Anything but Boring: Recent Episodes
Julia Schippers
Anything but Boring interviews people from all domains of life who do their own thing. They decided to leave the beaten pass to design their own life at their own terms. They are entrepreneurs, artists, passionados, oftentimes expats and polymaths. We uncover how they designed their life to include all their interest. Where they get the courage and motivation from that drives them and which fears their life design brings with it.
In this episode, I talk with Maria Awad from Chile about her experience of moving to China and starting her own company there. We talk about how she manages her energy, about crazy swimming challenges and about things she learned along the journey of starting her own company in a foreign country. Listen in for some inspirational experience sharing from a female entrepreneur who is daring greatly ;-)
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Book recommendation: Daring Greatly
Website of Marias company: Global BAP
In dieser Folge (heute mal auf Deutsch) spreche ich mit Svenja Rehm über ihren Weg vom Job als Beamtin zur Unternehmerin und Investorin. Wir sprechen darüber warum und wie Svenja in Ferienimmobilien auf Amrum investiert hat, um langfristig finanziell frei zu sein und ein unabhängiges Leben zu führen. Ein wichtiger Bestandteil, um dorthin zu kommen war harte Arbeit und Nebenjobs, aber noch viel mehr an ihren Glaubenssätzen & Mindset zu arbeiten und zu lernen wieder auf ihr Herz zu hören. Wenn du eine inspirierende Geschichte hören möchtest, wie Svenja es geschafft hat in nur wenigen Jahren ihr Leben komplett zu verändern und nur noch an Dingen zu arbeiten, die ihr Spaß machen und im Einklang mit ihren Werten stehen, dann hör dir unbedingt diese Folge an. Folge mir auf Instagram: but_boring
Svenjas Content: Instagram: Mrs. Goldesel Homepage: Mrs. Goldesel
Buchempfehlungen: Das Café am Rande der Welt von John Strelecky Rich Dad, Poor Dad von Robert Kiyosaki
In this episode, I talk with Jenny Tang, an Australian film maker & journalist in Shanghai about how she found her way into film making. We cover the topics of how Jenny used her early career to focus on learning opportunities, finding a career that is aligned with her values and the process of knowing when to quit. We also discuss how she used volunteering & networking to break into a new industry.
After several years of being a producer and taking a whole lot of roles in the film industry, Jenny went from being a free lancer to starting her own company; we also touch on the process of going from freelancer to entrpreneur.
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Jenny's work:
Bund to Brooklyn Podcast
China Love
Book recommendation: The subtle art of not giving a fK**
After episode #7 with Ingo Rauth, I was going through some old papers and found a drawing of me recording a podcast while skateboarding at night. I made this drawing about 2 years ago as a Design Your Life exercise to spark new ideas how to work with my interests and passions. In the media, we often hear the phrase "just follow your passion" - however, the vast majority of people doesn't have one identifiable passion that is stronger than everything else, but rather a mix of interests and hobbys.
In this 10 min episode, I describe a short exercise that anyone can do at home to create some new ideas about how to live your life and break out of old habits of thinking. I will guide you how to come up with a crazy job description to stiffle new ideas about your professional life or hobbies/free time.
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Designing your life book
My guest for this episode is Dr. Ingo Rauth who is the founder of the School of becoming & has been teaching “Designing your Life” for several years to students & professionals around the world.
This episode is all about life & career transitions. Are you thinking about changing your job? Have you been dreaming about doing something new, but never had the courage to get started?
In this episode, you will learn about the process of designing your life, how you can start to do small experiments & prototypes to learn more about your chosen path before committing a lot of time to it. I hope you enjoy it & leave your comments below!
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Get in touch with Ingo Rauth:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ingorauth/
https://schoolofbecoming.org/
Recommended Book:
The art and business of writing online - Nicolas Cole
Today’s episode focuses on the topic of emotions & emotional regulation. In this solo episode, I am explaining different strategies and tools that can help you to recognize & regulate your emotions.
Psychologist define emotions as a short-lived responses to stimuli that can cause shifts in cognition, physiology, expression and behavior. I explain and guide you to recognize these levels of emotional experience and present three strategies how to manage emotions: Supression, Reappraisal & Acceptance.
