The ISL Podcast

Interview with Anne Kjaer Bathel – CEO and Co-founder of the ReDI School of Digital Integration (recorded March 2021)


Anne is a 2006 graduate from KaosPilot in Denmark, a hybrid of a business and a design school. From 2006-2009, she worked as a corporate social responsibility consultant. In that capacity, she developed and implemented Samsung Electronics’ award-winning corporate social responsibility strategy for Scandinavia.
In July 2010, Anne moved to Japan, where she spent 2 years researching open social innovation and received the prestigious Rotary Peace Fellowship.
In 2012, she moved to Berlin to set up the Berlin Peace Innovation Lab, which is associated with Stanford University. The lab focuses on how technology is facilitating emerging and measurable social change toward global peace.
In 2015, in response to the refugee crises, Anne co-founded ReDI School of Digital Integration, a vocational training program teaching programming and tech skills to refugees and marginalised people. ReDI is currently teaching 1700+ adults and kids per year. 65% of these are women and girls.
Anne was recognised by Edition F as one of "25 Women" revolutionising German industry and by Handelsblatt as "Mutmacher of the Year"(2018). She was awarded Best Female Social Entrepreneur of the year in Germany 2020.


Today Anne talks to us about her journey and how she co-founded the ReDI School.
Anne Kjaer Bathel

linkedin.com/in/anne-kjær-bathel-7b7a9037
ReDI School | Digital Integration (redi-school.org)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz0mlDELSo0



Enjoy the podcast!
Angelina

Visualisation
According to the Cambridge Dictionary, visualization is “the act of visualizing something or someone” or “forming a picture of it in your mind”. It is authentic but not real, it exists in your mind but not yet in your reality.

This is the great beginning. Now you must write down all the ideas that come to your mind as you may forget about them. This is the only way your ideas will survive.
What I realised whilst working with clients is that the images from our imagination must be very precise. With a lot of details, we can create and design something clear. Tali Sharot, a New-York University teacher published a study about Nature suggesting that visualization with a lot of details bring specific emotions and by envisioning them we feel more joy.
I conducted my first Dream Map workshop six years ago and since I realised that there are a few steps to follow in a good visualization process:
1.Clarification: Having a clear image of the future!
2.Chatting: say it loudly!
3.Choose your actions.
4.Change your mindset: allow yourself to achieve it!
5.Check it out!
To find out more join me in the next Dream map workshop, further details can be found on our website www.internationalschooloflife.com

Why do people take away our dreams?

“No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.”
– Lupita Nyong'o

Gary Hamel, an American Management Consultant founder of Strategos an international management consulting firm in Chicago & C.K.Prahalad a corporate and social strategist, educator and author, Professor at the University of Michigan described an experiment carried out on monkeys.

The first part of the experiment shown four hungry monkeys locked inside a cage with a very tall pole. A bunch of bananas was hanged at the top of the pole. As soon as one of the monkeys climbed to get the fruits, it was doused with cold water. The monkey came back down screaming. It made no more attempts to reach the bunch of bananas. Another monkey climbed the pole, cold water was poured on again, more screaming and no more attempts either. The same goes for the third and fourth monkey...

Check the podcast and don't allo others take your dreams from you!

More details about Dream Map you can find on https://internationalschooloflife.com/courses

Bon appetite!
Angelina & Bonny

Why a Dream Map is not magical!
I created my first Dream Map in 2014, in the middle of a harsh winter in Poland. I was working for General Electric and day after day I was becoming more and more unhappy. I did not like my job anymore and I did not have a clue of who I wanted to be, what I wanted to achieve. I was barely surviving until weekend.

Listen now and check why teh Dream Map isn't magical!

Interview with Janice Scholl - Podcast Host, Guest Speaker, & Workshop Facilitator who helps professional mothers navigate their career & money through the stages of motherhood at The Money Career & Motherhood Podcast!
About Janice:
I’m on a mission to help mothers make more informed and strategic decisions about money, career, and business, so they can focus on what matters most. It’s only by both understanding our relationship with money and improving our money management skills that can we release money’s control over our life and family. I teach women how to use money as a tool to access the things they want, rather than the ultimate goal.

