16: Jeff Gospe (CA)🇺🇸 and his exchanges in France🇫🇷, West Germany🇩🇪, and communist Poland 🇵🇱
How was it to be an exchange student before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall?
How was it to come to Moscow during the transition of the USSR to a market economy?
How was it to meet Gorbachov in person at Stanford and witness the dissolution of the Soviet Union?
Denys, the co-host of this show, spoke with Jeff Gospe* about these and many other stories to feed your curiosity and listen to four decades of exchanges and wisdom. There was so much information that the ExchangeMe team decided to split it into two episodes, the second fitting into a Global Response series.
What's inside this episode:
1:00 – meet Jeff!
5:30 – why taking tourism tours in 2-3 different languages;
09:30 – on national stereotypes before going to another country;
12:00 – the US/USSR: on political systems comparison;
17:45 – Hoover Institute, meeting Gorbachov in Stanford and being interviewed by Ernst & Young (EY); going to Moscow eventually;
36:20 – youth exchange is even better education than Stanford because...
*Jeff holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Stanford University. Since November 2005, he has been working as a financial advisor at Morgan Stanley. He is also an active member of the Rotary Club of Santa Rosa, California, and a person with vast experience in exchange programs, including the Rotary Youth Exchange (RYE).
Denys Andrushchenko is a FLEX 🇺🇸 alumnus, Future Leaders Connect 🇬🇧 member, EaP 🇪🇺 Civic Digital Fellow, past-president of the Rotary Club Cherkasy-Centre 🕊, and co-founder of the SUN Leaders Program 🇺🇦.
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27 Mar 2023
GR 4: Leo Shin from New Zealand 🇳🇿 on supporting Ukraine and breaking away from colonialism
In another episode of the Global Response (GR) series, we travel to Auckland, New Zealand, to talk with Leo, a South Korean by descent and with Ukraine in his heart.
He was in Ukraine one time but for 3 months while on AIESEC program. Since then, he well in love with Ukrainian culture and made lots of friends. And as we know well, friends are known in trouble.
What's inside:
Fertile soil!
Orange Revolution, sparking the first interest
Euromaidan creating more sympathy
Resisting the Russian full-scale invasion as the final step in escaping Russian imperialism
on AIESEC voice (its absence) during the war
on (winter) experience in Ukraine (between -15 and -30 Celsius)
not (only) Ukrainian issue
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16 Mar 2023
GR 3: A voice from Pakistan🇵🇰 with Saadia
Hi, Listener. This is Denys from Ukraine, your co-host of the Exchange Me Podcast.
My guest for the third episode of the Global Response series has a background in literature and visual culture and is based in Pakistan🇵🇰, where she's working as freelance development writer and researcher for local and international grassroots organizations.
Saadia's previous work has put her at the intersection of teaching, creative practice and interaction–where she has witnessed the benefits of a people-first and co-creative approach towards community engagement and education.
Saadia believes that respect, communication and an understanding that every person has the capacity to create change will lead us to a better and kinder world and is working towards a career in education that engenders this.
What's inside:
00:01 – Meet Saadia! And why this episode;
06:40 – “I want big cars and easy money!” – meeting a 12-year-old boy in a village and why he wanted to become a politician;
08:55 – Pakistani perspective on the war in Ukraine;
12:00 – on 3 Pakistans;
23:30 – powerless/powerful?
29:30 – “Why are you still here? Get out of Pakistan!”;
35:00 – on responsibility to stay.
Recorded on 08.01.2023 (it was also a death anniversary of her grandfather – a figure she admires a lot).
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