ReDesign Travel + Life
28 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -ReDesign Travel + Life is an interview series and podcast where social entrepreneur and travel futurist Elena Rodriguez Blanco chats with experts, entrepreneurs, designers, researchers and travellers of the world to explore how we can re-imagine, re-invent, re-design and re-generate travel and life. Each episode is a journey that invites you to bring forth questions and explore possibilities that can inspire this current scenario of how we travel, live and explore the world.
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Maurici Segú: Just Flow
March 28, 2022 11:32 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBHave you ever thought of creating a personal tagline that defines your life philosophy and work? In a way, it’s a way to brand your life, a constant reminder of how you want to live in your own style. When you “just flow”, you realise you can embrace the idea of change and life with much more fluidity. This is the life philosophy of this week’s guest, Maurici Segú, a creative leader in the hospitality industry that has worked from getting hotels to transform from places to stories and is an ...
Arya Djoehana: Liberating Narratives
February 15, 2022 21:25 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBHave you been looking to become a more purpose-driven business? Have you taken steps to transform your organization before you re-brand? This week’s episode is all about cultural decoding, purpose rebranding and meaningful innovations. In conversation with Arya Djoehana, we explore how companies can operate without bricks, borders and bosses while being responsible to the environment. Arya Djoehana is a partner at Innate motion, a consulting agency that accelerates change within organisation...
Mounira Latrache: From self to co-leadership
January 17, 2022 12:14 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBWhat makes a good leader? What leadership skills do we need in these times of transition? How can we move from control to trust, from self-leadership to co-leading? Join Mounira Latrache, a pioneer of Google’s mindfulness community with 20+ years of leadership experience at international corporations like Red Bull, BMW and Google, and myself in a conversation of everything from organizational transition to the role of eldership in business. We take a deep dive into the future of business and...
Elena Rodríguez Blanco Personal Reflections on a New Year
January 08, 2022 18:19 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBIn today's episode, Elena, host of this podcast, reflects on life and business hacks. Elena shares her methods and processes for looking at life and business through a regenerative and expansive lens. Get ideas, inspiration, business and life updates to start your new year. Thank you so much for listening. Take a minute to leave a review for us! It helps so much to spread the word on these crucial topics. Don’t forget to hit subscribe so that every other week you get a fresh Design perspe...
Helena Torras: Bridges to the Future
December 08, 2021 12:07 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBOne way to redesign is to be the bridge: between past and future, between what is and wants to be, between people and ideas, between entrepreneurs and money. In this episode, we go deep with Helena Torras about innovation, future thinking, and changing power structures. We also talk about the role of startups, women and capital, as a unique access point towards new possibilities to change the usual patterns and bring in a different future. Join Helena, a connector of connectors and myself in...
John Croft: Dragon Dreaming
November 23, 2021 10:30 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBWe all have dreams and ideas, but how we go about bringing them down into reality makes the difference between one project to the next. Dragon Dreaming Project Design methodology appeared in my life exactly when I was searching for a holistic project methodology that would look at the projects as a means for us, our team, and the world to transform. In this episode, I am talking with John Croft, a mentor and teacher who has developed the Dragon Dreaming project design methodology and is appl...
Dr. Kim Poldner: Circularity
November 11, 2021 09:40 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBHow will the circular economy change the way we live? How can we move away from ownership and products to a pay-per-use of services and experiences? The sharing economy opened the path in changing the model of how we consume, and now we are open to a new way of understanding our economy without waste. In this episode, we look at how to proactively change our ways of thinking: as consumers, entrepreneurs and industry leaders and generate a new vision for our future. This conversation with Dr ...
Business Model Hacking: Elena Rodriguez Blanco and Jens Heitland
October 20, 2021 09:33 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBInnovate your model-How the travel industry has to change its business model. In this episode, Elena was invited by Jens, the CEO of Heitland Innovation, to decode a real-life case: A family-owned hotel chain with hotels in a couple of major European cities is hit hard by the pandemic. The owners' family is looking to reinvent themselves finding new ways to position the hotels and explore new business models. In this episode, we talk about how to redesign business models as a source of innov...
Freedom Lifestyle: Travis Sherry
August 30, 2021 08:00 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBHow do you design for freedom? Can you turn your life around and redesign everything? How do you create choices for yourself? In these times of change, many of our listeners are considering what´s next for their lives. If this is you, then you need to tune in to this week´s episode if you want to hear the story of a high school teacher turned into 5 million subscribers travel podcaster Travis Sherry. Travis is a travel expert, entrepreneur and has been location-independent for the last eight...
