BrainFruits: Engineer your Future
By Hannah Becher
Join me as I speak with inspiring women from around the globe to tap into the vast knowledge and expertise of role models who have designed their financial and emotional success!
Each podcast session focuses on a key problem that is discussed with an expert.
The mission of BrainFruits is to close the gap in emotional and financial well-being.
BrainFruits: Engineer your FutureJan 03, 2023
Creating More Inclusive Workplaces w/ Eleanor Manley, co-founder & CTO @Metta Space
In this episode, Eleanor Manley, co-founder of Metta Space and I chat about the role of data in building inclusive workplaces.
Eleanor Manley is the co-founder & CTO of Metta Space. She is building tech for gender equality and better workplaces.
In this podcast episode, Eleanor tells us about her role as CTO and her transition to the role of CSO, what steps they have followed to build their digital product, informs us about the impact of harassment in the workspace, and how they are working to reduce this issue.
If you would like to know more about Metta Space, you can visit their website: https://www.metta-space.com/
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Shownotes:
- The trajectory of Eleanor from international relations to using Machine Learning to combat misconduct in workplaces [1.40 min]
- The role of machine learning in building inclusive workplaces [Start: 7.20min]
- How Metta Space is helping companies to detect, deter and prevent harassment cases [08.00 min]
- Examples of dealing with workplace misconduct [11.20 min]
- **How to build a product in the impact tech space [ 16.00 min]
You can find Eleanor Manley here: https://es.linkedin.com/in/eleanormanley
And Metta Space here: https://metta-space.com/
S3 E9: Strategies for Achieving Net Zero: The Key Themes of Energy Transition w/ Hillary Stevenson
In the ninth episode of Season 3, Hillary Stevenson - Energy Enthusiast | Senior Advisor, Crude Markets @Validere talks us through what’s for lunch in the crude market and how to develop and implement a sustainability strategy.
The total value of global carbon markets grew by over 20 percent in 2020—the fourth consecutive year of record growth. Compliance carbon markets (CCMs), where mandatory national, regional, or international regimes trade and regulate carbon allowances, play an increasingly visible role in efforts to reduce emissions.
- As the drive to curb global warming gathers pace, carbon markets have become increasingly fundamental to achieving net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions.
- One of the central questions top of mind for energy companies revolves around planning for tomorrow in light of the dynamic nature of those markets and technologies today.
This is a great episode if you are interested in to the energy transition and need to develop a sustainable strategy for your company!
Hillary Stevenson is the Senior Advisor, Crude Markets at Validere. With more than a decade of experience in oil market analysis, Hillary works closely with sales, product, services, and marketing to pair Validere solutions with customer needs to remove friction and add value in both supply chain operations and ESG initiatives.
Hillary is a subject matter expert on crude oil trends and their impact on the North American crude oil supply chain, with particular expertise in Cushing oil storage, North American refining, and pipeline networks.
Early in her career at Genscape, Hillary developed and deployed the industry’s first remote sensor surveillance network to provide never-before-seen granularity and transparency into crude oil supply and demand.
Outside of work, Hillary actively participates in community engagement work and volunteers with Clothe the West, a mutual aid organization benefiting BIPOC children. She loves to cook, golf, practice yoga, and play pickleball.
Her vision for the future is one where we have transparency into our energy supply and that our energy supply sustainably supports human prosperity. A future where data and facts inform consumer energy choices.
Validere is a measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) SaaS company that helps energy organizations transform disconnected, incomplete data into clear and immediately actionable pathways to financial and environmental value.
Shownotes:
- The trajectory of Hillary into the crude market [Start: 1.40 min]
- The forces shaping the crude markets [Start: 4.00 min]
- The role of the sustainable energy transition: Crude markets on a diet? [Start: 4.40min]
- What’s the biggest challenge in approaching the energy transition? [09.50 min]
- How to plan for tomorrow as a leader in the crude market? [Start: 10.57 min]
- What are the three phases of the energy transition? [**Start 16.26 min]
- Examples of successful companies leading the energy transition [Start 24.49min]
- How you can become a sustainability influencer [Start: 32.21 min]
You can find Hillary Stevenson here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hillary-stevenson/
And Validere here: https://www.validere.com/about
For the research papers mentioned in the episode: www.blog.validere.com
S3 E8: How to get more women to succeed as entrepreneurs w/ Ella Rytsölä
In the eighth episode of Season 3, Ella Rytsölä - Project Manager @ TechVelopment | Co-Founder @ WithPurpose tells us about her Superpower and explains how to get more women into entrepreneurship.
