[Music]
good afternoon everybody it’s kind of
hot in here now but we’ll be cool later
I’m Sharon Jackson and I am the British
woman who had the vision of building and
off-grid by a climatic sustainable
building in the middle of an olive grove
on the top of the mountain on an island
called grete I had a vision that if I
built this amazing building people will
come from all around the world to come
to learn what sustainability feels like
what is the emotion about sustainability
and I felt that the island of Crete was
a perfect place for that to happen so
what I’m going to do this afternoon is
share with you some of the light and
some of the dark moments of bringing my
vision into reality and what I’m going
to ask you to do is as I tell you my
story going to ask you to notice since
things that really appeal to you or
something as I say you go Oh yuck oh I
love that or I feel emotional things
that meaningful to you have you all got
bits of paper show me hey Bravo you
should all have to one yellow and one
orange keep them safe because at the end
of my talk I’m gonna ask you to write on
don’t write anything until the end but
basically yellow will you be light
an orange will be dark but keep don’t
write anything yet because will tell you
what to do at the end but I’d like you
to pay attention to the things that I
say in my story that could be in your
story that’s the purpose of this are you
going to do that for me lovely so you
see that my title is sensing light and
dark a lot of my work around
sustainability is about sense making
what happens in our sense making
processes that makes us do good things
and what happens to make us do bad
things or mostly what happens in
humanity because I believe humanness is
good but mostly we’re just lazy aren’t
we we just know the right thing we
should do but we just don’t do it
because I know I shouldn’t eat so much
chocolate but hey you know I eat a lot
of chocolate I drink a lot of wine too I
know I shouldn’t but I do because
somehow I deselect that because I don’t
want to stop doing those things and
since making is largely about the
stories that we have in our heads the
narratives and the anchors that we have
define who we are who we are what we do
what other people think of us our
behaviors and how we make our decisions
so I’m let’s give a little bit of an
insight of my sense making because I
can’t get into your heads but I can
share you mine and you can see what
things resonate with you but before that
let me introduce you to my vision do you
like it isn’t she beautiful she’s lovely
so this is the European sustainability
Academy in the village of Draconis any
of you know drop on us it’s a little
village on a mountain very close to here
you see Souda Bay you have aqua teary on
one side of almost like a volcano and
the rapper Nas is the most iconic
beautiful mountain on the other side of
Souda Bay it’s very beautiful
excuse me and this is my anchor this is
my light ISA European sustainability
Academy is my story and I’m going to
share about with that unit with you now
in the hope that I might inspire you
with your own story but let me go
backwards a little I first came to Crete
with my vision in 2007 the same year I
went to the Arctic Circle on a research
program to find out about climate change
I went to Churchill Manitoba on the in
the very top of the world it’s called
the polar bear capital of the world
dendrochronology nice Greek word guys
yes I think so
so I was part of a research team taking
calls from trees to find out the impact
of climate change what we found
absolutely floored me I can tell you we
found
when I was in the labs happily sanding
this down and varnishing them etc we
found that every single tree core we
took from those trees in 2007 showed us
Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption from
1991 in Indonesia did you get that we’re
on the top of the world and every tree
ring from 1991 showed the impact the
sentencing of those trees of the volcano
in Indonesia it for me it was like wow I
kind of knew we were a closed loop on
this planet I kind of knew that we had
the one C one air one planet but to see
it like that it’s quite phenomenal don’t
you think so this happened at the same
time I came to it Tikrit and I bought my
home here and I started plans to build
my vision here now I’m gonna be honest
here I nearly quit before I started
because when I stopped being a tourist
and I saw the environmental degradation
here in Greece animal cruelty and
neglect problems with inequality between
gender I really thought I don’t know
this may not be the place for me I don’t
think they’re gonna like me I don’t
think I’m gonna like it felt very dark
for me and almost hopeless that’s how I
felt on being honest but then I thought
well change will come and wouldn’t I
