Reclaiming the narrative: How women entrepreneurs are shaping the future of AI, with Dr. Julia Stamm

She studied humanities, worked at the heart of European innovation in Brussels, sat as the only woman on tech panels, and is now building a global movement She Shapes AI - spotlighting women who shape the future of AI. In this episode of NONLINEAR, host Mara Puacz sits down with Dr. Julia Stamm, founder of She Shapes AI, to trace the path that took her from cultural science and a PhD in philosophy, through Brussels policy circles and the European Commission, into entrepreneurship — and eventually to launching a movement now active in 60+ countries. Julia's career never moved in a straight line. She left academia because she wanted impact, not just insight. She left a secure institutional career because she felt boxed in. And she left the comfort of "working for" to start building her own thing, more than once. Each reinvention was its own leap of faith, taken before she had proof it would work. This isn't an episode on AI. It's a story about what it actually looks like to keep choosing yourself: the risk, the doubt, the moment on a panel where Julia realised she had to stop waiting for someone else to make space for her — and make it herself. But is is an episode where you learn about Responsible AI. Julia and Mara get into why women's voices are still missing from the rooms shaping AI's future, why governance isn't a brake on innovation but the foundation of trust, and how a global community of women is quietly rewriting who gets to shape the technology defining the next decade. In this episode: Why Julia calls her own career path nonlinear — and what each "reinvention" cost and gave her The panel moment that pushed her to launch She Shapes AI Why women are still underrepresented in AI's public narrative — and what changes when they're not Governance as trust-building, not red tape: why responsible AI starts with accountability Building a global community for responsible AI across 60+ countries in two years For anyone rethinking their own path, weighing a leap they haven't taken yet, or looking for proof that agency — not inevitability — shapes the future: this conversation is for you. 🎧 A story of reinvention, courage, and claiming your seat in the age of AI. NONLINEAR Podcast. Stories of human reinvention in the age of AI. #CareerChange #Reinvention #WomenInAI #ResponsibleAI #SheShapesAI #NonlinearCareers