🗣👥😅🤪A lot of people I have been talking to, or with whom I have spent some time with are struggling to be themselves, without wearing a mask, without trying to impress anyone else, but themselves. Even on my current journey, I have run into people seeking the approval of a certain group of people so hard, that they twist and turn themselves, just to be accepted in this specific social environment. And I think every one of us has experienced those situations, either twisting themselves or recognizing others, who won`t allow themselves to be the way they normally are.

🎙👱‍♂️＝♥️And today’s interview partner Pedro Avanzi is an expert, when it comes to this topic, as he went through quite a process of allowing himself to live on the outside the way he feels on the inside.
Being born and raised in a small town in Brazil he discovered in his teenage years that he does not like girls as much as other guys, and that put him into a position of uncertainty, and questioning. Not being able to experience anyone else in his environment, that had those same questions or feelings he felt more comfortable keeping his secret to himself until he was 18.

🏳️‍🌈🇧🇷👨‍❤️‍👨‍The turnkey moment for him was the time when he was able to move to Sao Paulo, where he knew, that a big LGBTQ scene was based. Arriving there he felt more comfortable, yet he was not sure how his childhood friends would react, how his family would react, once he opened up about himself about that personal topic.

✈️🇦🇺🏳️‍🌈As he was not sure how to begin, and how he could share his inner feelings, he decided to go to Australia, to “test the water” about being openly gay. Those moments and experiences helped him a lot to be more confident about opening up.

🎧🤯😆😅If you want to know more about:
How he felt, once he found out about his sexuality.
Why he is convinced, that keeping such a “secret” to yourself is almost always more painful, than taking the risk of losing the relationship to a friend or family member.
How he was able to incorporate his sexuality in his workspace, and especially how the reactions of others were, once they found out.
And how much traveling has helped him not just to lose the mask about his sexuality, but also about his true self.
Then this Podcast is the right one for you.

❌❓🏳️‍🌈Even if you are not questioning your sexuality, the interview gives such an impressive perspective about allowing yourself to be you, so if you sometimes feel like you lose yourself, just in order to be accepted, you should definitely check out this interview.

🇨🇷🏄‍♂️🏊🏼‍♂️🚶‍♂️After being in Costa Rica for just about a week I can already feel how much more active, how much more engaged I am in going out every day, doing sports every day, and also growing together with people that were strangers just days ago.

👨👀🚗👥I have recognized, that we oftentimes forget to listen and follow what we want, as we’re getting stuck in our daily life. And it’s not just a big journey, that changes that, but also just trying to make the most of the situation you are in. By doing day trips, getting together with your friends, and trying to go beyond your routine as much as it is possible, at least when you get into that feeling of being stuck where you are at right now.

🎙🎧👩‍🎨 So check out the podcast if you want to hear a little bit about my Costa Rica experience and what other ways there might be, to provide new impressions for yourself, which help you to be much more creative again.

❓📂✅How are you setting the priorities?


🔎🕰📲Finding time to watch the next episode of Netflix is never an issue.

❌⚽️🏋️‍♀️But blaming yourself after watching these two episodes (90 min) of your favorite show and saying that you didn’t have the time for sport is familiar to a lot of people. 


💸📱/🧑‍💼But this podcast is not just about that scenario it’s also about how we sometimes spend money as I mentioned before I’m get triggered by the newest iPhone or other new tech products.
How are you spending your money? Is it the 5th pair of shoes you are buying? Or other products which you might think twice about buying?
I have noticed that we sometimes tend to spend a lot of money on things which don’t help us. 



💵🛠❓Why not considering investing money into a new skill which we can leverage to earn more money or to give us a broader understanding of marketing, strategy, or whatever you want to improve in.
My brother and I spend a lot of money last year on coaching, to work on ourselves, most people would have bought a car. It doesn’t need to be coaching, but you could for example travel the world with that money.

💵➡️👤Why do I think, that investing in yourself will always be worth it in the end? Check out the podcast, as I go into the return of those investments.

