Waking Youth

Alongside his partner Maria Pussig, Fausto has spent the last five years transforming his family’s estate, Quinta do Pinheiro, in Guimarães, Portugal, into a pioneering lab of what it looks like to produce food more wisely.

Together we explore Fausto’s story of becoming. What is syntropic farming and how it differs from mainstream agriculture. Some of the challenges and learnings of managing a farm. And, among much more, how Fausto feels about our collective future.

To learn more about, visit or volunteer at the farm PinusSintropico click here.

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To learn more about the syntropic farming method developed by Ernst Götsch click here.

Credits:

• Creator, Writer & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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A conversation with Tatjana von Steiger about how she become a diplomat and mediator.

Together we explore Tatjana’s early life, including how her unlikely studies in Russian Literature shaped the way she approaches her work. We listen to some of the challenges Tatjana encountered as a rather shy woman learning to play the diplomacy game. We talk about her experience navigating the high-stakes negotiations of the SDGs as one of the representatives of Switzerland. And, despite the sobering reality that only 15% of the UN-defined goals are on track, we listen to what gives Tatjana hope.

Guest Bio: Tatjana von Steiger is the Head of Global Policy Outreach at Wyss Academy for Nature. Throughout her twenty year career in diplomacy, she has served for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, representing Switzerland in the executive boards of the main UN development agencies and the World Bank, where she developed partnerships and solutions to global challenges ranging from climate change, water, and food security to health and migration.

Credits:

• Creator, Writer & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.
• Photo of Tatjana by TAG HOUSE, Kenya.

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This episode is brought to you in partnership with Emzingo.

What is the role of stories in shaping our understanding of reality? What is failing in our current media landscape and what might alternative models look and feel like? Who are the people experimenting with them and what do they value? These are some of the questions we explore with our guest Maria Almeida.

Together we talk about Maria’s early life and her dreams of becoming first, a football player, then a storyteller, one of them which she rescued as a journalist at Fumaça, an award-winning media organization she co-founded in 2016 during her twenties. 

We listen to Maria’s professional challenges of being taken seriously as a rather short woman in height with a tendency to people please. And the difficulty of making ends meet within a precarious financial reality in Portugal. 

We discuss the state of the media, and Fumaça’s organizational style. And lastly, we listen to the advice Maria would give her younger self, namely to care less about what people think of her, and more about what brings her to life. 

Guest Bio: Maria Almeida is the co-founder and journalist at Fumaça, an independent media based in Lisbon with a focus on thoughtful investigative audio journalism. Learn more about her work here.

Credits:

• Creator, Writer & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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This episode is brought to you in partnership with ⁠Emzingo⁠.

While the connection between football and social impact might not be an immediate one, in this episode we listen to the story of becoming of Alexia García, a football lover and activist, who will show us their joint potential.

Guest Bio: Alexia García is a player, coach, director of business development and project manager at Dragones de Lavapiés. Located in the Madrid's most diverse neighborhood, ⁠Dragones de Lavapiés⁠⁠ is a grassroots football club on a mission to promote social integration, equality and respect through sports.

Alexia is also a freelance tech and travel writer, and an occasional DJ.

Credits:

• Creator, Writer & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠⁠⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Ashanti Kunene, our guest, defines 'calling' as that which keeps coming back to you, whether you like it or not.

In this episode, she tells us how she came into acceptance of hers as a social justice activist helping, mostly white, people walk their talk as leaders, and become more aware of and accountable to systemic discrimination, racism and inequality.

What is the role of intuition in our lives? How can we discover what is our vocation? How might we cultivate the courage to align our thoughts, feelings and actions? Is the use of psychedelics inherently alienating or can it support our individuation? How might an intimate experience with death open us to the beauty of life? These are some of the questions we contemplate.

Guest Bio: Ashanti Kunene is a social justice activist, a decolonial dialogue facilitator, a poet, the founder of Learning 2 Unlearn, the director of pedagogy at Culture Hack Labs, and an occasional painter. You can check out Ashanti's art on her Instagram.

Learn more about the Boom festival here.

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠⁠⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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In this episode, we listen deeply to the story of becoming of Pablo Esteves, a professional golfer turned social entrepreneur.

Are you torn between following your professional bliss and opting for a path of more security? Are you curious about entrepreneurship and business? Are you interested in making the world a better place? If you've ever found yourself pondering some of these questions, this interview might keep you some company.

