Following the Nudge with Karen Runde

Karen Runde received a vision of a water filter during meditation, and two months later, saw that design on a business plan that landed on her desk.After a decade supporting social entrepreneurs through the Miller Center for Global Impact, Karen followed the nudge to step into the arena herself, launching CoShun, a sustainable water initiative now serving students across two schools in Kenya. It's one thing to guide others through uncertainty. It's another to feel it in your bones: the self-doubt, the 5 a.m. calls across time zones, the weight of wondering if you're enough to do what you've been called to do.In this conversation, Karen shares how meditation unlocked parts of herself she didn't know existed, why she's studying Reiki alongside scaling a social enterprise, and what it means to let go of the death grip on the steering wheel. We talk about navigating power dynamics as an American woman working in Kenya, why finding your people saves you years of mistakes, and the difference between work-life balance and finding flow.Plus: crystals, Gen Z changemakers, and why doing something (even imperfectly) matters more than doing nothing at all.