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4:03 Why instead of taking a corporate job, she decided to create her first startup5:39 How she fell in love with product management, after developing books and conferences7:05 Why she decided to found the product academy when she became a mum 8:11 About being self-full, rather than selfish or selfless9:52 About the power of being told âyou canât do thisâ 10:46 What she learnt from her burnout about building a support village11:30 How she setup her company, so it works for her and how she makes decisions and sets goals14:25 About saying NO and her guiding principles17:46 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-sensitive23:39 Setting a personal vision, priorities and OKRs26:20 About Joypreneurship: personal WHY, a sustainable business and product-founder-fitResources mentioned
âThe Highly Sensitive Personâ book by Elaine AaronâMeasure what matters: OKRsâ book by John DoerrSelf-fullness, Lana Jelenev about her path to self-fullnessAbout 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 âas many as six impossible things before breakfastâ and canât go one day without eating chocolate.
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Tanja on LinkedinProduct Academy WebsiteTanjaâs NewsletterPlease share, subscribe, review and enjoy
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05:30 How Leslie started her online business offline07:34: The power of âI wonder...â10:23: How she went from a 50k business to a 2+mio business13:16: What authentic success means for her13:31: How she came to love money and why wanting money is not greedy or negative15:43: Why we need to stop saying that money doesnât matter16:42: How Leslie made her money mindset shift17:31: Where we got our money beliefs and thoughts from20:55: Letâs be honest about the beliefs that keep women small and dependent22:33: How Leslie went from the decision to change her money mindset to actually making it happen23:00: Why to hire a coach and the right type of coach25:23: Why she believes taking time off work is crucial to be authentically successful27:00 How being busy prevents us from figuring out what we really want29:35 Whatâs next for Leslie (hint: itâs not retirement ;) )31:29: What Leslie associates with JoypreneurshipQuotes
If you canât 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 Leslieâs 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.
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5:10 When Janna realized that she wanted to explore ideas, not complain7:07 How Janna started to go from offline to building an online business8:41 How the mission and business evolved when she didnât see the whole path12:28 How she started her first simple online course, an email-based course14:59 About doubts like âOh what if this is not working out?, the beginnerâs mind and what can help to stop worrying and start taking the first steps17:43 What to change when doing an online vs an offline course21:35 How to give course participants the feeling of being seen and heard online24:27 How she figured out who she wanted to be her clients25:44 What she loves about having an online business and why she isnât going for passive income29:56 What entrepreneurs can learn from ayurvedic principles to build their business31:26 Why we canât separate business and life35:24 What Janna associates with a Joypreneur, why she hopes that everyone is a joypreneur and her true definition of successAbout 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.
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Jannaâs podcast âEinfach gesund lebenâ via apple or her websiteJannaâs website: https://drjannascharfenberg.com/On InstagramOn LinkedinPlease share
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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 School13:54 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 heart23:46 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 tool26:03 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 JoypreneurQuote
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.comThe membership community: https://www.happystartups.coCarlos on LinkedinThe Happy Entrepreneur Podcast: http://ahappy.link/listenThe Blog: http://ahappy.link/read
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6:14: Why she exited her first company9:17: How she designed her lifestyle and how her daily routine look like13:58: How her weekly schedule looks like 16:44: How she manages to only work 6h-days19:55: Why she works within her zone of genius20:32: Why she believes having mentors, coaches, therapists or a support network are important22:55: Why itâs important to ask the right questions24:32: The biggest mistakes she sees entrepreneurs make, and made herself25:17: 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 far30:10: 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 reputation37:17: How to start getting clarity on what you want40:20: What Sophie associates with âJoypreneurâResources mentioned
Company of One by Paul JarvisThe 4-Hour Workweek by Tim FerrissAbout 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.
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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 change12:10 Thereâs no such as thing as fair12:40 About business as a force for good, trust and responsibility17:10 Why Tessa likes entrepreneurship, and the difference to nonprofits in creating value18:28 Tessaâs values and how they guide her20:35 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 itâs not about the intention of following your purpose but about the process28:52 Making decisions when it comes to a dilemma31:39 How to make values in an organisation more explicit and live by them33:53 Why Tessa left Fairphone, the social enterprise she co-founded42:29 What Tessa associates with the term âJoypreneurâQuotes 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 usBCorp CertificationTessaâs 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, Tessaâs 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.
