The Joypreneur: Recent Episodes
Melanie Kovacs
In this podcast, you'll hear from joypreneurs that build businesses that work for them.
Businesses that allow them to express themselves, to learn about themselves and others in the process, that give them the freedom to work, where they want, when they want and with whom they want, and of course, to do what they enjoy most.
Do you want to build a business that works for you? Then this podcast is for you.
GAST: Dr. Janna Scharfenberg ist mehrfache Unternehmerin, Bestseller-Autorin, Ärztin, passionierte Investorin im Health-Bereich und auf der grossen Mission, unsere Welt nicht nur einfach gesund zu gestalten, sondern vor allem High Performance und Leadership ganz neu zu definieren und zu leben.
In dieser Folge sprechen wir über Janna's unternehmerischen Weg, ihre Zeit auf Necker Island mit Richard Branson, Vereinbarkeit , darüber, wie sie Entscheidungen trifft und Balance für sich findet.
Ich hatte kurz das Vergnügen mit Janna ein Büro zu teilen und war immer so beeindruckt, wie sie es schafft ein 7-stelliges Business aufzubauen, Mama von zwei kleinen Mädchen zu sein, ein Team zu führen und so relaxt zu sein. Das hat etwas mit ihrem Mindset, Flow Performance und ihrem Ayurveda Lifestyle zu tun.
KAPITEL:
(03:45) Unternehmerisch denken, Fokus setzen und wie Entscheidungen treffen
(09:26) Pragmatismus und passives Einkommen
(10:38) Janna’s finanzieller Erfolg und wieso viele ihr Herzensbusiness wieder fallen lassen
(15:45) Authentizität und wieviel zeige ich von mir auf Social Media
(17:27) Stressige Phasen, Planung und Nein sagen
(20:30) Vereinbarkeit: eigenes Unternehmen und Familie
(26:31) Entscheidung für die Selbständigkeit in der Schwangerschaft
(30:44) Wie mit Selbstzweifel umgehen
(31:50) Bester Rat und Inspiration
(34:05) Zeit auf Necker Island mit Richard Branson
(38:12) Leadership neu denken: Von High Performance zu Flow Performance
(40:08) Was wir vom Ayurveda lernen können über uns als Unternehmerin
(47:07) Was Janna hilft sich zu erden. Ihr Lebensmotto
(50:25) Janna’s grosse Vision
(51:35) KI-Projekt
(54:05) Wieso es mehr Joypreneurs braucht
LINKS UND RESSOURCEN:
- The Joypreneur Podcast mit Janna auf Englisch: Building a holistic online business
- Janna's Learnings von ihrere Zeit auf Necker Island - Podcast
- Janna's geheimes Jahr 2022 - Sabbatical - Podcast
- Buch: Refuse to Choose, A Revolutionary Program for Doing Everything That You Love von Barbara A Sher
MEHR ZU JANNA:
- Podcast einfach gesund leben
- Janna's Website: https://drjannascharfenberg.com/
- Janna auf Instagram
MEHR ZU MELANIE:
- Business und Joy Coaching mit Melanie
Wir brauchen Energie um einen Unterschied zu machen. Aber was ist denn eigentlich Energie Management genau? Und wie können wir unsere Energie erhöhen, um präsenter, effizienter und freudiger zu sein?
Über das und vieles mehr spreche ich mit Dr. Cornelia Kawann, Elektro-Ingenieurin, Personal Energy Strategin und Bestseller Autorin von “Change your Energy, Change your Life”.
KAPITEL
(03:30) Sich als Frau in einer männerdominierten Branche durchsetzen
(04:35) Und dann gieng es nicht mehr
(08:46) Zeitmanagement vs. was macht mir Freude
(09:45) Unsere Energie ist wie ein Bankkonto
(11:30) Was ist Energie Management
(15:18) PEEMS Modell - Verschiedene Ebenen der Energie
(18:05) Die essentiellste Ebene, die am meisten Energie gibt
(19:33) Wie wir unsere Energie managen können
(22:25) Energie Management vs. Persönlichkeits-Entwicklung
(25:34) Es geht nicht darum jemand anderer zu werden
(28:17) Wie Zeit gefunden das Buch zu schreiben?
