A regenerative future!

The fall is definitely here, so get your beanies on, bring a big smile and some headphones and get your ass out for a walk in the crisp fall weather to enjoy the beautiful colours.

If walking and listening is not for you, my talk with Elham Binai will also for sure bring you the beanie feeling, hopefully a smile on your face, some crisp topics and some colourful reflections. So you might as well enjoy it indoors with a blanket and a warm cup of something delicious.

Elham is a seasoned CHRO with an extensive global career, she now runs her own global leadership consultancy and work with a lot of exciting companies within AI and tech.

On her sparetime she does meaningful stuff like sitting in the board of Plan Norway and walking around smiling with her hat on.

Listen to this weeks episode of A regenerative future if your curios on; - How we all can use our upbringing, in Elhams case fleeing from war, and the values that our life has instilled in us to lead better for the future?

- Faith, spirituality and scriptures and how those can help us to tackle changes that are coming our way and the great leadership lessons they serve.

- How being unapologetically ourselves also at work, links to great mental health.

- Why the happiness index doesn’t make meaning and needs to be replaced with the meaningful index.

- Whats broken with the modern day slavery and whats making us so sick, fat and (not so) happy?

We are off course ending on a high note on the solutions to create better lives for us all.

Thank you for listening. Wish you a great unapologetic week with lots of meaning!

Haven't we all wished that our days had some extra hours?

What if we have got it all wrong this whole time, and it's not about more hours, but how we use them? Or maybe we could even do with less? The future might be so bright that we all need to wear shades!

I definitely needed to get to the bottom of some research that shows that working a 4 day work week gives more output in productivity, than working a normal 5 day work week. And more healthier and fulfilled people.

Who better to invite for a chat than the amazing Sarah Uldal, which is a partner in 4 day week global and helps companies move towards a more sustainable shorter work week, or just implementing some of the principles that makes us more productive and live better lives?

Listen to this weeks episode if you want to understand how:

1. You can work less, with more impact.

2: A 4 day work week could look like.

3: You can either implement some of the great principles or if you want, go all the way.

4: We can live better and more balanced lives with the time we have.

Wish you a regenerative week ahead and hope you get some great tips from us this week, so you can live your best life now!

Xoxo

Sarah and Chris

The world and our workplaces could need a whole lot of more joy infused into it, so who better to invite to this episode of A regenerative future than Annicken Day, which has joy as her guiding star in life.

Annicken is a best selling author, key note and Ted-X speaker and expert in workplace culture, she has joy as her guiding star.

She started her career getting fired from a job when she tried to coach her leader to treat their people a bit better (an experience we share). Then she understood that she needed to embark on a journey to improve workplace cultures and build better leaders.

She is passionate about the importance of realising our dreams now, as Annicken just did. To spoil it a bit, it involves working from anywhere, some sun and just a little bit of wine.

We talk about going from making work not suck, to being a thriving place and how joy and passion is important parts of a thriving workplace.

We get to know Maya, the fictional businesswomen from her book, who I think we all can relate to. I at least felt like the story of Maya is the story of me. Or maybe it's you?

And then we end on the importance of once in a while have a proper touchdown with yourself to transform, and how that can look like.

We wish you a transformative fall ahead and a joyful ride in this episode of A regenerative future!

Welcome to the first episode of season 2 of A regenerative future, where we in every episode invite inspiring guests who all have in common that they contribute to create as many plusses as possible in the world. Thats what regeneration is all about.

In this episode we have invited Kathleen Mathisen, which is the Chief HR Officer in Grieg Seafood, she is an award winning inspiring leader and a mother of two.

We are talking about holding on to the summer vibe as long as we can and the great habits from summer we aim to take with us into the coming season. Then dreaming ourselves back to a wonderful upbringing in Mauritius. Where she was so fortunate to have her great uncle (aka the president) as a close mentor. Yes, you get to hear all his advices in this episode.

We walk through how she managed a successful transition to a colder North, and what made her win the Sunniva award for her outstanding leadership in 2019. We might also touch upon the future of a Norwegian salmon or two.

