The Femme Futurists Society Podcast

Episode #36: What if we told you that it’s possible to 3D print a house for around $7K and in the space of 24hrs - and not only is it possible - but entire communities are being built this way? You’d think it was pretty mind-blowing, right? That’s exactly what Melodie Yashar and her team at ICON are focused on. Engineering and visioning sustainable built environments on and off-world (we’re talking Mars + the Moon), she’s spearheading a shift not just in how we live, but how we think about what’s possible in the way we live. In this podcast our conversation ranges across: … self-assembling cities … space feminism … the inherent rights of uncolonized worlds … how she geeks out on new material & fabrication technologies … and the essential role tiny robots play in all of this! Her TED talk, ”How to Build for Human Life on Mars” has been viewed over 1.4 million times.     Love what you hear? Please consider sharing, liking, commenting and subscribing to our podcast. 👩‍⚕️Learn more about Melodie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melodieyashar/ ▶️ YouTube: https://youtu.be/Tizk3ifMf3A 👩🏻‍💻 Our Website: www.FemmeFuturists.com Music from Uppbeat: uppbeat.io/t/soundroll/transcend License code: D5M95QR3OT6UNHQY

Episode #35 has landed and we’re honored to introduce you to the beautiful, smart and deeply heart-centered Robyn O’Brien. Whether you know it or not, you’ve probably been impacted by her work transforming the food industry, after her life changed irrevocably when her daughter had a life-threatening reaction to food, that then turned into a movement, that then changed the entire food industry. Amazing.   In our conversation Robyn’s wisdom after wisdom became like a handbook from a wise friend and advisor, as we talk about everything from:   💃🏻 How courage is her personal mantra and the extraordinary changes that happen when you commit to being even 20% braver.   ✨ How if you are out there driving change, fear will be riding shotgun, but fear can be an extraordinary North Star.   🔥 How vulnerability is a strength.   🙌🏻 The need to flip the script on imposter syndrome; especially because as women we are pushing against a system that was not, and is not, built for us.   🧡 And the massive economic advantages of the history-making transfer of $30 trillion (more than the national U.S. GDP) in wealth to women, by 2030.    There is so much more we cover from being a producer on the just released documentary, Common Ground, to how she now has her sights set on the finance industry (look out!!!), so tune in and listen to get the full story…    Love what you hear? Please consider sharing, liking, commenting and subscribing to our podcast.   ▶️ Watch Us on YouTube 👩🏻‍💻 Visit Our Website at  www.FemmeFuturists.com   Music from Uppbeat: uppbeat.io/t/soundroll/transcend License code: D5M95QR3OT6UNHQY

Welcome to Episode #34. It is 100% unacceptable that globally, black women face a nine times higher risk of maternal death than their white counterparts, regardless of wealth. And that the United States is the most dangerous and expensive high-income country for childbirth, especially for Black and Indigenous women.   💫 Lailah Kara Newton, an MD with a successful UK practice specializing in women’s health who experienced her own childbirth trauma, and Fifi Kara, a fulbright scholar and B2B investment entrepreneur who supported Meta's Health & Fitness team, decided to take their experiences and change that, once and for all.   🙌🏻 This dynamic duo put all their heart and energies into four years developing an app that provides continuous at-home monitoring for mothers pre and post-natal, 24/7 support, and accessible clinical guidance = radically better, women’s health game changer.   🔥 Fifi and Lailah represent a new vanguard of women who will not sit on the sidelines and wait for change. Instead, they’re doing something about it.   Such an honor to speak with these two trailblazers!! We invite you to listen to this amazing origin story and journey toward globally changing women’s health - and if your provider/doula/midwife/friends haven’t yet heard of them - please share. You could literally save a life.    👩‍⚕️Learn more about Astercare: https://astercare.com/ ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mjunn8kEzQ 👩🏻‍💻 Our Website: www.FemmeFuturists.com   Music from Uppbeat: uppbeat.io/t/soundroll/transcend License code: D5M95QR3OT6UNHQY

Episode #33: In our Femme Futurist Video Podcast series with extraordinary women, we explore how we can better develop high-tech for low resource environments to improve global health with Drea Burbank. Drea Burbank, is the CEO of Savimbo as an MD-Technologist & Serial Entrepreneur with her work ranging in things like Web3 to stem-cells. Learn more about the Femmes at Femmefuturists.com Learn more about Drea and Savimbo at Savimbo.com

