Stories of crazy ideas turned into Career and Life success.
Every guest on this show had an idea someone called crazy. They did it anyway.
Is It Crazy? is where they share the fear, the leap, and every career rule they broke to get there. Because the crazy idea isn't just about the career. It's about finally living a life that's actually yours.
Hosted by Eleonora Valenti, Career & Business coach, former Nike and Mindvalley HR Leader, and someone who leaped too.
What if the idea you've been calling crazy is the one worth betting on?
How to Find Career Safety When Everything Feels Uncertain, with Anna Mazur (Founder, Happy Monday)
For years, Anna kept changing jobs and kept hitting the same wall. Good companies, roles she was good at, and still the same feeling underneath it all: that she was the wrong one, that she had never found the thing that was hers. That feeling is what pushed her to start her own company. Not because entrepreneurship is the answer for everyone, and Anna is the first to say it isn't. But building Happy Monday in Ukraine taught her what she does now, guiding people through getting lost, feeling u...
25 Sept 2026
#11 How to Walk Away From Success and Start Again, even as a CEO and Founder, with Riccardo Osti
For 11 years Riccardo was founder and CEO of Wonderflow, one of the first companies building AI before we even called it AI. And he decided to walk away at the top. He took 9 months completely off to be with his kids, rebuilding his career to fit his life. Now he's a tech guy betting on…you would never guess: dirt! Can you imagine reaching the thing you built for 11 years, and realizing the version of success you were trained on is the one keeping you stuck? In this episode: → What does it ac...
10 Sept 2026
#10 How letting go can spark joy to your life and career with Rebecca Jo-Rushdy (KonMari Master and End-of-life Doula)
Rebecca’s background is incredibly interesting and ever evolving - she’s now a Master KonMari® Consultant and End-of-Life Doula whose spark is to help people align their homes, hearts & purpose. She’s the founder of Spark Joy & Flow, she’s a mom of 2, and with her husband they moved from Hong Kong, Malaysia and now Scotland, which means that they’ve evolved their life and career several times. So in the episode we talk about her “is it crazy?” moments, about starting from zero, the po...
27 Aug 2026
#9 From Model to global Coach: The questions that can change your life with Lucia Giovannini
Lucia Giovannini is a globally recognized motivational speaker, a transformational coach, and the bestselling author of 13 books that have helped thousands of people around the world find the strength to face change and be happier. What most people don't know is that none of this was the plan. Lucia first became an international model who owned an agency, a school and a fashion-show company, with the house, the marriage and the money to match. And inside, in her own words, she felt dead...
30 Jul 2026
#8 From Train Crew to Osaka's Go-To Hub for International Entrepreneurs / with Chikako Tsuda
Chikako Tsuda is the Total Coordinator of FutrWorks, Osaka's Coworking space for global startups and digital nomads. She's been at the same Japanese company for over 20 years. But her career looks like nothing I've ever seen in a traditional Japanese career path, because she kept saying yes to the unexpected thing. This episode of “Is it Crazy?” is about carving your space to be yourself, in life and in careers. Chikako never planned to run an international community. She never planned to lea...
16 Jul 2026
#7 From a Bank Job to top Global Event Strategist with Laura Viilep
Laura Viilep is a Globally recognized Event Strategist, the woman behind Mindvalley's iconic events like A-Fest. She left her Director role at the top in order to start her own Boutique Event Agency, but this wasn't her only "crazy move". She's one of the 100 Most Influential People in the Events Industry, and still, this isn't a "look how perfectly it all worked out" story. It's the real journey: the doubt, the highs and lows, the empty calendar, and how she learned to trust a decision that ...
2 Jul 2026
Manifesting the house, the lifestyle and community of your vision, with Natalie Coulson
This one is special because it was recorded in Natalie’s house - from the vision board to reality! She's the founder of the Kicking Goals Marketing & Communications and of the Lady Kicking Goals community. She’s living the life that was on her vision but the story is not about “look at me things are perfect”!. This conversation is about the journey from idea, doubts, highs and lows, and how to reinvent yourself and rise like a phoenix. This is for anyone who has an image, and idea b...
25 Jun 2026
How to Become Ready for the Next Big Role (Even When You Don't Feel It) with Silvia D’Anna
"Whatever you do for yourself is never crazy enough." That's what Silvia said in our conversation, and knowing her, she really embodies that motto. She has a very inspiring career spanning BCG, Nike, and now she's VP Sports, Kids and Underwear at Best Secret, the role she says that “ticks all the boxes of what I was looking for”. How did she build a career like this? What people might not know behind the scenes (and what you'll hear in the conversation) is that she didn't get this far by acci...
18 Jun 2026
From Hyper-Growth Startups to Fractional Leader, with Hugo Pereira
I met Hugo when he became President of AIESEC International. To me he was this distant, inspiring figure at first, the person everyone in the room was watching. Years later we both ended up in Amsterdam and he became a friend whose career choices I kept learning from. Hugo calls himself a growth catalyst. Today he wears 3 hats: a fractional growth and marketing leader for deep-tech and scale-ups, a builder, and a father who decided presence was non-negotiable. He scaled EVBox from...
11 Jun 2026
Finding Your True Power - From Unemployable to Owning 16 Companies, with Bunny Young
Meet Bunny Young, not just my coach. She’s a mom, a serial entrepreneur and a source of inspiration. At 14 she was diagnosed with a heart condition and told to choose a quiet life. She didn’t, and chose to test the limitations instead. Since then it feels like she has lived multiple lives: stuntwoman, therapist, she built 16 companies while raising 4 kids. But the real story isn't the companies or the resume nobody would understand. It's the lessons, like that in every situation you have a ch...
4 Jun 2026
From Dropping Out of Uni, to CMO and 7-figure Founder, with Alessio Pieroni
Alessio Pieroni is the Founder and CEO of Scale for Impact, a marketing agency for online course creators. But he wasn’t born an entrepreneur. This episode is about the shape of an unconventional path with at least 3 major “Is It Crazy?” moments. In the conversation we cover several questions that most high performers avoid: What is my frustration for the current situation trying to tell me?What if the role I worked so hard to earn is not the destination, but just a stepping stone...
4 Jun 2026
The “Crazy Moves” that Inspired this Podcast, with Eleonora
That little nudge, “Is this crazy?” can be the most honest career signal you’ll ever get, especially when your life looks great on paper but something inside still wants more. I’m Eleonora, and for the very first episode I’m going first with my own story so you know exactly why this space exists and what kind of career and life reinvention we’re here to normalize. What you'll hear: The 6-year dream I kept postponingThe real life shifts behind the podcastThe moment everything looked perf...
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