But then as lightning from clear skies, she faced a sudden downfall in 2021, when a personal crisis hit her right in the head. Literally. We cant end this great story, before the hero has been able to rise again. So we finish off by talking about how she with one step at the time got herself back on track and what we all can learn from her journey.

Wish you all a great listen and hope you all are able to bring your great habits from summer into the coming season!

Did you know that the textile industry is responsible for more than 8% of the total Co2 emissions, which is more than both airplanes and boats?

Im wondering why we dont talk more about our own overconsumption of clothes and the industry that encourages us to consume way to much clothes. We are fuelling an industry that is both destroying our planet and creates large islands of clothes in landfills all over the world.

Its about time we as consumers take action and its about time companies within the industry does the same.

Finally this week, we got the great news with passing of new legislation in Norway that makes it easier to sell reused clothes and other products. Hopefully that will take us some steps on the way.

One of the companies that also tries to take us there, and which has had worldwide success with their recycling of plastic bottles, is Tomra. Now they are aiming to conquer the textile industry and make it circular.

This week we are lucky to get to speak to Vibeke Krohn, who has taken on the important role as CEO for Tomra textiles. She has a passion for creating a better world and making sure we use our resources wisely and hopefully over and over again. 

So if you are curious on how we can change one of the worst industries and how you can contribute. Then tune in to this weeks episode of A regenerative future.

With Tomra´s previous success with plastic bottles, Im hopeful that they will contribute to make one of the worst industries become a bit better.

Lets all be a part of the change and do our share fare in consuming less!

Those of you who know me, know that I wanted to become a farmer when I was young and that I love to fly high. I also love to travel the world, but would like do to it in a much greener way. And I have a love relationship with Telia.

Little did you maybe know that I have all this in common with Abraham Foss, the CEO of Avinor. He grew up on a farm, he works relentlessly so we all can fly both high and greener, and he was in love with Telia a couple of years ago as the Norwegian CEO.

Now he is well into his new job in aviation and its time to catch up on the latest:

Tune in for this weeks episode of A regenerative future if you love to fly high, but would love to do it in a greener way. And for a leadership lesson or two.

Wish you all a great highflying week!

Im so sick and tired of all the talking about a more diverse and inclusive world, when most people and companies dont do near enough to really move the needle.

So since I dont like empty celebrations of all the days where we still have a long way to go in the world, I decided to invite someone who really walks the talk in the occasion of the international women's day this Friday.

Tove Selnes is Chief People Officer in Storebrand, which was recently rated as the second best company in the world on gender equality, with the mission of people first and digital always.

Tove has made a huge difference for people throughout her whole career and is a frontrunner in flexibility, gender equality, AI implementation and more.

Her fire for making a difference comes both from her parents and fighting for a better world for her kids to growi up in. Tove i still clear on one thing, its up to us to fix it now!

Wish you all a wonderful start of your week, and hope you can be inspired from Tove to do a little bit less of talking and a lot more walking!

Its time to celebrate our 30th episode of A regenerative future and who better to invite for this milestone, than Kris Østergaard who is to make the world more human at the Rehumanize institute?

With AI moving with full speed ahead, its time for us to take the opportunity to become even more human again.

Krist is a best selling author of transforming legacy organisations, the cofounder of SingularityU Nordic and Head of research and publishing at the Rehumanize institute, where they bring leaders together to develop at their countryside and soon seaside retreat to create a more ethical and responsible future together.

He has also lately been digging deep into the connection between AI and leadership, and just launched a paper last week in collaboration with Accenture, called Impact leadership in the age of generative AI. Hot off the press.

Wish you all a great listen to this weeks episode of HumAIn regenerative future!

This regenerative power couple couldn't be separated, so we just needed to invite them both to the very first episode of A regenerative future with two guests. Double trouble!

When Sveinung and Lars Jacob met around 20 years ago, you could say it was love at first sight. They now just passed a millon downloads of their book "7 ways towards a more sustainable business”.

