Femme Forward: Forwarding females to shape the future

The United Nations defines violence against women as "any act of gender-based violence that results in or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life. Violence against women – particularly intimate partner violence and sexual violence – is a major public health problem and a violation of women's human rights. Estimates published by WHO indicate that globally about 1 in 3 (30%) of women worldwide have been subjected to either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime. In this episode, I speak with the founder of BrightAct, Elinor Samuelsson about how to design tech for good causes. BrightAct uses thoughtful tech to address domestic violence, globally. Elinor shares the inspiring journey that led her to become a successful female entrepreneur. You can find out more about BrightAct here https://www.brightact.org/ Enjoy this episode! Best wishes, Hannah S. Becher

In this episode, Eleanor Manley, co-founder of Metta Space and I chat about the role of data in building inclusive workplaces. Eleanor Manley is the co-founder & CTO of Metta Space. She is building tech for gender equality and better workplaces. In this podcast episode, Eleanor tells us about her role as CTO and her transition to the role of CSO, what steps they have followed to build their digital product, informs us about the impact of harassment in the workspace, and how they are working to reduce this issue. If you would like to know more about Metta Space, you can visit their website: https://www.metta-space.com/ Please subscribe to BrainFruits on all major streaming platforms: Apple podcast, Youtube and Spotify, and share it with a friend who is in need of advice! Shownotes: The trajectory of Eleanor from international relations to using Machine Learning to combat misconduct in workplaces   [1.40 min] The role of machine learning in building inclusive workplaces [Start: 7.20min] How Metta Space is helping companies to detect, deter and prevent harassment cases  [08.00 min] Examples of dealing with workplace misconduct [11.20 min] **How to build a product in the impact tech space  [ 16.00 min] You can find Eleanor Manley here: https://es.linkedin.com/in/eleanormanley And Metta Space here: https://metta-space.com/

In the ninth episode of Season 3, Hillary Stevenson  - Energy Enthusiast | Senior Advisor, Crude Markets @Validere talks us through what’s for lunch in the crude market and how to develop and implement a sustainability strategy. The total value of global carbon markets grew by over 20 percent in 2020—the fourth consecutive year of record growth. Compliance carbon markets (CCMs), where mandatory national, regional, or international regimes trade and regulate carbon allowances, play an increasingly visible role in efforts to reduce emissions. As the drive to curb global warming gathers pace, carbon markets have become increasingly fundamental to achieving net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions. One of the central questions top of mind for energy companies revolves around planning for tomorrow in light of the dynamic nature of those markets and technologies today. This is a great episode if you are interested in to the energy transition and need to develop a sustainable strategy for your company! Hillary Stevenson is the Senior Advisor, Crude Markets at Validere. With more than a decade of experience in oil market analysis, Hillary works closely with sales, product, services, and marketing to pair Validere solutions with customer needs to remove friction and add value in both supply chain operations and ESG initiatives. Hillary is a subject matter expert on crude oil trends and their impact on the North American crude oil supply chain, with particular expertise in Cushing oil storage, North American refining, and pipeline networks. Early in her career at Genscape, Hillary developed and deployed the industry’s first remote sensor surveillance network to provide never-before-seen granularity and transparency into crude oil supply and demand. Outside of work, Hillary actively participates in community engagement work and volunteers with Clothe the West, a mutual aid organization benefiting BIPOC children. She loves to cook, golf, practice yoga, and play pickleball. Her vision for the future is one where we have transparency into our energy supply and that our energy supply sustainably supports human prosperity. A future where data and facts inform consumer energy choices. Validere is a measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) SaaS company that helps energy organizations transform disconnected, incomplete data into clear and immediately actionable pathways to financial and environmental value. Shownotes: The trajectory of Hillary into the crude market [Start: 1.40 min] The forces shaping the crude markets [Start: 4.00 min] The role of the sustainable energy transition: Crude markets on a diet?  [Start: 4.40min] What’s the biggest challenge in approaching the energy transition? [09.50 min] How to plan for tomorrow as a leader in the crude market? [Start: 10.57 min] What are the three phases of the energy transition? [**Start 16.26 min] Examples of successful companies leading the energy transition  [Start 24.49min] How you can become a sustainability influencer  [Start: 32.21 min] You can find Hillary Stevenson here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hillary-stevenson/ And Validere here: https://www.validere.com/about For the research papers mentioned in the episode:  www.blog.validere.com

