On the Women Authors of Achievement Podcast, we hear from some of the most successful women of our time about the ebbs and flows of their personal and professional lives. Host Daria Suvorova-Konstandin takes listeners to discover and learn from the inspirations and obstacles these remarkable women faced to get to where they are today.
This time, the roles reverse as our very own host Daria Suvorova-Konstandin joins Cynthia Mensah-Neglokpe on the other side of the mic. Together with moderator Paloma Frau, Director of Cultural Programming at Fotografiska Berlin, the two authors and cultural curators discuss their new book, The Feeling of Berlin. Written as a love letter to Berlin, it tells the city's story through 33 portraits of women, each an icon in her own unique way. In this episode, Daria and Cynthia offer insights into the project: which stories touched them most, how they chose their protagonists, and how they managed to write an entire book alongside many other projects. They discuss challenges and successes, discipline and motivation – and how an idea evolved into 250 carefully curated pages.
It’s our very first conversation recorded in Denmark at Soho House Copenhagen. To mark this moment we invited to the show local star and global thought leader: Veronica D’Souza. In this episode, we speak about what it really takes to build a life that actually feels like your own, and the courage it takes to step away from societal expectations. Veronica shares what she learned from working closely with women in prison, how that experience reshaped her understanding of dignity and agency, and why music became a way back to her inner voice after years of building companies. If there’s one thing to take away from this episode, it’s this: living fully often starts with listening to yourself, and to the stories of others.
This is our first episode recorded live in Sweden, here at Fotografiska Stockholm. Keika Lee grew up in Sweden with Korean heritage, in a family where discipline and hard work were part of everyday life. She was on her way to becoming a classical pianist, with auditions at Juilliard and the Conservatoire in Paris, and then she made a decision that surprised many: she walked away. What followed wasn’t a straight career path, but years of trial and error. Keika tried many different roles: from bartending and working airport security to studying political science, building a fashion brand with her sister and working in consultancy. From the outside, It might look scattered, but it became one of her biggest strengths: learning how people behave and how to read the room.