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Feeling squeezed into a boxDefinition of a business that works for you2:21 Tanja Lau's definition of a Joypreneur2:47 Dr. Carlos Saba's definition of a Joypreneur3:11 Tessa Wernink's definition of a Joypreneur3:21 Sophie Thorne's definition of a Joypreneur3:28 Dr. Janna Scharfenberg's definition of a Joypreneur4:16 Why this matters to me and the story of how I built up Master21 and why I sold itIt's a good business, but it's not my businessHow to find a business that's sustainable for youAbout strengths, purpose and motivationTypes of entrepreneurs: startup founders, creative entrepreneurs and freelancersJoin me on my new quest to learn from joypreneurs
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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 today6:47 Dream of an educational model, holding space for the big questions, social context for individual learning journeys9:27 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 purpose12:29 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 learnt17:07 Advantages and disadvantages of online courses, events and workshops18:38 Joyful learning exercises20:09 Season two previewPlease share, subscribe, review and enjoy
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We talk about:
3:20 How she co-founded WE SHAPE TECH4:38 Why WE SHAPE TECH exists6:18 Their community-driven approach9:42 The role communities play in learning11:28 What role model interviews can show12:52 How they brought their events online due to COVID-1916:25 Why you have more information about the attendees in an online event18:56 How they wrap up their sessions to trigger learning and inspiration20:39 Janineâs favorite networking icebreaker23:26 What they planned for their community going forward25:04 What the educational system will look like in 50 yearsResources mentioned
Newsletter to become part of the network: https://weshape.tech/WE SHAPE TECH EventsAbout
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.
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2:29 How Christian has tutored over 1500 pupils6:31 Why he renamed and rebranded his company7:22 The concept behind Teachy and how they help the young generation to get better grades7:57 How they match a tutor with a pupil14:35 About success and why he says NO to a lot of cool things16:56 How they implemented online tutoring in a week due to Corona, instead of in a year18:38 How he prevents mistakes22:13 Why and how he implemented a daily huddle with his team and the benefits of that25:44 The difference between the future of learning and the future of educationResources mentioned
The Magazine Christian wanted to buy as a kid: Computer BildKickstart AcceleratorJim Collinsâs Book: Good to GreatEntrepreneursâ Organization Zurich ChapterAbout 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.
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6:16 Why and how they decided to start Stide, the unSchool âŠ10:36 Why Björn thinks universities are a bit like dinosaurs11:25 The education they dream of and their formula at the core of Stride12:30 What Stride is and how they create the future of education13:46 What the concept of unschooling is15:30 The questions people ponder upon during their time at Stride17:21 Why they believe participants need to co-create and co-found a venture17:47 What the main question is they pose and why itâs such a powerful one18:36 The story of Carlo and how Stride impacted his career and life22:13 What they learnt bringing their programs online23:17 Why asking: âHow to reproduce offline in online?â is the wrong question to start with24:10 How they mix online and offline to create hybrid realities and spaces with the talking pen25:32 The gifts of imperfection and admitting clumsiness with technology27:24 How they see the future of learning28:08 Whether they still recommend people to study at universities 31:04 In what case online learning is not scalable32:53 The mandate universities have today and what should matter instead34:10 Why the mandate of education is a paradox and what could happen if you take it serious36:27 An exercise to bridge the digital and analog ground, using a design thinking method39:15 Their definition of what success means42:06 A secret Björn shares about mePeople and Resources mentioned
AnaĂŻsâs childhood role model Jane GoodallClimate KIC, where AnaĂŻs worked before STRIDESTRIDE Co-Founder and Board Member Niels RotTheory of ChangeOnline collaborative platforms Miro and MuralSocial Muscle Club8-fold Design Thinking Method explained by GoogleAbout AnaĂŻs and Björn
AnaĂŻs SĂ€gesser
With her passion for learning and care for humanity, AnaĂŻs 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 MĂŒller
Björn MĂŒller 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.
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STRIDE With Anaïs via Linkedin With Björn via Linkedin or Twitter BEAM Dream TankPlease share, subscribe, review and enjoy
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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 startup7:39 How she became one of the first employees of Impact Hub Zurich right after her studies9:21 Why she decided to spin off the program Summerpreneurship from Impact Hub and make it her own company, Futurepreneurship13:16 Her biggest learning as an entrepreneur15:50 How she makes decisions 16:55 How she knows whether a collaboration is working out 19:09 What selling means to her20:10 Why she started Futurpreneurship and the lack she sees in the job market20:50 What she believes the young people seek in a job nowadays22:21 Why they connect millennials to startups25:20 What happened after her co-founder left the company30:25 How they brought their program online due to COVID-19 and what they learnt by doing so31:58 Whether companies are hiring at the moment32:29 How they invented a digital speed-dating format34:20 How they wasted time trying to find an expert and what they did instead35:47 A good combination between online and offline learning37:49 The lineup game 38:59 The next learning experience she plans for herselfAbout
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.
