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Welcome to Challenging ParadigmX.

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What would happen if people would know at a
young age, what they are passionate about,
and if they were enabled to think big?

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How can young people learn the skills of tomorrow
and start to create a positive impact today?

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How can we make young people,
future leaders and change makers?

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There’s a lot of people who talk about change,
preach, change, or even pretend to believe in change.

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and then there are the people and
projects that actually initiate change.

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My guest today is Anet Londa.

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She is the co-founder and chief
boss creator at Moonshot Pirates.

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Moonshot Pirates is a global education
initiative working with people between 14 and 19.

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And that’s rule for life is to be brave enough to
fail at something new and look for ways to contribute.

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her goal in life is to empower young minds, to
turn the talents into solutions that matter.

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She’s the mastermind behind the moonshot pirates brands,
driving growth, marketing and communications activities
across all the organizations, channels and programs.

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moonshot.

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Pirates is a global movement of future
oriented talents and young change makers
that is fueled by fun and driven by purpose.

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And the founder’s focus is on enabling moonshot thinking
and entrepreneurial skills in young people while giving
them the understanding where the world is heading at.

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So if you’re interested in finding out more, stay tuned

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Hi, today, I’m here with Annette and it’s
it’s great to have you in my podcast.

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Please introduce yourself.

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Who are you and what do you do

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Yeah, first of all, thank you very much for having me.

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I really appreciate.

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First of all.

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Just nice to see you again.

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I think the last time once right after TEDx
Skogen for 2017, 18, I don’t even remember.

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Yeah.

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So nice to see you again, 19?

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Was it okay?

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Not that long ago.

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Yeah, I’m the co-founder and yeah, Creature at
neutral pirates, which is a movement that empowers
young people to, to think back, to succeed on
their own terms while creating a positive impacts.

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And that worked.

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but the boat me I’m originally from Czech
Republic about I’ve been living all around
since I was 15, 14, and currently I live in.

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And work in beautiful Vienna, Austria.

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And before I started mutual pirates, I have
worked mostly in an events and marketing industry
for different kinds of organizations from
corporates to semi’s to, to nonprofits and geos.

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And I have been basically in leading girls with.

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Organizing and marketing events globally ranging from
corporate conferences, exhibitions, statics events,
that’s where we’ve meant to hackathons for young people.

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And I’m now basically as a chief best creator or,
and then under our CMO, we use this fancy titles.

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All right.

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At moonshot pirates, I am responsible for.

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Driving growth across all of our programs and
channels for basically the branding part communication
part and marketing, and I’m of course, always
there to make sure that we stay true to our
values as a company while we grow and innovate.

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And what we do with moonshot pirates We are global education
initiative working with young people between 14 and 19.

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And with our programs, we are
focusing on the future job market.

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Basically helping young people to learn the
skills of tomorrow to learn to entrepreneur.

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Skills such as creative thinking, problem, complex
problem solving you know, creativity and so on.

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But not only that, not only the, the, the
kind of these skills, but also focus more
on the personal growth as sending division.

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So basically the different programs that we
run with moonshot pirates allow young people
to experience the life of an entrepreneur and
change-maker for, for the very first time.

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So as this organization, our main goal, our main vision is
to change the way young people grow up in our workforce.

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Personally and professionally, and we want to do that by
providing the most advanced, but also inspiring solutions
globally for empowering young minds to become the future
leaders and Changemakers our world needs basically.

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so please tell us why, why do you do what you do,

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I do I do what I do is ask, I’m asking
myself the same question every day now.

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Think there are basically two sides to two debts.

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There is shredder, you know, the personal side of it.

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And then there is, kind of the more
common sense side to side of it.

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So the personal side.

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Honestly, I’ve never felt more alive than I do now.

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You know, of course being an entrepreneur,
we both know it you know, in steering through
the global community is not always easy.

