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Voices of Emergence

Alex de Carvalho, Rudy De Waele

Voices of Emergence is a podcast about what’s coming alive in a time between worlds. Hosted by Alex and Rudy, we hold mythic, soulful conversations with visionaries, culture-makers, and edge-walkers who are sensing into the future. From regenerative leadership to inner transformation, we explore how personal and collective emergence shape a more beautiful world—one honest, embodied conversation at a time.

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69:57

Book Launch: When the Almond Trees Bloom (with Samina...

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2026/01/12

This is a conversation with Samina Vabo Ansari, an Afghan-Norwegian lawyer with a background in diplomacy, having worked at the intersection of peacebuilding and innovation. She reflects on the global shift of our time and the deeper calling behind her book, A Call to Bloom Before Your Time, in a world that is asking us to be courageous. Get your copy at https://whenthealmondtreesbloom.comHosted by Alex de Carvalho and Rudy de Waele, Voices of Emergence brings together thinkers, builders,

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76:23

Beyond Urgency: A Practice of Emergence — with Rudy...

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2026/01/07

In this episode of Voices of Emergence, the roles gently shift. For the first time, co-host and co-founder Rudy de Waele steps into the guest seat, and we slow down together to explore what shaped his path.This is not a standard biography. Its a reflective conversation about emergence as a relational process, and about leadership as stewardship of conditions rather than control of outcomes.We move through Rudy's early imprinting in jazz and improvisation, the intensity of early internet and

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60:27

The Caterpillar Melts, the Memory Remains, with...

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2025/12/29

Myth As Biology, Rewilding Masculinity, And The Stories Shaping Our FutureIn this episode, we sit down with writer and mythopoetic thinker Sophie Strand for a wide-ranging conversation on myth, illness, ecology, and the stories shaping our future.Sophie shares how chronic illness changed her relationship to myth, not as metaphor, but as something cellular and lived: a way communities carry precious knowledge through collapse and transmit it through relationship. We explore the

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83:33

From Dystopia to Possibility: Lucian Tarnowski on...

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2025/12/12

We sit down with Lucian Tarnowski, founder of United Planet, to explore one of the most important questions of our time: What does it take to shift from a dystopian worldview into a lived experience of possibility?Lucian argues that belief is a form of technology — and right now, humanity is being “conquered by dystopia.” Our collective pessimism feeds back into the systems we build. To change the future, we must change the story.We talk about:- Why “the enemy is apathy in possibility”- How

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64:29

The Museum Inside Us: Regenerative Museums with...

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2025/12/10

Ancestral Memory, Decolonization, and Cultural LeadershipWhat if museums were not monuments to the past, but living ecosystems in service of life?In this conversation, cultural strategist and regenerative thinker Lucimara Letelier joins Rudy de Waele and Alex de Carvalho to explore how museums—and all cultural institutions—can evolve from extractive, colonial structures into places of healing, belonging, and ecological imagination.From her Afro-Brazilian ancestry and the realities of

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62:14

Fred Destin on Venture, Velocity, and What Endures

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2025/12/04

Fred Destin is co-founder of Stride.VC and one of Europe’s most respected venture capitalists.Over two decades, Fred has backed some of Europe’s most iconic startups, but this conversation goes far beyond business. Fred shares his deeply personal journey, revealing how he moved from hyper-performance to presence, from stoicism to stewardship, and from capitalism’s speed to life’s flow.We explore:- The myth of mastery and the illusion of success- The collapse of narratives and the Dark Night

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53:21

From Globalization to Ancient Futures with Helena...

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2025/11/27

Reclaiming connection, community, and the wisdom of placeWe sit with Helena Norberg-Hodge, a pioneer of the localization movement, founder and director of Local Futures, and author of Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh.Helena begins by naming a painful truth she has witnessed on every continent over the last forty years: young people everywhere are struggling with depression. She invites us to see this not as an individual pathology, but as a rational response to an economic system that

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82:03

Regenerative Capital – Reimagining Finance for the...

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2025/11/21

A circle of inquiry into what money becomes when we treat it as a living system.In this Voices of Emergence gathering, we convene a deep dialogue with Ida Faldbakken, Alessa Berg, Dana Ulrike Glatz, and Fredrik Blomquist to explore the future of finance through the lenses of regeneration, reciprocity, and ecological intelligence.Together we ask:What happens when we shift from extraction to flow?How must leadership evolve for finance to evolve?Can value be measured in ways that reflect life,

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51:31

Weaving a Living World with Hajar Tazi

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2025/11/19

We sit with Hajar Tazi, storyteller, poet, and ecosystem weaver devoted to Pachamama’s flourishing. Hajar shares how childhood moments of mystical union shaped her life, why ecosystem weaving is “care over control,” and how bioregional networks can become islands of coherence in a sea of chaos.We explore the imaginal as a real field of collaboration, the Rights of Nature as a bridge toward lived kinship, and why unschooling and deprogramming open space for other ways of knowing. Hajar

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60:59

Alessa Berg on Turning Capital into Regeneration

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2025/11/11

Meet Alessa Berg, founder and CEO of Top Tier Impact, the global ecosystem of impact and sustainability leaders shaping the future of capital and culture.Alessa shares her journey from traditional finance to regenerative economics, and how her multilingual, cross-cultural background turned her into a translator between worlds—between capital and consciousness, systems and stories.Together, we explore:- How finance can evolve from extraction to regeneration- The role of feminine wisdom and

