Inspired In Berlin
Balach Hussain
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Welcome to the Inspired in Berlin podcast, where we're committed to "Unlocking Potential" for everyone everywhere.
Whether you're a driven high achiever or just embarking on your personal development journey, and regardless of whether life's smooth sailing or filled with challenges, our aim is to provide the inspiration and insights you need to live your life fully.
Join us in our mission to nurture the harmonious growth of people and our wonderful planet. Are you ready to embark on this journey with us?
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e28 Tech for the planet with Sowmya Subramanian
How is technology helping kids in underprivileged communities, cleaning the oceans, and enhancing creativity? Tune in to listen!
Sowmya Subramanian is a seasoned product manager with a deep-rooted passion for creating products that make a tangible impact. She works at Development Seed, a geospatial software development organization working to solve some of the world's toughest problems. She thrives on addressing global challenges, fighting climate change, and meeting humanitarian needs. One of her greatest strengths lies in her ability to connect the dots across diverse idea threads, synthesizing information to envision and execute transformative product strategies. As a firm advocate for greater impact, Sowmya actively fosters best practices through open-source collaboration, recognizing the power of collective innovation in driving positive change. Sowmya's unwavering commitment to addressing global challenges, fighting climate change, and meeting humanitarian needs positions her as a catalyst for meaningful transformation. With expertise in product management and a steadfast dedication to sustainability and social responsibility, Sowmya is driven to build a better and more sustainable future for all.
Find out more about Sowmya and Development Seed at https://developmentseed.org/team/sowmya-subramanian
Please follow and share the podcast. Your support is what keeps this labor of love going and I appreciate every bit of feedback and resonance :) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inspiredinberlin/message
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May 14, 2023
e27 The Emotional Body w Eylam Langotsky
How do emotions show up in our life? What is the short-term and long-term impact of suppressing emotions, and how does transformation and learning look like.
In this episode, Eylam and I talk about noticing when we're out of sync with our emotions and working with them, through the body. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inspiredinberlin/message
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May 7, 2023
e26 Reclaiming Spirituality for Oneself w Eylam Langotsky
We continue our conversations with Eylam, and dived into what it means to be spiritual in this time and age. In a time where spirituality is seen as a hobby for the socially disinterested, Eylam makes the case that it really is where we feel at home: unity/oneness/union isn't just an optional quest but our true nature. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inspiredinberlin/message
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May 1, 2023
e25 Finding Passion, Volunteering, and Curiosity w Sophie Dermaux
Following is a conversation with Sophie Dermaux. Sophie is someone who has various interests and is constantly growing and re-inventing herself. Alongside her work in the tech sector, Sophie has been working with NGOs and various organizations, volunteering her time to help minorities develop the skills for tech sector jobs and growing and managing communities.
She built one one of the biggest women in tech groups in the UK, DevelopHer, which went on to have over 5,000 members.
Our conversation revolved around how to find a cause you are passionate about; how to start volunteering and getting involved in causes; how to deal with setbacks as well as when to let go of project and start something anew.
I hope you'll enjoy the conversation as much as I did.
As always, it remains my pleasure to receive your comments, questions, feedback and recommendations for podcast topics and guests. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inspiredinberlin/message
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Apr 24, 2023
e24 Doors of Perception w Eylam Langotsky
This is the 3rd session of the Embodiment, Attention, and Perception series with Eylam Langotsky, where we dived into the topic of Perception and specially states and experiences of expanded perception. We looked for some common triggers, and markers of such experiences and what it might mean for us as humanity.
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Apr 20, 2023
e23 Agility and Transformation w Anton Zotin
Anton Zotin is an independent trainer, coach, mentor, facilitator and change agent. In his own words, Anton loves what he does, and the reason is simple: his passion is to make software development less painful, more efficient and in this way to help people to be a little bit more happy. Anton has worked in a wide variety of companies holding a wide variety of positions: from garage startups to major enterprises; from a manual QA to a C-level position. So he got a unique opportunity to observe how value could be differently delivered or NOT delivered. In this episode, Anton shares some of his best experiences coaching various teams, we talk about The Agile manifesto, Enterprise coaching, being an entrepreneur, and why you should not start an agile transformation. Anton’s website: https://agileism.com/ The talk on how not to do an agile transformation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BMnYVZFtD0&t=1s This episode is brought to you by epekworks.com. - epek is the collaboration software for teams and individuals. It is designed to foster focus, clarity, and collaboration. Check it out at epekworks.com! 👉🏼 If you like this episode, subscribe to the channel and share it with your friends! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inspiredinberlin/message
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Apr 16, 2023
e22 Attention and Embodiment with Eylam Langotsky
In this episode we dive into defining attention and attentional spaces (internal/external, body/mind, now/past/future). We discussed differences in how children use attention vs how adults do so, as well as diving into attention and learning, and some creative ways to use attention.