rather be part of change than running
away from something that makes me feel
uncomfortable and dark so ten years on
let’s have a little look how things
changed this is my village trapping us
this is where I chose to build my vision
this is almost just across the road from
where I live do you know what it is it’s
a burning garbage dump can you hear my
throat gonna hear my eyes I saw and I’m
slightly coughing because of this it’s
been burning for three weeks guys three
weeks and it’s opposite my at my house
now I’m this is a dark thing for me I
can tell you it’s very dark and a moment
no one knows how to put it out I want to
turn this into something light and
bright so I’m trying to work with all
the stakeholders to educate and
understand but this is
SiC fumes there is no way remember
dendrochronology remember the volcano in
Indonesia on the top of the planet this
is a problem for the whole of Africa
darkness the whole of Crete in fact
those fumes aren’t just in dragonus are
they so I’m trying to make it light and
trying to look for ways forward in a
positive elegant way we’re not there yet
but this is what I’m working on right
now because if we abuse our environment
it abuses us back 10 times harder a
degraded environment is not a place for
humans to have a nice light life and
that’s not just rhetoric
ISA my building is a living example of
Biophilia Greek word why do you believe
so by failure if you don’t know is the
theory that all humanity needs to be
connected with nature with part of the
system we’re not bolting on we’re not
just come here visitors and go off to
the moon at the weekends might happen in
the future but it’s not happening right
now
we are part of the system and we need it
we need it to feel good we need to feel
happy
we need to feel healthy so when do
people come to my Academy they write in
the book about how they feel they feel
safe secure healthy they cry when they
leave they just feel liberated they feel
light if you’re creative they go on to
do great things they particularly
comment on the materials that we use ISA
is built of straw mud wood and we have
earth Ruth’s so people talk about
feeling like in a burrow a womb being
safe and my god out here out there
there’s a lot of unsafe things happening
this world
so if I’ve created a place where people
feel safe to think and contemplate I
film my work is done in this world
frankly so this is about Biophilia now I
mentioned straw bales and you can see
there we’re building with strawberries
in 2011 hmm hasn’t always been easy 2011
straw bail building workshop 24 gorgeous
people coming from around the world
paying to come to learn to build with
straw bales guess what in dropping us we
had
zero straw bells they were sitting on a
vehicle in Piraeus waiting to get on it
on the ferry 10 days time we had no
straw house and my gorgeous architects
lovely young female architects from
Chania and to neon Zetas and probably
some of you here know those two
wonderful women the beginning of their
career and certainly the first eco
building they design like this came to
my house on the start of that workshop I
have time gonna get giggles now I tell
you because we sat in my kitchen at the
table his lovely young faces sitting at
me saying Sharon
is it a problem that we have no straw
bales you know I could tell they want an
answer from me
mica tell they were looking for
leadership they were looking for
guidance so what did I do
hmm I thought I went to the other room
and I got this beautiful rock someone
had given to me in Australia I don’t
even know what it is but it’s pretty I
can tell you that and someone told me it
is good for energy so I said Antony
Rosetta sit down at my table let’s hold
on to this you can imagine the Conya and
they’re thinking oh god we knew she’s a
bit crazy but she really is batty so
we’re sitting there we’re holding this
rock all of us there their face is
looking at me for some wisdom and I said
hold this rock because I have absolutely
no idea what to do and that’s what we
did we laughed we laughed and we laughed
and with laughter comes likes doesn’t it
because suddenly all that negativity and
that heaviness and scared nurse went
away and you know what happened 24 hours
later the straw bells came they arrived
anyone quite tell you how but we got
them there so everything was went ahead
so you can see how my story is unfolding
here now and I told you ISA is my anchor
it’s my magnet for light so today at the
end of my talk I want to help you find
your anchor and your magnets for lights
as you go through your lives that’s my
objective here today on this stage so
start creating your stories very early
and make sure you know what you want in
and what you don’t want him so ether was
built 2013 amazing amazing year we just
bast and light all that year I was
