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Journeys of Empowerment

Michiel Sujeet Reith

Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/9d. Total Eps: 57

Real-life stories: conversations with founders and leaders who turned inner shifts into meaningful change;

Lessons from role models: grounded wisdom from people who chose clarity over pressure and aligned their work with who they are;

Reclaim your clarity: a journey of self-discovery, agency and purposeful direction;

Join the movement: a community that believes in growth through honest reflection, one story at a time!

Empowerment begins with a single step your choice to listen, reflect and reconnect with what’s true for you 🙏🏾

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#57 | Rumailah Burden-Tuuk | "Unapologetically becoming self!"

Episode 57

Tuesday, January 6, 2026 • Duration 01:33:19

#57 Unapologetically becoming self!

In this episode, I connected with Rumailah Burden-Tuuk, a woman whose life has been shaped by courage, responsibility and an unwavering commitment to stay true to herself. We met in a crowded room at Microsoft NL and something in her presence stood out immediately. This conversation reveals why :)

Rumailah grew up as the daughter of Filipino immigrants, became a mother at nineteen and was underestimated more times than she can count. Instead of shrinking, she chose to play big. Today she works as an AI advisory solution consultant at ServiceNow, translating complexity into clarity while holding a deep ethical compass around technology, leadership and human dignity. Her journey is one of survival turning into purpose, ambition grounded in gratitude and success shaped by values rather than titles.

Deep dive talking points:

👉🏾 becoming a mother young: responsibility as a catalyst for growth;

👉🏾 unapologetic selfhood: refusing to play small to fit in;

👉🏾 intuition and courage: knowing when to walk away;

👉🏾 women in tech: navigating power, credibility and voice;

👉🏾 ethical AI: engineering with integrity and care;

Nuggets of empowerment:

🙌🏾 your starting point does not define your ceiling;

🙌🏾 intuition is a skill you can learn to trust;

🙌🏾 success means nothing without peace;

Rumailah’s empowering quote:

🙌🏾 “I am becoming my truest self”

Book mentioned:

📚 The rhythm of life: living intentionally and in gratitude

Closing reflection:

Where in your life are you still dimming yourself to belong, and what might change if you chose yourself instead?

Connect with Rumailah:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rumailahburden/

Website: https://www.servicenow.com

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#56 | Mirjam Heldmann | "What if it all works out?"

Episode 56

Tuesday, December 30, 2025 • Duration 01:26:41

#56 What if it all works out?

In this episode, I connected with Mirjam Heldmann, a trail ultrarunner and deep democracy facilitator whose life bridges intensity, intuition and the steady work of becoming fully herself. Raised in the German Alps and adopted as a baby, Mirjam grew up with loving Buddhist parents and a deep sensitivity she could feel long before she understood.

Running entered her life at fourteen as a way to regulate her nervous system and return to herself, and it grew into both a physical practice and a spiritual anchor. Today she combines her work at Oxfam Novib with Vox Agora, where she facilitates conflict resolution and cultural transformation through deep democracy.

Deep dive talking points:

👉🏾 Becoming fully herself: following yearly themes like self love and what if it all works out;

👉🏾 Adoption and identity: the unseen layers of trust, belonging and the complexity of both;

👉🏾 Deep democracy: learning to work with what is said and unsaid in groups;

👉🏾 The body as compass: running, breath and ice baths as pathways back to presence;

👉🏾 Love and safety: how a deeply safe relationship changed her inner landscape;

Nuggets of empowerment:

🙌🏾 The body often knows long before the mind understands;

🙌🏾 Belonging begins within when no place feels fully yours;

🙌🏾 Trust grows when you stay with the discomfort instead of checking out;

Mirjam’s empowering quote:

🙌🏾 “What if it actually all works out....”

Mirjam’s story invites a quiet shift:

What would change in your life if you allowed yourself to trust the possibility that it might all work out?

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#55 | Susan Vrolijk | "Standing strong in the light"

Episode 55

Tuesday, December 23, 2025 • Duration 01:10:44

#55: Standing strong in the light!

This time I sat down with Susan Vrolijk, whose story carries both the softness of island life and the weight of a childhood marked by silence, survival and a long road toward healing. Born in Curaçao to Aruban parents, Susan grew up between cultures languages and expectations, with a childhood shaped by warmth and family rituals and also by one of the deepest wounds: sexual abuse at a very young age.

