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Alexandra grew up in the outskirts North-West London, educated in an all girls school and attended Chelsea Art School - where her love for art, creativity, fashion finally exploded. Followed by attending Manchester Metropolitan University studying Womenswear design, then London College of Fashion for her Masters in menswear design.  Internships on Savile Row - infamous tailoring street i...

Agnesz Anna was born on the 5th of January. Since a child she has been singing, dancing and acting. She began her acting career in the youth theatre in Groningen and later joined the Dutch theatre group, De Noordelingen. She studied dance before moving to Spain. At 22, she was accepted to the prestigious Lee Strasberg school of Acting in New York. In 2010 she returned to the Netherlands to continu...

Chris Westendorp is a prize winning Amsterdam based screenwriter and documentary maker. If you watch Dutch television, you will most likely have seen one of Chris’s shows. She was head writer for many popular tv-series, such as Penoza, a series with five remakes in different countries, Seven Little Criminals and Santos. For Seven Little Criminals and Santos she won the Golden Calf, the Dutch prize...

A fascinating chat with Mayken Jonkman, curator of priceless 19th century art at the Rijksmuseum . She talks about her journey from childhood to her first experiences with galleries and museums and how she ended up curating art at the world renowned Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Lora Mander is a theatre director and English fluidity coach. She holds a Master’s in theatre directing from St. Mary’s College and has staged plays and operas in the USA, UK and Netherlands. After starting Orange Tea Theatre (now Orange Theatre Company) in 2011, she has settled into a coaching career in the Netherlands and works with a variety of actors, singers and professionals to hel...

Born in Denmark and raised in Copenhagen, Aileen Christensen spent her childhood between the cobbled streets of the city and the wild west coast of Ireland, her mother’s homeland. Though geography says otherwise, she considers herself half Danish, half Irish—and half Australian, after years spent under Melbourne’s big skies. Aileen has held nearly every marketing role imaginable at her employer, E...

Iris Posthouwer is an author, keynote speaker and trainer, specializing in boundary-setting and communication in professional settings. She aims to make uncomfortable conversations more comfortable.  She works with teams and leaders across sectors — from healthcare to media — helping people navigate tension, speak up with clarity, and stay human in difficult conversations. Her bestselling boo...

Marie Körbl is a Dutch performer, musical theatre artist and theatre maker whose work is centered around the narratives of womanhood She trained in Urban Contemporary Dance (JMD) at the Amsterdam University of the Arts and holds a Master’s degree in Musical Theatre from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London. Marie has also appeared in major musical theatre productions performing the role of...

Rasha Hilwi is a Palestinian writer, journalist and storyteller based in Amsterdam.

Roy van Rosmalen was born in Nijmegen, the Netherlands andmoves through the world with an eye for the unseen, capturing atmospheres that others might overlook. His work balances architecture, nature, colour and texture—subtle yet charged with an inviting tension. With his company, Roy scouts locations for feature films, series, and commercials, always in pursuit of the perfect setting. Beyond this...

Tony Tonnaer is a Conscious Consult with over 20 years experience in building sustainable denim brands. Tony has always had a love for denim, starting his first job in the denim industry in 1997 at Pepe Jeans as product manager working together with denim experts like James Veenhoff (House of Denim), Jason Denham (Denham), Karl-Heinz Müller (founder Bread&Butter) and Fred Gehring & Ludo On...

Jan Roelfs is a key note speaker on Personal Leadership in Group Dynamics and Personal Positioning in the Demanding World of Media.   He studied Political Science and International Relations in Amsterdam before joining the Public Relations firm Hill & Knowlton and eventually fulfilling one of his dreams to become a sports host at RTL Television in the Netherlands, Sport 7 and the internat...

Johan Kenhuis, elite swimmer and Olympian has two Olympic medals (bronze in Sydney 2000 and silver in Athens 2004) and many championship medals under his belt and I’m thrilled he agreed to chat to me today on Coffee Matters. Johan was born and raised in the country side (Twente in North Holland) He grew up working in a traditional butcher shop owned by his parents as a teenager. As the youngest of...

Jessica Hjarrand is a 'soft infrastructure development' expert. She has been working to reform systems by building partnerships between people for over 20 years, mainly in the areas of education and early childhood development but also on freedom of expression and the empowerment of women. Most of her work has been focused on systems and people living in countries affected by conflict of all kinds...

Today I'm talking to Dominik Winterling, Managing Director of the The Concertgebouw Orchestra. An insightful and very interesting journey through his life to manager of one of the most famous orchestras in the world. Is this 12 part series I speak to our amazing customers about their lives and journeys and also why coffee matters to them. Follow for a new episode every Monday

In Episode 1 we speak to Richard Jones , a Welsh man brought up in Cardiff and the founder of Jones Brothers Coffee Company, an independent coffee brand based in Amsterdam since 2013. A firm believer in the power of specialty coffee, Richard champions its ability to create better livelihoods for farmers and elevate the coffee experience for consumers. His mission has been to educate, inform, inspi...

In this Episode we speak to Sahand Sahebdivani , born in 1980 in Tehran and is an Iranian-Dutch storyteller, musician and the founder of cultural centre Mezrab. Sahand arrived in the Netherlands at the age of three as a refugee from the Iran-Iraq war. He was Storyteller of the Year 2014 and won the Amsterdam Fringe Gold Award in 2017. Sahand is co-director of the Amsterdam Storytelling Festival an...