invited to speak around the world to
tell my story about ISA dropping off
this little village full of sheep and
goats frankly a men that don’t wash very
often but don’t send anybody I said that
I was invited New York City’s talk about
this and it happened to me in Athens
with a friend having a beer and we said
wouldn’t be so cool you know you can
omit Christ as his biting you know
people are really need cheering up what
if we invited some like Grammatik do you
know who Grammatik is yeah pretty cool
DJ from Brooklyn ace plays to thousands
and thousands of people in New York ask
him and he came and these wonderful
people here volunteers from this
University helped me make that happen
I tell you people were surprised it got
chromatic to play on a mountain and
raffinose in a wooden straw building for
400 people but no one was more surprised
than me I can tell you it was a very
light brilliant time the village
benefited the creek benefited it was it
was it did exactly what my friend and I
said it made everybody feel fabulous
we got chromatics plane crates it was
very wonderful and you know why he came
my story my story in fact when I first
asked him we said let’s do an Athens and
the agent said no we want to do it your
place the idea of playing off great is
gorgeous – gorgeous
environmentally beautiful sustainable
place with it under the stars is what we
want to do it was my story because they
believed in what I’ve done and grammatic
personally has an affinity with that
that’s why that happened the same year
we had African princesses don’t forget
I’m on a mountain with sheep and goats
okay so this photograph you can imagine
this is not what you see often
increasing village and when I take them
to the Vernor it’s hilarious because
they was dressed like this
they’re princesses so these women help
me set up the women empowerment awards
program and every year we recognize
Cretan women who excel then came 2014 Oh
2014 was a bit of a dark yeah I started
off at the beginning of the year having
a bit of a health scare which turned out
to be nothing but it made me think about
what I want in my life and what do I not
want in my life where is my light and
where’s my darkness the same time
someone stole money from me I was
blackmailed someone affected my car to
make it dangerous let’s say it was not a
light time at the same time the Greek
government owed me gets number 220
thousand euros nearly a million hearts
quarter a million euros now I don’t know
about you that is one big number of
money I was owed in PPR from the
building and some EU funding three years
I waited for this money and it didn’t
come now I will tell you at this time
around June 2014 I was ready to close
the doors on my vision I was ready to go
back to the UK and give up I’d run out
of money I don’t why don’t why do I want
to this dress creet doesn’t you know I
just thought I was right in 2007 queek
doesn’t want me I’m not wanted here but
I went to Linda I thought about it and I
thought sherry and you’re not a quitter
who come on you know you’re not a
quitter
get back you’re the only one that can
turn this around so I design what I like
to call I got his protest dress myself
as prettily and goddess-like as I
possibly could on a hot day spraying
myself a nice perfume had let his spray
bush number not Chanel number 19 and I
took myself off to the voi in Chania the
tax office ha ha ha are you with me on
you I’ve been there a lot of times
before with an appointment this time we
didn’t make an appointment I’m guess who
I took with me a milano photographer who
takes photographs of women on the
catwalk and his wife who’s a designer we
returned up you can see we’ve just
arrived there top left-hand corner we’re
just arriving I am shaking really I’m
scared but thought what can I lose here
I never got an appointment so quickly in
the tax office ever before in my life
straight in but I didn’t think it went
well and you see me honest on the steps
they’re leaving I’m crying because I
don’t think it’s gone well I got the
money two weeks later then we thought
let’s go for the rest of it
my accountant rang the other office the
office said do not let her come here
with a photographer photographer great
I’ll be there on Monday for that for the
cheque
and if Monday doesn’t happen the
photographer and I come on Tuesday oh
she said we can’t possibly get people to
sign the cheque no problem try harder
otherwise I’ll see you on Tuesday see me
there that check is 143 thousand euros
ladies and gentlemen I waited three
years to get that money
it was rightfully my own so a bit of
Chanel number 19 and a milano
photographer will take you all the way
in life I tell you so he still lived on
survived another quitting phase and
actually more than lives on we are
thriving
we are basking in the light right now