(31:50) Wieso manchmal alle Zeit der Welt nichts nützt
(33:19) Namhafte Befürworterinnen
(36:58) Was Energetic Leadership ist
(45:30) Kurze Übung um runterzufahren oder zu konzentrieren - Hirn-Herz-Kohärenz
(50:00) Empowerment durch Energie Management
(53:55) Was ist ein Joypreneur
LINKS
- Dr. Cornelia’s Youtube Kanal mit 100 Energy Hacks
- Dr. Cornelia’s Linkedin
- Dr. Cornelia’s Instagram
- Dr. Cornelia’s Website
- Change your Energy, Change yor Life Buch auf Amazon
- Coaching mit Melanieum dein WHY zu finden und dein Business mit mehr Freude und Energie aufzubauen
Wie können wir unser Ding machen? Unsere Mission finden und leben? Und was, wenns mal harzig wird und nicht mehr flowt?
[00:01:17] Sein Ding finden. Was mache ich und vor allem für wen?
[00:07:25] "Becoming Who you needed when you were younger"
[00:11:00] Wie das Why, Big Urgent Market Problem, Mission & Vision zusammenspielen
[00:12:00] Was die Erfolgschancen am Markt erhöht
[00:13:26] Problem-Founder-Fit.
[00:17:30] Sinneskrise, Komfortzone und "So What?"
[00:17:48] Was lernen mit Purpose zu tun hat
[00:22:37] Melanie's Ding und Mut
[00:26:40] Frustration den Purpose nicht auf den Punkt zu bringen
[00:29:37] Gänsehaut-Momente
[00:31:51] Was wenns harzig wird und nicht mehr flowt?
[00:35:36] Verändert sich der Purpose mit der Zeit?
[00:34:35] Defintion von Erfolg
[00:37:57] Wie den Purpose immer wieder vor Augen halten?
Erwähnte Bücher:
"Die Kunst deine Kunden zu lieben" von Stefan Merath
"Steal like an Artist" von Austin Kleon
"Start with Why" von Simon Sinek
Mehr über Hannes' Herzenprojekt: https://cheekylevel.ch/
Mehr über Melanie und Coaching-Angebote: https://www.melaniekovacs.com/
A good story can bring people together, build a connection and inspire them to act. A good story can help to spread our mission, be it as a TEDxtalk, a podcast, blogpost, or around a campfire. But how do you find that story? And how do you find the courage to tell it?
That's what we cover in this episode with Katarina Hagstedt, an award-winning podcast producer, founder of the Podcast Club & Tower. She's passionate about supporting other makers to create podcasts that stand out from the noise.
More info about Katarina
More info about me, Melanie
We talk about:
- 4:03 Why instead of taking a corporate job, she decided to create her first startup
- 5:39 How she fell in love with product management, after developing books and conferences
- 7:05 Why she decided to found the product academy when she became a mum
- 8:11 About being self-full, rather than selfish or selfless
- 9:52 About the power of being told “you can’t do this”
- 10:46 What she learnt from her burnout about building a support village
- 11:30 How she setup her company, so it works for her and how she makes decisions and sets goals
- 14:25 About saying NO and her guiding principles
- 17:46 How she decides what kind of work she gets done on which day
- 19:13 About managing time and energy
- 21:33 About being an extrovert and highly-sensitive
- 23:39 Setting a personal vision, priorities and OKRs
- 26:20 About Joypreneurship: personal WHY, a sustainable business and product-founder-fit
Resources mentioned
- “The Highly Sensitive Person” book by Elaine Aaron
- “Measure what matters: OKRs” book by John Doerr
- Self-fullness, Lana Jelenev about her path to self-fullness
About Tanja Lau
Tanja is an entrepreneur, product leader and working mum based in Switzerland. After co-founding and scaling several start-ups in Madrid, Munich and Zurich, she is now leading her own company Product Academy as part-time CEO (40%) while also taking care of her two toddlers. Like Alice in Wonderland, Tanja usually thinks of “as many as six impossible things before breakfast” and can’t go one day without eating chocolate.
