The Femme Futurists Society Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

INGRID LaFLEUR is founder of The Afrofuture Strategies Institute (TASI), merging foresight methodologies with the cultural movement of Afrofuturism to cultivate Afrofuture consciousness and inspire transformative action toward a just and harmonious future.

As the Founding Director of the Creative Industries Blockchain Lab and Director of Media Entrepreneurship at Georgia State University, Elizabeth is helping shape the future of media innovation, teaching students how to harness the power of technology, digital transformation, and the metaverse to tell immersive stories and launch successful businesses.

Episode #33: In our Femme Futurist Video Podcast series with extraordinary women, we explore how we can better develop high-tech for low resource environments to improve global health with Drea Burbank. Drea Burbank, is the CEO of Savimbo as an MD-Technologist & Serial Entrepreneur with her work ranging in things like Web3 to stem-cells.

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In our Femme Futurist Video Podcast series with extraordinary women, we discuss the future of childhood and future fit design with Joana Lenkova. Joana Lenkova is the Futurology Director for the Lego Group and founder of Futures Forward, a strategy and innovation consultancy focused on building impactful, resilient business models to help shape and inspire positive future narratives.  

***All opinions are Joana's own and do not reflect the LEGO Group.***

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Episode #31 in our Femme Futurists video podcast series with Sun (Kagami) Brown, where we talk about: Deep Self Design. The Doodle revolution. Inner engineering. Gamestorming. Collaboration Literacy. Juicy messiness. Being a best friend to yourself. And my favorite: shoshaku jushaku (which in Zen Buddhism means; one continuous mistake). It would be easy to think of that last one as a negative, but in conversation with Sunni Brown you quickly learn that it’s a philosophy of “joy that trusts in productive discomfort”. 

These are just some of the directions our conversation takes.

Named one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business” and one of the “10 Most Creative People on Twitter” by Fast Company. Her TED talk has drawn over 1.6 million views and her work on visual thinking has been featured in every major U.S. publication including: The New York Times, The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, WIRED, and Entrepreneur. She has been featured twice on CBS Sunday Morning and on The TODAY Show. 

And she is widely credited with the rise of #visualthinking (doodling!) as a tool for deeper inquiry and is #CEO of the Center For Deep Self Design.

Listen or watch and enjoy this rich conversation about the intersection of our inner and outer worlds and why a “good life is an inside job”.

Listen to Our Previous Conversations:  🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-femme-futurists-society-podcast/id1680532882  🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7xr5S27ZG3DzoHkNsOtxFN

Learn more about Femme Futurists Society at https://femmefuturists.com/ Learn more about Sun at http://nothingintheway.substack.com/

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Episode #30: In our Femme Futurist Video Podcast series with extraordinary women, we explore the role of new technologies in creativity with Brooke Hopper. Brooke Hopper is Principal Designer for Machine Intelligence and Emerging Technologies at Adobe, working to deepen and enhance the creative process and allow all humans to more fully realize their creative visions. 

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Episode #28: In our our Femme Futurist Video Podcast series with extraordinary women, we discuss future proofing one of the world’s best known brands with Joanna Lepore. Joanna Lepore is the Global Foresight Director for McDonald’s, leading the exploration of new capabilities globally by putting humans and sustainability at the center of their future visioning.

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Carin Ism and Nancy Giordano discuss the future of governance...

We see example after example of how exponential technologies are changing everything, yet our systems of governance are not keeping pace. Cross-pollination between the digital realm and governance design is long overdue, and that's exactly where our latest Femme Futurists Society interviewee comes in. A "power nerd" and co-author of “How to Rule a World—A Guide to the Established and Emerging Tools for Power and Governance in the 21st century" (set to be released at the end of 2020), Carin Ism is fascinated by systems of governance.

An advocate of the solar punk movement - which envisions a future beyond scarcity - she is the co-Founder of the Future of Governance Agency (FOGA) dedicated to seeding innovation and general power literacy. Besides living at 14,000 feet in the Himalayas to develop design principles for space societies, she was also the principal investigator of the first governance study on Mars. (And so many other things on her resume there simply isn't room for!). We got to the end of this interview and were blown away. We hope you are too.

Learn more at femmefuturists.com Learn more about Nancy at nancygiordano.com Learn more about our guest Carin at corinism.com

Zahara Chetty and Nancy Giordano discuss the need for divergent thinking and polymaths...

Zahara Chetty and Nancy Giordano discuss the need for divergent thinking thinking, polymaths and multi-potentialities in this heartfelt conversation around her life growing up in Apartheid South Africa. As an Educationist, Writer, Facilitator, Fashion Designer and Coach she works remotely with teams all around the world to help individuals, CEOs, startups, social enterprises, governments and organizations navigate complexity and develop more conscious and collaborative solutions for the future. She has a special interest in cognition, trauma and conscious evolution in a time where technology threatens to outpace human development.

Learn more at femmefuturists.com Learn more about Nancy at nancygiordano.com Learn more about our guest Zahara at zaharachetty.com

Lisa Galarneau and Nancy Giordano discuss anthropology of the future...

A curiosity-led, polymath and anthropologist, Dr. Lisa Galarneau uses the past to shape the future. Firmly believing that we have the ability right now to shape a thriving existence for all (including the planet), in this conversation with Nancy Giordano she wonders what's stopping us? Lisa posits that, "we must de-condition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it’s not easy". Her vision? A world that works for everyone. We couldn't agree more.

Learn more at femmefuturists.com Learn more about Nancy at nancygiordano.com Learn more about our guest Lisa at lgalarneau.wixsite.com/lisa