They are well known for spreading hope for a better future all around the world, with concrete examples that truly makes a measurable impact. They both work as sustainability adventurers out from the safety of their home at the Norwegian school of Economics.

Lean back, fall in love, get inspired and have some fun with us in this weeks episode of A regenerative future.

Wishing you all a great week of love and regeneration!

"If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a women you educate a nation."

The first time I met the brilliant Nada Ahmed was at Fundraiser dinner in 2017, for her foundation who works to secure education for more women in India.
Since then she has moved back to the US and written a truly inspiring book about how we can take the lead in our own lives.

She started her own soul journey and step by step took herself out from being a victim of other people and taking charge of her own life.
We get to learn more about her ups and downs through life. And I can promise that its a truly inspiring story about a little girl growing up in India, becoming a successful corporate leader in Norway, to her breaking free from normative corporate cultures and starting her own company.

Today she works as an innovation strategist, a board professional and is an Amazon best selling author with the book Determined to lead. Which I can highly recommend to read.

If you want to learn more about how you can take charge of creating the best life for yourself and master up the courage to take the lead, then you should definitely start the year with this weeks episode of A regenerative Future.

Wish you all an awesome start of the year, where you dare to take lead of your own life!

When he turned 20 he went to live with the Mayans and by doing so he got fired up to embark on a mission to create a better future for all of us. He started out as an activist but then he went into founding a business when he and a friend got a brilliant idea within outdoor wear.

Jo Egil Tobiassen is today the founder and CEO of Northern Playground, with a dream to make less consumption sexy. They have even come to be called the little brother of Patagonia, so definitely a company to watch.

Join us in unfolding Jo´s journey from the Mayans to a successful sustainable business founder, in this episode of A regenerative future.

Thank you for listening and for the small steps you decide to take every day to contribute to a better world for all of us.

Jøril Korperud Johnsen is the former Head of Sustainability at IKEA and is now in the search for a new path to use business as a force for good. On the way there, she works as an eco system facilitator and advisor to businesses and boardrooms and has lately fallen in love with the inner sustainability goals.

Her childhood made her grow up with parents which today would have been seen as sustainable pioneers. Her path took her through an intense leadership career, where she eventually met burnout. We walk through her story on how she came back from such a setback and we even get a taste of a guided radical slowness meditation that has served her well on her way.

If your curious about Jøril´s ways of living more regenerative in tune with nature and using business for the force of good, then make sure you listen to this weeks episode of A regenerative future here.

Thank you all for listening and taking some time to tune into the season we are going into, where nature slows down. We all need a bit of slowing down once in a while.

What better way to start off your week, than to listen to a professor in self-leadership?

Irmelin was encouraged to draw her big dream in an exercise in a leadership program for female talents when she was 26. Six years later she had published a book and 15 years later she took her sabbatical with her three kids working with women empowerment in Zanzibar. Everything she had drawn became true.

Come join us on her journey from a young women with a dream, her periods getting so much pushback that it silenced her, to the outspoken, vulnerable and successful professor she is today.

This weeks inspiring guest is an associate professor in self-leadership and has been awarded the best lecturer of the year 2021. She is doing a lot of exciting projects among them is promoting female role-models in Zanzibar. 

Its not always easy getting through life, but there is ways to make sure your get through it in a better way.

Tune in to Irmelins ways in this weeks episode here.

Wish you all a wonderful dreamy week ahead!

When did we forget to live meaningful lives?

Many of us doesn't realise what we forgot before we either meet the well know wall, some deep personal crises or come midways in our life.

Morten Albæk started his journey to find a more meaningful way of living after his dad died and he realised that it felt meaningful even though he was deeply saddened by it.

Now he seems to have found the answer and this weeks guest of a Regenerative future is now leading Voluntas, which is a global company on a mission to help companies create more meaning in their peoples lives.

He is a honorary professor in philosophy, several times a bestselling author of several books like “One life” and “Fake news in life", and the only Scandinavian who has been selected 5 times for The Internationalist's list of the “100 Most Influential CMOs in the World”.

