Podcasts about virpi

Ab in den Schnee! Wir sprechen nämlich in dieser Woche über Wintersport. Als Finnin weiß Virpi natürlich sehr gut Bescheid und hat viel Erfahrung gesammelt. Doch auch Sandra stand schon auf Skiern. Ob das immer gut ausging, erfährst du in der aktuellen Folge. Du brauchst das Transkript zur Folge? Oder du möchtest sogar mit unseren zahlreichen Trainingsbüchern weiterlernen? Schau unbedingt in unseren Premium-Kanal. Dort findest du exklusive Sonderfolgen, Trainingsbücher und auch ein spezielles Online-Lern-Programm: https://steadyhq.com/de/deutsch-podcast/about Ein Gratis-Trainingsbuch findest du unter: https://deutsch-podcast.com/gratis/ Weitere Infos findest du unter: www.deutsch-podcast.com

Tässä podcast-jaksossa johdon valmentaja Virpi Takala syventyy itsensä johtamisen ydintaitoihin: resilienssin ja palautumiskyvyn kehittämiseen. Kuuntele, kun Virpi jakaa käytännönläheisiä vinkkejä, asiantuntevaa näkökulmaa ja inspiroivia oivalluksia, jotka auttavat sinua hallitsemaan stressiä, vahvistamaan henkistä kestävyyttä ja löytämään tasapainon kiireisen arjen keskellä.

Selle nädala Kuku raadio järjejutuminutid viivad meid saja aasta tagusesse Helsingisse. Linna veereservuaarist leitakse laip. Mõrtsuka tabamiseks peab Karl Axel Björk kohtuma nii tööliste, vandenõulaste kui ka spioonidega.

1920-luvun väkivaltainen ja syntinen Helsinki herää henkiin Virpi Hämeen-Anttilan kirjoittamassa Björk -dekkarisarjassa. Nyt kirjailija on suunnannut katseensa kauemmaksi. Taiteellisia kullankeltaisia maisemia, tuttuja kansallistaiteestamme, vie lukijan uusimmassa Synnyinmaa-sarjassa vielä kauemmaksi Suomen historiassa. Sarastus on sarjan ensimmäinen osa. Romaanin nimi symboloi myös uuden ajan alkua. Kirjassa kohtaamme köyhän torpan pojan ja hänen rakkautensa, vauraan talon tyttären, Briitan. Briitta on kiinnostava henkilö, hän on yllättävän moderni ja vapautunut tuon ajan naiseksi, miksi Hämeen-Anttila halusi luoda hänestä noin empansipoituneen? Onko tämä uutta että annetaan vahvempi ääni tänään myös historian naisille fiktiossa? Aikakausi on 1850-luku ja Häme. Mikä tässä ajassa kiinnosti Virpi Hämeen-Anttilaa juuri nyt? Kirjan loppusanoissa hän pyytää anteeksi paikkakunnan asukkailta, hän on viettänyt 23 vuotta kirjan seuduilla. Mikä merkitys Hämeellä on kirjailijalle? Miten Hämeen-Anttila kuvailee 1800-luvun lopun sääty-yhteiskuntaa? Millainen maamme oli sillon Venäjän vallan aikana? Romaanin ensimmäisessä osassa hän kuvaa Krimin sodan vaikutusta suomalaisiin. Virpi Hämeen-Anttila kuvaa myös miten Suomi muuttuu, rautatietä aloitetaan suunnittelemaan ja Cygnaeus lähtee ulkomaille tutustumaan kansakoululaitokseen. Oliko tämä uuden sivistysmaan syntyaikoja? Toisessa osassa Myöhäinen kevät kirjailija kuvaa ankaraa talvea ja kovia katovuosia. Kuvaukset Helsingistä ja sen älymystöstä ja eliitistä kertovat ajasta josta Suomi ponnisti ylöspäin. Ohjelman vieraana on kirjailija Virpi Hämeen-Anttila. Ohjelman juontajana on Pia-Maria Lehtola.

Kaupallinen yhteistyö: TSR:n rahoittama Valitse ilo ja innostus -hanke.Sote-ala on viime vuosina kokenut merkittäviä muutoksia, kuten siirtymisen hyvinvointialueille, työn tehostamisen, digitalisaation lisääntymisen ja uusien järjestelmien käyttöönoton. Nämä muutokset ovat vaikuttaneet merkittävästi myös työntekijöiden hyvinvointiin.Sote-alan muutoksista ja niiden vaikutuksista työntekijöiden hyvinvointiin psykologi Nina Lyytisen asiantuntijavieraana on keskustelemassa on FT (työterveyshuolto), TtM ja toimitusjohtaja Virpi Fagerström Ergomentor Oy:stä. Hän toimii Työsuojelurahaston rahoittaman Valitse ilo ja innostus! Sote-alan veto- ja pitovoiman edistäminen ergonomia- ja työturvallisuustietoa levittämällä -hankkeen projektipäällikkönä. Kun työhyvinvointi on kunnossa, organisaatio toimii tehokkaasti, työntekijät ja asiakkaat ovat tyytyväisiä, ja työ on tuottavaa ja innovointia edistävää. Onnistuminen vaatii ylimmän johdon strategista sitoutumista ja turvallisen työkulttuurin kehittämistä, jota ylläpidetään ja kehitetään jatkuvasti operatiivisella ja työntekijätasolla.Tässä jaksossa kuulet mm.- Mitkä ovat suurimmat haasteet, joita sote-ala tällä hetkellä kohtaa?- Mitä mahdollisuuksia muutokset voivat tuoda mukanaan?- Miten työyhteisöjen tuki näkyy muutostilanteissa?- Miten työhyvinvointia voitaisiin parantaa sote-alalla?- Mikä auttaa sote-ammattilaisia selviytymään muutosten keskellä?Lisätietoja:Valitse ilo ja innostus! Sote-alan veto- ja pitovoiman edistäminen ergonomia- ja työturvallisuustietoa levittämällä -hankkeesta ja ergonomiakoulutuksista saat lisätietoa täältä.Valitse Ilo ja Innostus hankkeessa pidetään ergonomiatietoiskuja, joihin voit tutustua ja ilmoittautua täällä. Virpi Fagerström LinkedIn:ssa, Instagramissa ja X/Twitterissa.Ergomentorin esittely:Ergomentor on koulutus- ja konsultaatioyritys, jonka tehtävänä on kehittää inhimillistä työelämää. Järjestämme koulutuksia ja tapahtumia. Huolehdimme, etteivät ihmiset sairastuisi työssään, vaan työtä voitaisiin tehdä häiriöttömästi, sujuvasti ja tehokkaasti inhimillisyys huomioiden. Pidämme paljon ergonomiakoulutuksia, joiden avulla ennaltaehkäisemme organisaatioiden työkyvyttömyysriskejä ja toimimme heidän kumppaneinaan työn kehittämisessä.Ergonomiassa lähdemme kokonaisvaltaisesta ergonomiasta, johon kuuluvat fyysinen, organisatorinen ja kognitiivinen ergonomia. Kun ergonomia on työpaikalla kunnossa, niin työt sujuvat, työntekijät ja asiakkaat ovat tyytyväisiä sekä työ on tehokasta ja tuottavaa. Onnistuminen edellyttää ylimmän johdon strategista toimintaa ja turvallisen työkulttuurin kehittämistä, jota operatiivisella ja työntekijätasolla jatkuvasti toteutetaan ja kehitetään muiden sidosryhmien, kuten asiakkaiden, yhteistyökumppaneiden, työsuojelun, työterveyshuollon ym. kanssa yhteistyössä. Konkreettisesti hyvä ergonomia näkyy organisaatiossa työn tuottavuuden kasvuna ja organisaation veto- ja pitovoiman lisääntymisenä.Lisätietoa koulutuksistamme löydät www.ergomentor.fi.Lue myös aiheesta kirjoitettuja blogeja osoitteesta: https://ergomentor.com/ajankohtaista/Löydät meidät Facebookista: https://www.facebook.com/ergomentor-----Haluatko antaa palautetta? Vinkata aiheita tai vieraita? Tee se täällä: psykopodiaa.fi/palaute tai suoraan Spotify-sovelluksessa, jos tätä sitä kautta kuuntelet.Jos pidit tästä jaksosta olisin kiitollinen, jos jaat sen somessa kavereillesi ja jos jätät arvion siinä palvelussa missä tätä kuunteletkin! Muista myös tilata Psykopodiaa, niin et missaa uusia jaksoja!Seuraa Psykopodiaa myös somessa:Facebookissa @PsykopodiaaInstragramissa @PsykopodiaaNina Lyytinen Twitterissa: @LyytinenNinaNina Lyytinen LinkedIn:ssa: @LyytinenNinaPsykopodiaa-podcastin verkkosivut: http://psykopodiaa.fiPsykodiaa-podcastin emännän, psykologi Nina Lyytisen verkkosivut: https://ninalyytinen.fi

Kaupallinen yhteistyö: TSR:n rahoittama Valitse ilo ja innostus -hanke.Miten ergonomiasta huolehditaan teidän työpaikallanne? Tässä jaksossa käsittelemme kokonaisvaltaista ergonomiaa ja sen merkitystä työelämässä. Ergonomialla on suuri vaikutus työntekijöiden hyvinvointiin ja työn tuottavuuteen. Jaksossa kuulet, kuinka ergonomiset toimenpiteet ovat parantaneet työterveyttä ja sujuvoittaneet työntekoa.Psykologi Nina Lyytisen asiantuntijavieraana on FT (työterveyshuolto), TtM ja toimitusjohtaja Virpi Fagerström Ergomentor Oy:stä.Kun ergonomia on kunnossa, työ sujuu jouhevasti, työntekijät ja asiakkaat ovat tyytyväisiä, ja työn tehokkuus sekä tuottavuus paranevat. Onnistuminen vaatii ylimmän johdon strategista sitoutumista ja turvallisen työkulttuurin kehittämistä, jota ylläpidetään ja kehitetään jatkuvasti operatiivisella ja työntekijätasolla.Jaksossa käsitellään mm. seuraavia kysymyksiä: - Mitä ergonomia työelämässä tarkoittaa? - Miksi ergonomia ja sen huomioiminen on tärkeää? - Miten ergonomia vaikuttaa yksilön terveyteen ja hyvinvointiin? - Millä tavoin ergonomia edistää työhyvinvointia ja tiimien toimivuutta? - Kuka on vastuussa hyvästä ergonomiasta? - Mitä meistä jokainen voi tehdä ergonomian parantamiseksi?Lisätietoja:Valitse ilo ja innostus! Sote-alan veto- ja pitovoiman edistäminen ergonomia- ja työturvallisuustietoa levittämällä -hankkeesta ja ergonomiakoulutuksista saat lisätietoa täältä. Valitse Ilo ja Innostus hankkeessa pidetään ergonomiatietoiskuja, joihin voit tutustua ja ilmoittautua täällä. Virpi Fagerström LinkedIn, Instagram, X/Twitter.Ergomentor on koulutus- ja konsultaatioyritys, jonka tehtävänä on kehittää inhimillistä työelämää. Järjestämme koulutuksia ja tapahtumia. Huolehdimme, etteivät ihmiset sairastuisi työssään, vaan työtä voitaisiin tehdä häiriöttömästi, sujuvasti ja tehokkaasti inhimillisyys huomioiden. Pidämme paljon ergonomiakoulutuksia, joiden avulla ennaltaehkäisemme organisaatioiden työkyvyttömyysriskejä ja toimimme heidän kumppaneinaan työn kehittämisessä.Ergonomiassa lähdemme kokonaisvaltaisesta ergonomiasta, johon kuuluvat fyysinen, organisatorinen ja kognitiivinen ergonomia. Kun ergonomia on työpaikalla kunnossa, niin työt sujuvat, työntekijät ja asiakkaat ovat tyytyväisiä sekä työ on tehokasta ja tuottavaa. Onnistuminen edellyttää ylimmän johdon strategista toimintaa ja turvallisen työkulttuurin kehittämistä, jota operatiivisella ja työntekijätasolla jatkuvasti toteutetaan ja kehitetään muiden sidosryhmien, kuten asiakkaiden, yhteistyökumppaneiden, työsuojelun, työterveyshuollon ym. kanssa yhteistyössä. Konkreettisesti hyvä ergonomia näkyy organisaatiossa työn tuottavuuden kasvuna ja organisaation veto- ja pitovoiman lisääntymisenä.Lisätietoa koulutuksistamme löydät www.ergomentor.fi.Lue myös aiheesta kirjoitettuja blogeja osoitteesta: https://ergomentor.com/ajankohtaista/ Löydät meidät Facebookista: https://www.facebook.com/ergomentor -----Haluatko antaa palautetta? Vinkata aiheita tai vieraita? Tee se täällä: psykopodiaa.fi/palaute tai suoraan Spotify-sovelluksessa, jos tätä sitä kautta kuuntelet.Jos pidit tästä jaksosta olisin kiitollinen, jos jaat sen somessa kavereillesi ja jos jätät arvion siinä palvelussa missä tätä kuunteletkin! Muista myös tilata Psykopodiaa, niin et missaa uusia jaksoja!Seuraa Psykopodiaa myös somessa:Facebookissa @PsykopodiaaInstragramissa @PsykopodiaaNina Lyytinen Twitterissa: @LyytinenNinaNina Lyytinen LinkedIn:ssa: @LyytinenNinaPsykopodiaa-podcastin verkkosivut: http://psykopodiaa.fiPsykodiaa-podcastin emännän, psykologi Nina Lyytisen verkkosivut: https://ninalyytinen.fi

Virpi ist in Finnland und Sandra muss arbeiten. Wir sprechen in dieser Folge darüber, was wir in den Ferien machen und worauf du dich in Zukunft mit unserem Podcast freuen darfst! Z. B. solltest du unbedingt den Termin für unseren Live-Stream notieren: Freitag, 6. September um 20.00 Uhr. Hier ist der Link: https://youtube.com/live/lIbbpDmY234?feature=share Du möchtest noch mehr mit unserem Podcast lernen? Du brauchst das vollständige Transkript? Dann besuche unbedingt unseren Premium-Kanal. Bis Ende August waren noch ein ganz besonderes Angebot für dich! Im Premium-Kanal findest du exklusive Sonderfolgen, Trainingsbücher und auch ein spezielles Online-Lern-Programm: https://steadyhq.com/de/deutsch-podcast/about Ein Gratis-Trainingsbuch findest du unter: https://deutsch-podcast.com/gratis/ Weitere Infos findest du unter: www.deutsch-podcast.com

In this podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Virpi Suutari, Director of Once Upon A Time In A Forest, which is screening at Docs Ireland (18 – 23 June 2024). A modern fairy tale in the enchanting embrace of the Finnish forest makes its Irish premiere. We witness young people seamlessly woven into the fabric of nature, swimming in crystalline lakes and revelling in the calm presence of the ancient trees. This idyllic harmony is imperilled as the forest faces man-made extinction. Driven by her love for the forest, 22-year-old Ida becomes the leader of the new Forest Movement, coming face to face with Finnish forest industry giants and confronting generational bias. Breathtaking visuals take viewers into the heart of the forest and the centre of the conflict. The film is a hopeful ode to nature and its protectors. A film both peaceful and inspiring, it successfully evokes the complex feelings that are very common in a generation that is living with the heavy consequences of it's ancestor's actions. Once Upon A Time In A Forest screens as part of the Maysles Brothers observational documentary competition on 20th June 2024 at Docs Ireland. Tickets https://queensfilmtheatre.com/Whats-On/Once-Upon-a-Time-in-a-Forest See the full programme https://docsireland.ie/programme/whats-on/ https://filmireland.net/

Virpi Hämeen-Anttila, "Öö süda on jäine". Kirjastuselt Tänapäev. Loeb Rando Tammik. Selle nädala Kuku raadio järjejutuminutid viivad meid saja aasta tagusesse Helsingisse. Linna veereservuaarist leitakse laip. Mõrtsuka tabamiseks peab Karl Axel Björk kohtuma nii tööliste, vandenõulaste kui ka spioonidega.

Vieraan Valinnassa Virpi Kätkä kertoo Euroviisujen suosiosta ja ikimuistoisimmasta Euroviisusta . Kuuntele tästä!

Elokuvaohjaaja Virpi Suutarin dokumentti Havumetsän lapset seuraa nuorten metsäaktivistien yrityksiä puolustaa metsiä hakkuilta. Dokumenttielokuva vie katsojansa mielenosoituksiin, sellutehtaille ja metsiin. Havumetsän lapset näyttää myös nuorten aktivistien suuren huolen maailmasta ja rakkauden luontoa kohtaan. Elokuva on saanut innoituksensa biologi ja kirjailija Juha Kauppisen Heräämisiä -teoksesta, joka kertoo suomalaisesta luonnonsuojelusta useiden sukupolvien kautta ja pohtii myös luonnonsuojelijana olemisen vaikeutta. Mikä saa ihmisen seisomaan järkähtämättä monitoimikoneen edessä ja mitä luontokato oikein käytännössä tarkoittaa? Millaisia tekoja ja millaisia heräämisiä luonnon monimuotoisuuden puolesta nyt tarvittaisiin? Millaiseen asemaan luontoa puolustava aktivisti itsensä yhteiskunnan silmissä asettaa? Saako rationaalisuuteen uskovassa maailmassa tunnustaa vilpitöntä yhteyttä luontoon? Miten puolustaa metsiä maassa, joka elää niistä? Kulttuuriykkösen keskustelussa näitä kysymyksiä pohtivat dokumentaristi Virpi Suutari sekä Havumetsän lapset -elokuvan nuoret luonnonsuojelijat Minka Virtanen ja Ida Korhonen. Kirjailija Juha Kauppinen kertoo suomalaisen luontoaktivismin vuosikymmenistä ja myös siitä, miksi hän vuosikausia niin ehdottomasti kielsi olevansa luonnonsuojelija. Toimittajana on Leena Peltokangas.