In the eighth episode of Season 3, Ella Rytsölä  - Project Manager @ TechVelopment | Co-Founder @ WithPurpose tells us about her Superpower and explains how to get more women into entrepreneurship. With Purpose is a platform that helps women start, run and grow purpose-led companies. Her background merges business, sustainability and innovation. Ella is excited about the potential of impact innovation in solving the biggest problems in the world and as a hardcore feminist, gender equality is integrated into everything she touches. Her vision for the future is that the entrepreneurial landscape is a level playing field for diverse talent. 25% of founders in the Nordics are women, with numbers slightly different between each country. 18% of the total available VC funding goes to female-only teams, while 18% goes to mixed teams & the rest to male-only founded companies Shownotes: Start-up trajectory of Ella [Start: 1.00 min] The superpower of Ella [Start: 1.38 min] The Role of Venture Capital Firms [Start: 4.27min] The Role of Start-up Schools like WithPurpose [09.00 min] Examples of successful ventures  [Start: 10.57 min] Tools & Tactics to start a successful and purposeful venture  [23.33 min] You can find Ella Rytsölä here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellarytsola/?originalSubdomain=dk And WithPurpose here:  https://www.wpurpose.org/

In the seventh episode of Season 3, Irene Selvanathan - CEO and Founder of Neuro-Space brings us to the Moon using the power of Machine Learning. Irene has over a decade of experience as an Engineer and worked in companies such as FTI Engineering Network GmbH, Exolaunch, and German Orbital System GmbH. Did you think that Tesla, Google, Uber, etc. were the first ones to heavily invest in self-driving cars? Well, think again!!! In fact, NASA created the technology for autonomous driving for Mars Rovers almost a decade ago. A Machine Learning based navigation and driving system for self-driving rovers helps to explore space at low cost. Irene's vision with Neurospace is to democratize access to the moon and other planetary surfaces and enable new scientific discoveries and commercial applications. NEUROSPACE is a Berlin-based NewSpace company founded in 2020 by a group of experienced engineers in the fields of space engineering, software, and physics. The company is developing a new generation of small and affordable rovers for the exploration of the moon and other planetary surfaces. The rovers are based on the CubeSat standard and will be equipped with state-of-the-art machine-learning algorithms for navigation and driving. Tune in and listen to: Start-up trajectory of Irene [Start: 1.25 min] What is a Moon rover [Start: 6.00 min] How to go into space  [Start: 10.30min] How to deal with uncertainty [Start: 21.30 min] Tools & Tactics to get started in Space Tech [23.33 min] You can find Irene here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/irene-selvanathan/ and Neuro-Space here: https://www.neuro-space.de/

In the sixth episode of Season 3, Kristel Tuul - a certified high-performance coach walks us through the concept of FLOW. Kristel is a certified women's high-performance coach. Before that, she was the head of digital growth and performance at CHOOOSE, a climate action tech platform, ran her own tech startup as head of sales and marketing, and did door-to-door sales for 6 years in the USA and Canada. Kristel helps female leaders & entrepreneurs become wildly successful while having more time for themselves. Her approach is science-backed and holistic where she helps women make their mindset, biology, and environment work for them. Flow is a state of mind in which a person becomes fully immersed in an activity. Positive psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi describes flow as a state of complete immersion in an activity. Being immersed can be defined as a state of focus in which a person is completely absorbed and engrossed in their work. While in a flow state, people are highly involved and focused on what they are doing. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost," Csíkszentmihályi said in an interview with Wired magazine This is a great episode if you want to learn how to get into a FLOW state and learn to manage your energy and not time. We focus on Start-up trajectory of Kristel Tuul  [Start: 1.25 min] What is FLOW [Start: 6.00 min] Why we are experiencing Digital Exhaustion [Start: 15.30min] How to set boundaries at work [17.00 min] 3 simple steps to get into a Flow state [Start: 18.30 min] Tools & Tactics to use Flow to make a positive impact [28.47 min] You can find Kristel here: https://www.kristeltuul.com/ I hope you enjoy this episode! With best wishes, 💛 Hannah Looking to engineer your future? Visit 💫   www.brain-fruits.net 💫 LinkedIn💫 Instagram 🙏 Please leave us a review and share the episode with a friend!

