Episode 4: Benjamin Marwaha Kraetzig | From Behind the Iron Curtain, To the Forefront of the Modern.

In this episode I got to sit down virtually with Benjamin Marwaha-Krietzig who joins us from London, UK. Benjamin was born on the other side of the Berlin Wall in what used to be called the Democratic Republic of Germany (East Germany). Ben was really young when that iron curtain fell, not just in Germany but in all of the soviet world. He grew up in a world much different than his parents’ and because of that he would have access to visiting and furthering his education outside of the now non-existent GDR. Being able to meet new friends beyond that wall was something his parents would not take for granted. He traveled to America for an engineering internship with Nasa and the German Space Agency. It was here where Ben and I met and became good lifelong friends. In this convo we discus the experience of seeing the world through an optimistic lens that takes nothing for granted. We discuss his experiences, his views on modern life, the future, the present, and how to best navigate it.