Our next guest on the podcast - Keep Walking With Me - is Jessica Orkin. As CEO of SYPartners (https://www.sypartners.com), Jessica leads business transformation fueled by humanity, creativity, and purpose for SYP. She is responsible for shaping the vision, strategy, and contributions of SYP to a rising generation of employees, clients, and changemakers.   

Since joining the company in 2013, she’s worked alongside CEOs at AARP, Eileen Fisher, GE, Ralph Lauren, the Obama Foundation, OWN, Starbucks, Tory Burch, UnitedHealthcare, and WW (previously Weight Watchers).  Previously, Jessica held executive positions at design and consulting firms, where she advised CEOs and executive teams on global brand strategy and culture change. She began her career in public policy, working with the City of New York, Ford Foundation, and think tanks.  

A graduate of Cornell University, Jessica has attended executive education at Harvard Business School and is a frequent guest lecturer at universities and conferences on whole-human leadership, beautiful business, creative audacity, and purpose-driven growth. She’s a New Hampshire native who has lived more than 20 years in New York City, a student of sound meditation and is prototyping “agile parenting” at home to the bemusement of her rascally teenage son.  

You can listen to the audio version in Anchor - https://anchor.fm/walking-mentorship   

+ info about Walking Mentorship programs - www.walkingmentorship.com

Our next guest on the podcast - Keep Walking With Me - is Alex Soojung-Kim Pang.   

Alex studies people, technologies, and the worlds they make. His latest book SHORTER explains how companies all over the world, in a variety of industries, are shortening their working hours while improving productivity and profitability.  

SHORTER is the third in a series of books that makes the case for recognizing the value of rest in creative and prolific lives and blends science and history to better understand how we can live and work better in the digital age. His previous books, REST: WHY YOU GET MORE DONE WHEN YOU WORK LESS, and THE DISTRACTION ADDICTION, have been translated into 14 languages.   

Through his company Strategy + Rest, Alex speaks and works around the world with companies who want to apply these insights to their organizations.  Alex received a Ph.D. in history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania and has been a lecturer or visiting scholar at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Oxford University, and Microsoft Research Cambridge. Alex lives in Silicon Valley.  

Strategy+Rest: www.strategy.rest LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/askpang Twitter and Instagram: @askpang  

You can listen to the audio version in Anchor - https://anchor.fm/walking-mentorship  

+ info about WM programs - www.walkingmentorship.com

Our next guest on the podcast - Keep Walking With Me - is Jane Murray.   

Jane is a former lawyer who has spent her career specializing in venture capital. She ran a fund for a couple of decades and oversaw investments in start-up/early-stage companies in a broad cross-sector of industries.   With first-hand experience of the world of cut-throat competition, individualism, and isolationism, and having seen the impacts of those paradigms amplified by technology, she founded Peacebeam in 2016. https://www.peacebeam.com 

Peacebeam is a digital publisher working at the intersection of technology, wisdom, and interconnection. Jane is passionate about reimagining the role of the entrepreneur and the company and creating a new economic story by experimenting with value and capital. She is pioneering Kindness Capital at Peacebeam and has recently authored The Path of the Entrepreneur, Understanding Your Shadow, for the London School of Economics accelerator LSE Generate.  

Jane sees that in order to traverse the challenging times we live in there needs to be an evolution from the pursuit of individual wellbeing to the pursuit of collective world being and believes that understanding the ‘technology’ of kindness and its creative power is the pathway to a saner future for the planet.  

You can listen to the audio version in Anchor - https://anchor.fm/walking-mentorship  + info about WM programs - walkingmentorship.com

Our next guest on the podcast - Keep Walking With Me - is Dan Rubinstein. 

Dan likes to walk and likes to write, and when he decided to combine both passions, the result was his first book, Born to Walk: The Transformative Power of a Pedestrian Act.  But Dan doesn’t have a one-track mind. Over the past couple of years, he became increasingly obsessed with standup paddleboarding — which is kind of like walking on water. Paddleboarding, on rivers, lakes, and oceans, is a unique way to interact with natural and human aquatic ecosystems; it can help connect us to this vital natural resource that we often ignore or neglect. Join us on a virtual walk with Dan Rubinstein.  + info about WM programs - www.walkingmentorship.com

Our next guest on the podcast - Keep Walking With Me - is Gerard van den Berg, CEO & Founder X-ploregroup. Gerard provides people with adventurous and educational experiences all over the globe and his professional leadership allows him to offer authentic, up-close experiences in the planet’s wild, remote places and capitals of adventure and culture. He feels comfortable offering integral and professional services in challenging, natural, and off the beaten environments. His experience brought him to work as a Wilderness Specialist, Safety Crew Member, Location Scout, and Production Manager for national and international TV production companies. 

You can watch the video version on Patreon -  listen to the audio version in Anchor - https://anchor.fm/walking-mentorship  and Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/3HcK9as... + info about WM programs - www.walkingmentorship.com

Our first guest sets our standards really high. Galeo Saintz, Founding Chair at World Trails Network generously opened his soul in a deep and very inspiring conversation. From the ecological corridors to save elephants to the transformation we go through when walking in nature for a few days and the way he sees the future after the pandemic, Galeo took us on a journey to our capacity and responsibility to contribute to a better world.

Nuno and Joao are partners from the Walking Mentorship and they bring the inside look in the life of the people they walk with.

One likes to make questions, the other loves to find answers.

In a world of chaotic noise, The Podcast Keep walking with me searches for potential solutions towards the best version of ourselves. Every month we walk together with a guest.

Welcome to the Podcast Keep walking with me. This is our very first episode, which we will dedicate to 0,00KM, the first step in many of our mentoring programs. Before we start, there is a disclaimer that needs to be shared.

After listening to this program, you might feel the urge to step outside and go for a long walk. Don’t worry that is absolutely normal.

My name is Joao Perre Viana and I am the founder of the Walking Mentorship. Today we are going to cover the beginning of this incredible journey and I will have the pleasure to interview my partner Nuno.

Hi, My name is Nuno Santos Fernandes, I am a partner at the Walking Mentorship. As Joao mentioned we will be talking about the first years of our mentoring programs and guess what, I will be interviewing my partner.

Shall we start?