
Portuguese: 
Tradutor: Wanderley Jesus
Revisor: Gislene Kucker Arantes
Um cafezinho é sempre gostoso.
Dizem que não faz muito bem à saúde.
Mas devo dizer 
que as melhores conversas que tive
sempre aconteceram
enquanto saboreava um café.
Mas deixando isso de lado...
Cinco anos atrás
eu tinha 19 anos de idade.
Não faz tanto tempo assim,
mas de onde estou hoje,
parece uma época distante.

English: 
Translator: Julia van Montfort
Reviewer: Els De Keyser
It's always nice; having a cup of coffee
They say it's not so healthy,
But I must say that the best conversations
I've had
always took place while enjoying 
a cup of coffee.
Anyway.
5 years ago,
I was 19 years old.
That's not a very long time ago,
but from where I stand now,
it feels like another era.

Dutch: 
Vertaald door: Julia van Montfort
Nagekeken door: Els De Keyser
Het is altijd lekker, zo'n kopje koffie.
Ze zeggen dat het niet zo goed voor je is.
Maar ik moet zeggen dat 
de beste gesprekken die ik heb gevoerd
toch altijd onder het genot 
van een kopje koffie waren.
Maar dat even terzijde.
5 jaar geleden
was ik 19 jaar.
Dat is niet heel lang geleden eigenlijk,
maar vanaf waar ik nu sta,
lijkt het wel een ander tijdperk.

Portuguese: 
Havia dado meus primeiros passos
para me reinventar,
porque não ia nada bem.
Eu era infeliz comigo mesma,
pela minha falta de capacidade de relaxar
e me socializar com os outros.
Especialmente com quem não conhecia,
enquanto parecia tão fácil para os outros.
Não aguentava mais minha insegurança.
O simples pensamento, que eu mesma
era a única responsável por isso,
era, na verdade, a fonte do desespero.
Claro que era também 
a possibilidade para uma mudança.
Comecei a me trabalhar.
Durante o processo, 
aprendi muito sobre mim
e como o mundo funciona.
E como comecei?

English: 
I had just taken the first steps
to reinvent myself.
Because it wasn't okay.
I made myself unhappy
with my inability to just be relaxed
and sociable with other people.
Especially with people I didn't know,
while it appeared to be 
so easy for others.
I was fed up with my life of insecurity.
The simple thought that I was also the 
only one completely responsible for that,
was mainly a source of despair.
But it was of course also an 
opportunity to change.
I started working on myself,
and along the way I learned 
a lot about myself
and how the world works.
But how did I start?

Dutch: 
Ik had toen net de eerste stappen gezet
om mezelf opnieuw uit te vinden.
Want het was niet goed.
Ik werd ongelukkig van mezelf,
van mijn onkunde om gewoon ontspannen
en sociaal te zijn met andere mensen.
Vooral met mensen die ik niet kende,
terwijl anderen, die leek het altijd
zo gemakkelijk af te gaan.
De simpele gedachte dat ik zelf
ook nog helemaal alleen 
verantwoordelijk daarvoor was,
was eigenlijk vooral een bron van wanhoop.
Maar het was natuurlijk ook 
de mogelijkheid tot verandering.
Dus ik ben toen aan de weg gaan timmeren,
en op die weg leerde ik veel over mezelf,
en over hoe de wereld in elkaar steekt.
En hoe ik ben begonnen?

Portuguese: 
Para mim, somente havia uma maneira:
me desligar
e fazer algo em vez de apenas sonhar.
Porque sonhar é seguro.
Agir em direção aos seus sonhos
é assustador,
porque se corre o risco
que ele se desfaçam em pedacinhos.
Mas, para mim, imaginar
descobrir após 50 anos,
que não vivi a vida que gostaria,
causava-me ainda mais pavor.
Então vá atrás de seus sonhos!
Parece sempre tão simples ouvir isso!
Às vezes não se tem um sonho,
ou ele parece tão distante que paraliza
qualquer tentativa em concretizá-lo.
Era nessa situação em que me encontrava:
no meio do caminho.

English: 
For me, the only way
was to switch off my mind
and start doing something instead of
always dreaming.
Because dreaming... that's safe.
To start acting on your dreams
is scary;
you run the risk
that they fall to pieces.
But for me the thought
to discover in 50 years
I hadn't lived the life that I'd wanted 
to live,
was much more frightening.
So follow your dreams!
That always sounds so simple.
But sometimes you don't even have a dream,
or it seems so far away that 
it paralyzes you
to even attempt to do something.
In that situation I found myself, 
halfway down my path.

Dutch: 
Voor mij was de enige manier
verstand op nul
en eens wat gaan doen 
in plaats van altijd maar dromen.
Want dromen, dat is veilig.
Gaan handelen naar je dromen,
dat is eng,
want je loopt wel eens het risico
dat ze in duigen vallen.
Maar ik vond de gedachte
om er over 50 jaar achter te komen
dat ik niet het leven had geleid 
dat ik wilde leiden,
nog veel angstaanjagender.
Dus ga je dromen achterna!
Dat klinkt altijd zo gemakkelijk.
Maar soms heb je niet eens een droom,
of lijkt die zo ver weg dat het je verlamt
om überhaupt nog iets te gaan ondernemen.
En in die situatie kwam ik te zitten, 
zo midden op mijn weg.