Travel Together: Tasha Hayes
August 02, 2021 06:55 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBHow does a travel company that is currently not travelling re-invent itself? How do a collection of 40 travel brands serving 1.9 million travellers annually, including tour operators, hotels, and transportation companies that operates in 70 countries and has multiple offices around the world, change their operations and strategy? Contiki Travel has used this everchanging time to move further into the sustainability journey by bringing forth more uniqueness and changing the way they do busine...
Resilience Strategy: Claudia Langer
July 20, 2021 20:29 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBCurious about social entrepreneurship? And most specifically, how do these companies organize, operate and succeed? Want a deep dive into how social entrepreneurship is interpreted in the travel industry? With a focus on how hotels, restaurants and the travel sector are re-inventing what travel means, we look at how offerings, services and target groups are constantly evolving. Deep dive with Claudia Langer and myself as we explore resilient strategy. Claudia is a social entrepreneurship and...
Regenerative Cultures: Daniel Christian Wahl, PhD
June 30, 2021 19:14 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBShould utopia be our vision? Can human impact on Earth shift from sustainability to one that generates conditions conducive to life? What is the three-horizon framework? Can we design cultures? What is a regenerative culture? We talk about some of these questions with Dr Daniel Christian Wahl in this week’s episode, a must-listen for all futurist thinkers. Dr Daniel Christian Wahl is the author of Designing Regenerative Cultures, a book that has quickly gained international acclaim. Over 24...
Jericca Cleland: Narrative Alchemy
June 07, 2021 09:04 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBHow do we create new stories? Is story the most powerful medium for change? What happens when I don’t identify with the cultural stories being told? How can I shift the stories that direct our business and our personal lives? In this episode, I deep dive with Jericca Cleland, an award-winning writer-director and cinematographer, on designing a vision and using powerful narratives to drive change through stories. After all, stories have been part of our genesis as humans. Jericca Cleland is...
Pim Schachtschabel: Architecting Magic
May 25, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutes - 32.1 MBHow do you design an educational experience to make participants know and feel the urgency of a climate emergency? How skilled are we as a society to re-shift and re-focus in the now? How do we face the fear of going against the odds of our current societal paradigms? We answer some of these questions with a creative strategist and human experience designer Pim Schachtschabel. In this week’s journey, Pim, the former Co-Founder and Design Director of the world-renowned Sherlocked, and I e...
Daniela Freund: Reflective Universities
May 11, 2021 08:00 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBWhat is it like to be teaching at a tourism university right now? What is the role of a professor in the current scenario? How do we prepare the leaders of tomorrow in such an uncertain environment? In this week´s episode, we go deep with Daniela Freund on essential questions, including the university's role, how can companies and investors work hand in hand with emerging talent, and how new narratives concerning the Sustainable Development Goals are needed. Daniela is a life force in the w...
Oliver Schütte: Zero Footprint Design
April 19, 2021 10:46 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBHow can you design a house with a Zero Footprint mentality? What small changes can you make today if you want to have a more regenerative home? In today’s episode, I am conversing with award-winning architect Oliver Schütte, who specialises in bioclimatic, passive and regenerative design strategies at regional, urban and architectural scales. Oliver developed the No Footprint House (NFH), selected as one of the best residential homes by Platform Architecture and Design and will be exhibiting...
Anthony Rocco: Innate Curiosity
April 05, 2021 09:27 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBIf you have ever been curious about time travel, secret societies and culture-building when designing experiences, this conversation is for you. In this week’s episode, we are having a conversation with Anthony Rocco, who is way more than just an experience designer. Anthony is a facilitator of realities. His work has been featured in Priya Parker's Art of Gathering, and he is best known for his work in San Francisco’s infamous Latitude Society. In this conversation, we focus on individuals,...
Barbara Neuhofer: Grounded Liminality
March 22, 2021 14:01 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBHow can you reach states of awe? Can events hold transformational experiences that change people? Why do liminal spaces matter significantly in this era of online experiences? Can you design for radical self-expression and authenticity? In today´s episode, we are journeying with Dr Barbara Neuhofer. Barbara is a Professor of Experience Design and Head of Experience Design at the Department of Innovation and Management in Tourism at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria. She is...
