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Star-Singer, Dancer & Actress Ute Lemper and me, we’re talking about what it takes to be star. 

What you get:

00:00 - Intro 

00:32 -  The Impact of Covid19 on Performing Arts

06:30 - Virtual Performances

11:00 - My Life & Success 

18:00 -  Life & its Compromises 

22:40 - From Boom To Bust?

Personally speaking, my conversation with Ute Lemper gave me goose bumps. With a career of over 40 successful years in the show business, she’s still full of zest, enthusiasm for music and the performing arts. She can’t wait to get back to touring the globe again. She shares how dramatic the lockdown is for all artists in the industry, yet she enjoys also finally having some precious time with her husband and her four children. She’s so humble and actually never felt like a star. Rather she feels privileged to be able to perform. Media attention does not make you happy, she says – as one day you are pumped up, and dropped the next. The media and Journalism is a very fickle trade.  Looking back, she’s learned that life is full of compromises and that sometimes you just have to motor on, if you like it or not.

More about Ute Lemper: 

Website: https://www.utelemper.com/

Agent’s Website: https://imgartists.com/roster/ute-lemper/

YT Link (May 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoF66Y2ivyI

Twitter: https://twitter.com/UteLempersMusic?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UteLemperOfficialPage/

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Star-Singer, Dancer & Actress Ute Lemper takes us behind the scenes of stardom. She shares with us her tougher experiences made in the entertainment industry.

What you get:

00:42 - Drama & Tragedy: Ute tells us why she does not like to play frivolous roles and finds herself more at home with deep and dramatic characters.   

05:24 - Ute & Marlene Dietrich: The biggest impact that Marlene Dietrich had on Ute was how free, outspoken and strong she was. Standing by your decisions, choices and actions is and remains always the right thing to do and sets you free.

11:43 - Balancing Career & Family: Balancing a successful career with four children and a famous husband, is a complicated beast. It is hard for men to let the women take the lead because they are more successful or the family breadwinner. Becoming a stay-home dad is certainly not easy. There may be a lot of competition in a couple, and the male ‘Ego’ can suffer.

18:47 - La Vie en Rose? Life is not pink, or ‘la vie en rose’. It has thousands of colors. Important is to make authentic choices that one does not regret.

20:00 - Key Learnings: Her key learnings are… Stay curious, continue to learn, stay open minded, be compassionate to other people and trust that following your heart will always work out for you.

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More about Ute Lemper:

Website: https://www.utelemper.com/

Agent’s Website: https://imgartists.com/roster/ute-lemper/

YT Link (May 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoF66Y2ivyI

Twitter: https://twitter.com/UteLempersMusic?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

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Raising fresh money in times of Covid-19 has become tough for young entrepreneurs. Dr. Tobias Reichmuth (Investor / Dragon's Den Switzerland) shares with us what really matters if you're a founder and looking for funding.

What you get:

00:00 - Intro  

00:25 - How to Pitch Perfect to Investors: Authenticity! First and foremost, investors invest in people: the founder and his team. A great team can build a successful company with a mediocre product, but an average team won’t be able to be successful even with the most brilliant product.

11:55 - Company Valuations vs. Actual Value Financial forecasts and company valuations need to be realistic. No investor will buy the idea that a startup’s potential market is 65bn USD big and thus the company’s valuation is justified at 20 million without any previous sales whatsoever. Valuations is big stumbling block in many pitches, as they are often driven by the entrepreneurs’ blinkered love for the product idea. Totally detached from reality. 

19:55 - Vision, Focus, Implementation Whilst showing a long-term vision is important to potential investors, it is much more important to see the HOW? to turn that vision into reality. Strategy, process, focus and go-to-market strategy, asset allocation amongst other points, need to be part of a good pitch.

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More about Dr. Tobias Reichmuth 

Website: https://www.susi-partners.com/de/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiasreichmuth/?originalSubdomain=ch

YT Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F3GYk_3Moo

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Dr. Tobias Reichmuth (Investor / Dragon's Den Switzerland) shares his experiences on: Once your company starts growing, there will be the point when you as a founder have to ask yourself: What do I enjoy more: Building OR operating the company? Also, make sure you choose your investors wisely: Look out for the "Smart Money". What you get:

00:00 Welcome To Interview

00:49 How To CEO? Dr. Tobias Reichmuth has been in the position of an entrepreneur, that at some point gave the operational management to another set of hands. Many founders are not willing to do that due to ‘EGO’ reasons or trust issues. But that may be wrong for the long-term success of a company.  

