Dare to Suck - Inspiring changemakers opening up to young adults (and their parents)
On a weekly basis, join Wilfrid Kroath, as he interviews inspirational changemakers from different walks of life and all around the globe. They share their stories with the mission to open up to young adults (and their parents)."What gets you up in the morning?", "Why do you do what you do?", "How did you start your journey?", "Did you ever fail?", "How did you overcome failure?", "What are the key ingredients for being a good leader?". All extremely relevant questions, which we try to answer!
Episodes
24 episodes
Two Rowing Finns: 4,800 km across the Atlantic
The final episode of Season 1 is ending with a great adventure!We meet Markus and Jolle who both have an extended track record when it comes to sailing around the world and participating in prestigious events such as the Whitbread Round ...
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33:23
Luca Karl: Confessions of a professional athlete and swimmer
In this episode we will meet Luca Karl, who is a professional athlete and swimmer, competing in 800m and 1500m freestyle. Swimming has been an influential part of his life already during his early childhood days. Since then he kept mov...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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34:19
Helinä Turunen: Diary of a Cyber Security Superhero
Not one week passes without news of data breaches and confidential client data leaking. A lot of responsibility is left with the sole user, which makes groups like children, elderly people and language minorities especially vulnerable and expos...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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37:47
Göran Hernberg: Top Tips from a Top Headhunter
Coming out of school or university and finding your dream job has never been easy. For some maybe even impossible.But as we are again entering a phase of global economic decline, the job market gets flooded with applicants from both sides o...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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32:00
Heidi Schauman: A Chief Economist's advice
Heidi Schauman is an experienced economist who, before joining Swedbank, served as chief economist at Aktia Bank and senior economist at Nordea Bank. Before this, she worked in various positions at the Finnish central bank, The ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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37:07
Taneli Tenhovuori: The current state of healthcare services and the right to live the way you want to live
Taneli started his career as a strategy consultant but quickly changed to follow his calling. He founded Suomen Avustajapalvelut, which provides disability care nationwide in Finland. Today the company employs more than 500 care service pro...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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36:45
Ari Iso-Rautio: From Top Manager to Top Yogi
After finishing his education, Ari´s calling was loud, clear, and unquestionable: Welcome to the corporate world.Rising through the ranks as a star management consultant and top manager was amazing at first but during an assignment in the U...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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31:36
Peppe & Magnus: The US election outcome and the importance of a functioning democratic process.
This special edition has been inspired by the 2020 US presidential election. The journalist-, podcaster-, and producer team Peppe and Magnus have been living in Santa Monica, Los Angeles for almost eight years and will provide us with ...
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36:40
Joona Leppänen: Competitive Gaming For Dummies
Esports is not really sports - right?Well - actually - wrong. There is a lot that goes into the preparation and playing of tournaments as you will hear in this episode. That´s why former professional gamer and current CMO of ENS, Joona Lepp...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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37:07
Sonja´s Adventure and Live Action Role-Play For Dummies
The role of the sibling, the role of the mother, the role of the father, employee, or boss. We play several different roles throughout our day.But what happens if 12.000 like-minded fantasy lovers meet for five days in a battle against orks...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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39:24
Marietta Stuhlfelder: The powerful combination of business, sports, and art.
Do your homework, feel the power of the “worry box”, familiarize yourself with the culture and customs of a new country before visiting it in order to avoid embarrassing moments, and get yourself business-, sports- and health mentors as soon as...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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37:35
Helene Auramo: A curious human who changes things. Mom & wife. Bold but afraid.
At first, Helene did not even want to become an entrepreneur at all. Looking at her father, who ran his own business, she saw all the sacrifices that being self-employed is connected with especially when things go really sideways fo...
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38:01
Christian Wentzel: About young people's healthy upbringing, prevention of marginalization, violence, crime, and substance abuse.
Christian and his team of 40 members are heading the Finnish NGO “Aseman Lapset” or “Children of the Station”. The association's purpose is to promote young people's healthy upbringing and prevent marginalization, violence, crime, and substance...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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32:19
Susanne Lindroos: Her meal kit concept "Sannan Ruokakassi" was hip from the start but took years to become a hit
We are always reminded of Peter Drucker when stating that “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”. This quote also summarizes Susanne´s situation pretty well when she started to ramp-up her meal kit concept "Sannan Ruokakassi". ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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32:50
Aleksi Nurminen: Backstage with a Mixed Martial Arts Fighter
Aleksi has been hit hard by the overtraining syndrome, which took his body for a ride. But he is back with the aim to go from MMA amateur world champion to professional world champion.This episode is a really interesting look behind the cur...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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47:54
Rickard Zilliacus: From star consultant to serial entrepreneur. Lessons learned from the corporate treadmill and the world of startups
After finishing University, Rick set out to supercharge his career, working for a renowned consulting firm. He took a break from his role as a consultant in order to lead his side business through a critical development phase - and never return...
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38:30
Rosanna Marila: What? Who? Me? A burnout? No way!
The main challenge with work-related fatigue is probably the fact that one does not exactly know when it sneaks up on you or what the signs are. And it is so much more than just feeling stressed or a bit tired. It can have work-related or non-w...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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35:08
Loli Lopez-Montenegro: Meet the colourful CEO of Boomwriter - the educational software that has the power to revolutionize our schools
Born and raised in Spain, Loli is currently living in the United States and at the helm of Boomwriter - a software platform for education, focused on writing. Not only has she started her own company in the past but also worked in the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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31:21
Aymane Berrerhdoche: He started out in Morocco with a filter to clean undrinkable and poisonous water. His next goal is to clean the Mediterranean from microplastics
For most of us, taking a glass of refreshing clean water once you feel like having one, is not a major challenge. Neither was it for Aymane. Until one fine day, when instead of clean drinkable water, a yellow poisonous substance filled his glas...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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35:16
Tomi Kaukinen: Meet the Entrepreneur, Burnout survivor and Keynote Speaker with the Licence to Fail
What a life story: Tomi dropped out of school when he was 16 years old, worked at a construction site, as a trash collector in the Stockholm metro, found his inner calling, re-entered high school, finished with straight A's in all subjects, wen...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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38:02
Bettina Hernberg: Powered by granola, coeliac baking, mental health and eating disorder recovery
In this episode, we will meet rising star entrepreneur Bettina Hernberg who will share her remarkable story. Her fight against an eating disorder has been put in the rearview mirror a long time ago. Today, Bettina´s business evolves ar...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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35:25
Sara Hammoud: An inspirational youth leader who is taking on the battle of reducing fuel consumption and enabling us a greener lifestyle.
In this episode, we will dive into the exciting world of rising star entrepreneur Sara Hammoud, who is the founder of Benzinati and co-founder of Maktaba Tech. The Top 5 key takeaways from her story:Redefine yourself ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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34:24
Peter Vesterbacka: He is better because he is different. The story of Slush, Mighty Eagle and a tunnel between Helsinki and Tallinn.
In this week´s episode, we will meet All-star entrepreneur Peter Vesterbacka, who comes in all colors of the rainbow and has been founding and co-founding more companies than we would have time to list here. Finland knows him as Rovio´...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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40:37