❓🧐🅾️🎧So what should you do, when it comes to a purchase opportunity? How can you decide between fun and development?
Those are the topics I cover in this podcast.

1️⃣👧📝In today's interview, I had the pleasure to talk to Sigrid Bost, who is one of the first people, with whom we talked about our podcast, back in July. As we were right at the planning stage of the podcast, we exchanged some ideas and wondered how our topic of different perspectives would be perceived. Would people be interested, would they like it? Those were the questions on our minds, and Sigrid was one of the people encouraging us to go for it.


😊👥🗓Now our podcast is running for 3 months, and we are very proud, and happy that there are people who listen to it every day.


🎙✈️🗺Yet this interview is not only reserved for our backstory, Sigrid is passionate about traveling and her specific takeaways, and experiences. The biggest impacts happened on her three mayor stays abroad:


🇦🇺🦘🔄The first stay abroad was in Perth Australia, where she worked as an Au-pair to get new impulses for a change in her life, as she had just canceled her law studies, which were not suitable for her.

🤗👥👍After that experience, she decided to study communication and marketing with a friend in Tilburg. Within the study program, the second abroad experience came along, which was in Brussels where she experienced the time of her life with a super international group of people.


🇲🇼❤️👩‍💻Her third experience abroad was due to an internship for an organization in Malawi Africa. The beauty came, as she was able to dive into a really warm-hearted culture, which brings many different qualities than our western standard. Working on the communication of the organization there has brought her quite a lot of joy, as she was able to prepare herself through this practical experience for her master's in organization studies.


👀🔁📖How did those parts of her life change her view? What were the biggest takeaways? And where does it take her in the future?


👂🎧🎙Check out the interview, as she goes into those questions and just brings a very refreshing perspective that has been build through those special parts of her life.

🧑‍🔧❌👩‍🎨❌Trying and then failing is something a lot of people think negatively about, I do not. I believe it is necessary to try and fail over and over again to find out what you like and dislike.
If you are able to give your self the space to discover those preferences you will be able to find your passion. It will also help you to grow you as a person.


<🎧⏳⏱🔍Most of our podcast listeners are between 18 and 35 years old. This means we have time to figure out what we like doing, we shouldn't just apply more and more pressure to our self if we can’t figure it out right away. Even making experiences we don’t enjoy, help us to select, as we definitely know what doesn’t work for us. Through this process we get closer step by step to find out what makes us happy in our business or job.


🛫❌1️⃣+1️⃣Yet the journey doesn’t end there, as our passion can change depending on the things that fit in our life at the moment. So finding our passion is a process which we will go through our whole life, picking up pieces that bring us joy, one by one. Those are the ones we should keep.


😅🔍✅🙏If you are struggling to find your passion this might be the perfect inspiration for you. Thank you so much for listening, and for the great support you give us.

⌚🤷‍♂️🔄Sometimes you just don’t know what will happen, and you have to make a decision based on faith, and your best guess. And you can not guarantee that the outcome will be 100% satisfying. I just made one of those decisions, and I am super happy with it, even if it is just for the fact that I actually took the initiative to make a change, even if the result might not end up being perfect there will definitely be more adventure than before. Also, I will have opportunities to grow one way or the other.

🎙🤷‍♂️🤯✅Today's podcast will be all about those moments of uncertainty. What decision am I talking about, how can you decide if you are not able to estimate the risk and reward of your plan - tune in and you might get inspired on how to deal with your uncertain situation the next time.

👨‍🎓👨‍💼🏢🧳Even though Kaya and Friedrich are both students at the university, as well as I am, the biggest learnings about life did not necessarily happen in a classroom, but instead, they seemed to come up during their travels or by making their first steps as CEO’s of the start-up called „Denkleister“, which translates to „thinking-performer“. So we are saying University is useless? No that is not the case, but we want to advertise you as a listener, to go beyond that „normal“ experience of University, and to look for practical ways to gain meaningful experience.