06:20: Smart Money vs. Stupid Money: Founders need to choose their investors wisely. Most are just happy to get any money for their start up. But that’s not good enough. The better strategy is to look for ‘smart money’ right from the start! Smart investors bring money AND expertise they are willing to share with the young founders. 

15:30: 3 Key Learnings For Founders: Be transparent and tell people your idea. Not a soul is going to steal it; just the opposite people may give you great advise and help you! Plus, don’t be stingy with giving out shares. The bigger an investor’s stake in your company is, the higher the willingness to help it grow and prosper, Dr. Reichmuth believes.

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More about Dr. Tobias Reichmuth

Website: https://www.susi-partners.com/de/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiasreichmuth/?originalSubdomain=ch

YT Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F3GYk_3Moo

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=688241431583431

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Join me and Sandra Navidi for an impactful conversation about the Power of the Financial Elite, Networking in the Financial Industry, and How Networks can make – but also potentially break the global Financial System. In her Book ‘SuperHubs, How the Financial Elite and their Networks rule OUR world’, Sandra shows the benefits but also the systemic risks of networking amongst powerful individuals. People with the highest number of contacts, will attract more connections, power and also financial means. They are called SuperHubs. 

In our globalized world, interconnectedness is an inherent component of the financial system and indispensable for the exchange of goods and services. To scale the benefits of this global reach, top executives build an ever-higher number of interlinkages. As the network grows, it becomes more complex and harder to control. At some point this has a destabilizing effect, especially as ‘Power Brokers’ are reluctant to keep lucrative activities ‘balanced’ to keep the entire system stable. Failing that, inequality will sky rocket even more. Sandra sees SuperHubs like President Trump only adding to that imbalance. 

People like Richard Fuld (CEO of Lehman Bros), Mike Miklen (Junk Bond King), John Meriwether (Founder of LTCM) were all SuperHubs, ‘playing the system’ too hard and pushing it over the edge. These individuals became a systemic risk for the global Financial Industry pushing economies into deep economic crisis. What’s the solution? Sandra uses a quote by Albert Einstein: ‘we don’t need to think more BUT think DIFFERENTLY!’

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Sir Martin Sorrell is the Advertising and Marketing Icon who’s founded and built the world’s biggest advertising company WPP. When he left the company in 2018, WPP had a market capitalization of 16bn GBP and over 200.000 employees in 113 countries. Since he founded S4 Capital, a purely digital marketing company, roughly 2 years ago it’s market cap has reached well over 1.5bn GBP. 

For Sir Martin Social Media Platforms are ‘supremely powerful’ due to their global reach and the velocity at which information can spread across the globe. Facebook boast over 3bn monthly users, so eliminating hate speech on its platform is pivotal. However, Sir Martin does NOT believe companies should pull or pause their advertising from platforms such as Facebook or Twitter. Economic pressure through ad boycotts is wrong and does not work in the long run. Constructive dialogue and finding a solution for true change is the better strategy. 

Using Twitter as a global communication tool, is ‘extremely intelligent’… even for government representatives and Presidents. However, Sir Martin points out that communicating through Social Media needs to be done diligently and with a clear understanding of potential impact and ramifications of the content published. His Key advice for Life: ‘Find an Industry you enjoy, build a Reputation, don’t be a Job-Hopper, Learn Languages (Chinese) and Code. And if you can, start your own Company and invest in it. Disclaimer: I am an investor. 

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/S4Capital 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/s4capital

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Join me and Christian Dreyer, Independent Analyst and Former CEO of the Charted Financial Analyst (CFA) Society Switzerland, for a discussion to understand how a German DAX listed Fintech Star can inflate Sales and Profits by 2 Billion USD. At least so it seems. How can that happen unnoticed? Who’s to blame and who’s accountable? The auditors, The Supervisory Board, The Government Regulator BAFIN…?

Despite the Enron Scandal back in 2001, defrauding 40 Billion USD and scandals such Parmalat, Medoff’s Ponzi scheme and misconduct by a number of banks during the Financial Crisis of 2008, something is just plainly wrong in how the ‘check & balances’ System is structured in our Financial Industry.  

Christian believes we need a comprehensive reassessment of the system, engaging watchdogs on the EU level, as well as independent Supervision of supervisors and audit companies. There is too much conflict of interest and too much at stake, such as investor trust and a systemic failure of our global financial system.

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Join me and Cammie Wolf Rice to get an in-depth insight into the long-raging US Opioid Crisis, causing thousands of deaths each year. Around 1/3rd of these deaths are due to Prescription Drugs alone. Cammie tells us her personal story and how she lost her son Christopher as his MD prescribed highly addictive painkillers after an operation. She feels that the US Health Care System, the Government and the Pharma Industry fail society, by not providing adequate education and warnings about the dangers of prescribed Painkillers. To fight this reality and in honor of Christopher, Cammie founded The Christopher Wolf Crusade (www.CWC.ngo) in 2018. The CWC’s mission is to spare preventable deaths and save lives worldwide, by providing preventative solutions, education, and advocacy for the American opioid epidemic. 