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But I have to say that, you know, when I see the impact
we make to, to, to the life of young people, when I
hear, you know, all the feedback from them how they
grow, how they, you know, Throughout their programs.

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What they’ve learned it’s really gives me energy every day.

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You know, I just really sincerely believe that each and
every one of us has what it takes to make a difference.

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And the only thing that we need is to dream
big, to, you know, find out what we are good
at, what we are passionate as individual.

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And then of course not be afraid to just
move forward, to take an action in life.

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Yeah.

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And like, I think we started moving to Paris three
years ago or two and a half, two and half years ago.

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Something like that, the idea was born.

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And since then we have worked
with around 4,000 young people.

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And actually last week we have
reached quite a cool milestone.

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We have reached a pirate, so a young person
from a hundredth country in our community.

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And like, if, if I think about it, you know, we have.

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2019 was that then winches pirates back
then was at the very, very beginning.

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We have started with like, So called bootcamp as we call
it, which is like a three-day event where 30 young people
come together, meet with mentors, work on their ideas.

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And that’s fun Wilson in, in tiny,
which is a small village in Corinthia.

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And now, you know, if I look at it we have
a global community, we are running programs.

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They usually, and it’s absolutely incredible.

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Also the amount of mentors that are coming into it.

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Intuit into the game to support the young change makers.

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It’s, it’s really crazy to think
what’s what happened in the past month.

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So, so personally, if the person kind of side for
me is, you know, It’s amazing to see that, that I,
you know, have contributed perhaps to the purse, to
alive of a young person, to help them figure out,
you know, what are their strengths, what are their
passions, you know, to help them gain confidence for
instance, and to really truly express who you are.

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That that’s absolutely one.

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And Denmark kind of the common sense, why the common
sense reason why we do what we do with mature pirates.

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I mean we own no, Or just currently experiencing a severe
change of how we lead our lives, how we work and you
know, especially our understanding of, you know, war for
instance, you know, one day I worked from Vienna the other
day I work from, from, uh, Bali, hopefully, or wherever,
you know, this was not imaginable for, for, for my parents.

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For instance, also the way we, you know, shape our
daily routines, you know, it’s not anymore nine to five.

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Jobs, right.

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Our tasks are changing, you know, and into simple substance
of, of the job is simple changing trends, traumatically.

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And actually, I think there was a quote
from Peter Diamandis who was a co-founder of
singularity university and founder of express.

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And he said something around.

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Right now we are living in incredible
times and the only constant is change.

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Right.

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And the rate of change is increasing every day.

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And that is so true.

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You know, life will never be as slow as it is today.

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so no matter what, or the young people
will ultimately choose to pursue what kind
of career, you know, what kind of path.

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They will go.

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Debra often needs to adapt and innovate.

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And with this change with such an
accelerating change in our world.

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If we think of the job market today, many of the jobs
that are here today won’t exist in a couple of years.

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Right?

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So, there was a study done by, I think it was Ford economic
forum and they said by 2030 2 billion jobs will be gone.

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That means that I think two-thirds of the current young
people are, you know, in high schools now in primary
schools, David, most likely end up following careers.

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And doing tasks even that don’t even exist yet.

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So these kinds of circles from census,
if you think about it, create an extreme
uncertainty for young people, but also.

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And I hope that everybody sees, you know,
when there, whenever there is a challenge,
there is also an oppurtunity, right?

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So this also creates, creates an enormous potential for
those who are ready to, to learn and who are for those who
are ready to embrace new skills, such as creativity and
their legal thinking, you know, leadership or wrestling.

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And so I truly believe that, you know, Mostly
like if I look at myself as an entrepreneur, you
know, as an entrepreneur, I truly believe that
these kinds of skills that I had just mentioned.

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Are acquired by entrepreneurs in a natural way.

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Right?

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So by taking extra and solving problems on a daily
and hourly base by executing their own ideas by,
by working in teams, you know, with different kinds
of people and hopefully also by creating, you know,
solutions for the challenges that they’re out there.

