okay so I’m super excited to be here
we’re gonna switch gears a little and
I’m gonna speak in English actually
there was a little bit of a mix-up in
terms of my bio but that’s okay so yes I
have done research in innovation
management I handed in my dissertation
just recently now I’m working in a
corporate job but I’m going to talk
about that later and the talk actually
has a slightly different angle to it as
you can see the title is there to
connect but it is very much fueled by
what I learned after I became a mom and
then started working full-time and had
an online business on the side so as you
can imagine my days are kind of full and
that very much spurred the ideas that
I’m going to present to you today so um
yes dare to connect I want to start this
talk with a slightly different thing and
I want to do a little exercise with you
but don’t worry you don’t have to move
and you also don’t have to pour your
heart out to the person sitting next to
you all I want you to do is to close
your eyes for a minute and imagine
something re eyes closed
good I want you to imagine a world where
you could reach and connect anyone
whoever you set your mind to I want you
to imagine a world where you could find
people who believe in the things that
you believe in no matter where they live
no matter where you live no matter where
you are in your life I want you to
imagine a world where you could start a
movement however big or small but a
movement about this one thing that you
are passionate about about this one
change that you want to bring to this
world what would that world look like
and how would you feel about living in
that kind of world the truth of course
is and you may open your eyes now again
that this is in fact the world that we
live in today that for the first time in
the history of humankind your individual
social network is no longer determined
by where you were born and whom your
parents know that whatever goal you set
yourself whoever you want to become you
can figure it out
there has been someone who has already
done it and what is even more you can
find people who are on the same journey
that you are on you can find people who
strive for the same things that you
strive for but this comes at a cost
because yes there is this transparency
of information and yes there is this
potential to connect but the cost is
that there is always somewhere someone
who is posting more there is always
somewhere someone who is showing more of
their achievements there’s always
somewhere someone who is further along
in the journey and that kind of sucks
and you feel frazzled and distracted and
the way we react to that kind of
distraction and frazzled nezam suckiness
is the same way we react to feeling
stressed and busy we cram more into our
lives we skim we automate we multitask
and it has never been easier thanks to
those beautiful devices that are always
at our fingertips and this doesn’t only
pertain to information yes you scroll
through your information feed on your
news app but you do that also when it
comes to your relationships think about
it when you open Facebook or Instagram
or whatever your platform of choice is
what do you do you work through your
feed your skin.you almost automatically
like the things that are posted and what
you’ve done is that you’ve stopped
engaging with the content the things
that are posted there are the captions
with the pictures and what is even more
you’ve stopped engaging with a person
behind the
content and that’s kind of a problem
don’t you think so because that is the
thing that you need for connection as a
society we have the potential to connect
to become hyper connected but we are
merely hyperlinked at this point in time
and it doesn’t get much better for those
people who have the privilege of
entering your email inbox or your
messages when do you answer to answer
those while you’re waiting in line for
coffee while you’re sitting next to a
friend supposedly having dinner together
so on an individual level what we notice
is that more and more people actually
feel that they are missing true deep
meaningful connections the potential is
there but the real depth is missing and
that is a problem not only a societal
level but on an individual level and in
order to solve that there is actually
only one thing that we need it’s kind of
a big one but there’s only one thing
that we need and that’s courage for one
we need the courage to be honest we need
to be honest about the fact that really
truly honestly inside we are we might be
a little addicted to those devices right
at our fingertips that may be truly
honestly inside we care a lot more about
the Bing beep and buzz of that device
then the thing that causes the Bing
beeping buzz that it has become
completely socially accepted to complain
about emails and messages yet me open
those apps like what 80 times a day so
in order to change the problem in order
to change our behavior we first need to
own up to the fact that we might have a
and you need the courage to decide you
need to decide what it is that you’re
doing whenever you log on to your
favorite social media app because the
thing is whenever you don’t engage with
the content whenever you don’t engage
with a person behind the content you are
not staying in touch you’re not building
connections you’re not investing in your
relationships you’re simply consuming
and there’s nothing wrong with
consumption a little Netflix here a
little Amazon Prime there but it has to
have boundaries and you need to be aware
of what you are doing and you shouldn’t
confuse passive consumption with
investing time and energy into the
people you care about
and lastly that’s kind of important one
you need the courage to be vulnerable
because the truth is whenever you want
to connect with someone else you have to
dare to show who you really are
you have to dare to be vulnerable and to
speak your truth and the truth is not
everyone will like it but that’s okay
too
and the other truth is it’s always been
that way if you neglect all the
technology that is the one thing that
you always needed in order to connect
with another human being you need to
show up as who you are you need to speak
your truth your mind your opinion and
you need to dare to show the other
person who you really are that’s the one
thing that hasn’t changed the beautiful
thing is that now with all this
technology you have the potential to
connect with people that you couldn’t
have connected otherwise but you need to
dare to be vulnerable because connection
that’s kind of scary right it’s
challenging it’s risky you have to put
yourself out there but if you dare to do
that then you have the potential to
reach another human being
and I want to tell you a little story
about just that as I said in a time