With Purpose is a platform that helps women start, run and grow purpose-led companies. Her background merges business, sustainability and innovation.
Ella is excited about the potential of impact innovation in solving the biggest problems in the world and as a hardcore feminist, gender equality is integrated into everything she touches.
Her vision for the future is that the entrepreneurial landscape is a level playing field for diverse talent.
25% of founders in the Nordics are women, with numbers slightly different between each country. 18% of the total available VC funding goes to female-only teams, while 18% goes to mixed teams & the rest to male-only founded companies
Shownotes:
- Start-up trajectory of Ella [Start: 1.00 min]
- The superpower of Ella [Start: 1.38 min]
- The Role of Venture Capital Firms [Start: 4.27min]
- The Role of Start-up Schools like WithPurpose [09.00 min]
- Examples of successful ventures [Start: 10.57 min]
- Tools & Tactics to start a successful and purposeful venture [23.33 min]
You can find Ella Rytsölä here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellarytsola/?originalSubdomain=dk
And WithPurpose here: https://www.wpurpose.org/
S3 E7: How Neuro-Space Is Using Machine Learning To Explore The Moon w/ Irene Selvanathan, CEO
In the seventh episode of Season 3, Irene Selvanathan - CEO and Founder of Neuro-Space brings us to the Moon using the power of Machine Learning.
Irene has over a decade of experience as an Engineer and worked in companies such as FTI Engineering Network GmbH, Exolaunch, and German Orbital System GmbH.
Did you think that Tesla, Google, Uber, etc. were the first ones to heavily invest in self-driving cars? Well, think again!!! In fact, NASA created the technology for autonomous driving for Mars Rovers almost a decade ago. A Machine Learning based navigation and driving system for self-driving rovers helps to explore space at low cost.
Irene's vision with Neurospace is to democratize access to the moon and other planetary surfaces and enable new scientific discoveries and commercial applications.
NEUROSPACE is a Berlin-based NewSpace company founded in 2020 by a group of experienced engineers in the fields of space engineering, software, and physics. The company is developing a new generation of small and affordable rovers for the exploration of the moon and other planetary surfaces. The rovers are based on the CubeSat standard and will be equipped with state-of-the-art machine-learning algorithms for navigation and driving.
Tune in and listen to:
- Start-up trajectory of Irene [Start: 1.25 min]
- What is a Moon rover [Start: 6.00 min]
- How to go into space [Start: 10.30min]
- How to deal with uncertainty [Start: 21.30 min]
- Tools & Tactics to get started in Space Tech [23.33 min]
You can find Irene here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/irene-selvanathan/ and Neuro-Space here: https://www.neuro-space.de/
S3 E6: How to achieve sustainable success using Flow w/ Kristel Tuul
In the sixth episode of Season 3, Kristel Tuul - a certified high-performance coach walks us through the concept of FLOW.
Kristel is a certified women's high-performance coach. Before that, she was the head of digital growth and performance at CHOOOSE, a climate action tech platform, ran her own tech startup as head of sales and marketing, and did door-to-door sales for 6 years in the USA and Canada.
Kristel helps female leaders & entrepreneurs become wildly successful while having more time for themselves. Her approach is science-backed and holistic where she helps women make their mindset, biology, and environment work for them.
Flow is a state of mind in which a person becomes fully immersed in an activity. Positive psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi describes flow as a state of complete immersion in an activity. Being immersed can be defined as a state of focus in which a person is completely absorbed and engrossed in their work.
While in a flow state, people are highly involved and focused on what they are doing.
The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost," Csíkszentmihályi said in an interview with Wired magazine
This is a great episode if you want to learn how to get into a FLOW state and learn to manage your energy and not time.
We focus on
- Start-up trajectory of Kristel Tuul [Start: 1.25 min]
- What is FLOW [Start: 6.00 min]
- Why we are experiencing Digital Exhaustion [Start: 15.30min]
- How to set boundaries at work [17.00 min]
- 3 simple steps to get into a Flow state [Start: 18.30 min]
- Tools & Tactics to use Flow to make a positive impact [28.47 min]
You can find Kristel here: https://www.kristeltuul.com/
I hope you enjoy this episode!