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I really believe that everybody.

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Can gain those skills in a natural way.

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So, so again, sorry, long story short.

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why I do what I do.

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I simply want to look back at my life at some
point and see that, you know, I contributed to
our society in a positive base the way did I.

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Did not waste my life on things that are not important
on somehow pursuing a career that doesn’t fulfill me
and it doesn’t contribute to society in a positive way.

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Yeah.

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okay, great.

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It’s obvious that you’re very passionate
about what you do and it’s it’s.

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I mean, it is a great project.

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so What I’m really interested in, I
mean, I, I, I, I’m not exactly sure.

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I mean, I follow the moonshot pirates a bit and,
So when the pandemic hit, you were basically 100%.

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Offline events, I think.

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And also um, you, you had just your
second or third event at that time.

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I think it wasn’t more than that.

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So it was really fresh.

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And so what, what, what happened actually?

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I mean, so we haven’t been in touch.

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I don’t know really how your decisions were, during that
time, but I mean, I was thinking like, okay, what’s going
to happen to moonshot pirates, but so what happened.

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honestly.

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you do the transition and how was the process?

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SSS, you know, in every challenge, there
is an opportunity for everyone, right?

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We have had just two events minnow past as
we were, you know, On our role, because with
the bootcamp, what we are trying to do a
similar aesthetic is giving licenses for them.

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You know, tests, getting licenses to TEDx organizers.

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Our plan was the same to give licenses to excellent
organizers, to organize their bootcamps in, in the areas,
you know, so everything basically offline dependent
in kitten, we were like, okay, We are screwed are not.

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So we have decided to switch completely online
for the timing and it helped us enormously.

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I think it’s, it’s really bad to say, because I know
that’s, you know, for many people in many companies
pandemic, uh, unfortunately wasn’t, you know, very good,
but for us we wouldn’t have been so global as we are now.

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If the pandemic would not have hit us.

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We were not forced to switch our programs, online.

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So, immediately, basically, I think it was,
I don’t know, maybe it was Monday when they
announced there’s going to be this huge lockdown.

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on Thursday we have launched our first that
vendor series, you know, so it was super quick.

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We, we went out with, watched, I think
over 10,000 times, um, we have launched.

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So it could be a power challenge,
which is basically like our booth can.

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So it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s just for three
weeks, everything is online and, you know, young
people from all around the world come together
to work on, on, on, on the global challenges.

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So right now we are running the second challenge we have
around 800 purchase events from 80 countries, which is also
a challenge, you know, to run like such a global community.

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Such a diversity.

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But it allowed us to, you know, think beyond Austria,
I think beyond the borders and simply open it up.

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we have launched a digital community that helps us, you
know, to connect the mentors and priors from all around
the world helps us, you know, to give them the Right.

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content on a daily basis.

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And, um, I think for us, It was good because,
you know, we were still a rather small team.

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When the pandemic had, we wrote three, now we are 12,
you know, we have grown, I know during the pandemic,
which usually doesn’t doesn’t happen, you know,
people are readily Inc uh, laying their stuff off.

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So I, I have to be grateful for,
for, for what happened with us.

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Um, Yeah, we were, we worked it out with
when we, we saw the opportunity in industry.

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Yeah, obviously.

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And you racked it very quickly.

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I mean, when you say on Monday, the weather
announcements on Wednesday and Thursday,
you, you had the first online session.

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I guess, uh, also that reacting in
this, quick manner was very crucial.

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it was a.

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Ultimate threat at the moment, that from you had this,
I think also you had to speak offline event for a

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week or something.

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Oh yeah.

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We were planning a

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big festival

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So I mean, the good thing was right at the
moment where basically we didn’t spend any
money yet, but, yeah, we were very lucky.

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Absolutely.

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With that’s fun.

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this pandemic, like for many people, it
was a turning point for the personal life.

