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31/12/2025

My chat this week on Coffee Matters is Agnesz Anna. Since a child she has been singing, dancing and acting. She began her acting career in the youth theatre in Groningen and later joined the Dutch theatre group, De Noordelingen. She studied dance before moving to Spain. At 22, she was accepted to the prestigious Lee Strasberg school of Acting in New York. In 2010 she returned to the Netherlands to continue her acting career and also make a career as a singer songwriter.

Her debut self titled album, Agnesz Anna was released on November 20th this year and is a musical portrait of the last decade of her life,
...this is her story

17/12/2025

This week on Coffee Matters, a fascinating chat with Mayken Jonkman, curator of priceless 19th century art at the Rijksmuseum. She talks about her journey from childhood to her first experiences with galleries and museums and how she ended up curating art at the world renowned Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

07/12/2025

This week on Coffee Matters… the fabulous Lora Mander. She is a theatre director and English fluidity coach and has staged plays and operas in the USA, UK and Netherlands. She has settled into a coaching career in the Netherlands and works with a variety of actors, singers and professionals to help their performance and delivery in American English.
…this is her story.
You can tune in on Spotify, YouTube or Apple Podcasts.

02/12/2025

This week’s chat is with Aileen Christensen, a Marketing champ and now AI champ. Join Aileen and myself as we talk about how she get to her current position and how you can actually weather AI and make it work for you.