❓🙇‍♂️📈👨‍💻So what is „Denkleister“? Well, the company is officially referred to as a start-up, and yet Friedrich describes it as a playground. Wait, did he just describe business as a playground? Yes, he did, and I think it is beautiful, as most people never have an opportunity to actually make experiences in the business world, without facing major risk. A student-based start-up gives space for exactly that, and it also shows how tough handling certain responsibilities can be. If you are thinking about going into a start-up or joining a student business this might be a super insightful part for you, as this interview also goes into the most important experiences and how they influenced the understanding of what is really important to oneself.


❌💵👥✈️🌎But not everybody finds themselves comfortable in business, and life certainly is not only about making money, or being an entrepreneur, or having the most precious career, for us it is about making the most of your time, and one of the best ways to achieve that has been traveling for Friedrich and Kaya. It has been amazing how much traveling has changed their perspective, their understanding of certain things, and how it has become an important part of their life.


🎧🎙➡️🌅Feel free to tune into the interview, if you want to go back to those warm traveling memories, that might be in the back of your head, or if you just want to hear another perspective on how insightful getting out of your comfort zone can be.

🙈😪😓 Right now it is way too easy to get into weaker energy, that nothing gets done, few things are satisfying, as more and more restrictions are coming up.

🗣🤷‍♂️🛠🔂 So I went in and asked for advice, how I can get that feeling back. And quite frankly it couldn’t be much more obvious. Reconstruct and recreate those situations, which have gotten you into your mental top-shape the last time.

🤔⚡️😊Go on and ask yourself: What are the things in your daily life, that deliver you this energy? Which activities brought a smile to your face lately.

🔍👉🏻👤The strongest things I was able to identify for myself are: Walking every day, getting my planned workout done, meditation, or concentrated breathing.

❓🧠🔋What are activities and experiences that enable you to function at full capacity?

🚶‍♂️😓👣It can be hard to do those first steps, as we often have trouble breaking out of our shells, but once you do it will be worth it. This podcast might just be a good start for you.

🗣🦻❓You might have heard something like this ⬆️. Or something along the lines of: “This is not true, or maybe even that’s impossible. As a matter of fact, those statements happen to be true, just as much as they are false.


🧍‍♂️🧍‍♀️↪️👁Ok, where do you want to go with this?
Well, a very wise man, by the name of Jay Abraham has said to me: “Different people have different realities” – and now some of you might differ that different people have different perceptions of reality. But no matter how you put it, this thought has really gotten me going to think about the state of mind each and every one is in, regarding all of their experiences, priorities, and circumstances.

🎙📈🤔And in today’s Podcast I will go into the perception that might differ in between different people and what I learned from the idea of having different realms of thinking, as you continuously shape your own reality.

🏞👨‍🏫🙇👥‍My own experience has taught me, that it sometimes just needs the right thinking partner, the right moment, the right energy or any other slight impulse to turn something impossible into something very possible, just because I was finally able to grasp the approach to work at it. So, if you happen to be standing in front of an unsolvable challenge, this might help you to identify people or ideas that enable you to solve your situation. It might be impossible now, but it might also be very realistic in a few weeks.

🇮🇹➡️🇩🇪👨‍👩‍👦‍👦Dominico was introduced to us in 2016 when he left his home country Italy and went on to be one of our first workawayers, that was staying at our house. He stayed for about five weeks, to get out of his comfort zone, in order to grow, and that has been his motto ever since. Back then he was close towards finishing his master’s degree in international accounting. A lot has changed since then.

👨‍🎓➡️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏢After finishing his studies in 2017, he started working in Turin for Deloitte. After gaining experience he was looking for yet another challenge and made the decision, that an international work experience was the next step, in order to pave the way for his career. This path brought him to London, where he started working for Gower Accountancy. During his time he had some interesting experiences, as well as discoveries about himself and his development.

🔎🏠👨‍💻📈If you want to check out, why it is more attractive for him to work in a smaller company, how has designed his career, where he was able to grow the most, and what his biggest takeaways on personal development are, then check out this episode, as he is delivering yet another perspective about life, and learning.