English: 
I was completely blocked.
I didn't want anything anymore, 
I couldn't see my path.
No, wait, there was something I wanted:
I wanted to win the lottery!
With the money,
I'd buy a house in the countryside 
in Italy,
and never come back.
I put my luck in the hands of the lottery.
Unfortunately they aren't very considerate
handling that responsibility.
At my university I then got the chance
to join a new program:
The Innovation Class.
In that program you were 
given the opportunity
to find out what you wanted
and where your talents lay,
and to develop a project from there.
I joined that program
and already in the first couple of days

Dutch: 
Ik was totaal geblokkeerd.
Ik wilde ook niks meer,
ik zag geen weg meer.
Of wacht, er was wel iets wat ik wilde:
ik wilde de Staatsloterij winnen!
En met dat geld zou ik
een huisje kopen 
op het platteland in Italië
en nooit meer terugkomen.
Mijn geluk kwam dus in handen 
te liggen van de Staatsloterij.
Daar hebben ze weinig boodschap aan.
Op mijn opleiding kreeg ik toen de kans
om mee te doen met een nieuw traject.
De Innovatieklas werd dat genoemd.
In dat traject kreeg je de mogelijkheid
om eens uit te gaan vinden wat je nu wilde,
waar je goed in was,
en van daaruit een project te starten.
Daar heb ik dus aan meegedaan,
en eigenlijk al in de eerste paar dagen

Portuguese: 
Estava totalmente bloqueada.
Eu não queria nada,
não via caminho algum.
Esperem, havia algo que eu queria:
queria ganhar a loteria!
Com o dinheiro,
compraria uma casinha de campo na Itália,
e nunca mais voltaria.
Minha felicidade estava 
nas mãos da loteria.
Essas mãos não tiveram 
nenhuma consideração.
Na universidade tive a chance
de seguir um novo programa:
a classe de inovação.
Nessa disciplina, foi dada a possibilidade
em descobrir o que você quer,
em que você é bom,
e assim iniciar um projeto.
Então me inscrevi no programa
e, nos primeiros dias,

Portuguese: 
adquiri a confiança
que eu me encontraria.
Tivemos que fazer um exercício,
o qual achei um pouco estranho.
De olhos vendados,
tinha que caminhar até alguém
que estava à sua frente em algum lugar,
mas você não sabia onde exatamente.
Na escuridão total, era um pouco difícil
dar qualquer passo.
Logo depois, alguém fez uma observação
a qual muito me impressionou,
e que não vou esquecer facilmente:
"Você não precisa ver o objetivo
para conseguir atingi-lo."
A conclusão lógica é:
se você não faz nada, 
não chega a nenhum lugar.
Foi quando comecei a fazer algo.
"Não adianta ficar sentado,
esperando as coisas acontecerem",

English: 
I grew confident
that I would find my path again.
We did an exercise which 
I found a bit odd;
You were blindfolded
and then you had to walk to someone
who was standing somewhere 
in front of you,
but you didn't know exactly where.
In total darkness it was kind of hard
to even put one step forward.
However, afterwards someone made a remark
which impressed me a lot.
I won't forget it quickly either:
You don't have to be able to see your goal
in order to reach it anyway.
The logical conclusion is also that
if you don't act at all, 
you won't reach it either way.
So that is what I started doing then.
"There's no glory staying 
at the kitchen table."

Dutch: 
kreeg ik het vertrouwen
dat ik hier wel uit zou komen met mezelf.
Er kwam toen een oefening aan bod 
en ik vond hem een beetje vreemd.
Je kreeg een blinddoek om,
en dan met die blinddoek op 
moest je naar iemand toelopen
die ergens voor je stond, 
maar je wist niet precies waar.
In totale duisternis was het nog best lastig
om überhaupt een stap te verzetten.
Maar goed, naderhand 
maakte iemand de opmerking,
en die heeft toen wel 
indruk op mij gemaakt,
zal ik ook niet snel vergeten.
Je hoeft je doel niet te kunnen zien,
om het toch te bereiken.
Met dus ook de logische conclusie: 
als je niks doet, dan kom je er sowieso niet.
Dus dat is wat ik toen ben gaan doen.
"Aan de keukentafel gebeurt het niet."

