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wow.. what a cool experience… being on the radio! ok, let me start from the beginning.

Standupinspiraton

A couple of months ago I attended standupinspiration. A platform where people can share ideas and ask for help with their innovative ideas. Great place to meet inspiring people from all walks of life. As I was about to go home, Welmoed started talking to me. Exchanging our daily activities, she was interested in my new business insightz. Turns out she does a radio show every Wednesday on new businesses in Amsterdam and wanted me on the show.

One month early…

To get Welmoed up to speed with what it is that I do, I invited her to come have a look at the training institute where I did my NLP Master Practioner (RaVisie, with the wonderful Ben & Bas). I invited her for July 4th… Welmoed decided it was June 4th Luckily, I was there during that day, so we could tell her more on what NLP is.

What shall I do today?

Is what I was wondering last Wednesday. “I know! I’ll e-mail a couple of people to schedule meeting up”. So one of these e-mails reached Welmoed as well: we were still planning for me to be on her show and in the e-mail I asked her when. I got a reply within 10 minutes stating… TODAY! Somebody was not able to make it and so there was a slot open for me. Of course I immediately jumped on this fantastic opportunity!

3-2-1… You’re on!

As I showed up at their radio station, they use the Amsterdam Historic Museum Cafe to broadcast, Welmoed was running a bit late due to traffic. So we didn’t have much time prepare, which turned out to be working out well. They put me behind the microphone and gave a pair of headphones. Welmoed started the show and introduced me…

The cool thing was that the whole interview went like a normal everyday talk with a good friend. Definitely due to Welmoed’s professionalism! I got a 2x 10 min slot to talk about my business. What a great way to launch a business!

listen to me (Dutch) by -clicking here-, select StadsFM / ondemand and go to the broadcast date: 21 July 2010 15:00-16:00

thanks Welmoed!

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From 11 – 16 July the Social Innovation Safari is taking place: 27 people from all over Europe, 5 projects that can use inspiration and creativity to become even better and 24 hours to make it all happen.

Driving off into the wilderness…

This one week Safari (program), where we get briefed, get to ask question, come up with a solution and implement it for a day is to prototype what can happen when you get inspired and creative people from all walks of life sharing the same passion: making life a bit more fun! On the first day, after getting presented with the 5 cases, we had our own small TEDX going on. When everyone was still waiting for the PowerPoint machine to get ready, I decided to jump up and tell a little story, based on a book I bought just last weekend (F**k it, the ultimate spiritual way). The crowd laughed and I was happy

On the second day, we picked our project and started working on our plan for Wednesday, when we had to implement it. With feedback from the expert panel on Tuesday night, we knew we were on the right track to make the Alumni Network of IMC Weekendschool an active network. Wednesday let us to do a try out of our plans, where we invited 4 alumni and hosted a Sunday Summit: an alumni event where they get inspirational stories, get practical advice, speed recruitment and alumni becoming coaches to the current Weekendschool pupils. And guess what…

The alumni LOVED IT!

So now, day 5 and 6 of the Safari… time to polish up our plans and get ready for presenting the idea to the Weekendschool tomorrow at Kennisland. Our team is making sure they will be flabbergasted!

And so…

I’m happy to have joined… seeing the joy of the alumni was worth my time and energy. The team I’m working with is very diversified and managed in a very short time frame to get along well and deliver. Very cool…