that is me in February Mumbai getting
yet another award for our work another
award for ISA and Rapanos another award
for Crete the second year running at an
amazing conference we have relationships
with people in Dubai in India in
Australia we have groups of people
coming up this tiny village of dropping
ours to see the night sky the cretan
windows the sky to hear about mythology
we have people coming to test taste
Cretan natural treasures we have broken
into the cruise ship market groups are
being brought up from Chania up to a
mountain with goats and sheep to come to
see this anchor of light that’s unheard
of people don’t come up to this little
village so I can tell you we are basking
in success but now that I know the
darkness will come back hey welcome for
sure because that’s life isn’t it but I
have some tricks I know I can do a few
little tricks I’ve tried them out and
they’ve worked
and of course I have hahaha this
wonderful thing I have the magic rock I
have my ISA my anchor for lights I think
the momentum I what I didn’t realize I
was going to do was create a movement
for change I do believe that’s what’s
happening and having the right people
around us is also very important for
getting through the dark times and I
feel that my my journey has included
getting the right people laughter and
sticking to my purpose of my story so
that’s my story in 18 minutes it’s over
to you I’m gonna hand to you Anna in a
moment but really what did you hope you
were paying attention ladies and
gentlemen
what did you notice what did you feel
what really made you oh that’s
interesting because remember I told you
when I wasn’t feeling very well I wanted
I thought of what I keep in light what
makes me feel good what do I want in my
story when I’m doing a TEDx talk in 10
years time that’s why that’s my
challenge to you guys what do you want
to be telling people when you’re on
stage but your story and what do you
want to kick out people I made some I
kick some people out back then
because what they weren’t serving me
well in my vision the lights are going
to come up now you have in your bag some
pens and then space write your notes
stay seated and the new Anna’s going to
tell you what we’re going to do afters
we’re going to do some very special
quite a nice ceremony that I hope you’ll
enjoy so thank you very much for
listening to me
[Applause]
good afternoon everybody it’s kind of
hot in here now but we’ll be cool later
I’m Sharon Jackson and I am the British
woman who had the vision of building and
off-grid by a climatic sustainable
building in the middle of an olive grove
on the top of the mountain on an island
called grete I had a vision that if I
built this amazing building people will
come from all around the world to come
to learn what sustainability feels like
what is the emotion about sustainability
and I felt that the island of Crete was
a perfect place for that to happen so
what I’m going to do this afternoon is
share with you some of the light and
some of the dark moments of bringing my
vision into reality and what I’m going
to ask you to do is as I tell you my
story going to ask you to notice since
things that really appeal to you or
something as I say you go Oh yuck oh I
love that or I feel emotional things
that meaningful to you have you all got
bits of paper show me hey Bravo you
should all have to one yellow and one
orange keep them safe because at the end
of my talk I’m gonna ask you to write on
don’t write anything until the end but
basically yellow will you be light
an orange will be dark but keep don’t
write anything yet because will tell you
what to do at the end but I’d like you
to pay attention to the things that I
say in my story that could be in your
story that’s the purpose of this are you
going to do that for me lovely so you
see that my title is sensing light and
dark a lot of my work around
sustainability is about sense making
what happens in our sense making
processes that makes us do good things
and what happens to make us do bad
things or mostly what happens in
humanity because I believe humanness is
good but mostly we’re just lazy aren’t
we we just know the right thing we
should do but we just don’t do it
because I know I shouldn’t eat so much
chocolate but hey you know I eat a lot
of chocolate I drink a lot of wine too I
know I shouldn’t but I do because
somehow I deselect that because I don’t
want to stop doing those things and
since making is largely about the
stories that we have in our heads the
narratives and the anchors that we have
define who we are who we are what we do
what other people think of us our
behaviors and how we make our decisions
so I’m let’s give a little bit of an
insight of my sense making because I
can’t get into your heads but I can
share you mine and you can see what