With best wishes,
💛 Hannah
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S3 E5: How to create meaningful products to empower people w/ Viktoria Prantauer
S3 E4: Transforming your relationship with money w/ Alice McNeil
In the fourth episode of Season 3,
Alice McNeil shows how you can combine a love for problem-solving with a sense of purpose to kick-start your own start-up. Alice is the Program Lead at Fresh Ventures Studio.
Fresh Ventures is a venture-building program and startup studio based in the Netherlands. Fresh launched in 2021 to work alongside founders to address the problems in the land and aquaculture food systems - they focus mainly on the top end of the value chain in cultivation and production in agrifood through scalable impact ventures.
Check their website https://www.freshventures.eu/ to apply for the upcoming cohort!
Fresh Ventures offers you to:
🤝 Match with complementary co-founders. Get access to a talent pool and a community of people with specialized skills.
🤝 Gain access to committed capital, sector knowledge, industry leaders and launching customers that want to see you succeed.
🤝 Work on opportunities based on thorough systemic analysis. Co-found a company structured for maximum scalable impact.
This is a great episode if you are looking for the tools & tactics to build your personal money fund to start a business with impact.
You can find Fresh Ventures here: https://www.freshventures.eu/And Alice loves getting random calls so reach out to her! I hope you enjoy this episode!
With best wishes, 💛 Hannah
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S3 E3: Radical Innovation in Finance w/ Dorte Kurek
In the third episode of Season 3, Dorte Kurek walks us through the power of radical innovation for sustainable finance.
Dorte creates innovative tech solutions to facilitate the green and sustainable transition of companies. Her focus is to identify and remove barriers to transition companies using a blend of co-creation, action learning, and deep analysis. She has held former roles as COO, Head of Compliance, Head of ESG Compliance and DPO (GDPR).
Currently, she is helping the Fintech and Impact company Valified succeed in building solutions for a more sustainable future.
Valified makes the green transition simple for any size of business. The company offers a digital platform that makes it easy to register, measure, report, share and benchmark companies' work on the transition. Valified develops intelligent, data-driven technologies and services that across value chains accelerate development towards greener and more sustainable companies.
This is a great episode if you want to learn how to set up and execute an innovation process to drive sustainable finance.
You can find Dorte on LinkedIn here.
I hope you enjoy this episode!
With best wishes,
💛 Hannah
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S3 E2: How to invest based on your values w/ Eva G. Christensen
In the second episode of Season 3, Eva Grønbjerg Christensen shares how you can determine and use your values to make sustainable investment decisions.
Eva is an innovative thinker with a strategic mind who values fact-based and transparent communication. She bases her analysis and decisions on documentation, corporate values, and strategy and likes to develop and optimize through feedback and evaluation.
Her company, Sustainify offers a tool for sustainable & responsible investments - they provide sustainability data, so you can make better decisions.
This is a great episode if you want to engineer your investment portfolio to drive the Sustainability Development Goals.
I hope you enjoy this episode!
With best wishes,
💛 Hannah
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S3 E1: Shaping the future of finance w/ Dr. Marta Ra, Co-Founder at Women In Sustainable Finance (WISF)
In the first episode of Season 3, Dr. Marta Ra shares the tools & tactics to combine feminine energy and finance to shape the future of finance.
She started out with a diploma in business, went on to get a Ph.D., and worked in banking and psychological rehabilitation. Amongst others, she has worked with Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, and Morgan Stanley. While at JP Morgan, she was responsible for managing CHF 39bn - the largest Swiss Pension Fund.
Recently, she co-founded Women In Sustainable Finance (WISF).
WISF empowers women to push for a sustainable and inclusive financial industry through education and collaboration.
This is a great episode if you want to engineer a career in sustainable finance or are looking for insights to invest in sustainability.
You can find Marta on LinkedIn here.
I hope you enjoy this episode!
With best wishes,
💛 Hannah
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S2 E23: How to tap into the power of the heart w/ Meiyi Cheng
Meiyi is a transformation consultant at the Institute for Quantum Transformation where she helps leaders transform themselves to unlock their full potential, and meanwhile generating profound beneficial impact around them.
In this last episode for Season 2, I sit down with Meiyi to discuss the power of developing a still mind. She shares her inspiring journey that brought her from being involved in the tech sector to starting a heart journey as a transformation journey at the Institute for Quantum Transformation (https://courses.quantumtransformation.dk/)
Listen to this episode to learn what leaders and humans can do to tap into the power of the heart.
