Bennu Community

🎧 You can now listen to Bennu directly on bennu.community.

45 conversations across two chapters, with stories around work, identity, belonging, change, and finding direction.

You can listen on the site, explore the full archive, or find Bennu on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Castbox and YouTube.

More conversations are on the way.

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Some places feel like home quickly. Others take years.

What made the Netherlands start to feel like home for you?

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“I belong everywhere and nowhere at the same time.”

In this episode of Bennu, Ingrid Tappin talks with Ben Brink and Alex Baker-Friesen about identity, belonging, and what happens when you build a life across different cultures and contexts.

The conversation moves through Ingrid’s own journey, from media and entrepreneurship to Diverse Leaders in Tech, and into a bigger question: how much of who we are do we adapt, explain, or hold on to when we enter new spaces?

They also talk about starting again in the Netherlands, finding your place, and why belonging is never something you build entirely on your own.

🎙 Everywhere and Nowhere
Identity, belonging, and the strength we build through difference
With Ingrid Tappin
Hosted by Ben Brink & Alex Baker-Friesen

🔗 Listen now at bennu.community

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A Step Towards Freedom

In this episode of Bennu, Ben Brink and Charline Baker-Friesen speak with Shivangi Dhakad about what moving countries really changes.

Not just where you live, but how you think about freedom, work, identity, home and belonging.
Shivangi shares her move from India to the Netherlands, what she found here, what she still misses, and how her idea of home has changed over the years.

The conversation also touches on the pressure to fit in, slowing down, building community, and staying yourself while adapting to a new culture.

One idea sits at the heart of the episode:
You can respect the culture you move into without losing your own.

Bennu, Chapter Two, Episode 04
with Shivangi Dhakad, Hosted by Ben Brink and Charline Baker-Friesen

🔗 Listen here 👉 bennu.community

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How to find a job.
How to get a BSN.
How to find housing.
How to figure out health insurance.

Start with the question.
Find a practical answer.

HowToIn.nl
by Flux Forward

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📌 Finding Care, Finding Place.

A new Bennu conversation with Hee Baek, Founder of OW Care, about care, community, and navigating life in the Netherlands.

We talk about emotional anchors, volunteering, language, uncertainty, and the people and communities that can make a new place easier to navigate.

Main signal: #Navigation

Where are you still trying to navigate alone?

🎧 Now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Castbox.

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A few things worth checking this week.

New sponsors, support routes, and people who may help.

This week’s Weekly Signal covers:
• Recognized Sponsors
• Support Organizations
• Independent professionals
• Two practical checks for internationals in the Netherlands

A few checks now can save a lot of confusion later.

🔗 Read the full Weekly Signal 👉 here

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A quick snapshot of the Flux Forward ecosystem today.

From trusted sponsors and active job opportunities to partners, employers, actors, and podcast stories, each part helps make the path forward a little clearer.

Explore the ecosystem at fluxforward.world

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Bennu is now on YouTube.

The full archive is now available in one place: 42 conversations about transition, identity, work, belonging, and becoming.

Start from the beginning, or choose the conversation that speaks to where you are right now.

🔗 Watch the full archive 👉 HERE

#BennuPodcast #FluxForward #Podcast #YouTubePodcast #LifeTransitions

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New Bennu episode is live.

📌 Starting Again: Malwina Biel on work, friendship, and finding your place abroad.

In this Chapter Two episode, Diana Enache speaks with Malwina Biel about moving from Poland to Bucharest, adapting to a new work culture, building friendships, asking for help, and turning an unexpected move into a life that feels more like your own.

The main signal is #Navigation.

A small question from the episode:
What is one question you are avoiding, and who could help you answer it this week?

🔗 Read/listen 👉 here

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Looking for #HSM_visa opportunities in the #Netherlands?

If you are an #international or #non_EU job seeker, recognized sponsors are a useful place to start.

Flux Forward now has a searchable sponsor lookup with 12,500+ recognized sponsors.

Search by company name, KvK number, region, sector, company type, pathway, and website status.

🔗 Start your search 👉 here

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We’re opening a light, voluntary collaboration for people connected to international student and graduate communities in cities across the Netherlands.

Flux Forward is looking for City Community Partners who can help us understand what international students and recent graduates are experiencing locally as they study, work, connect, and build their next steps in the Netherlands.

This is not a traditional job or employment role. It’s a flexible, exploratory collaboration shaped around local context, availability, and interest.

Especially relevant if you are connected to student life, graduate communities, early-career internationals, local initiatives, or city-based networks in the Netherlands.

🔗 Apply via LinkedIn Easy Apply 👉 here

Flux Forward supports international talent across study, work, and build.

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Chapter Two of Bennu by Flux Forward is now live.

We are opening this new chapter with a conversation with Panos Sarlanis, Co-Founder of IamExpat Media.

