Shake Up The World

For today's episode, I have with me Laetitia Vitaud. She is a writer and a prominent speaker about the future of work. Laetitia is also an editor in chief of the HR media, Welcome to the Jungle, a leading media that helps companies develop, in her own words, 'employer branding for the new work generation'. She has also constantly published her work in LSE Business Review, Medium as well as Malt. Show notes: -Definitions of Feminism -Meritocracy, Neonatalism and Motherhood -Equity, Equality and Diversity -Fairness in Candidate Selection -Ideal version of feminism -Technology eats Culture for Breakfast -Future Work with professional transitions, job changes -'Low skill' workers viewpoint -Economic system based on measurable value -Productive work and reproductive work -Rise of female suicides in Japan -Isolation for children during COVID -Effect of social games for children using Twitch, Discord -Feminist geographers and design of safer cities for women

Mehdi Yacoub is an engineer and entrepreneur from Paris, passionate about optimizing health, longevity and well being. Through Lifetizr, he is building a solution to help people optimize their metabolic health, prevent chronic diseases, and live healthier and longer. Mehdi also writes a weekly newsletter (The Long Game), were he shares the best stuff he comes across each week.  He covers a broad range of topics, always including health, wellness, and tech. In a given episode, you can read about the Horvath clock, the art of doing nothing, pricing strategies, risk management, the VIP world, behavioral biology, Bruce Lee, and Michael Jordan. Podcast Notes: Lifetizr and their work through Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) Personal experiences monitoring glucose levels and benefits of tracking Moating and how startups understand their strengths and positioning Tips on fasting, 72 hour fasts, cold showers Could immortality be achieved? David Sinclair's Information Theory of ageing Need for utopian science fictions (White Mirrors) Twitter as the true social network Increased polarisation of societies and rise in social media wokeness Andy Matuschak's mnemonic writing

Introducing Che Vanni, Founder of Reimagined Leaning Centre based out of South Africa. So, Che is an active participant of the unschooling network. His Reimagined Learning Centre is based on the philosophy of putting children in the drivers seats of their own lives. They consider children as complete autonomous human beings, participating and involving in activities at their own pace. Some of the activities which children carry out in this centre range from cooking, woodwork, permaculture, bee-keeping and even gardening for that matter. In these settings, the children and their parents repeatedly participate in 'unschooling', thereby making these centers a part of the local and international unschoolers networks, within which information and experiences are continuously exchanged. Tune in to the podcast to understand from Che Vanni what he means by unschooling, and what it takes to redefine education from bottom up. For more info: Che Vanni on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chevanni Reimagined Learning Centre: https://www.facebook.com/ReimaginedLearningCentre

Today, for this episode of Shake Up The World Podcast, we have with us Kavya Rao who has taken up many hats in the past. She has worked as a consultant psychologist, teacher and also as a skill trainer for adolescents. Currently, Kavya works with Mamta Health Institute for Mother and Child, an organisation based in India where she develops awareness tools for maternal health and adolescent health.  As her interests primarily lie along the intersections of psychology and education, The topic of focus for this discussion would especially be surrounding the importance of mental health through awareness based education tools.  We do a bit of a deep dive into her work through the organisation in terms of activity based learning approaches for pregnant mothers, adolescent teenagers and even parents. How can we help them become more efficient in handling challenges and remain resillient during times of stress?  https://www.facebook.com/mamtaHIMC/ (Facebook Page) http://mamta-himc.org/ (Website)

Ludovick is the Founder and CEO of SLIOC which is aimed at providing access to education and shelter for albino children in Tanzania.  In Tanzania, East Africa, people with white skin (known as albinos) are hunted like animals for their body parts which are widely believed to have magical and superstitious properties. As a result, between 2000 and 2017 there were 75 ‘registered’ killings of albinos, a further 61 survived attacks and there were 16 albino grave robberies. Through his charitable organisation, St. Ludovick aims to provide access to education and shelter for the albino children and to provide safety and equality of participation in socio-economic activities for the albinos. https://protecttanzaniaalbinos.com/ Especially during these times were the death of George Floyd has triggered the #BlackLivesMatter protests, with everyone discussing about diversity in workplaces and prevention of racial injustice, the message which St. Ludovick has is particularly deep and profound, and relevant to these times.