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And also like for, for the business, in your
case, definitely it, and you leveraged the
moment to go online and it boosted your company.

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So I personally think that When people use these turning
points in life for the advantage, it can really, really
change something for a long time in a very positive way.

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When you look back your personal life, is there
any turning points that you feel were really
importance that led you to where you are today?

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Um, I’m pretty sure there are many
if I think of, you know, friends.

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Something that is in coloration with, with pirates,
you know, when I was young, I was called classical
example of a good student, you know, I believe did I
need to get all the ACE in order to, you know, pass
all the exams in order to go to a good university
in order to get a great job, you know, or intense of
money, both be successful and so on and so on and so on.

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Right.

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Um, When I was 27, I was, I was working.

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I mean, it’s kind of happened though.

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I, I had to fairly easy and in my studies and damn, you
know, I got the job right after the university and I was 27.

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I was working for a company and, um, At that
time, I realized like something is missing for
me, you know, something wasn’t feeling right.

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I was like, holy crap, am I going
to do this for the rest of my life?

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You know?

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And at a debts time and, back to back to TEDx, uh,
at the time it was also part of TEDx quadrant prude,
where I was basically leading the branding team.

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Yeah.

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You know, being part of that community.

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And during that time, I have met so many amazing people
who, who worked on ex extraordinary things, like crazy
things, really out of this world, things things with
purpose, most importantly, you know, there was, uh, Like
there were many power women that I met who present to
the, you know, on the stage that there was a 19 year old
girl who was training to become an astronaut astronaut.

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And one of the first person to go to Mars, there was, there
was a woman who was building a next generation of humans.

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Interface machines.

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there was a girl who traveled
basically every country in the world.

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And in so many others, not, not only the women and for me,
I will see them sitting there and watching them every talk.

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And I was like, holy crap, like this parked, did they
have in their eyes when they were presenting their ideas,
this is something that I was missing for myself, you know?

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And I simply was asking myself then what happened?

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Right.

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What happened to me that I’m here?

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And I’m just watching dos those incredible women.

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And then I go back to my work, but where I am
not, you know, content with what I’m doing.

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And basically that was also the moment when I
decided to quit my job and actually start working
on something that makes me feel more alive.

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You know, the contributes in a society in a positive way.

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I was 27 back then it took me 27 years, you
know, to figure out what’s what I am good at.

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What’s what I am passionate about.

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As you said, you can hear the passion in my voice.

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So together with my co-founder and also a life
partner, mark, we were, you know, after the aesthetics
event, we were sitting down and thinking, what if
we had this approach like we have now, you know,
being in the statics environment where we were.

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You know, surrounded by amazing connect for grip, incredible
people where we got the insights into intrepreneurship
into the new innovations and other social sciences.

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What if we would have this at a young age, you
know, what would happen if we had this back in
high school or primary school, what would happen
if we would have asked ourselves what is our.

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Uh, what are we passionate about?

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And that’s, that’s basically where the idea of
moon trick pirates was born to help young people
to find that spark in their eye, to think big
and to simply succeed on their own terms while
creating a positive impact in our work, you know?

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Yeah, that’s basically, I think my,
one of my turning points in my life.

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So, when we look now at the people that you
work with, it’s, people between 14 and 19, you

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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14, 19.

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Yeah.

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So, I mean, that’s a very crucial state in,
in their life and perhaps they haven’t had the
turning points by that time yet, most likely.

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But, um, Basically you already at that stage, you
prepared them for, for finding the purpose and
doing something in life that they really love.

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my experience with turning points
often, there’s the people up to them.

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It’s the first time when they actually start to question.

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Is the purpose and what do they really want?

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They have certain amount of experience by then and they
realize, ah, like you just said, ah, don’t really want that.

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Uh it’s it’s not fulfilling me.

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So basically what you are doing is that, um, you
already prepare the people, the young people in a
way that they don’t, as you said, don’t have to.