What followed was years of independence, imagination as escape and the instinct to protect her mother by staying strong. Only much later did she find the words for what had happened and the courage to begin her healing.

Susan speaks with clarity, honesty and an unwavering sense of faith. Therapy, family constellations and her spiritual walk brought her to a place where she can now speak about forgiveness without bitterness and about pain as a place of formation, not definition. Today she is focused on connection, happiness at work and helping others find the freedom to stand in their own light.

Deep dive talking points:

👉🏾 Growing up in Curaçao: color, culture, language and early responsibility;

👉🏾 Survival and imagination: creating inner worlds to cope with trauma;

👉🏾 The long path of healing: therapy, family constellations and rebuilding safety;

👉🏾 Faith as anchor: finding identity and stability through spirituality;

👉🏾 Becoming who she was designed to be: from fear to freedom;

Nuggets of empowerment:

🙌🏾 Healing is not linear, but every layer brings you closer to your true self;

🙌🏾 Pain can shape you without owning you;

🙌🏾 Standing in your light is an act of courage, not comfort;

Susan’s empowering quote:

🙌🏾 “I’m becoming the woman I was designed to be”

#54 | Belén Hein | "Meaningful connection & interactions"

Episode 54

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 • Duration 01:28:56

#54: The art of meaningful connection!

My conversation with Belén Hein unfolded as a quiet exploration of identity, movement and the inner compass that guides us through change. Born in Argentina, shaped by Germany and the United States, and now rooted in Utrecht, Belen carries a life marked by transitions. Those shifts taught her to build home from within and to meet the world with openness and curiosity rather than fear.

Belén spent seven years as co-founder of Neurolytics, where she blended psychology, technology and a deep belief in human potential. Leaving her own company was a heartbreak but also a turning point. It led her back to the core of what energizes her: building, aligning teams, turning strategy into action and making workplaces more human through honest interaction.

Her story carries the tension between ambition and loss, motherhood and identity, vulnerability and determination!

Deep dive talking points:

👉🏾 Building Neurolytics: translating science into a fairer recruitment process;

👉🏾 Leaving her startup: grief, clarity and learning to trust the next step;

👉🏾 The power of meaningful connections: how her late mother shaped her understanding of presence and care;

👉🏾 Tools for inner clarity: writing as reflection and conversations as mirrors;

👉🏾 Adaptability across cultures: choosing home and learning to accept what is and what isn’t;

Nuggets of empowerment:

🙌🏾 Clarity rarely arrives by itself. You create it through reflection and honest conversation;

🙌🏾 Adaptation is not about losing yourself. It is about finding the version of you that meets life as it is;

🙌🏾 The smallest interactions can carry the biggest impact when you bring presence into them;

#53 | Jamila van de Voort | "Leading with heart"

Episode 53

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 • Duration 01:34:36

#53: Leading with heart in a world built on head!

An open conversation with Jamila van de Voort, founder of ChangewithJamila, whose journey moves from early survival into a grounded vision for a more human way of working. After more than a decade in change and transformation roles she saw how strategy fails when people feel unseen. Her own life taught her what fear instability and hypervigilance do to a child and how resilience becomes a way of navigating the world.

All of that shaped The Love Strategy: a framework built on empathy openness resilience and collaboration.

Jamila grew up between cultures and homes, often carrying responsibilities far beyond her age. That sensitivity became both her burden and her gift: the ability to walk into a room and sense exactly what is happening beneath the surface. Later she walked the long path of infertility and IVF, found her own way through it, and became a mother of two daughters she now sees as her greatest joy. Her work is not theoretical. It is lived experience translated into a way of leading that honours emotion, truth and human connection.

Deep dive talking points:

👉🏾 The Love Strategy: a human-centred way of working built on empathy openness resilience and collaboration;

👉🏾 Survival and sensitivity: how instability shaped her ability to read people and patterns;

👉🏾 Infertility and resilience: reclaiming her path after years of IVF;

👉🏾 Turning wounds into leadership: transforming hypervigilance into grounded presence;

👉🏾 Heart-to-heart conversations: why safe connection is the real catalyst for change;

Nuggets of empowerment:

🙌🏾 You can rise from survival into creation when you learn to listen to your body

🙌🏾 Hardship shapes you, but your response is where your power begins

🙌🏾 Empathy is not soft, it is courageous and transformative

#52 | Bea Salomma | "Returning to the true you"

Episode 52

Tuesday, December 2, 2025 • Duration 01:15:42

#52 Returning to the true you!

