TILT the Future

Karena de Souza

The Future of Work is dismantling the clear career ladders that served our parents. We are left with career plans that looks more like a roller coaster ride – fast, frantic and full of unexpected twists and turns. This experience could be terrifying or thrilling – or both – depending on how we tilt our mindset, and frame our perspective. If you are a young adult figuring out education and career in this new normal, this is a podcast for you. In a series of short discussions and interviews, Karena and her guests explore the technology, strategy, frameworks and skills that will help us stay a step ahead in this new digital era. Let's discover, explore and enjoy the Future of Work. Together. Let’s Tilt the Future in your favour.

  1. I believe - my manifesto for a moral revolution

    12/05/2020

    I believe - my manifesto for a moral revolution

    This is what I believe - that we are capable of amazing possibility. The world - in all its glory, dirt and grime - has been handed down to my generation by all the hundreds of previous generations who battled through despair, disease, war, and so much more. What do we do with it? How do we accept this gift? Do we tie a ribbon on it, and hand it forward to the generation after us, or do we open it, take a hammer to it and offer up the shards? I believe we are capable of generosity and possibility. I believe that the generations coming after us are filled with imagination, moral courage and a passion for righting wrongs and that we are here to empower and encourage them. I believe that we will create a new tomorrow that protects our environment. As a society before us challenged the morality of keeping slaves though that had been a tradition for centuries, we will not accept an economic structure that demands that we pillage the earth's most precious resources purely to sustain our national economies. Instead, we will protect all the resources, particularly the water and clean air. I believe we can invent the technologies that allow us to indulge in the advances of modern science and technology, but make the move to a greener use of energy. We can feed the Earth's growing population. We can find meaningful engagement for each human so they contribute to society as a whole, embracing robotics and AI as our ancestors embraced the plough, made bigger, not less, by technology. I believe in nurturing the generation that follows us with compassion, but also charging them with the responsibility to care for Mother Earth, not to squander its resources. I trust in the power of connection - families, communities, classes like Acumen & Akimbo that connect like-minded souls to each other so that we are able to foster a mindset of abundance and possibility. I am sustained by my connection to humanity and to nature: to the sunrise, the melting snow, the enduring cycle of tides and daffodils that bloom in the spring. Nature teaches us the resilience of rebirth. I know that this world will survive past my race. So I believe in the Earth and place my trust in my generation and the generations after me to respect the Earth as a living being that pushes back when hurt but embraces when whole. I will do what is within my power - stretching that capability to all its might - to make a green and wonderful world available to the next 7 generations, to gift to them as was gifted to me: the wonder, awe and amazement at what Nature can give us. And in doing so, I honour the memories and sacrifices of the generations before, as well as the powers that created this beautiful Earth and bequeath to the generations that will follow. "C:\Users\Karena\Documents\Audacity\20201204 - This is what I believe redo for TTF E150 202407191253pm.mp3"

    4 min
  2. Courageous Parenting - Are you a courageous parent? Dec 2 2020

    12/02/2020 · BONUS

    Courageous Parenting - Are you a courageous parent? Dec 2 2020

    ARE YOU A COURAGEOUS PARENT? This is a book is for all us parents out there who feel like we are being called on to make BIG decisions for our children - those life-impacting, monumental decisions. It is for the parents-in-waiting, especially the first-timers who are simultaneously sure they’re going to do it better than their parents, and unsure if they can do it at all. (Yes, you can!)It is for the parents of toddlers who are worrying about where they put their hands that they then put in their mouths, whether they can pass something along to their adoring grandparents.This is for parents of young children who are weighing the lack of socialization, the effect on their long-term learning by a possible delay in schooling.It is for parents of elementary schoolers who know that their peers create a learning environment that encourages children to explore and get creative.It is for the parents whose children are in high school - where rules were always already getting broken.And for the parents whose child is heading off to university. An uncertain moment already fraught with emotion and discussions on preparedness, now heightened with debates on COVID-19.And it is for parents like me at the other end of the parenting journey, whose children are out in the wider world, already making independent decisions that we have to find the courage to live with. They balk at being called ‘children’ having stepped into their own maturity - but to us, they continue to be our babies.I’ll love you forever I’ll like you for always As long as I’m living _ _My baby you’ll be” *Love you Forever * by Robert Munsch It is about having the courage to provide them with that parenting assist, without interrupting their natural process of maturing.   Host: Karena de Souza   Producer: Karena de Souza   Music for this episode: None Technology: taped on HP Envy desktop, using Audacity 2.4.2, Blue Yeti Nano   Processing: Audacity, lightly edited: noise reduction, amplify, normalize  Photo credit: Canva free