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Have to spend a lot of time not
knowing what they really want.

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So that’s, that’s a great thing in itself.

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And now looking at what you said before that 2
billion jobs will be gone in the next 10 years.

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So how do you

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feel like that, you, that you prepare the people.

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The young people for this, this, uh, upcoming 10 years.

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So you guys, you do something very differently.

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Something that is inspired by some of the most inspiring
people of the world But please give us a bit of an idea

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So basically Thursday at three main topics that we’re
focusing on, the first topic is moonshot thinking.

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That’s also where our name comes from.

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Right.

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So it’s all about.

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Looking at yourselves.

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What are your big visions for life?

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What are your big goals?

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You know, try out things.

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Don’t be afraid of failure there.

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You know, that’s one of the things that’s for
instance, school, unfortunately, is not allowing
its failure and learning from the failure.

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The second topic is we give young
people and understanding of.

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Where the word is developing in terms of new
technologies, exponential technologies, such as AI,
blockchain, you know, robotics, 3d printing, and so on.

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It’s not necessarily important that you become an expert as
the person in those technologies, but you do need to know
what’s coming, you know, in order to be prepared for that.

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Now that you’ve learned about yourself and about,
you know, the technologies that are upcoming, what
we believe also is important since we are not here
alone, I’m work is to look at the challenges our
work is facing currently, you know, from the pandemic
we are in right now to global warming poverty, you
know, political situation, educational, you name it.

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You know, we believe the young people are
the one that actually can start working
on the solutions towards those challenges.

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So now comes the third topic, which is
entrepreneurship, but then a sense of let’s take action.

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Let’s create solutions towards those challenges.

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So in all of our programs or in most of our programs are.

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Give yank people to purchase it to too.

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So we run out all of our programs out of school.

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It’s either one side or online.

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And we give them.

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The pace that the tools and the network of people to start
working on their own challenges and by taking action, you
learn those skills that you will be needing in the future.

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You know, we always bring experts from, from the industry.

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So.

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Whether it is the online chill
entry or running or to boot games.

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There are always experts from finance, from
branding, from technology, coding and so on from
social sciences, but are Derrick to support a
young people and to support them on eye-level.

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You know, this is very important for us.

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We want the young people to feel that they are, you
know, the superstars here in our program, they have the
responsibility they are now, the entrepreneurs, we give them
the chance, but they also need to take, take the action.

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So, and it’s crazy, like, especially now what we see,
I know working with this global community, like how.

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The crave rules, how they crave
guidelines, how you know, Okay.

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I need to have everything written
down every step I need to do.

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This is, you know, when you leave school,
there won’t be any guidelines for your life.

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Now it’s the time to figure out yourself.

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And it’s, it’s really interesting to see, you
know, how some of the young people react to it.

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But, you know, once they go through our programs
is really, really nice to see them grow.

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So, yeah,

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How do you like you’re you do this for two, three
years and worked with a lot of young people.

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Is there something that has
changed in your perception about.

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Life, about young people.

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Was there something you say, Hey, that’s something I really
learned that I didn’t know before working with young people.

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So intensively.

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Yeah.

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You know, if I think about myself when I was 15,
when I was doing both, my problems were big den.

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and I compare it to the young people we work with.

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Wow.

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They, they don’t surprise me with the talent.

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They have helped smarter.

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They are, you know, every time we come on
the bootcamp, I see them working on the
laptops with tools I’ve never seen before.

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You know, for instance, you
know, coming up with crazy ideas.

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Like I think he’d be an example.

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I know, for instance, like last challenge, you know, we had
to be at 15, 19 to 19 years old or guys were working on.

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Underwater drone.

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That was, that was calling thing.

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The treasurer we had, we had a group that was
working on a, a camera or like an ear plug for, blind
people to tell them what’s happening around them.

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You know, these kind of ideas.

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You know, when I was in their age, I didn’t, I didn’t
know what to, you know, 3d, I mean, back then 3d printing.

