Podcasts
Proper Talk by Tonje was a collaboration between Tonje Kristiansen and the Proper Hotel Group, inviting listeners to join meaningful, long-form conversations inspired by travel, discovery, and the exchange of ideas. Each episode welcomed listeners into an international community of curious minds, featuring a diverse roster of inspiring, innovative, and influential voices from around the world. Through thoughtful dialogue, the series explored the connections, perspectives, and experiences that shape how we live, work, and engage with the world. Tonje later continued this work through the Her Platform Podcast, expanding these conversations and bringing together founders, creatives, and changemakers from across industries and continents.
In this episode Tonje talks to CEO and Creative Director of Pellicano Hotels Group, Marie-Louise Sciò about how to think outside the box, the desire to create joy, how behind every challenge there’s an opportunity, finding your calling, the importance of losing control, and emptying your mind, her biggest life lessons and the story behind the hotels and their strong identities.
In this episode, Tonje talks to visual artist, entrepreneur, and surfer Keegan Gibbs about finding purpose in something bigger than yourself, the balance in between looking after your family and your own creative endeavors, the ability to release your ego, the difficulties within making art, his work with VICE, fire prevention and raising awareness to reduce the risk of wildfires and how homeowners in California can be more proactive and understand how to live responsibly to reduce the risk.
In this episode, Tonje talks to Architect Noah Walker about the desire to be authentic, the process of creation and the energy you get from it, what separates architecture from other art forms, how a space can elevate your life and change your perspective(s) how his work went into overdrive during Covid and how his background has shaped him to live modestly.
In this episode Tonje talks to Mariel Hemingway about staying present and having faith, the difference between what we need and what we desire, the tragedies and troubles of the Hemingway family about mental health awareness and feeling disconnected, finding love and purpose, and how all solutions lie within you to create the life you want.
In this episode, Tonje talks to television writer, producer, and playwright Sarah Treem about how the war on aging is incredibly anti-female, the male hero’s journey versus the female hero’s journey. About falling apart and rebuilding. The freedom in not trying to justify yourself, creative control, and how the most valuable space is the space of the mind and more.
In this episode Tonje talks to author and digital entrepreneur Erin Falconer about finding the time for inner contemplation, proactivity in relationships, letting go of what doesn’t serve us, and how female empowerment is not exclusively for women.
In this episode, Tonje talks to Designer Sean Knibb about synthesizing your surroundings into your creative work, the blockage of fear, and the freedom of letting go.
In this episode, Tonje talks to Kay Montano about observing, being, and discovering who we are personal growth within adulthood, and the revelations of surrendering to a new reality, being forced to sit with ourselves.
In this episode, Tonje talks to Ben Taylor, MSc PhD pharmacoepidemiologist and healthcare executive about how the last year has been for him both professionally and personally, about lessons in consequence, failure and success creativity and science, about systems and building teams and longing for the sparkle outside of it all.
In this episode Tonje talks to the founder of AHLEM eyewear Ahlem Manai-Platt about, being unapologetic about who you are, building teams with compassion, the curse of being passionate about all things, American curiosity, judgment, and fear.