Thank you for listening! To close off our topic of Goal Setting, we are joined by Dr.Virpi Tervonen! Thank you, Virpi! Virpi is an Executive and Mental Fitness Coach joining us from Finland! You can find out more about Virpi at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/virpitervonen/ Come back

Tänään minulla on vieraanani Virpi Hach, joka on monelle tuttu Instagramin Finnish 2 Go -tililtä. Olipa mukava tutustua Virpiin! :) Kysymyksiä jaksosta: 1. Missä Virpi asuu? 2. Mitä kieliä Virpi opettaa? 3. Miksi ja milloin Virpi muutti Saksaan? 4. Milloin Virpi perusti Finnish 2 Go -Instagram-tilin? 5. Kenen kanssa Virpi suunnittelee ja tekee videoita? 6. Millaisia suomen kielen kursseja Virpi järjestää tällä hetkellä? 7. Mikä on Virpin mielestä tehokkain tapa oppia suomea? Lisää Virpistä: - Virpin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/finnishtogo - Virpin kurssit: https://finnishtogo.podia.com/ - Virpin podcast saksan kielestä: https://deutsch-podcast.com/deutsch-lernen-virpi-hach/

Tällä viikolla keskustelemme alitajunnan voimasta pitää meidät joko jumissa, kun annamme rajoittavien uskomusten ohjailla elämäämme, tai kun vapautamme ne uskomukset ja elämämme voi lähteä kukoistamaan. Vieraana Virpi Karjalainen. Virpi Karjalainen on pitkän linjan astangajoogaopettaja, kauppatieteen maisteri ja Rapid Transformational (RTT®) -hypnoterapeutti ja valmentaja. Hän auttaa ihmisiä muuttamaan elämää rajoittavia uskomuksia löytämällä juurisyyt alitajunnasta ja ohjelmoimalla uusia, parempaa elämää edistäviä uskomuksia.  Virpin tarjontaa: Onnen kokemukset -ryhmähypnoosi Zoomissa keskiviikkona 8.11. klo 18-19. Tarjoushinta 22 € voimassa 5.11. asti. 6.11. alkaen 33€.  Ilmoittaudu: ⁠http://vello.fi/dolife/segment/0b7f47cd⁠ (voit varata maksuttoman puhelinajan myös tämän sivun kautta.) Täällä pääsee lukemaan lisää ja maksamaan Onnen kokemukset -ryhmähypnoosin: https://dolifemethod.com/fi/tuote/onnen-kokemukset-ryhmahypnoosi/ Lisätiedot: https://dolifemethod.com/fi/ Mikaelan löydät: mikaelasol.com instagram.com/mikaelasol hae maksutonta valmennuspuhelua täältä.

Eroma aloitti soolouransa vuonna 2018 julkaisemalla rajun ja henkilökohtaisen selviytymistarinan "Kolmesataa". Debyyttisingle kertoo tilanteesta, jossa artisti itse oli muutamia vuosia sitten kun elämä tuntui täysin lohduttomalta. Vielä ei kuitenkaan ollut aika luovuttaa. Vaikeassa työdynamiikassa ylisuorittaminen kostautu ja vuonna 2010 iski vaikea työuupumus, joka johti pitkään sairaslomaan. 2015 vuoden aikana tuli ensimmäinen kosketus masennukseen. Vaikeimpina hetkinä se johti tsetuhoiseen ajatteluun. Vuonna 2018 päättyi 16 vuotta kestänyt parisuhde. Parisuhteen keston ajan Virpi oli se joka järjesti juhlia ja reissuja ystäväporukalle tai pariskuntien kesken. Perinteeksi muodostuneet tapahtumat olivat todella tärkeitä, mutta eron myötä elämästä katosivat ne tutuiksi tulleet ihmiset ja perinteet. Virpi eristäytyi ja erakoitui metsän keskelle, jossa hän vietti pari vuotta yksin. Eroma huutoitki metsän keskellä hänelle tapahtuneita asioita, yritti ymmärtää ja hyväksyä. Pelastusrenkaaksi muodostui musiikki, jota hän mulkaisi voimavarojen siihen riittäessä. Vuodet kuluivat, mutta suru pysyi. Masennus on siitä asti ollut jollakin tavalla koko ajan läsnä. Välillä se tarraa pahasti kiinni ja välillä se pysyy enemmän taustalla. Ihmiselle tekee pahaa jos ei saa kokea kuuluvansa mihinkään. Näin voi käydä jos ei kuulu laumaan tai ei ole yhtään ihmistä, joka haluaisi jakaa arkeaan tai viettää vapaa-aikaansa just sun kanssa. Se romahduttaa ihmisen kokemusta omasta arvostaan. Eroma on alusta asti laittanut itsensä alttiiksi laulamalla ja puhumalla avoimesti kokemistaan asioista,. Rankoistakin sellaisista. Hän kokee tärkeäksi, että mielenterveysongelmiin liittyviä stigmoja murretaan. Yksi Eroman missioista on herätellä ihmisiä pitämään toisistaan. Syy tähän on se, että hän on itse kokenut jääneensä suurten elämänmuutosten jälkeen hyvin yksin.

Aluksi faktat pöytään: Itä-Suomen työikäinen väestö on vähenemässä nykyisestä noin 25% vuoteen 2030 mennessä. Itä-Suomi ei houkuttele työperäisiä maahanmuuttaneita: v. 2021 Suomeen muuttaneista 30 000 ihmisestä vain 790 tuli Pohjois-Savoon ja 788 Pohjois-Karjalaan. (alla kuva tähän liittyen) Opiskelijakaupunki Joensuu -selvityksen mukaan kv-opiskelijat jäisivät mielellään Joensuuhun, mutta jääminen on epätodennäköistä, koska opiskeluaikana ei päästä kiinni työmahdollisuuksiin. 70% yrittäjistä sanoo osaavasta työvoimasta olevan pulaa. Teknologiateollisuus tarvitsee 130 000 uutta työntekijää vuoteen 2029 mennessä, sote-ala 230 000 seuraavan kymmenen vuoden sisällä.  Samaan aikaan työikäisten määrä vähentyi 136 000 henkilöllä vuosina 2010-2020. Toisin sanoen: Suomen väestö ja työllisten määrä kasvavat vain maahanmuuton kautta. Kv-osaajia siis tarvitaan, mutta kuinka saada heidät A) tulemaan ja B) jäämään? Tätä ongelmaa pohtivat ja siihen ratkaisuja kehittävät Itä-Suomen yliopiston Jatkuvan oppimisen keskuksen Senni Pykäläinen ja Virpi Moilanen. Sennin ja Virpin kanssa juteltiin muun muassa, mikä on kielitaidon merkitys kotoutumisessa, miten kv-opiskelijoiden jalka saadaan työpaikan oven väliin jo opiskeluaikana, ymmärretäänkö työpaikoilla mitä kaikkea monimuotoisuus pitää sisällään ja estävätkö asenteet kv-osaajien palkkaamisen?Aihe on ajankohtaisempi kuin koskaan, kannattaa asettua kuulolle!  

Neuvostoliiton pelko, seikkailumieli ja isän konkurssi toivat Ruotsiin 1950-luvun nuoret Arvo Lattusen, Aira Lepistön ja Virpi Korhosen. Vain hetkeksi piti jäädä on sarja suomalaisista, jotka ovat muuttaneet Ruotsiin eri vuosikymmenillä. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. 1950-luvun Suomi oli sodan runtelema ja maata jälleenrakennettiin. – Suomi oli ikävä maa, toteaa Arvo Lattunen ja kertoo olleensa yhä peloissaan, että Suomen sotavihollinen, Neuvostoliitto, vaikeuttaisi elämää Suomessa.Hän päätti muuttaa Ruotsiin 50-luvun alussa, ja olihan hänellä toinenkin syy muuttoon. Silloinen tyttöystävä oli jo aikaisemmin tullut Tukholmaan.Tyttöystävä auttoikin alkutaipaleella. Hänen ansioistaan kellosepäksi valmistunut Arvo sai heti työpaikan, vaikka ei osannut sanaakaan ruotsia.Elämä uudessa maassa lähti hyvin käyntiin. Arvo urheili, kävi tansseissa Alenin tanssiravintolassa ja tienasi niin paljon rahaa, että pystyi ostamaan unelmiensa Vespan. – Se oli niin ihmeellistä, että täältä sai hedelmiä ja kaikkea hyvää, mitä Suomesta ei saanut.Asunnon hankkiminen Tukholmassa oli kuitenkin hankalaa huutavan asuntopulan takia.– Onnistuin vuokraamaan Östermalmilta huoneen. Se oli kamalan pieni, ja siinä oli hirveän huono sänky, muistelee Arvo.Äiti haukkui ja ihmetteli, miksi pitää lähteä maailman ääriinTurkulaisen Barkerin kutomon tyttö Aira Lepistö kuuli kesälomaltaan palatessaan, että Vetlandaan haettiin kutojia. – Töitähän minulla oli Suomessa, mutta ei asuntoa, kuittaa Airi.21-vuotias Airi päätti lähteä seikkailumielessä Ruotsiin, vaikka tuskin edes tiesi, missä Vetlanda on. Seuraksi lähti muutama muu tyttö Turusta.– Juna pysähtyi Nässjössä ja menin Epan tavarataloon. Ostin sieltä kattilan, ja se on minulla vieläkin tallella.Airin muuttopäätös ei ollut kaikkien mieleen, ja hänen äitinsä uskoikin, ettei ikinä enää näkisi tytärtään. Vetlandassa Airia odotti kalustettu huone ja työpaikka kutomossa.– Skånelainen työnjohtaja opasti ensimmäisenä työpäivänä, mutta en kyllä ymmärtänyt sanaakaan. Minulla oli kaksi pientä sanakirjaa ja niistä opettelin sanoja.Sain ottaa mukaani vain yhden nukenVirpi Korhonen oli alle kouluikäinen, kun hän perheineen muutti Tukholmaan. Hänen isänsä oli muuttanut Ruotsiin jo aikaisemmin. Isän firma oli mennyt konkurssiin Suomessa, ja uudet haasteet vetivät hänet Ruotsin puolelle.– Isän piti tulla meitä vastaan Tukholman Skeppsbrolle, mutta hän olikin nukahtanut ja unohtanut, että olimme tulossa. Onneksi äiti tiesi, missä hän asuu ja löysimme perille.Uusi asuinmaa ei saanut Virpiä hullaantumaan. Lähinnä häntä harmitti, että piti luopua miltei kaikista leikkikaluista. Äiti antoi ottaa mukaan vain yhden nuken.Korhoset asuivat ahtaasti ensin Tukholmassa ja sitten Nynäshamnissa.– Meillä oli huone ja keittiö ja siinä asui viisi henkeä. Sitten saimme vähän suuremman asunnon, kaksi huonetta ja keittiön.Virpi Korhosen huippuhetkiä 50-luvulla olivat lauantait, jolloin työnjohtaja toi isälle palkan kotiin. – Se oli mahtavan paksu nippu tuhannen kruunun seteleitä. Sarjan teossa on käytetty lähteenä Turun Siirtolaisinstituutin Jouni Korkiasaaren artikkelia "Suomalaisten Ruotsiin suuntautuneen siirtolaisuuden yhteiskunnalliset syyt 1900-luvulla".7-osainen ohjelmasarja on lähetetty ensimmäisen kerran vuonna 2016. Sarjan kaikki osat löytyvät myös Sveriges Radio Play-sovelluksesta. Kirjoita hakusanakenttään Vain hetkeksi piti jäädä.Virpi Inkerivirpi.inkeri@sverigesradio.se

Wie geht's? Gut! Darf man aber auf diese Frage auch ganz ehrlich antworten? Interessieren sich die Deutschen wirklich dafür, wie es Ihnen geht? Auch diese Frage kann man nicht einfach beantworten. Es kommt darauf an, in welchem Kontext das Gespräch geführt wird. In dieser Folge sprechen Virpi und Sandra über kulturelle Unterschiede und die Vertrautheit, die diese Frage voraussetzen kann. Auch diesen Klassiker haben wir für euch als kleine Ferienüberraschung technisch aufgearbeitet. Wenn du brandneue Folgen hören möchtest, findest du sie im Premium-Kanal: https://steadyhq.com/de/deutsch-podcast/about Du möchtest unsere Trainingsbücher kennenlernen? Ein Gratis-Trainingsbuch findest du unter: https://deutsch-podcast.com/gratis/ Weitere Infos findest du unter: www.deutsch-podcast.com Du findest uns auch auf: Spotify https://spoti.fi/38Gydh9 iTunes: https://apple.co/3ewdwWF GooglePodcast: https://bit.ly/3kjleXM

Wir melden uns heute direkt aus unseren Ferien und haben eine ganz besondere Überraschung für dich. Wir haben nämlich einen unserer Klassiker ausgewählt und diese Folge noch einmal sorgfältig überarbeitet, inklusive einer verbesserten Tonqualität. Du brauchst das Transkript zur Folge? Hier kommst du direkt zum Premium-Kanal: https://steadyhq.com/de/deutsch-podcast/about Diese Episode dreht sich um das Thema bilinguale Erziehung. Es ist eine fantastische Folge, in der Virpi ausführlich darüber spricht, wie sie ihre Kinder zweisprachig erzogen hat, wie sich das angefühlt hat und vieles mehr. Das Beste daran ist natürlich, dass wir für diese Folge ein brandneues Trainingsbuch entwickelt haben. Das Trainingsbuch und alle Sonderfolgen findest du hier: https://steadyhq.com/de/deutsch-podcast/about Ein Gratis-Trainingsbuch findest du unter: https://deutsch-podcast.com/gratis/ Weitere Infos findest du unter: www.deutsch-podcast.com Du findest uns auch auf: Spotify https://spoti.fi/38Gydh9 iTunes: https://apple.co/3ewdwWF GooglePodcast: https://bit.ly/3kjleXM

Lihansyöjäkasveja elää myös Suomen luonnossa, mutta missä niihin voi törmätä – ja ennen kaikkea, onko kohtaaminen vaarallinen? Lihansyöjäkasvitieteilijöinä toimivat Virpi ja Henry. Kumpi heistä ei olekaan asiantuntija, vaan juksaa jutuillaan? Kaverukset Milja ja Lotta ottavat selvää. 

Virpi Hämeen-Anttilan Björk-sarja vie lukijansa 1920-luvun alun Helsinkiin. Historiallisissa dekkareissa seikkailee amatöörietsivä Karl Axel Björk. Sarjan vastikään ilmestyneessä kymmenennessä osassa Björk selvittelee outoa kuolemantapausta papin perheessä. Hämeen-Anttilan Björk-sarja on saanut suitsutusta historiallisesta tarkkuudesta, ja sarjan yhdeksäs osa, Vapauden vahdit, voitti Vuoden johtolanka -palkinnon. Kulttuuriykkösessä selvitetään, mikä innostaa Hämeen-Anttilaa kirjoittamaan dekkareita ja kuka rikoskirjailija häntä inspiroi. Puhumme myös 1920-luvun Helsingistä ja miten Hämeen-Anttila herättää menneen maailman henkiin. Vieraina ovat Björk-sarjan kirjoittaja Virpi Hämeen-Anttila ja 20-luvun Helsingistä kirjan "Suruton kaupunki" kirjoittanut Helsingin yliopiston dosentti Mikko-Olavi Seppälä. Ohjelman juontaa Nicklas Wancke.

Millaista on ketterä kirjankehitys? Miten kirjan ideaa voi testata ja kehittää? Vieraana sisällöntuottaja Virpi Kotro.

Muistisairauksista on viime vuosien aikana tullut yleisin syy omaishoidolle. Väestön ikääntyminen ja yhteiskunnan palveluiden heikentyminen on yhtälö, jonka seurauksena moni työssäkäyvä huolehtii jollain tavalla ikääntyneestä tai sairastuneesta läheisestään. Itse hoiva toimintana on monimutkaista ja se on sellainen prosessi ja vuorovaikutusten kokonaisuus mitä ihmiset ovat aina tehneet ja huolehtineet toisistaan. Sitä ei tällä hetkellä näytä mahtuvan hoivan käsitteellistämiseen, sanoo kulttuurintutkija Marja-Liisa Honkasalo toimittaja Satu Kivelän haastattelussa. Roolit vanhemman ja aikuisen lapsen välillä kiepsahtavat toisin päin, kun vanhempi sairastuu tai ikänsä vuoksi tarvitsee yhä enemmän apua arjessa. Esimerkiksi nimimerkki 20 N äiti sai aivoinfarktin ja vasen puoli halvaantui sen vuoksi. Aloitin äitini omaishoitajana heti ammattikoulun jälkeen, jotta äiti pääsi kotiutumaan. Omasta itsestä huolehtiminen jäi sivuun, mielenterveys heitteli miten sattuu ja kaikki vaikutti myös omaan parisuhteeseen, kertoo parikymmppinen nimimerkki 20 N Havaintoja ihmisestä -sarjassa. Lähteet: Honkasalo, Marja-Liisa, Jylhäkangas, Leila Leppo, Anna (2022) Haavoittuva toimijuus - Sairastaminen ja hoiva hyvinvointivaltion laitamilla Jensen, Hanna (2013) 940 päivää isäni muistina Jensen, Hanna (2022) Äitini muistina, toinen kierros Salmi, Virpi (2023) Miksi ihmisen hoitaminen on vähemmän arvokasta kuin koneen hoitaminen? Feministitutkija kyseenalaistavat taloustieteen vanhat itsestäänselvyydet Seniori-Suomi (2003) Ikääntyvän väestön taloudelliset vaikutukset Sosiaali-ja terveysministeriö Omaishoito Pekonen, Juho-Pekka (2023) Helsingin Sanomat, Vasta 19-vuotiaalla havaittiin Alzheimerin tauti Punainen Risti (2022) Vapaaehtoiset lisäävät omaishoitajien toiveikkuutta Toimittaja: Satu Kivelä Äänisuunnittelija: Juha Jäntti Lukijat: Miika Lauriala ja Susanna Vainiola Tuottaja: Pertti Ylikojola Kuva: Jukka Lintinen ja Tuuli Laukkanen

Kuuluvatko Seta ja herätysliikkeet kouluihin, kysyi Sanna Ukkola Iltalehden kolumnissaan. Tästä ja historiallisista dekkareista, ysärinostalgiasta, latinan ja kreikan opetuksen alasajoista sekä taiteen kerjäläisistä keskustelevat kirjailija Virpi Hämeen-Anttila, yrittäjä Anna Moilanen ja kirjailija Jarkko Tontti. Lähetyksen toimittaa Pauliina Grym.