👇 A sneak peek at the recommendations here..
⭐️ Be mindful Cultivate peace of mind. Do not let destructive emotions like anger and attachment cloud our ability to use our intelligence clearly.
⭐️ Be selfless We are naturally driven by self-interest; it’s necessary to survive. But we need wise self-interest that is generous and cooperative, taking others’ interests into account.
⭐️ Be compassionate The ultimate source of a happy life is warmheartedness. The source of a happy life is within us.
S2 E22: How to invest with good impact w/ Gaia Licia Balossi, Co-founder @Finuprise
The next episode in our Season2 line-up is out!
Want to have high returns on your money and earn good karma while doing that?
Catch Gaia Licia Balossi chatting about investment with good impact. Gaia is the Co-founder of Finuprise.
With the Finuprise app, you can access sustainable data on 2000+ publicly traded stocks. This way, you can make impactful decisions with your investments and invest in your future.
Available for streaming on Spotify, Apple Podcast and Youtube.
S2 E20: How to scale digital equality w/Anamaria Todor, Senior Solution Architect @AWS
🔥 I Women + tech = change!
On #InternationalWomensDay, we have a special episode in stack 👇
🎬 I In this episode, I sit down with @Anamaria Todor to discuss how to scale equality digitally
🤓 I Anamaria is a Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). She was the CTO for @Audienceproject and Software Engineer @Game Analytics
⭐️ I Initially, she came to #Denmark to study IT and in this episode, she shares how it has helped her to land a job with AWS!
➡️ I This is such a great episode: We discuss what it takes for companies to upgrade to the cloud and why you should think about your attitude in order to build a purposeful career in tech!
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S2 E19: How to build a ‘yes, she can' mindset w Daniela Miranda - Head of CX @SheCodes
Women currently hold 25% of coding jobs and earn 30% less money than men.
In this episode, I speak with Daniela Miranda, Head of Customer Success at SheCodes Workshops.
SheCodes is here to help bridge the gender gap in the tech programming industry by providing knowledge that is becoming necessary in today’s increasingly technological job market. SheCodes offers a solid introduction to product development, product design, and product management. We talk about what it takes to build a 'Yes, She Can' Mindset and easy it can be to get started with coding.
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S2 E18: Mental Health meets Venture Capital w/ Petra Moravcova
Mental Health meets Venture Capital 👇
🤩 I NEW NEW NEW Episode 18 is out!!
🔥I Petra is a VC investor, a technology for good ambassador, and a visionary
✨ I Her passion is to make a sustainable impact and inspire people to see and believe what's possible. The way she turns her passions into actions is currently through identifying investment potentials as a VC investor at @3VC, before that at Avast building privacy-tech products and designing digital well-being apps while flying solo in parallel as a freelancer
🦸I She led the Prague hub of the Global Shapers Community as a curator (World Economic Forum) and was one of the founding members at Ladies Who Tech (Greater China).
#brain_fruits #Season2 #podcast #podcaster #inspiringwomen #inspiringstories #VC #womeninVC #Womeninfinance #venturecapital #VC #Career #Progress #YouCanDoIt #change #careeradvice #mentalhealth
S2 E18: How can Data Science improve Quality of Life? w/ Dr. Katarzyna Wac
How can Data Science improve Quality of Life? 🤔
🍍I Are you into mental health, wellbeing, and big data?
We have just the right podcast for you!
🎙I In the latest episode of BrainFruits, S2, I am joined by Prof. Katarzyna Wac and we talk about the impact of tech and its integration with healthcare systems.
Prof. Katarzyna Wac is the head of Quality of Life (QoL) technologies and also affiliated with Stanford University School of Medicine (MED).
Prof. Wac’s research interests revolve around the fundamental and algorithmic problems, as well as human-centric challenges of the systems enabling an assessment and improvement of human behavior, health, and quality of life in the long term.
🎧 Out now on all major streaming platforms - Apple, Spotify, and Youtube
https://www.qualityoflifetechnologies.com/ Happy BrainFruits
S2 E18: How to find the courage to change your career /w Hanna Kleinings
Are you looking for a new career?
