In this CEO edition of the Events Demystified Podcast, host interviews Stacy Kehren Idema, founder and CEO of Equati, about how life ruptures shaped her leadership. Stacy shares growing up in a third-generation family business, spending 27 years in corporate technology, and later redefining leadership as self-integrity and emotional awareness through emotional intelligence work. She describes a major breaking point five years ago when she asked for a second divorce, then moving to London for six months, pursuing an innovator visa, and experiencing isolation and a failed first business that became foundational to her rebuild. Stacy explains how Equati evolved from a gender-gap investment concept into a technology platform for family offices that uses AI and emotional intelligence to build trust and relational clarity across generations, and she discusses balancing power and grace, energy protection practices, and the mantra to “just be.”

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Host Anca Platon Trifan opens the CEO edition of the Events Demystified Podcast with a conversation about leadership discernment and reinvention, then interviews Julia Danmeri, founder and CEO of TranslateAble. Julia reflects on how event operations shaped her leadership through organization and valuing people, and describes moving from a traditional “one path” career mindset to questioning her direction during COVID when work paused and she realized she’d stopped learning. She explains pivoting from becoming a solo translator to running a language agency after referrals demanded languages beyond her own, and shares how being a CEO meant shifting from operations comfort to sales, client acquisition, and managing freelancers. They discuss AI as an ongoing industry pressure, staying relevant without rabbit holes by using clear plans, productivity habits, and prioritizing key tasks, plus improving accessibility by promoting services like sign language interpretation to the communities who need them.

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