pre-internet you were pretty limited in
terms of who you could reach and who you
would connect to but now with the
internet you have the potential to reach
people who believe the things that you
believe in no matter where they live and
no matter who they are and that’s
exactly the story that I want to tell
you today there are two women on these
pictures a little blurry but you’ll get
the impression I’ll walk you through so
as you probably noticed one is me the
other one is Chrissy and she’s actually
here today and you probably noticed
right away when you looked at the photos
that we look really different Chrissy
has long black hair she it’s actually
more blueish right now she likes to
dress really black and she has several
tattoos I on the other hand as evidence
right now like to wear white crisp
shirts and if you’ve seen me running
around before the talk then you probably
saw a little prada bag so on the surface
we have nothing in common and if you
look a little deeper you will find just
that Chrissy even though she’s an
introvert she’s more of a wild spirit
she is a freelancer
she’s a web designer and a copywriter I
on the other hand have a strictly
business background as I said I’ve done
research in innovation management and
now I have a corporate job as corporate
as they come I work in a strategy
department for a financial services firm
yeah it doesn’t get more boring
actually it’s super exciting but I know
what you’re expecting so we are
incredibly different and the truth is
that in a world without the internet we
would have never met and it does nothing
to do with where we live we actually
both live in Munich but the truth is if
we had bumped into each other we
wouldn’t even have considered talking to
each other but we did connect because of
this beautiful thing called the internet
and all it took for us was to show up as
who we are and to talk about the things
that we believe in and all of a sudden
we realized that even though we look
incredibly different we have incredibly
different backgrounds we share something
and we have a common language to talk
about it and so we connected and we
stayed in touch through Instagram and
other platforms and now I’m standing
here today Chrissy is here she’s now
working with me and my online business
she was the first hire that I made and
not only that she’s also kind of my
supporter and friend in my own little
movement that I’m trying to create where
I aim to empower women to make bolder
choices about their lives so that they
can live their lives according to their
own priorities all it took for us was to
show up and to speak about the things
that we believe in that we speak about
the things that we want to change and to
wrap this talk up that is really all you
have to do in order to build connection
that is all you have to do you simply
have to show up and I’m absolutely
convinced that there are people out
there waiting for you to reach out to
connect that there are people out there
waiting for you because they believe in
the things that you believe in I’m
convinced that there are people out
there waiting for you to join their
movement or even to lead their movement
so that you can bring about the change
that
you want to see in this world your
people the people that get you they’re
waiting for you so the only question
really is will you dare to connect thank you
we’re gonna switch gears a little and
I’m gonna speak in English actually
there was a little bit of a mix-up in
terms of my bio but that’s okay so yes I
have done research in innovation
management I handed in my dissertation
just recently now I’m working in a
corporate job but I’m going to talk
about that later and the talk actually
has a slightly different angle to it as
you can see the title is there to
connect but it is very much fueled by
what I learned after I became a mom and
then started working full-time and had
an online business on the side so as you
can imagine my days are kind of full and
that very much spurred the ideas that
I’m going to present to you today so um
yes dare to connect I want to start this
talk with a slightly different thing and
I want to do a little exercise with you
but don’t worry you don’t have to move
and you also don’t have to pour your
heart out to the person sitting next to
you all I want you to do is to close
your eyes for a minute and imagine
something re eyes closed
good I want you to imagine a world where
you could reach and connect anyone
whoever you set your mind to I want you
to imagine a world where you could find
people who believe in the things that
you believe in no matter where they live
no matter where you live no matter where
you are in your life I want you to
imagine a world where you could start a
movement however big or small but a
movement about this one thing that you
are passionate about about this one
change that you want to bring to this
world what would that world look like
and how would you feel about living in
that kind of world the truth of course
is and you may open your eyes now again
that this is in fact the world that we
live in today that for the first time in
the history of humankind your individual
social network is no longer determined
by where you were born and whom your
parents know that whatever goal you set
yourself whoever you want to become you
can figure it out
there has been someone who has already
done it and what is even more you can
find people who are on the same journey
that you are on you can find people who
strive for the same things that you
strive for but this comes at a cost
because yes there is this transparency
of information and yes there is this
potential to connect but the cost is
that there is always somewhere someone
who is posting more there is always
somewhere someone who is showing more of
their achievements there’s always
somewhere someone who is further along
in the journey and that kind of sucks
and you feel frazzled and distracted and
the way we react to that kind of
distraction and frazzled nezam suckiness
is the same way we react to feeling
stressed and busy we cram more into our
lives we skim we automate we multitask
and it has never been easier thanks to
those beautiful devices that are always
at our fingertips and this doesn’t only
pertain to information yes you scroll
through your information feed on your
news app but you do that also when it
comes to your relationships think about
it when you open Facebook or Instagram
or whatever your platform of choice is
what do you do you work through your
feed your skin.you almost automatically
like the things that are posted and what
you’ve done is that you’ve stopped
engaging with the content the things
that are posted there are the captions
with the pictures and what is even more