Martti Suosalo ja Sanna-Kaisa Palo saapuvat Lahden kaupunginteatteriin vierailemaan ensi viikolla keskiviikkona 8. ja torstaina 9. helmikuuta. Jumalasta ja terapeutista kertovan esityksen nimi on Voi Luoja! Martti Suosalo kertoi Radio Voimalla keskiviikkona, että esityksessä jumala on tullut siihen pisteeseen, että hänen täytyy tulla terapiaan. - Koska hänet ollaan unohtamassa tässä maailman melskeessä kokonaan. Kaikki puhuvat vaan Jeesuksesta ja Mooseksesta. Esityksessä Suosalon jumala on pukeutunut mafioson asuun. - Vähän kuin Kummisetä-elokuvan Marlon Brando. Esitys on komedia, mutta Suosalon mukaan siinä on vakava pohja. - En itse ole mikään Raamatun tuntija, eikä katsojienkaan tarvitse olla. Tätä voi tulla katsomaan ihan normaalina näytelmänä. Tällaisena lohduttomana aikana tämä näytelmä saattaa antaa jopa jonkinlaista lohtua. Suosalo muisteli myös vihkipastori Veli-Pekka Hännisen sanoja hänen pitäessään hääpuhetta Suosalon mennessä naimisiin Virpi-vaimonsa kanssa. - Hän kehotti meitä kilvoittelemaan toistemme palvelemisessa. Se lause kolahti minulle jotenkin. Konkreettisesti ajattelin, että tarkoittaako se tässä avioliitossa sitä, että me kilpailemme siitä, kumpi ehtii tiskata, siivota tai tehdä kaikkea ensin. Sitten ihan piruuttani kokeilin sitä ja siitäpä tulikin hyvä fiilis. Kuuntele koko haastattelu ja esimerkiksi se, miten Anthony Hopkins on vaikuttanut Suosalon uskoon omaan tekemiseensä:

Tämä jakso on täynnä tunnetta ja taikavoimaa. Kuuntele miten tämä kohtaaminen vaikutti isosti DreamTALKin tarinaan, kuinka unelmoimalla isosti ja uskomalla hyvään, elämä voi muuttua ja suuret unelmat toteutua. Tämä jakso antaa sinulle voimaa. Sen lupaan sinulle. Saat Virpiltä paljon uskoa unelmiin ja siihen, kuinka mikä tahansa on mahdollista niille, jotka avaa sydämensä ja uskaltaa. Tutustu lisää Virpiin: www.instagram.com/vanelja & www.vanelja.com Kerro ajatuksia ja oivalluksia jaksosta somessa tägäämällä @dreamtalk_ & @vanelja Ihanaa, ihanaa ihanaa✨

