Voices of Insead – Details, episodes & analysis

Amara Uyanna 🇳🇬 Class of Insead 23J

Amara has had an exciting career full of pivots - from the oil & gas industry to being inspired to help communities she saw struggling due to the same industry with virtual reality, and more… Listen in to listen to her brave and bold career moves.

View the documentary she made about the impact of refineries & local communities in Nigeria here: https://youtu.be/bSsBTdONiM0

Stay tuned until the end to elucidate her 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉 1 - She is fluent in sign language 🤟🏻 🫰🏻 👌🏻 2 - She called off her engagement 4 weeks before a 2,000 people wedding  💒 ❌  3 - She’s very good with handguns and rifles 💥 🔫

Raisa Bruner 🇺🇸 Class of Insead 23J

Raisa is an already accomplished journalist who started her career at the Yale Daily News (writing about SWUGs - go read about it if you are not familiar with frat culture).

Prior to Insead, she worked as a journalist for Time Magazine in NYC for 6 years. She hustled her way into music reporting, which led her to incredible interactions with celebrities (she confirms: they are as insecure as us).

Join us for a dive into the world of a modern reporter and pick up some tips on how to write a great story along the way.

Stay tuned until the end to elucidate her 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉

1 - Used to ski race ⛷️ 🗻

2 - Lived in 10 cities across 5 continents  🌎 🌍 🌏

3 - Went on a date with Sam Bankman-Fried 🏦 🚨

David 🇨🇦 and Mattijs 🇧🇪 Valedictorians of Insead Class of 22D

David & Mattijs are coming towards the end of their Insead experiences 👨🏻‍🎓🧑🏼‍🎓

They were both elected by their respective campus’ to represent their class & will be making speeches on graduation day. 💬

We touch on mostly Insead centric topics such as:

• Singy VS Fonty Campus
• Partners
• Diversity
• Favourite classes

Stay tuned until the end to elucidate their 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉

Mattijs 🇧🇪

1 - He was the national champion in a high school poem writing competition ✒️

2 - He first got to know about Insead on Tinder ❤️‍🔥

3 - He used to do archery as a sport 🏹

David 🇨🇦

1 - Has run more than 100km at once 🏃

2 - Is slowly losing his skin pigment ⏳

3 - Was a professional ballet teacher 🩰

Almaha Almari 🇰🇼 Class of Insead 23J

She introduces us to her story, culture and country. Almaha not only had an impressive career, but is also a highly engaged female activist 💪 👭 We talk about the state of female rights in Kuwait, her personal definition of feminism and discuss prejudices that muslim women face in Western society.

Stay tuned until the end to elucidate her 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉

1 - Her family owns the only river in Kuwait  🌊

2 - She was the first woman of her family to drive a car 🚗 🧕

3 - She is allergic to camels 🐪☀️🐪

Julia Linthicum 🇺🇸 Class of Insead 23J shares her story with us

Julia is the co-president of Outsead: Insead’s LGBTQIA+ club. She shares with us more facts & her experience of being asexual (often referred to as "Ace"). We also discuss how our current society has yet to improve a lot to be more inclusive.

Stay tuned until the end to elucidate her 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉

1 - A giraffe once bit her thumb 🦒

2 - She placed in the Irish Dancing World Championships 👯‍♀️

3 - When she was young, she was once scouted for a small movie role off the streets of Paris 🥐 🧒

Jesse Schow 🇺🇸 Class of Insead 23J shares his story with us

Jesse grew up in a religious community in Utah called the LDS church (formerly known as Mormon). He tells us about what it was like to grow up in this community, work as a missionary in the Philippines 🇵🇭 & what led him to lose his faith.

Stay tuned until the end to elucidate the following 2 truths & 1 lie that he shared with us 😉

1 - he was expelled from his high school 🎓

2 - he was adopted 👪

3 - he is a direct descendent of Joseph Smith 👴

Supavit Rangdaeng aka Buba 🇹🇭 Class of Insead 23J shares his story with us

🧘 Meditation 🧘 is a key part of his life after experiencing being a monk for a month.

He tells us about how meditating keeps him sane & aware, and how we can incorporate it in our daily life to help us make authentic decisions.

Stay tuned until the end to elucidate the following 2 truths & 1 lie that he shared with us 😉 

1 - he's drank his own pee 🚽🥂

2 - he owns at least 5 closets full of clothes 👞👕

3 - he is an expert massager 💆‍♀️ 

Lucile Feron 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 Class of Insead 23J shares her story with us

What it was like to work as an aerospace engineer on launching rockets to space 🚀 💫 🛰️ ? What got her there 👩🏻‍🎓 ? What brought her to Insead 💼?

Francesco Bracotti 🇮🇹 Class of Insead 23J

Francesco started off his career on the race tracks going up to F3 (which helped him humiliate us mere Inseaders at Go Karting) 🏁 🏎️

He experienced a tough change in his life at 18 which led him to end the F1 dreams to pursue a career in healthcare, which he realised he was much more passionate about. He provides us with insights into the inner workings of Big Pharma, and makes the case for us to trust these companies to drive innovation within the industry.

Francesco had a lot of crazy experiences in his career: discovering molecules to administer drugs to our lungs (we geek out on mucus quite extensively together 😅), taking on the COVID portfolio during the crisis and being selected as Forbes under 30 (according to him he is just a consistently “lucky” guy).

Stay tuned until the end to elucidate his 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉

1 - He defeated Carlos Sainz 🏎️ 🏆

2 - He had a nervous breakdown 🙀

3 - He doesn’t drink alcohol, smoke or drink coffee 🙅 🥂 🚬  ☕

Johan Lammers 🇳🇱 Class of Insead 23J

Johan is a passionate problem solver who has a strong desire to have a positive impact in this World. We discuss his studies of War, what he would do in an end of the World scenario 🌎 💥, how he became the confident public speaker he is today 🗣️, why he decided to become a consultant (think MANY ☕ 💬) and what his experience on the job was (how do you become optimised? Think MECE? What is your job? What to expect if you start dating a consultant? How to manage your time under pressure?).

Stay tuned until the end to elucidate his 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉

1 - He photobombed the Dutch prime minister 📸 🕺

2 - He was explaining grown men how to load and shoot musket rifles at age 12 🔫  🪖

3 - He drove in a battle tank at a NATO compound 🚧