The episode is called:
Belonging Beyond Arrival
Integration, identity, and making the Netherlands feel like home

This conversation is about what happens after arrival. Not just finding work, a house, or understanding the rules, but learning how to build a life, navigate a new society, find community, and slowly feel that a place can become home.

With Panos, we talk about internationals in the Netherlands, IamExpat, integration, language, housing, bureaucracy, non-EU uncertainty, the social climate around internationals, and the question that becomes more layered over time:
When people ask where you are from, what begins to feel like home?

🔗 Listen and read the episode 👉 here

Bennu by Flux Forward explores future-ready people, work, learning, belonging, and the human side of change.

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Bennu Chapter One is now an activation archive inside the Flux Forward Blog.

The 40 episodes were already live, but now each conversation has its own page and a clearer structure:
• Conversation Frame
• Key Signals
• Activation Mapping
• Editorial Report
• Next Steps

The important part is that the archive is now connected to the Flux Forward Activation Framework:
- Stability
- Translation
- Navigation
- Visibility

So it is no longer just a list of podcast episodes.

It is becoming a way to explore what different stories reveal about transition, work, learning, identity, belonging, and movement through change.

👉 Start here

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A small visual shift for #Bennu.

We're moving Bennu’s identity closer to the bird itself.

Not as a heavy rebrand, but as a clearer symbol of what Bennu has always been about: movement, transition, return, and becoming.

Bennu started as a space for conversations.
Now it is becoming the storytelling layer of Flux Forward: a place for stories about transition, work, identity, and finding direction in unfamiliar systems.

So the bird feels right.

Bennu by FluxForward
Storytelling for transition, work, identity, and becoming.

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Season 2 is coming.

We’re starting again.

This time, it’s closer to what people actually go through when things don’t translate.

📌 First episode soon.

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🚀 Bennu Community has a new look.

We’re excited to share the updated Bennu website, a calmer, clearer, and more intuitive space that reflects what Bennu is becoming:
a community of nonlinear journeys and transformative conversations.

📌 What’s new?
• A refreshed design
• A more focused story
• A clearer introduction to our mission
• A smoother experience for new members

Bennu is a space where people explore change, identity, migration, uncertainty, and personal reinvention, together.

👉 Take a look: https://bennu.community

We’d love to hear what you think about the new design and direction.

@BennuCommunity | @TheFuturesHub

🎉 Season 1 of #Bennu_Podcast is complete.

40 conversations. 40 nonlinear journeys. 40 stories shared with honesty, vulnerability, and curiosity.

This season has been a space for people navigating #change, #migration, #identity, #uncertainty, and #reinvention, themes at the heart of Bennu. But it has also been a space for conversations with thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and future thinkers who are shaping what comes next.
Every guest brought a perspective that expanded what Bennu can become and deepened the spirit of our community.

Thank you to all our guests for sharing your stories with openness and courage.
Thank you to our listeners for walking this journey with us.
And thank you to everyone behind the scenes who supported the recordings, production, and growth of Bennu Community.

Season 2 is on the horizon, with new voices, deeper conversations, and more stories that matter.

♾️ Nonlinear Journeys. Shared Stories.
🔗 Listen now: https://pod.link/1756730267

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📌 Rebirth at 40: A Nonlinear Journey and the Chaos That Became My Turning Point
With Ben, Futurist, Co-founder & Ecosystem Gardener at The Futures Hub

In the Season 1 finale of Bennu Podcast, the conversation becomes deeply personal.
For the first time, our initiator Ben, futurist and co-founder of The Futures Hub, takes the guest seat.
Guided by host Charline Baker-Friesen, Ben reflects on migration, identity, midlife crisis, and the unpredictable transitions that shaped his journey. From starting over in a new country at 40 to rebuilding identity through language and experience, this episode explores how chaos can become a catalyst for reinvention.

📌 Together, they dive into:

- the emotional reality of beginning again
- how weak ties and serendipity changed everything
- the metaphors guiding their ecosystem (Octopus, Zebra, Starlings, Jazz)
- embracing uncertainty as a path to growth
- a vision for a future-ready European ecosystem

A raw and honest story of transformation, belonging, and becoming.

📌 Hosted by: Charline Baker-Friesen, Marketing & Communications Lead at Flux Forward

📍 Subscribe and listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Castbox, and more.

🎧 Listen now: podcast.bennu.community

Don't forget to share your feedback and spread the word!

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Season 1 of Bennu Podcast is closing with our most personal episode yet.

For the final episode, our initiator, Ben, co-founder of The Futures Hub, Flux Forward, and Elewave, steps in as the guest for the first time.

He opens up about migration, identity, midlife crisis, and the chaos that shaped the ecosystem we’re building today.

Episode 40: Rebirth at 40

📌 Episode 40 will be released soon.

Hosted by: Charline Baker-Friesen, Marketing & Communications Lead at Flux Forward

Stay tuned.

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