Connect with Tanja
- Tanja on Linkedin
- Product Academy Website
- Tanja’s Newsletter
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We talk about:
- 05:30 How Leslie started her online business offline
- 07:34: The power of “I wonder...”
- 10:23: How she went from a 50k business to a 2+mio business
- 13:16: What authentic success means for her
- 13:31: How she came to love money and why wanting money is not greedy or negative
- 15:43: Why we need to stop saying that money doesn’t matter
- 16:42: How Leslie made her money mindset shift
- 17:31: Where we got our money beliefs and thoughts from
- 20:55: Let’s be honest about the beliefs that keep women small and dependent
- 22:33: How Leslie went from the decision to change her money mindset to actually making it happen
- 23:00: Why to hire a coach and the right type of coach
- 25:23: Why she believes taking time off work is crucial to be authentically successful
- 27:00 How being busy prevents us from figuring out what we really want
- 29:35 What’s next for Leslie (hint: it’s not retirement ;) )
- 31:29: What Leslie associates with Joypreneurship
Quotes
If you can’t pay your light bill, how are you expected to be the light in the world?
About Leslie
Leslie Kuster is a multiple seven figure ecommerce brand owner whose business Back From Bali offers women bohemian chic clothing ethically made in Bali. The success of Back from Bali affords Leslie the life of her dreams, and she is passionate about igniting and inspiring other women entrepreneurs to rise while they create the financial and personal freedom they crave.
Leslie empowers women to live their true freedom by teaching them how to create a business that aligns with their deeper core values enabling women to work in a way that brings ease and flow into their daily lives so they can live truly fulfilled.
You can expect Leslie’s new book, Money and Freedom: 7 Keys To 7 Figures For Women Entrepreneurs in spring 2022.
Resources
Learn the 3 things Leslie does before 9 am to make 7 figures in Leslie's video here.
Connect with Leslie
- Via Leslie’s Website
- Via You Tube
- Via Facebook
- Via Instagram
- Via LinkedIn
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We talk about:
- 5:10 When Janna realized that she wanted to explore ideas, not complain
- 7:07 How Janna started to go from offline to building an online business
- 8:41 How the mission and business evolved when she didn’t see the whole path
- 12:28 How she started her first simple online course, an email-based course
- 14:59 About doubts like “Oh what if this is not working out?, the beginner’s mind and what can help to stop worrying and start taking the first steps
- 17:43 What to change when doing an online vs an offline course
- 21:35 How to give course participants the feeling of being seen and heard online
- 24:27 How she figured out who she wanted to be her clients
- 25:44 What she loves about having an online business and why she isn’t going for passive income
- 29:56 What entrepreneurs can learn from ayurvedic principles to build their business
- 31:26 Why we can’t separate business and life
- 35:24 What Janna associates with a Joypreneur, why she hopes that everyone is a joypreneur and her true definition of success
About Janna
Dr. Janna Scharfenberg is a medial doctor, ayurveda expert, yoga teacher, author and entrepreneur.
Her big vision is to teach her clients how to simply live healthy and support health experts to broaden their medical knowledge with the holistic approach of ayurveda.
Janna offers various courses and certified trainings in these fields, an ayurveda membership and a weekly podcast.
She lives with her two small daughters and husband in beautiful Zurich, Switzerland.
Connect with Janna
- Janna’s podcast “Einfach gesund leben” via apple or her website
- Janna’s website: https://drjannascharfenberg.com/
- On Instagram
- On Linkedin
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We talk about:
- 3:50 Always wanting to make progress vs doing nothing, sleep hygiene
- 7:34 How teaching and learning are connected
- 9:38 How his quest to live a meaningful life has led him to become a scientist, then web monkey, agency owner und ultimately to start the Happy Startup School
- 13:54 A passion vs a curiosity
- 16:13 How he discovered how he can make more impact by serving startups
- 20:08 The concept of the artist vs the business person: what drives someone to create?
- 22:54 The challenge between mind vs heart
- 23:46 The journey from entrepreneur to artist, when what you make becomes tiring vs the fear what if noone wants what I create?
