Constructive Adrenaline: How Impact Leaders Turn Urgency Into Action (Without Burning Out), with Lia Carlucci, CEO Food Campus Berlin, Serial Entrepreneur, TedX Speaker, Mother, Mentor, & Badass Foodtechie, 86

About this episode

Lia Carlucci discusses how to transform urgency into constructive action in the face of societal challenges without succumbing to burnout.

It's easy to mistake awareness for action and anxiety for accountability. Even when we take action, it's easy to spiral into "this alone will not solve the problem." This episode is for the fighters. The ones who feel the weight of what's happening in the world and refuse to look away, whether you're building a company, leading a team, working in foodtech, healthtech, femmetech, media, or simply trying to live in a way that actually reflects what you believe. And trying to lead systemic change. Lia Carlucci, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Food Campus Berlin, shares what system change looks like in foodtech and innovation. She grounds us in the science about what moves the needle on our food system and on our planet. She'll spark a conversation at your dinner table about the habits around consumption we've normalized, and what they're costing us, not just environmentally, but energetically. Because one of the most honest things Lia says in this conversation is that overconsumption isn't a character flaw. It's a coping mechanism. This episode will show you >how to hold the urgency without drowning in it. >how to convert what feels like helplessness into what Lia calls…

People in this episode

Host: Helena Arjuna Suter

Guest: Lia Carlucci

Topics covered

• leadership
• systemic change
• foodtech
• entrepreneurship
• sustainability
• mental health

Keywords

• constructive adrenaline
• system change
• overconsumption
• food system
• entrepreneurship
• mental health
• sustainability

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Food Campus Berlin, TedX, foodtech, healthtech, femmetech, media

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