In our Femme Futurist Video Podcast series with extraordinary women, we discuss the future of childhood and future fit design with Joana Lenkova. Joana Lenkova is the Futurology Director for the Lego Group and founder of Futures Forward, a strategy and innovation consultancy focused on building impactful, resilient business models to help shape and inspire positive future narratives.   ***All opinions are Joana's own and do not reflect the LEGO Group.*** Learn more about Femmefuturists.com Learn more about Joana Lenkova

Episode #31 in our Femme Futurists video podcast series with Sun (Kagami) Brown, where we talk about: Deep Self Design. The Doodle revolution. Inner engineering. Gamestorming. Collaboration Literacy. Juicy messiness. Being a best friend to yourself. And my favorite: shoshaku jushaku (which in Zen Buddhism means; one continuous mistake). It would be easy to think of that last one as a negative, but in conversation with Sunni Brown you quickly learn that it’s a philosophy of “joy that trusts in productive discomfort”.  These are just some of the directions our conversation takes. Named one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business” and one of the “10 Most Creative People on Twitter” by Fast Company. Her TED talk has drawn over 1.6 million views and her work on visual thinking has been featured in every major U.S. publication including: The New York Times, The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, WIRED, and Entrepreneur. She has been featured twice on CBS Sunday Morning and on The TODAY Show.  And she is widely credited with the rise of #visualthinking (doodling!) as a tool for deeper inquiry and is #CEO of the Center For Deep Self Design. Listen or watch and enjoy this rich conversation about the intersection of our inner and outer worlds and why a “good life is an inside job”. Listen to Our Previous Conversations: 🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-femme-futurists-society-podcast/id1680532882 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7xr5S27ZG3DzoHkNsOtxFN Learn more about Femme Futurists Society at https://femmefuturists.com/Learn more about Sun at http://nothingintheway.substack.com/ Music from Uppbeat:uppbeat.io/t/soundroll/transcendLicense code: D5M95QR3OT6UNHQY #femmefuturists

Episode #30: In our Femme Futurist Video Podcast series with extraordinary women, we explore the role of new technologies in creativity with Brooke Hopper. Brooke Hopper is Principal Designer for Machine Intelligence and Emerging Technologies at Adobe, working to deepen and enhance the creative process and allow all humans to more fully realize their creative visions.  Learn more about the Femmes at FemmeFuturists.com Learn more about Brooke Hopper

Episode #28: In our our Femme Futurist Video Podcast series with extraordinary women, we discuss future proofing one of the world’s best known brands with Joanna Lepore. Joanna Lepore is the Global Foresight Director for McDonald’s, leading the exploration of new capabilities globally by putting humans and sustainability at the center of their future visioning. Learn more about the Femmes at FemmeFuturists.com Learn more about Joanna Lepore at Looking-Outside.com

Carin Ism and Nancy Giordano discuss the future of governance... We see example after example of how exponential technologies are changing everything, yet our systems of governance are not keeping pace. Cross-pollination between the digital realm and governance design is long overdue, and that's exactly where our latest Femme Futurists Society interviewee comes in. A "power nerd" and co-author of “How to Rule a World—A Guide to the Established and Emerging Tools for Power and Governance in the 21st century" (set to be released at the end of 2020), Carin Ism is fascinated by systems of governance. An advocate of the solar punk movement - which envisions a future beyond scarcity - she is the co-Founder of the Future of Governance Agency (FOGA) dedicated to seeding innovation and general power literacy. Besides living at 14,000 feet in the Himalayas to develop design principles for space societies, she was also the principal investigator of the first governance study on Mars. (And so many other things on her resume there simply isn't room for!). We got to the end of this interview and were blown away. We hope you are too. Learn more at femmefuturists.comLearn more about Nancy at nancygiordano.comLearn more about our guest Carin at corinism.com

Zahara Chetty and Nancy Giordano discuss the need for divergent thinking and polymaths... Zahara Chetty and Nancy Giordano discuss the need for divergent thinking thinking, polymaths and multi-potentialities in this heartfelt conversation around her life growing up in Apartheid South Africa. As an Educationist, Writer, Facilitator, Fashion Designer and Coach she works remotely with teams all around the world to help individuals, CEOs, startups, social enterprises, governments and organizations navigate complexity and develop more conscious and collaborative solutions for the future. She has a special interest in cognition, trauma and conscious evolution in a time where technology threatens to outpace human development. Learn more at femmefuturists.comLearn more about Nancy at nancygiordano.comLearn more about our guest Zahara at zaharachetty.com