- 25:29 How community building comes in as a tool
- 26:03 How to treat work more like play and be less attached to the outcome
- 29:09 How stories can help to communicate value
- 31:39 The three step iterative process to create a business that makes money, does good and makes you happy
- 34:42 The quadrant model of how entrepreneurial and creative you are
- 38:06: Associations with a Joypreneur
Quote
34:26: When we go out and we make things in the world, we start to learn more about ourselves and we start actually through learning about ourselves, start creating the world that we want to live in. - Carlos Saba
About Carlos
Carlos Saba helps second time round entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses that make effortless impact. He does this by helping them discover who they really want to serve and what they can create that is of value. Then, he shares tools, experiences and approaches to turn those learnings into actual products and services. All the while keeping happiness at the core.
Connect with Carlos
- http://thehappystartupschool.com
- The membership community: https://www.happystartups.co
- Carlos on Linkedin
- The Happy Entrepreneur Podcast: http://ahappy.link/listen
- The Blog: http://ahappy.link/read
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We talk about:
- 6:14: Why she exited her first company
- 9:17: How she designed her lifestyle and how her daily routine look like
- 13:58: How her weekly schedule looks like
- 16:44: How she manages to only work 6h-days
- 19:55: Why she works within her zone of genius
- 20:32: Why she believes having mentors, coaches, therapists or a support network are important
- 22:55: Why it’s important to ask the right questions
- 24:32: The biggest mistakes she sees entrepreneurs make, and made herself
- 25:17: How to not fall victim to the shiny object syndrome or trying to do it all
- 26:30: Her experience with launching a passive income stream so far
- 30:10: How big do you need or want your business to be?
- 31:27: What would a million pound business mean?
- 33:12: Why lifestyle businesses have a bad reputation
- 37:17: How to start getting clarity on what you want
- 40:20: What Sophie associates with “Joypreneur”
Resources mentioned
- Company of One by Paul Jarvis
- The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
About Sophie
Sophie Thorne is serial entrepreneur and business strategist who helps women make the shift from solopreneur to CEO so they can scale their business with ease. She works with female entrepreneurs looking to streamline their strategy, create scalable systems and develop a CEO mindset.
Connect
- Sophie’s Website
- Sophie on Instagram
- Sophie on Linkedin
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We talk about:
- 4:27 How Tessa would choose a job and company to work for
- 10:30 The idea of using work to explore and solve problems
- 11:27 Why setting up a business is one of the best ways to create change
- 12:10 There’s no such as thing as fair
- 12:40 About business as a force for good, trust and responsibility
- 17:10 Why Tessa likes entrepreneurship, and the difference to nonprofits in creating value
- 18:28 Tessa’s values and how they guide her
- 20:35 Why a NO or a negative approach can be useful for optimists, or why being positive can crowd out voices
- 22:40 When Tessa realized business can be a force for good
- 26:40 Why it’s not about the intention of following your purpose but about the process
- 28:52 Making decisions when it comes to a dilemma
- 31:39 How to make values in an organisation more explicit and live by them
- 33:53 Why Tessa left Fairphone, the social enterprise she co-founded
- 42:29 What Tessa associates with the term “Joypreneur”
Quotes mentioned
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. - T.S Eliot
Resources mentioned
- Book by David Whyte: Ecocide, kill the corporation before it kills us
- BCorp Certification
- Tessa’s What if We Get It Right Podcast with Simon Oschwald: Prototyping as a Way to Embrace Complexity in Business
- Greenpeace documentary How to Change The World, trailer on Youtube
About Tessa Wernink
Social entrepreneur, strategic advisor and co-founder of the storytelling platform and podcast series What If We Get It Right, Tessa’s mission is to find ways in which individuals, businesses and organisations can come together, innovate and develop for the good of the community and the environment.
After co-founding and scaling the social enterprise Fairphone in 2013, she now runs purpose and business-model innovation programmes for social businesses using (ecosystem) design thinking and creative facilitation.
A big believer in collective intelligence and alternative narratives, her podcast series aims to bring out the voices of people in business across the globe, whose curiosity has led them to question current systems and whose courage has driven them to develop more ethical and sustainable business practices.