Our guest this time is Sylvia Bartley. She grew up in England and, after college, entered a career in clinical research. Along the way she joined Medtronic where she held positions in sales and marketing. Later she became interested in deep brain stimulation which lead her to combine past clinical experiences with her sales and marketing knowledge.   You will get to hear Sylvia tell her story including how she moved through several jobs to a place where, as she will tell us, she transitioned more to a social orientation working to help different minority groups and, in fact, all of us to benefit from the medical advances she helped to bring about and introduce socially to the world.   Sylvia left Medtronic earlier this year. She will tell us of her plans and desires. I promise that Sylvia's time with us is inspiring and well worth your hearing. You can even visit her website where you can hear her own podcast. Enjoy Silvia and be inspired.     About the Guest: Sylvia Bartley is a health equity thought leader and influencer widely recognized as a neuroscientist, an advocate, and champion of social change, dedicated to advancing health equity through addressing barriers to care for minoritized communities and by addressing the social determinants of health. Sylvia's work is guided by a greater spiritual purpose rooted in mindfulness and intentionality.   She has dedicated most of her professional career to creating opportunities for individuals living with chronic diseases to receive access to medical technologies. For the last 20 years, Sylvia has worked for Medtronic, the world's leading healthcare technology company, where she has held roles in sales, marketing, physician education, and philanthropy. During this time, Sylvia has led global teams to disseminate best surgical practices, advanced techniques, and products to treat Parkinson's Disease and other movement disorders. Most recently, Sylvia helped Medtronic develop an enterprise-wide health equity strategy aligned with customer interests, challenging disease states, and patient needs.   As part of this work, Sylvia engages healthcare leaders, patients, and other stakeholders to uncover and address barriers patients face in receiving high-quality treatment for chronic illnesses. Her commitment to this effort promises to help transform how minoritized communities work with their healthcare providers to manage their chronic conditions.   Her dedication to reducing healthcare disparities extends to her civic engagement. She provides minoritized communities with information and resources to help them make informed choices about critical conditions linked with social determinants of health (SDOH), including education, housing, economic stability, and environmental factors. She employs multiple platforms to reach and support communities, including board memberships with the African American Leadership Forum, the Association of Black Foundation Executives, and The Johnson Stem Activity Centre. She is also an advisory member for the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering for Georgia Tech and Emory University and a Regent for Augsburg University in MN.   Sylvia took her work to a new platform when she published her first book, “Turning the Tide: Neuroscience, Spirituality, and My Path Toward Emotional Health,” which outlines the links between our brains and our souls while inspiring readers to change the world with that knowledge.   During her spare time, Sylvia hosts a long-standing weekly community public affairs radio show and podcast, The More We Know Community Show. She interviews change-makers who level the playing field for all minorities by breaking barriers in their careers, lives, and communities.   Sylvia has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Top 100 Most Influential and Powerful Black Briton awards, in 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2019. In 2021, she was awarded the Medtronic HR Stewardship Award and earned recognition for her service and commitment to the Twin Cities in 2020 with the African American Leadership Forum Community Award. Women in Business Award in 2017, and Diversity in Business Awards in 2013 from Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. Sylvia is also a 2014 Bush Fellow and AARP/Pollen's 50 over 50 award recipient.   Sylvia earned a Ph.D. in Neurophysiology from St. Barts and The Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry and holds a bachelor's degree in Pharmacology from the University of London.       About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.     Transcription Notes Michael Hingson  00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson  01:21 Hi, everyone, welcome to unstoppable mindset. Glad to see you wherever you happen to be. I am your host, Mike Hingson. And our guest today is Sylvia Bartley, who is a thought leader or neuroscientist. And I'm not going to tell you any more than that, because we're going to make her tell you her whole story. Sylvia, welcome to unstoppable mindset.   Sylvia Bartley  01:41 Thank you, Michael, it's a pleasure to be here with you today.   Michael Hingson  01:45 Well, I was reading your bio. And there is there is a lot there. I know you've done a lot in dealing with diversity and equity and so on. And we'll talk about inclusion and you are a neuroscientist, which is fascinating in of itself. But why don't we start Tell me a little bit about you maybe growing up just how you started and how you got kind of where you are?   Sylvia Bartley  02:06 Yeah, happy to. So where do I start? I think I grew up in the UK, born and bred. And born to two Caribbean parents, my parents are from St. Lucia and Jamaica. And they came to England in the 50s because of the promise of jobs and great access and opportunities. And so they came across they met and they had four children. And growing up in the UK, it was it was a fairly good experience. I won't say the experience racism, or any such thing directly. I was in a predominantly white neighborhood, I went to a very good Catholic school, where I received an excellent education. And I went on to work in the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, where I became a research technician. And I worked there for 13 years. And during my tenure there, I did lots of research on the somatosensory cortex, looking at brain plasticity, and long term potentiation and memory and learning. And so this was a very new field. For me, this was not something I aspire to do. When I was growing up in school, I was very intrigued and very engaged in that particular area in neurophysiology, and I was surrounded by these phenomenal academics and teachers, that really taught me a lot. And during that time, that's when I got my first degree in applied biology specializing in psychopharmacology and my second degree, my PhD in neurophysiology. And again, my work was on the somatosensory cortex, looking at brain plasticity, in response to our experience, our innocuous experience. And I was very intrigued by that work. I'm very intrigued by the the kind of deep, intrinsic pneus of the brain and the function of the brain and obviously, how it really controls everything that we do. But I knew after I did my PhD that I wanted to do some more work that was more clinical facing. And so I left the academic environment and I entered into the medical device field, where I started off in cells, selling wires and stents, interventional cardiology, in the heart of London to the big cardiac centers. And then I quickly transitioned into Medtronic, the large the largest standalone medical device company in the world, and a solid themselves of intrathecal baclofen for B, and then quickly moved to a Furby called Deep Brain Stimulation. And there I was in heaven because that really married the work I did in kind of basic clinical science and, and medicine to the clinical application. And with this therapy And it was approved to be used for patients with Parkinson's disease dystonia, a central tremor. Now, it's for epilepsy OCD. And there's lots of research not approved yet in clinical depression, and other areas. So very taken up. And my work was literally to go to different hospitals that did deep brain stimulation, and train the neurosurgeons and the neurosurgical teams, how to do the DBS procedure, in particular, how to use the advanced technologies that Medtronic brought to this particular Furby. So it was a really fantastic job, it took me too many hours on it, you know, the fabulous surgeons are great minds out there, doing the work. And in addition to that, I met loads of patients and their families, particularly patients living with Parkinson's disease, and when he got to understand their pathway and their experience, and how this therapy really helped to alleviate their symptoms, so it could improve their quality of lives. And that role took me across the United Kingdom. And then, you know, it expanded to Western Europe. So every day, I'll get up and I'll get on a plane to a different country, a different hospital, a different neurosurgical team and spend the best part of my days in a while during a DBS procedure, working with the neurosurgeon and their teams to make sure we disseminate those best procedural practices using the technology. And one of the things I loved about that particular role is I could use the electrophysiological experience that I had in a medical school, doing the single cell recordings in vitro, and do that literally on patients with Parkinson's disease, to identify the brain structures in order for for the physician to locate the lead in an accurate location.   Michael Hingson  06:54 Well, tell me, tell me a little bit more, if you would about deep brain stimulation, what is it? What what do you do? And just kind of help us understand a little bit more about that, if you would?   Sylvia Bartley  07:05 Yeah, sure. So deep brain stimulation is actually a therapy where you apply an a very fine electrode into deep structures of the brain, and the structures that you implant the electrode, they have to be approved structures. So things under the FDA or the to have approval, and you apply chronic stimulation by a an implantable pulse generator that's implanted under the skin, in in the clavicle area. And it's connected by these electrodes and extension cord into that deep structure of the brain. So it's an internal system, it's a medical device that is in is implanted into the patient, and it stays in there. And basically, you control the device and the amount of current that you apply through the electrodes, through the battery through telemetry. And it's been around now for over 35 years. It's proven, particularly in the area of parkinson disease, as I mentioned earlier, it's using other therapy areas, but it really does alleviate the symptoms of these movement disorders. And these movement disorders, they're kind of de neurodegenerative, ie they get worse over time, primarily, not everybody, but most people. So you have the ability to adjust the settings remotely via to military to make sure you're applying the right stimulation. And it's really important that the lead is placed accurately. And that the stimulation is only stimulating that area, because it's surrounded by these other complicated structures. And if you stimulate those areas, you can get side effects that are not, you know, that makes it very uncomfortable and, you know, almost sometimes unbearable. So you've got to be precise in your location, and in your stimulation of parameters, and it's tailored to the patient. Now, this isn't suitable for every patient, there is a selection criteria, the neurologist, the movement disorder, numerologist plays the role in selecting the patients making sure they meet the selection criteria. And they also play the important role of managing the parameters and the stimulation parameters after the lead is implanted. So you're really kind of connected to this device for the rest of your life. It does improve the quality of your life, it's in the right area of the brain and the stimulation parameters are accurate, and you're a right fit for this particular therapy. And it's done all over the world in in many different countries literally, it's probably got approvals in in most countries. Now what I will say is the regulatory approvals are different in every country. So not every condition is approved. But typically, Parkinson disease dystonia is approved throughout the world.   Michael Hingson  09:59 You If so, when the electrodes and the devices is implanted, and you begin to use it, and I appreciate that, you need to clearly know what you're doing. And you need to be very careful. Other than let's take Parkinson's as an example where you are, the visible signs are that you're, you're changing the amount of improper movements or unwanted movements and so on. What is the patient feel?   Sylvia Bartley  10:31 Well, that's a great question. So clearly, before they come to us, they've reached a certain point in their pathway, where the medication is not working well for them, they probably get an imbalance of complications or side effects as opposed to clinical benefits. So it comes to a point in their journey, depending on how far the condition advances, that there is a surgical intervention. And there's many other surgical intervention like vagal nerve stimulation, but deep brain stimulation is one of them. And at the early stages, it was almost like the the very end like you have to be very advanced. But with all the technology, now it can be done kind of earlier in the pathway, but the patients are kind of in a in a bad way, when they get to the point of having deep brain stimulation. And so during the surgery, typically, not always, typically, because the procedure is done in so many different ways. But typically, the patient is awake, there are local anesthesia, Ebenezer daily, they're awake, and they're awake, because when you put the lead in the brain, during the procedure, then you ologists comes in and does what they call physiological testing. So they can apply stimulation during the surgery to make sure that it's really doing what it's supposed to do alleviate the symptoms, and not without any side effects. So they do a battery or test and application of different stimulation parameters. And the patient can respond directly to say, Well, yeah, you know, you can see if the tremors stop in or if the dystonia is, is been averted, but also the patient can tell you how they're feeling.   Michael Hingson  12:14 So they can say things like, and I don't know that you're anywhere near the part of the brain that does that. But you can say things like, I'm hearing a high pitched tone, or I'm hearing a noise or I'm hearing music, which, as I said, may not be anywhere near where you're talking about. But the point is, and I've heard about that before and read about it before, where many times during operations involving the brain, the neurologists would be asking a patient exactly what they sense because, in part, they're mapping different parts of the brain, but they want to make sure that, that they're either getting the results that they want, or they discover something new, which is always helpful.   Sylvia Bartley  12:52 Yeah, exactly. And they do map the brain. And that's why electrophysiological recordings is a good way of doing it. And now we have advanced technologies, there's multiple electrodes that can apply stimulation in different ways. So it really does advance the way in which we do the procedure. But you're absolutely right, we do them up and they make sure they don't get any side effects. For example, your vision, you're near the areas in the brain that is related to your optic nerve, and you want to make sure that they're not getting any double vision or their eyes are not moving towards their nose and sweating is another one. And you know, dystonia putting up the side of the mouth, it is another one as well. So these are very serious side effects that can impact their quality of life. So the goal is to improve it. So making sure that we get the best optimal outcomes. And that's why it's typically done away. But there's now lots of advancements in medical technology and there's lots of research and people looking into doing the procedure asleep. Because it is uncomfortable for the patient. They've got a stereotactic frame on their head, it looks like age, they've got four pins in their head, you know, someone's drilling a 14 millimeter burr hole in their scar while they're awake. So you know, I go to the dentist and having my teeth drilled under local anesthesia is very uncomfortable. So I can't imagine what it feels like when you're in your worst state because the patient is not on medication, because we want them to have the symptoms of Parkinson's. So when we apply this stimulation, and look at me saying we I am so used to saying I want to say they apply this stimulation, you want to see that it's been alleviated. So the patient is not very, not feeling very well anyway, and then they have to go through this procedure, which can last anything from two hours if it's done asleep and experience hand to seven, eight hours. And so it's a long time for the patient. So you know the but the patient is so relieved, grateful and just kind of elated. When the symptoms are alleviated, and their quality of life has been improved, so if I was to like dystonic patients as well, where they have very severe distortion as muscle contractions, and they're, they're in the most kind of painful positions. And it's almost like a miracle, I used to call it the miracle cure, even though it doesn't cure the illness, but it really does alleviate those horrific symptoms that really does impair their quality of life.   Michael Hingson  15:32 Does it have does it have an effect on longevity? If you're using deep brain stimulation? And if it's working, does it? I know, it's not a cure? But does it have any effect on the person's longevity?   Sylvia Bartley  15:46 To be honest, I'm not sure about the return, if there's any recent findings about this, but to my knowledge, no, it doesn't stop or slow down the progression of the condition, alleviates the symptoms. And I haven't looked recently into any research to see if that is different. But you know, for a very long time, there was no evidence to support that it slows it down just improves the quality of life by alleviating the symptoms.   Michael Hingson  16:13 Yeah, so it's dealing with the symptoms, and certainly not the cause. When the surgery is is occurring, or afterward, I'm assuming may be incorrectly but having gone through one just as part of a test many years ago, I assume that there are differences that show up when the brain is stimulated, that show up on an EEG. What do you mean? Well, so if I'm watching, if I'm watching on an electroencephalograph and watching a person's brain patterns, and so on, are there changes when the brain is being stimulated? Can you tell anything from that or is it strictly by watching the patient and their symptoms disappearing or or going away to a great degree?   Sylvia Bartley  16:58 Yeah, so primarily, it's watching the symptoms disappear by but then secondarily, there are new technologies, where we look at local field potentials. And the electrode is connected to an implantable pulse generator that has the ability to sense and monitor brainwaves during the chronic stimulation. And again, this is called local field potentials and sensing. And the idea there is, hopefully to identify when you can stimulate as opposed to applying chronic stimulation to do many things, one, if you can anticipate or identify a marker in the brain. And if you stimulate to reduce that marker, you can reduce the symptoms. And so it's almost like a closed loop, closed loop system. And that will also have an impact on the battery life. Because one of the challenges with deep brain stimulation is you've got to, obviously, it's driven by battery is an implantable pulse generator, we want to make it as small and as powerful as possible to to have clinical effect. And so battery life and longevity is something that's constantly being looked at. And this is a way of reducing the battery, we have rechargeables now, but still, after a period of time, like nine or 10 years, you still have to replace implantable pulse generator, because the battery, you know, life needs to be replenished or changed in one of the not not replenished. But you need to change the battery, because there's no guarantee that it can recharge at the rate that it could before.   Michael Hingson  18:40 So I asked, I asked a question only basically because being a physics guy, I love quantitative things as opposed to qualitative things. And that's why I was asking if there are ways to see differences in in brain patterns and so on. That may be a totally irrelevant question. But that's why I asked the question.   Sylvia Bartley  18:57 Yeah, no, no, not at all. Like I said, sensing is a thing now that they are monitoring and looking for biomarkers and looking at brain activities. While it's in the patient, and that's very advanced, because that hasn't been done before. So yeah,   Michael Hingson  19:13 yeah, it's definitely cutting edge. I'd use that term. It's bleeding edge technology. Yeah, absolutely. In a lot of ways.   Sylvia Bartley  19:21 Absolutely. But you know, I've been out of DBS now for, let's say, six years. So I may not be as common as I used to be. But that's that's the basis and the premise of it.   Michael Hingson  19:32 Well, people have called you a unicorn. What do you think about that and why? I had to ask.   Sylvia Bartley  19:39 And I love that question. And I think they call Well, what they tell me I'm a unicorn is that I have this very diverse background. There's not many people like me, that can talk about Deep Brain Stimulation at the level that I do and have that technical experience and reputation that I did globally to be there. DBS expert. And then secondly, you know, I am this corporate person that worked a lot in marketing and lived in three different countries, very culturally fluid and diverse, and known as a good leader of people, and definitely, with some strong business acumen, but then I think they call me a unicorn, because I'm very much engaged in community, particularly the black community. And as you know, there are many disparities in the black communities or communities of color. And I'm kind of driven, it's just within me to really work and use the skills and connections that I have to help create conditions that everybody thrives in communities, no matter who they are, the conditions they were born into, and their circumstances. And I really live that out, I really work hard in communities voluntarily, to really advance equity, whether it's education, health, or economic, economic wealth. And I do that very seriously. And I think that's really given me a reputation of being a community leader, particularly in Minnesota in the Twin Cities where I live for nine years. I love Minnesota, I love the community. And I really love working in the Twin Cities community to advance equity, because the Twin Cities has one of the largest disparities when it comes to all of those social determinants of health. And for many years, it was ranked the second worst state in the country, for African Americans to live based on the disparities in those social determinants of health. So there is a knowledge and an awareness and a propensity and willingness of many people from diverse backgrounds, to come together to try and solve that, to make Minnesota a great place for everybody to live, work and play. And so really got engaged in that in that arena. And I think that's what really got me my reputation of being not just a corporate leader, but community lead and very passionate about doing that work. And I've also heard that people find it difficult to do both my job was very demanding, it was a global job. I literally traveled globally, even when I was doing philanthropy, but, but when I came back home, just getting seriously engaged in a community and doing it at a serious level, and being very impactful on it. And that's why I think people call me a unicorn, because I have this passion for community, particularly advancing the minoritized communities together with, you know, being a corporate leader and doing that well. And that's my understanding why people call me a unicorn. But also I think, I don't fit into a box, I, when you look at my resume, you say, well, there's a lot on there, I've done a lot, but they're all very different. You know, I've got this passion for emotional Alpha got this passion for neuroscience, I got a passion for community, I've got a passion for philanthropy. I've done marketing and, and strategy and operations. And so you know, I like to blend all of those together, and do the work to advance equity, particularly, in particular health equity. But that is no cookie cutter cookie cutter role, you know, and so that's why I think I'm very kind of unique and different in that way. Well, it's   Michael Hingson  23:19 interesting, you clearly started out with a very technical background. And you have evolved in a sense, if you will, from that, or you have allowed yourself to diversify and to go into other areas, as you said, into marketing and such as that, how did that come about? And you because you, you clearly had carved out a great niche in a lot of specific technical ways. And you clearly have a great technical knowledge. And I'm a great fan of people who can take knowledge from one arena, and and use the skills that you learn from that elsewhere. Like, from being very technical. My master's degree is in physics. And I started out doing scientific things and then, through circumstances went into sales. So I appreciate where you're coming from. But how did you make that transition? Or how did you add that to what you do maybe is a better way to put it?   Sylvia Bartley  24:19 Yeah, I think I just want to go to path and purpose. I think it was just my path. And I was open unconsciously in following my path because I really did not have like a five or 10 year career goal, to say this is my trajectory. But what I did have was passion and love for certain things. And I love neurophysiology. I love working with physicians. I love being in a clinical setting. And I love working in a business environment as well. And I love teaching. When I was on the in the academic institution. I did a lot of teaching. The roles I did initially in a medical device industry was teaching as they call it a sales rep role, but when you're working with therapies, in medical device, you're teaching people a lot about the firm a lot about your devices, the science behind your devices, and you're bringing people together, you're, you're holding meetings. And in order to be an expert, you're constantly learning. And then you're also teaching. And so what I was doing the kind of technical role, I was also very strategic in that, you know, just imagine I was traveling around, let's just say, Western Europe at this point, different countries, and coming across different challenges in a procedure, and noticing, you know, talking to my colleagues that they had the same challenge, and we will problem solve together. And then every day, there's a new challenge, right? So every day, we went to a different procedure, every day, we learned something new because there was a new challenge or something appeared that didn't happen before. And so, in my mind, I wanted to go from a one on one teaching and improvement to how can I do this more strategically? So really thinking across Western Europe to say, how can we teach all these other folks that are also a specialist in these areas, about what we're learning and how to mitigate those challenges that we're having. So that transition for me having to been very technical, with great experience to being a leader of other technical people, where I put together trainings and programs for both staff that were experts, and also physicians, who were doing deep brain stimulation. So we developed a program in Western Europe that's still alive and well today and scaled significantly with young neurosurgeons on how to do the DBS procedure. And so working with physicians from across Western Europe to develop this curriculum, and execute it really well, that it's, again, serving and and really helping to train hundreds of neurosurgeons. You know, it just went from the doing the technical to the teaching, externally and internally, and then also being very strategic, to say, how can we work to improve all of these challenges that we're seeing, and it came, you know, with me moving to Switzerland, to be the procedure solutions, Senior Product Manager for Western Europe, where I really took on this role, and it was very much more strategic. And that's how I got into marketing. I never did an MBA, you know, I did some really great trainings with the Wharton School marketing fundamentals, etc. But I never did a dedicated like two year MBA, but I just learned through experience in and I and re exposure, great leaders to learn from, and it just evolved from there   Michael Hingson  27:45 in sales. What what specifically were you selling? What product   Sylvia Bartley  27:51 sells, so variety of product wise instance? So interventional interventional cardiology, stent, some wires, and that was that was probably the hardest sell, because it's a stent and a wire and there was many companies out there, are you very competitive? So you know, what differentiates yours from another? So I really cut my teeth on sales, selling that product in the Highlander that was highly competitive.   Michael Hingson  28:18 Did you did you? Did you ever have a situation where you were selling and working with a customer? And and I don't know whether this applies to you and what you sold? But did you ever have a situation where you discovered that your product might not be the best product for them? Or would that come up with what you were selling?   Sylvia Bartley  28:40 Um, I gotta say no, because what we what we were selling? No. So if I think about the whys instead, no, because it's a oneness den and anybody that needed to have that procedure, they needed one guy. Now, clearly, there were differences in sizes, and the type of stent, but our stents were very applicable to most situations as as long as we had the appropriate sizes. This would work in terms of intrathecal, baclofen and kind of capital equipment for deep brain stimulation that was very specific to the customer and their needs. And I will, I will say this on a podcast, I work for the best medical device company in the world, of course. And I still stand by that I believe our products are the best in the business, particularly when it comes to deep brain stimulation. We founded this Virpi alongside Professor Bennett bead in Grenoble, in France. In the 1980s. We were kind of the founders of this Philippian and a product we had a monopoly, but over 25 years, I'm not saying that makes us the best but we got the great experience the know how new technology, and I want to correct myself I keep saying we I no longer work for this company, but I've been there for 20 years. So get out of that same so I just want to be very clear to the audience. This is my past role, and I'm not longer work with with them. But again, it was a long time. And I did DBS for about 15 years. So it's very near and dear to my heart. But I do believe they have the best product still today, and are doing exceptionally well, alleviating those symptoms for those particular therapy.   Michael Hingson  30:15 You raise a good point, though, but habits are sometimes not easy to break. It's been 21 years since I worked well, 20 years since I worked for Quantum. And I still say we so it's okay. Thank you, we understand. And I asked the question, because we had products that I sold, that were similar to products from other companies. But there were differences. And sometimes our products might not meet a customer's need. Whereas other products had differences that made them a better fit. And I was just curious to see if you really found that and it sounds like you didn't really have that kind of an issue. And so you had to sell in part based on other things like the reputation of the company, the quality of the company, and other things like that, which, which is perfectly reasonable and makes perfect sense.   Sylvia Bartley  31:09 Yeah, I mean, there's also the kind of referral side of this. And that's where that's where the work is. And the decisions almost have been done, where you have to identify the right patient for the therapy. And then once that is done, and the patient is selected, then it's which device, you know. And at that point, our devices is suitable for all patients that knee deep brain stimulation.   Michael Hingson  31:31 Yeah. So you're, you're going at it in a different way, you need to find the people who had fits in that makes perfect sense. Well, what really caused you to have that? Well, let me ask you something else. First, I, well, I'll ask this, I started and I'll finish it, what would cause you to have the drive and the passion that you have now for more of a social kind of connection and moving into more dealing with social issues, as it were?   Sylvia Bartley  32:00 Well, you know, as a well, let me put it this way. When I was working, doing all of this therapy, traveling the world   Sylvia Bartley  32:12 1000s of DBS procedures, and working with lots of people, I didn't come across many people of color that were receiving these therapies, for whatever reason, and it kind of strikes me as odd. Because it, it shouldn't be a phobia for the privilege, it should be a phobia for everybody. And, you know, United States insurance, and access has a lot to do with that, and outside the United States. You know, I still didn't see it. So anybody, actually, I think I probably saw two black people receiving this burpee. So I've always been mindful of things like that. And obviously, as a black person, I'm very mindful and aware of disparities and discrimination. And I've always had a heart to address discrimination, or not discrimination, equity, as I mentioned earlier on in a discussion. So I've always looked at the world through that lens, in everything that I do. And I always try and do whatever I can, to to help or advance equity. It's just something that will never leave me. And so you know, even at the tender age of 27, when I was a single parent of two children, I got engaged in community, I became the Chair of a large nonprofit that provided subsidized childcare for lone parents. And I did that because there was discrimination in their practices against people of color. And I really wanted to help advance that work by helping to develop policies and programs and a culture, you know, was for everybody. And I worked with the NHS, the non executive team voluntarily, I was a lay chair for the independent review panel, looking at cases where people complained against the NHS for lots of things, including discrimination. But that wasn't the only kind of topic. And it's just work that I continue to do. And when I moved to United States, I just got deeply involved in that as well. So it came to the point after 15 years in in one kind of area of expertise, where I had my foot in both camps of foot in the community, working lots of nonprofits voluntarily to doing the work in a corporation. And really, you know, always wondering how I can marry the two or should I cross over and go deeply into community work. And five years later, here I am, I've left the corporation and I'm taking a little bit of a break, but I really want to get back into working for a nonprofit, close to community Either he's advancing equity, hopefully in health, or around those social determinants of health. So it's just something that's been a red thread throughout my career in life. And I really want to double down on it now, at this point in my career, this point in the world where everything is super crazy, and polarize, and really do whatever I can, and leverage my experience, in healthcare, in community in philanthropy, to advance equity for everybody.   Michael Hingson  35:29 So you mentioned NHS and NHS is what   Sylvia Bartley  35:32 I'm sorry, NHS is a national health service in the UK, it's valuable for data that provides a health service where you pay a nominal amount if you're working. I forget what the percentage is, but you pay a very tiny amount that comes out of your salary, you don't even notice it. And everyone has access to health care.   Michael Hingson  35:51 Got it? So when did you leave med tech?   Sylvia Bartley  35:54 I left my tech at the end of June this year to only recent, this recent Yeah. Hi, gosh.   Michael Hingson  36:03 So what are you doing now? Or are you are working for anyone or you just took a break for a little while to recoup and reassess?   Sylvia Bartley  36:11 Yeah, I've taken a little bit of a break. It's amazing how tired I've been I you know, I've been working really hard globally for the last God knows how many years 3030 plus years. So just welcomed a little bit of a break. Yes, I am looking for other opportunities again, in primarily in a nonprofit space to do the community poster community where wherever I apologize with advancing equity minoritized communities that hopefully, health equity. So I'm looking at doing that. And yeah, we'll just see what happens. But at the moment, I am volunteering at a fabulous nonprofit organization here in Atlanta, called the Johnson stem activity center. It's an organization that was founded by Dr. Lonnie Johnson. He's an inventor of the Super Soaker. And they run some phenomenal programs, robotic programs, computing, computer programs, egaming, coding, virtual reality for students, but particularly for minoritized communities. In this particular center, they give them access to equipment and resources and teams to really get engaged in STEM through these programs. And I just love working. Now unfortunately, I don't live too far away. I go there during the week, and I work with Dr. Johnson and Linda Moore, who oversee this organization together with other entities, and is really taken aback because it's a heart of Atlanta, it's very community driven. And they're doing some excellent work. And to see the young students, particularly those from minoritized communities, build robots and their eyes light up when they're talking about STEM, and what they want to be like an astronaut or cybersecurity, you know, it's just, it's just amazing. So that takes up a lot of my time together with networking, and, you know, socializing. So, and that's what I'm doing right now.   Michael Hingson  38:08 So are you in Atlanta or Minneapolis? Now, Minneapolis?   Sylvia Bartley  38:12 I've been here two years. Yes. Okay.   Michael Hingson  38:15 So you don't get to have as many snowball fights in Atlanta, as you did in Minneapolis. St. Paul?   Sylvia Bartley  38:20 Yeah. No. And it was too cold to have snowball fights. Yeah.   Michael Hingson  38:29 Well, you know, it's, it's one of those subjects worth exploring? Well, I have to ask this just because I'm, I'm curious and as you know, from looking at me a little bit, dealing a lot with with disabilities, and so on. So with the with the organization that you're you're volunteering with, and as they're creating games and so on, do they do anything to make the things that they do inclusive, accessible, safe for people who happen to be blind or low vision or have other disabilities? Has that been something that they've thought about or might be interested in thinking about? Because clearly, if we're really going to talk about inclusion, that's an area where we tend to generally as a society missed the mark.   Sylvia Bartley  39:14 Yeah, absolutely. Inclusion, you know, includes people with disabilities. It sure. Yeah, absolutely. So I think we are set up for that. I don't know we have any students that fall into that category, to be honest, because there's anything from 5000 to 10,000 students that pass through that center per year, but it's definitely something I will go back and ask them about, but I know the facilities itself is is accessible for everybody. So   Michael Hingson  39:48 well. Accessibility from a physical standpoint is part of it. Yeah, but but then you've got the other issues like documentation and other things for a blind person for example to read but the the reason And I'm bringing up the question is, a lot of times, and I'm not saying in any way that that's what you're experiencing, but a lot of times I hear when I talk to people about whether what they do is inclusive. Well, we've never had blind students, or we've never had a person with this disability or that disability. And the problem is, that's true. But you know, which comes first the chicken or the egg? Do you need to have the students before you make the inclusion happen? Or do you make the inclusion happen, and then tell people so that they will come because so often, most of us just don't pay attention to or even think about trying to pay attention to things where there isn't access, because we're just working hard to deal with what we can get some inclusion and accessibility out. Oh, so the other things never really get our focus. And it has to start somewhere. And typically, from my experience, it really happens best when somebody starts the process of making sure that there is inclusion, accessiBe that I worked for, that makes products that helped make websites more inclusive and available to persons with disabilities started, because it's an Israeli company where the law said you got to make websites accessible. And the guys who started it, actually, first work for a company well started a company that made websites. And then two years after they formed the company, Israel came along and said, You got to make our websites accessible. So then they started doing it. And the the population of customers for accessiBe has grown tremendously, because people recognize the value of doing it. And it's not mostly overly expensive to do. But it really starts better there than waiting for the demand. Because it should be part of the cost of doing business.   Sylvia Bartley  42:03 Yeah, absolutely. I agree with you. And JSOC, it's a it's a special place. Typically, people contact JSOC. And they say we want to bring our students here or run the programs in the facility. And so that's typically how kind of that kind of their programming works. You know, the programs are developed based on the partnerships. It is a smaller nonprofit. And we're trying to, you know, we're currently going to go into a capital campaign, so we can raise money to have staff, there's no staff there right now, it is all done by volunteers. And so you know, we really want to build the organization to have staff, so we can do better programming, we can scale and we can do more things that makes us more inclusive. Yeah. So yes, that's a really good point.   Michael Hingson  42:52 And volunteers are the heart and souls of nonprofits, and often really do shape the mission. And then it's, some of them become staff, of course, but it's up to the volunteers and the people to really shape the mission going forward. And then that's an important thing to do. So I'm with you.   Sylvia Bartley  43:13 Absolutely.   Michael Hingson  43:15 So where where is next for you? Do you have any notion yet? Or are you just enjoying what you're doing, and you're not yet overly concerned about some sort of way to get paid for what you do?   Sylvia Bartley  43:29 Right now, you know, there's a couple of irons in the fire was leave it at that, we'll see what pans out. I'm all about path and purpose and the universe, doing its thing. So we will see what happened there. But in the meantime, I'm continuing to do what I love, which is really getting involved volunteer, and, you know, network and do my podcast to go out to have a podcast. And that gives me more time to focus on that, because I'm purely doing that by myself. And making sure I get good guests and good topics and, you know, really providing information that can help our listeners make good decisions about their lifestyle. will tell us   Michael Hingson  44:08 more about the podcast about podcasts, because obviously we're on one now. So I'd love to love to learn more.   Sylvia Bartley  44:17 You know, podcasts is a way of getting information out there to to our listeners in a different way. Right? I think people are getting very tired or the traditional media outlets and podcasts is taken off. And my podcast is called the more we know, community show. Conversations cultivating change. And really again, it's focusing on addressing the social determinants of health by primarily for the black community. And I do that through storytelling, really having great guests that are changemakers leaders, really driving change either through their story of what they do, or you know, working with a nonprofit and also talking about equity and providing infant ation around health equity and what people need to know, in order to make good decisions about their health and their lifestyle. And it's all about information. And it's data driven information as well. And my guest often nominal third is, again, changemakers in their own right, and just very inspiring. And so I use this platform to tell them stories to tell their truths, to provide information. It's also a radio show in Minnesota on camo J, a 9.9 FM every Sunday at 12, noon, central time. So I got to produce this thing on a weekly basis. So that takes a lot as well. So now that I am not working full time, I've got time to focus on that and to develop it as well. So yeah, that's what I'm doing my podcast.   Michael Hingson  45:48 Well, that's pretty cool. And you're having fun producing it and learning to be an audio editor and all those things.   Sylvia Bartley  45:54 Well, I have something for me, I'm not going to attempt to do that. But I have to find my guest. And obviously, the content, and I review the edit in and I do the little marketing for it. So it's quite a lot, as you know, and I do it on a weekly basis. After the knock it out. Sometimes I do replays, but I gotta knock it out. And so I'm looking here to get some sponsorship, hopefully, so I can hire folks to do it, to do it for me, and, you know, do a better job on my social media. I'm not very good at that. It takes a lot of time. And I don't have the time to do all of that. So   Michael Hingson  46:31 it doesn't I used to put out a newsletter on a regular basis. And, and don't anymore just because the time gets away. Time flies, and social media is a great time sponge. So it's, it's easy to spend a lot of time doing social media, and there are only so many hours in the day.   Sylvia Bartley  46:49 Exactly, exactly. And there's so many talented people out there doing social media. I can't even even if I tried, you know?   Michael Hingson  46:56 Yeah. Yeah, some of us just have different gifts. Who are some of your favorite guests for your podcast?   Sylvia Bartley  47:05 You know, I've had so many gays I started doing this in 2015 under a different brand called the black leadership redefined. And primarily based in Minnesota. And so my guess had been anybody from Senator Tina Smith to Chief of Police, Rondo, Redondo to the Attorney General Keith Ellison, to nickimja levy Armstrong, who's a civil rights activist in the Twin Cities, to all of these phenomenal African American female coaches and leaders and ministers. I've had some deep, meaningful, moving conversations with people. But I think the ones that moved me the most are those that are telling their stories that kind of break your heart. And it doesn't move, make it it breaks your heart, but it moves me because they took their pain. And they transform that to something impactful, that really impacts and change the lives of many. And typically there are people whose spouses or, or siblings or loved ones has been murdered through to sex trafficking or at the hands of the police or at the hands of, obviously criminals. And what they did with that to really start nonprofits and provide refuge and help and support for other people. Those stories really touched me the most, you know,   Michael Hingson  48:33 yeah. You have written a book, or how many books have you written? I've just written one, just one so far. So far. That's enough.   Sylvia Bartley  48:42 That one's brewing at some point.   Michael Hingson  48:45 Well, Tom, tell me about your book, if you would.   Sylvia Bartley  48:47 Yeah, my book is called turn aside. Using spirituality and my path to emotional health. And the book I wrote, really, because on my interest in science, the brain neurophysiology and spirituality, and emotional health, and recognizing that the areas in the brain that are associated with all fear, those are areas that intersect at some point, or are the same areas. So that got me and then with my experience, working in the field of Parkinson's and movement disorders, we have all these wonderful experts from around the world and what I learned in their presence and by taking seminars, I recognized that there was a intersectionality between these three, and then I took my own experience, and wondered how I can use this information for the better right to help heal myself, someone living with depression, as well as helping giving back to community. And so I, you know, start the book off by doing a part by biography so the audience could connect with me and understand where I'm coming from, but then going deep into not really deep but going into the side Science, and making that connection, and how we can use that to really help improve our lives or the lives of others. And there's a lot in there about volunteering and giving back to my community. Because when I think about my living with my depression, at the time, it was pretty bad when I wrote the book. And, you know, I even wrote in a book that I saw it as a gift, because it really does help me to go deep internally, to connect to, you know, my spiritual path to really understand why I'm suffering like this emotionally. What am I supposed to do with it? And, you know, how do I help other people, and it kept me, I was like, getting me grounded. But it really did really get me to ask those deep spiritual questions, which has really helped me to evolve as a person, spiritually, emotionally and physically. And so, you know, the book really centered around that, and how we can use that knowledge, about intersectionality will free to really help other people's lives as well. And then not to mention talking, talking about depression is something that many people do, particularly those who are very visible and in senior leadership positions. But it was important for me to do so because I want to help normalize it. I want to get to a point where we can talk about depression, and people stop saying that you're brave, and you're being vulnerable. And you're being very courageous, because it, there's a high percentage of people that have depression, and not many people want to talk about it, because of the stigma, and the shame that unfortunately, is still associated with emotional health and mental wellness. So you know, I'm doing my liberal part to help break that stigma, and to get people to talk about it. Because once you talk about it, and you acknowledge it in my situation, it was a first step towards healing. And I lived with depression, undiagnosed for most of my life, being diagnosed in 2017, when I published my book, was just very cathartic. And it was a big weight off my shoulder because I didn't have to hide it. I didn't have to battle it behind closed doors, and for the first time, I got help, and then I could address it in a very mindful, holistic way that really has helped me. And I can proudly say, today, I feel the best I've ever felt in my whole entire life, emotionally, physically, and spiritually,   Michael Hingson  52:25 is depression, more of a physical or mental and emotional thing?   Sylvia Bartley  52:31 Well, it is a physiological it can be I mean, depression comes in many forms, and it's different for everybody. But there's absolutely a physiological component to some kind of depression with as a chemical imbalance, due to some over activity under activity, or certain areas in our brain, particularly the basal ganglia, which is your kind of seed of emotion. And so, you know, that's, that's definitely one of the causes, but not many people know, what are the like real cause of people's depression, because it's different for everybody. And sometimes it could be experiential, it could be any reaction to something very traumatic. And then hopefully, those situations it doesn't kind of last long. But if it is, neurochemical, then definitely people you know, need to get professional help for that outside of talk therapy.   Michael Hingson  53:26 Right. Well, in terms in terms of spirituality, how does that enter into and when you talk about spirituality? What do you mean by that?   Sylvia Bartley  53:38 So what I mean about that is I mean, looking inwards and looking like at the wider plan, knowing that I call it the universe, right? People will say, call it God, or, and I do believe in God, and I pray to God, right talk about universal timing and the power of the universal. And knowing that there is a bigger plan, greater than us, there was a life here before us, I believe, we chose up I believe we choose our parents, I believe, we come here with an assignment, everybody comes with an assignment. And I believe that by saying that, I believe we will have our path and our purpose. And my goal is to align with my path and my purpose so I can really live to my full potential in this lifetime. And that's what I mean about spirituality. So it's less about the external factors, less about striving to externally achieved but more to internally achieved, and that achievement is alignment with my spiritual path and purpose. And I believe once I do that, and when I achieve that, everything will fall into place, and I'll be at peace, and I will kind of live my full life and I'm and again, I don't know if I'll ever be fully on my path and purpose. I'm always seeking. I call myself a seeker. I'm always seeking I'm asking a question, but I feel I'm pretty much on the on track and it feels Good. And I know when I'm off track because it doesn't feel good when I'm doing things that doesn't sit right with me. And, you know, it's not it's very difficult for me to do and it's not what I'm supposed to be doing. And so I'm aware enough now to say, well, I'm going to submit that to the universe. And I'm just going to, you know, reset and redirect myself to make sure that I am on path so I can do it on put on this earth to do and as well. Yeah.   Michael Hingson  55:27 Whether you call it the universe, or God, do you believe that God talks to us,   Sylvia Bartley  55:33 I believe God talks us in many ways. Now, you know, you're not going to hear a voice or you're not going to see a burning bush either. But you're going to have signs some people do. That's not me. But you'll have signs you will have feelings. And you will hear stuff, it's not going to be a voice again, but you will hear messages. And and that will come maybe in your dreams, maybe through another person that you're talking to. But the important thing is, one has got to be in a place to be able to hear and receive, I believe this is of   Michael Hingson  56:04 everybody. And there's the reality of   Sylvia Bartley  56:07 it still. And this is where the mindfulness and the spirituality comes into it. Being sterile. Whether you're meditating or just being still and tapping into silence, this is when you're in a best place to receive and understand what it is that your assignment and your purposes, this is, when you're in your best place to receive those messages that you're so desperately seeking that you know, and to receive that guidance. And that's a big part of spirituality, together with doing things that prepares your vessel because we are physical matter, right. And our spirits live within us, we house our spirit, and we house our soul. And, you know, I focus on trying to keep my vessel as healthy as possible. So it's in a good strong place to house my spirit, and my soul is all intertwined. You know, it's very complicated, very deep. But that is a big part of it. So we are, you know, it, we're in a flamed body, we have inflammation due to the fact that we're eating foods that are inflammatory, and we have inflamed guts, and we're having, you know, inflamed neurons in our brain, because we're in flames that got inflamed the brain to I believe, and we're having a chronic illness, it's very difficult for us to do what we're supposed to do on this earth. And so, you know, our physical being, and health is obviously very important. And it ties closely with our emotional health, as well,   Michael Hingson  57:36 I think it is possible to hear a voice. But again, I think it all comes down to exactly what you said, we get messages in many ways, because God or the universe is is always trying to talk to people. And I think we have, oftentimes, selectively and collectively chosen to ignore it, because we think we know all the answers. And if there's one thing I've learned in 72 years, we don't necessarily know the answers, but the answers are available if we look for them. And I think that's really what you're saying, which goes back to being calm, being quiet, taking time to, to analyze, we're in the process of writing a book. Finally, for the moment, called a guide dogs Guide to Being brave, which is all about learning to control fear and learning that fear does not need to be blinding as I describe it, or paralyzing or whatever you want to call it. But that it can be an absolutely helpful thing in teaching you to make decisions, but you need to learn to control it. And you need to learn to recognize its value, just like we need to learn to recognize the value of pain or anything else in our lives. And, in fact, if we do that, and we we recognize what fear can really do for us by slowing down by analyzing by internalizing, we will be much stronger for it. And we're more apt to hear that voice that oftentimes people just call that quiet voice that we may not hear.   Sylvia Bartley  59:14 Mm hmm. Absolutely agree.   Michael Hingson  59:18 So it's, it's, it is a challenge because we're not used to doing that. We don't like giving up control, if you will. Yep,   Sylvia Bartley  59:26 yep. But once you know, and everyone will get there once we, for me, once I got there is a journey doesn't happen overnight. It can take years to get to that place. But you know, once you get there, it's so enlightening. And you just feel like it's funny, there's not there's not often a feel like I might directly on path and purpose. And I get a glimpse of it once in a while. And it feels so different. It feels so light, it feels so right. And that's where I want to be for, you know, a majority of my time that I have left in his lifetime, I want to feel that by the time so that is my, that is my goal.   Michael Hingson  1:00:05 And the more you seek it, the more of it you'll find. Yeah, hopefully, you will. It's it's all a matter of realizing it's there if we look for it, and it may not show up exactly the way we expected. But so the issue is really that it shows up, right?   Sylvia Bartley  1:00:24 It is. And yeah, I read somewhere that says, you know, just be open, just really try your best show up. Because people say, How do you know your own path and purpose? How do you know this is right for me, you know, you got to show up, you got to do your best. And you got to give it all you've got, and you got to let it go. Let it go to the universe and have no expectation for the outcome. But just be open to all kinds of possibilities and where that will lead you. Very hard to do. Yeah. And it's   Michael Hingson  1:00:53 always appropriate to ask the question, Did I do my best? Did I did I get the message? Am I missing something? And look for the answer? Yes, Sylvia, this has been a lot of fun. We have spent an hour and we didn't even have a snowball fight Darn. too hot for that. It's it's gonna be over 90. We're cooling down out here right now. We were over 100 for the last 10 days. So it's hot here in California. But I really enjoyed having you. How can people reach out to you or learn more about you?   Sylvia Bartley  1:01:30 Excellent. Thank you for asking that question. I think if you go to my website, I have a little website here. And it's sylvia-bartley.com. That is S Y L V I A hyphen, B A R T L E Y.com. And you can you know, just tell you a bit more about me. You can see my podcasts, my books, and there's a method of getting in touch with me if you want to.   Michael Hingson  1:01:57 Is the podcast available in a variety of different places? Or is the best website?   Sylvia Bartley  1:02:04 It's available on multiple platforms? Apple, Google, Spotify. And what's the community show with Dr. Sylvia? Conversations cultivating change? Do the   Michael Hingson  1:02:17 first part again. The more we know Community, the more we know. Okay.   Sylvia Bartley  1:02:22 Community show with Dr. Sylvia. Conversations cultivating change.   Michael Hingson  1:02:28 And I hope that people will seek you out. This has been for me very fascinating. I love learning new things and getting a chance to meet fascinating people. And I'll buy into the fact that you're a unicorn, it works for me.   Sylvia Bartley  1:02:46 Well, I'm just me, you know, but I appreciate the invite to be on your podcast, Michael. And thank you very much for providing this platform to share stories and information with your listeners too.   Michael Hingson  1:02:59 Thank you and we love stories and if people would love to comment, I really appreciate it if you would. I'd love to hear from you about this. You can reach out to me at Mic

