ReDesign Travel + Life

Elena Rodriguez Blanco

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.

  1. Maurici Segú: Just Flow

    03/28/2022

    Maurici Segú: Just Flow

    Have 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 expert in finding the value of what’s within everything you do.  Maurici is also an avid traveller himself for both work and pleasure and has spent almost two years straight sleeping in hotels, leading him to publish his first book: “Solitary Nights in Hotels” where he shares reflections he had at that time. Founder of Innovarout, a consultancy company that takes companies through the innovation cycles, Maurici has worked with hundreds of organisations. He is also a public speaker and professor in several universities in Europe. 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 perspective on Travel. I’m @elenarodriguezblanco from @authenticitys, and I’d love to be in conversation with you and hear your thoughts, ideas and feedback. Visit ReDesign-Travel.com for more notes on this Podcast and Authenticitys.com to follow our work.

    30 min
  2. Mounira Latrache: From self to co-leadership

    01/17/2022

    Mounira Latrache: From self to co-leadership

    What 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 work. We unwrap self-discovery, mindfulness, compassion, and vulnerability and discuss their role in the workplace. We unearth new lenses on how to explore ourselves to become better leaders. This is a must episode as this year starts to get a new perspective on what type of leader you want to become. Mounira is an expert in mindfulness-based self-leadership & emotional intelligence. She is the co-founder of Connected Business and an international certified Search Inside Yourself trainer; her mission is to empower leaders of the New Paradigm to find new ways of co-collaboration to create a world that serves the next seven generations to come. She worked with and mentored tens of thousands of (business) people globally in the past years.   Her book Connected Business: How I learned to lead myself and others was published by Ariston/Randomhouse Publishing in April 2020 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 perspective on Travel. I’m @elenarodriguezblanco from @authenticitys, and I’d love to be in conversation with you and hear your thoughts, ideas and feedback. Visit ReDesign-Travel.com for more notes on this Podcast and Authenticitys.com to follow our work.

    38 min
  3. Helena Torras: Bridges to the Future

    12/08/2021

    Helena Torras: Bridges to the Future

    One 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 uncovering how you can be a bridge to bring the future forward. Helena is the Managing Partner at Pao Capital, where she promotes the tech-startup mindset and women entrepreneurship. She is always connecting the dots between the ecosystem, startups, corporates and investors. She has been selected as one of the top 100 women leaders in Spain and one of the top 30 people to follow on the tech ecosystem on Twitter; Helena is the “in the know” person who constantly connects people and ideas. She also serves as an independent board director of several organisations, such as Barcelona Tech City. Her passion for tech startups led her to become an investor. To create further change in the ecosystem, she has recently co-founded WeRock Capital to boost investment in women-led tech startups and close the gap between tech and the traditional world.  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 perspective on Life. I’m @elenarodriguezblanco from @authenticitys, and I’d love to be in conversation with you and hear your thoughts, ideas and feedback. Visit ReDesign-Travel.com for more notes on this Podcast and Authenticitys.com to follow our work

    26 min
  4. John Croft: Dragon Dreaming

    11/23/2021

    John Croft: Dragon Dreaming

    We 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 applied in projects in more than 54 countries worldwide since the 1990s. This episode is a must if you have a new project in mind. John Croft is an international trainer and consultant, who for 40 years, has worked in the field of ecologically sustainable community education and community economic development. He has worked around the world speaking, educating, and running workshops. He is the co-founder of the Gaia Foundation in Australia and co-designer of the Dragon Dreaming Project Design System Methodology. Dragon Dreaming combines the wisdom of Australian Aborigines, Living Systems Theory, Deep Ecology with methods of traditional project management and the ideas of hundreds of thinkers, educators and change agents such as Gandhi, Paolo Freire, Carl Jung, Joana Macy, Scott Peck, Arnold Mindell, Marshall Rosenberg and others. Find the eBook here.  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 perspective on Travel. I’m @elenarodriguezblanco from @authenticitys, and I’d love to be in conversation with you and hear your thoughts, ideas and feedback. Visit ReDesign-Travel.com for more notes on this Podcast and Authenticitys.com to follow our work

    31 min
  5. Business Model Hacking: Elena Rodriguez Blanco and Jens Heitland

    10/20/2021

    Business Model Hacking: Elena Rodriguez Blanco and Jens Heitland

    Innovate 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 innovation and how regeneration can be the key to unlocking sources of creativity and hidden value propositions. It is all about how we rethink the model, how we reframe partnerships and our relationship with clients, and how we build the core values of the business as the holding structure. Whether in hospitality or not, this case will widen your perspective on how to position innovation and redesign business models. Elena Rodriguez Blanco is a “catalyst for change” in how and why we do business. An influential mind in the innovation, social entrepreneurship and creativity space, she “inspires actions by asking the profound questions that will catapult your team”. Elena is an international speaker, 2x best-selling author, podcast host, social impact investor and serial entrepreneur. Elena’s current venture, Authenticitys, is transforming the way we travel by being the world's first social impact experience B certified travel platform offering experiences that are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals in over 40 countries. With an incredible passion and drive to bring forth the regenerative movement (a more grounded understanding of sustainability for business, travel and life), Elena has been designing strategies and mentoring businesses to create transformational work cultures in over 2.000 organizations spanning across the globe.  Elena Rodriguez Blanco More episodes of Jen's Innovation Culture Coding Show

    53 min

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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.