Connect
- What If We Get It Right? Podcast
- Follow Tessa Wernink on Linkedin
- Creative for Climate
- Fairphone
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- Feeling squeezed into a box
- Definition of a business that works for you
- 2:21 Tanja Lau's definition of a Joypreneur
- 2:47 Dr. Carlos Saba's definition of a Joypreneur
- 3:11 Tessa Wernink's definition of a Joypreneur
- 3:21 Sophie Thorne's definition of a Joypreneur
- 3:28 Dr. Janna Scharfenberg's definition of a Joypreneur
- 4:16 Why this matters to me and the story of how I built up Master21 and why I sold it
- It's a good business, but it's not my business
- How to find a business that's sustainable for you
- About strengths, purpose and motivation
- Types of entrepreneurs: startup founders, creative entrepreneurs and freelancers
- Join me on my new quest to learn from joypreneurs
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I talk about
- 1:29 Their personal journeys and how they decided to become entrepreneurs
- 3:50 The future of learning, whether it is online and how to make it impactful, memorable and applicable. About passive learning and chemistry between teacher and student.
- 5:59 Whether universities are still needed today
- 6:47 Dream of an educational model, holding space for the big questions, social context for individual learning journeys
- 9:27 Building and leading purpose-driven businesses / organizations, about being unsatisfied and being pregnant with an idea
- 10:52 About finding an expert and finding the right context for one's purpose
- 12:29 Startup vs small business and scaling back, having lots of ideas, the right business idea and intuition
- 16:06 How they brought their courses and workshops online due to COVID-19 and what they learnt
- 17:07 Advantages and disadvantages of online courses, events and workshops
- 18:38 Joyful learning exercises
- 20:09 Season two preview
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We talk about:
- 3:20 How she co-founded WE SHAPE TECH
- 4:38 Why WE SHAPE TECH exists
- 6:18 Their community-driven approach
- 9:42 The role communities play in learning
- 11:28 What role model interviews can show
- 12:52 How they brought their events online due to COVID-19
- 16:25 Why you have more information about the attendees in an online event
- 18:56 How they wrap up their sessions to trigger learning and inspiration
- 20:39 Janine’s favorite networking icebreaker
- 23:26 What they planned for their community going forward
- 25:04 What the educational system will look like in 50 years
Resources mentioned
- Newsletter to become part of the network: https://weshape.tech/
- WE SHAPE TECH Events
About
Janine Fuchs is co-initiator of WE SHAPE TECH, the network for diversity and inclusion in technology and innovation. She is also the founder of the graphic design studio GRAFIK2, which stands for brand identity and visual communication. Furthermore she is co-founder of Colab Zurich, the forerunner of the Impact Hub Zurich.
Connect
- with Janine on Linkedin and Instagram
- with WE SHAPE TECH via their website, Linkedin, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
- with Janine's design studio Grafik2, via website and Instagram
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We talk about:
- 2:29 How Christian has tutored over 1500 pupils
- 6:31 Why he renamed and rebranded his company
- 7:22 The concept behind Teachy and how they help the young generation to get better grades
- 7:57 How they match a tutor with a pupil
- 14:35 About success and why he says NO to a lot of cool things
- 16:56 How they implemented online tutoring in a week due to Corona, instead of in a year
- 18:38 How he prevents mistakes
- 22:13 Why and how he implemented a daily huddle with his team and the benefits of that
- 25:44 The difference between the future of learning and the future of education
Resources mentioned
- The Magazine Christian wanted to buy as a kid: Computer Bild
- Kickstart Accelerator
- Jim Collins’s Book: Good to Great
- Entrepreneurs’ Organization Zurich Chapter
About Christian von Olnhausen
Supporting young people in achieving their educational goals is the greatest thing for Christian. He studied mathematics at the master's level in Heidelberg and worked in banking and management consulting. Then he fell in love with startups and founded the education startup TEACHY. TEACHY is no longer a startup: +1000 customers, +100 tutors and +10 employees make a difference in education to the Swiss youth.