Dont wait until you are in deep waters. Listen to Mortens recipe for a meaningful life in this weeks episode here.

Because we all deserve better lives!

The first time I met Petter I felt like I had lost a bit hope of a better future. I felt everything was moving to slow and I felt that there where so few people that did enough for it to matter in the big picture. A lot of talk and not so much walk. Its a bit like I feel with the the local Norwegian election this year. Loosing hope.

Something shifted for me when Petter on both in and out breath shared concrete examples where huge efforts where being made and he gave me a glimps of hope. Petter himself got huge hope from Al Gore. He is a sustainable brand advisor and founder of 12YEARS. He has authored the book “Hope” and been the contributor to many more. He has made his life mission to make us do more and better, and to never loose hope.

We hope you will also find some inspiration and get some hope from our conversation.

Without hope, we have nothing. Who or what gives you hope?

The first time I met Paul Skinner my brain got a intellectual orgasm. I knew I needed to dig deeper into his ideas and share his brilliant messages with more people. How he bring fresh flavours to established concepts like he have done in his books purpose upgrade and collaborative advantage, is definitely worth listening to, read and be inspired of.

He is the founder of Marketing Kind a community of marketers, business leaders & change makers who come together to make marketing mean more and change the world for the better, an bestselling author and director at The Agency of the future.

His mantra is that we all need to change the stories we live and work by to do more and better. Not just the tightly controlled stories of marketing messages, but the deeper stories that we tell ourselves and others.

How can we upgrade the stories we live by and thereby the lives we live? Paul seems to have found the answer to that.

Wish you all a great listen, starting your week with a real upgrade!

Its about time to step out of the pools and get our clothes on to create an even more inclusive and thriving world for all of us.

Kimiya is a true inspiration in such matter, from the best female chess player in Norway to a law school dropout and today running her own successful company contributing to a better world by making it more inclusive.

She has faced a lot of adversity on her way, but managed to use that as a fire to fuel her passion for the better for others. Many times pushing it too far, and learned a lot from that.

In this weeks episode of A regenerative future, she share a lot of her learnings on her way to success and advice all of us to dare to quit more, cry more and give a less of a fuck. Probably most important of them all, we cant ever loose hope. Thats the only thing we have.

Thanks Kimiya for your great advices and a great reminder for how to set up ourselves for better balance the coming season. 

Wish you all a great listen and kick start on a better fall!

She hasn't talked so much about this before, but she cut the bonds with her biological father when she was 11 years old. Ever since she has continued to fight for justice.

It was almost a coincidence that she bumped into fighting for a greener society when a friend made her the most amazing salad she had every tasted around 10 years ago. She then jumped of a career as an analyst at Google to become a greendom fighter.

This weeks guest of a Regenerative Future Hanne Lene Dahlgren, is on a mission to reduce meat consumption with 30% by 2025 and change the influencer industry to become fighters for a greener world. She is a serial entrepreneur, an award winning sustainability influencer and has written 3 bestselling cookbooks.

We end on a personal note and both agree that our rebellious youth comes in handy when we want to create a more thriving world for all of us. 

Thank you for listening, lets join Hanne Lene in the fight for a greener world!

As a young girl Lene wanted to become a singer and eventually she became an artist and released her own song. She has since embarked on achieving many new goals in her life and on her way both won dancing with the stars and now recently a powerlifting championship.

On her journey through life she has had many ups and downs, but never lost her belief in that everything is possible. The most important thing that has given her this winner mentality, has been her closest ones who always believed in her and lifted her up.

Today she works and lives for lifting others and some weights here and there. We can all learn a lot from inspiring Lene Alexandra on how to keep the believe in ourselves even when few others do.

Wish you all a great watch or listen!

Every weekend I have some days off, I make sure to take time off to meditate a lot, rest more, move my body and be out in nature. This long weekend was not any different. 

Every time I keep on getting reminded of what I need more of in my everyday life, and every time I get to take one small step at the time to a more meaningful way of living.

In this weeks episode of A regenerative future I have invited Shani Persson who recently started her new company Wonder, which is aiming to create better human experiences and a lot of wonders.

