S2E1 In conversation with Santa Meyer-Nandi: The power of Ikigai

The 'Inspire your Life' Podcast with Arthi Rabikrisson

In this first episode of Season 2, Arthi explores more about #Ikigai, the Japanese philosophy of purpose, with guest Santa, who has been using this philosophy since being a graduate.
She shares a number of personal stories of her journey of finding herself without a job in the financial crisis, to cultural expectations of what she should do as a career, to being undervalued for her skill - yet she has been daring and courageous to put herself out there, despite being turned down, until the right opportunity materialised leading her down the path to where she is today. Her ikigai continues to evolve.
Some key words of wisdom shared by Santa include:
"Structure gives us freedom"
"Finding your sweet spot gives you endurance without fatiguing you"
" Vulnerability is part of being strong"
Listen in to hear practical advice, real ideas and feel inspired by Santa's journey and optimism.
About Santa Meyer-Nandi
Santa is an environmental lawyer turned sustainability & well-being expert, based in Paris. She is the Co-Director and founder of the Think & Action Lab FindingSustainia, a UNESCO award-winning think tank known for its 30 day sustainability challenges, and is currently scaling up the FindingSustainia non-profit approach. She is a speaker, facilitator, writer and coach and speaks German, English, French and Bengali fluently, thus its extremely easy for her to undertake all these opportunities globally.
Connect with Santa http://findingsustainia.org/ and on social media:
IG: @findingsustainia
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Chapter

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. About the Inspire Your Life Podcast (00:00:28)

3. About Santa Meyer-Nandi (00:01:06)

4. Welcome Santa! (00:02:06)

5. More about Santa (00:02:15)

6. How to emerge from difficult circumstances to find ikigai or purpose (00:05:26)

7. Taking that courageous first step towards your purpose (00:08:50)

8. Dealing with ostacles and course corrections as an entrepreneur (00:11:30)

9. How important is structure in personal and professional life to build towards ikigai (00:16:10)

10. Santa's advice on how to strike the balance in our lives, in the midst of the pandemic (00:18:40)

11. Santa's moment of truth about embracing the power of ikigai (00:21:28)

12. Finding allies in these difficult times (00:23:53)

13. Santa's pivotal advice for those who are struggling on their journey towards ikigai (00:25:15)

14. Santa's inspirational quote that motivates her to continue to strengthen her ikigai (00:28:17)

15. Thank you Santa for joining the show! (00:29:03)

16. Thank you listeners! (00:29:31)