Talented Humans

My guest today, Anna Rosenwasser is professionally gay. She works as director of the Swiss Lesbian Organisation, where she campaigns for love. In our conversation, we dive into the empowering of queer people and how many of us as allies should continue to fight for equality across all genders. We also discuss how her work and organization helps young people deal with the still existing prejudice against LGBTQ people to maintain a good level of mental toughness to better care for their mental health.  

My Guests today are Drs Kim and Todd Saxton who are award-winning authors and professors at Indiana University Kelly School of Business. Our conversation today centres around education and entrepreneurship and the changes that are needed to better educate future generations that will work the jobs of the future. 

In this episode I have a conversation with one of my best friends Finn Thormeier, It is fitting that this is the first episode of season 2 as we dive into the topic of social media and how Finn has dealt with the experience of being on social media and building a brand and image through it. In the past 2 years, Finn has gone from University dropout to founder of his own personal branding agency while documenting the whole process.  have a listen to this light-hearted conversation between to silly friends who are both figuring life out and navigating the world of entrepreneurship. 

My guest today is Rona van der Zander and she is focused on education and improving the way we teach at universities and how we prepare future generations for jobs that not yet exist. - Rona has a great background and has challenged herself since she was young, and in this episode, we talk about what she has learned about the importance of staying mentally strong as you navigate through life finding your purpose. We also discuss how the world of work has changed already and how much it will continue to change. Rona is a TEDx speaker and has worked together with the UN to impact the world of education.

Links:

Rona on LinkedIn

Rona's TEDx Talk

Creativity is something we all have in us to a certain extent, but there are only a few of us who have insane creativity and are extremely talented at maximizing our creativity. My guest today is Timo Hänseler a German storyteller and visual creator master who I met last summer in NYC and who since last year continues to leave jaw dropped whenever I have the pleasure to see his work or even better see him in action creating content and bringing ideas to life. Timo, like me, believes in the importance of making sure that we take care of ourselves both physically and mentally especially while we are young. In this episode, we dive into his story as a talented human and we touch on the valuable lessons he has learned since he began his career over a decade ago as a teen. 

Education, cognitive behavior, psychology, entrepreneurship and emotional intelligence, are the topics I discuss with this week's guest Martina Witter. Unlike many of my other guests Martina is not someone I know personally or at a high level but she caught my attention on LinkedIn by making a comment about emotional intelligence and I knew I wanted to have a conversation with her to dive into this topic a bit more since I had touched on it when I talked with Lila Smith. 

Being a teen might seem to some like a simple time in life with fewer worries and just having to focus on school and having a good time. But that is far from the truth and we all know it, being a teen is probably the most challenging time in our lives we are in the process of growing up both physically and mentally and dealing with our body's chemical imbalances that can cause us to act and behave in different ways. One thing that most teens have to deal with is pressure from peers and from parents and teachers and society as a whole. At times we are expected to be responsible adults and at the same time, we are treated as young children. My guest on today's episode is an 18 teen from Switzerland his name is Nooah Riijärvi and he is on his last year of high school, and it is because of young people like him that I created this podcast, it is because of the different emotions and uncertainty that some young people like him face that I thought we need to teach and talk about the importance of learning how to find our purpose and understand our emotional intelligence to be able to deal with the challenges that figuring what we want and what path to follow brings. 

Some of us seem to have a natural ability to be confident and to go after what we want in life even when we aren't 100% sure what that is. Meet Thomas Reck he is the founder of Insight, a personal branding agency based in Berlin. I met Thomas last year in NYC and after spending a few days together walking the city and taking photos I realized that this cheeky and confident 18yo had something special. Thomas is a talented entrepreneur and born leader. In this episode, we talk about his transformation from an 18yo talented photographer trying to figure out what he wanted to do after high school to company founder and up and coming authority on personal branding in the European market.  

Sleep is so important and there are many ways to find the right strategy to ensure that you maximize and optimize your sleep time. In this episode my conversation is with 18yo Max Kozlow, a young entrepreneur I had the pleasure of meeting last year in NYC and as it is the case with most my guests Max is now a great friend. - Recently Max was named High Schooler of the year in Czech Republic and he recently founded his new company Undout.com and it is all about Sleep Tech. 

Communication is an integral part of our daily life, and how we communicate with others is so important. But in today’s episode my guest Lila Smith and I use the philosophy behind her Say Things Better Method of Intentional Communication to explain the importance of our internal communication and focusing on ourselves as our primary communication partners.