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The tools I mention:
Mood Meter
Guided Mediations, especially ‘Mindfulness of Emotions’
HealthyMinds Program
Breathing!
- For noticing emotional state: One minute abdominal breathing with closed eyes and paying attention to your current emotional state
- For resetting emotions: Double inhale, followed by a long exhale
- Video from Andrew Huberman explaining this breathing protocol
Today’s guest is Charlene Liu, who came to Shanghai from Malaysia to work as an engineer. She discovered that it would be nice to have more female role models, so she co-founded her own organization “Ladies Who Tech” which focuses on sharing the voices of women in the STEM field and motivating more woman and girls to enter STEM. We talk about how Charlene and her co-founder build up the volunteer organization and grew it into a company with events & chapters in different cities in China and a yearly convention that attracts over 2.000 participants. In this episode, we focus on how Charlene managed to turn her passion into her job and how a guiding purpose motivates everyone to join in. We also talk about the LGBTQ+ community in China and how businesses are starting to adapt more diversity & inclusion matters.
Find out more:
WeChat: LiuCharlene
Charlenes Linkedin
Ladies Who Tech
Instagram: liucharlene
Anything but borings instagram: but_boring
Books recommended:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - A Life by Jane Sherron
The Culture Map by Erin Meyer
Movie recommendation:
Hidden Figures
My guest today is Monica Muriel Zurita, CEO and founder of the sustainable fashion brand Zurita. When she founded her brand in 2015, there were no big fashion brands in China that were focused on sustainability, so Monica took the risk of starting her own company.
In this episode, we talk about purpose-driven business, sustainability and what it really, really means for your business model if you take it serious. We also talk about risk taking & being a mom & an entrepreneur.
If you wanna find out more about Monic, you can find here here:
LinkedIn: Monica Muriel Zurita
Corporate Websites: Nest & Zurita
https://wearezurita.com/
https://www.wearenestsolutions.com/
Instagram:
WeAreZurita
WeAreNestSolutions
XiaoHongShu: Doing Great
Daniel Bergbaum is a serial entrepreneur & currently the chief growth officer at White Space, a real-estate company offering short-term flexible meeting spaces across 10+ locations in Shanghai.
From opening a bar in Guilin, to building high-end brands and moving into commercial real-estate, there’s not so much that Daniel hasn’t done.
While this interview is very much business focused, I learned so much about entrepreneurship and how to think strategically about building a business model that suits your lifestyle.
We discuss how to work in a high growth environment (like China) and for all the real-estate freaks out there, you should listen very closely on how to build a real-estate company as a platform business.
If anyone out there thinks business is boring, my conversation with Daniel will proof the opposite.
We also cover advice around Mentorship, coaching and how to be effective & give yourself the time you need.
Book recommendation: Mr. Nice - Howard Marks
White Space - Flexible meeting space in Shanghai:
www.Whitespace.cn or http://www.liubaikongjian.com/
In this episode, my guest is Eñaut Marti Zinkunegi whohas turned his love for music into a career and entrepreneurial venture. He is the founder and CEO at MusicLAB, a music education company in China that is focused on little kids.
In todays interview, we will talk about how he scaled to 5 campuses with more than 50 employees, but was extremely stressed and how he shifted to closing all campuses and delivering mainly online content to have more time for playing music as an artist with his band Shanghai Qiutian.
If you want to follow Eñaut, here are his Instagram & Spotify:
Enaut Instagram: enautmarti
Shanghai Qiu Tian on Spotify
Band Instagram: shqtband
In today's episode, I interview Michele Armando an Italian Architect who moved to Shanghai in 2015 and started his own architectural studio Quarta&Armando. We discuss how he came to open his own company, what were the challenges of building his own business in a foreign country without speaking the language and what fascinates & inspires him about his work and how he makes time for other passions in his life.
You can view Michele's work as an architect on:
Website: http://qaadr.com/
Instagram: michelearmando (personal) & quarta_amando (Q&A Company)
The book: Loving Sabotage - Amelie Nothomb
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Anything but Boring interviews people from all domains of life who do their own thing. They decided to leave the beaten pass to design their own life at their own terms. They are entrepreneurs, artists, aficionados, oftentimes expats and polymaths. We uncover how they designed their life to include all their interest. Where they get the courage and motivation from that drives them and which fears their life design brings with it.