In the fifth episode of Season 3, Victoria Prantauer, founder in residence with Antler, shares how to design products to empower people. Viktoria’s vision is to shape a world where economic growth, sustainability, and inclusion are balanced. As an entrepreneur, her mission is to create meaningful products and empower people while also focusing on what lies at the core of our AI-driven future—data. She has a 15y+ business and marketing trajectory with a strong product focus and expertise in building startups and companies from scratch. After having been diagnosed with Breast cancer, she focused on scaling innovation efforts regarding AI-based products for breast cancer diagnosis and co-founded Hippo AI Foundation to launch an MVP for patient-driven open data projects: viktoriaonezero.org. Antler is a global early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the defining technology companies of tomorrow. The investor backing the world’s most driven founders, from day zero to greatness. We are truly inspired by Viktoria’s story and her approach to turning problems into solutions. This is a very personal episode as we discuss how the democratization of data can determine life choices. We focus on Start-up trajectory of Viktoria Prantauer  [Start: 2.30min] How technology can help with breast cancer [Start: 10.30min] The role of democratization of data for better decision making [Start: 14.30min] How data stewardship acts as an enabler for the involvement of patients [Start: 18.30min] How to change awareness and mindset and why data hoarding & data fearing are [Start: 22.30min] You can find Viktoria here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/viktoriaprantauer/ I hope you enjoy this episode! With best wishes, 💛 Hannah Looking to engineer your future? Visit 💫   www.brain-fruits.net 💫 LinkedIn💫 Instagram 🙏 Please leave us a review and share the episode with a friend!

In the fourth episode of Season 3, Alice McNeil shows how you can combine a love for problem-solving with a sense of purpose to kick-start your own start-up.  Alice is the Program Lead at Fresh Ventures Studio.  Fresh Ventures is a venture-building program and startup studio based in the Netherlands. Fresh launched in 2021 to work alongside founders to address the problems in the land and aquaculture food systems - they focus mainly on the top end of the value chain in cultivation and production in agrifood through scalable impact ventures.  Check their website https://www.freshventures.eu/ to apply for the upcoming cohort!    Fresh Ventures offers you to:   🤝  Match with complementary co-founders. Get access to a talent pool and a community of people with specialized skills.   🤝 Gain access to committed capital, sector knowledge, industry leaders and launching customers that want to see you succeed.   🤝 Work on opportunities based on thorough systemic analysis. Co-found a company structured for maximum scalable impact.   This is a great episode if you are looking for the tools & tactics to build your personal money fund to start a business with impact.   You can find Fresh Ventures here: https://www.freshventures.eu/And Alice loves getting random calls so reach out to her!  I hope you enjoy this episode!   With best wishes,  💛 Hannah   🙏 Please leave us a review and share the episode with a friend!

In the third episode of Season 3, Dorte Kurek walks us through the power of radical innovation for sustainable finance. Dorte creates innovative tech solutions to facilitate the green and sustainable transition of companies. Her focus is to identify and remove barriers to transition companies using a blend of co-creation, action learning, and deep analysis. She has held former roles as COO, Head of Compliance, Head of ESG Compliance and DPO (GDPR). Currently, she is helping the Fintech and Impact company Valified succeed in building solutions for a more sustainable future. Valified makes the green transition simple for any size of business. The company offers a digital platform that makes it easy to register, measure, report, share and benchmark companies' work on the transition. Valified develops intelligent, data-driven technologies and services that across value chains accelerate development towards greener and more sustainable companies. This is a great episode if you want to learn how to set up and execute an innovation process to drive sustainable finance. You can find Dorte on LinkedIn here. I hope you enjoy this episode! With best wishes, 💛 Hannah Looking to engineer your future? Visit 💫   www.brain-fruits.net 💫 LinkedIn 💫 Instagram 🙏 Please leave us a review and share the episode with a friend!

