🎙️👻 Stories of the Ghost – Porto Walking Tours | Dark Side of Portugal

A new voice joins the shadows...

In this episode, we're delighted to welcome Rosaria Ribeiro as our new co-host, helping guide us through the mysteries, legends, and darker corners of Portugal's past. 🕯️🇵🇹

And this episode comes with an unexpected twist... 👀

The Ghost itself sent us answers to some of our questions. What did it reveal? What secrets emerged from beyond the veil? 🌫️💀

Tune in for a haunting conversation where history, folklore, and the supernatural collide.

📱 Follow the mystery and discover exclusive content from the Ghost:
👉 https://www.instagram.com/stories.of.the.ghost/

👻 Join us, follow the clues, and decide for yourself what lies between fact and legend.

🎧 Listen now... if you dare. 🖤

#StoriesOfTheGhost #DarkSideOfPortugal #PortoWalkingTours #GhostStories #PortugalMysteries #RosariaRibeiro #Podcast #HauntedPortugal #Folklore

☕🎙️ This week on the Cool Beans Pod: Ana Carina Soares

By day, Ana is a dedicated 👩‍⚕️ nurse. In October 2025, alongside her husband, she opened Magnolia Coffee Leça in 📍Leça da Palmeira, Porto — a welcoming café serving 🍽️ daily meals, 🍰 homemade cakes, and 🇵🇹 Portuguese treats with a modern continental twist.

Running a thriving coffee shop while working full-time in healthcare is no small feat. Ana shares her journey of entrepreneurship, the realities of building a business in Porto, and what it's really like working side-by-side as a ❤️ husband-and-wife team.

Expect honest insights on:
✨ Starting a café from scratch
☕ Creating a unique food and coffee experience
👩‍⚕️ Balancing nursing and business ownership
🤝 The rewards and challenges of family entrepreneurship
📈 Growing a business in Porto

Tune in for an inspiring conversation filled with lessons, laughter, and the realities of chasing a dream.

📲 Follow Ana and Magnolia Coffee Leça on Instagram: @magnolia_coffee_leca

🎙️ Podcast Episode Spotlight:

What happens when a South African takes the grit, warmth, and straight-talking honesty we're known for and uses it to help leaders around the world find their voice? 🌍

Join us for an inspiring conversation with Mark de Stadler, a proud Saffa making an impact on the global stage. Now living in Porto, Portugal with his wife and business partner, Sandy ❤️. Mark co-founded C4S Global, helping executives and senior leaders communicate with confidence, influence with authenticity, and lead with greater impact.

Warm, open, and refreshingly direct, Mark shares insights on leadership, purpose, partnership, and the power of human connection. This is a conversation about finding your voice, making your mark, and creating meaningful impact wherever you are in the world. ✨

🇿🇦 ➡️ 🇵🇹 A Saffa making good ... as we usually do. 😉

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markdestadler/

🌐 Website: c4sglobal.com

🎙️☕ Cool Beans Pod – Lysa Fedtke 🇩🇪🔥

In this episode of Cool Beans Pod, we sit down with Lysa Fedtke — German trainer, translator, and proofreader — to unpack the real reason so many people struggle to speak German confidently in everyday life.

After years of teaching students from around the world, Lysa noticed the same pattern over and over again: people understand the language, know the vocabulary, and study hard… but freeze the moment they need to actually speak in real-life situations. 😅🗣️

That insight inspired her to create a brand-new program focused specifically on helping learners break through that fear and finally speak German with confidence. 🚀🇩🇪 The program launches in June 2026!