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My brother didn’t exist, but it’s, it’s
really crazy how talented they are.

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And if you give them the purpose, if you, if you
show them that you trust in them and believe in
them, they are ready to surprise you positivity.

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So, yeah.

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So connected to that question also.

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I really wonder.

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I mean, you’ve like you, you, along the lines of said a lot
about that by now, but explicitly I’d like to ask you what
what’s, paradigms you really think need to be challenged
in the world today in education, in entrepreneurship,

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Yeah, so many, so many.

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first of all, I believed it.

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We need to start learning for ourselves, not our parents,
not our teachers, not to impress or to pass tests.

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You know, we need to reinvent the, the,
the relationship we have towards education.

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You know, we need to see this something positive,
something that helps us grow, you know, not
the something that is stressful or painful.

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So that, that’s definitely one thing.

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And, and with that, with this connected is, um, And
I believe that’s very, It doesn’t seem to change as
the grading system, simply you, if you think of it,
we are training our young people to fear failure
from the very young age, you know, we are grading
for what you can’t do instead of what you can do.

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instead of saying and pointing out, wow, you
knew 80% of, of all the things that I asked.

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It’s amazing while you have.

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Formerly to answer in a way that I have
never thought about, you know, so I think.

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and strongly believe that the grading system
needs to change in terms of let’s embrace.

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What are the positive sides rather than the negative
sides and, you know, looking at our education.

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I mean, a lot of things have changed obviously,
but still what I believe it’s not done yet.

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Properly is that we are not focusing enough
on individual strengths of the people.

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Right.

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we like imagine if we would really find.

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Each individual student is good
at what they’re passionate about.

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And if we would hone dos skills, instead of, you know,
learning this, you know, like again for, for a test that
you will forgot all the answers while you handed in, right.

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Instead focus on the individual strengths and passions
and simply say, okay, Hey, you are really good at, I
don’t know, science is, and let’s focus on sciences.

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You might not have to know how, I don’t know who,
but in literature let’s focus what you are good at.

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Then I think it would be incredible.

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I know when we would have people who are
really strong in their own environments, yeah.

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and, and plenty of other things.

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I mean, one of them is definitely a definition of success.

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Again, when I shared my story now, why I consider
myself as a successful student, I had, oh, one
two know, got a good job, blah, blah, blah.

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You know, that’s Okay.

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Success is known as it’s not only about money
or the position that you get in a company.

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I think it’s important to be content with who
you are to do something that you’re really
passionate about to do something that you love.

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Yeah.

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So

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Okay.

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one question I’m very interested, a
bit personal and, uh, it just came up.

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Um, so you’re becoming a mother now.

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It’s did this change anything for you in the
way you perceive what you’re doing right now
or how you want to do things or anything?

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wow.

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I mean, I don’t know.

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It’s it’s it’s I don’t think it really changed something.

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I think in the even made it stronger, simpler,
the feelings that, you know, we need to.

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Create an environment for young people that allows them to
thrive personally and professionally, you know, we, in my
opinion, we need to stop this, you know, teachers, students
relationship, instead of what, what would happen if we
all work together in our own on eye-level and more, most
importantly, you know, we need to create an environment.

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Let the young people to decide for
themselves, you know, to trust in them and
to simply support them in whatever they do.

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Yeah.

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It’s, I don’t know, becoming a mother thing.

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It just, it’s just made to make
all of this feeling stronger.

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So I really hope that we can create, create an
educational environment where young people can.

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Find their passions and simply go their own way and become,
you know, the, the, the, the change makers of tomorrow.

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Well, I mean, I’m pretty sure that your
project does contribute to that, so yeah.

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Yeah, and that it was a great pleasure to talk to you.

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It was very inspiring conversation and I, I thank
you for being here and, uh, wish you all the best.

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Thank you success with Slugly too.

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To be here.

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Have a good day.

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