felt a strong calling towards a kind of mysticism and spirituality. This developed throughout her life as a study of space, being, and silence.

Mike grew up in the American mid-west, and and went on to study design as a practice of fine art. He discovered meditation in his 20's and found that it opened a profound door for him to understand his depression, sense of self, and the workings of his mind. In this conversation Joana and Mike discuss how this inner work seeps into his professional life of design, product development and market research. Mike talks about his work designing the female health app Clue, as well as his involvement with a healthcare start-up in Pakistan called Doctory. For more information check out Mike's current work at Das Dach, or on his medium linked in the episode notes.

In this conversation we speak to Ben Mason from The BetterplaceLab. For the past few years Ben has been working in the social sector, researching how digitization affects mass migration and the European refugee crisis. Although we do venture into those topics, in this conversation we also speak about his personal practise of meditation, body work, and how he perceives his own life narrative.

In this introduction, Joana Breidenbach describes what we hope to accomplish with this podcast! Joana is trained as a cultural anthropologist and has worked in Berlin for most of her career as a social entrepreneur. She co-founded Germany's largest donation platform betterplace, and founded the think tank the betterplace lab.