I just love all the great tips Shani is sharing here in combining business with harmoni in life. Im definitely inspired to include more elements of both harmony and wonder going forward.

Hope you had a great long weekend of rest and hope you also get inspired by Shani to do some small changes in your life for better harmony.

Wish you all a great listen and start on your week!

One year ago we in Future leaders global was set out to find two CEOs, that was before we met Tilmann Stolte.

After a couple of rounds we realised we had found the perfect candidate to lead both the commercial and NGO part of the company, so we decided to merge both the organisations and the boards.

It has now gone a year since we did our onboarding in a Sauna in Oslo and we talk about his main learnings after the first year, his tricks to keep in balance in a start-up in growth phase, how we feel about working together and how it is leading a Norwegian company from Copenhagen and being German himself.

Till has previously worked in SingularityU and has been a professional drummer in Buck Roger & The Sidetrackers. He has the last year taken the organisation into a more regenerative and exciting direction. I encourage you to listen in to hear his thoughts about how we all can be part of the solution to create an even better future for all of us.

I have personally found the Future leaders program so valuable that I have been part of the program three times, before I was asked to join the board. So hopefully you will get a sneak peak into what this amazing community of future leaders can offer you!

The room is packed with people and Im standing in the back. My heart starts to beat like crazy when the author starts to share the first story from her book “What leaders dont talk about”. It doesn't take many sentences before I realise that she decided to kick off her book launch with my story.
In that moment Im back to being 29 again and the worst treatment I have ever experienced in my career. It hit me hard and it took me a while to get back on my feet again. I also learned how you should not treat people. Thinking about it still makes me anxious, and at first I was not sure if would dare to share my story.
When Anita called me 6 months ago, she convinced me that it was worth it. Because noone should never be silenced in fear. If I wouldnt dare to speak up and share my story in this book, how can I then expect others to dare to speak up?
Luckily most people I have met in my career , knows how to treat people respectfully. This weeks guest in A regenerative future Anita Sundby is one of them and her story is equally incredible.
She is now on a mission to create a healthier worklife, where people dare to speak up and are treated with respect. Even in difficult situations. 
If you want to hear more about it, I suggest you listen or watch this weeks episode.
Wish you all a happy easter and thanks for listening!

Aaron Kroon is adopted and came to Sweden 1978, as the first person of colour in a small Swedish village. His parents has always been his greatest allies and one of the main reasons for him being where he is today. Maybe against his odds.

This weeks guest of A regenerative future, is ranked as top 3 in "Swedish Role Model of the Year” 2022, he is a Diversity Trailblazer and People Director at Schibsted Nordic Marketplaces. He today uses his platform to fight for equal rights for all and especially for the LGBTQIA+ community.

We talk about the importance of a safe team of family, friends and colleagues around us, how to deal with hate, discrimination and racism thrown at you, about him being too cool for school, and how we all can use our voices for the greater good.

Then we ask ourselves why strong voices suddenly go silent, addressing our moments of doubt, sharing the story of how we both got a job offer turned down in last minute because of being gay and sharing our key defining moments in life. Ending up with the importance of being humble about the privelleges we all have and that its a duty for us, to us it for the better of others who are less fortunate.

Aarons advice to all of us out there is to dont apologise for who we are, use our voice for the better and lets be brave together!

At the moment Lars Rinnan is in Kairo and is soon going to talk to 12 000 people at the "Rise up summit" about how AI will save the world, with one of the worlds greatest wonders the pyramids, as the backdrop. We where lucky enough to catch him before he flew of to Egypt. In this weeks episode of A regenerative future, you get to hear more about the world he dreams of in 2029.

Lars is a true futurist who works to change the world for the better with technology. He is the CEO of Amesto Nextbridge, which aim to be the innovator in data driven sustainabilty and insight.

We talk about the silly title futurist, the world in 2029, how tech will save the world, the old trend of language tech, how he did a career shift from trying to become a pilot to become an expert in AI, how we use ChatGPT in our daily work and our beloved private virtual assistants.