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45:59

Capital in Service of Life, with Dana Ulrike Glatz

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2025/11/05

Systems entrepreneur and impact investor Dana Ulrike Glatz joins us to explore how capital can flow in service of life—guided by indigenous wisdom, embodied leadership, and alliances rooted in reciprocity.We trace Dana’s path from a grounded childhood in rural Germany to spiritual initiation in India, through World Economic Forum rooms and into the Amazon—where she’s convening an Ancestral Wisdom Boat journey from Manaus to Belém ahead of COP30. Dana shares why true emergence begins in the

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78:16

Recoding the Future, with Canay Atalay

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2025/10/29

In this luminous conversation, we sit down with Canay Atalay — transformation architect, regenerative innovation strategist, and founder of the RX Innovation Institute — to explore how we can redesign the operating systems of business, technology, and leadership through the feminine principle and a regenerative lens.Canay shares her journey from the pharmaceutical and media industries to pioneering regenerative innovation — a systemic approach that integrates cultural transformation,

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62:25

The Emerging Self, with Louie Valotti

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2025/10/27

In this episode, we sit down with Louie Valotti — founder of Genesis Health and guide at the intersection of biology, consciousness, and healing.Trained in Compassionate Inquiry with Dr. Gabor Maté and initiated into the Peruvian Q’ero lineage of shamanism, Louie bridges modern trauma work with ancient ritual and spiritual science.Together we explore:- how trauma becomes a portal for the soul’s realization- the connection between emotional repression and cellular renewal- the role of

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97:04

AI, Ethics & Emergence - Rethinking Our Relationship...

Voices of Emergence ·

2025/10/26

A circle of inquiry into the soul of intelligence — human, artificial, and planetary.In this special Voices of Emergence gathering, we convene a deep dialogue with Amanda Efthimiou, Lisanne Buik, Timothée Brès, and Fred Destin — exploring what it means to stay human in an age of accelerating intelligence.Together we ask:How can AI serve life, not control?What does it mean to “parent” artificial intelligence?Can technology carry wisdom, compassion, and care?How do we cultivate AI hygiene —

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75:07

Through the Portal of Place with Daniel Christian Wahl

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2025/10/23

We speak with biologist, whole-systems designer, and author Daniel Christian Wahl, whose book Designing Regenerative Cultures has inspired changemakers and communities worldwide.Together they explore how regeneration moves beyond sustainability — not as a brand or technique, but as life’s innate process of creating the conditions for more life.Daniel reflects on emergence and complexity, the deep intelligence of living systems, and the portal of place through which we remember our belonging

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61:12

Rewriting the Story of Us with Jean-Philippe Steeger

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2025/10/22

What if the way we speak, listen, and relate could regenerate culture itself?In this episode of Voices of Emergence, we sit down with Jean-Philippe Steeger—narrative practitioner, facilitator, and founder of Perspectivist—to explore communication as a living, relational art. Drawing from his personal story and professional work at the intersection of systems change, story, and somatics, Jean-Philippe invites us to see dialogue as more than exchange; it’s how we shape belonging, restore

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62:27

From Scarcity to Ubuntu with Mamadou Touré

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2025/10/16

What happens when ancestral wisdom meets frontier tech? In this conversation, Mamadou Touré — founder of Ubuntu Tribe — lays out a living philosophy of “shared prosperity” where finance becomes regenerative, transparent, and truly inclusive.We explore:Ubuntu as a practical operating system for business (“I am because we are”)Why Western finance skews toward accumulation (collateral + info asymmetry) and how Islamic and Ubuntu logics differTokenized, gold-backed assets and traceable,

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63:04

Emergence After Emergency, with Ryan “Ra” James Kemp

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2025/10/13

What if emergence wasn’t a trend, but a remembering? What if complexity is not something to solve, but to compost?In this rich and deeply poetic conversation, we sit with Ryan (Ra) James Kemp, a systems futurist, relational architect, and cultural integration guide who walks between quantum systems, indigenous cosmologies, regenerative design, and embodied remembrance.From the sacred flow of water to the architecture of kinship, Ra reminds us: we’re not here to fix life, we’re here to

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47:55

Beyond Binaries - Virginia Vigliar on Attention, Awe,...

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2025/10/10

In a world built on speed, separation, and distraction, what happens when we pause long enough to feel the world again?Writer and researcher Virginia Vigliar explores what it means to live with attention, to move with awe, and to reclaim the quiet power of connection.Known for her sensorial essays and poetic activism, Virginia speaks of “soft deconditioning” as a gentle rebellion against systems that keep us numb. She invites us to notice what’s already here: joy in the cracks, magic in the

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46:33

Ida Faldbakken: From Impact to Wisdom | Daring,...

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2025/10/06

What does it take to lead from courage when the old system makes one last stand? In this episode, cultural futurist and ecosystem builder Ida Faldbakken joins us to explore daring as a practice, naming what’s hard, finding beauty in the mess, and cultivating creative resilience in a world moving fast.We go deep on:Daring & vocalizationCreativity as grounded forceAncestral memory & ritualFrom “impact” to “wisdom investing”Community beyond hype cyclesAI & cultureSafety &

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