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🔆 Father - Facilitator - Board Member
🌍 @moralambition @bouncespace @tedxamsterdam @treesistance
✋🏽 Leadership & Team Collaboration

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Vote for the Bicultural Awards 🏆

Nominations are in. Now it’s your turn!

🗳️link in bio

Five categories, one vote per person, and winners revealed live on stage at Omek Summit on Friday, June 26. Come celebrate the winners with us next week!

Last chance to get tickets! Don’t miss out.
🎟️ link in bio

#omeksummit
#thepowerwithin

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Looking for a studio in Amsterdam? 👀
Sign up at BounceSpace before March ends and get 1 month free.

Create, connect, and be part of our creative community.

#amsterdamcreatives #amsterdamstudio #coworkingamsterdam #creativespace #officesamsterdam

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A moment to slow down, reflect, and plan with intention.
Thinking of hosting something similar? Our space is open - send us a DM 📥

#coworkingamsterdam #creativespace #communityfirst #workshopsamsterdam

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Thank you so much to everyone who joined our End-of-Year Party. We had an amazing time celebrating together, and closing the year.

As promised, we also announced the Best Cowboy Dressed winner - and the free month of membership goes to @moniekdeboer We think she fully embraced the theme. Congratulations!

Thank you all again for making the evening so special. We’re already looking forward to everything we’ll create together in the year ahead. Yiihaa 🤠

#bouncespace #overtoom141 #coworking #onwateronland #amsterdam

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Just a week to go before Christmas. Time for the final Unicorn Wednesday 🦄 of 2025.

As you know, unicorns aren’t built on optics alone. That’s why this edition of the Women Disrupting Tech newsletter zooms out and looks at what leadership really feels like from the inside.

With @salmaansana, we talk about allyship as attention followed by action. The small moments. The honest conversations. The choices that quietly shape culture.

With @ginaschinkel, we explore generous leadership and workations as infrastructure. Not perks, but deliberate ways to build connection, trust, and belonging in distributed teams.

So grab a coffee, settle in and click the link in the Instagram bio to read edition 49 of the Women Disrupting Tech newsletter.

PS. If you’re reading this during the Christmas break, this one is meant to be read slowly.

#LeadershipDevelopment #WomenDisruptingTech #StartupStrategy #EntrepreneurMindset #GrowthMindset #FemaleFounders #SuccessfulEntrepreneurship #UsingAIInBusiness #OutNowLinkInBio #HowToBeAnAlly #AllyshipInAction #SalmaanSana #workations #FutureOfWork #GinaSchinkel

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Join us during the next two weeks in Amsterdam, London, Barcelona & Vienna! These events are for members and invite only, so make sure you RSVP through your membership team.

📷 @deathtostock

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I want to bring in some nuance & encourage you to be you. Somewhere along the line we’ve come to believe stories about life & ways of living, that we decided to adopted as truth. My question to you is; is this your truth?

I don’t resonate with the hood life & I don’t fully resonate with the spirituality scene. But I DO consider myself a “SPIRITUAL GANGSTER”.

One that sits with meditation music and the TAO teachings in the morning & dances to afrobeats in the evening. Where silence is a natural state but I will not mask anger & tension in my system.

They can CO-EXIST & those who say that is not possible, are missing the point if saying; ‘the universe is one and we are all one’.

There’s space for your uniqueness,

This one is for all my spiritual gangsters out there.

BIGUPPPPPP OGGGG’SSS!

Drop A comment if it resonates and tag your spiritual gangsters

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What if being honest about what we feel is the starting point for being a good ally?

That provocative question shaped my conversation with@salmaansana. He started out as a medical student, but he now helps leaders bring compassion and courage back into their work.

In episode 128 of Women Disrupting Tech, Salmaan offers powerful insights:
💪🏼 Why men’s vulnerability is not a weakness, but a catalyst for authentic connection and progress
⚖️ How intentional overcompensation isn’t just fair, it’s essential to correct historic imbalances and create real equity
🙋🏻‍♂️ Why real allyship shows up in those tiny moments, when nobody’s watching, when it feels awkward, when it actually matters most.

My big takeaway? You can’t be a good ally if you’re not cool with yourself first.

🎧 Listen to Episode 128: How To Be A Compassionate Ally for Women in Tech on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube. The link is in the bio.

#WomenDisruptingTech #Allyship #Leadership #Inclusion #EmotionalHealth #WomenInTech #SalmaanSana #HowToBeAnAlly #ModernAllyship #Compassion

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Can you be an ally to women if you are not feeling good about yourself as a man?

It's a thought-provoking question that stayed with me after @salmaansana and I finished recording episode 128 of Women Disrupting Tech.

Discover the answer by listening to Salmaan's story and learn how you can be a compassionate ally for women in tech.

You can find the link in the bio.

#InclusiveLeadership #WomenInTech #WomenDisruptingTech #GoToBio #Podcast #AllyshipInAction #Allyship #SalmaanSana #PodcastEpisodeAlert #EmotionalHealth

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Are we still doing throwbacks? I’m doing my October retro, and @tedxamsterdam is right at the top of my (and @mariasungura’s) highlights list.⁠
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Big thanks to @yenijoseph and @salmaansana for organizing an amazing TEDx experience. And if you haven’t yet, you have to follow the Night Mayor of Amsterdam, @freekwallagh .⁠
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Until the TEDxAmsterdam videos are online, here are a few TED classics I keep coming back to - either for work or when I need a virtual pep talk:⁠
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1) Brené Brown - The Power of Vulnerability - which is actually a story about bravery.⁠
2) How to Start a Movement - a 3-minute masterclass in what real leadership looks like.⁠
3) Angela Duckworth - Grit - first time I actually understood what growth mindset means beyond the buzz.⁠
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What are your faves? Drop them below if you're in a "caring is sharing" mood!

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What an incredible day of inspiration at @tedxamsterdam yesterday shared with @paulinastankiewicz.coach! Great energy and hosting by the one and only @salmaansana and with @christina.xenaki on the crew. 🫶🏻🙌🏻 #tedexamsterdam

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Yesterday, I soaked up a flood of bold ideas and big feelings at TEDxAmsterdam.

From raw stories of sexual violence and empowerment to buzzing lessons from the bees on community to a filmmaker sharing the power of positive affirmations and shaking off false narratives and sound bites, the day unfolded like a live manifesto. Fauna found its way into the conversation too, blooming vertically in concrete jungles with quiet rebellion. And somewhere in the mix, I was reminded that Dutch coffee shops have always been a quiet kind of sanctuary. They’re more than a vibe… and a poetic Amsterdam nightlife vet shared that it’s on us to keep the city alive in all its layered, fearless glory.

✖️Cindy de Koning
Ending Sexual Violence: A Collective Responsibility

✖️ Simone van Breda
Coffeeshops: The Surprising Solution To Care And Healing

✖️ Saarab Alfar
Hive Mind: Nature’s Blueprint For Humanity

✖️Tessa Cramer
Building A Future Beyind The Headlines

✖️ Safi Graauw
Why Words Are The Most Powerful Tool We Have

✖️ Jo Sarah
Transforming Our Future One Orgasm At A Time

✖️ Naud van der Padt
The Vertical Revolution: How Green Walls Can Heal Our Cities

✖️ Freek Wallagh
Nightlife Saved Me… And It Can Save Our Cities Too

Grateful to these fearless storytellers for lighting up the room with their purpose and power ✨

🎥 : @rudii__x

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