Connect
- With Teachy
- And Christian on Linkedin
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We talk about:
- 6:16 Why and how they decided to start Stide, the unSchool …
- 10:36 Why Björn thinks universities are a bit like dinosaurs
- 11:25 The education they dream of and their formula at the core of Stride
- 12:30 What Stride is and how they create the future of education
- 13:46 What the concept of unschooling is
- 15:30 The questions people ponder upon during their time at Stride
- 17:21 Why they believe participants need to co-create and co-found a venture
- 17:47 What the main question is they pose and why it’s such a powerful one
- 18:36 The story of Carlo and how Stride impacted his career and life
- 22:13 What they learnt bringing their programs online
- 23:17 Why asking: “How to reproduce offline in online?” is the wrong question to start with
- 24:10 How they mix online and offline to create hybrid realities and spaces with the talking pen
- 25:32 The gifts of imperfection and admitting clumsiness with technology
- 27:24 How they see the future of learning
- 28:08 Whether they still recommend people to study at universities
- 31:04 In what case online learning is not scalable
- 32:53 The mandate universities have today and what should matter instead
- 34:10 Why the mandate of education is a paradox and what could happen if you take it serious
- 36:27 An exercise to bridge the digital and analog ground, using a design thinking method
- 39:15 Their definition of what success means
- 42:06 A secret Björn shares about me
People and Resources mentioned
- Anaïs’s childhood role model Jane Goodall
- Climate KIC, where Anaïs worked before STRIDE
- STRIDE Co-Founder and Board Member Niels Rot
- Theory of Change
- Online collaborative platforms Miro and Mural
- Social Muscle Club
- 8-fold Design Thinking Method explained by Google
About Anaïs and Björn
Anaïs Sägesser
With her passion for learning and care for humanity, Anaïs just loves stepping on new pathways and exploring the unknown. She is dedicating all her thinking and action towards the flourishing of humanity within the planetary boundaries. With experience in many fields from business and economics (PhD at the University of St.Gallen) to religious and Islamic studies, environmental sciences, yoga, meditation & energy work, she has worked in SMEs, large corporates, NGO, public sector and her own company. Acknowledging that many societal challenges of our time are merely symptoms of our values, belief systems and aspirations, it is now time to address personal transformation at scale to create a learning world that works for all. She is a co-founder of STRIDE - the unSchool for Collaborative Leadership & Social Innovation which focuses on transition journeys of individuals and groups towards contributing to societal transformation.
Björn Müller
Björn Müller is managing co-founder of STRIDE - the unSchool and the transdisciplinary 'dream tank' BEAM. As edupreneur and action researcher, Björn is designing and facilitating various transformative learning formats - from 9 month programs to 1 hr online sessions. Trained first as psychologist and then as organizational sociologist (PhD from University of St. Gallen), Björn brings academic rigour and reflection to creative ways of learning how our personal development and societal transformation (need to) go hand in hand.
Connect
- STRIDE
- With Anaïs via Linkedin
- With Björn via Linkedin or Twitter
- BEAM Dream Tank
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We talk about:
- 2:25 How to organize a hiring event, in an time-efficient and human manner
- 4:50 Why CVs are not the best information whether somebody is match for a startup
- 7:39 How she became one of the first employees of Impact Hub Zurich right after her studies
- 9:21 Why she decided to spin off the program Summerpreneurship from Impact Hub and make it her own company, Futurepreneurship
- 13:16 Her biggest learning as an entrepreneur
- 15:50 How she makes decisions
- 16:55 How she knows whether a collaboration is working out
- 19:09 What selling means to her
- 20:10 Why she started Futurpreneurship and the lack she sees in the job market
- 20:50 What she believes the young people seek in a job nowadays
- 22:21 Why they connect millennials to startups
- 25:20 What happened after her co-founder left the company
- 30:25 How they brought their program online due to COVID-19 and what they learnt by doing so
- 31:58 Whether companies are hiring at the moment
- 32:29 How they invented a digital speed-dating format
- 34:20 How they wasted time trying to find an expert and what they did instead
- 35:47 A good combination between online and offline learning
- 37:49 The lineup game
- 38:59 The next learning experience she plans for herself
About
Annina is a natural, warm-hearted connector, who strongly believes in the necessity of new work values and ways of working in order to increase our personal and societal impact. She is part of the inspiring Impact Hub family and founder of Future.preneurship. Future.preneurship shows and guides young talents - especially females - alternative career paths into this world of new work and innovation.