You can find Eylam at http://eylamatwork.com/
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Apr 6, 2023
e21 The Embodied Human Condition, with Eylam Langotsky
Eylam is an Embodiment Practitioner and an Attention Management Coach, who has been Exploring and Teaching perceptual development with people from all walks of life, for the last 30 years.
He has worked and taught in Israel, Switzerland and in the last decade in Berlin Germany.
He has a Masters degree from Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, at the University of Tel Aviv.
His research was on alternative methodologies and practices of physical experimentation, and of perceptual observation and meditation in the scientific work of Goethe; Particularly Goethe’s ‘Theory of Colour’ and ‘The Metamorphosis of Plants’.
Eylam is presently writing a field guide into the foundation of human experience, Embodiment, Attention and Perception, and how they can be practiced, revived, empowered and emancipated.
This conversation is the first of many, during which we hope to cover embodiment, attention, perception, the theory and practice, for not just self-development but hopefully self-realization. Both Eylam and I would really appreciate your feedback, questions, and suggestions for topics to cover.
You can find Eylam at eylamatwork.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inspiredinberlin/message
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Mar 28, 2023
e20 Listen to others AND yourself, with Vered Manasse
Vered Manasse is the founder of the Berlin based Pantarei Approach. Vered has been been teaching somatic therapy/coaching for about 20, and practicing for over 30 years. She is a driven entrepreneur and a writer.
In this episode we talked about her journey as a somatic practitioner, the principles behind the Pantarei Approach, business, and what makes for great leadership and team work.
Checkout Vered (and Pantarei Approach) at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vered-manasse/ and https://pantareiapproach.com
P.S. This episode is a re-publishing of the original recording done for epekworks.com podcast in mid 2022. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inspiredinberlin/message
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Mar 24, 2023
e19 Artificial Intelligence vs Humanity
Wei Leen and I discuss whether Artificial Intelligence will end up destroying humanity or what other implications it might have.. The short answer: we don't really know, but there's a lot of juice in this conversation so listen to the end ;) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inspiredinberlin/message
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Mar 16, 2023
e18 Vegetarian, Carnivore, Omnivore diets
Wei Leen and I tried to take opposing views on vegetarian and carnivore diets, and touched on dietary needs, food combinations, individual and group adaptations, and brought our personal perspectives on what a healthy diet could constitute --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inspiredinberlin/message
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Mar 9, 2023
e17 Technology in Sustainable Food Production
Diving into the role of technology in sustainable food production, looking at vertical farming as well as reducing food waste --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inspiredinberlin/message
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Feb 26, 2023
e16 Renewable energy vs fossil fuels
In this episode we continue our exploration by trying to get some idea of how renewable energy fares against fossil fuels.
We went through a bunch of articles, news, and data sources to get an idea of production cost and viability of renewables as well understanding how much potential there may be.
P.S. We are essentially learning about sustainability -- we might get data or sources or facts wrong, and might also miss out on interesting news, aspects, projects, and people.. please help us learn better :) send us ideas and connect us with people you'd like us to bring on to the podcast, and ask your questions! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inspiredinberlin/message
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Feb 14, 2023
e15 Recycling for Sustainability
Wei Leen and I continue our exploration of sustainability topics and focus a bit on recycling this time! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inspiredinberlin/message
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Feb 5, 2023
e14 talk about Sustainability with Wei Leen Ng
An open ended chat with Wei Leen on the discourse around sustainability as the pilot episode before we dive deep into various aspects of sustainability.
Wei Leen is an old friend from Singapore, who's also creating a bunch of interesting content around various topics on his youtube channel.
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Mar 28, 2022
e13 Clement Kao, the Product Teacher
Our guest today, Clement Kao, is an accomplished Product Manager -shipped 10 multimillion dollar B2B software products (and dozens of smaller ones) over the last five years at multiple startups, the creator of Product Teacher, a prolific writer and thought leader in Product Management -150+ product management best practice articles, and featured speaker many times over.
👉🏼 In this episode, we talk about what Product Management is all about: solving customer and business problems, managing stakeholders internally and externally, the value of User Research and more..