Emmanuel Pauwels: Regenerative Paradigms
March 09, 2021 08:47 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBIs regeneration the new sustainability? A regenerative mindset is built on design, moving your focus from problems to potential, from mere function to roles in a larger system. This week we journey with Emmanuel Pauwels, who practices the principles of a regenerative lifestyle and lives in one. His home in the Catalan Pyrenees not only has been built to be environmentally conscious but also as a larger part of the community, it is based in. Emmanuel is the founder of Green Living Projects, a...
Paul Bulencea: Foraging New Visions
February 23, 2021 10:37 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBHow can we have new visions by looking within? Is it possible to literally forage, just like we do in nature, to see life in a new light? In this episode, we are journeying with Paul Bulencea and we explore understanding how personal journeys are key for transformative experiences. Paul is an award-winning author, educator, entrepreneur and speaker. He advises companies and governments to foster innovation and drive sustainable growth by shifting business models from services to co-creative ...
Natalia Bayona Policy Vision
February 02, 2021 09:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBChange and transformation need to go hand in hand with policy. In the travel industry, the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) is the one driving policy change globally. This week’s guest, Natalia Bayona, the Director of Investments, Innovation and Education, shares a unique unified vision for all actors to join together in these times of change. I follow Natalia’s work closely as she is one of the key people driving high-level impact investments to empower the tourism innovati...
Aga Szóstek: Umami Adaptation
January 22, 2021 14:05 - 34 minutes - 32.1 MBWe start the year with Aga Szóstek, PhD, a strategic designer guru who has worked at the forefront of combining design, technology, and business for the past two decades. She collaborated with brands such as Google, Philips, Canon, Samsung, EY, Santander, ING, Orange, and many more, bringing the experience-focused strategic approach to project teams and boardrooms. Her approach has inspired many organisations to refocus and bet on experiences as their market differentiator. She recently publ...
Bonus: Improvised 2020 Personal Reflections
December 28, 2020 11:36 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBWhat a ride! As I started reflecting on this year and all the layers of different things that have happened, I wanted to share from a personal perspective, as a small business owner, as an entrepreneur in the TRAVEL industry, as a university professor, as a person who is living very far from her family and relatives, as someone who travelled 6 months every year to meet friends all over the world, as someone who doesn´t like being told what to do, as someone who has been confined before at th...
Claus Raasted - Disruptive Questions
December 10, 2020 11:15 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBThis week we are speaking with Claus Raasted, a creative entrepreneur, master storyteller, and innovation specialist. Claus is the Director of the College of Extraordinary Experiences and a consultant on travel and innovation at McKinsey & Company. He also designs immersive and interactive events that invite people to change their perspectives. A truly disruptive mind, once you meet Claus, you don´t forget. In this episode, Claus shares top tips from his most recent book “The Innovation Cycl...
Anna Alaman - Design for Gender Equality
November 25, 2020 07:18 - 23 minutes - 22 MBToday I am joined by Anna Alaman, a social travel expert that founded a unique women-first travel operator in India. She has been a pioneer in Delhi, training and hiring women as tour guides and taxi drivers in a 95% male-dominated industry. Designing for gender-equality, rather than managing women's empowerment is an example of how regenerative travel can change the industry. This episode is for anyone who wants to dive into the world of beautiful India under a women-powered regenerative le...
Design for Gender Equality
November 25, 2020 07:18 - 23 minutes - 22 MBToday I am joined by Anna Alaman, a social travel expert that founded a unique women-first travel operator in India. She has been a pioneer in Delhi, training and hiring women as tour guides and taxi drivers in a 95% male-dominated industry. Designing for gender-equality, rather than managing women's empowerment is an example of how regenerative travel can change the industry. This episode is for anyone who wants to dive into the world of beautiful India under a women-powered regene...
Charles Michel-Apex Healers
November 09, 2020 11:39 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBThis week we are speaking with Charles Michel, a food activist working at the intersection of science, art, community and entrepreneurship. He recently starred in Netflix “The Final Table” where he literally showed how food literacy is changing the world. In this episode we talk about the cutting-edge projects he is currently working on and ideas on how to regenerate travel. If you are a foodie, this episode is a must. Thank you so much for listening. Take a minute to leave a review for us!...
Martyn Sibley- Serious travel packing
October 22, 2020 12:09 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBToday, I’m joined by one of Britain’s most influential disabled people and a travel/marketing entrepreneur. He is most known for his company Accomable, the “disabled Airbnb” that got bought by Airbnb in 2018. Martyn has been championing the underserved disabled community of 1.3 billion people who are looking to have their needs met. He is currently co-founder and CEO of two initiatives, Disability Horizons Magazine and most recently, the Purple Goat Agency which offer multimedia marketing an...