ReDesign Travel + Life

Have you ever thought of creating a personal tagline that defines your life philosophy and work? In a way, it’s a way to brand your life, a constant reminder of how you want to live in your own style. When you “just flow”, you realise you can embrace the idea of change and life with much more fluidity. This is the life philosophy of this week’s guest, Maurici Segú, a creative leader in the hospitality industry that has worked from getting hotels to transform from places to stories and is an expert in finding the value of what’s within everything you do.

Maurici is also an avid traveller himself for both work and pleasure and has spent almost two years straight sleeping in hotels, leading him to publish his first book: “Solitary Nights in Hotels” where he shares reflections he had at that time. Founder of Innovarout, a consultancy company that takes companies through the innovation cycles, Maurici has worked with hundreds of organisations. He is also a public speaker and professor in several universities in Europe.

Have you been looking to become a more purpose-driven business? Have you taken steps to transform your organization before you re-brand? This week’s episode is all about cultural decoding, purpose rebranding and meaningful innovations. In conversation with Arya Djoehana, we explore how companies can operate without bricks, borders and bosses while being responsible to the environment. Arya Djoehana is a partner at Innate motion, a consulting agency that accelerates change within organisations through empathy and customized experiences. Currently based in Singapore, Arya brings a regenerative economy perspective that is shaping Southeast Asia and moving quickly throughout the world. This episode will give you action-oriented steps towards how to change yourself and your organization.

What makes a good leader? What leadership skills do we need in these times of transition? How can we move from control to trust, from self-leadership to co-leading? Join Mounira Latrache, a pioneer of Google’s mindfulness community with 20+ years of leadership experience at international corporations like Red Bull, BMW and Google, and myself in a conversation of everything from organizational transition to the role of eldership in business. We take a deep dive into the future of business and work. We unwrap self-discovery, mindfulness, compassion, and vulnerability and discuss their role in the workplace. We unearth new lenses on how to explore ourselves to become better leaders. This is a must episode as this year starts to get a new perspective on what type of leader you want to become.

In today's episode, Elena, host of this podcast, reflects on life and business hacks. Elena shares her methods and processes for looking at life and business through a regenerative and expansive lens. Get ideas, inspiration, business and life updates to start your new year.

One way to redesign is to be the bridge: between past and future, between what is and wants to be, between people and ideas, between entrepreneurs and money. In this episode, we go deep with Helena Torras about innovation, future thinking, and changing power structures. We also talk about the role of startups, women and capital, as a unique access point towards new possibilities to change the usual patterns and bring in a different future. Join Helena, a connector of connectors and myself in uncovering how you can be a bridge to bring the future forward.

Helena is the Managing Partner at Pao Capital, where she promotes the tech-startup mindset and women entrepreneurship. She is always connecting the dots between the ecosystem, startups, corporates and investors. She has been selected as one of the top 100 women leaders in Spain and one of the top 30 people to follow on the tech ecosystem on Twitter; Helena is the “in the know” person who constantly connects people and ideas. She also serves as an independent board director of several organisations, such as Barcelona Tech City. Her passion for tech startups led her to become an investor. To create further change in the ecosystem, she has recently co-founded WeRock Capital to boost investment in women-led tech startups and close the gap between tech and the traditional world.

We all have dreams and ideas, but how we go about bringing them down into reality makes the difference between one project to the next. Dragon Dreaming Project Design methodology appeared in my life exactly when I was searching for a holistic project methodology that would look at the projects as a means for us, our team, and the world to transform. In this episode, I am talking with John Croft, a mentor and teacher who has developed the Dragon Dreaming project design methodology and is applied in projects in more than 54 countries worldwide since the 1990s. This episode is a must if you have a new project in mind.

John Croft is an international trainer and consultant, who for 40 years, has worked in the field of ecologically sustainable community education and community economic development. He has worked around the world speaking, educating, and running workshops. He is the co-founder of the Gaia Foundation in Australia and co-designer of the Dragon Dreaming Project Design System Methodology. Dragon Dreaming combines the wisdom of Australian Aborigines, Living Systems Theory, Deep Ecology with methods of traditional project management and the ideas of hundreds of thinkers, educators and change agents such as Gandhi, Paolo Freire, Carl Jung, Joana Macy, Scott Peck, Arnold Mindell, Marshall Rosenberg and others.

How will the circular economy change the way we live? How can we move away from ownership and products to a pay-per-use of services and experiences? The sharing economy opened the path in changing the model of how we consume, and now we are open to a new way of understanding our economy without waste. In this episode, we look at how to proactively change our ways of thinking: as consumers, entrepreneurs and industry leaders and generate a new vision for our future. This conversation with Dr Kim Poldner will inspire you and give you the tools to design circular business models.

Dr Kim Poldner is a Professor of Circular Business at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and founder of the Circular Fashion Lab at Wageningen University. Before she embarked on an academic career, Kim was the founder of the first eco-fashion store in The Netherlands in 2005 and the online platform ‘Eco Fashion World’ initiator. Her green wardrobe, including her upcycled wedding dress, was exhibited during the ‘Wear I Am’ exhibition in 2017. Kim has written multiple award-winning case studies on sustainable fashion pioneers and has written: ‘Un-Dress – Stories of Ethical Fashion Entrepreneuring´.

Innovate your model-How the travel industry has to change its business model. In this episode, Elena was invited by Jens, the CEO of Heitland Innovation, to decode a real-life case: A family-owned hotel chain with hotels in a couple of major European cities is hit hard by the pandemic. The owners' family is looking to reinvent themselves finding new ways to position the hotels and explore new business models. In this episode, we talk about how to redesign business models as a source of innovation and how regeneration can be the key to unlocking sources of creativity and hidden value propositions. It is all about how we rethink the model, how we reframe partnerships and our relationship with clients, and how we build the core values of the business as the holding structure. Whether in hospitality or not, this case will widen your perspective on how to position innovation and redesign business models.

How do you design for freedom? Can you turn your life around and redesign everything? How do you create choices for yourself? In these times of change, many of our listeners are considering what´s next for their lives. If this is you, then you need to tune in to this week´s episode if you want to hear the story of a high school teacher turned into 5 million subscribers travel podcaster Travis Sherry. Travis is a travel expert, entrepreneur and has been location-independent for the last eight years. We talk about how travel became part of his lifestyle design and how that lead to his company. This summer episode brings you a different type of travel and redesigns conversation.

How does a travel company that is currently not travelling re-invent itself? How do a collection of 40 travel brands serving 1.9 million travellers annually, including tour operators, hotels, and transportation companies that operates in 70 countries and has 40 offices around the world, change their operations and strategy? Contiki Travel has used this everchanging time to move further into the sustainability journey by bringing forth more uniqueness and changing the way they do business. In conversation with recently appointed sustainability officer, Tasha Hayes, we dive into the questions of how and why should large companies advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Tasha Hayes is the Operations Director for Contiki Europe. Based in London, United Kingdom, A dual national having lived in both the Netherlands and the USA, Tasha started her career with Contiki as a Trip Manager in 2012. In 2021 Tasha took on the additional role as Contiki’s first-ever global Sustainability Officer to guide Contiki’s implementation of the strategy through the brands trip operations and owned accommodations. Tasha played a crucial role in assisting TreadRight to develop TTC’s new sustainability strategy, How We Tread Right, designed to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This brand new, change-making role will also be integral in implementing Contiki’s Climate Action Plan, launched in April 2021.