In the second episode of Season 3, Eva Grønbjerg Christensen shares how you can determine and use your values to make sustainable investment decisions. Eva is an innovative thinker with a strategic mind who values fact-based and transparent communication. She bases her analysis and decisions on documentation, corporate values, and strategy and likes to develop and optimize through feedback and evaluation. Her company, Sustainify offers a tool for sustainable & responsible investments - they provide sustainability data, so you can make better decisions. This is a great episode if you want to engineer your investment portfolio to drive the Sustainability Development Goals. I hope you enjoy this episode! With best wishes, 💛 Hannah Looking to engineer your future? Visit 💫  www.brain-fruits.net 💫 LinkedIn 💫 Instagram 🙏 Please leave us a review and share the episode with a friend!

In the first episode of Season 3, Dr. Marta Ra shares the tools & tactics to combine feminine energy and finance to shape the future of finance. She started out with a diploma in business, went on to get a Ph.D., and worked in banking and psychological rehabilitation. Amongst others, she has worked with Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, and Morgan Stanley. While at JP Morgan, she was responsible for managing CHF 39bn - the largest Swiss Pension Fund. Recently, she co-founded Women In Sustainable Finance (WISF). WISF  empowers women to push for a sustainable and inclusive financial industry through education and collaboration. This is a great episode if you want to engineer a career in sustainable finance or are looking for insights to invest in sustainability. You can find Marta on LinkedIn here. I hope you enjoy this episode! With best wishes, 💛 Hannah Looking to engineer your future? Visit 💫   www.brain-fruits.net  💫 LinkedIn 💫 Instagram 🙏 Please leave us a review and share the episode with a friend!

Meiyi is a transformation consultant at the Institute for Quantum Transformation where she helps leaders transform themselves to unlock their full potential, and meanwhile generating profound beneficial impact around them. In this last episode for Season 2, I sit down with Meiyi to discuss the power of developing a still mind. She shares her inspiring journey that brought her from being involved in the tech sector to starting a heart journey as a transformation journey at the Institute for Quantum Transformation (https://courses.quantumtransformation.dk/) Listen to this episode to learn what leaders and humans can do to tap into the power of the heart.   👇 A sneak peek at the recommendations here..   ⭐️ Be mindful Cultivate peace of mind. Do not let destructive emotions like anger and attachment cloud our ability to use our intelligence clearly.   ⭐️  Be selfless  We are naturally driven by self-interest; it’s necessary to survive. But we need wise self-interest that is generous and cooperative, taking others’ interests into account.   ⭐️  Be compassionate  The ultimate source of a happy life is warmheartedness.  The source of a happy life is within us.

The next episode in our Season2 line-up is out!   Want to have high returns on your money and earn good karma while doing that?  Catch Gaia Licia Balossi chatting about investment with good impact. Gaia is the Co-founder of Finuprise.  With the Finuprise app, you can access sustainable data on 2000+ publicly traded stocks. This way, you can make impactful decisions with your investments and invest in your future. Available for streaming on Spotify, Apple Podcast and Youtube.  

🔥 I Women + tech = change!    On #InternationalWomensDay, we have a special episode in stack 👇 🎬 I In this episode, I sit down with @Anamaria Todor to discuss how to scale equality digitally   🤓 I Anamaria is a Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). She was the CTO for  @Audienceproject and Software Engineer @Game Analytics ⭐️ I Initially, she came to #Denmark to study IT and in this episode, she shares how it has helped her to land a job with AWS! ➡️ I This is such a great episode: We discuss what it takes for companies to upgrade to the cloud and why you should think about your attitude in order to build a purposeful career in tech! #brainfruits #Season2 #podcast #podcaster #internationalwomensday #international #day #inspiringwomen #inspiringstories #womenwhocode #womenintech #Career #Progress #YouCanDoIt #change #careeradvice #techforwomen #shecodes #girlswhocode #codeforgood #fintech 

Women currently hold 25% of coding jobs and earn 30% less money than men.  In this episode, I speak with Daniela Miranda, Head of Customer Success at SheCodes Workshops.   SheCodes is here to help bridge the gender gap in the tech programming industry by providing knowledge that is becoming necessary in today’s increasingly technological job market.  SheCodes offers a solid introduction to product development, product design, and product management.  We talk about what it takes to build a 'Yes, She Can' Mindset and easy it can be to get started with coding.    #SheCodes #Shecan #Code #coding #episode #brainfruits #womencangemakers #podcast #podcaster #brainfruits #Season2 #inspiringwomen #inspiringstories #tech #womenintech #Womeninfinance #womenwhocode #code #Career #Progress #YouCanDoIt #change