We also chat about:
🏃‍♀️ Her first HYROX Lisbon in Lisbon with Zonia Prinsloo
⚖️ Balancing work, family, fitness, and personal goals
💡 Building confidence through consistency and mindset

A fun, honest, and motivating conversation you won’t want to miss! ☕🎧

Catch her on IG: lysafedtke

🎙️ On this episode of the Cool Beans Pod, we sat down with Marta Pinto — founder of AI Goes to School, educator, researcher, and at heart, an art teacher exploring the human side of technology 🎨🤖

With a PhD in Multimedia in Education and more than 20 years working across learning, technology, and teacher development, Marta shared thoughtful insights on how schools can approach AI with curiosity, ethics, creativity, and critical thinking. 📚✨

Our conversation explored:
🧠 AI literacy in schools
👩‍🏫 Teacher adoption and empowerment
🎨 Creativity, imagination, and learning in the age of AI
🏫 Building agency across the education sector
⚖️ The importance of ethical and human-centered AI integration

Marta’s work through AI Goes to School is helping educators move beyond fear and hype — creating practical, thoughtful pathways for AI in education. 🌍

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pintomarta/
🌐 AI Goes to School: https://aigoestoschool.com/

IG: marta.martapinto

#AIinEducation #EdTech #AIGoesToSchool #TeacherAgency #AILiteracy #FutureOfLearning

🔬➡️🤖➡️📈 From science labs to boardroom strategy — meet Filipe.

After a decade in London working across biology and robotics, Filipe pivoted into the world of strategy and consulting, where he now operates at the cutting edge of business and technology. Over the last 10 years, he’s helped organisations navigate growth, transformation, and the ever-evolving impact of AI — not just on processes, but on how demand itself is changing.

🧠 His superpower? Connecting dots across science, business, and tech to make sense of complex systems — and turning that insight into real-world strategy.

🎙️ In this episode, we dive into:✨ How AI is reshaping industries beyond automation✨ The intersection of deep tech and business strategy✨ What it really means to drive transformation today

Follow Filipe:🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/filipejosue/📸 Instagram: @filipejosue

#Podcast #AI #Strategy #Innovation #TechLeadership

From Porto to Europe — building a sneaker brand with purpose 👟🇵🇹

On this episode, we sit down with Pedro Maçana, co-founder of Wayz (alongside Daniel Gonçalves), the Portuguese sneaker brand born in 2019 with a bold mission: 100% designed and crafted in Portugal.

What started as a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo quickly turned into a movement — with their first pairs shipped by the end of 2019 and a physical store opening in Bonfim just months later. 🚀

But this isn’t just about sneakers…

Wayz is built on a deeper belief: that brands should take responsibility for people + planet 🌍♻️

Pedro gets real about:
💥 What ethical branding actually means
💥 The role of leather in responsible production
💥 Working with local Portuguese suppliers
💥 Scaling across Portugal → Europe without losing purpose

It’s a conversation about building something that lasts — not just products, but impact.

👉 Walk your way. Build your way. Think your way.

🎧 Tap in & explore:
🌐 https://wayzforlife.com/pt/blogs/shoes-your-way
👟 https://wayzforlife.com/
📲 https://www.instagram.com/wayzforlife/

#CoolBeansPodcast #Wayz #EthicalBranding #SustainableFashion #MadeInPortugal

🎙️ Cool Beans Pod — Episode Spotlight

Professor Alexandre Quintanilha

In this episode of Cool Beans, Gary chats with Professor Alexandre Quintanilha — one of Portugal’s most respected scientists and thinkers — about curiosity, education, risk, and how ideas travel from classrooms into real life.

Alexandre began his academic journey studying Theoretical Physics at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, before completing a PhD in Physics in Europe. He later moved into biophysics and molecular biology, spending almost 20 years at UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. 🇿🇦➡️🇺🇸➡️🇵🇹

Returning to Porto, he helped shape modern Portuguese science by founding and leading major research institutions, including the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMC), and playing a key role in creating i3S, now the country’s largest health‑science research centre. 🧬

His work focuses on oxidative stress, ageing, and how humans understand risk, and he is the author and co‑author of several scientific books and more than 100 peer‑reviewed papers. Alongside research, he has always been passionate about education, the public understanding of science, and ethical decision‑making.

Alexandre is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Porto and remains actively involved with i3S, science policy, and public debate.

Grab a coffee — this one’s proper cool beans. ☕🫘