you’ve stopped engaging with a person
behind the
content and that’s kind of a problem
don’t you think so because that is the
thing that you need for connection as a
society we have the potential to connect
to become hyper connected but we are
merely hyperlinked at this point in time
and it doesn’t get much better for those
people who have the privilege of
entering your email inbox or your
messages when do you answer to answer
those while you’re waiting in line for
coffee while you’re sitting next to a
friend supposedly having dinner together
so on an individual level what we notice
is that more and more people actually
feel that they are missing true deep
meaningful connections the potential is
there but the real depth is missing and
that is a problem not only a societal
level but on an individual level and in
order to solve that there is actually
only one thing that we need it’s kind of
a big one but there’s only one thing
that we need and that’s courage for one
we need the courage to be honest we need
to be honest about the fact that really
truly honestly inside we are we might be
a little addicted to those devices right
at our fingertips that may be truly
honestly inside we care a lot more about
the Bing beep and buzz of that device
then the thing that causes the Bing
beeping buzz that it has become
completely socially accepted to complain
about emails and messages yet me open
those apps like what 80 times a day so
in order to change the problem in order
to change our behavior we first need to
own up to the fact that we might have a
and you need the courage to decide you
need to decide what it is that you’re
doing whenever you log on to your
favorite social media app because the
thing is whenever you don’t engage with
the content whenever you don’t engage
with a person behind the content you are
not staying in touch you’re not building
connections you’re not investing in your
relationships you’re simply consuming
and there’s nothing wrong with
consumption a little Netflix here a
little Amazon Prime there but it has to
have boundaries and you need to be aware
of what you are doing and you shouldn’t
confuse passive consumption with
investing time and energy into the
people you care about
and lastly that’s kind of important one
you need the courage to be vulnerable
because the truth is whenever you want
to connect with someone else you have to
dare to show who you really are
you have to dare to be vulnerable and to
speak your truth and the truth is not
everyone will like it but that’s okay
too
and the other truth is it’s always been
that way if you neglect all the
technology that is the one thing that
you always needed in order to connect
with another human being you need to
show up as who you are you need to speak
your truth your mind your opinion and
you need to dare to show the other
person who you really are that’s the one
thing that hasn’t changed the beautiful
thing is that now with all this
technology you have the potential to
connect with people that you couldn’t
have connected otherwise but you need to
dare to be vulnerable because connection
that’s kind of scary right it’s
challenging it’s risky you have to put
yourself out there but if you dare to do
that then you have the potential to
reach another human being
and I want to tell you a little story
about just that as I said in a time
pre-internet you were pretty limited in
terms of who you could reach and who you
would connect to but now with the
internet you have the potential to reach
people who believe the things that you
believe in no matter where they live and
no matter who they are and that’s
exactly the story that I want to tell
you today there are two women on these
pictures a little blurry but you’ll get
the impression I’ll walk you through so
as you probably noticed one is me the
other one is Chrissy and she’s actually
here today and you probably noticed
right away when you looked at the photos
that we look really different Chrissy
has long black hair she it’s actually
more blueish right now she likes to
dress really black and she has several
tattoos I on the other hand as evidence
right now like to wear white crisp
shirts and if you’ve seen me running
around before the talk then you probably
saw a little prada bag so on the surface
we have nothing in common and if you
look a little deeper you will find just
that Chrissy even though she’s an
introvert she’s more of a wild spirit
she is a freelancer
she’s a web designer and a copywriter I
on the other hand have a strictly
business background as I said I’ve done
research in innovation management and
now I have a corporate job as corporate
as they come I work in a strategy
department for a financial services firm
yeah it doesn’t get more boring
actually it’s super exciting but I know
what you’re expecting so we are
incredibly different and the truth is
that in a world without the internet we
would have never met and it does nothing
to do with where we live we actually
both live in Munich but the truth is if
we had bumped into each other we
wouldn’t even have considered talking to
each other but we did connect because of
this beautiful thing called the internet
and all it took for us was to show up as
who we are and to talk about the things
that we believe in and all of a sudden
we realized that even though we look
incredibly different we have incredibly
different backgrounds we share something
and we have a common language to talk
about it and so we connected and we
stayed in touch through Instagram and
other platforms and now I’m standing
here today Chrissy is here she’s now
working with me and my online business
she was the first hire that I made and
not only that she’s also kind of my
supporter and friend in my own little
movement that I’m trying to create where
I aim to empower women to make bolder
choices about their lives so that they
can live their lives according to their
own priorities all it took for us was to
show up and to speak about the things
that we believe in that we speak about
the things that we want to change and to
wrap this talk up that is really all you
have to do in order to build connection
that is all you have to do you simply
have to show up and I’m absolutely
convinced that there are people out
there waiting for you to reach out to
connect that there are people out there
waiting for you because they believe in
the things that you believe in I’m
convinced that there are people out
there waiting for you to join their
movement or even to lead their movement
so that you can bring about the change
that
you want to see in this world your
people the people that get you they’re
waiting for you so the only question
really is will you dare to connect thank you
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