🤔 I If you are planning to change your career, look no further!👇
🎙 I In the latest episode of BrainFruits, S2, I talk to Hannah Kleinings who had been a Bar Manager and Chef for the past 14 years, and now helps businesses to get rid of mundane tasks with AI.
⭐ I Listen to episode 5, find out how Hanna took the leap of faith to change her career and do what she truly loves. As Customer Success & Growth at Levity, she is an inspiration for those who are unsure of their current career paths and have a passion to discover the road not taken.
🎧 I BrainFruits is streaming on all major platforms: Spotify, Apple Music & Youtube
S2 E16: How can AI can help to fight fake news? w/ Jenny Romano
? I Do you feel overwhelmed… 👇
🤔I Struggling to detangle what is important and what is not? Truth from post-truth? Information from misinformation?
🎙 I NEW NEW NEW - Episode #4 is out!
🔥 I Another firing episode is out on how technology can be used for good impact. Ready to fight misinformation through Artificial Intelligence?
➡️ I In the fourth episode for the BrainFruits Season 2 podcast, I speak with @Jenny Romano, Co-Founder of The Newsroom about building plurality of thought through context on the news, exposing readers to contrasting points of view.
🎧 I As always, you can listen to BrainFruits on all major streaming platforms: Spotify, Apple Music & Youtube
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S2 E15: How to Improve Your Money Confidence? w/ Leitha Matz
💸 I How to Improve Your Money Confidence?
🎙I In this episode, energetic and FinTech expert @Leitha Matz walks us through her start-up journey from being a journalist to becoming a recognized Executive for
digital strategy and co-founder/CPO at @FinMarie.
⭐️ I Listen to this episode to learn about what it takes to become financially literate, why FinTechs can serve women so much faster and better than 'old school' banks, and what you can do to become a 'first dancer' in the FinTech industry.
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S2 E14: How can AI help in achieving SDGs? /w Smritri Mishra
And why your mental health can be a superpower.
In the second episode of Season 2, I have the chance to chat with Smritri Mishra, Head of AI at Eartbanc.
Smriti is not only a Computational Scientist, Google Tech Maker, and sought-after speaker but an extremely open, inspirational and knowledgable role model.
In this episode, we talk about how AI can be used to help humans make better decisions about their carbon footprint and become climate positive.
Goal Nr. 13 from the UN Sustainability Goals is about taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.Earthbanc is a world first global carbon-offsetting account.
The company uses AI remote sensing carbon measurement technology to validate the carbon being claimed if an offset is credible. Earthbanc is venture-backed by the European Space Agency to deliver transparent reporting solutions for carbon markets. Listen to this episode to get a chance to hear about Smritri's inspiring journey from Chess over skydiving into AI, her curiosity, and vulnerability when it comes to the human brain.
❤️ 🍍Happy BrainFruits!
Hannah
S2 E13: How to build inclusive leadership w/ Sile Walsh
In the first episode of Season 2, I have the chance to sit down with Sile Walsh, one of the top 10 coaches in Dublin, Ireland focusing on inclusive leadership.
Sile Walsh specializes in inclusion and leadership, with a background in coaching psychology and organizational development, and over 10 years working with clients in Ireland and internationally.
Siles's approach is trauma-informed, inclusive, and humanistic. Utilizing an individual and systemic lens to encourage a collaborative, insightful, and impactful learning experience.
Inclusive leadership is the capacity to manage and lead in an empathetic, bias-free way effectively while respecting the unique traits and characteristics of a heterogeneous group of people.In this episode, Sile explains why inclusive leadership is an authentic leadership style and how organizations can adopt a new form of leading a globalized workforce.
I would like to thank Sile Walsh for taking the time to record this episode.
Happy BrainFruits 🍍❤️
CEMS Special Episode: Wellbeing, Tech & Purpose
In this episode, I am very grateful for the invitation to sit down with Matija who is hosting the CEMS podcast.
Matija interviews me about my own career path and asks me about my career transition from the corporate world into Finance and Tech.
This is one of my favorite conversations as we touch on so many interesting aspects ranging from the economics of mental wellbeing to pursuing a career of purpose & personal success in tech.
I share what has inspired me to launch my podcast BrainFruits, what I have learned from the conversations with my podcast guests, and what has helped me to navigate through the jungle of opportunities to follow my own North Star.