Money may run the world, but I think YOU should run your life!

I am passionate about helping women bring their vision to fruition and guiding professionals in paving their own path to success. Drawing on more than 15 years of experience domestically and internationally in business strategy, banking and finance, and business coaching, I uniquely apply business and financial principles to family life and motherhood to craft a plan designed to maximize success and fulfillment.

In addition to offering insight and guidance through interviews with a variety of experts on The Money, Career, & Motherhood Podcast and in virtual events, I offer online workshops on the following topics:


During my meeting with Janice, I asked her the following:
What was the reason that you decided to move abroad?
What was the greatest challenged for you to build your life in Asia?
What was the best and worse experience of living abroad?
How to find the strength to build your life all over again?
How to find your ‘peers’, friends? How to build a connection?
How to overcome your loneliness and language barrier?
How to take the best you can from the experience of living abroad?

Enjoy the podcast!
Angelina

Interview with Beth Walker (recorded January 2021) – Content Strategist and Author of the book “Lessons from the sidelines”

Beth is passionate about storytelling and strives to tell each client's unique story. She has partnered with her husband for twenty years, in leadership and ministry both on and off the football field. Beth is passionate about encouraging women to pursue their individual callings.
In her own writings she offers practical advice for other coaches’ wives, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at her family’s life as they serve their football players and their community.
Beth released her first book in 2020 “Lessons from the Sidelines” which includes stories of military wives who have wrestled to find their calling while moving all over the world due to their husband's careers. It also features coaches' wives, and ministry wives lessonsfromthesidelines.com.

Beth is sharing with us today some of her own stories and answered a few of our questions:
•What were the greatest challenges for military or ministry wives who moved abroad?
•How to find the strength to build your life all over again?
•How to find your peers, friends and how to build connections?
•How to overcome loneliness and language barrier?
•How to take/keep the best from the experience of living abroad?


Beth Walker
https://lessonsfromthesidelines.com/
https://www.instagram.com/bw.alker/
(4) Lessons From The Sidelines | Facebook

Gender equality, role models and beliefs

Interview from Michele Thompson - Senior Manager at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST)

Experience in:
-University Community Services
-Children's Development Center and Resource Center
-Gender Equality and Human Resource Development
-Diversity

During my visit to Japan in October 2018 I met and spoke with Michelle about the following topics:
•Two faces of shame - how to overcome your fear
•The kind of problems women have to face to succeed
•Equality and diversity in a modern society - strategy!
•Era courses https://era-comm.eu/moodle/course/index.php?categoryid=48-
Enjoy the podcast!
Angelina

Brexit and the future immigration in the UK and EU (recorded 2018)

Interview from Lloyd Broad - Head of European and International Affairs and Interim Head of Employment and Skills at Birmingham City Council


In 2013 Lloyd wrote a new European and International Strategy for Greater Birmingham which aimed to provide enhanced strategic leadership, management and coordination of the city’s engagement around the world.

Since the spring of 2013 Lloyd also led on the development of a new EU Structural Investment Funds Strategy for Greater Birmingham and Solihull LEP setting out the strategic priorities for spending €278 million for the period 2014-2020. Alongside the Leader of the Council, Lloyd also leads on negotiations with the British Government on enhanced roles for cities in the management and delivery of these funds.

In September 2012, Lloyd was required to establish the new 'Greater Birmingham and West Midlands Brussels Office’. This new legal entity in Brussels continues Birmingham's representation in Brussels that began back in 1985. This office and its services are managed by Lloyd and on-going partnerships and relationships with local and regional partners seek to enhance the visibility and influence in Birmingham in EU funding, policy and legislation.

