The Femme Futurists Society Podcast
The Femme Futurists Society is where we showcase and amplify the thinking + work of an extraordinary group of women you need to know. Trailblazers, activists, creators, thought leaders, innovators, change makers and more-our Femmes turn vision into action. They are not simply disruptors, they are reconstructors, leading by example with a deep belief in our human potential to shape a better world. Endlessly curious and champions of possibility, they inspire all of us to dive in and co-create the future we want.
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Monday Nov 06, 2023
Monday Nov 06, 2023
Episode #33: In our Femme Futurist Video Podcast series with extraordinary women, we explore how we can better develop high-tech for low resource environments to improve global health with Drea Burbank. Drea Burbank, is the CEO of Savimbo as an MD-Technologist & Serial Entrepreneur with her work ranging in things like Web3 to stem-cells.
Learn more about the Femmes at Femmefuturists.com
Learn more about Drea and Savimbo at Savimbo.com
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
In our Femme Futurist Video Podcast series with extraordinary women, we discuss the future of childhood and future fit design with Joana Lenkova. Joana Lenkova is the Futurology Director for the Lego Group and founder of Futures Forward, a strategy and innovation consultancy focused on building impactful, resilient business models to help shape and inspire positive future narratives.
***All opinions are Joana's own and do not reflect the LEGO Group.***
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Learn more about Joana Lenkova
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Episode #31 in our Femme Futurists video podcast series with Sun (Kagami) Brown, where we talk about: Deep Self Design. The Doodle revolution. Inner engineering. Gamestorming. Collaboration Literacy. Juicy messiness. Being a best friend to yourself. And my favorite: shoshaku jushaku (which in Zen Buddhism means; one continuous mistake). It would be easy to think of that last one as a negative, but in conversation with Sunni Brown you quickly learn that it’s a philosophy of “joy that trusts in productive discomfort”.
These are just some of the directions our conversation takes.
Named one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business” and one of the “10 Most Creative People on Twitter” by Fast Company. Her TED talk has drawn over 1.6 million views and her work on visual thinking has been featured in every major U.S. publication including: The New York Times, The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, WIRED, and Entrepreneur. She has been featured twice on CBS Sunday Morning and on The TODAY Show.
And she is widely credited with the rise of #visualthinking (doodling!) as a tool for deeper inquiry and is #CEO of the Center For Deep Self Design.
Listen or watch and enjoy this rich conversation about the intersection of our inner and outer worlds and why a “good life is an inside job”.
Listen to Our Previous Conversations: 🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-femme-futurists-society-podcast/id1680532882 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7xr5S27ZG3DzoHkNsOtxFN
Learn more about Femme Futurists Society at https://femmefuturists.com/Learn more about Sun at http://nothingintheway.substack.com/
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Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
Episode #30: In our Femme Futurist Video Podcast series with extraordinary women, we explore the role of new technologies in creativity with Brooke Hopper. Brooke Hopper is Principal Designer for Machine Intelligence and Emerging Technologies at Adobe, working to deepen and enhance the creative process and allow all humans to more fully realize their creative visions.
Learn more about the Femmes at FemmeFuturists.com
Learn more about Brooke Hopper
Tuesday Sep 12, 2023
Tuesday Sep 12, 2023
Episode #28: In our our Femme Futurist Video Podcast series with extraordinary women, we discuss future proofing one of the world’s best known brands with Joanna Lepore. Joanna Lepore is the Global Foresight Director for McDonald’s, leading the exploration of new capabilities globally by putting humans and sustainability at the center of their future visioning.
Learn more about the Femmes at FemmeFuturists.com
Learn more about Joanna Lepore at Looking-Outside.com
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Carin Ism and Nancy Giordano discuss the future of governance...
We see example after example of how exponential technologies are changing everything, yet our systems of governance are not keeping pace. Cross-pollination between the digital realm and governance design is long overdue, and that's exactly where our latest Femme Futurists Society interviewee comes in. A "power nerd" and co-author of “How to Rule a World—A Guide to the Established and Emerging Tools for Power and Governance in the 21st century" (set to be released at the end of 2020), Carin Ism is fascinated by systems of governance.
An advocate of the solar punk movement - which envisions a future beyond scarcity - she is the co-Founder of the Future of Governance Agency (FOGA) dedicated to seeding innovation and general power literacy. Besides living at 14,000 feet in the Himalayas to develop design principles for space societies, she was also the principal investigator of the first governance study on Mars. (And so many other things on her resume there simply isn't room for!). We got to the end of this interview and were blown away. We hope you are too.
Learn more at femmefuturists.comLearn more about Nancy at nancygiordano.comLearn more about our guest Carin at corinism.com
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Zahara Chetty and Nancy Giordano discuss the need for divergent thinking and polymaths...
Zahara Chetty and Nancy Giordano discuss the need for divergent thinking thinking, polymaths and multi-potentialities in this heartfelt conversation around her life growing up in Apartheid South Africa. As an Educationist, Writer, Facilitator, Fashion Designer and Coach she works remotely with teams all around the world to help individuals, CEOs, startups, social enterprises, governments and organizations navigate complexity and develop more conscious and collaborative solutions for the future. She has a special interest in cognition, trauma and conscious evolution in a time where technology threatens to outpace human development.
Learn more at femmefuturists.comLearn more about Nancy at nancygiordano.comLearn more about our guest Zahara at zaharachetty.com
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Lisa Galarneau and Nancy Giordano discuss anthropology of the future...
A curiosity-led, polymath and anthropologist, Dr. Lisa Galarneau uses the past to shape the future. Firmly believing that we have the ability right now to shape a thriving existence for all (including the planet), in this conversation with Nancy Giordano she wonders what's stopping us? Lisa posits that, "we must de-condition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it’s not easy". Her vision? A world that works for everyone. We couldn't agree more.
Learn more at femmefuturists.comLearn more about Nancy at nancygiordano.comLearn more about our guest Lisa at lgalarneau.wixsite.com/lisa
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Geci Karuri-Sebina and Nancy Giordano discuss the importance of intelligent cities rather than smart cities...
In our Femme Futurist Video Podcast with extraordinary women, we discuss intelligent cities not just smart cities with Geci Karuri-Sebina. GECI KARURI-SEBINA is a Johannesburg-based scholar-practitioner who works on urban planning and governance issues to ensure we don’t just have smart cities but intelligent cities that foster distributed communities, self-reliance, interconnectivity, and a unique sense of identity.
Learn more at femmefuturists.comLearn more about Nancy at nancygiordano.comLearn more about our guest Geci at foresightfordevelopment.org/profile/geci-karuri-sebina
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Dana Klisanin and Nancy Giordano discuss cultivating consciousness...
In our Femme Futurist Video Podcast with extraordinary women, we discuss how to "rewild the mind” with Dana Klisanin. DR DANA KLISANIN is CEO at Evolutionary Guidance Media R&D, Inc. and Co-Founder at ReWilding: Lab, a new venture to "rewild the mind" and expand the way we learn, heal, and envision our planetary futures.
Learn more at femmefuturists.comLearn more about Nancy at nancygiordano.comLearn more about our guest Dana at danaklisanin.com