How We Win This

A conversation about fashion’s response to the war in Ukraine with Venya Brykalin, the fashion director of Vogue Ukraine. Gentle reminder that the best way to support the show is to simply subscribe to the show on YouTube, Apple Podcasts or Spotify or  become our patron on Patreon patreon.com/howwewinthis

Olesya Gerashchenko (Shambur) is a researcher in culturology at the NaUKMA Doctoral School, a research fellow at the Mediation and Dialogue Research Center, a founder of the Ukrainian Center for Concordance, and co-author of the research “Nature of Future Conflicts” by The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies. Inspiring podcast about ukrainian culture, ukrainian artists who are d

Lizaveta German is a researcher with a Ph.D. in art history, co-founder of The Naked Room Gallery, co-curator @ukrainianpavilioninvenoce at @labiennale and co-founder @ukrainian_emergency_art_fund Lizaveta spoke about first days of war and  her most recent experience of producing new exhibitions and of different ways to support Ukrainian artists in times of war. Gentle reminde

Anton Borzov is the Product Designer at Neeva, he runs Sunflower Fund sunflowerfund.co and has spent time heading up product design at WhatsApp and supports Ukraine through his many angel investments. @danapavlychko and Anton discuss processes that happen all around the world and situation in Ukraine. Talk about the democracy fight, fundraising, innovation in Ukraine, and what we c

Andriy Klen is the co-founder of Pet Cube, design buro Ozero and since recently a platform supporting Ukrainian business Spend with Ukraine. In this episode we discussed how badass Ukrainians are for having multiple jobs at a time. Literally everyone does that right now: working your main job and then volunteering the rest of your time, which is a full-time job in itself. How do we

In this episode we spoke to Maya Baklanova & Tanya Voytko, representatives of the ∄ community fund. ∄ is a phenomenal Kyiv based arts and music institution, of cult status. And the ∄ fund is aimed to provide financial, humanitarian and logistical support to the musical and cultural community that has been facing life-threatening challenges since the beginning of the russi

Oleksandr Akymenko is the founder of Yes And Design - an innovations and design thinking consulting firm, one of the founders of platfor.ma - a major media outlet in Ukraine, co-founder of The Ukrainian Emerging Leaders Program at Stanford University and now he is a big part of the Ukrainian Global University. Sasha told us a lot about Ukrainian Global University. Basically it

We talked to Olha Hamama, who is a lawyer in Frankfurt, Germany and the founder of a huge non-profit to help Ukraine called United For Ukraine. Since the day 1 of the war Olga's project unites professionals from all over Europe and provides legal support, housing and options for education for Ukrainian refugees. For example, United for Ukraine collaborated with Airbnb to provide ho

From a spark between a couple of co-thinkers to a real NGO and one of the most productive media platform that already works with the government and sheds light on all the Russia’s atrocities. Serhiy Vovk told us how War Against War was born and what it aspires to be in the future. Spoiler: it basically aspires to be a vast and very well-designed presentation for the future Hague

Volodymyr Yermolenko is the bearer of many titles: a philosopher, a translator, a political expert, an essayist, an editor-in-chief of Ukraine World, an avid promoter of Ukraine and our fellow-podcaster. Dana and Volodymyr mainly discussed the deviant logic of Russian modus vivendi and operandi: everyone should lose, but Russia should lose less than others. If Russia does not