Ramita joins The Global Shuffle from Madrid to talk about the future of technology in education. From her background in India, time in AIESEC, and current studies in Big Data as part of her MBA, Ramita has a keen interest and knowledge in how technology is impacting education’s accessibility and effectiveness.

We talk about key innovations seen in primary, post-secondary and adult education markets due to new technologies, as well as how edtech can be used for retraining programs.

When legendary marathon runner, Martin Parnell, had a life threatening blood clot he was inspired to recover and run again when he read about the first courageous Afghan woman to participate in a marathon in her own country. He invited young filmmaker, Kate McKenzie to join him in documenting the journey and trained her to run her first ever marathon. Training and preparing in secret to avoid making the race a target for terrorist attack, they journey together to Afghanistan. There they meet several runners along the way, each with their own obstacle to overcome, each determined to support the dream that everyone should be free to run.

Kate was gracious enough to spend some time on The Global Shuffle talking about this experience.

Instagram: @thesecretmarathon

Facebook: @thesecretmarathon

Youtube: The Secret Marathon

Twitter: @asecretmarathon

Mohamed Abdoulnaga Nagaty joins The Global Shuffle from Egypt. Nagaty has had multiple startup experiences in the Middle East to date, including several successful exits. He has recently joined Careem, known by some as the "Uber of the Middle East", which has recently been named a unicorn for its $1 billion+ valuation.

Inez joins the podcast from Indonesia to tell us about her journey to write a book on finding meaning in one's career / life. Tune in to find out:

-Why did she write this?

-What was her experience writing this book?

-What are her best practices for journalling and personal development?

Ted Van de Zalm joins The Global Shuffle to share his story building the faith-based non-profit organization Wells of Hope. The organization builds wells to provide clean drinking water, as well as schools and medical care for the driest regions of Guatemala.

Tune in to understand what has led him to do this!

Anubhav Razdan joins the podcast from India to explain India's demonetization initiative. How does a country go through such a large change management exercise? Check out this episode to find out.

South Korea has recently impeached it's President, and in the process has uncovered a significant amount of corruption. Soo Rhee joins the podcast onsite in South Korea to help us understand what's happening.

In her words "I'm proud that the country is trying to deal with this peacefully, in the spirit of democracy"

Bernardo Cubría joins this week's episode for a joint podcast! He has a wealth of experience from the entertainment space as well as stints acting on shows such as The Good Wife, and The Bold and the Beautiful.

Previously he ran a very successful podcast called Off and On: A New York Theatre Podcast, that was named the Best Theatre Podcast by American Theatre Magazine. Since the US Election he has started a new podcast called the "What Can I Do?" podcast that focuses on citizen engagement.

We speak about a range of subjects in this conversation. In particular we talk about how we both got into podcasting, citizen engagement and our thoughts on the world today.

You can follow Bernardo on Twitter at @BernardoCubria or at his website at www.bernardocubria.com

How has Mexico evolved over the past 20 years? What works well and what doesn't in Mexican society? What do Mexicans think of the Trump election, El Chapo and their political situation?

Aldo is our our guest for the first week of The Global Shuffle in 2017 and he was gracious enough to share his thoughts to these questions on our episode this weeky.

Thanks for tuning in throughout 2016 and welcome to the first of many episodes for 2017!

My first ever guest Rolf Schmachtenberg returns to The Global Shuffle from Norway for Episode 52 of the year! (That's right we made it to one episode per week this year).

Rolf turns the tables this episode to interview me about my past year, my thoughts on the world in 2016, favourite podcast episodes and where The Global Shuffle will go in 2017.

Thanks everyone for tuning in throughout 2016!

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