#31 Waves of Change: Creating the Volvo Ocean Lovers Festival

My guest is Anita Kolni, a 6/2 Sacral Manifesting Generator.
She is the Founder of the Volvo Ocean Lovers Festival, an annual celebration of ideas, art, music and actions, showcasing some of the latest innovations, science, state-of-the-art technology and cool ideas for helping the ocean.
Anita successfully staged the first Festival in April 2019 at Sydney's iconic Bondi Beach and in a short time, it has grown into Australia’s largest cultural and science celebration for the ocean, attracting 58K visitors over three events with a digital media reach of 12M.
In today’s episode we chatted about:
How to get a project of this size off the ground, including the balancing young children, no budget and the challenges of Covid.
How the gifts of her vocation (7), life’s work (50) and purpose (41) gene keys are all alive in her role at the Ocean Lovers Festival.
Plus, we ended up chatting about our passion for the ocean and sharks!
Episode highlights

• 02:39 The importance and impact of the Ocean Lovers Festival
• 03:25 Anita's human design and its influence on her work
• 05:24 The origin and evolution of the Ocean Lovers Festival
• 08:27 The future of the Ocean Lovers Festival
• 09:12 Anita as a Manifesting Generator
• 09:35 What helped Anita to be successful
• 10:25 Balancing motherhood and running a festival
• 17:01 Triumphs of the festival
• 24:52 Life's work Gene Key 50
• 30:31 Purpose Gene Key 41
• 33:19 Advice to those who wanted to do something similar

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More About Anita Kolni
Anita is a passionate, changemaker, communicator and connector.
The festival showcases successful marine projects restoring the coastal ecology, hero’s ocean innovating entrepreneurs and gives a platform to government initiatives, ocean champions, marine scientists and community groups to inspire and empower audiences to better protect the ocean.
She is fast becoming recognised as global connector in the ocean sector for her innovative approach of bringing inspiration and hope for the ocean, and engaging audiences to accelerate change that positively impacts our world.
Anita championed the Sydney Coast Hope Spot at the inaugural Ocean Lovers Festival with the support of Mission Blue, Sylvia Earle Alliance, to recognise Sydney’s cherished coastline on the international stage.
Connect with Ocean Lovers Festival
Website: https://www.oceanloversfestival.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oceanloversfestival/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OceanLoversFestival
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/42310638/admin/feed/posts/
TikTok: @Volvooceanloversfestival
Image credit: Daniel Kukec