In this episode, I connected with Bea Salomma, whose path moves from corporate leadership into a life shaped by intuition creativity and the courage to rebuild identity from within. Bea began her career in advertising but stepped into an entirely new chapter when a layoff pushed her toward fashion and later toward guiding women to express their true selves through style.

Her journey holds themes of identity rebirth motherhood playfulness and the slow return to who she always was beneath the labels.

She grew up in Poland and built her first life there until she moved to the Netherlands at thirty six. In that new chapter she studied fashion began a fresh career and shaped the Icon Framework, a method that blends psychology color energy and deep listening. Her story is grounded and human and reminds us that you only need one step to begin again.

Deep dive talking points:

👉🏾 Identity without labels: how she moved from defining herself through roles to owning the simple answer I am;

👉🏾 Motherhood and selfhood: navigating the identity shift that arrives with becoming a mother and finding a bridge back to herself;

👉🏾 The ICON Framework: guiding women to dress their vision and claim their visibility;

👉🏾 Empowering beliefs: why everything is possible became her internal North Star;

👉🏾 Playfulness rediscovered: how style helped her reconnect with the parts she had hidden;

Nuggets of empowerment:

🙌🏾 Returning to yourself asks for courage and also for softness;

🙌🏾 Your style can be a bridge between who you were who you are now and who you are becoming;

🙌🏾 Change begins the moment you trust the quiet yes inside your body more than the fear in your mind!

Bea’s empowering quote:

#51 | Sabine Bakkum | "Dedication meets vulnerability"

Episode 51

Tuesday, November 25, 2025 • Duration 01:28:28

#51: When dedication meets vulnerability!

In this episode, I connected with Sabine Bakkum CEO and founder of VitsAll®, whose journey moves between high performance, resilience and a very human search for balance. From growing up in a family of doctors to pursuing elite gymnastics from the age of four to becoming an entrepreneur at twenty three, her path carries both discipline and vulnerability.

She trained more than twenty hours a week, broke bones, chased perfection and still believed she wasn’t good enough. Leaving gymnastics pushed her into a long stretch of identity searching. At the same time her own endometriosis was dismissed as stress for years. Through it all she built VitsAll with the same drive she had in sport, but now with a deeper understanding of what vitality really asks of us!

Deep dive talking points:

👉🏾Movement and meaning: how elite sport shaped her drive and her blind spots;

👉🏾 Vitality at work: why habits, fun and maintenance matter more than quick fixes;

👉🏾 Endometriosis: speaking up after years of not being heard;

👉🏾 Identity beyond achievement: quitting gymnastics and rebuilding from zero;

👉🏾 Building VitsAll: turning personal experience into purpose driven entrepreneurship;

Nuggets of empowerment

🙌🏾 Sometimes the bravest step is simply saying this is my limit and choosing a different path;

🙌🏾 Strength without softness collapses, strength with softness becomes sustainable;

🙌🏾 You can dream big and still take small steps every day. They are not opposites, they are the way forward!

In Sabine’s empowering words:

"Everyone has a story and it is okay to be not fine and to speak about it"

Sabine’s story is a reminder that dedication can take you far, but honesty with yourself will take you deeper. Maybe the question to sit with after listening is this:

#50 | Lara Ferreira | "Don't postpone joy"

Episode 50

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 • Duration 01:08:17

#51: What if joy was never meant to be postponed?

In this episode, I sat down with Lara Ferreira 🍄, founder of Mindful Experiences, a platform that helps individuals and organizations rediscover balance, purpose and joy through mindfulness, embodiment and conscious microdosing.

After more than a decade in global corporate roles across LATAM and Europe, burnout forced Lara to pause and realign her life. Her journey is one of unbecoming, letting go of the roles and beliefs that no longer served her.

And learning to live from presence rather than performance!