Cammie warns, we all are exposed to the danger of becoming addicted to hard drugs by first taking prescription Painkillers such as Oxycotin, Vicodin, Demerol (etc.) and even Ritalin - often prescribed to children with ADHD. The stigma attached to addicts is utterly wrong – anybody can fall prey to drug addiction. About 75% of Heroin Users started their addiction by first becoming addicted to Prescription Drugs given by their MDs, often for minor ailments, she tells us. Since the start of the Covid19 Pandemic, total deaths caused by drug overdoses has shot up by 30% in some US states.

Each year Prescription Opioid Misuse costs the US economy almost 80bn USD, according to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). The system has to change and the spotlight is on Policy Makers, Big Pharma, Education for Medical Professionals, but also on Patients themselves, to become less trusting towards any kind of prescription from their Medical Doctors.

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‘Ageing is nothing but Evolutionary Negligence’ that can be remedied by Technology. According to Dr. Kris Verburgh, Technology will help us all to live for hundreds of years, keeping our health, cognitive functions and youthful looks. This belief drives Tech companies such as Google and Amazon, to invest hundreds of millions of USD into the science of Longevity. Amongst the main Longevity investors are Jeff Bezos, Jim Mellon, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.    

Together with Dr. Kris Verburgh, one of the top longevity experts, author of ‘The Longevity Code’ and a Venture Partner of the 100 million USD ‘Longevity Vision Fund’, we discuss how Gene Editing, 3D-Bio-Printing and Stem Cell Therapy will soon be part of eradicating the root cause of lethal diseases such as cancer. Growing human organs in the bodies of GMO Pigs, will become a normal way to keep our human bodies ‘up to speed’. As the 21st century brings about a new Biotech Revolution, we will be able to program and RE-program the Human DNA. However, Bio Hacking also brings the risk of Bio Terror, i.e. create lethal viruses.  

The right Diet is the ‘low tech’ approach to slow down the aging process. Dr. Verburgh developed the ‘Hourglass Diet’ which recommends to avoid refined sugars, dairy and animal proteins as they damage our cells. Fasting is a powerful tool to help to body in repairing the damage caused by our daily lifestyle.    His Key advise for Life: ‘Knowledge is Gold and Power, so read a lot. If you read only 3 books about a subject, you’ll know more about it than 99% of the entire population. Be critical and check out the information you receive, especially by the media. Be kind and generous because it feels good and remember: what goes around comes around?!’

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TED-Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6t0iMVeXb4

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Inflation is to hit us big, and threatens our wealth! So, Inflation-Protection (Hedging) is key! Inflation is ‘in the making’ due to the Covid19 financial help programs by Central Banks and Governments to buffer an expected economic downturn. This time round, the Federal Reserve’s Program is larger than the last few programs taken together. 

According to Alex Krainer, Hedge Fund Manager, Commodities Trader and advisor to Altana Wealth Management S.A.M. (Monaco), the best tools to protect from inflation are Commodity Futures and Farm Land. The worst investors can do is to invest in stocks, when inflation is a risk. Gold and other precious metals have always been the classic inflation hedge, but Commodities tend to perform even better, Alex is convinced. His book ‘Mastering Uncertainty in Commodities Trading – Generating sustainable Profits through Trend Following’, is a deep dive into investing in times of economic uncertainties.   

Historical Data shows, that printing additional cash creates episodes of Hyper-Inflation and unless ‘re-absorbed’ fast by the Central Banks, private (paper) wealth goes ‘up in flames’ and loses its purchasing power. When (?) is inflation going to happen, is more difficult to answer.    

One of the most important lessons in investing is: Don’t Trade – but invest! Don’t get ahead of yourself, thinking by jumping in and out of stocks you’ll turn a guaranteed profit. Plus, you have to be able to ‘stomach’ losses. Even the best strategy today, may turn out wrong in future, making you lose money. A risk management strategy is as important as your investment strategy. A solid risk management strategy prevents you from chasing your own tail and panicking when the markets turn against you. 

His Key advise for Life: Invest – don’t trade. Think what you want to achieve. Make sure you turn that into a clear investment strategy, have a ‘cushion’ and a risk management strategy to buffer potential periods of losses and stick to your approach. Don’t panic and remember when you start trading (rather than investing) the odds are against you.

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