Together we explore the thought processes guiding Pablo life’s big decisions, the most significant challenges and learnings as a managing partner of Emzingo, why Pablo cherishes his privacy in a social media landscape often obsessed with self-promotion, and what he would like to tell his younger self where he in his twenties today.

Guest Bio: Pablo Esteves is a managing partner and executive director at Emzingo, a learning design firm he joined in 2011 after finishing his MBA at IE Business School. His experience includes designing, managing, and facilitating over 70 innovation and leadership development projects and learning experiences in South Africa, Peru, Spain, the United States and beyond.

Pablo is also a professor in Leadership, Innovation, and Creativity at IE University, a visiting professor for Trinity College Dublin and Universidad de Valladolid, and an Aspen Institute Fellow in Spain.

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Guest Bio: Rui is the co-founder of Toyno, a space experience design studio, and With Company, a transformative design consultancy that does a bunch of cool multidisciplinary projects in Portugal and beyond. In 2013, Rui co-founded Peixaria Centenária, a fish shop that artfully rewrote the narrative of his family business tradition for younger generations that is no longer in business. He’s also a frequent lecturer at several universities, and the program director of Systems Thinking for Innovation at the Porto Business School.

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Additional Links:

• Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the end of Civilization

Caveh is a film director, actor and professor at the New School, in New Work. Some of his movies include In the Bathtub of the World and I Am a Sex Addict. More recently, he created ⁠The Show About the Show⁠, a meta-TV series in which each episode is about the making of the previous one, as well as the podcast Recording Myself And Everyone Around Me All Day for 365 Days Was Destroying All My Relationships So Now I'm Doing a Daily Audio Journal Instead.

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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In this episode, we sat with Amanda Huits to explore the roots of her decision to venture into a humanitarian career, in part influenced by the experience she had when visiting her mom's original home in a favela in Brazil.

Amanda holds a bachelor's degree in Internal Relations and a master’s in Political Science from Leiden University in the Netherlands. Since 2020, she's been working in the Learning and Operations Team at GPPAC⁠, the world’s largest member-led network of civil society organizations working to prevent conflicts and build peace.

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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In this month's episode, we converse with Rebecca Seal, best-selling author of the book "Solo: How to Work Alone and Not Lose Your Mind" and host of the Solo Collective Podcast.

Rebecca is also the author of over ⁠a dozen cookbooks⁠, including "Lisbon: Recipes from the Heart of Portugal" and "Leon Happy One-Pot Cooking." As a freelance writer, she has written articles on food, drink, and lifestyle for numerous prestigious publications including The Guardian, TheObserver, The Financial Times, and National Geographic. Before venturing into solo work, Rebecca was a contributing editor for the Observer in London.

We invited Rebecca to learn more about her story of becoming. How does a grad in International Relations from the LSE and a post-grad in International Peace and Security from Kings College ends up pursuing a career in writing and journalism with a focus on food, drink, lifestyle, and working alone? Listen to find out :)

Themes:

• The roots of Rebecca's interest in writing and food;
• Rebecca's early academic and professional background;
• Rebecca's initiation into journalism;
• Rebecca's transition to freelance writing;
• Rebecca's advice across time to her younger self.

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Joana Leite de Castro is from Porto, Portugal. A bright student throughout her school years, when the time came to pick a Bachelor's degree, Joana elected Business Management at Católica University in Porto. Her dream was to become the CEO of Coca-Cola or Google. After graduating with distinction, Joana got a job at a US pharmaceutical company where she worked in the nutrition department for three years.

Though, in theory, she was living the dream, Joana soon realized she was unfulfilled. She decided to quit, pack her suitcase, and venture to Africa to build a school from scratch upon invitation from a US friend. Throughout the following years, with the money she had saved in her corporate job, Joana traveled the world in search of something…something she couldn’t quite put her finger on.

After a less glamorous three-month experience on a farm in Australia, where, despite the beautiful surroundings, existential melancholia knocked on her door, she moved back to Porto and slowly but surely started a path toward becoming a yoga teacher. Joana now runs the lovely Shambho Yoga Studio in Porto which you can find out more about here.

Together we unpack Joana's story of becoming to discover insights and better questions to accompany us on our own journey of living into maturity more wisely.

Themes:

• Joana's early background;
• Joana's experience as a global marketer at a US multinational pharmaceutical company;
• The thought process that led Joana to leave behind her corporate career;
• Joana's travel adventures;
• Joana's decision to pursue yoga as a life and career path;
• Limitations and the transformative potential of Western Yoga;
• Some of Joana's tools to live intentionally.