Deep dive talking points:

👉🏾 Unbecoming and alignment: releasing the parts shaped by expectations and rediscovering her true self;

👉🏾 From burnout to balance: how her body became the first messenger that change was needed;

👉🏾 The role of microdosing: how psilocybin helped quiet mental noise and restore inner clarity;

👉🏾 Feminine and masculine energy: learning to flow and receive after years of chasing and achieving;

👉🏾 Joy as a practice: designing life and work around playfulness, purpose and mindful presence!

Nuggets of empowerment:

🙌🏾 Sometimes unbecoming is the bravest path to becoming whole;

🙌🏾 Healing begins when we stop performing and start listening to what life is asking from us;

🙌🏾 Joy is not a reward for success, it is the compass that shows the way!

Lara’s empowering quote:

🙌🏾 “Be the star of your own life show and not a guest in others”

Books mentioned:

📚 Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl: exploring purpose, suffering and the inner will to live.

#49 | Nuthan Manohar | "Happiness rebuild"

Episode 49

Tuesday, November 11, 2025 • Duration 01:14:08

#49: Can happiness be rebuilt after everything falls apart?

In this episode, I connected with Nuthan Manohar, a happiness researcher, two-time TEDx speaker and founder of Me Met Me and The Happiness Tour.

Once a corporate strategist leading global projects across Asia Pacific, Nuthan’s world came undone through depression, anxiety and chronic insomnia. What emerged is a life devoted to helping others reconnect with joy and resilience through science-backed, sensory-rich experiences.

Deep dive talking points:

👉🏾 The anatomy of happiness: why joy is not a mood but a practice rooted in awareness and physiology;

👉🏾 Falling apart to awaken: how burnout and insomnia became Nuthan’s teachers;

👉🏾 Embodied science: the bridge between neuroscience, Ayurveda and lived experience;

👉🏾 Designing happiness: creating immersive experiences that transform well-being at work and in life;

👉🏾 Courage to be gentle: redefining strength through compassion and self-trust;

Nuggets of empowerment:

🙌🏾 True happiness is not found in intensity but in consistency;

🙌🏾 Gentleness can be the most radical form of strength;

🙌🏾 Healing begins the moment we stop performing wellness and start living it!

Nuthan’s empowering quote:

🙌🏾 “When your nervous system feels safe, happiness becomes your default state”

Books mentioned:

📚 The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor: exploring how positive psychology fuels performance and success;

📚 The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk: a foundational work on trauma and the wisdom of the body;

👉🏾 Nuthan’s story reminds us that happiness is not the absence of pain but the presence of safety. It asks each of us: what does your body need to finally feel at home!

#48 | Hartini Kandari | "Coming home to self"

Episode 48

Tuesday, November 4, 2025 • Duration 01:22:28

#48: What if coming home means returning to where your story began?

In this episode, I connected with Hartini Kandari, a Dutch-Indonesian therapist, author and musician whose journey moves between loss and belonging.

Born in Indonesia and adopted to the Netherlands at four months old, she lost her cultural identity overnight only to spend decades finding her way back. Today, as she prepares to remigrate to Bali, her story bridges healing, heritage and faith.

Deep dive talking points:

👉🏾 Adoption and identity: how language, smell and ancestry shape belonging beyond nationality;

👉🏾 The body remembers: early loss expressed through tension, skin and voice before words could catch up;

👉🏾 The therapy of music: violin as her first language of connection and resilience;

👉🏾 Writing through wounds: creating her book 𝗔𝗱𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗲 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 to help adoptees reflect, heal and feel seen;

👉🏾 Faith and homecoming: rediscovering God, roots and rest after decades of inner restlessness!

Nuggets of empowerment:

🙌🏾 Healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken it’s about remembering what’s whole;

🙌🏾 Sometimes our restlessness is a compass pointing us back to where our story began;

🙌🏾 Real connection starts when we stop performing and begin allowing ourselves to feel!

Hartini’s empowering quote:

🙌🏾 “With ACT therapy we don’t aim to heal what’s broken because we are not broken we learn psychological flexibility”

Books mentioned:

📚 Adoptie Impact: invites adoptees to pause, embrace both gratitude and grief, and gently reclaim their place by giving every feeling the space to exist!

📚 The Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier: a foundational work on the separation trauma experienced by adoptees.

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