    2 min
  3. Courageous Parenting - Are you a courageous parent? Dec 1 2020

    12/01/2020 · BONUS

    Courageous Parenting - Are you a courageous parent? Dec 1 2020

    ARE YOU A COURAGEOUS PARENT? This is a book is for all us parents out there who feel like we are being called on to make BIG decisions for our children - those life-impacting, monumental decisions. It is for the parents-in-waiting, especially the first-timers who are simultaneously sure they’re going to do it better than their parents, and unsure if they can do it at all. (Yes, y_ou can_!)It is for the parents of toddlers who are worrying about where they put their hands that they then put in their mouths, whether they can pass something along to their adoring grandparents.This is for parents of young children who are weighing the lack of socialization, the effect on their long-term learning by a possible delay in schooling.It is for parents of elementary schoolers who know that their peers create a learning environment that encourages children to explore and get creative.It is for the parents whose children are in high school - where rules were always already getting broken.And for the parents whose child is heading off to university. An uncertain moment already fraught with emotion and discussions on preparedness, now heightened with debates on COVID-19.And it is for parents like me at the other end of the parenting journey, whose children are out in the wider world, already making independent decisions that we have to find the courage to live with. They balk at being called ‘children’ having stepped into their own maturity - but to us, they continue to be our babies.I’ll love you forever I’ll like you for always As long as I’m living _ _My baby you’ll be” *Love you Forever * by Robert Munsch It is about having the courage to provide them with that parenting assist, without interrupting their natural process of maturing. Host: Karena de Souza   Producer: Karena de Souza   Music for this episode: None Technology: taped on HP Envy desktop, using Audacity 2.4.2, Blue Yeti Nano  80/77 cardoid Processing: Audacity, lightly edited: noise reduction, amplify, normalize  Photo credit: Canva free

    2 min
  4. Connecting COVID with the Future of Work and Climate Action

    08/01/2020

    Connecting COVID with the Future of Work and Climate Action

    What if COVID is the dress rehearsal, a road map for how we as humans can handle the environmental crisis? We have now shown that nations can quickly agree on a consistent course of action, humans can make sacrifices for the common good. As we ease back into a new normal of life after COVID, is there an opportunity to play leapfrog? Can we make economic and social decisions that ignore the actions that hurt the environment? And jump straight towards a new post-COVID normal that also supports human’s continuing presence on Earth while absorbing an accelerated Future of Work? Regardless of whether we’re able to turn the clock on climate, Weather and all its ripple effects are going to impact what started as the Future of Work and will soon be the new Nature of Work. There is a tight synergy between these events.  Bottom line, climate acts as a magnifier for all the issues facing the Future of Work.  We have a shrinking window within which to effect change – and the COVID crisis has gifted us with the vision that it is possible for peoples from all nations to work together quickly, to make momentous decisions with speed, to dissolve the invisible constraints we had placed on our ability to take action. Enjoy this replay of an episode that I taped in 2019 about the inevitable impact of climate & environment on all our job choices as we move forward. I talk about why I feel it is important to include a discussion of the impact of Climate Crisis and Climate Catastrophe in any conversation with GenZ as they debate their options in the Future of Work. Mitigation is a great opportunity and a necessary one for the protection of our planet. But there are also opportunities in the discussion on how we prepare for a new version of our world. In both, there is a space for activism and innovation. I seek to inspire a new generation to fight with all the tools at their disposal - their voice, their brain and their ideas, not purely to scare them. I look forward to an engaging dialogue. References: Link to article What connects the Future of Work with climate catastrophe?JFK speech given at Rice University Texas on September 12, 1962 available with transcript from the JFK libraryXiuhtezcatl Martinez speech at the UNXiuhtezcatl Martinez Who am I rap at the UN  Host: Karena de Souza Producer: Karena de Souza Music for this episode: Bright Future by Silent Partner for the intro,  Cellophane_Sam, Awestruck from the album Sea Change for the 2019 episode Technology: taped on MacBook Air, using Audacity, Blue Yeti Nano Processing: Audacity with apologies to all sound engineers out there Photo credit: John-Cameron-1518022-unsplash.jpg

    10 min

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The Future of Work is dismantling the clear career ladders that served our parents. We are left with career plans that looks more like a roller coaster ride – fast, frantic and full of unexpected twists and turns. This experience could be terrifying or thrilling – or both – depending on how we tilt our mindset, and frame our perspective. If you are a young adult figuring out education and career in this new normal, this is a podcast for you. In a series of short discussions and interviews, Karena and her guests explore the technology, strategy, frameworks and skills that will help us stay a step ahead in this new digital era. Let's discover, explore and enjoy the Future of Work. Together. Let’s Tilt the Future in your favour.