English: 
That's what my father always says.
And actually only when I started 
to emerge from that table,
I discovered how very right 
he had always been.
I just began talking to people
about things that interested me,
and those people enjoyed 
talking with me and to help me.
They, in turn, put me into contact with 
other people and thus it developed.
One of the subjects I was researching 
at that time was happiness.
At one point I decided to stop believing
that one's ultimate happiness would come 
IF this... or IF that...
But I realized that life
is a sum of moments of happiness.
You just have to be aware of them.
During that research,
I made the discovery which 
took me by surprise,

Dutch: 
dat zegt mijn vader altijd.
En eigenlijk pas toen ik 
er achter uit ben gaan komen,
ontdekte ik hoe gelijk dat hij eigenlijk had.
Ik ben maar eens 
begonnen met mensen te praten
over dingen die me interesseerden.
Die mensen vonden het leuk om 
met mij te praten en me verder te helpen.
Dus zij stuurden me door 
naar andere mensen
en zo ontwikkelde zich dat.
Een van de onderwerpen waar ik toen
onderzoek naar deed, dat was geluk.
Ik ben op een bepaald moment 
ook maar opgehouden met denken
dat het ultieme geluk wel 
zou komen als dit, of als dat,
maar heb me gerealiseerd dat het leven
een samenhang is van geluksmomentjes.
Je moet je er alleen wel 
even bewust van zijn.
Tijdens dat onderzoek
kwam ik tot de grote verrassing

Portuguese: 
como meu pai sempre diz.
Quando resolvi me levantar,
descobri como ele tinha razão.
Comecei a conversar com as pessoas
sobre coisas que me interessava.
Elas achavam legal 
conversar comigo e me ajudar.
Elas me colocavam em contato
com outras pessoas
e assim foi se desenvolvendo.
Um dos temas que eu
estava pesquisando era a felicidade.
Em um momento, decidi parar de acreditar
que a felicidade suprema chegaria 
se isso ou aquilo acontecesse,
e percebi que a vida
é uma soma de pequenos momentos alegres.
Você tem que apenas 
estar consciente deles.
Durante a pesquisa,
descobri algo que me surpreendeu,

Portuguese: 
que eu, o introvertido em mim,
experienciava momentos de felicidade
quando entrava em contato com os outros,
especialmente com os desconhecidos.
Isso lançou as bases 
do "Colega por um dia".
É a sequência da filosofia,
"não adianta ficar sentado,
esperando as coisas acontecerem".
Não adianta para mim,
nem para os outros.
O essencial é prosseguir.
Percebi também que há 
cada vez mais empreendedores
que não têm o luxo 
de ir à mesa do cafezinho
para conversar com um colega
ou trocar umas ideias.
Para eles também é essencial
prosseguir em suas carreiras.
E este "colega",
quero dar aos empreendedores,

Dutch: 
dat ik, introverte ik,
een geluksmomentje ervoer 
elke keer in het contact met anderen.
Juist met degenen die ik niet kende.
Dat legde de basis voor
'Collega voor een dag'.
Dat is een vervolg op de filosofie
"aan de keukentafel
gebeurt het niet".
Niet voor mij dus
en ook niet voor anderen.
Terwijl het wel essentieel is 
om verder te komen.
Ik zag ook dat er steeds meer 
zelfstandige ondernemers kwamen
en dat zij niet de luxe hebben om 
naar de koffieautomaat te lopen
voor een babbeltje met een collega, 
of om even te sparren.
Terwijl het ook voor hen essentieel is
om verder te komen 
met de dingen waar ze mee bezig zijn.
En die collega wilde ik 
aan zelfstandigen geven.

English: 
that I, introvert I,
experienced a moment of happiness 
everytime when I had contact with others,
especially with those whom I didn't know.
That lay the foundations 
for 'Colleague for a Day'.
It's a continuation of the philosophy
"no glory staying at the kitchen table".
Not for me,
and not for others.
While it is essential to move forward.
I also saw that there were more and more
independent entrepreneurs
and that they don't have the luxury of 
hopping over to the coffee machine
for a chat with a colleague
or to exchange some thoughts. 
While also for them it is essential
to move forward in their jobs.
And that colleague is what I wanted 
to give to entrepreneurs,

English: 
through an online service,
that makes it very easy to find near you
other members who also 
look for that connection.
Whether your goal is
to brainstorm,
or to just find 
some company while working,
or just having a coffee,
or even a collaboration,
that doesn't matter to me.
Beforehand you can't know anyway 
which value you'll find.
But what I do know,
from personal experience,
is that to bring out the best in yourself,
you need other people...
and a cup of coffee.
Thank you.

Dutch: 
Dit door middel van een online dienst
die het heel makkelijk maakt 
om bij jou in de buurt
andere leden te vinden die ook 
op zoek zijn naar dat contact.
En of jouw doel nou is
om even te sparren
of gewoon gezelschap vinden 
terwijl je alleen aan het werken bent,
of misschien gewoon een kopje koffie drinken
of een samenwerkingspartner vinden,
dat maakt mij niet uit.
Van tevoren kun je toch niet weten 
welke waarde je gaat vinden.
Maar wat ik wel weet,
uit eigen ervaring,
is dat om het beste uit jezelf te halen,
je anderen nodig hebt.
En een kopje koffie.
Dankjewel.

Portuguese: 
por meio de um serviço on-line,
que torna mais fácil encontrar alguém
perto de você,
que também busca contato.
Se o seu objetivo é
trocar ideias
ou ter companhia enquanto trabalha,
ou alguém com quem tomar um cafezinho
ou buscar um colaborador,
não importa.
De antemão, você não sabe
que valor vai encontrar.
Mas o que sei,
por experiência própria,
é tirar o melhor proveito de si mesmo,
é saber que precisa dos outros,
e de um cafezinho.
Obrigada.
(Aplausos)
