You drink - you learn.

Todays guest is the NYC based author, TED talk speaker and creator of Working Out Loud (#WOL) John Stepper.
John fits perfectly into the show as he has created an empowering method which is used by many companies like BOSCH and Porsche and thousands of individuals globally to build collaborative and purposeful networks. WOL is helping people of any job level to define and get in control of their own goals professionally and in life and has become a crucial part of the New Work movement.  

John shared three questions as a starting point for WOL:

➡️ Set yourself a goal: What are you interested in or what are you trying to learn and achieve?

➡️ Who is related to your goal?  Search on Google or LinkedIn and create a list of people who are where you want to go.

➡️ What can you contribute to the people on your list? Sometimes even a like can be the start of a relationship. Start doing it!

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More infos on #WOL:
https://workingoutloud.com

Drink of the day:
https://kaffeeroester.de

Feedback: 
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Show notes:

1:40 It’s a small world.

6:00 Drink of the day.

9:15 How John became John.

17:00 What is working out loud?

25:00 The WOL path.

32:00 Just for extroverts?

41:55 How do I start WOL?

53:00 The network question.

🎙️You drink you learn. Episode 12. (🇩🇪lg.) 

Todays guest Anna drives new work and fuels the culture of the Porsche organisation on a daily base as an agile coach. She loves to connect people, to create meaningful benefits for customers and consumers and embodies the agile spirit of commitment, respect, focus, openness and courage. I was super impressed by her amazing life story, leaving the Ukraine with eighteen to move to Germany, adjusting to the new culture, studying, starting a family and raising kids at the same time to then start an amazing career which just made her a finalist at the FTAfelicitas-Award in the field of #impacttogether.

Some take aways of todays session:

➡️ Build your own definition of what agile should mean to your organisation and have someone owning it.
➡️ Start small, with one team and task, define the right toolset and scale the success through the company.
➡️ Be bold when setting a vision, but pack the tasks to reach it in sizeable targets and review periodly. This way it is much easier to adjust when things might change on the way.
➡️ In whatever you do, drive improvements with your customer/consumer in mind. 
➡️ Look for people who have similar targets in life to support and learn from each other!

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Show notes:
2:02 Drink of choice.
4:40  My life path.
11:00 My definition of agile work.
18:18 Agile at Porsche.
46:00 My wish for an agile future.
50:00 How to start working agile.
53:44 WOL?
58:45 The network question.

🎙️You drink you learn. Episode 11. (🇺🇸/🇳🇿 lg.)

Todays guest Clive is the CEO of Les Mills. With connected 25.000 gyms, 130.000 certified instructors around the globe and an always on D2C offering Les Mills is working on its mission to create a fitter planet through life changing fitness experiences. 💪🏿

I know Clive From my time at Nike and I love his energy and passion as an athlete, business leader and person. I am thankful he shared with me his career path to the C-Level, his purpose in life, his leadership style and some difficult and successful moments of the past. We also talked a bit about the fitness business and what changes COVID brought to the industry.

 Some take aways of todays session:

➡️ Make sure you know what gets you out of bed in the morning. This will be the base for your defining your own purpose.

➡️ Get in the drivers seat for change and let it not come to you by surprise. 

➡️ Learn when you are the best and create the right surrounding for your optimal performance.  

 ✍️ Enjoy todays episode, subscribe us, rate us, make sure you drink and learn with people of your network and feel free to post or mail to: 
[email protected].

More information about Les Mills:
https://www.lesmills.com

Show notes:

2:40 DRINK OF CHOICE

4:10  My career path

10:30 Get ahead of change

11:50 My personal purpose

17:00 From micro manager  to inspirational leader

25:00 Leading a business and a large team

29:00 The company purpose

30:50 How our business work

37:52 Going D2C and how sports will look post Covid

48:30 The network question

🎙️You drink you learn. Episode 10. (🇩🇪 lg.)

Marios title at LinkedIn says a lot about his growth mind: „Werksstudent“ - which means being a working student.

In real life he is the founder and leader at „RYZON“ - a hot and fast growing direct to consumer triathlon brand working with the worlds best triathlete, Jan Frodeno.

Mario shares with us his founder story, the role of sports in his life and within the company, how they structure their online business and how a healthy growth, being transparent and enabling is the base for preventing growth pain.

 Some take aways of todays session:

➡️ Focus to be an Enabler rather than a Deminisher and people will grow.
➡️ Its ok to grow slowly, but healthy  and keeping full control of the company instead. 
➡️ OKRs are a great tool to keep the team aligned and engaged on targets and results.

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More information about RYZON:
https://www.ryzon.net

Show notes:

3:30 Drink of the show.

7:30 The story of my life.

13:50 I didn’t want to become a consultant. :)

17:30 My year off. 

21:00 The birth of RYZON. 

31:50 Constant Chaos.

39:00 Our online business.

48:00 Creating more fireplaces.

54:30 Decision Making & OKRs.

1:10:30 The Recap.

1:12:30 The network ask and offer.

🎙️You drink you learn. Episode 9. (🇩🇪 lg.)