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We talk about:
4:58 How she transformed her business / reinvented her company6:12 What she did when she noticed she was not fulfilled anymore but did not have this one idea she was burning for8:15 Why she didnât want to employ people for some time09:01 How she works, plans, intuition, visions, goals. How her visions look09:58 The atmosphere she wants to create at work with her team11:07 Why she sees herself as a player12:11 How people reacted when she changed her business14:28 Why she changed her mind about Instagram for business and founded the first instagram agency in Switzerland17:02 How her first instagram strategy looked18:10 The difference between a journalist and a content creator for Instagram18:59 For whom is instagram important and whatâs 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 business24:54 Why she decided to shorten her 6h on campus workshops into 3h online workshps and the impact it had27:36 What she sees in her bookings, are self-employed still investing in marketing?30:08 How Instagram helped her business31:33 How she takes care of herself when facilitating a workshopResources mentioned
The book Nicole co-authored about women at the beginning of the 20th century, âSpruchreif - Zeitzeuginnen erĂ€hlenâ on ExLibrisAbout
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.
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Via her Website , via Instagram and LinkedinCheck out the Minervalounge Website and FacebookPlease share, subscribe, review and enjoy
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We talk about:
2:43 When she decided to become an entrepreneur4:56 How she worked from home for 2 years because she had intense migraine7:37 Co-founding with her best friend and the risk analysis about their friendship10:15 How she went to startup weekend three times before she won 3rd place and best pitch13:23 What she does with her many ideas15:19 Why they decided to postpone their shake up the workplace conference before the lockdown16:50 How she evaluates the value of ideas19:46 Corporate job and side hustle23:13 Being pregnant, starting and running a business and pitching in front of investors24:17 Why women are unstoppable now27:53 From 2 virtual learning experiences to 50 in a few days31:51 How they evaluated whether workshops were doable online or not33:57 The future of learning37:56 How to avoid passive learning41:06 Two icebreakers for workshops, courses or eventsResources mentioned
Shake up the Workplace Conference takes place on October 19, 2020 at Kunsthaus ZurichWorking from Home Guide and Calendar by WeWent, get it hereJames Altucher in his book âChoose yourselfâ about becoming an idea-machine by writing down 10 ideas a day, read more on his blogWeWent is part of the Swiss EdTechColliderAbout
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.
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via WeWent , on Instagram and on Linkedin via Shake up the Workplace! Unconference , on Linkedin with Bilge Apak on LinkedinPlease share, subscribe, review and enjoy
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We talk about:
04:20 How she figured out the right setting to live her purpose09:38 The importance of a support system 12:16 The moment she realised money is not whatâs driving her13:37 Why we chose entrepreneurship as a path15:50 What differentiates entrepreneurs from employees 17:36 Leading a team: expectation vs reality 20:10 Why building a business doesnât always need to be about scaling22:36 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 theyâve only met their participants online and how they addressed it30:01 Three icebreakers you can do in an online learning program 34:31 New opportunities thanks to having an online program36:39 How to make education more accessible (itâs not just about online education!)Quotes
âThe best way to complain is to make things.â - James MurphyâDonât be a complainer, make things better.â - SwissMiss, Tina Roth EisenbergResources mentioned
Purpose economy by Aaron Hurst on AmazonOne of Singaâs 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. âSoft factors are often neglected when setting up a startup.â ArticleAbout
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.
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We talk about:
04:06 Her entrepreneurial journey starting with selling lemonade on the street, starting an ICRC youth organisation07:23 The mistakes she made as an entrepreneur and what she learnt from them11:26 Her passion and saving the planet vs saving the people15:14 What a good business idea is and how important it is16:51 Building the next Facebook, funding, investors and hiring and leading a team20:39 Why she went from 11 employees to being a one woman show23:30 Why 1000 clients are not better then 200 clients25:15 How she turned an 8h on campus workshop into a 1.5h online workshop30:33 Creativity exercises, wearing different hats, McDonalds, umbrellas and cowsResources mentioned
Company of One on Amazon "We all had a million-dollar business idea." - Sara Blakely, SpanxAbout
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.
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00:14 My podcast studio and why I re-recorded this episode00:55 Who I am02:12 Why I pushed my little sister out of the playpen when we were girls02:47 How I started my first startup project directly after graduating from university04:53 Why I co-founded an association to foster female entrepreneurship when I was 2505:36 Why I wanted to learn to code and why I lost my motivation06:26 Why I didn't enjoy Computer Science at Uni and Why I started Master2107:27 The four Ps needed to create learning experiences joyful09:23 Why I decided to sell Master21 after three years10:11 Why I started this podcastConnect with me
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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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