Then we both agree that we with more technology, theres a need for us to double down on empathy. We adresse some of the dark sides of AI and how we need to stop using it for addiction and profit, and start using it for the greater good. We share some of the concrete solutions that give us hope, lets not let fear or governments stop us in making it happen.

This episode really makes me hopeful that we can use AI for the greater good. So we can finally live more meaningful lives and let robots do what they are good at. It may happen sooner than 2029!

Siri Abrahamsen is on a mission to bring more empathy and joy to the world, through her company Gleding. She is a founder, a bestselling author and a dear friend which I have had many fruitful conversations with. Even when we disagree, which we do alot, we do that it with love.

In this weeks episode of A regenerative future we talk about why we need to stop talking about anti-bullying, the ambition of bringing a new word to the world, the importance of micromeetings, of having cureagous conversations, about cruel optimism and how we all have adapted a bodylanguage of fear.

We both agree that watching naked people on an Island or endless scrolling doesn't feed our souls, meeting eyes and smiles does. We say a big fuck off to constant being on screens and sharing some of the great alternatives.

If your not amongst those who think making a difference in the world is done by flying private jets to Davos and take a selfie, you would probably be better of listening to this episode.

Its time to fill the world with less plastic influencers and more people like Siri who wants to create a better world for all of us!

The first time I met Sirine Fodstad was when we where both going to speak at a global HR conference. She was the host and I was speaking. At the speakers dinner the day before, we ended up next to each other, and since then we have developed a great friendship.

Serine is a true people person with International background with 17 years abroad in 7 different countries, she has been global HR Director in the central bank of Norway and CEO in Grieg group. Today she is one of the few selected female partners in BCG, leading their people and organisation practise.

We talk about our OCDs, our burning passion to create value for our people, the difference of leading with head, hands and hearts, the big need to train leaders more in social skills and how efforts to include often ends up being excluding.

We continue on talking about how we need to stop excusing ourselves, lets not wait for more data to do good, why she finds me and people who just see problems annoying, the shitty average and why its important to act with the end in mind.

Thank you all so much for listening and for your contribution to create a more thriving world for all of us!

Todays guest Kjersti Rinde Omsted is a full time ecological og regenerative farmer, she is passionate about food as medicine and has personally recovered from ME. Now she is moving into the field of therapy and using her own knowledge and experience to help others to live better lives.

We talk about her personal health journey recovering from severe ME, through clean eating, meditation, breath work and connecting back with nature. We ask ourselves why do most of us need to hit rock bottom, before we understand the importance of balance between rest and activity?

Kjersti teaches her kids meditation and all the healthy habits, I wish every child on the planet could grow up with. She advocates for the importance of relearning how to live and that if we could fix the society, we would not need to fix ourselves at all.

We talk about her regenerative farm, the importance of keeping the dirt in the ground healthy, why we should look for nutrition density in our food, what social regeneration is, how everyone play a crucial part in the diverse ecosystem and how you can find your personal farmer.

We should maybe stop striving to fix ourselves to endure living in a broken world, but rather fix the world we live in, so we would neither have to endure or fix ourselves?

The first time I met this lady, I knew that I had met a true friend and a HR rebell in crime.

She is known for being the queen of radical flexibility. She believes in life balance and work being an integrated part of it. Heidi Nygjelten is the Chief People and Culture Officer at Amesto Tech House and is this weeks guest of “A regenerative future”. Together with her dog off course.

In this episode we talked and barked about what made us the rebells we are, the importance of supportive mothers, how the hardships of life has made us stronger, the fallen heros of our lives and how we deal with sorrow differently.

We talk about the path to finding ourselves and our dream jobs infused with a higher purpose, why we bring our personal problems to work, how work can be part of our healing process, why the workplace needs more love and why making people feel safe is an essential ingredient in the world today.

Wish you all a rebellious listen!

I remember Alex sitting around my dinner table a couple of years ago and reflecting on what his next steps would be within the space of sustainable tech.

