# Ep. 39: Choreographing with changemakers, with Yemi Dele Akinyemi

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Podcast: [The Leadership Dance](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-leadership-dance-7102140)
Published: 2026-04-13T17:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

What does it take to build a career across continents, art forms, and social movements? Yemi Dele Akinyemi, Czech-Nigerian entrepreneur, choreographer, and founder of the Moonshot Platform, joins host Alissa Hsu Lynch to trace a path from dancing in front of a communist-era TV to choreographing for Kanye West, advising a robotics company, and mobilizing young changemakers from over 100 countries. He also reflects on growing up as the only Black child in his city, being separated from his father for 18 years, and how movement became his first language for belonging. Don't miss this wide-ranging conversation about leading from the inside out and why the most important distance any leader will ever cross is the one between their head and their heart. 💡 Key Takeaways: Why embodied leadership, integrating head, heart, and gut, produces decisions grounded in values rather than pure transaction How working with Kanye West taught Yemi that real artistry means being willing to be naked in your creative process Why structure and freedom aren't opposites and how the walls of a pool are what make a wave possible What Moonshot Platform is doing differently by betting on young changemakers at the very moment their ideas are just beginning to hatch Connect with Yemi: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yemia1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yemialchemist/ X: https://x.com/YemiAlchemist Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/YemiAlchemist/ ✅ Sign up for the newsletter: https://theleadershipdance.substack.com/s/the-leadership-dance 👉 Listen and follow: https://linktr.ee/theleadershipdance Music from InAudio: https://inaudio.org/ "Catwalk Queen"

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