Welcome once again to the @MAGICademy Podcast! On S5E3 we give a warm welcome to Jelena Aleksich to the show. She is a creative entrepreneur, visual storyteller, and founder of The Confetti Project, which began as a photography challenge in her bedroom and now has evolved into a global mental health storytelling platform. We talk about our playfulness and how it’s often something that we ignore but it ends up being vital for us to have a healthy and balanced adult life.
Like many entrepreneurs, Jelena had a completely different background from what she ended up doing, starting as a psychology student and then pivoting to follow a more creative path. In this episode, we explore this pivot and the motivations behind it, the playful mindset and how to cultivate it, mental health and Jelena’s answer to the issue, and much more!
Conversation Outline
00:00 - Introduction
00:17 - Jelena talks about her background and founding The Confetti Project
06:20 - Success stories in Jelena’s career
13:33 - About the playful mindset and the “play print”
19:03 - Our way of thinking as a society and how we’re learning to live differently
20:50 - Lack of answers to the mental health issues after the pandemic
25:52 - The role of playfulness and childlike wonder in teams and companies
30:32 - Practicing our playfulness
35:25 - Jelena at 11 years old
42:10 - Jelena’s magic
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