Näyttelijä ja monitaiteilija Virpi Rautsiala on meillä täällä Pohjois-Savossa tarjonnut omaa valovoimaista osaamistaan kaikkien teatterin ystävien iloksi jo useiden vuosien ajan Kuopion kaupunginteatterissa, monissa eri produktioissa. Virpi on uransa aikana tehnyt lukuisia rooleja eri kokoisilla näyttämöillä, televisiossa, radiossa ja soveltavan taiteen kentällä ympäri Suomea. Virpi toimii luontevasti niin draaman, komiikan, musikaalin, fyysisen teatterin kuin improvisaationkin parissa. Vuosien varrella Virpi on tehnyt myös asiantuntija- ja opetustyötä, ohjannut useita teoksia sekä toiminut käsikirjoittajana. Kuinka Keravalta lähtöisin olevan Virpin tie vei aikanaan työskentelemään laaja-alaisesti esittävän taiteen äärellä ja kuinka tämä työ toi hänet lopulta myös tänne Kuopioon? Entä millainen onkaan Virpin tähdittämä teos nimeltään SARA, jossa monologin sijaan kyseessä on polylogi. Siinä yksi esiintyjä antaa äänen ja hahmon useille henkilöille. Näytelmä keskiössä on Sara Hildén (1905-1993) joka tunnetaan lujatahtoisena muodin liikenaisena ja merkittävänä nykytaiteen tukijana ja kerääjänä. Sara Hildénin säätiö omistaa tällä hetkellä merkittävän modernin taiteen ja nykytaiteen kokoelman, yli 6500 taideteosta. Syksyn 2022 esitykset tapahtuvat Kuopion kaupunginteatterissa ja kevään 2023 näytökset ovat koettavissa puolestaan Kuopion taidemuseolla. Näistä aiheista kuulet oheisessa juttutuokiossa tarkemmin, kun Savon Aaltojen lauantaivieraaksi saapui tällä kertaa esittävän taiteen moniottelija, näyttelijä Virpi Rautsiala. Haastattelijana: Sami Turunen

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Uskon askeleita ohjelma koostuu kolmesta osuudesta, joissa jokaisessa on keskustelu, haastattelu tai opetus. Tässä jaksossa Virpi Nyman käy keskusteluja lähetysyhdistys Kylväjän pakolaisasiantuntijan Taneli Skytän kanssa. He käyvät syvällisen keskustelun turvallisuusjohtamisesta. Tuo keskustelu esitetään ohjelman ensimmäisessä ja toisessa osuudessa. Ohjelman kolmannessa osuudessa Virpi ja Taneli keskustelevat neljän järjestön yhteistyönä syntyneistä UP, IN ja OUT tapahtumista. Nuo suunnat ylös, sisään ja ulos ovat myös Kristityn kasvusuuntia. Ohjelman ensimmäisessä osuudessa Taneli Skyttä tuo esiin sen, että tällaiset haastavat ja valtavia muutoksia sisältävät ajat korostavat johtamisen tarvetta. Näin kaikki johtaminen on lopulta muutosjohtamista ja muutosten hallintaa. Muutosjohtamisen kautta pyritään siihen, että resurssit ovat oikeassa paikassa ja niitä käytetään turvallisella ja hyvällä tavalla. Kylväjä tekee työtään usein ympäristöissä, joissa on paljon turvattomuutta. Kriisit ja kärsimykset koettelevat teologiamme. Onko teologiamme kestävää, arjessa toimivaa ja tervettä. Tanelin ja Virpin syvällinen keskustelu muutosjohtamisesta jatkuu myös ohjelman toisessa osuudessa. Muutosten haasteiden ja elämän vaikeuksien keskellä kutsumuksemme julistaa ja edistää evankeliumia – sanomaa Jeesuksesta Kristuksesta, ei ole koskaan tauolla. Jo alkukirkko eli äärimmäisen vaikeissa ja epävarmoissa olosuhteissa. Se selviytyi ja mekin selviydymme tavalla tai toiselle. Kutsumuksemme ei ole vain selvitä hengissä, vaan myös kukoistaa. On tärkeää tiedostaa, että on olemassa tehtävä, jota varten ollaan olemassa. Tarvitsemme toisiamme ja toistemme rohkaisua. Ohjelman kolmannessa osuudessa Virpi Nyman ja Taneli Skyttä puhuvat UP, IN ja OUT tapahtumista. Niitä toteuttivat hyvässä yhteistyössä Hengen uudistus kirkossamme, Lähetysyhdistys Kylväjä, Kansan Raamattuseura ja Medialähetys Sanansaattajat. Nuo mainitut suunnat ylös, sisään ja ulos ovat kristittyjen ja kristillisten yhteisöjen kasvusuuntia. Tapahtumat pyrkivät rohkaisemaan jumalanpalvelusyhteisöjä ja yhteisöllisyyttä muutenkin. Haastattelu avasi mielenkiintoisia näkökulmia. Uskon askeleita ohjelmissa rukoillaan esiin nousevien asioiden puolesta ja annetaan rohkaisua kristityn arkeen. Ohjelman lopuksi annetaan virkkeitä ja ajatuksia, joita voi soveltaa omaan elämäänsä. Ne löytyvät myös uskon askeleita Facebook-seinältä. Toimittajana on Kansan Raamattuseuran reissupastori Mikko Matikainen. KRS koulutustiimin tekemiä haastatteluja työstää ohjelmaa varten Jussi Pyysalo. Uskon askeleita ohjelman tuottavat yhteistyössä Kristityt yhdessä ry ja Kansan Raamattuseura. Huom! ohjelmat 180422 ja 250422 olivat uusintoja