things resonate with you but before that
let me introduce you to my vision do you
like it isn’t she beautiful she’s lovely
so this is the European sustainability
Academy in the village of Draconis any
of you know drop on us it’s a little
village on a mountain very close to here
you see Souda Bay you have aqua teary on
one side of almost like a volcano and
the rapper Nas is the most iconic
beautiful mountain on the other side of
Souda Bay it’s very beautiful
excuse me and this is my anchor this is
my light ISA European sustainability
Academy is my story and I’m going to
share about with that unit with you now
in the hope that I might inspire you
with your own story but let me go
backwards a little I first came to Crete
with my vision in 2007 the same year I
went to the Arctic Circle on a research
program to find out about climate change
I went to Churchill Manitoba on the in
the very top of the world it’s called
the polar bear capital of the world
dendrochronology nice Greek word guys
yes I think so
so I was part of a research team taking
calls from trees to find out the impact
of climate change what we found
absolutely floored me I can tell you we
found
when I was in the labs happily sanding
this down and varnishing them etc we
found that every single tree core we
took from those trees in 2007 showed us
Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption from
1991 in Indonesia did you get that we’re
on the top of the world and every tree
ring from 1991 showed the impact the
sentencing of those trees of the volcano
in Indonesia it for me it was like wow I
kind of knew we were a closed loop on
this planet I kind of knew that we had
the one C one air one planet but to see
it like that it’s quite phenomenal don’t
you think so this happened at the same
time I came to it Tikrit and I bought my
home here and I started plans to build
my vision here now I’m gonna be honest
here I nearly quit before I started
because when I stopped being a tourist
and I saw the environmental degradation
here in Greece animal cruelty and
neglect problems with inequality between
gender I really thought I don’t know
this may not be the place for me I don’t
think they’re gonna like me I don’t
think I’m gonna like it felt very dark
for me and almost hopeless that’s how I
felt on being honest but then I thought
well change will come and wouldn’t I
rather be part of change than running
away from something that makes me feel
uncomfortable and dark so ten years on
let’s have a little look how things
changed this is my village trapping us
this is where I chose to build my vision
this is almost just across the road from
where I live do you know what it is it’s
a burning garbage dump can you hear my
throat gonna hear my eyes I saw and I’m
slightly coughing because of this it’s
been burning for three weeks guys three
weeks and it’s opposite my at my house
now I’m this is a dark thing for me I
can tell you it’s very dark and a moment
no one knows how to put it out I want to
turn this into something light and
bright so I’m trying to work with all
the stakeholders to educate and
understand but this is
SiC fumes there is no way remember
dendrochronology remember the volcano in
Indonesia on the top of the planet this
is a problem for the whole of Africa
darkness the whole of Crete in fact
those fumes aren’t just in dragonus are
they so I’m trying to make it light and
trying to look for ways forward in a
positive elegant way we’re not there yet
but this is what I’m working on right
now because if we abuse our environment
it abuses us back 10 times harder a
degraded environment is not a place for
humans to have a nice light life and
that’s not just rhetoric
ISA my building is a living example of
Biophilia Greek word why do you believe
so by failure if you don’t know is the
theory that all humanity needs to be
connected with nature with part of the
system we’re not bolting on we’re not
just come here visitors and go off to
the moon at the weekends might happen in
the future but it’s not happening right
now
we are part of the system and we need it
we need it to feel good we need to feel
happy
we need to feel healthy so when do
people come to my Academy they write in
the book about how they feel they feel
safe secure healthy they cry when they
leave they just feel liberated they feel
light if you’re creative they go on to
do great things they particularly
comment on the materials that we use ISA
is built of straw mud wood and we have
earth Ruth’s so people talk about
feeling like in a burrow a womb being
safe and my god out here out there
there’s a lot of unsafe things happening
this world
so if I’ve created a place where people
feel safe to think and contemplate I
film my work is done in this world
frankly so this is about Biophilia now I
