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The Social Regeneration Podcast

Redesigning how to travel, build community, and lead change - from certification checklists over inner development to #impactpreneurship

[🔔 Announcement: from September, THE SOCIAL REGENERATION PODCAST 🎀 moves to a bi-weekly rhythm 🎵]
One reason: We are making space to launch a larger programme for #impactpreneurs who want to solidify their impact project idea - starting in October ✨😍 [👀 First Sneak Peek here 🤫]
Meet my new business partner, Anastasiia “Asya” Korshunova - sustainability professional, sustainable tourism auditor, community builder, and certified mindfulness guide.
In this Episode, Asya traces her path from hotel management studies to discovering sustainability, completing a Master’s in sustainability management, and choosing auditing for its concrete, operational levers to implement small changes on a daily basis. She explains how certifications can drive learning and continuous improvement and reframes travel through the mindset of pilgrimage - moving from extraction and photo-checklists to humility and respect.
Asya also explains why she moved into mindfulness and coaching: we talk a lot about Doing in sustainability but rarely about Being - the inner capacities leaders must cultivate.
We also share how our collaboration began earlier this year, how we co-created a new brand within the last 3 Months only, and how we ran two workshops without ever meeting in person, and why this values-alignment felt like a perfect “partnership at first sight.”
If you want to hear what the big programme is about that we are currently co-creating, listen in! 🎧 It is all about embracing your identity as #impactpreneur. 💗 We accompany you on your journey, bringing Your Impact Project to Life! 🚀
💡 HIGHLIGHTS of this Episode
✨ Tourism without extraction? We debate whether “sustainable tourism” is possible — and how the mindset of pilgrimage can pave the path for regeneration
✨ Sustainability Audits decoded. Asya shares honest insights into the pros and cons of the certification process and the work as an auditor
✨ From Kyrgyz mountains to Kazakh deserts: why early actions & standards can prevent a slide into mass tourism
✨ Inner > outer. We name the blind spot in sustainability work: neglecting the inner capacities that keep changemakers healthy and effective, and how coaching fills that gap
✨ #impactpreneurship: About both our journeys as Social Impact Founders and glimpses into our New Program - the YIP LAB!
👋 ABOUT Asya Korshunova (she/her)
After working in the field of sustainability for over 5 years, her passion for creating something meaningful on her own led her to start ASEYA, a space of connection and growth for professionals working and inspired by sustainability and personal development. This journey brought her to finish an official training to become a certified mindfulness guide and coach to support other professionals, especially young adults, towards a meaningful career or business.
🔗 CONNECT & follow Asya's work
👉 Website ASEYA Changemakers Community
👉 LinkedIn
👉 Instagram
📚 RESOURCES to dive deeper
➡ Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

🪅 YIP LAB is opening it's doors soon for all #impactpreneurs ✨ 🤗
👀 Peek into what we are creating at the YIP LAB here 👈
📣 Be the first one to be informed about the upcoming events and programme by signing up here! 😍
💌 CONNECT & engage with Pia
Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn to follow and support each other’s work. 🤗
If you consider yourself an #impactjobseeker or aspiring #impactpreneur at the beginning of your journey, jump on my Newsletter “Impact Insights” where I regularly share tools and best practices from my work as a sustainability consultant and system change facilitator. 🤓
For daily insights “behind the scenes” and event updates, join the extended community on the @work.with.impact Instagram account. 🧐💓
Take care of yourself and others
Pia 🤍

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P.S. You can also watch this Episode on our YouTube Channel to see our faces 👋 🙂
🔔 Join the very first YIP LAB ATELIER 🎀
📌 6 Step to your Social Business Foundation (online)
📅 September 24th, 5-6.30 pm CET
👉 Register here (0€)
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