Little did I know that he would soon embark on a truly impressive journey where he over a period of 500 days went deep into the potential of AI, by writing and publishing an article on the topic every single day.

Because of the thousands of hours digging into the world of AI, Alex Moltzau has quickly become Norways foremost expert in AI. He now work as an advisor on how we can use AI to create a better world. He comes directly from a conversition on how to interpret the transparency act coming from EU, with the Norwegian Data portection authority.

In this weeks episode of “A regenerative future” we talk about how transparency is a prerequisite for the trust in AI, the most popular AI in town ChatGPT, how we going forward will need to evaluate knowledge differently and the goods and the bads of AI.

We continue on on how Tech and AI can  elevate our lives and free up time both at work and at home, how robots already are a big part of our lives, how we all can start to learn more about AI so we can use it for good and how AI can be part of the solution to save the future planet for his daughter.

It all depends of governments around the world being able to keep up with the speed of development. Im hopefull when they have a man like Alex guiding them.

Wish you all a great listen!

Content Warning: This podcast includes some references to gender based violence and sexual assault.

Last time I met Astrid Sundberg, we shared stage on Diversify - the Nordics largest conference on Diversity. From stage she shared vulnerably about her struggle with cancer and her experience as a survivor of sexual assault. Im glad that she said yes to share her inspirational story with all you listeners.

Astrid is currently working as a Director at Oda, an online grocery store that now is aiming to take over the world. She has 20 years' experience as a Director and C-level Leader in the Startup and Scale-up space. She is a true champion for change and specialise in diverse and inclusive leadership strategies and building equitable and inclusive workplace eco-systems. She recently joined the board of the NGO Humans for Humans and on her spare time to she is dedicating herself to mentoring and mental health advocacy.

We talk about her upbringing with foster siblings and kids with different needs, how we both have had the opposite sex as leaders all our career and how that has formed us, her lived experience as a survivor of sexual assault and discrimination, how giving back to others can heal our wounds, why she kept quite for decades, asking ourselves if its better to shut up or speak out, the new world of digital abuse, how we can create healing online communities and how we need to encourage people to talk about the difficult stuff. We share our common struggle of daring to stand in our own authentic voice. And ending on an advice to all of us: Put your money where it matters.

I truly hope you enjoy this open and authentic conversation with Astrid!

The first time I saw Lars Erik Lund sharing brutally honest about his mental health and depression on Facebook, I knew then that he would be a leader that would make a difference for many peoples lives going forward.

I have since had the pleasure to share the mike with him several times and every time he continue to inspire me with his radical openness and they way he break down stigma around mental health.

Lars Erik Lund is Executive Vice President for strategy and sustainability at Veidekke and has received several awards for his openness around mental health.

In this weeks episode we talk about the things we love: from new beginnings, thinking outside the box to doing good because thats the right thing to do. We also discuss how mental health and concrete can be sexy, why sharing is a must and not an option, the hardships of living with depression, the good and bad with diagnosis, why we need to broaden the term normal, how we need to make talking less sensitive and ending up on some newfound love for bikes and lycra.

I have been look forward to share this episode with all of you, so you can get to know the man behind the myth.

Wishing you all a great listen!

Are you brave enough to empathise with Andrew Tate, is the question this weeks videocast Pellegrino Riccardi ends on.

Pell is an author and recently released his new book "Drowning Quietly: Memoir of a mans shortcomings". He is also an award-winning motivational speaker, who has excited and delighted audiences all over the world. In Scandinavia he is known as our top cross cultural expert. To me hes been a long time mentor and friend since I started my public speaking career. Where he early on gave me an advice which really stuck with me.

We talk about our shortcomings, failing as parents, the society of facades, how authenticity is closely linked to regenerativity, the importance of seasons also in moods, being aware of our effect on others, the importance of fixing our own home first, what annoys the hell out of us, how we all lie about caring about the climate, Trump and Andrew, how hurt people hurt people, the importance of empathy, how to deal with bad relationship with our fathers and why we need more sincerity and love in the world.

You also get to know the kick ass presentation tip he gave me when I started to speak in public many years ago.

