Can you gain 100k new followers overnight with AI? This is what happened to AI Artist, Tanja Schalling who shares with us the incredible story of how she went viral from one second to the next.

In a complete turn of events, she explains how she saw her followers surge to over 100k all of a sudden, receiving thousands of messages and hundreds of work requests from all over the globe, from governments to art galleries and more!

In our conversation, we explore the positive power of AI and how using it as a tool can transform your life.

Meet the Emmy-Award winner who is aiming to elevate the role of the arts in global dialogues to drive the sustainable development goals. Lisa Russell is an Asian American Emmy-winning filmmaker, storyteller, and arts curator working in the United Nations space for the past 20 years.

This September, she is launching the "Arts for the Future" Festival in NYC and globally, coinciding with the UN Summit for the Future, UNGA and NYC Climate Week. This artist-led festival is dedicated to amplifying the voices of artists and cultural workers in global sustainability discussions. Discover more about it.

The global advertising industry is worth a staggering $1.7 trillion, yet only a minuscule fraction of that budget is spent on shifting consumers away from climate-harmful consumption patterns and toward influencing consumer behaviour for positive change.

We are exploring this topic with Freya Dumasia, a Senior Advertising Strategist at BBDO, one of the biggest global advertising agencies headquartered in New York City.

A representative for Ad Net Zero US, Freya also created Climate Circles, a pioneering hub gathering advertising strategists over brunch (a must in NYC!) to brainstorm how they can amplify sustainable messaging and drive the industry toward impactful climate solutions.

Originally from a small town of India, Karimah Hudda migrated to North America and went on living and working in over 40 countries, often travelling off the beaten path.

She collaborated with people whose life journeys were as diverse as the coffee and oil palm farms of Sumatra, the C-suites of the largest corporations in the world including Nike and Faitrade International, the slums of Nairobi, or the global headquarters of international NGOs.

Following the UN Biodiversity Conference held in Montreal in 2022, she founded Illumine.Earth to support more leaders on their path to regenerative leadership and accelerate a world where all nature and people thrive. She tells us how.

Sussex Bay on the South coast of England is an exceptional example of local restoration project with an exceptional vision: to restore 100 miles of coastline where the seascape and rivers flourish. A healthy blue ecosystem in which nature, people and local economy can thrive.

Like so many other parts of the world, the current reality of Sussex Bay is far from this idyllic vision as the region is dealing with many issues relating to land, coast and sea degradation, biodiversity loss, and other effects related to climate change.

Yet, the project has already garnered funding and a massive momentum from the local community. How did they do it? Paul Brewer, the project leader and Director for Sustainability & Resources at Adur & Worthing Councils shares with us his best kept secrets, tips and advice for anyone interested in local nature recovery.

How often do you think of water? How often do you consider how precious it is in our lives? Have you ever considered becoming a steward of it? This week I am in conversation with Charlotte Qin, a Chinese-Canadian artist living in Switzerland, whose work is uniquely dedicated to the most precious element on Earth: Water.

Charlotte has made her mission to elevate the cultural value of water through artivism. She is the creative director and Founder of QinTheory, as well as the Founder of Meeting of Waters, a Geneva-based NGO that promotes water conscience and collaborates with global partners such as the World Economic Forum or the Swiss Water Partnership.

Many of us have or want to start our own business, BUT how many of us are successful with it? In the UK alone, more than 1 in 20 people has already started their own business + over a third (35.2%) want to start their own business in the future.

We love the ambition. Even more at a time when we need more impact founders to challenge the ‘old ways’ of doing and come up with new attitudes and solutions.

So this week, we sit with Startup Advisor Josephine Conneely to explore entrepreneurial ambition and… what makes the difference in a Founder being successful or not.

You might be seemingly at the top of your career and yet suffer from debilitating mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, burnout, PTSD, grief, suicidal thoughts and so much more.

This was the story of my guest this week, Sheila Darcey who was a very successful corporate executive in the eyes of the world and yet was suffering from extreme anxiety.

Sheila tried art therapy to help her and the practice of sketching had such a profound effect on resolving her suppressed trauma and emotions that she founded SketchPoetic and is now helping others to find their path to healing through the arts.

What is a simple solution to solve fashion waste, as praised by Vogue in the UK? Sol Escobar, the Founder of Give Your Best, offers an answer as she tackles clothing poverty while solving clothing waste at the same time through her award-winning free clothing platform.

In this conversation, she shares a very little known fact: An estimated 5.5 million adults (a staggering 13% of the population) are currently unable to afford the clothes that make everyday life – such as applying for interviews, going to work, school, or sometimes even just leaving the house – possible.