Uskon askeleita ohjelma koostuu kolmesta osuudesta, joissa jokaisessa on keskustelu, haastattelu tai opetus. Tässä jaksossa kuulemme tuokiokuvat ennen ja jälkeen Kristiina Nordmanin Harjavallan helluntaiseurakunnassa pitämää L10T viikonlopua. Virpi Nyman keskustelee Lähetysyhdistys Kylväjän pakolaisasiantuntijan Taneli Skytän kanssa pakolaisuudesta, sen lievittämisestä ja Kylväjän tekemästä pakolaistyöstä Ateenassa, Kreikassa. Virpi keskustelee lisäksi erityisopettaja Piialiina Helmisen kanssa rauhoittumisen tarpeesta ja aivojen rakenteesta, joka tarvitsee palautumista. Ohjelman ensimmäisessä osuudessa Kristiina Nordman jututtaa ennen Harjavallan helluntaiseurakunnassa pitämäänsä L10T viikonloppua seurakunnan pastoria Tommi Suonpäätä hänen odotuksistaan. Mikko Matikainen kertaa tuon keskustelun jälkeen lyhyesti mistä L10T:ssä on kysymys. Sitten Kristiina Nordman jututtaa Harjavallan viikonlopun päätteeksi uudelleen Tommi Suonpäätä. Heidän kanssaan keskusteluun liittyy Tapani Tuomi, joka on Noormarkun varikkoseurakunnan vanhemmiston puheenjohtaja. Odotukset ovat täyttyneet ja miehet kehuvat kilvan kaikkea viikonlopun aikana koettua, johon Kristiina on taidollisesti johdattanut opetuksillaan ja käyttämiensä harjoitusten avulla. Ohjelman toisessa osuudessa Virpi Nyman keskustelee Lähetysyhdistys Kylväjän pakolaisasiantuntija Taneli Skytän kanssa. Taneli kertoi pakolaisuuden taustoista ja siitä miten aluksi pitää vastata perustarpeisiin ja auttaa saamaan suihku, ruokaa, vaatteita ja suojaa. Tähän on tärkeää yhdistää mahdollisuus kuulla Jumalan sanaa, viestiä rakkaudesta ja rakastavasta Jumalasta. Ehkä he evankeliumin kautta saavat elämäänsä kestävän perustan ja voivat kertoa siitä myös toisille. Ei pakosta, vaan löytämisen ja löytyneeksi tulemisen ilosta. Pakolaisuuteen joutuneille on hyvä antaa mahdollisuus palvella ja kokea olevansa hyödyllisiä, jotta he saavat otetta murskaksi menneeseen elämään. Huikean syvällinen keskustelu Ohjelman kolmannessa osuudessa Virpi Nyman keskustelee erityisopettaja Piialiina Helmisen kanssa lasten ja aikuisten tarpeesta rauhoittua ja pysähtyä. Tämä on vaikeaa lapsille, mutta myös aikuisille. Levottomuus ja älylaitteiden aiheuttama informaatiotulva väsyttävät. Tarvitaan keinoja rauhoittua. Rauhoittuminen ja Jumalan edessä hiljentyminen eivät ole vain itämaisten uskontojen löytöjä, vaan meillä kristityilläkin on tässä vuosituhantinen perinne, jota olisi hyvä ottaa käyttöön. Aivotutkimuskin osoittaa, että rauhoittuminen, vaikka vain pieneksi hetkeksi on tärkeää. Luonnossa liikkuminen ja sen äänten kuuntelu ovat tärkeitä asioita ihmisen jaksamisen ja hyvinvoinnin kannalta. Luvassa tuoreita ja silti tuttuja ajatuksia. Uskon askeleita ohjelmissa rukoillaan esiin nousevien asioiden puolesta ja annetaan rohkaisua kristityn arkeen. Ohjelman lopuksi annetaan virkkeitä ja ajatuksia, joita voi soveltaa omaan elämäänsä. Ne löytyvät myös uskon askeleita Facebook-seinältä. Toimittajana on Kansan Raamattuseuran reissupastori Mikko Matikainen. KRS koulutustiimin tekemiä haastatteluja työstää ohjelmaa varten Jussi Pyysalo. Uskon askeleita ohjelman tuottavat yhteistyössä Kristityt yhdessä ry ja Kansan Raamattuseura.

Virpi Mikkonen on Helsingissä asuva yrittäjä, ruoka- ja hyvinvointitaiteilija, valokuvaaja ja kirjailija, jonka Vanelja-brändissä yhdistyvät mielihyvä, holistinen terveys ja estetiikka. Virpin asiantuntijuus on päätynyt lukuisten kirjojen väliin, ja hänen Kiitos hyvää -kirjansa olikin ensimmäinen suomalainen ruokakirja, jonka kustannusoikeudet myytiin Yhdysvaltoihin. Vanelja on lanseerannut myös omia, hyvää tekeviä tuotteitaan, kuten kotimaista kombuchaa ja metsähunajaa. Kaiken pohjalla on kuitenkin hyvä olo ja terveelliset reseptit. Muissa uutisissa: viime päivät Virpi on kirjoittanut lyriikkaa, rapsutellut Helle-koiraansa ja ihaillut kevään saapumista.

Virpi Jokinen var gestur Huldu Geirsdóttur í Sunnudagssögum að þessu sinni. Virpi er menntaður skipuleggjandi og hjálpar fólki að tækla verkefni sem oft virðast óyfirstíganleg. Hún ákvað þegar hún missti föður sinn ung að láta sjálfsvíg hans ekki marka sig, heldur fara í gegnum lífið með jákvæðni og lausnir að leiðarljósi.

Virpi Jokinen var gestur Huldu Geirsdóttur í Sunnudagssögum að þessu sinni. Virpi er menntaður skipuleggjandi og hjálpar fólki að tækla verkefni sem oft virðast óyfirstíganleg. Hún ákvað þegar hún missti föður sinn ung að láta sjálfsvíg hans ekki marka sig, heldur fara í gegnum lífið með jákvæðni og lausnir að leiðarljósi.

Virpi Jokinen var gestur Huldu Geirsdóttur í Sunnudagssögum að þessu sinni. Virpi er menntaður skipuleggjandi og hjálpar fólki að tækla verkefni sem oft virðast óyfirstíganleg. Hún ákvað þegar hún missti föður sinn ung að láta sjálfsvíg hans ekki marka sig, heldur fara í gegnum lífið með jákvæðni og lausnir að leiðarljósi.

Tässä jaksossa jatketaan Virpin kanssa siitä, mihin viimeksi jäimme. Luvassa on rehellistä puhetta keskeneräisyydestä, rohkeista siirroista ja askelista kohti omannäköistä unelmaelämää. Miten Virpin matka valmentajaksi on rakentunut? Millaista tukea hän on saanut? Ja mitkä ovat hänen vinkkinsä vastaavassa tilanteessa oleville? Podcastin jingle: Joonas Lindström Editointi & jälkityöt: Juhani Valkama

Tässä jaksossa selvitellään, miten ollaan rohkeita ja mennään pelkoja päin? Miten oppaiden ja oppien jalkautus omaan elämään oikein tehdään? ja millaisia haasteita matkan varrella saattaa tulla eteen? Miten tehdä rohkeita valintoja? Ja tarvitseeko lopulta aina edes olla niin hurjan rohkea? Vieraani on rohkaisija, kirjoittaja, puhuja Virpi Haavisto. Virpistä lisää esim: www.pelkotanssi.fi Podcastin jingle: Joonas Lindström Editointi & jälkityöt: Juhani Valkama

Tämä Uskon askeleita jakso muodostaa L10T elämäntapakokonaisuuden yhdessä edellisen Uskon askeleita ohjelmasarjan jakson kanssa. Ne kuuntelemalla pääset hyvin liikkeelle, jos haluat tätä elämäntapaa kokeilla ja soveltaa omaan elämääsi. Tämä jakso muodostuu kolmesta osuudesta, joissa jokaisessa Kansan Raamattuseuran kouluttajat käyvät opetuskeskustelun. Tässä jaksossa käydään läpi näkökulmat auta missä voit ja tarjoudu rukoilemaan, Kerro Jeesuksesta oman elämäsi tapahtuman avulla ja yhdessä elämisen ja toisten tukemisen merkitys. Ohjelman ensimmäisessä osuudessa Mikko Matikainen ja Matti Mäkinen keskustelevat L10T elämäntavan näkökulmasta auta missä voit. Tämäkin askel lähtee rukouksesta, salasiunaamisesta ja toisen kohtaamisesta. Kun osaamme kuunnella toista, niin alamme kuulla hänen tarpeitaan, kipujaan ja kaipauksiaan. Samalla voimme mielessämme kysyä, että onko Jumala hyvyydessään antanut meille taitoja, varallisuutta tai aikaa, jota käyttämällä voimme osoittaa Jumalan rakkautta käytännöllisellä tavalla. Voimme myös kertoa, että toisen elämäntilanne tai asia koskettavat meitä ja meitä alkaa rukoiluttaa. Saamme missä vaan tarjoutua rukoilemaan lyhyesti toisen kanssa ja hänen rinnallaan. On tärkeää muistaa aina sanoa, että rukoilemme Jeesuksen nimessä tai pyydämme Häneltä apua. Ohjelman toisessa osuudessa Mikko Matikainen ja Virpi Nyman keskustelevat Jeesuksesta kertomisesta. Jokaisella Jeesuksen seuraajalla on omassa elämässään lukuisia tilanteita tai tuokiokuvia, joiden pohjalta hän voi kertoa Jeesuksesta. Tämä maailma rakastaa tarinoita. Siksi elokuvia katsellaan ja kirjoja luetaan. Koska suurin osa ihmisistä elää hyvin tavallista elämää, niin tavallisen ihmisen tarinat ja löydöt Jeesuksessa puhuttelevat. Mikko ja Virpi opettavat miten voit kertoa tällaisen tuokiokuvan kolmessa minuutissa. He myös opettavat kuulijaa kertomaan evankeliumin keskeiset asiat kahdessa minuutissa. Tämä jakso on hyvin käytännöllinen ja helppo soveltaa käytäntöön, koska jokaisella on tarina, joka koskettaa. Ohjelman kolmannessa osuudessa Mikko Matikainen ja Kristiina Nordman puhuvat palautteen saamisen tärkeydestä. Jeesuksen lähettämät opetuslapset palasivat heidät lähettäneen Jeesuksen luokse ja kertoivat sekä Jeesukselle että toisilleen mitä olivat nähneet ja kokeneet. He olivat innoissaan. Jeesus muistutti, että todellinen ilo nousee siitä varmuudesta, että nimemme on kirjoitettu taivaan kirjaan. Tästä ilosta käsin on mukava elää, tehdä työtä ja palvella matkalla sekä Jeesusta että toisia ihmisiä. Olisi tärkeää, että jokaisella olisi ystävä tai kaksi, joiden kanssa säännöllisesti rukoilee, jakaa L10T elämäntavan asioita ja oppimiaan näkökulmia. Seurakunnan pienpiireissä tällainen jakaminen voisi olla osa kokoontumista. Uskon askeleita ohjelmasarjan edellisestä jaksosta voit kuunnella L10T elämäntavan alkuosan asiat. Uskon askeleita ohjelmissa rukoillaan esiin nousevien asioiden puolesta ja annetaan rohkaisua kristityn arkeen. Ohjelman lopuksi annetaan virkkeitä ja ajatuksia, joita voi soveltaa omaan elämäänsä. Ne löytyvät myös uskon askeleita Facebook-seinältä. Toimittajana on Kansan Raamattuseuran reissupastori Mikko Matikainen. KRS koulutustiimin tekemiä haastatteluja työstää ohjelmaa varten Jussi Pyysalo. Uskon askeleita ohjelman tuottavat yhteistyössä Kristityt yhdessä ry ja Kansan Raamattuseura.

Mikon perjantai-iltapäivä ei ollut sujunut ihan suunnitelmien mukaan. Kuuntele mitä tapahtui kauppareissulla! Sukupuolten taistelussa voitokas Virpi sai vastaansa JP:n Turusta. Mitä löytyy kisailijoiden kaurapuurosta tänään?

Joko valta vaihtuu? Sukupuolten taistelussa Virpiä lähti haastamaan Arto Keski-Suomesta. Pauliina pohti, saako antaa vastasyntyneelle tyttökorttia. Kuultiin myös oliko Jesse jo tuhlannut voittorahansa, jotka saalisti Tonnin Triplassa.

Sukupuolten taistelussa kohtasivat tänään hämeenlinnalainen Virpi ja nokialainen yrittäjä Perttu, joka haaveilee lyhyemmistä työpäivistä ja matkustelusta. Kuuntele, kuinka kaikesta tuli tänään eeppistä ja huikeaa! Kuultiin myös Pauliinan koirasta, joka on vähän vinksahtanut eräässä asiassa.

Uskon askeleita ohjelmat koostuvat kolmesta osuudesta, jossa jokaisessa kuullaan keskustelu tai opetuskeskustelu, joka liittyy jollain tavalla kristittynä elämiseen. Tässä ohjelmassa kuullaan Jenni Mboupin kokemus Virpi Nymanin pitämästä L10T verkkokoulutuksesta. Mikko Matikainen ja Kristiina Norman käyvät opetuskeskustelun L10T:n ajatukseen kohtaaminen ja ruuan siunaaminen liittyen. Kristiina Norman keskustelee myös Sakari Smedsin kanssa, joka on pitkän linjan kristitty vaikuttaja paikallispolitiikassa ja laajemminkin. Ohjelman ensimmäisessä osuudessa Virpi Nyman keskustelee Jenni Mboupin kanssa lähetyssihteerin työstä. Jenni kertoo myös innostuneensa kovasti Virpin pitämästä L10T verkkokoulutuksesta. Yksinkertaisen askeleet siunaaminen, kohtaaminen, auttaminen sekä Jeesuksesta kertominen pysyvät mielessä. On myös järkeenkäypää, että jaksaakseen pitkällä matkalla ihminen tarvitsee matkaseuraa. On myös vapauttavaa, että jokainen pystyy soveltamaan omaan elämäänsä tätä elämäntapaa omalla tavallaan. Ei tarvitse matkia muita. Virpi kertoi myös häntä vaivanneesta arkuudesta kertoa Jeesuksesta. Vuodet ja pienet askeleet ovat vapauttaneet tässäkin asiassa. Ohjelman toisessa osuudessa Mikko käy Kristiina Normanin kanssa opetuskeskustelun Jeesuksen Luukkaan evankeliumin 10. luvussa opettamasta tavasta elää. Tällä kerralla käsittelyssä on elämäntavan toinen askel tai näkökulma kohtaaminen ja ruuan siunaaminen. Kristiina sanoo L10T elämäntavan olevan hymyilevä elämäntapa. Salasiunatessamme sydämemme lämpenee ja kiinnostumme toisesta ihmisestä. Tämä näkyy katseessamme ja huulillemme kohoavana hymynä. Kristiina avaa perheensä tapaa siunata ruokansa missä ovatkin ja Mikko puolestaan kertoo kiitollisuudesta Jumalaa sekä ruuan eteen työtä tehneitä kohtaan ruuan äärellä. Ohjelman kolmannessa osuudessa Kristiina Nordman keskustelee Sakari Smedisin kanssa. Sakari kertoo omasta kutsumuksestaan toimia oman kotipaikkakuntansa puolesta ja laajemminkin. Hän on pitkän linjan kristitty ja poliittinen vaikuttaja. Hän kehotti rukoilemaan päättäjien puolesta sekä olemaan aktiivisia, kun asioita valmistellaan päätöksen tekoa varten. Kiinnostuksen poliittiseen vaikuttamiseen herätti Sakari Smedsissä aikanaan ensimmäisen Mooseksen kirjan luku 18, jossa Aabraham taisteli kaupungin ja sen tulevaisuuden puolesta rukoillen. Jos päätöksiä eivät ole tekemässä kristillisesti ajattelevat ja rukoilevat ihmiset, niin päätöksiä tehdään siitä huolimatta. Meitä kutsutaan olevaan tässä maailmassa suolana ja valona. Uskon askeleita ohjelmissa rukoillaan esiin nousevien asioiden puolesta ja annetaan rohkaisua kristityn arkeen. Ohjelman lopuksi annetaan virkkeitä ja ajatuksia, joita voi soveltaa omaan elämäänsä. Ne löytyvät myös uskon askeleita Facebook-seinältä. Toimittajana on Kansan Raamattuseuran reissupastori Mikko Matikainen. KRS koulutustiimin tekemiä haastatteluja työstää ohjelmaa varten Jussi Pyysalo. Uskon askeleita ohjelman tuottavat yhteistyössä Kristityt yhdessä ry ja Kansan Raamattuseura.

Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest Professor Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen. Virpi  is a professor of Information Systems Science at the Department of Information and Service Management and the Associate Dean of research and international cooperation of Aalto University School of Business. Her current research focuses on ICT enabled or enhanced services and digital innovation. Her work has appeared in journals, such as, MIS Quarterly, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Management Information Systems, Information & Management and Scandinavion Journal of Information Systems. She's a past VP of Publications of the AIS, a past Chair of AIS SIG Services and she received the AIS Fellow award in 2016.In this special episode made in collaboration with the SCIS/IRIS 2021 conference hosted virtually by NTNU this year.  I will be talking with one of the keynote speakers (Virpi) about her presentation on ICT interruptions, how they impact collaborative knowledge work and how these interruptions are managed so that they don't necessarily hinder the collaboration. We also reflect on the traditions and importance of the SCIS/IRIS conference together. References:Conference: https://www.irisscis2021.com/  ThisISResearch: http://www.janrecker.com/this-is-research-podcast/when-the-machine-meets-the-expert-3-september-2021/ Keynote Speaker from HICSS: http://coleman.ucsd.edu/Goffman, E. 1956. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Edinburgh: the University of Edinburgh Press.  [Google Scholar] Goffman, E. 1959. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, New York: Anchor Books.  [Google Scholar]

Bio: Darren has a background in commercial management, being an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers following sixteen years in Retail Banking. This culminated as a Senior Personal Banking Manager within the Guildford Group of Branches, which was comprised of 9 branches and 140 staff. A career change into IT in the late 1990s has led to a number of roles within IT including three Head of Department positions covering the complete spectrum of IT. Also, as an accomplished Project Manager and a Prince2 Practitioner he has a phenomenal record in delivering complex programmes and business transformations and an impressive record of negotiating and implementing multi-million pound contracts including Outsourcing, Off-shoring and ERP systems. He is also a Chartered IT Professional. Darren is now a Director of Radtac, a Global Agile Consultancy Business based in London. In addition, he is DSDM Atern Agile PM Practitioner, APMG Facilitation Practitioner, PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner, Certified Scrum Master, Kanban Practitioner. Darren is an active agile practitioner and coach and delivers training courses in Leading SAFe and more recently, Darren is now a SAFe Fellow, one of about 30 worldwide. He is also a SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT), contributor to the SAFe Reference Guide 4.5 and founder of the London SAFe Meet-up Group. Finally, he is the Treasurer of BCS Kent Branch and co-founder of the Kent Scrum User Group. Also a co-author of the BCS Book “Agile Foundations – Principles Practices and Frameworks”, a reviewer of "Valuing Agile; the financial management of agile projects".    Books/ Resources:  Tribal Unity by Em Campbell-Pretty  Leading Change by John P. Kotter  The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organisations by Gene Kim et al  Agile Foundations – Principles, Practices and Frameworks y Peter Measey, Darren Wilmshurst and Radtac  SAFe Reference Guide 4.5 by Dean Leffingwell SAFe 5.0 Distilled; Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework by Richard Knaster and Dean Leffingwell *  NOTE: * As of the time of publishing this episode, the most-current version of SAFe is 5.0 and so I would recommend getting this version.   Websites:  The Agile Manifesto: https://agilemanifesto.org/  SAFe Principles: https://www.scaledagileframework.com/safe-lean-agile-principles/   Darren's social media profiles: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darren-wilmshurst-89b0931/  Twitter handle (for fellow Arsenal fans!): @dazzawilmshurst   Interview Transcript: Ula Ojiaku: [00:27] My guest for this episode is Darren Wilmshurst. He is the director and head of consulting at Radtac. Darren is a Scaled Agile Framework Fellow, an achievement realized by less than 30 people globally. He's also an SPCT - that is, a SAFe Program Consultant Trainer. Darren trained me as an SPC, and I am honored to call him my mentor as well. This episode, be aware, was recorded before the COVID-19 pandemic so parts of our conversation about travel around the world, conducting a big room planning with all team members physically in the same space might not reflect the current pandemic situation as people aren't traveling as much. And of course, there's social distancing in place, and people are working more remotely than ever. The release of this episode coincides with the 20th anniversary of the Agile Manifesto. Darren and I talked about the Agile Manifesto. And in my opinion, the pearls of wisdom that he shared about applying the values and principles are as valid as ever. Without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, my conversation with Darren Wilmshurst. Enjoy!   Main Interview Ula Ojiaku: [01:51] Thank you so much, Darren, for making the time for this conversation. Darren: [01:55] Real pleasure to join you today. Thank you for inviting me. Ula Ojiaku: [01:58] Darren, why don't you start off by telling us a bit about yourself? Darren: [02:02] Oh, yeah that will be good, I have a probably interesting background. Because I spent 16 years in retail banking, I was a bank manager. And banking was all good until the first week of November 1997. Not that I remember the (exact) date. But that was the date that the bank decided to automate my job. So, some bank managers were really good at lending. Some bank managers are really bad at lending. And they wanted to manage the credit risk to 1% of the portfolio. And they can't do that with individual discretion. So, on that date, everything was credit scored. If you wanted an overdraft, (a) personal loan or mortgage, everything was credit scored. I went from being a bank manager of nine branches and 140 staff to being a sales manager, selling financial products, and not something I really wanted to do. So, I made the entirely logical leap from being a bank manager into IT, because that's where my job got (absorbed). I started off as a business analyst, I did some testing, test management, did project management, and then I joined an outfit called, P&O Ferries. And I did a number of ‘Head of …' roles: Head of Programme Management, Head of Development, Head of Delivery as well as Head of Operations, Infrastructure Networks and that sort of stuff. As well, I was just really fortunate to work with some really inspired CIOs during that time, who introduced me to agile probably back in 2003, 2004. And I was just given the environment to experiment with lots of adoption to patterns and practices as well, some that went well, some didn't, we learnt loads as well. But I found it was really hard initially. I think we did our first sort of agile project about 2004. And I'd gone away and read a book and gone to a conference and got inspired by this new way of working. But I came back to the office and (it appeared) my colleagues had read a different book! And we ended up in almost like these ‘agile wars', you know, where we're arguing about whether we all call it a sprint and iteration increments a time box, and I got really fed up with that. So, I got an outfit called Radtac to help me; a guy called Peter Measey. I just need to help us to get to a common foundation. And the first thing we did was just an education event where we got all the guys in the rooms, ‘look, this is the way we're going to work, this is what we're gonna call stuff, we're gonna at least get a common taxonomy in terms of what we mean by these things.' And that made a difference as well, then, you know, implementing it was still hard. So again, got Radtac to help with some of the practices and help them refine those as well. And then I got to a point, I don't know, about seven years ago, where I'd spent almost 30 years in the corporate world and just wanted to do something a bit different, wanted to go and explore my passion a bit more, not about agile, but more about trying to make organizations more effective. And funnily enough, I spoke to Peter Measey again at Radtac, and joined them back in 2012, as a director, and to grow their consultancy practice. So, I went from the corporate role to the dark side of consulting, and that was quite a change. For me, personally, I'd lived, about 25 minutes from my work. And that was right from the time I left my house to when I had coffee on my desk in my office. And now suddenly, I was traveling around the country and around the world. And my children were quite young that time (11 & 13) and that was quite hard in the first six months. I wasn't quite sure this was for me, but I just wanted to explore that passion for that change was hard for me. And then I think I was working with a client down in Bristol, and they started talking about this thing called SAFe. And this guy called Dean Leffingwell. And I hadn't really heard much about it and what it was as well. And then almost coincidentally, I heard that Dean was running an SPC course in London in October 2013. And I thought, okay, I want to go to that. So, I went to that course - I was not convinced. I always remember Dean talking about this two-day PI planning event and he'd said, ‘we can get everybody in the room together.' And I said, ‘what, everybody?' And he looked at me quizzically ‘Yes, everybody, that's everybody that wants to know; not just the developers - Scrum Master, Product Owners…'  ‘All of them coordinating live - the planning  was with everyone in the room together?' ‘Yes.' So, two days, I think you'll never get that, you know, the conversations that you will need to have, in order to get two days to where people get together for planning out will never happen. So, I sort of remained skeptical. I started running some training courses in 2014. But the interest in the UK was quite low, to be honest. 2015 first off, much the same. And I think towards the end of 2015 people started saying ‘Actually, I'm really interested in the SAFe stuff.' So, we did more training courses. And then I did my first (SAFe ART) launch and that's where my skepticism turned into ‘Oh my - this is an amazing event!' because you know, getting all those people in the room together, when you create those social bonds, that networking, that alignment and where you resolve difficult problems together is huge. I became an advocate so much so I got asked to join the SAFe Program Consultant Trainer program. Ula Ojiaku: [07:07] You said that you were skeptical about bringing everybody in the room for two days. How did you get to convince your first clients to do that? Well, how was it for you? Darren: [07:20] I think I was lucky because my first client was coming, over to my public courses. I think it was like April, this delegation of about four of them. They said ‘we love this. We want to do it'. And they said, ‘we're going to start small, we're not going to start with no massive teams.' I think we started with four teams. And just on the tipping point, really just say, we want to prove it out. So, I need to start with four teams. And two teams were in India and two teams were in the UK. So, my first one was distributed, which was fine, but yes, I think for them, it was like they were sold on it. And they wanted to start small. I think it was easier for me in terms of they were already bought into it. And they wanted to run it and have smaller teams make it an interesting first planning event. But, you know, we had some issues running it distributed. I think it should have taken two and a half days. And it ended up taking three and a half days. Ula Ojiaku: [08:08] Oh, okay. Well, it was a first wasn't it? Darren: [08:13] Yeah. I think the issues with that one there was a couple of things was, first of all with, because it was my first PI planning, I think that's a real red line for me when we try to do asynchronous planning. Number one, you need to have a co facilitator in each location. I didn't, I was in the UK. I wasn't in India, and it was all new to them. And they really struggled as well. Secondly, we tried to do what I call asynchronous planning. So, in the morning, we did all the briefings. And we got to lunchtime. And then we started out in the UK, we started off draft plan in the afternoon, by which time they (the teams in India) had gone home. So, they came back in the morning, and they did their draft plans. And then we tried to bring them together. It just didn't work. I mean, the whole point of the planning is to understand the tensions and the dependencies between the teams. Of course, we're doing that asynchronously. So not only did they weren't sure what they were doing, when we tried to bring the draft plan together, they didn't work. So effectively, we lost that first round of planning. So, we said, okay, we need to find a way of overlapping. So, on day three, the UK guys came in a lot earlier. And we asked the guys in India to stay a little bit later to share the pain. And then we've got an overlap. And we've got our plans together. But we effectively lost that first round of panning because there was no support. And it wasn't synchronous. Ula Ojiaku: [09:26] So, on the third day, did you manage to find someone who would facilitate on your behalf in India or you still had to do that yourself? Darren: [09:35] Yeah, I did it myself. We had video links and stuff like that (to connect with the people in India). But I recognised that they were struggling. The second time around, we made sure that we had facilitators in both locations - really important. Ula Ojiaku: [09:58] That's quite interesting. If you don't mind, I'm just going to go back a bit to the point where you said your tipping point was after about 30 years in industry. You wanted a change, which was when you made the leap into consulting. There might be some people listening who are considering making that same leap. So, what made you decide to go for it? And what was the last straw that broke the camel's back (if there was any such thing)? Darren: [10:27] I don't think it was a midlife crisis. I wanted a new challenge. And it was at that time, I'm like, well, if I didn't do it now, it would never happen. I think I'd gone through, you know, so many organizational reorganizations and restructuring. I just, I couldn't face another one of those. (I thought to myself) ‘well, if I'm going to make the break, this is the time to do it as well.' And I had the opportunity with Radtac to join them and help grow that particular organization as well. So, I think it was an alignment of moons - I needed to change. I'd spent 30 years and in the corporate world and didn't really want to go through another reorganization. And this opportunity presents itself as ‘Okay, well, let's give it a go and see how it goes.' Ula Ojiaku: [11:04] Would you say there was an element of you know, wanting to be a bit more in control of your destiny and not just being at the whim of maybe reorganizations that tend to happen in larger organizations more having some sort of direct say in the direction of things with your career? Darren: [11:20] Probably not, I think because again, I was very senior manager at P&O Ferries. I reported the Board Director. I helped shape a lot the restructuring that happened within P&O Ferries as well. I had a lot of influence and with that organization, I just think it was just about really just exploring my passion and just trying to do something different. I always thought there's just something there's one more thing left in me and I thought this was it. Ula Ojiaku: [11:43] Okay. You said your children were young and the first six months you weren't sure in consulting whether it was for you. So, what made you change your mind? It's definitely evident that you're doing something you're passionate about. What made you decide, ‘Right! It is for me'? Darren: [12:00] Again, my children were like 11 and 13. Both of them are serious swimmers. My son was a national swimmer, he was training about 17 hours a week. So that's four mornings at five in the morning (and evenings as well). My wife was working full time as well. So, it's just it was just again, with me being away traveling and not knowing what time I'll be home. That was the bit that was difficult because at least at P&O Ferries, I know what time I left for work and what time I got home. I could be quite predictable, (but in the consulting situation) I was less predictable. So, we had a long conversation, and my wife decided to temporarily give up her job. And she's a teacher, in order to support me and the children as well. That was a life changing decision that we had to make as a family. So, I'm really grateful for my wife saying, ‘Okay, I'll take a little sabbatical to get us through this.' And we tried to get some normality back to our lives as well. Ula Ojiaku: [12:50] It's really refreshing to hear this because it almost seems like - looking outwardly - everyone has it all, you know. You have to make some sacrifices, compromises to be able to achieve a goal. Darren: [13:03]  It's a good question. Because a lot of people say to me, I'd love to become a consultant. And I talk to them about that. ‘Well, you need to recognize that, you know, you could be anywhere now - what's your flexibility?' I could be in the UK, I could be overseas, if it's (my client appointment is) on a Monday, I'm probably flying on a Saturday or Sunday to get to locations. So, I'm there on Monday morning as well, it sounds so glamorous that you know, I travel the world and people see you know that you travel all the time. But funny story was I was due to go to Dubai. And my wife was teaching at the time. And it was the last week of the school term. And my wife was going to finish on the 13th. I was going to Dubai the following Monday. So, I texted her at work and said, ‘Look, you know, I'm going to Dubai next week, do you fancy coming with me?' And she texts back to me saying ‘No, I want a new kitchen!' Okay. About 15 minutes later, she gets back saying ‘No, no, no, no, no, I'm coming!' She came home and said ‘I was in the staff room when I got your text. And I laughed. And when my colleagues asked why, I told them you'd asked if I wanted to go to Dubai next week, and they said, ‘what did you say?' She said, ‘I'd said I wanted a new kitchen?' Yeah. (Long story short) She came with me (to Dubai). We flew out on the Monday -arrived in the afternoon for a two-day training event. I went into the office that Monday afternoon, just to check the office. And then I got up at seven. I was in the office at eight again, I forget how many hours I had three or four hours behind. So, it's like quite early in the morning - training from eight to six before going back to the hotel. And Jo goes, ‘wow, is that what you do?' Yeah, yeah (I say). ‘So, you got really early in the office training all day. So, what do you do now?' I'll have a meal for one in a restaurant, then I'll come back to my room. I do my emails. And I go to bed. Yeah. And I get up the following morning, exactly the same - finish at six, got home, pack my bag, have a meal, go to the airport, fly home ... And that's what you do. I said that's exactly what I did. It looks glamorous, but it's literally planes, hotels, offices. I hate eating on my own. If I'm on my own, I'm not a great explorer either. So, I know some of my colleagues are really good at going out and seeing the sights. So, if you're training all day, you've still got other responsibilities that you need to catch up with as well. So… Ula Ojiaku: [15:17] I can imagine as a head of consulting, it's not just the training, you still have to attend to other official type things. Yeah. Darren: [15:25] Good work for the company that I have to do stuff like that. Ula Ojiaku: [15:28] Oh, wow, I get the impression you are someone who's always out to learn to improve yourself. So, you're not resting on your oars even though you are at this level. Have you at any point in time felt like ‘I think I've learnt enough'? Darren: [15:41] It's also the reverse. I was never a reader. I've always been a numbers person. So, I went to university to study maths. I was one of those kids at primary school where you'd be given a book at the beginning of the week to go away and read it. I get to the end of the week; I'd hand back my book to Miss (his teacher) who'd ask ‘have you read the book Darren?' And I'd go, ‘Yes, Miss…' - I hadn't. And I've never been a great reader. I just wasn't. What I do is probably over the last six years now I've read more than I've ever read. And even so, when I go on holiday, my daughter teases me because, you know, I don't take fiction books on holiday or biography books. I take business books on holiday. Ula Ojiaku: [16:21] I do that as well (laughs) Darren: [16:22] I have a picture my daughter took of me lying in a pool reading a business book. And every time I go on a course, someone will always recommend a new book I haven't read; so I have a backlog of books that I still need to buy and read as well. And there's a couple of books I'm rereading at the moment because… Some of my colleagues are good at the audiobooks; I need to see it. I'm a real visual reader. Ula Ojiaku: [16:46] Okay, okay. Darren: [16:47] …(still on his preference for physical books) …I'm getting down. I'm just highlighting, you know, the bits that character. This is a nugget as well. So, I can flick through that book and, and use those quotes as anecdotes during the trainings that I do as well, so. Ula Ojiaku: [16:58] Okay, so when you mean the visual, would an Amazon Kindle do for you or not? It has to be like a physical book, right? I like physical books; I mean and given that I tend to commute a bit, as well listening to audiobooks. But yeah, I've learned to blend all of them in depending on where I find myself. If you were to gift a book to someone who's aspiring to develop as a lean agile professional, which one would you, one or two, would you gift to the person or recommend to the person? Darren: [17:40] There's essentially a part of them beyond the roadblock is you sometimes just don't get chance to take time out and reflect and write. And I'm a bit frustrated at the moment that I haven't written a blog for a while and stuff like that. So, at the end of April, I'm going to do like a little mini retreat, I'm going off to Finland with Virpi, a fellow SPCT. And we're gonna have a little SAFe retreat, and we want to go away and write a couple of blogs and stuff like that as well. And one of the blogs I want to write is my top three books, top three videos, top three white papers. I think I'm almost there. One (of my top books) is the Tribal Unity by Em Pretty-Campbell. It's about how to get to how to go about forming teams and get them self-organizing. It's a short book. So, it's a really good brief read. Leading Change by Kotter, I think is another book that's just so critical. I think he wrote the book in 1995. I may have got that wrong. But he's rewritten the preface, because he's saying although this book was written over 20 years ago, it's still relevant. Now I find it amazing that the same challenge is still appearing now, even though they haven't learned from 20 years ago. And I think my favorite book of last year was The DevOps Handbook by Jez Humble and that was interesting for me, because for, two reasons. One, it's quite a thick book. Not, it's not small, but it's quite daunting to look at it. And also, you think, oh, I'm not particularly technical, but someone really encouraged me to say, ‘no, read it and actually read it in small batches, reach 25 pages a day.' What a good idea! And what I found was that it was just there was so much goodness in there in terms of there's some technical stuff that you can, you can skim over. But in terms of how to adopt it, some real stories about organizations that have done this as well. And for me understanding that actually, it's not just about automation, there's so much other stuff that you need to do in terms of re architecting and telemetry and stuff like that. Well, for me, that was my book next year. And if we're going to get to this organization where there needs to be more responsive, and they need to get their products to market quicker, they need to find a way to be able to do that without being on very slow, manual downstream processes and practices. Ula Ojiaku: [19:43] We're going to put the links to them (the books mentioned) in the show notes. And it's worth mentioning as well: I mean, you're a co-author of the BCS Agile Foundations book. Darren: [19:51] I think it was them BCS (who) approached us to run an effectively agnostic agile foundations course. We created the course and the exam materials for that. And then they said, ‘well, can you create a companion book for it as well?'  As Radtac, a small group of three to nine people that we were at a time, we wrote a book together. And again, we tried to follow our agile principles. So, we had a Trello board. And we agreed and we broke it down into chapters, and then and into sections and who wrote each of those sections. And it was an enlightening experience to do that. I was quite privileged to be one of the co-authors of that as well, I reviewed a book on Agile financial management which was quite cool as well, again, that was in an agile way, you can check it out every two weeks, we were spending every two weeks to do that, as well. And also, I was one of the accredited contributors to the SAFe Reference guide as well, of which I'm really proud of as well. Ula Ojiaku: [20:36] Your last response actually nicely segues into the second part of this conversation, which is to talk about one or two lean agile related topics. You said (something about) the importance of applying agile ways to businesses to make sure that they are delivering value to customers in the shortest possible time; you know, on a consistent and predictable basis. Could you elaborate on that? Why is it important in this day and age for businesses to be agile? Darren: [21:07] I think for me now we're seeing a lot of digital disruption. The one I want to talk about is Blockbuster. That's an old story now, I think Netflix came knocking on their door over 10 years ago and said ‘look, you know, you've got a great high street presence. We've got this idea about streaming videos online. Do you fancy buying us for some silly amount of money? Really small amount of money', and Blockbuster said ‘No, no, we're okay. We're doing great in the high street.' ‘The broadband speeds won't be big enough to stream videos that will never work. We're fine.' ‘Netflix came back a year later and (made the same offer to Blockbuster who refused). And Netflix well… amazing; Blockbuster is not around anymore. I've probably had two or three more recent examples of different digital disruption: HMV - they got placed out of bankruptcy five years ago, someone bailed them out. It looks like they're gonna fold again, and they went on to the high street and said, well, why don't you go into HMV and buy videos and CDs? And the answer was, ‘well, we stream it, we download it. We don't need to do this (buy physical CDs and DVDs) anymore.' My daughter's just doing a level a moment and she's gonna go off with some friends to Magaluf with her girlfriends - much to my horror. Oh, well. Ula Ojiaku: [22:13] Oh well, ‘bank of daddy' (laughing). Darren: [22:15] No, no she's paying for herself. So, traveling, she went on to a well-known high street travel agent and said, we want to go here, this is what we're gonna do and stuff like that. And they said that that's going to be about 750 pounds per person. ‘Thank you very much.' She came home, good girl, went online, got exactly the same deal same hotel, same flights, all inclusive. Plus, airport transfers, which wasn't included, plus some club tickets for 350 pounds per person. Ula Ojiaku: [22:42] Wow! Darren: [22:43] Wow. And then the final one is that we were thinking about selling our house. And we moved about nine years ago – it was the last time we had moved. So, we got a guy around to evaluate our house. So, we asked him ‘what's your fees?' expecting him to say, you know, it's about 2% plus VAT, and then we'll get into that haggling situation where I try and beat him down so we're at 1.75%. And he said to me, it's 1% Darren. That was it. Why is it 1%? He said, ‘Purple Bricks'. So, you know, I think you know, what we get into a situation where, you know, there's a lot of disruption. And these guys are firing up stuff much, much quicker, we need to be able to get out our products and our services to market faster. And also, to get that feedback. And we don't want to create, you know, work on a ‘great' product for three or four years, get the market and find out that it's not required.  that people won't buy or sell isn't already limited as well. And we need to find a way of having a hypothesis about our product or services and testing and getting feedback on it as quickly as possible. And potentially as well getting the value as soon as possible before someone else does. So, for me it's about that improvement process of making our work transparent getting inspected, if it's okay, we carry on if not we pivot without mercy or guilt. And having that short feedback cycle, as well try to shorten that feedback cycle as much as we can. Ula Ojiaku: [24:02] Am I right in the understanding that the feedback cycle would include the customer as early as possible in the process? Darren: [24:11] Most of the time that might be a proxy for the customer. But if we get to the real customer, then that's so much the better because that's the real acid test of ‘would you use this? Would you buy this? What would you pay for it? Oh, am I doing the right thing?' Ula Ojiaku: [24:24] Very interesting! The International Consortium for Agile maintain that there's a difference between being agile, and doing agile. In your view, which one should come first? Darren: [24:36]  I think there is difference. I go into organization and say there are no we're using JIRA. So, we must be agile.  Okay, you know, it's a tool. There are lots of tools out there that can help, but I'm not sure in terms of agile, okay, well, then we're doing this practice of doing a stand up every day, just as a practice. And as some of those practices will certainly help you in terms of ways of working. But for me, and I think those things, though, about doing agile, you know, the tooling and the practices, I think they're starting points, they're very visible, because you can see those things, you see that tooling to see those practices. But in terms of being agile, or adopting agile, they're less powerful. For me the values, the principles, and the mindsets, which are less visible, are more powerful in terms of the overall adoption as well. I've seen too many people that just use the tooling and feel like they're just cranking the handle with the practices, really understanding why they're doing it, that they're doing it not being it, I think it's not a case of one or the other, I think the two need go hand in hand. But you need to explain, okay, these are great ways of helping you in your ways of working. But you need to understand some of the other things that need to go without the values and principles and the mindset changes as well. Ula Ojiaku: [25:50] Okay. And when you talk about the values of principles, are you referring back to the one that originated from the Agile Manifesto in 2001, or is there any other…? Darren: [26:00] Yeah, I think you're right when I started out, they were the ones I used to reference the most. And they were written in 2001. They're still relevant today. I wish they would just turn off some of the software language a bit more. And I think it's much more applicable to the wider organization, not just software development, I recognize that these guys came from the software industry as well -so, I get that but it'd be nice to do that (tone down the software language of the Agile Manifesto). I'm a big fan of the SAFe principles. And when I go in now (to client meetings) to be exact, I don't really talk about agile, because a lot of them will have a preconception of what they think it is and what they've heard. So, I talk about the principles that we need to base our decisions on economics. And they go ‘Yeah, we do'. So now what are the best positioned to be able to evaluate lead, we think about the whole system end-to-end; system thinking rather than optimizing individual teams or departments, because that can sub optimize the whole system. When you think about systems as well, we're working in a very complex environment. So, we can't assume that we know everything upfront. So, we need to assume variability and some way to preserve options. But there's a cost of doing that as well. And we don't want to have too much work in our system, we need to make sure that you know that we've got good flow for our system, by putting too much work into our system, it clogs it all up. So, we do that as well. And then we'll talk about, you know, we still need to plan. So, we know, we need an arrangement as a working at scale, and how we do that. So, we need a, sort of, big planning event. We need to make sure that we invest a huge amount of money and time and to help people. And we need to make sure that we find a way that they are sufficiently motivated. They have enough purpose, autonomy and mastery in their job that they go, ‘this is a great place to work, I don't want to go anywhere else as well.' And part of that comes with, you know, empowering them and decentralizing control so that people have the freedom to make decisions. So that's this little narrative that I have, and that's very much aligned to those same principles that you and I did last December. (Darren was referring to the SPC course he'd taught in Dec 2018 which I, Ula had attended).   Ula Ojiaku: [27:57] Yes. This segues nicely into my next question. So, you said when you speak to executives, and I would assume large scale enterprises, about SAFe,  you talk about the value and the principles. Now, even in the name SAFe, which is Scaled Agile Framework, it's more about applying agile principles and methodologies and tools at scale. Darren: [28:20] Yeah. Ula Ojiaku: [28:21] Question now is, ‘can a small enterprise apply SAFe?' Darren: [28:27] Can you describe it? What do you mean by small enterprise? Ula Ojiaku: [28:30] An organization that has up to maybe 10s, or a 100s of employees and wouldn't have as large a scale of operations as multinationals? Darren: [28:39] I think the key thing is, what we need to consider is that we're, we're moving away from a project-based organization to a value stream-based organization. So, in the old world, again, again, my heritage was project/ programme management. But those are temporary organizations, so and we fund them accordingly as well. And that's a bit of a nightmare for me as well, because trying to understand how much money we need for a project is difficult to work out. Most projects of that traditional era, tend to be over budget, by almost 200%, I think, standard report, last one was about 188%, over budget over time, as well. So that's always difficult as well. And then you've tried to merge in multiple projects at the same time. And if a project is late, once you finally start this project over here, but you've got people over there that need to be over here. So, you end up with this, this constant trying to align your people to the right project all the time. So all I found I was doing with project was that I was cosntantly trying to move the people to the work and doing that all the time - just shuffling around all the time and the amount of task switching and the amount of overhead trying to do that as well was difficult. The project would be late, trying to get the funding was always difficult. So, we moved to a much more value stream-based approach where we said actually, what we're going to do is  create stable teams, and we're going to align our teams to a product or service. So, there will be long lived teams. And effectively what we do is fund that team, which is actually the capital cost of those people. And all that we have to do is we bring the work to the people rather than the other way around. And all I have to do or I have to coach is how to prioritize that work. And it's much easier to prioritize that work than anything else… That was a long prelude to the answer. (Laughs). Ula Ojiaku: [30:17] So useful; it is useful. Darren: [30:19] So, first of all, though, we're going to align teams to our products. Now, if we got a product that only requires another three to nine people, then we don't need a scaling framework. Actually, if you've got two or three teams all working on the same product, and probably we don't need a scaling framework. There are probably tools and techniques that we can take from SAFe but they can probably find a way to collaborate and align without a formal framework. The Tipping Point is once you get to 4-5 teams all working on the same thing, how do we make sure that they can collaborate and align (are going) in the same direction? And I think for me, that's the tipping point, it's not so much the size of the organization, have we got at least five teams all working on the same thing, a product or service that requires alignment? That's the tipping point for SAFe as well. So, it doesn't have to be in a large organization or small. That's the tipping point. And what I sometimes see is that okay, well, we've got 10 teams, we're going to use SAFe to help coordinate them. But they're all working on different things. If they're all working on different things, have different teams. Just have individual teams working on those individual projects. You don't need to coordinate them (if) there's no coupling or no dependencies, then why would you want to do that? And I sometimes see organizations using SAFe as a framework for organizational design. It's not (an organizational design framework). It's a framework to get alignment across multiple teams all working on the same value stream. Ula Ojiaku: [31:40] That's nicely put, and I believe it would clarify the false notion for some people in terms of using SAFe for uses that it wasn't intended for. It's more about delivering value and creating alignment across all levels in an enterprise. Radtac is a lean company from what I could see of the organization. However, for the size of your company, you are making a lot of impact in this sector. What would you say is your secret? Darren: [32:10] That's a great question! I suppose it's, ‘you're only as good as your last engagement.' I'd like to think that actually it's our reputation precedes us as well. A lot of work comes to us, we don't go to it. We don't have a business development function, because most of the work will come to us through our reputation. So, I think if we try to live by our own values, and both as, in terms of how we run our company, and how we work with our engagements; we try to deliver agile in an agile way. And if we're not adding value to an organization, then we don't need to be there anymore, as well. And also, the fact that we have a really odd business model in terms of my role in organizations to make myself redundant in the organisation because I need to make sure that I transfer the capability and knowledge to organization. The last thing I want to be is their ‘agile crutch' where you know, if I walk away, everything falls over.  So, I think that's probably an unusual for organizations. That said, I have a business model to make myself redundant; I have a business model to work in small batches; I have a business model to try and create value. If I'm not adding value, then I won't be here anymore. And I think that really resonates with organizations, and most of our business comes through referrals and direct recommendations as well. So yes, that's the secret. It doesn't seem like much but it feels like it's working! Ula Ojiaku: [33:31] No, it does say a lot, because I have worked in consulting as well – a while ago. And it's not what I, the impression I have of the consulting industry, which is more about you know, find more work, make yourself indispensable, weave yourself into, you know, the client's organization such that they can't do without you. So, it's liberating to see a different approach where your aim is to empower the organization so they can get on and continue without you. Darren: [34:01] And I think you're right, yeah, it's almost the opposite. I don't want to make myself indispensable. I want to be able to walk, well, allow them to grow and explore themselves as well. Yeah. But I find it that clients that I started working out with around September 2012 – they still come back and say, look Darren, we tried, it didn't work. So, I go back down and do some little check or audit check, or health check. And, say Okay, we'll try this and try that. So, I'm really privileged that over the last seven years, not only have I worked with some great companies, but I've worked with some really great people that I know.  Even though I would say that they are clients, they are friends, as well. Ula Ojiaku: [34:36] So now that's fantastic. And which brings me to… in terms of delivering client work, what I'm getting from you is that it's also important to cultivate good working relationships with them. Because it's not just about the work, it's about, you know, the people are trying to understand them, and making sure you're adapting yourself to them and making the whole engagement work for them on their terms. Darren: [34:59] You and I were both on the other side of the fence, you know, we worked in the corporate world. You know, I worked with lots of third parties and stuff like that, as well. And yeah, you know, you bought that capability. But you ‘bought' the people. People buy people and for me that that relationship with my client is really important as well. It needs to be open; it needs to be transparent, and be honest. And sometimes you can have difficult conversations as well. But for me, it's ‘people buy people' at the end of the day. Ula Ojiaku: [35:22] Thank you. That's something I definitely take to heart. So, a few more things than just to wrap up. Do you have any ask of the audience? You know, how? How can they get in touch with you if they want to say hello? Darren: [35:37] And I will say that the easiest way to get hold of me is on LinkedIn. I always used to say there's only one Darren Wilmshurst on LinkedIn. I'm not entirely sure that's true anymore. But there's only two or three of us anyway. So, Darren Wilmshurst, LinkedIn, just connect with me. That'd be really good to getting feedback on this today. That'd be great. Any questions do that as well just ping me in the links as well. If it gets too complicated, I might revert to email that might be easier sometimes. But yeah, just find me on LinkedIn. That's where I tend to be most active. So that's where I publish my blogs and stuff like that as well. Ula Ojiaku: [36:09] Fantastic. So, you're not on Twitter or any other social media? Darren: [36:13] I am on Twitter. I'm gonna ask others my age. I don't tweet as much. But eh, @dazzawilmshurst (is my Twitter handle) but generally speaking, LinkedIn, is your best bet to probably get through to  me. I think you've got an option to publish right through to Twitter as well. So, I tend to use Twitter to follow my other passion, which is Arsenal. Ula Ojiaku: [36:38] So, while there might be other Arsenal fans listening, you will never know, we wouldn't know until we do that. So, we will put the links in the show notes. So, thank you for that. It's really been a pleasure speaking with you and you know, learning from you, as usual. And thank you so much for making the time. Darren: [37:03] And thanks for inviting me. It's been great chatting to you, this morning as well. Thanks for coming on my course last year as well. It's great to have you on the course as well. Ula Ojiaku: [37:11] That (attending Darren's SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) course) was one of the best decisions I made last year. So, thank you!