Enjoy this episode 🍍❤️
Hannah
Link to CEMS podcast
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S1 E12: Nudging for wellbeing w/ Christina Gravert
In this last episode for Season 1, I speak with Christina Gravert, Behavioral economist I Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Copenhagen I Co-founder impactually
This episode is all about how to increase the welfare of individuals and society through behavioral insights and evidence-based decision-making using nudging.
The thriving field of behavioral science has produced a wealth of insights into how to “nudge” people with gentle pushes that can add up to a big impact.
We should mention that the term “nudge” was coined by two leaders in this field, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. In fact, they wrote the book on it–Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness.
The easiest to explain a nudge to people is that it is a small discrete intervention that is inspired by insights uncovered through our understanding of human behavior.
Christina walks us through her path to becoming a behavioral scientist. We further talk about what strategies and concepts companies and you can use when designing a positive nudge?
Enjoy this last episode!
Happy BrainFruits 🍍❤️Hannah
S1 E11: Why is innovation needed in healthcare? w/Jenni Pessi
In this episode, I speak with Jenni Pessi, Ph.D. & Senior Scientist in a big pharmaceutical company.
She co-founded a health start-up and has years of experience in pharmaceutical companies.
We start by talking about an industry in desperate need of innovation. Health plans, providers, life sciences companies, and the government are facing rising costs and inconsistent outcomes.
Jenni walks us through her academic and business career and shares some great insights for entrepreneurial spirits on how to do "reverse pitching".
Curious how "reverse pitching can add value to your business idea?
Make sure to listen in!
🍍❤️ Hannah
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S1 E10: How do you close a gender gap in technology? w/ Christine Tsai
The technology-driven world in which we live is a world filled with promises but also challenges.
Europe is already facing a shortage of 800,000 IT workers in 2021. At the same time, the well-known gap in gender inequality in the tech industry persists.
Christine Tsai is a senior solution engineer at Salesforce, focusing on the retail and banking industry in Greater China.
She is also the Regional Vice President at Salesforce Women's Network dedicated to empowering tech Women and advocacy for gender equality.
She previously worked for Uber, Vodafone, and Adecco for Business and Marketing strategy planning.
Together with Christine - we will discuss - how to overcome gender inequality in the tech industry 💫
I hope you enjoy this episode!
Hannah
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S1 E9: Who Needs Smart Cities for Sustainable Development w/ Amy Zhuo
Smart solutions can enhance various aspects of the quality of life in cities. For instance, smart cities are a solution to urbanization and global climate change.
Smart cities can use smart technologies to improve some key quality-of-life indicators by 10 to 30 percent—numbers that translate into lives saved, fewer crime incidents, shorter commutes, a reduced health burden, and carbon emissions averted.
Smart cities are all about data and technology for better decision-making. To watch events as they happen, getting deep insights into demand patterns enhances the ability to respond with lower-cost solutions for public infrastructure (schools, community buildings, libraries etc).
In this episode, I speak with Amy Zhuo, Vice President - Timberline Real Estate Partners about her journey into the world of equity finance and her mission to combat poverty by building smart cities around the globe.
Amy shares some great recommendations on how to overcome imposter syndrome and build more confidence as women in finance.
I hope you enjoy this episode!
With all the best wishes,
S1 E8: How to design FemTech for better health outcomes w/ Mariana Keymolen
Mariana Keymolen is a proud Latina Industrial Designer from the US. Her goal is to inspire young Latina girls to dream big and go for STEM careers. She found her entrepreneurial interest in the FemTech industry and works toward inspiring others to start their own company, Whether it’s cross-stitching or baking a cake, you can usually find her creating something!
In this episode, we talk about what FemTech is, how to create and design solutions for women's needs. Mariana shares strategies she uses to build courage to defend her solutions.
An inspiring episode for all future FemTech enthusiast!
Enjoy this episode!
Hannah
Find out more about her unique designs here:
https://mkeymolen100.myportfolio.com/
Special Episode w/ Jeanette Carlsson on Tech Nordic Advocates' International Women-in-Tech Growth Programme
On September 22th 2021, Nordic Tech Advocates (TNA) and Copenhagen City Council, led by the Mayor, will be hosting an invitation-only event to mark Tech Nordic Advocates' 3 module international programme to support women-in-tech founders and high-growth tech businesses led by women, attended by all involved in the Programme, international mentors, experts, Danish industry organisations, Ambassadors, embassies and distinguished guests.