In the context of creating social change, new leaders are emerging, challenging top-down approaches and breaking away from traditional structures.

Jamiel Devernay-Laurence is a dance entrepreneur creating a new vision with Ballet Nights in the dance ecosystem where he operates – one that redefines and elevates the experience for everyone involved: the dancers, the public, and all stakeholders.

When we put people first, when we uplift each other, we can co-create something truly remarkable.

At 19 years old, Jenk Oz has already an 8-year career behind him as a young social change activist and entrepreneur, having started at only 11 which made him earn the title of ‘Youngest UK’s CEO’ by the press.

The Founder and CEO of Thred Media, a media and consulting company aimed at Gen Z and reaching over 220 countries, he has just been included in the Forbes 30U30 list for Europe 2024, is one of the most in-demand public speakers, and has already consulted for some of the biggest companies in the world including Microsoft, Google, Instagram or Meta.

In this conversation with him, we cover many topics relating to Generation Z, self-fulfilment and entrepreneurship, and we spread a light on the many benefits the democratisation of digitalisation has brought to the world.

In this episode with Cristina Zenato, we are heading to the Bahamas. Cristina is one of the most accomplished divers in the world, a Platinum Pro 5000 recipient, well-known for her groundbreaking work with sharks and cave exploration.

In this conversation she tells us why it is always a good idea to question ‘what we are told’ and go beyond our fears - a mindset that led her to complete the exploration and connection between a land-based cave and an ocean blue hole, a goal many deemed impossible.

How can art reconnect us more deeply with the natural world and help local communities realise the urgent threats facing their local ecosystems? We are answering this question with British Artist and Golden Visa Holder, Mark Dickens.

Mark was the official artist for Formula 1, having been commissioned by Bernie Ecclestone to create paintings of each of the F1 races around the world. Now a resident in the UAE, Mark has just launched a new art exhibition called ‘A Conversation with Nature’ in Abu Dhabi. Following COP28 in Dubai last year, it aims to connect the local community with their immediate natural environments and the urgency to protect them.

Sharing an exceptional episode with Pål Brekke, a solar physicist, expert on the northern lights. Pål currently works as Lead Space Science at the Norwegian Space Agency, having previously worked at the NASA Goddard Space Flights Center. He is also a delegate to several European Space Agency Program Boards and a member of the exclusive Explorers Club in New York.

Space has always fascinated humanity and so much is happening in Space right now from the development of the New Commercial Space including SpaceX from Elon Musk to the concerns surrounding Space Tourism and how space investments can be used to tackle climate change. We uncover it all!

“If we didn’t have the ocean, the temperature on Earth would be 35°C / 95°F hotter on average!". In this episode coinciding with World Ocean Week, Ingrid Lung sits down with Rebecca Daniel, a marine biologist, science communicator and director of The Marine Diaries, an award-winning marine conservation non-profit using storytelling and digital media to communicate ocean science.

This conversation is an eye opener on how little we know about the ocean and how essential it is that we bridge that gap to make better informed decisions to preserve it and the future of our planet.

It’s never too late! Finding your purpose can sometimes take decades and a trip back to your inner child to remember what drives you. This is what happened to Anthony E. Lovell when he entered his 60s and started life coaching as he was feeling very dissatisfied with his pay-the-bills job.

In irony of fate, Anthony decided it was not too late for wildlife neither in the context of biodiversity loss and he became one of the most talented poets of his generation in the span of just a few years. He now focuses on raising awareness of critically endangered wildlife and The One Million species at risk of extinction through the art of poetry.

With the effects of climate change becoming more and more palpable, we are exploring how nature-based solutions can help make cities more climate resilient. Discover the conversation with Lenka Moore, Senior Manager at Capitals Coalition + Founding Trustee at The Golden Leaf of London, UK, and Zairah Khan, Founder and CEO at BlueO2 + Permaculture Designer & Teacher in The Hague, Netherlands.

In this ‘special live’ conversation at SXSW 2024 in Austin, Texas, our Editor-in-Chief, Ingrid Lung sits with Chris Kerston, Co-CEO of Land to Market, Matthew Wallace, CEO of Project DXM, and Amanda Russell, Author of the Influencer Code and Faculty at the University of Oxford, to explore how we can harness the power of collaborations to transform fashion from problem to solution.

Shades of Life, hosted by Scarlet Red Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, Ingrid Lung is a new podcast aiming to support aspiring or established change-makers in their impact journey. Through the kaleidoscopic stories of our guests, we seek to inspire you to find ultimate fulfilment in the 4 fundamental pursuits or goals of human life: Inner Purpose (Self), Wealth Creation (Work), Blissful Connections (Love), and Serving the World (Service).