In March 2018, Lloyd also took on the role of Interim Head of Employment and Skills managing a team of 30+ staff delivering employment and skills programmes with a value of over £50m

Lloyd has over 30 years’ experience working in Local Government, supported by an MBA in Public Sector Management.


During my meeting with Lloyd, I asked him the following:
-How do you cope with the two faces of shame; “I am not good enough” and “Who do you think you are?”
-How people from Central Eastern Europe can achieve success in the UK and in Europe?
-What is the difference between the educational system in the UK and in Poland?
-What kind of experience do you have with immigrants who started to work in the UK
-What kind of advice can you share with people who think about move to UK?

Enjoy the podcast!
Angelina

Interview with Elliott Callender – Founder of the Goodbrain Studios

Understanding who you are and your deeper self. Celebrating differences (recorded December 2020)

Innately curious. Insanely creative. Incredibly human. Elliott is the Founder and creator of Nodeunlock.io fusing together philosophy, psychology & technology. He has a knack for designing experiences that change humans’ mindsets without them knowing.

Elliot, a 12-year Wealth Management & FinTech corporate human now reclaimed his autonomy & freedom. Inspired by the energy and wisdom of the world. In the pursuit of being less wrong. Not more right. Exploring collective exponential change, critical wisdom and human potential for nourishing and flourishing ourselves and the world.

The lifeblood of society. The backbone of corporations. The connectivity and essence of how the world transcends generations. Yet, huge potential is often locked in the minds of those who don't dare to creatively and independently think. At Nodeunlock, we intentionally design radical immersive experiences personalised around the needs of the humans coming to learn and upgrade themselves with us.

Today Elliott is sharing with us his story, how he created the right environment to succeed and why it is important to expand your horizons.


Elliott Callender
linkedin.com/in/elliott-callender
Websites
•nodeunlock.io/ (Company Website)
•nodeunlock.io/features?format=rss (RSS Feed)
•elliottcallender.com/ (Personal Website)
Twitter
•nodeunlock

Interview from Bryan Elliott – Founder of the Goodbrain Studios

Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M74KOkO4nQ&feature=youtu.be

Bryan is an innovator, a disruptor and a risk taker.
He is a former Universal Home Entertainment Executive with 10 years’ experience in brand strategy, production, DVD and original content creation. He is not afraid of the unconventional and has a young start up mentality combined with a deep experience. He is not shy in front of or behind the camera creating original programming for brands and celebrity clients as well as a line-up of his own shows currently on air with an audience of more than 1 million viewers per month.

His recent credits include:
-Director Jillian Michaels: Lasting Weight Loss DVD (released 2017).
-Producer of The Dog Whisperer, Cesar Millan's "Essentials of Dog Behavior" full-length DVD (released 2015).

Writer, Director and Executive Producer of the reality web series, “Looks Easy and original series”, Creator, Director and host of Behind the Brand, a web series that profile people in business who are making things happen, “Behind the Brand” is in its 5th season with over 200 episodes and multi-millions of views to date.

Bryan is an active writer, director, producer speaker, teacher & host. He has been a guest lecturer on university campuses including UCLA, USC, UCI, Chapman, Cal State Fullerton and more, teaching about branding, advertising, video, new media and tech.

@BryanElliott The GoodBrain Digital
Studios http://thegoodbrain.com

LA STUDIO & POST-PRODUCTION 12422 Bluff Creek Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90094
*By appointment only IRVINE STUDIO & OFFICE 200 Spectrum Center Ave., 3rd Floor, Irvine CA 92618
Phone: 949-205-6262
Email [email protected]
Website: https://www.behindthebrand.tv/g-e-a-r


Behind the Brand with Bryan Elliott is a show for innovators, entrepreneurs and the stories behind their success. It is like a backstage pass to get inside the minds of some of the smartest and most interesting people on the planet.

In 'Behind the brand' you will find, listen and watch: from best-selling authors, artists, musicians and business people, billionaires - to award-winning actors, top chefs, gold medalists and philanthropists... we are just getting started.