mentioned straw bales and you can see
there we’re building with strawberries
in 2011 hmm hasn’t always been easy 2011
straw bail building workshop 24 gorgeous
people coming from around the world
paying to come to learn to build with
straw bales guess what in dropping us we
had
zero straw bells they were sitting on a
vehicle in Piraeus waiting to get on it
on the ferry 10 days time we had no
straw house and my gorgeous architects
lovely young female architects from
Chania and to neon Zetas and probably
some of you here know those two
wonderful women the beginning of their
career and certainly the first eco
building they design like this came to
my house on the start of that workshop I
have time gonna get giggles now I tell
you because we sat in my kitchen at the
table his lovely young faces sitting at
me saying Sharon
is it a problem that we have no straw
bales you know I could tell they want an
answer from me
mica tell they were looking for
leadership they were looking for
guidance so what did I do
hmm I thought I went to the other room
and I got this beautiful rock someone
had given to me in Australia I don’t
even know what it is but it’s pretty I
can tell you that and someone told me it
is good for energy so I said Antony
Rosetta sit down at my table let’s hold
on to this you can imagine the Conya and
they’re thinking oh god we knew she’s a
bit crazy but she really is batty so
we’re sitting there we’re holding this
rock all of us there their face is
looking at me for some wisdom and I said
hold this rock because I have absolutely
no idea what to do and that’s what we
did we laughed we laughed and we laughed
and with laughter comes likes doesn’t it
because suddenly all that negativity and
that heaviness and scared nurse went
away and you know what happened 24 hours
later the straw bells came they arrived
anyone quite tell you how but we got
them there so everything was went ahead
so you can see how my story is unfolding
here now and I told you ISA is my anchor
it’s my magnet for light so today at the
end of my talk I want to help you find
your anchor and your magnets for lights
as you go through your lives that’s my
objective here today on this stage so
start creating your stories very early
and make sure you know what you want in
and what you don’t want him so ether was
built 2013 amazing amazing year we just
bast and light all that year I was
invited to speak around the world to
tell my story about ISA dropping off
this little village full of sheep and
goats frankly a men that don’t wash very
often but don’t send anybody I said that
I was invited New York City’s talk about
this and it happened to me in Athens
with a friend having a beer and we said
wouldn’t be so cool you know you can
omit Christ as his biting you know
people are really need cheering up what
if we invited some like Grammatik do you
know who Grammatik is yeah pretty cool
DJ from Brooklyn ace plays to thousands
and thousands of people in New York ask
him and he came and these wonderful
people here volunteers from this
University helped me make that happen
I tell you people were surprised it got
chromatic to play on a mountain and
raffinose in a wooden straw building for
400 people but no one was more surprised
than me I can tell you it was a very
light brilliant time the village
benefited the creek benefited it was it
was it did exactly what my friend and I
said it made everybody feel fabulous
we got chromatics plane crates it was
very wonderful and you know why he came
my story my story in fact when I first
asked him we said let’s do an Athens and
the agent said no we want to do it your
place the idea of playing off great is
gorgeous – gorgeous
environmentally beautiful sustainable
place with it under the stars is what we
want to do it was my story because they
believed in what I’ve done and grammatic
personally has an affinity with that
that’s why that happened the same year
we had African princesses don’t forget
I’m on a mountain with sheep and goats
okay so this photograph you can imagine
this is not what you see often
increasing village and when I take them
to the Vernor it’s hilarious because
they was dressed like this
they’re princesses so these women help
me set up the women empowerment awards
program and every year we recognize
Cretan women who excel then came 2014 Oh
2014 was a bit of a dark yeah I started
off at the beginning of the year having
a bit of a health scare which turned out
to be nothing but it made me think about
what I want in my life and what do I not
want in my life where is my light and
where’s my darkness the same time
someone stole money from me I was
blackmailed someone affected my car to
make it dangerous let’s say it was not a
light time at the same time the Greek
government owed me gets number 220
thousand euros nearly a million hearts