@Tristan „Stan“ Lehmann is a true storyteller. He knows and feels when a story is authentic and has the power to become a blockbuster. With a background in gaming, streaming TV and audio he is now responsible for all creative content at the ProSiebenSat1 Audio Plattform FYEO and is always trying to shape new ways of audio entertainment.
As I know Stan from his first ever internship years ago at EA we talked about the importance of internships and how to get the most out of it as an employee and a company. Stan also shared some great insides about the evolution of audio content and why he is the only person at Pro7 with his nickname shown in the intranet. 🔗 💡

 Some take aways of todays session:

➡️ Internships are the perfect base building your network in early years of your career. 

➡️ Always hire for growth and choose people not for their current, but their next potential role. 

➡️ The right base of boldness and being naiv can help to drive entrepreneurship and boost your career.

 ✍️ Enjoy todays episode, subscribe us, make sure you drink and learn with people of your network and feel free to post or mail to: [email protected].

Show notes:

2:30Drink of the show.

5:40From intern to director

18:30The story behind my nickname „Stan“

21:11My internship as the foundation to grow

32:00networking is tough

45:00The evolution of audio content 

53:50How I measure success

1:00:00The recap

1:03:00The network ask and offer.

🎙️You drink you learn. Episode 8. (🇺🇸 lg.)

Kerri Hoyt-Pack, a great thought leader and coach is joining me today from Portland, Oregon to talk about how everyone of us can drive change to a positive leadership. 

Before Kerri has startet the Liberty Collective, her own consultancy and coaching business, she has worked in media, crafted advertising at WK and served many years as an executive at Nike, where she was one of the founders of Nike Women. With her new business she traveled 15 cities in 11 countries to interview women around the world regarding leadership which helped to craft the base for her leadership model. 

Some take aways of todays session:

➡️ Sometimes you have to travel the world to realise that the we all strive for a change to positive leadership.

➡️ Good leaders listen.

➡️ Change can happen if you just start it. It doesn’t matter on how senior you are - look for coalition and start small, but start.

➡️ If you are at the beginning of your career, knock on doors, start conversations, make yourself heard. Even a no as an answer will help you to get known and grow.

Enjoy todays episode and make sure you drink and learn with people of your network.

And please share us, rate us, post or feedback me directly: [email protected].

More information about the Liberty Collective and Kerri at: https://thelibertycollective.com

🎙️You drink you learn. Episode 7. (🇩🇪 lg.)

David Noël - one of the first Soundcloud employees, co-founder of the "role models" events and podcast and executive coach and consultant at "for chiefs" shares his amazing career path with us including obstacles, difficult times and challenges. This episode is about the „Purpose Effect“, the magical moment when you are starting to be yourself as a leader, when you realize where you want to go and why and how to drive this change. There will be some practical tips how to start your own journey. 

Some take aways of todays session:

➡️ Many times trusted people and mentors help you challenging your status quo and accelerate your growth process by sharing honest observations. Make sure you have such people in your sourrounding.

➡️ Don’t just go from job to job and choose the next assignment by the shiny brand name - build yourself a filter by answering in which surrounding and with what kind of people you are best in and what you would like to learn. If the shiny brands job description still fits your answers - go for it!

➡️ Be real and transparent. This builds trust - especially with your team which will be crucial in good and bad times.

➡️ Start crafting your purpose and positioning - you can just be yourself and real if you know where you want to go.

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Todays guest is an inspirational person, a challenger and change enthusiast: Anne Laure Bigot. During her time at Esprit, Adidas, Nike and in her current role as the VP of Sport Goods at Cybex she mastered to „Fuel change through inspiration“ which is also the main topic of todays episode. Join us for a great conversation about change, leadership, motherhood and role models.

Some take aways of todays session:

➡️ There are two sorts of People: Starters and Finishers - both equally important and needed in successful teams. Realize what kind of person you are to maximize your impact as a leader!

➡️ Be inspirational with your teams as this is the perfect way to enable change and entrepreneurship. 

➡️ You lead by example, if you want it or not.

➡️ Transparence, communication and taking a lot of time to really get to know your team members will help to build trust which is needed when going through change together.

Yes, finally an episode in 🇺🇸 language by popular demand.
If you have feedback or ideas just let me know: [email protected].

Enjoy todays episode and make sure you drink and learn with people of your network. 

Coca-Cola, Viacom,  VCCP, Asics, Mozilla - what a great track record todays guest has - a true marketer and brand guy and as it turned out a good interviewer as well: Robin Karakash. Robin was working for Coca -Cola when we first met and built the first deep ingame advertising partnership and 360 degree campaign with Need for Speed and Coca-Cola Zero. New grounds for EA, Coke and the industry at that time.
As we had not been able to exchange for years I am keen to find out what Robin did the last years and if I get some learnings and wisdom out of him - or he out of me.

If you have feedback or ideas just let me know: [email protected].

Todays guest is a fitness trainer, podcaster and founder of Triggerdinger Mobility: Maurice Calmano who shared the great story how his professor at university pushed him to bring his product idea to life during an exam and challenged him to accelerate through an invitation to present his business in front of other students and founders, knowing that there was no business at that time. This forced Maurice to officially set up a business in high speed. It seems like a little push, some inspiration and the „Just do it“ genes are always helpful starting your own Business.  It was also interesting to hear how Maurice started to produce goods on demand through 3D printing to keep his costs and cashflow needs low in the first phase of the business. 

If you have feedback or ideas just let me know: [email protected].