013. Donatella Caggiano: Designing a Return Home

TODAY’S GUEST   Donatella Caggiano is a Global Creativity Hacker. With her methodology crossing design, storytelling, and strategy, she works at applying creativity to processes of change and transformation for brands, communities and people.   She made a crucial decision to leave the high powered Business World of Corporate America in mid-life, return to her home country of Italy, and to do so intentionally, and mindfully.   Her new podcast in the making “The Design of Return”, will deal with personal stories of transit as told by the “in-betweeners”.   EPISODE SUMMARY   In this conversation we discuss: [2:59] Donatella's childhood, leaving her home town. Home is where you are. [8:48] What it means to be a Creativity Hacker, and what Donatella does professionally these days. [16:30] Making a home by separation. [20:55] Leaving Milan to the US, her time in NY. [26:45] The loneliness of living in a new country. [30:05] The differences between US culture and Italian and Israeli culture. [34:32] The weirdness of Orange County, California. [45:00] Leaving the US, heading back to Italy. [56:53] The challenges of returning. [1:03:09] A culture-shock with one's own culture. [1:15:25] Returning skillfully. [1:29:40] 500 Days without Social Media. [1:32:43] The Juliet Club. [1:38:00] Finding a community of fellow returners. [1:44:40] The Design of Return podcast-in-the-making. [1:49:05] Becoming Home vs. Finding Home.   EPISODE LINKS Donatella's Links 🖼 Instagram: @donatellacaggiano 🌍 LinkTree: @donatellacaggiano 🌍 Donatella's Medium Blog 📣 Twitter: @donaworldwide 📺 Videos: "The Design of Return" Talk  Other Things Discussed The Juliet Club - 🌍 Website: JulietClub.com 🖼 Instagram: @julietclubofficial   ABOUT US Remake Podcast: Visit us: RemakePod.org 🙏🏻 Rate the show on iTunes 🙏🏻 Support us! Join the Podcast Member community 💌 Share your thoughts: [email protected] 👉 Listen or Subscribe to the show: Apple Podcasts・Google Podcasts・RadioPublic・Overcast・Stitcher・PocketCasts・Castro・SoundCloud・Spotify・YouTube・Deezer Remake Labs:  RemakeLabs.com・Medium・LinkedIn・Community・Twitter・Facebook・Instagram Eran Dror:  EranDror.com・LinkedIn・Twitter・Medium

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Remake is a podcast about Design, Systems, and Society. And I'm Eran Dror, a product designer and researcher of eastern religions. In each episode I interview someone who’s trying to change our lives for the better in some meaningful way, whether through a new product, new venture, or new way of looking at the world, and I try to understand how they came to it, what makes them tick, and what we all can learn from them. I truly believe Design is strategic, that it goes to the core, that it's at the root of what it means to be human. In this show we explore an expansive view of design, and cover Systems Thinking, Social Innovation, Secular spirituality, and the future.