What is it that’s being asked of women right now in our time? This question has kept me captivated over the last couple of weeks. Within my own social circle, I see women searching for each other’s company, exchanging ideas, collaborating and supporting each other in what they are creating. This is not a new thing, but it is emerging. I find myself intensifying my connections both online and in real life fast.

I was very pleased that Aafke Osse, expert on female leadership, said yes to my invitation to give her view on this topic on Carolien TV. Aafke knows a thing or two about empowering women.

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Fairtrade businesswoman Jacqui Burger is on a mission. She is determined to bring work to the remote, very poor areas of Nepal. How? By reintroducing traditional cashmere goat herding to the local community. It will make the entire chain of Jacqui’s fairtrade clothing brand So Good To Wear transparent: from the breeding of the cashmere goats in the Nepalese mountains to the knitted garments on the hanger in stores. This will be to the benefit of everyone involved: the conscious consumer will know what she is buying, the Nepalese workers will make a living and Jacqui will expand her business.

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In this first episode of Carolien TV, I interview Mayana, Energy Management Consultant, Singer and Author of “Heart”, on making choices that are 100% her own. Mayana speaks about her commitment to follow her own impulses and openly shares her story of the costs of not doing so when she allowed her power into the hands of someone else. These days Mayana makes her decisions based on a very simple guideline: ‘Even if I only feel a tiny little flame of enthusiasm inside of me, I say “yes” and follow the impulse.’

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