Ep. 40 Shifting Careers and Influencing Change. An Interview with Marina Ganzarolli.

In this week’s episode of The Unlock Lab, I sit down with Marina Ganzarolli to talk about her amazing journey in transforming her career and creating real change. Marina, founder of the #MeToo Brazil Movement, shares how she left a secure public sector job to build a mission driven career supporting survivors of sexual violence and championing gender equity. We dig into the big risks she took to follow her purpose, the challenges and fears she powered through, and how she created a career on her own terms. Marina’s story is a lesson in the power of experimentation, resilience, and trusting our past successes to fuel new leaps. This conversation is a reminder that influencing change can start with simply listening and holding space for others. Highlights: Marina’s journey from a secure public sector job to founding a movement in Brazil. Embracing experimentation and resilience to navigate major career transitions. How the power of listening and authentic connections can drive real change. Quotables: Marina [00:06:30] "I am a survivor of sexual violence and I elaborated my trauma through helping other women. And I have been doing that for almost 20 years, two decades now. It's been 18 years of providing support to victims with no charge, as a volunteer work, as a civil work. And at that time I was already a specialist, an expert on the subject." Tosca [00:40:50] "I think people put a lot of pressure on themselves, that they have to create something new. And that when we just keep our eyes open and we see what's out there and where we can fill in the gaps and find connections in different arenas. Maybe it's different geographies or even different disciplines that we can put things together in new ways without having to recreate the wheel." Marina [00:43:04] "I think my special sauce is the ability to listen and to make people open themselves. I don't know really how, but apparently I inspire a lot of truth because people really share very traumatic, very personal, very sad, profound things about their lives with us." Marina's Socials: https://www.instagram.com/mariganzarolli https://www.instagram.com/brasilmetoo/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/marina-ganzarolli-ela-ella-she-22b59756 https://www.linkedin.com/company/brasilmetoo Tosca’s Links and Resources: Sign Up for Tosca's Newsletter: https://toscadimatteo.com/optin/ Tosca’s Website Get in Touch with Tosca LinkedIn Instagram Giving Flowers To: Theme music by: Adrian DiMatteo Podcast audio edited by: Landis Podcast Editing