WHEN on Topic

What are the personal care challenges that founders and owners of small businesses and organizations often, if not always, face? How do these personal challenges affect their own role as leaders of teams that help them carry out the work of entrepreneurship? In the new episode of WHEN on Topic, Stella Kasdagli talks to Marisa Antonopoulou, entrepreneur and former COO of AFI, about achieving balance between personal and professional life for people who have founded small businesses.

Why is there a need for personalized, hybrid work models with flexible hours, and how can they contribute to the personal development and growth of employees? In the new episode of WHEN on Topic, Penelope Theodorakakou talks to Anestis Bozoglanian, co-founder of “Child first,” a small organization that shows in practice how caregiving can become an everyday choice and not just a nice idea.

In this episode of WHEN on Topic, Stella Kasdagli talks with Anastasia Chalkidou, Co-Founder and CFO of Quantum Bits (and a valued collaborator of WHEN!), about whether small businesses and organizations actually need policies and procedures.

Discussions around work and caregiving often focus on parents or caregivers of children and/or adults. But what does care mean for those without children or other typical caregiving duties? What can employers do to learn what is important and how they can manage to care for these individuals?

How do gender stereotypes affect mothers of children with disabilities, both in their workplace and in society? And what should the state do to support the caregivers of children with disabilities?

In the new episode of When on Topic, Penelope Theodorakakou holds an open discussion with Popi Sevastou and Mina Habip - a couple of women and parents of little Alkis – about how traditional roles around caregiving are changing and how their daily lives are shaped.

In this episode of WHEN on Topic, we talk with Michalis Bozos, Country Manager at a multinational company in the field of cybersecurity, who openly shares his personal experience of caring for his mother through a long and difficult period. How does caring for our parents, people with disabilities, or loved ones with chronic illness change our lives, our work, and the way we see so many things both within ourselves and around us?

In this episode of When On Topic, Pinelopi Theodorakakou talks with Vasilis Tsolis, a working dad and technology consultant, about how he experiences his daily involvement in caring for his 8-month-old daughter, his experience with the equal distribution of responsibilities, the comments he often hears, and the reactions of his social circle. What does “meaningful participation” mean for a father? What are the small and big changes that can lead to a fairer, more collaborative, and more humane approach to parenting?

Vasso Pouli, Founder of NVLoc, Director of Sales and Marketing at Sandberg Translation Partners Ltd, and mother of an 11-year-old daughter, engages in a meaningful discussion with Stella Kasdagli, Co-Founder of WHEN / inc.lude, on the intersection of motherhood and professional life, exploring whether -and why- it is possible to "have it all".

What does it mean to care - and why doesn’t it “fit” in our work?

This podcast episode is dedicated to care - a word with many different meanings, especially when it comes to work and daily life. How does the unequal distribution of caregiving responsibilities affect the lives of caregivers? What does it mean for women to be consistently present in the role of informal caregivers, and what is the role of men in this landscape? 

Starting with the most central question –why discuss care in the workplace– in the first episode of the new series, Stella Kasdagli, co-founder of WHEN/inc.lude and author, welcomes Asimina Brouzou, co-founder of the organisation Challedu. Together they introduce us to the new European project CAREdiZO: a project that aims to bridge the gender gap in caring responsibilities and empower small businesses and organisations to adopt equality policies and practices.

CAREdiZO: “Gaining from caring” - A new European project by MIGS on gender equality at work, at home and in society. his European project aims to promote the equal share of care and close the gender gap by empowering organizations and businesses through  innovative digital tools, training, and networking opportunities.