🎙️ Welcome to this episode!

Today, we’re joined by Aleksander Tõnnisson — a man of many labels and now adding one more to the list: aspiring politician. As local elections kick off on October 13, 2025, Aleksander steps into the political arena and into our conversation.

Joining him are our hosts, Dr. Anne Veerpalu and Dr. Ilona Nurmela, for a thought-provoking discussion about a unique kind of school — one where leadership starts with the heart. Together, they explore how heart-led leadership can expand personal power and what that means in the context of shaping our communities and governments.

Let’s dive in.

Learn more from Aleksander here: https://reform.ee/kohaliku-omavalitsuse-volikogu-valimised-2025/tartu/tartu-linn/kandidaadid/aleksander-tonnisson/

In this episode we host Kristina Kööts from Pathogora and Gerli Hummel from Poshear, both female founders of healthtech startups and talk about their experience in a bootcamp for healthtech founders.

In this episode there are three law PhD graduates discussing how they experienced their PhD studies, why they chose to pursue a PhD degree in law and how it changed their life - what emotions they went through and what experiences they got out of it. This is a must listening if you are considering to do a PhD, especially in the University of Tartu law school.

We address hyper-productivity, depression, empathy, supervision and prejudice and so much more.

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