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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• The Anarchist Banker by Fernando Pessoa.

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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• Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Man's Search For Meaning by Vitor Frankl
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
• Don't Look Up

Giancarlo is a former investment banker in London and NY, documentary producer, and owner of Mangusta productions and Mangu.tv. He's recognized as one of today's best producers of mind-expanding themes such as conscious capitalism, mysticism, indigenous wisdom, plant medicines, and consensual non-monogamy. His documentaries 2012: Time for Change:  and From Neurons to Nirvana made the lists for best social change docs. More recently based in Ibiza, Giancarlo is involved in regenerative projects in the fields of hospitality with Difuso and agriculture with Terra Viva Ibiza.

Themes:

• Giancarlo's early contact with movies;
• Giancarlo's background studies and activities in business and investment banking;
• Giancarlo's waking up moments that led to his career transition and deepening of his self-discovery journey;
• Giancarlo's career transition;
• How we might pursue creative endeavors while ensuring our material prosperity;
• Exploration of the 4P's methodology developed by Giancarlo and his wife Stephanie Canavesio;
• How Giancarlo reminds himself to not sleepwalk through his waking state.

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Links:

• Mangu.tv
  
• 
  2012: Time for Change: An optimistic alternative to apocalyptic doom and gloom, documentary produced by Giancarlo, starring Daniel Pinchbeck

• Big Magic, book by Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Wisdom of Trauma, documentary starring Gabor Maté

In this episode, Dr. Jorge Ferrer walks us through his work aimed at transcending the binary monogamy-polyamory, culminating in Jorge's coining of the term novogamy.

Guest Bio: Jorge is the author of several books, including Love and Freedom: Transcending Monogamy and Polyamory; and Novogamia Mas Allá de la Monogamia y del Poliamor. Jorge is also a former professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he completed his doctoral research and served as a chair of the department of East-West Psychology. Currently based in Ibiza, Jorge continues to write, give talks and workshops, and provide relationships and psycho-spiritual counseling to individuals and couples.

Themes:

• Some of the episodes in Jorge's life that motivated his professional inquiry and research;
• The definition of novogamy, the term coined by Jorge;
• Whether society at large is ready to "accept" non-monogamy;
• How younger generations might experiment with alternative relational modes in a responsible manner;
• How we might navigate relationships where partners have different curiosities and desires regarding relational modes;
• How Jorge reminds himself to not sleepwalk through his waking state.

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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• Love and Freedom: Transcending Monogamy and Polyamory by Jorge;
• Novogamia Mas Allá de la Monogamia y del Poliamor by Jorge;
• Grace and Frankie show.

Humans often make sense of reality in binaries. What would happen if we temporarily suspended such reductionist tendencies in the context of both gender identity and romantic relationship types? Esaú Gozalo will tell us all about it. 

Esaú is a multimedia designer who lives in Segovia, a small town in Spain. He's animated by the intersections across art and tech, social change, and spirituality. 

Themes:

• Esaú's early experience exploring multiple gender expressions;
• Esaú coming out of the closet as both he and they;
• (skip to 46m55s to listen to:) Definition of traditional and serial monogamy;
• Definition of consensual non-monogamy, polyamory, and monogamy;
• Esaú's experience of opening up his romantic relationship;
• How Esaú reminds himself to live a waking life.

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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• Love & Freedom by Jorge Ferrer
• Clip from Teal Swan about break ups
• Further sources included in our newsletter

In this episode I have a conversation with Carmen Mitroi and Eugen Manole on the definition of spirituality, the usefulness of contemplative practices, and how they can impact our life and beautify our days.
Carmen Mitroi has been teaching Integral Yoga for more than 25 years. She studied Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing and Phytotherapy, at the Hippocrates Institute, Lisbon. She is also graduated in Psychology (Madeira University) and Law (Classical University, Lisbon). She lives in Madeira since 2002, where she founded the Sundari Personal Development Center, that includes the Sundari Integral Yoga School, accredited by the International Association Yoga Alliance.  
Eugen is interested in Buddhism, Taoism, Yoga, Qigong, Tai Chi, meditation, and mindfulness and studied with various Masters in US, China, Portugal, and Romania. He earned a PhD from the University of Greenwich and is a Member of the Editorial Board of The International Journal of Hinduism and Philosophy (UK). He studied and graduated in Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine with the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing. He is Co-Founder of the Sundari Personal Development Center where he is practicing and teaching Traditional Integral Yoga, Qigong, and Tai Chi.