Connect
- https://futurepreneurship.info/
- https://www.instagram.com/future.preneurship/
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/futurepreneurship/
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We talk about:
- 4:58 How she transformed her business / reinvented her company
- 6:12 What she did when she noticed she was not fulfilled anymore but did not have this one idea she was burning for
- 8:15 Why she didn’t want to employ people for some time
- 09:01 How she works, plans, intuition, visions, goals. How her visions look
- 09:58 The atmosphere she wants to create at work with her team
- 11:07 Why she sees herself as a player
- 12:11 How people reacted when she changed her business
- 14:28 Why she changed her mind about Instagram for business and founded the first instagram agency in Switzerland
- 17:02 How her first instagram strategy looked
- 18:10 The difference between a journalist and a content creator for Instagram
- 18:59 For whom is instagram important and what’s the impact you can expect?
- 20:19 How much time she invests for Instagram and how she organizes herself?
- 22:04 Which platform to choose and how to decide?
- 23:24 How she reacted to COVID-19 with her course business
- 24:54 Why she decided to shorten her 6h on campus workshops into 3h online workshps and the impact it had
- 27:36 What she sees in her bookings, are self-employed still investing in marketing?
- 30:08 How Instagram helped her business
- 31:33 How she takes care of herself when facilitating a workshop
Resources mentioned
- The book Nicole co-authored about women at the beginning of the 20th century, “Spruchreif - Zeitzeuginnen erählen” on ExLibris
About
Nicole Stadler is a former Google HR professional and journalist that founded her own company Go Talent in 2011. She leads trainings for entrepreneurs around social media marketing, mainly focusing on Instagram and content creation.
Together with her team, the 7 of them are supporting small companies in their marketing efforts on Instagram and other social media channels, offering professionally written content, photoshootings and strategic planning.
2019 she opened Minerva-Lounge, a small co-workingspace and workshop centre in Zurich.
Connect with Nicole
- Via her Website , via Instagram and Linkedin
- Check out the Minervalounge Website and Facebook
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We talk about:
- 2:43 When she decided to become an entrepreneur
- 4:56 How she worked from home for 2 years because she had intense migraine
- 7:37 Co-founding with her best friend and the risk analysis about their friendship
- 10:15 How she went to startup weekend three times before she won 3rd place and best pitch
- 13:23 What she does with her many ideas
- 15:19 Why they decided to postpone their shake up the workplace conference before the lockdown
- 16:50 How she evaluates the value of ideas
- 19:46 Corporate job and side hustle
- 23:13 Being pregnant, starting and running a business and pitching in front of investors
- 24:17 Why women are unstoppable now
- 27:53 From 2 virtual learning experiences to 50 in a few days
- 31:51 How they evaluated whether workshops were doable online or not
- 33:57 The future of learning
- 37:56 How to avoid passive learning
- 41:06 Two icebreakers for workshops, courses or events
Resources mentioned
- Shake up the Workplace Conference takes place on October 19, 2020 at Kunsthaus Zurich
- Working from Home Guide and Calendar by WeWent, get it here
- James Altucher in his book “Choose yourself” about becoming an idea-machine by writing down 10 ideas a day, read more on his blog
- WeWent is part of the Swiss EdTechCollider
About
Bilge Apak is the co-founder of WeWent.com and Shake up the Workplace!
She has 12+ years of experience in areas of IT, business, e-Commerce, digital marketing, and data science in large organizations. For the last five years, she has been an active Entrepreneur in Edtech, HR tech, and women's health areas.
She helps companies understand how to use the right mix of human and machine skills in the workplace. Bilge's journey is about being a better self, lifting one another, and driving a positive change.
She believes the future is of those who dare unapologetically.
Bilge is living in Switzerland, mother of one little boy.