quarter a million euros now I don’t know
about you that is one big number of
money I was owed in PPR from the
building and some EU funding three years
I waited for this money and it didn’t
come now I will tell you at this time
around June 2014 I was ready to close
the doors on my vision I was ready to go
back to the UK and give up I’d run out
of money I don’t why don’t why do I want
to this dress creet doesn’t you know I
just thought I was right in 2007 queek
doesn’t want me I’m not wanted here but
I went to Linda I thought about it and I
thought sherry and you’re not a quitter
who come on you know you’re not a
quitter
get back you’re the only one that can
turn this around so I design what I like
to call I got his protest dress myself
as prettily and goddess-like as I
possibly could on a hot day spraying
myself a nice perfume had let his spray
bush number not Chanel number 19 and I
took myself off to the voi in Chania the
tax office ha ha ha are you with me on
you I’ve been there a lot of times
before with an appointment this time we
didn’t make an appointment I’m guess who
I took with me a milano photographer who
takes photographs of women on the
catwalk and his wife who’s a designer we
returned up you can see we’ve just
arrived there top left-hand corner we’re
just arriving I am shaking really I’m
scared but thought what can I lose here
I never got an appointment so quickly in
the tax office ever before in my life
straight in but I didn’t think it went
well and you see me honest on the steps
they’re leaving I’m crying because I
don’t think it’s gone well I got the
money two weeks later then we thought
let’s go for the rest of it
my accountant rang the other office the
office said do not let her come here
with a photographer photographer great
I’ll be there on Monday for that for the
cheque
and if Monday doesn’t happen the
photographer and I come on Tuesday oh
she said we can’t possibly get people to
sign the cheque no problem try harder
otherwise I’ll see you on Tuesday see me
there that check is 143 thousand euros
ladies and gentlemen I waited three
years to get that money
it was rightfully my own so a bit of
Chanel number 19 and a milano
photographer will take you all the way
in life I tell you so he still lived on
survived another quitting phase and
actually more than lives on we are
thriving
we are basking in the light right now
that is me in February Mumbai getting
yet another award for our work another
award for ISA and Rapanos another award
for Crete the second year running at an
amazing conference we have relationships
with people in Dubai in India in
Australia we have groups of people
coming up this tiny village of dropping
ours to see the night sky the cretan
windows the sky to hear about mythology
we have people coming to test taste
Cretan natural treasures we have broken
into the cruise ship market groups are
being brought up from Chania up to a
mountain with goats and sheep to come to
see this anchor of light that’s unheard
of people don’t come up to this little
village so I can tell you we are basking
in success but now that I know the
darkness will come back hey welcome for
sure because that’s life isn’t it but I
have some tricks I know I can do a few
little tricks I’ve tried them out and
they’ve worked
and of course I have hahaha this
wonderful thing I have the magic rock I
have my ISA my anchor for lights I think
the momentum I what I didn’t realize I
was going to do was create a movement
for change I do believe that’s what’s
happening and having the right people
around us is also very important for
getting through the dark times and I
feel that my my journey has included
getting the right people laughter and
sticking to my purpose of my story so
that’s my story in 18 minutes it’s over
to you I’m gonna hand to you Anna in a
moment but really what did you hope you
were paying attention ladies and
gentlemen
what did you notice what did you feel
what really made you oh that’s
interesting because remember I told you
when I wasn’t feeling very well I wanted
I thought of what I keep in light what
makes me feel good what do I want in my
story when I’m doing a TEDx talk in 10
years time that’s why that’s my
challenge to you guys what do you want
to be telling people when you’re on
stage but your story and what do you
want to kick out people I made some I
kick some people out back then
because what they weren’t serving me
well in my vision the lights are going
to come up now you have in your bag some
pens and then space write your notes
stay seated and the new Anna’s going to
tell you what we’re going to do afters
we’re going to do some very special
quite a nice ceremony that I hope you’ll
enjoy so thank you very much for
listening to me
[Applause]
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