In this special episode, I speak with Jeanette Carlsson, founder, and CEO of TNA about the International Women-in-Tech Growth Programme.
We walk through the purpose and mission of TNA and discuss how women role models, networking, collaboration, innovation and the right skill- and mindset can boost growth opportunities for Nordic/Baltic startups, scaleups and the sector as a whole, to grow the Nordics/Baltics into a leading global tech hub.
I hope you enjoy this special episode.
With best wishes,
Hannah
S1 E7: How to design tech for good causes w/ Elinor Samuelsson
The United Nations defines violence against women as "any act of gender-based violence that results in or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.
Violence against women – particularly intimate partner violence and sexual violence – is a major public health problem and a violation of women's human rights.
Estimates published by WHO indicate that globally about 1 in 3 (30%) of women worldwide have been subjected to either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime.
In this episode, I speak with the founder of BrightAct, Elinor Samuelsson about how to design tech for good causes. BrightAct uses thoughtful tech to address domestic violence, globally. Elinor shares the inspiring journey that led her to become a successful female entrepreneur.
You can find out more about BrightAct here
https://www.brightact.org/
Enjoy this episode!
Best wishes,
Hannah S. Becher
S1 E6: How to build resilience factors to prevent child trafficking w/ Dr. Hartini Zainundin
In 2018 about 50,000 human trafficking victims were reported which is likely to be much higher given the hidden nature of this crime.
Particularly, the most vulnerable, the children are affected. The share of small individuals has tripled with girls being the most affected group.
Millions of women, children and men worldwide are out of work, out of school and without social support in the continuing COVID-19 crisis, leaving them at greater risk of human trafficking. We need targeted action to stop criminal traffickers from taking advantage of the pandemic to exploit the vulnerableChild trafficking is child abuse. It's defined as recruiting, moving, receiving, and harboring children for the purpose of exploitation. In this episode, I speak with Dr. Hartini Zainundin - child activist, consultant for UN organizations and co-founder of Yayasan Chow Kit (formerly known as NurSalam).
Hartini shares her path and passion to becoming a child activist while living in NYC and walks us through the biggest problems that NGOs, social organizations and activists face trying to combat child trafficking.
I hope you find this episode insightful and encouraging to protect the smallest of our societal members.
If you are curious to find out more about how to prevent and combat child trafficking, here are a few resources and links where you can read more or become active:
United Nations Office on Drugs & Crimes
The issue of statelessness (TedX)
Yayasan Chow Kit
With best wishes, Hannah
S1 E5 How diversity can drive innovation and digitalisation w/ Nada Ahmed
The last 50 years have seen a dramatic shift in traditional family roles. As a result, women are in a stronger position than ever to lead, shape and transform the economic, social, and political landscape. Yet, despite these positive leadership changes, women are still being under-represented in the workplace. Just 12% of board seats are held by women globally, with a mere 4% leading the world’s top 500 businesses as CEOs.
Especially, in the tech sector, women are a rare find. They constitute only about one-quarter of the tech workforce which becomes even less in tech leadership roles. Creating an inclusive environment and developing talent pipelines are key to changing that.
In this episode, I have a conversation with Nada Ahmed, VP Transformation at Aker solutions | Board member | Top 50 Women in Tech 2020.
Nada talks about her journey and interest that lead to becoming a VP for Digital Transformation in the energy sector. Aker Solutions ****enables low-carbon oil and gas production and develops renewable solutions to meet future energy needs.
In the conversation, we focus on how digital transformation provides opportunities for inclusion and vice versa. We touch upon diversity and inclusion strategies that work to tackle the problem.
Nada shares some great insights and ends with personal recommendations that stem from challenges she had to overcome in her career journey.
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S1 E4: How to overcome the gender gap in digital literacy in Pakistan w/ Amna Habiba
Stark gender differentials hinder women from achieving their full potential. Digital literacy and promoting mental well-being at a young age can make all the difference.
In the fourth episode of Season 1, I have a conversation with Amna Habiba, co-founder of the Global Creative Hub about the power of EdTech and mental well-being initiatives to help young girls develop the 21-century skills needed to harness the power of tech.
Amna talks about how the Covid-19 pandemic has started her journey as a young founder of a social enterprise that aims to build capacity for every Pakistani girl and provide them in-demand skills of entrepreneurship, digital literacy, and personal development.