This episode is made possible by our friends at https://epek.app - epek is the collaboration software for teams and individuals. It is designed to foster focus, clarity, and collaboration. Check it out at epek.app!
For feedback and more about Inspired in Berlin, head over to https://inspiredinberlin.com
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Mar 21, 2022
e12 Fairy Tales Retold with Stephan Kalinski
For as long as we remember, human kind has been fascinated with stories and story telling. Myths, Sagas, and fairy tales (among others) try to capture the collected wisdom of the ages and package it in a sometimes straight up, and at other times allegorical wrapping.
If you have read some old fairy tales and wondered what the authors were thinking, you're not alone. Stephan Kalinski started thinking about the values fairy tales portray and whether those values could be updated. His answer was yes, and he set out to re-tell the fairy tales for the modern times.
In this episode, we talk about the immensity of the task of retelling classics without spoiling them; the thought process that goes into changing words, concepts, and names; Stephan's vision for FairyTalesRetold, and a fair bit about the entrepreneurial effort behind going from an idea to making this project a reality.
✨ Check out Stephan and The Fairy Tales Retold at https://www.fairytales-retold.com/
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Mar 14, 2022
e11 Trust, Responsibility, Behavior Change, and Positive Psychology with Claus Hoefele
How do you organize and lead your team as an Engineering Leader? What are the differences between high performing and under-performing teams? The role of strategy and roadmaps when it comes to product management and engineering... How does Growth Mindset look like in practice? How leaders can use Emotional Intelligence and Positive Psychology to create a better workplace for themselves and their teams?
This is a pretty packed episode! Enjoy!
✨ My guest Claus Hoefele worked for many years as a software engineer in Japan, Australia, and Germany, as a software engineer and engineering leader. He is currently the Head of Engineering at doctari, where he supports cross-functional teams that match doctors and nurses with the right place to work. Claus has been very interested in Behaviour Change of late, and in particular bringing Tiny Habits to his and his teams' life.
Check out Claus at https://www.linkedin.com/in/claushoefele/
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Mar 4, 2022
e10 Engineering Leadership with Florentina Arsinte
How do you deal with your responsibilities as a (engineering) leader? How do you go from directly contributing code yourself to managing people? What do you learn along the way, and how do you keep learning? All this and more in this episode of the Inspired in Berlin podcast!
✨ Our guest today, Florentina Arsinte, is a Director of Engineering at Sauce Labs, having previously held engineering leadership positions at N26, HERE Technologies, and Nokia.
Check out Florentina at https://www.linkedin.com/in/florentinaarsinte/
For feedback and more about Inspired in Berlin, come visit https://inspiredinberlin.com
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Feb 25, 2022
e9 Mindful (Self-)Leadership with Mounira Latrache
Are you really in the driver's seat, or just being driven around on auto-pilot? How does Mindfulness show up at work, what role does it play in Leadership, and what's that perfect mix of awareness and skills to take yourself and your business to a more humane, and still highly productive and successful place?
And most importantly, how Mindfulness brings you back to life, reconnects you with yourself and the people around you, and changes you forever.
✨ Our guest today, Mounira Latrache, was a pioneer of Google’s mindfulness community and its success led her to train teams at companies around the world. She has since trained over 20000 (business) people, written a book, co-founded her own business, and continues bringing Mindfulness and more to the business world.
Check out Mounira at https://connected-b.com/
For feedback and more about Inspired in Berlin, come visit https://inspiredinberlin.com
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Feb 18, 2022
e8 Energizing Tech Teams with Erol Baykal
What does it take to energize people, especially technical teams, at the workplace?
In this episode, we talk about Autonomy, the freedom to act in line with business goals and choosing your own methods and tools, Purpose: knowing what you are building towards and alignment with your values, Feedback: knowing how your work impacts your colleagues, the business, and most importantly your customers; and a whole lot more..
✨ Erol is a Lead Software Engineer by day and an entrepreneur by night, and someone who cares deeply about collaboration at the workplace and the role people play in that. You can get in touch with Erol on https://baykal.be
For feedback and more about Inspired in Berlin, come visit https://inspiredinberlin.com
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Feb 11, 2022
e7 Leadership Mental Models and going beyond labels with Mira Culić Griffiths
In this episode, we talk about Growth Mindset, helping people see clearly, leadership mental models and behaviors, challenges female leaders face, seeing beyond labels, and a whole lot more, with my guest Mira Culić Griffiths..
