Passioners podcast with Norbert Pusztai

Paolo Petrolini is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of a fintech startup, Salarify, and also an advisor for different types of organizations. He used to work for Google in Switzerland in various positions. He talks about his passion: product management, his favorite methodology, the key to success and also the most common mistakes companies make while developing products. Italian-born product guru is also a mentor of Google's Launchpad program for startups in the SEE/CEE regions, he believes that failures are just essential parts of the learning process and building resilience is important while taking new challenges.

In this episode Vale shares his thoughts about leadership, inspiring others and creating a positive environment at work. He also speaks about patchwork career, finding passion inside and outside of your workplace, and the importance of having a personal mission statement. He is an executive leader and experienced public speaker, who has been working for General Electric (GE) for 15 years.

Nora Kamenyiczki author and positive psychologist gives useful advice on how to find meaning and passion in life. How can we find activities and profession that leads to flow experience and flourishing? What does self-complexity mean and how can it be linked to a meaningful life? In the end of the conversation she shares some information about her new book, which is actually a self-awareness journal.

Paul Cash is on a mission to help humanize B2B marketing and move the industry forward. He has been voted as one of the Top 20 most influential B2B marketers, and was named "the leader of the year" by The Guardian in 2014. In this episode he shares how he has built and sold two successful multi-million pound creative businesses from scratch. And he also speaks about the secret of a strong personal brand and his book "In remarkable we trust".

Gabor had built his own companies before he has joined Codecool as an employee with the title of CMO. He speaks about how he has been using his passion, marketing to help a revolutionary programming school with creating value for both students and companies.

Alex has left his home country, Canada to go on a journey with full of challenges. He shares his experience of how to test your fresh ideas and build a portfolio business with having a flexible vision. He also speaks about his life working in Asia as a freelancer.

What do you do when you finally get the job you always wanted, but you realize it's not enough? Henry Scullion joins me on the podcast to share three lessons he learned from his experience in the IT industry that can help you move forward.

Mihaly Balogh is the CTO of Be-novative, an IT professional who is passionate about public speaking. He takes us on a journey to Asia, where he spent his Sabbatical. And he also shares his secret with us how he boosts his energy level.

Zsolt Horvath is a Program & Operations Manager at GE Healthcare, a leader who started his career as an engineer, his passion is building factories and teams. He shares his thoughts about the importance of dreams, the beauty of working in an international environment, especially working in the far east.

Dorottya Szamosi is a Senior A/P Operations Leader at General Electric (GE) and the Co-Leader of GE Women in Operation. She shares her story how she grew in different roles at one company in the past 12 years and became a leader of 100 people. She also speaks about empathy, management programs, the power of no and her success habit.

Eszter Farnady is the Eastern European Director of Project Management at General Electric (GE). The former Co-Leader of GE Women's Network Váci Greens Hub and former Division Director Austria-Hungary at Toastmasters International. Run addicted, TEDx speaker and most importantly mother of two.

Emilie Leruste is the leader of a team of 80+ people at GE Global Operations Europe, providing Financial Planning & Analysis from 9 AM to 5 PM every working day, and a mother of two from 5 PM to 9 PM and over the weekends. She will share her story about how she lived and worked in 3 different continents, managed to build a new department while she was pregnant, and helped to raise 60,000 USD to build a school in Nicaragua. The conversation was recorded at the "Womenspire Passioners TALK by GE Women's Network" event on March 7th, 2018.

William Benko helped build Euronet from a sleepy start-up company to become Central Europe’s first NASDAQ success story. He is the founder of Speak Academy and former president of American Chamber of Commerce in Hungary.