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Amo Cartwright is well known as the joyful LinkedIn-profile spreading his inspiration around what he calls the Golden Mindset. We sat down with him to learn more about how he arrived at his philosophies, and how he managed to turn a childhood filled with abuse and hardship into a life filled with joy and inspiration.

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The first black male model from Sweden, Roger Dupé is today internationally renowned and has worked for brands like Kenzo, Vogue, Jean-Paul Gaultier, GQ, Acne Studios, and Björn Borg. 

In 2016, Dupé became historic as the first black model to front the exclusive Rolls-Royce brand. Now he has released his book, Den Motvilliga Modellen (The Swedish Model), in which he describes his journey into modeling and fight for equality.

This episode covers some of this, as well as his hopes for the future!

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Elin Sundin is the founder of Maktbyrån (The Agency of Power). They work for a conscious, inclusive and brave societal leadership, much needed in a complex and ever-changing world.

Our conversation explores the experienced differences and commonalities between the island where she grew up in Sweden and Brazil, which later became her adopted home. From politics in the City Hall to now venturing into entrepreneurship. Elin believes she is well-positioned to affect change.

We hope you enjoy this episode, and maybe you're inspired to believe in yourself and pursue your passion!

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Was Flat Earth 2.0 enabled by the internet?

Having to utilize our daily information consumption to better navigate in this digital age, meanwhile, deep fakes, fake news, and conspiracy theories blur reality and what is not.

Learnability decided to have the following conversation with Mark K Sargent. A Flat Earth spokesperson, who followed up his 2015 release, Flat Earth Clues, with a featuring in the Netflix documentary, Behind the Curve.

If transparency only is preferable until it isn't, can we rely on our instincts?

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New social behaviors have emerged, such as the subtle art (and the draining headache) of flirting through emojis and even sending nudes. Are relationships the social ritual that has been the most affected by technology? Are dating apps the reason why love has become both more social and anti-social, all at the same time? Join us in investigating the state of love in the age of dating apps, the developing immersive virtual realities, and human-robotics interactions.

Lina Maria Mannheimer is a Swedish filmmaker that set out to investigate young love. She decided to follow two Millennials over the internet, to track each of their dating habits, and see how they create their digital personas over a year. Having found her two subjects, the film takes an unforeseen twist when they start dating one another.

Dr. Josue Ortega is a researcher at the Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow and has studied how online dating and other technologies facilitate social integration.

Ylva Hansdotter helped create the world’s first Virtual Reality app store while working with HTC Vive in Silicon Valley (US), where she also initiated and directed a program to support VR-experiences with positive effect towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In 2018, she was invited to become a fellow of the prestigious World Economic Forum ’Global Future Council’ of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality.

Elizabeth Jochum is an Associate Professor in the Research Laboratory for Art and Technology at Aalborg University (Denmark). Her current book project, Deus Ex Machina: Robots on Stage in the Second Machine Age, surveys the field of robot performance across theatre, dance, opera, and visual art.

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What does the term Cities As A Service entail? Using data to bring better and more flexible services that can be employed by the citizens? What are the moral and legal aspects to consider regarding the expansion of human life across space, for example by creating a commercial space market, mining asteroids or building bases on different planets? Let's explore the groundbreaking ways in which innovation can revolutionize how we view space, cities, and citizens.

Namo Marouf is a civil engineer within the field of sustainable urban planning and design where she has specialized in social sustainability. She raises questions regarding representation and how to involve people when building a city. 

Mala Chakraborti is the Head of Ericsson ONE Sweden, scouting and scaling new growth bets for the company from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. She is passionate about finding a meaningful intersection between sustainability, entrepreneurship, and technology.

Anushka 'Nush' Sharma has been active in the tech ecosystem across the UK, Europe, and the USA. Her space startup Naaut is focusing on innovation as well as on AI research and its applications for space exploration and humankind.

These great conversations amounted to a truly exciting episode. Hope you enjoy it!

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Technology moves faster than regulations. Automation, AI and new digital services will forever change the world of work, leaving us with the question: what measures should be taken, and by whom, to build a brighter future for workers?

Linus Grandborg is a co-founder of Levels, and one of the initiators behind STACC. A learning community created to tackle the growing need for tech and digital talent. They do this by combining training, mentoring, and social events to speed up the development of skills.

Alok Ahlström previously led Uber's strong expansion in Sweden. He is now CEO and co-founder of AppJobs, which is the world's largest community of gig-workers with members in over 100 cities across the globe. Users find new app-based work opportunities, get essentials like insurance and tax support, and improve career advancement in the gig-economy. 

Binette Seck's superpower lies in building global bridges between people and business. She believes in the power of uniting talented people with companies to better deal with ever-increasing global competition and the rapid development of technology. Binette is a prominent Business Advisor contributing to Africa's tech start-up scene and was voted top 33 Female Tech Leader in Sweden.

Your mother doesn't work here, so who does?

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By your regular use of websites, apps, and social media, you create data related to your daily routines, what you buy, whom you talk to and whom you date. As we have come to spend increased amounts of time online, there is an increased effort in assuring our digital lives are allowed democracy.

So, how can we adapt our economic growth to our social emergencies? How can we utilize data to achieve diversity and inclusion? How can we keep our integrity online, without having to give up our digital lives altogether? In this episode, we are joined by four experts in different fields of our digital being, to explore these questions further.

During the Swedish elections 2018, Maria Fabricius co-founded Open Act, a Human Rights organization monitoring and analyzing politician's rhetorical framing of immigrants and the effect on public discourse, policy, and segregation. Open Act is currently collaborating with experts within tech, politics, and rhetorics in Sweden and in Europe to create a digital platform that will be able to monitor media’s and politician's use of framing.

Suzan Lindberg is the CEO of Scandinavia’s only insight-driven diversity management agency The Social Few. Together with David Khabazzi, who is the head of insights, they utilize their background from data-driven insights, digital marketing, and business development to create inclusive infrastructures in organizations and society.

Abel Buko is a romantic academic who fell backwards into and was momentarily lost in the advertising world. He’s recently found himself fighting for the future of the Internet from the inside. He is presently the Insights Director at Bannerboy, a digital advertising agency headquartered in Stockholm. His main areas of research include the history of digital advertising, the role an advertising-funded Internet plays in a democratic Internet, and how Internet activity affects climate change.

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Jakob Grandin describes himself as a Cultural Entrepreneur. He is the founder of Stockholm's nightlife council, the 4000sqm flagship nightclub called Trädgården (The Garden), as well as the innovation conference Gather.

As we will be collaborating with Gather in creating the upcoming six-part Gather Series. We thought it would be fitting to start it off with its founder to hear how he came to pursue these ambitious initiatives and what he aims to achieve with these movements.

During the conversation, Jakob reveals how he has come to handle failure & critique, seizing opportunities to building liberating dimensions, his take on collaborations, and freedom of expression combined with intellectual pursuit.

You can find the filmed interview with Jakob at www.learnability.online. Enjoy!

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Originally from Sydney Australia, Malcolm Larri is a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), in-demand coach, and speaker focused on empowering companies and individuals to use their unique abilities to drive positive change.

Malcolm shares with us, the concept of our "Powerful Four," reframing and getting rid of limiting beliefs, why organizations should view themselves as rivers of people, and coaching startups in defining their direction and value proposition.

No matter where you are in your career or life, there will be some great insights to gain from this conversation in regards to leadership, both of self and of organizations!

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