Wish you all a lot of love and a great watch or listen!

Last time I met todays guest was when she invited me to speak infront of the extended global leadership team of Red Cross and challenged me to share my personal story being gay with leaders from many countries where its illegal to be me. I must admit I was a bit scared.

Catrhine Foss Stene is the founder of Skapr a management consultancy company. She is also the leader of the jury of Norways largest ranking of young leadership talents by E24. I know her as a digital enthusiast and change facilitator.

We talk about how getting a grandchild made her rethink work and decide to found her own company, the importance of a supporting partner, how we can push boundaries with dialogue, the magic of digital tools for great collaboration, the most important skills for successful leadership in the future and a lot of great tips working with teams all over the world.

This is a lady with true global impact, wish you all a great listen!

Kicking off the new year with a person that is a true role model in being him/herself unapologetically. I met Torben last time in 2017. I knew him then only as Torben. Today he/her identifies as both Torben and Cathrine Dyhr-Nielsen.

This is the first time I meet him/her after coming out as a trans person, and I didn't know who would show up as my guest in this episode. Would it be Torben or Cathrine?

He/she is a recruitment advisor focusing on getting people who are left outside the job market, to get in again. He/she is also founded Inclusify a company aiming to help companies take advantage of their diversity and become more inclusive.

We talk about the life long journey of becoming our true authentic selves, we try to answer the questions around being trans that you might not dare to ask, that apathy is worse than doing wrong, how we all have a responsibility to not become too sensitive and our common dream for a world where there is no longer any wish to fit in.

I have really been looking forward to share this impactful story with you all. This felt like a fairytale of the world we dream of and leaves me with a lot of hope for the future.

Let 2023 be the year where we all dare to show up as our true, brilliant and authentic selves. Unapologetically!

I first met the truly inspiring Chisom Udeze 4 years ago. We recently connected again after Covid, when I was lucky enough to be invited to facilitate a panel at her amazing conference Diversify Nordics Summit, this fall.

Since I first met her, she has been a women that truly inspires me with her story, how she makes other people feel and how she put actions behind her dreams. She is a 3 times impact founder and European Commission expert . She is working relentlessly to make our society more diverse and inclusive for all.

We talk about how our childhoods have programmed us to act, how it is growing up with no security net, our inspiring mothers who make the impossible happen, about the importance of listening to our own voices, the journey from grass to grace, how people who dont believe in us has made us even better, about systemic discrimination and homophobia, on getting rid of cancel-culture, the responsibility we all have to speak up when we can and that we need to accept that the work for a better society never will be done.

I left this conversation wiser and wanting to learn more, so we might need to invite her back.

Lets go beyond intentions and just do better together!

Berta Lende Røed is an inspiring and successful CEO and founder of Fuelbox, which is a global organisation that believes that great conversations will heal the world. I first got to know her when she invited me to a breakfast at our home through social media. She has since then definitely become a sister from another mister, she is an inspiring business leader and after this episode apparently also a rapper. Maybe we got a new jingle for the podcast right here?  

In the episode we talk about how fear has got us both to where we are today, either fear of loosing our loved ones or on the other side fearing our loved ones. She gives us all some great advices for those who want to start their own business, we share things we are really proud of in life, but that we dont usually talk about. We reflect around why men and boys need more practise in deep meaningful conversations and ending with what really annoys us in the world today.

To conclude it all, its all about creating a global show of curiosity!

Poornima Luthra is a well known TedX speaker, Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School, an author of now three books and a strong activist for equality for all. She strongly believes in the power of positive change and influence through education. I have had the pleasure to contribute to her books and working together on several occasions and look forward to dig a bit deeper in what she think is the solutions for a more regenerative future.

We are discussing advices for boring teachers, how we all can find our passion in life, if we need adversity to grow, discrimination and her experiences growing up as a coloured women, what life has thought us to give back, that diversity is an everyone matter and about her latest book on how we all can become the best allies.

She ends it all with: Step up. The time is now. If we want to change. We all need to step up!

Happy listening!