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Formula Indie EuropeFormula Indie Europe 28.8.2023Aaron Swales – That FunkATHENA – Big Girls Don't CryBlair Jollands – Hide no MoreBruj – MoonlightCallipolis – Call of the RedCasual Curse – FallingCecilia Sanchietti – ARGENTOCecilia Sanchietti – PINK Claus Grue – When You´re Not ThereCoral Palms – PromisesDeadpeach – Magic potionDebbie Schippers – ExileEddie Lundell – Something like thisElba Rose – Blood BathEvie Moran – How Do You Like Me Now?Fakers – Toxic CityGIGSY – MAGDALENEHannah Scott - Ghos...2023-08-283h 06
Anything but Boring#11: Maria Awad - About helping Chilean companies expand into China and always choosing the path were you can learn moreIn 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
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Anything but Boring#10 (DE): Svenja Rehm aka Mrs. Goldesel: mit Ferienimmobilien zur finanziellen Freiheit & welche Rolle Glaubenssätze & aufs Herz hören spielenIn 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 J...2022-07-1049 minAnything but Boring#9: Jenny Tang - On breaking into the film industry in China & starting her own companyIn 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...2022-06-161h 05Anything but Boring#8: Just follow your passion?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...2022-05-3010 minAnything but Boring#7: Dr. Ingo Rauth - How to approach career transitions & design your lifeMy 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 lo...2022-05-1550 minAnything but Boring#6: Emotional Regulation - Can you control your emotions? And should you?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 Medi...2022-04-2627 minAnything but Boring#5: Charlene Liu - Ladies Who Tech and how to turn your passion into your jobToday’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...2022-04-1154 minAnything but Boring#4: Monica Muriel Zurita - Sustainable fashion & taking the risk to follow your dreamsMy 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:
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Anything but Boring#3: Daniel Bergbaum - Serial entrepreneurship, real-estate & high-growth environmentsDaniel 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...2022-03-071h 00Anything but Boring#2: Eñaut Marti - The Musician who is teaching kids creativity & parents how to chillIn this episode, my guest is Eñaut Marti Zinkunegi who has 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 f...2022-02-2146 minAnything but Boring#1: Michele Armando - Architect, DJ & famed pesto makerIn 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)
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