Amna Habiba is a 15-year-old Pakistani, founder of Global Creative Hub, international speaker, STEM enthusiast, and an advocate for girls' education and mental health. She received the Young Achiever Award at the age of 10 as the first Pakistani to participate in a digital exchange. During the lockdown, she completed several courses to upskill herself. To give back to her community, she launched Global Creative Hub, a social development initiative that aims to make every Pakistani girl capable of the future of work. Amna has spoken at global platforms including World Bank, WomenTech Network, and more, and advocates for #stemforgirls and #youthvoices. She believes in creating an equal world for all and has been working with various non-profit organizations to raise literacy awareness. Visit her website for more details.
https://www.globalcreativehub.com/about
S1 E3: SuperCoop - how to shape a sustainable food retail industry w/ Johanna Kühner
Global demand for agricultural production is expected to grow by 70 percent by the year 2050, and average per capita caloric intake globally is projected to increase by about 40 percent.
The problem is that global food production already utilizes about 50 percent of the earth’s available arable land, and the global agricultural sector consumes about 70 percent of the freshwater available for human use.
Ninety percent of the top 50 global grocery retailers market their own private-brand organic products. In their annual reports, 82 percent of grocery retail chief executive officers cite sustainability as a key priority. More than one in three has opened “green” pilot stores.
Nevertheless, the reality behind these flagship initiatives continues to be largely “unsustainable.” While sustainability now routinely figures in evaluating investment decisions and corporate projects, it’s had little effect on the key commercial activities of the business – buying, store operations, or supply-chain decisions.
SuperCoop is an innovative supermarket and conceptualises how a sustainable supermarket can look like!
SuperCoop is governed by its members. Only a few full time employees take care of the coordination and sourcing.
3H PER MONTH
The key to our collective success: Every member works 3h/month and can co-design the supermarket through democratic governance.
TRANSPARENCYSuperCoop empowers its members through transparent sourcing, management and clear labeling.
S1 E2: How to shape social entrepreneurship in emerging countries w/ Nurfarini Daing
Malaysia has made considerable progress but remains a middle-income country and was struggling to achieve its aspiration of becoming a high-income nation by 2020. To jump-start the effort, Malaysia announced in January 2010 its Government Transformation Programme (GTP), aimed at delivering big results fast in the public services that were most important to the people.
There is an increasing number of supporting intermediaries such as myHarapan, iM4U, Impact Hub, Tandemic, Social Enterprise Alliance and local universities are actively creating awareness on social enterprise and supporting the community with various social entrepreneurship activities. Nevertheless, only 0.02% of Malaysians are working in social enterprises in comparison to 1.5% of China’s working population is working in social enterprises. Therefore, integrated efforts from various agencies are needed to educate the public and the community on the importance and potential of the social enterprise sector in promoting national sustainable socio-economic development.
With my guest Nurfarini Daing (Nini), CEO of myHarapan, we speak about the challenges to shape social entrepreneurship in Malaysia and the impact myHarapan is able to have on women's well-being. Nini shares her recommendations on what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur with a social mission and what policies are needed to unlock the potential in young entrepreneurs.
Listen to this great episode to get unique insights into a rising sector in Malaysia and be prepared to be inspired when Nini shares some of her wisdom from running a company, being a mother and teacher. Enjoy!
With best wishes,
Hannah S. Becher
S1 E1: How to create societal change through financial well-being w/ Franziska Weissbach
🗓 I The first BrainFruits episode with Franziska Weissbach will be released this August, 6th 2021!
👩🏼💼 I Franziska is a corporate entrepreneur from Germany, currently working on strategy and business development at ING.
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With best wishes,
Hannah S. Becher
Intro Season 1
Welcome to Season 1 of the BrainFruits podcast - the podcast on female solutions for business and society. My name is Hannah Becher and I am super excited to take you on a journey around the globe as I speak with innovative women leaders that find new solutions to some of the biggest challenges in our modern economy.
With the very first season for BrainFruits, my intention is to provide you with 12 selected female role models that offer interdisciplinary perspectives, and inspiration on how to create valuable solutions for business.
I feature stories from tech leaders, entrepreneurs, and successful businesswomen who go through crippling business problems and find solutions that have value for both business & society. I pull these stories together to show that women have the guts and guns to fire up solutions with value.
Listening to my podcast will give you the tools and inspiration to find new solutions that you can use to boost your career and impact society.
Enjoy!
Hannah S. Becher