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Conversations with leaders, changemakers, and thinkers who have let the world be their classroom.
Every guest on this podcast has lived something. Not just studied it — lived it. They have led through crisis, built something from nothing, crossed borders that others would not, and come out the other side with hard-won wisdom they are willing to share.
Each conversation begins with the same question: What has the world taught you? What follows is never the same answer twice.
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Episode 12
A conversation with a former UN Emergency Coordinator
What do you do when the situation changes faster than your plan? When the people you are trying to help are also the people you are trying to protect? This conversation goes deep into the kind of leadership that only crisis can teach.
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Episode 11
A conversation with a social entrepreneur
She built an organization from scratch, watched it succeed, and then made the hardest decision of her career: to walk away and start again. On purpose, failure, and the wisdom that only comes from beginning twice.
Episode 10
A conversation with a global gender equity leader
Twenty years of working on gender equity in some of the world's most resistant institutions. What she learned about power, patience, and the kind of change that actually lasts.
Episode 09
A conversation with a humanitarian communications director
In a crisis, the right words at the right moment can save lives. The wrong ones can cost them. A conversation about what it means to communicate when the stakes are absolute.
Episode 08
A conversation with a post-conflict reconstruction specialist
How do you rebuild trust in a society that has been torn apart? How do you lead people who have every reason not to follow? On the architecture of trust in the most difficult conditions imaginable.
Episode 07
A conversation with a development economist
Real change takes decades. Most organizations think in quarters. A conversation about the gap between the timelines of impact and the timelines of institutions — and what to do about it.
Episode 06
A conversation with a first-generation CEO
No mentor who looked like her. No blueprint for the room she was walking into. On what it means to lead when you are the first — and the responsibility that comes with it.
Every guest has lived something. This podcast is where they share what it taught them.
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