Virpi Jokinen er fyrsti vottaði skipuleggjandinn á Íslandi. Hvað skyldi það þýða? Jú hún hjálpar fólki og fyrirtækjum að skipuleggja sig og ráðast í skipulagsverkefni af ýmsum toga, hvort sem það er tiltekt í geymslunni eða óskilamunir skóla og íþróttafélaga. Virpi hlaut nýverið styrk frá Atvinnumálum kvenna fyrir óskilamunaverkefnið Hvar er húfan mín / Tökum ó-ið úr óskilamunum og hún kíkti til okkar og sagði okkur meira. Annað slagið dúkkar upp umræða um staðsetningar veðurstöðva og vilja íbúar sumra sveitarfélaga meina að ekki sé sanngjarnt að lesa upp veður á veðurstöðvum sem gefi ekki rétta mynd af veðrinu í viðkomandi bæ eða þorpi. Þessi umræða kom upp í tengslum við Hólmavík um daginn og við fáum stundum ábendingar um að það sé allt annað veður inni í bæ á Egilsstöðum en á flugvellinum og sumir vilja meina að veðrið á Stórhöfða sé nú aldeilis ekki það sama og niðri í bæ í Eyjum. Okkur lék því forvitni á að vita hvað ræður staðsetningu veðurstöðva og sitthvað fleira um þetta fyrirbæri sem við Íslendingar treystum svo mjög á. Óðinn Þórarinsson frá Veðurstofu Íslands sagði okkur allt um það. Á föstudögum í sumar sýnir RÚV gamlar vel valdar grínþáttaraðir sem þjóðinni þykir vænt um undir merkjum Íslensks grínsumars. Sjónvarpið ríður á vaðið með hinni sígildu Fastir liðir eins og venjulega og af því tilefni heyrðum við aðeins í Eddu Björgvinsdóttur, leikkonu þáttanna. Það vakti athygli fyrr í vikunni þegar Vodafone tilkynnti að fyrirtækið hyggðist bjóða viðskiptavinum sínum áskrift að enska boltanum, sem Sjónvarp Símans á sýningarréttinn að, á þúsund krónur. Heiðar Guðjónsson forstjóri Vodafone var hjá okkur í gær og skaut föstum skotum á samkeppnisaðilann. Í dag kom Orri Hauksson, forstjóri Símans, til okkar og ræddi málið enn frekar. Anna Sigríður Þráinsdóttir málfarsráðunautur spjallaði um íslenskt mál, m.a. beygingar erlendra nafna. Tónlist: Klassart - Listin að elska. Richard Hawley - Midnight train. Páll Óskar og Milljónamæringarnir - Pabbi vill mambó. Hreimur - Miðnætursól. E.L.O. - Dont bring me down. Bubbi og Hjálmar - Þöggun. Hafdís Huld - Kónguló.

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Í næstu viku hefst námskeið á vegum Rótarinnar sem nefnist Að segja frá. Konur sem hafa orðið fyrir kynferðisofbeldi glíma oft við flóknar afleiðingar þess. Ein leið til valdeflingar og bata er að rjúfa þögnina sem oft ríkir um kynferðisbrot. Við fengum þær Guðrúnu Ebbu Ólafsdóttur og Kristínu I. Pálsdóttur frá Rótinni í þáttinn til að segja okkur frekar frá því. Þriðja þáttaröð The Crown hefur litið dagsins ljós og við ætlum að skoða aðeins bresku konungsfjölskylduna í þættinum. Um helgina var viðtal við Andrew prins hjá BBC sem hefur vakið sterk viðbrögð. Í því talar hann um vinskap sinn við Jeffrey Epstein, sem var dæmdur fyrir mansal, barnaníð og kynlífsþrælkun og framdi sjálfsvíg í fangelsi í ágúst. Í framhaldinu af viðtalinu sagði almannatengslafulltrúi prinsins, Jason Stein, starfi sínu lausu. Sigríður Pétursdóttir kom í þáttinn og fór með okkur yfir þetta mál og bresku konungsfjölskylduna. Lesandi vikunnar í þetta sinn var Virpi Jokinen, skipuleggjandi og nemandi í jákvæðri sálfræði. Hún kemur frá Finnlandi, en hefur búið lengi hér á landi. Við forvitnuðumst um hvaða bækur eru á náttborðinu hjá henni, hvað hún hefur verið að lesa undanfarið og hvaða bækur og höfundar hafa haft áhrif á hana í gegnum tíðina. UMSJÓN GUÐRÚN GUNNARSDÓTTIR OG GUNNAR HANSSON

Gestur þáttarins er Virpi Jokinen, skipuleggjandi. Umsjón: Sigurlaug Margrét Jónasdóttir.