Christina Wunder

Tamara Makoni, award-winning diversity and inclusion specialist and CEO of Kazuri Consulting, knows for a fact: stories connect us all on a human level and help us empathise in a way that cold, hard facts and statistics don’t. And people always have a story. Each and every one of us.

In this episode, she shares some learnings from her work - and how stories of inclusion and exclusion are something very universal. She uncovers the connection between inclusion (or lack thereof) and issues of climate justice, as: “we are all facing the same storm, but we are in very different boats. Some of us are facing the storm in speed boats. Some of us are in yachts. Some of us are in inflatable rafts or in canoes.”

Check out her work at: https://www.kazuriconsulting.com/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamaramakoni

Aikaterini Liakopoulou is a business coach for "clean tech" and "deep tech" startups - these are businesses that want to advance clean tech, artificial intelligence, robotics, quantum computing and more to tackle global and environmental challenges.

In her talk, Aikaterini explains why this space is not as new as some might think it is, what its particular challenges are, why it crashed in the past. And how to not repeat old mistakes and instead maximise its potential.

One thing Tino Chibebe noticed upon entering the Venture Capital space was: none of the leaders and decision makers there looked like him. The consequence: businesses and solutions that work for only for a small, homogenous group of people - while neglecting large chunks of the population.

What to do about this? 

Tino's proposal is simple and effective: We need to invest in underrepresented founders and in underrepresented in investors. The result: finally solving for problems that have been ignored for too long, and finally tapping into valuable opportunities for people, planet and profit.

I am curious to learn about new and experimental ways to organise community work, local politics and nature restoration. Today’s guest Leen Schelfhout, who is a Freelance facilitator, deep democracy trainer, co-organiser of the Regens Unite conference, and Executive Director at AllForClimate - a collective of local climate projects. I wanted to know from Leen:

Because if we fail to make it financially sustainable to contribute to the common good, we are perpetuating existing inequalities and injustices.

In this episode I present my new Peer Mentorship Space in Brussels. We're a community for people in tech, policy and sustainability, who are passionate about improving the communities around us. Here, mentorship is a decentralised concept: we all teach, influence and support each other - whether we notice it or not. While many of our community members identify as women, all genders are welcome - incl. men who'd like to support. The goal is to help create a support system that will always have each others' backs.

The best news is: We don’t need to look outside of ourselves for mentorship, advice and valuable counsel. How to access our inner mentors? With fear, anger, joy, disgust and sadness.

This is a special English speaking edition of “Christina Wonders” - a Podcast where I ask: why is the world the way it is? Why is it so hard to change anything? And what can we all do to make our world a better place?

In this episode, I am sharing a talk I gave at the women.code(be) community. I speak about why I believe we should all prioritise mentorship in our careers. And I share 9 life lessons that I wish I had known earlier. 

We all know the myth that women can’t support each other, that they're always in competition. Storytelling - from the bible to fairy tales to modern Hollywood plots - supports this myth and suggests that the public sphere only has space for very few of us. The prettiest one, the chosen one, the one.

In this episode I share some simple tricks that will benefit your career, professional relationships and well-being.

In dieser Folge geht es um ein Thema, das einen schlechten Ruf hat: Gefühle. Emotionen sind etwas, was weder am Arbeitsplatz, noch in der Politik etwas verloren hat... oder? Ich behaupte das Gegenteil: dass wir unsere Emotionen weder anerkennen noch zulassen, ist das eigentliche Problem. Denn das führt dazu, dass wir es nicht schaffen, sie in angemessene Handlungen umzuwandeln.

Inspiration für diesen (nun ja, emotionalen) Rant war diese sagenhafte Rede von Elizabeth Wathuti auf der Klimakonferenz in Glasgow: Egal was du heute noch vorhast - nimm dir 6 Minuten Zeit, um diese Rede anzuhören. Sie ist auf Englisch - die deutsche Übersetzung in Kurzfassung findest du in meiner Podcastfolge. https://twitter.com/christinawunder/status/1456194108817612801 

Möchte man die Welt verbessern, stößt man recht schnell an ein und dem selben Endgegner: Das Politische System. Und Fakt ist: Die Macht um hierin deutlich die Richtung anzugeben, wird bei denen liegen, denen wir in der Bundestagswahl am 26. September 2021 unsere Stimme geben. Wem möchte ich diese Macht anvertrauen? Und wer schnappt sie sich, während ich schweige?

Das habe ich genau die jungen Menschen gefragt, die für sich gesagt haben: genug ist genug. Ich möchte nicht einfach nur "den anderen" diese Macht überlassen, sondern ich mische da jetzt selbst mit. Das sind:

Ich wollte von ihnen wissen: wie hat das angefangen? Was war der Auslöser und wie ging es weiter? Und die wichtigste Frage aller Fragen: wie kommen wir denn jetzt von der Idee ins Handeln? Ich habe drei gemeinsame Nenner gefunden:

Hört mal rein und lasst mich wissen wie ihr es fandet. Ihr findet mich auf Social Media unter @christinawunder

Christina Wundert sich: Warum ist die Welt wie sie ist? Warum ist es so schwer, etwas zu verändern? Und was können wir denn jetzt trotzdem konkret tun? 

Ich bin Christina Wunder. Und in diesem Podcast möchte ich von Menschen lernen, die schon aktiv daran arbeiten, unsere verrückte Welt ein kleines bisschen besser zu machen - im Kleinen wie im Großen.

Sei dabei. Komm mit uns ins Gespräch. Und mach mit. Denn gemeinsam sind wir weniger allein.