Summary
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Ute Keller is from Germany, from a small town near the Ramstein Air Base. She explains the oddly complicated experience of translating her hometown’s name for Americans, noting that locals don’t even use the Americanized version. This opens the conversation with cultural nuance and a bit of humor about identity and geography.
Ute reflects on her childhood as a shy, introverted, but academically strong student. She changed schools often, which made friendships harder, yet she’s maintained meaningful relationships from different phases of her life. This section reveals her early lack of confidence and sets up a strong contrast with who she becomes later.
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Her career journey is anything but linear. She tried working in a bookstore, moved into financial consulting, and even wanted to study computer science – though it turned out not to fit her expectations. Ute’s story here is about experimentation, missteps, and slowly discovering what actually suits her.
Ute took up painting and drawing only five years ago, at 58, after earlier interests in music and poetry. She’s also deeply into photo retouching (dating back to the early days of digital photography) and genealogy, having traced her family history to before the Thirty Years’ War. These passions show a lifelong creative curiosity that keeps evolving.
Today, Ute is a solopreneur with over 20 years of experience, loosely connected to the WordPress world and active in entrepreneur groups like Focus On Your Biz. She works mostly at night, values her professional networks, and enjoys staying connected with people through community and collaboration. The episode ends on a light, warm note – very much in the spirit of Unexpected Conversations.