In today’s episode, we speak with highly achieved Anne Gordon, who was the highest ranking female in one of the 32 American Football teams when she was heading marketing for the Philadelphia Eagles for more than 5 seasons. Anne is sharing with us, what her biggest learning was in this more or less purely male dominated sport world, the NFL. How she found the courage to communicate more directly. How she learned to signal: “I’m about to disagree and here is why”. This fascinates me, since I...

It makes me very happy to have Sunil Arora as my guest in today’s episode. I have hardly met people who are able to convey their inner growth process with such richness and wisdom. Sunil is sharing with us his ‘wonderfully weird’ path to his true calling, which was becoming a fulfilled and successful coach. ‘It was both the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life and the biggest gift I’ve ever given to myself’, he is telling us about his personal transformation. We will hear from him how he...

In today’s episode, my guest is the award-winning fintech woman Sashi Valtz, who has made a remarkable career in the international banking world. Just one day before she was about to start a new job and climb her career ladder even higher, she lost the love of her life to the ocean. “See you at 11.30 for brunch” were his last words, before her husband never returned home from kite surfing. Sashi is sharing with us how this tragic event changed her and the lives of her kids forever, and how...

I’m proud to have worldwide renowned art curator and artistic director of London’s Serpentine Galleries Hans Ulrich Obrist as my guest in today’s episode. Hans Ulrich is very special in many ways, as with never-ending energy he is calling out for the urgency to make a contribution to the world every single day. This is exactly what matters most to him. Hans Ulrich is sharing with us how he already as a little boy curated his child room with art post cards, how he sees his entire life as a...

In today’s episode, we are learning from Harvard Business School Professor for Strategy and most successful "After Hours" podcast host Felix Oberholzer-Gee, that happiness is possible in many different versions. He is sharing with us, that for the longest time in his life he thought he wanted to be a carpenter. But when life catapulted him into the elite academic world, he remembers thinking "it was so far from what I had imagined for myself....never I thought that I could potentially be good...

I’m very honored to have wonderful actress, best selling author and coach Tina Lifford as my guest in today’s episode. Tina is known for the more than 100 characters she’s played on TV and in movies over the course of 36 years, including her current role playing Aunt Vi in the Oprah Winfrey networks series “Queen Sugar.” But this is not so much what we are talking about today. Rather, Tina is going deep about her long, soul-touching inner journey to her true Self. She is sharing pivotal...

In today’s episode, Social Sciences Professor and Change Management Entrepreneur Heiko Roehl is sharing with us a pivotal moment when he caused a car crash by hitting a dear on the German Autobahn. After landing his car upside down, he says, “I’ve noticed how much I live under the illusion of control”. We are discussing how the pandemic, likewise, is a global pivotal moment that fosters honesty about who we really are – and how we can use this honesty for us as individuals, organizations and...

In this first episode, let's learn from Harvard graduate and former Goldman Sachs partner Lisa Shalett how to create meaning from unwanted transitions in life. As a truly accomplished career woman she is sharing her story about the pivotal moment when she chose to leave her hugely successful life after her father fell from a ladder and died. Most profoundly, Lisa is talking about how she has been reevaluating her life, created new values and worked backwards from non-negotiables like...