SHOW LESS Thabiso is double major degree holder in Economics and Accounting from the University of Botswana. He is a completing global master’s degree in development practice programme (MDP) student under the prestigious Socio-Economic Development, Botswana Insurance Holdings Limited Trust Professor Thomas Tlou scholarship, with the same institution.      Thabiso is also a strategist, cultural economist, arts trainer and policymaker. He sits on the Botswana Confederation of Commerce, Industry and Manpower Youth in Business Sector High Level Consultative Council. He is the Interim Chairperson of the Arterial Network Botswana Chapter, Brand Ambassador of the Botswana Creative Industries Focus Group and he also sits on the National Human Resource Development Council’s Cultural and Creative Industry Sector Committee as a member representing Private Sector. Thabiso is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the fast growing IDIN Micro Grant Funded These Hands Global, Social and Sustainable Enterprise (THESE HANDS NETWORK).      He is an IDDS Zambia 2013 Alumnus and Facilitator of the UNDP and Botswana Innovation Hub‘s Annual Social Good Summit since 2013. Thabiso is also an Ashoka Change Makers Social Intrapreneurship for Innovation in Health Wellness Course Graduate, Lead Partinizer for Africa region, and IDDS Dkar 2015 and IDDS Botswana 2016 Lead Organizer.   These Hands was started in 2015 by Thabiso to help diversify Botswana’s economy and to promote continued gains in human development. These Hands recognizes that the people of Botswana demonstrate extraordinary artistic, creative, and entrepreneurial tendencies and that this creates many opportunities for economic transformation. As a result, they aim to mobilize this talent to transform Botswana into a knowledge economy.    http://these-hands.org/ (Website) https://www.facebook.com/thesehandsgsse (Facebook) Shake Up The World Podcast E03 |

This is the first episode of the Shake Up The World Podcast were I feature glocal leaders who are taking major steps to shake up the world through social change.     I present our guests for this episode, Atiqah Rad and Shi Mei who are involved in trying to address unemployment challenges through their contextual educational program aimed at building resilience, effective communications and servant leadership abilities among the youth of Brunei. We deep dive into the rationale, vision and effectiveness of their program along with some snippets of the impact they have been able to carry out so far.   To follow their work more closely:  Project SEALNet Brunei Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/sealnetpb19/  Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/sealnetpb19/

How do words convey a deeper meaning. When somewords are usually shallow in the types of associations which it gathers, some type of words always stick. What do such sticky words have in common with what Carl Jung terms as 'archetypes'?

Gathering my observations from Freud and Carl Jung to design my own dreams, to uncover my psyche, to peel all the different layers that prevent me from becoming who I truly am.

For this episode, We have Celeste Volpi, Design Researcher from TU Delft exploring various aspects of tacit knowledge through her graduation thesis. This is a deep dive into  the value in discovering tacit knowledge and on methods to unveil it through various design techniques. Although Tacit knowledge has been well researched in the past, Celeste comes up with tangible ways to add value to design educators in structuring better curriculums.

As the world becomes increasingly non linear and complex, there is an increasing trivialisation of certain systems such as markets, management and so on that overrides logic. There are so many formulaes being thrown at us from every direction such as 4Ps of marketing, 7Cs of success or even economic conditions which are taken as de facto rules an standards which are not possible to deviate. We humans fall prey to such trivialisations and have to remove our blinders to detect and ignore such dubious arguments.

Are we rational, irrational or boundedly rational human beings? Are we Homo Sapiens or Homo Economicus?

We need to rethink on our different notions of what we perceive to be good and bad. Is it based on the societal positioning that we have reoriented or adjusted our positive and negative values?

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