✨ Mira is the cofounder, along with her partner Peter Griffiths, of The Mind Takeaway, a coaching and consultancy company focusing on leadership development and facilitating regenerative business practices that foster inclusive company cultures. Alongside the consultancy, Mira and Peter also host their own podcast, with the same name, The Mind Take away podcast.
✨ Checkout Mira and The Mind Takeaway on https://www.themindtakeaway.com/
For feedback and more about Inspired in Berlin, come visit https://inspiredinberlin.com
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Feb 4, 2022
e6 Authentic Leadership with Peter Griffiths
Leadership starts with listening, requires courage, and the acknowledgment that authenticity and vulnerability go hand in hand. All this and more in this episode of the Inspired in Berlin podcast, with Peter Griffiths, where we unpack the challenges and opportunities leaders face today, and how coaching helps!
✨ Peter is the co-founder, along with his partner Mira Griffiths, of The Mind Takeaway, a coaching, and consultancy company focusing on leadership development and facilitating regenerative business practices that foster inclusive company cultures. Alongside the consultancy, Peter and Mira also host their own podcast, with the same name, The Mind Take away podcast, where they host guests.
Check out Peter and all his projects on The Mind Takeaway!
For feedback and more about Inspired in Berlin, check out https://inspiredinberlin.com
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Jan 28, 2022
e5 Curiosity and Trust with Ruta Stasiunaite
Can enough curiosity and trust lead you to everything that matters? In this episode of the Inspired in Berlin podcast, my guest, Ruta Stasiunaite says you can.
Ruta is a coach, helping restless & stressed achievers (re)build relationships & create fulfilling lives through Mind Mastery, Emotional Stability & Purposeful Manifestation. In the episode, we talk about how she changed her own life, and how she guides her clients to a different way of looking at success and transformation.
Checkout Ruta's own podcast: Redefining Sucess, find her on linkedin or instagram, or her website: redefiningsuccess.co.uk
For feedback and more about Inspired in Berlin, check out https://inspiredinberlin.com
This episode is sponsored by epek.app - epek.app is a collaboration software for teams and individuals. epek.app is designed to foster focus, clarity, and collaboration. Check it out!
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Jan 21, 2022
e4 Product and People with Merissa Silk
My guest today on the Inspired in Berlin podcast is Merissa Silk. Merissa is an accomplished product leader and mentor, with a long career in places as diverse and happening as New York, Sydney, and Berlin, among others. When not managing products and teams, Merissa enjoys supporting female founders and other women in tech with their career development and coaching.
✨ In this episode we talk about Product Manager as facilitator, coach, leader, and janitor of a team, the work ethic that goes into being such a productive person, the challenges that come with it, self-motivation, communication skills, and putting a lot of the popular advice buzzwords into practice! Listen to the episode for all of this and more!
You can find out more about Merissa and get in touch with her on https://linkedin.com/in/merissarsilk and https://twitter.com/merissarsilk, as well as follow her writings on https://merissarsilk.medium.com
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Jan 14, 2022
e3 Transformations with Erol Baykal
Today we welcome our first guest on the show Erol Baykal. Erol is a published author, researcher, entrepreneur, and a software engineer.
In this episode, we talk about personal transformations and everything that happens around them. Whether change is always good, or does it come with some sadness? Listen away for everything else we touched upon :)
You can find our more about Erol and get in touch with him on baykal.be
For feedback and more about Inspired in Berlin, check out inspiredinberlin.com
This episode is sponsored by epek.app - epek.app is a planning and collaboration software for teams and individuals. epek.app is designed to foster focus, clarity, and collaboration. Check it out!
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Jan 8, 2022
e2 From Intention to Action
The new year is an occasion where we often reflect and make some decisions to change things up a bit.
But far too often we never get started, and lack of clarity is often the culprit. In this episode, we talk about how we can make our intentions clearer by doing a bit of cost and benefit checks, and getting over the fear of the unknown when embarking on new adventures, big or small.
For feedback and more about Inspired in Berlin, check out inspiredinberlin.com
This episode is sponsored by epek.app - epek.app is a planning and collaboration software for teams and individuals. epek.app is designed to foster focus, clarity, and collaboration. Check it out!
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Dec 27, 2021
e1 Reflection & Integration
In this episode I talk about how Berlin has been a huge part of my personal growth journey and the mission of Inspired In Berlin podcast: to bring more joy to the world, share and learn about everything that makes life more meaningful and fulfilling.
We also talk about a simple way to shape your reflections around three key questions:
What happened?
What does it mean to me?
What am I going to do about it?
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