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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A conversation with Mareile Paley about:

• her professional and personal path as a traveler, freelancer, and entrepreneur
• her experience in the wellness and retreat business
• our thoughts on social media, generational shifts, self-representation
• how we might catalyze social change
• Mareile's most recent project CALM

Mareile has been working in the Pilates & Wellness Retreat industry for almost a decade. Drawing from her professional background as a graphic designer, multimedia expert, and knowledge management consultant for the United Nations she brings practical talents as well as her unique vision to CALM, her most recent project in Portugal. Mareile is owner and co-founder of Paleymotion Ltd, a multimedia service company. Her retreat & wellness business Life in Movement Ltd is one of the most recognized Pilates retreat companies and she recently founded www.giveatree.life, an online community platform connecting global food forest and permaculture projects with individual sponsors.

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Yang-May Ooi is a former-lawyer-podcaster-performance-artist-bestselling-author who has been blogging for over 10 years. Her cross-cultural blog Fusion View gained 10,000 unique views a month and was featured on the BBC. She is the co-author of the social media chapters of International Communications Strategy, published by Kogan Page and nominated for the FT Goldman Sachs Business Book Award. She currently runs Tiger Spirit, a multi-media blog on creativity. In 2015, Yang-May published the memoir Bound Beet Blues: A Life Told in Shoes based on her one-hour solo stage show Bound Feet Blues where she steps in the shoes of several people of her life and family lineage.   Together we explore:

• Our experiences with performances of femininity
• Our thoughts on wearing wheels
• The concept of identity
• the roles of values in our lives and how they guide our choices
• The beauty and struggle of creative living
• Yang-May's experience as a writer and performance artist  
• How Yang-May reminds herself to live an examined life

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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A chat about befriending our fear, self-confidence v. confidence, and the Learn, Love, Leap Loop with Laura Amigone - a College Success Coach and Founder of Rudder Coaching.

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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After several months of non-stop partying as a freshman, a physical and mental breakdown inspired Emilio Ortiz to do some soul-searching and pursue an alternative life-path. He switched his Grey Goose bottle for a mic to co-found Innergy Motto - a podcast that invites young souls to tap into the energy within and commit to self-growth. In this episode, we explore some of the tools that helped Emilio shift his life direction. Find Emilio here.

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Shiva is a TEDx Speaker, a Program Designer, and a Global Educator teaching people how to take control over their mental programming aka how to not be assholes.

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Get to know more about Brené Brown's work on Fitting in vs. Belonging.

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Cristina Bernardo is a female leader in the journey of empowering women and other marginalized groups to live in their full power. Currently, she is serving as the Executive Director of EmzingoU. 

Dive in to listen to a down-to-earth female mentor with 10 years of experience in business and social impact share a bunch of food for thought on confidence, self-esteem, and body image.

Cristina and EmzingoU are currently organizing a virtual WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL IMPACT WEEKEND happening on the first weekend of November. Join us to dive even deeper into the topic of Women Empowerment. 

To know more about the UNF*CK YOUR BRAIN PODCAST click here. To find more about Cristina click here.

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Onezwa Ndzimande (aka Oniey) is not only a Program Manager at EmzingoU, but also a 'chicktetarian', a secret rapper, and above all, an extraordinary human being. Listen in to learn more about her story coming from rural South Africa.

EmzingoU is a global innovation and leadership firm dedicated to empowering conscious leaders and organizations, and being the change they want to see in the world. Find more about Oniey here.

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Find more about Diogo here and his work here.

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Find more about Oskar here https://www.linkedin.com/in/oskarwoehr/ or here https://www.instagram.com/oskar.woehr/ and his work here here https://www.oskarwoehr.com/.

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Find more about Elena here https://www.instagram.com/elena_broglia/ and Generation Terra here https://www.instagram.com/generation.terra/.

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Disclaimer: This podcast represents the experiences and opinions of Carlota Guedes and her guests. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions. 

For more on Smergos click here https://smergos.com/ or here https://www.instagram.com/smergos1/ For more on the Emzingo Virtual Impact Summer Program click here https://u.emzingo.com/.

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Follow João here https://www.instagram.com/joaomgois/

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Get to know Brené Brown and her work here https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame and here https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7015403-the-gifts-of-imperfection

Find Alan Down's book here https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49418.The_Velvet_Rage

Follow Gaurang ⁠here⁠.

Credits:

• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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• Creator & Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Carlota Guedes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠
• Music Audio Producer & Editor: ⁠⁠Carlos Sierra⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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