Mental Health meets Venture Capital 👇 🤩 I NEW NEW NEW Episode 18 is out!! 🔥I Petra is a VC investor, a technology for good ambassador, and a visionary ✨ I Her passion is to make a sustainable impact and inspire people to see and believe what's possible. The way she turns her passions into actions is currently through identifying investment potentials as a VC investor at @3VC, before that at Avast building privacy-tech products and designing digital well-being apps while flying solo in parallel as a freelancer 🦸I She led the Prague hub of the Global Shapers Community as a curator (World Economic Forum) and was one of the founding members at Ladies Who Tech (Greater China). #brain_fruits #Season2 #podcast #podcaster #inspiringwomen #inspiringstories #VC #womeninVC #Womeninfinance #venturecapital #VC #Career #Progress #YouCanDoIt #change #careeradvice #mentalhealth

How can Data Science improve Quality of Life? 🤔  🍍I Are you into mental health, wellbeing, and big data?   We have just the right podcast for you!  🎙I In the latest episode of BrainFruits, S2, I am joined by Prof. Katarzyna Wac and we talk about the impact of tech and its integration with healthcare systems.   Prof. Katarzyna Wac is the head of Quality of Life (QoL) technologies and also affiliated with Stanford University School of Medicine (MED).  Prof. Wac’s research interests revolve around the fundamental and algorithmic problems, as well as human-centric challenges of the systems enabling an assessment and improvement of human behavior, health, and quality of life in the long term.  🎧  Out now on all major streaming platforms - Apple, Spotify, and Youtube   https://www.qualityoflifetechnologies.com/ Happy BrainFruits

Are you looking for a new career? 🤔  I If you are planning to change your career, look no further!👇 🎙 I In the latest episode of BrainFruits, S2, I talk to Hannah Kleinings who had been a Bar Manager and Chef for the past 14 years, and now helps businesses to get rid of mundane tasks with AI.    ⭐ I Listen to episode 5, find out how Hanna took the leap of faith to change her career and do what she truly loves. As Customer Success & Growth at Levity, she is an inspiration for those who are unsure of their current career paths and have a passion to discover the road not taken.   🎧 I BrainFruits is streaming on all major platforms: Spotify, Apple Music & Youtube 

? I Do you feel overwhelmed… 👇 🤔I Struggling to detangle what is important and what is not? Truth from post-truth? Information from misinformation? 🎙 I NEW NEW NEW - Episode #4 is out! 🔥 I Another firing episode is out on how technology can be used for good impact. Ready to fight misinformation through Artificial Intelligence? ➡️ I In the fourth episode for the BrainFruits Season 2 podcast, I speak with @Jenny Romano, Co-Founder of The Newsroom about building plurality of thought through context on the news, exposing readers to contrasting points of view. 🎧 I As always, you can listen to BrainFruits on all major streaming platforms: Spotify, Apple Music & Youtube #podcast #brainfruits #Season2 #newseason #news #AI #Techforgood #podcaster #BrainFruits #brainfruits #fakenews #disinformation #misinformation #AI #artificalintelligence #tech #AIforgood #techforgood #listen #listennow #thenewsroom #supportpodcast #techwithpurpose #impacttech #techimpact #techpact #tuesday

💸 I How to Improve Your Money Confidence? 🎙I  In this episode, energetic and FinTech expert @Leitha Matz walks us through her start-up journey from being a journalist to becoming a recognized  Executive for digital strategy and co-founder/CPO at @FinMarie. ⭐️  I Listen to this episode to learn about what it takes to become financially literate, why FinTechs can serve women so much faster and better than 'old school' banks, and what you can do to become a 'first dancer' in the FinTech industry. #2022 #Season2 #newseason #FinTech #podcast #podcaster #BrainFruits #brainfruits #Womeninfinance #confidence #courage #startup #courage #finwomen #FinMarie #tech #womenintech #career #techforwomen #womentech #finwomen #femmeinvest #listen #supportpodcast #new