Melanie is the founder of Master21 academy the first coding school in Switzerland! Their mission is to empower people to shape the digital world and to educate people who work with software developers to speak the same language.

She sold the company a few months ago and already has many ideas about what to do next, among other things she will start a podcast in July about Joyful learning!

She just graduated from the Thnk Program in Amsterdam and shares her experience at the beginning of the podcast. The program helped her understand who she was, how the others were and to stand up for herself.

From there on we talk about:

Julia Cameron and her amazing Morning Pages and Shadow Careers
Improv wisdom with Patricia Ryan Madson
The habit of writing with Steven Pressfield
Melanie’s writing routine
Inspiration vs routine
Self sabotage
What she wanted to do when she grows up when she was still a kid
Art as therapy
Her studies, first jobs and projects
Synchronicities
The steps to build a company
We wonder if work needs to be hard and that kind of became the thread of the conversation somehow (more podcasts coming up about the topic)
Daring to listen to what the heart wants and old limiting beliefs
Joyful learning
Choose your pain
When to be persistent and stick to something
What work is
Is the school system obsolete?
The myth of knowing what are you are gonna do when you grow up as a single thing forever

Where you can find her online the best right now:
https://www.instagram.com/melakovacs/

Sabrina comes originally from the Köln area in Germany. She moved to Bremen after her studies where she stayed for 8 years. And since last year, she lives in Freiburg-im- Breisgau.

She studied Visual Communication (Graphic and Editorial Design, Typography, Photography, Filming, etc.) and started working as a Designer, and later started to do Illustration work too. Recently she also became a Yoga teacher!

She used to work in a design agency and had the feeling she needed to express herself more, bring her ideas out of her brain, bring out her own things. That’s when she started a label and drawing on postcards in the evening. That was the beginning of her illustration career. Later on, her first clients asked her to do illustration work!

Today she is fully self-employed, doing what she loves!

More about her and her work here: https://www.sabrina-kraemer.de

Jasmin is a singer, vocal coach and composer from Altnau, Kanton Thurgau. Her base is BASEL.

She has been teaching for 10 years now based on CVT (Complete Vocal Technique) and her Jazz & Pop studies. Her school is called SING OUT LOUD! where she has one on one lessons and gives workshops.

But that’s only one of the 4 projects she has!

She is also a singer and has 2 bands:

Jasmin Albash (previously The RK)
Kallemi that started as an exchange project by Kaserne Basel.
And in October last year, she also started her Youtube channel: Sijada Sessions where she collaborates for 1 song with Female Artists on the ‘Sijada’ (‘carpet’ in arabic). She’s had artists such as: La Nefera, Jennifer Jans (Bleu Roi), Annie Goodchild, Legion Seven and Joana Aderi (Sissy Fox).

And one more thing: she is part of Helvetiarockt an organisation to empower female artists!

Where you can find her online:
www.jasminalbash.com
https://www.singoutloud-music.com
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5lw0E2-JJIp7q2gM1L0FlQ

Sarah lives in Edinburgh where she is mainly a tour guide. She welcomes French tourists in Edinburgh or in the Highlands. She is also a blogger, podcaster, copywriter and writer. Back in the days, she studied Journalism in Grenoble and is originally from Alsace, France.
Her Website: https://www.frenchkilt.com
Her Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/ecosse-toujours
Her IG: @french_kilt

Patrick comes originally from France and Switzerland. He has traveled the world and found a second home in Canada over 20 years ago. He considers himself citizen of the world though, with about 66 stamps on his passport!
He is a life coach, facilitator, keynote speaker and author!
His purpose is to help people go where they wanna go in life. He is fascinated by the Human nature and Nature.
On the podcast the main topic is RELATIONSHIPS. Patrick shares some of his tools like: The Trust Circle & The Love Circle
More about him here: http://www.peakpotentialinternational.com/aboutus/

Devon moved to Basel in January 2019 for work. She is the co-founder and managing director of Linum Labs, a Blockchain Start-Up. Originally from South Africa, she shares her perspectives about Switzerland and we also discuss: working remote / corporate life / presence based vs output based work systems/ the future of work / the challenges of being self-employed and being a female entrepreneur in a male dominated industry / mental-health / burn-out / failure and more!

Vanessa is a stand-up comedian living in Zürich and coming from Montréal. She is slowly building an empire in the world of comedy!
She does it all, goes on stage, organizes tours and in January 2020 she will start managing a comedy club in Lausanne!!!

Anika used to work as an Engineer in Landscape Architecture for the past 10 years and is now a full-time Yoga Teacher and an Ayurveda Lifestyle Coach!
On the podcast she talks about what has worked for her in terms of being healthy while working efficiently and gives a lot of ayurvedic and yogic tips for everyone wanting to do the same while staying creative!

Aly comes from Utah, U.S.A., she arrived in Switzerland about 9 years ago when she was only 18! When she first visited the country with her husband she instantly loved it and decided to leave everything behind and follow her heart.
Today she does Personal Branding Photography for Female Entrepreneur in Switzerland and helps women connect with their audience online.
You can find her here: https://www.alyaesch.com

Sipping coffee at the beautiful Harbor of Bowen Island, BC at the awesome Tell Your Friends Café!

Compromise: an agreement in an argument in which the people involved reduce their demands or change their opinion in order to agree. From the Cambridge Dictionary

Cyrille’s definition: it’s what both people do after a negotiation. 2 people want something but the situation doesn’t allow both people’s needs to be fulfilled so by compromising, both get A BIT what they wanted and both are A BIT happy.

'You’re supposed to take a leap of faith at some point and trust that the universe will provide'.

'What is the risk you are not taking right now?'