Connect
- via WeWent , on Instagram and on Linkedin
- via Shake up the Workplace! Unconference , on Linkedin
- with Bilge Apak on Linkedin
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We talk about:
- 04:20 How she figured out the right setting to live her purpose
- 09:38 The importance of a support system
- 12:16 The moment she realised money is not what’s driving her
- 13:37 Why we chose entrepreneurship as a path
- 15:50 What differentiates entrepreneurs from employees
- 17:36 Leading a team: expectation vs reality
- 20:10 Why building a business doesn’t always need to be about scaling
- 22:36 The real impact of the Singa Factory Program
- 25:19 What they learnt from moving the program online
- 27:14 The issue that arose because they’ve only met their participants online and how they addressed it
- 30:01 Three icebreakers you can do in an online learning program
- 34:31 New opportunities thanks to having an online program
- 36:39 How to make education more accessible (it’s not just about online education!)
Quotes
- “The best way to complain is to make things.” - James Murphy
- “Don’t be a complainer, make things better.” - SwissMiss, Tina Roth Eisenberg
Resources mentioned
- Purpose economy by Aaron Hurst on Amazon
- One of Singa’s Workshops: Co-founding with Jana Nevralka, more info
- Interview with Singa co-founders Mirjam and Seraina about why they went separate ways after one year. “Soft factors are often neglected when setting up a startup.” Article
About
Seraina Soldner (born 1988 in Munich) is the Co-Founder and Co- Director of SINGA in Switzerland. Together with the SINGA Team she developed the SINGA entrepreneurship programs in Zurich and Geneva for people from refugee and migrant backgrounds who want to start a business in Switzerland. Her goal is to bring together newcomer and local entrepreneurs, curious minds, business experts, academics, the wider start-up community and interested professionals from a variety of backgrounds to build bridges and to offer a space where people exchange knowledge, experience and share networks.
Over the last decade Seraina lived in various places including the Netherlands, Malta and the United Stated and always reflected, studied and worked around the reasons, challenges and potential of migration. Seraina worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Malta and for Justice Rapid Response in Geneva amongst others. Seraina studied European and International Law, Philosophy and International Relations in Maastricht, Los Angeles and Geneva.
Connect
- Seraina on Linkedin
- SINGA https://singaswitzerland.ch
- SINGA on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter
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We talk about:
- 04:06 Her entrepreneurial journey starting with selling lemonade on the street, starting an ICRC youth organisation
- 07:23 The mistakes she made as an entrepreneur and what she learnt from them
- 11:26 Her passion and saving the planet vs saving the people
- 15:14 What a good business idea is and how important it is
- 16:51 Building the next Facebook, funding, investors and hiring and leading a team
- 20:39 Why she went from 11 employees to being a one woman show
- 23:30 Why 1000 clients are not better then 200 clients
- 25:15 How she turned an 8h on campus workshop into a 1.5h online workshop
- 30:33 Creativity exercises, wearing different hats, McDonalds, umbrellas and cows
Resources mentioned
- Company of One on Amazon
- "We all had a million-dollar business idea." - Sara Blakely, Spanx
About
Isabelle Siegrist has a passion for building businesses that succeed. Through her studies, M.A. HSG in Business Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship major from ESCP Europe, and experiences as a business consultant and CIO of Startups.ch, she recognized that there was a serious need for a company builder that leverages the tools and services for corporations and startups to focus on what they do best and facilitate their ideation and growth. She was revarded to be the amongst the TOP 100 in Business in Switzerland 2018 and 2019 and is part of the Forbes 30 under 30 Network.
Connect with Isabelle Siegrist
- via Sandborn
- on Linkedin
- on Instagram
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I talk about:
- 00:14 My podcast studio and why I re-recorded this episode
- 00:55 Who I am
- 02:12 Why I pushed my little sister out of the playpen when we were girls
- 02:47 How I started my first startup project directly after graduating from university
- 04:53 Why I co-founded an association to foster female entrepreneurship when I was 25
- 05:36 Why I wanted to learn to code and why I lost my motivation
- 06:26 Why I didn't enjoy Computer Science at Uni and Why I started Master21
- 07:27 The four Ps needed to create learning experiences joyful
- 09:23 Why I decided to sell Master21 after three years
- 10:11 Why I started this podcast
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- viaLinkedin
- viaInstagram
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Snippets from upcoming episodes with Seraina Soldner, Co-founder of Singa Switzerland, Bilge Apak, Co-founder of wewent.com and Annina Menzi, founder of Future.preneurship.
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