My book, Initiative, launches in two days. In it I start by describing how Shark Tank, other media, and other parts of our culture that claim to promote entrepreneurship actually discourage it. A few months ago, I met Mark Cuban, one of…
Imagine someone said too much stress and proposed giving someone with stress shoulder rubs or body massages. I bet a lot of people would say, “I’m stressed. I could use a shoulder rub.” If they were ready to give the shoulder massage…
This is a podcast about leadership. Initiative is a major part of leadership. If you want to lead environmentally, you need to initiate because the world is likely going in an opposite direction than you want. More fundamental to knowing the parts…
We’re living in a world of people who are judging parenting from the view of a partier, which makes sense when you don’t have a child — something to take responsibility for. But we have such a thing, the environment. I know…
The challenge for habits isn’t starting them. It’s not stopping them. I’ve started many. Actually, I’ve probably started fewer than most. I’ve stopped fewer. Mistakes: focusing on starting, wondering the value of it to you, they’re mostly valuable, the problem isn’t that…
Silicon Valley, governments, and lots of people are pushing for efficiency. I do too, but only after changing systemic beliefs and goals. The greatest cause of global warming would have looked like the greenest clean energy innovation ever: the Watt steam engine.…
Plastic is everywhere — the oceans, landfills, and for 93% of us, our bloodstreams. Everyone promotes recycling, but it’s not happening anywhere near the scale that we’re producing it and pumping it into our world. Most people, it seems, are content to…
In this part of the conversation, Chase and I spoke about the environment. He’s very thoughtful about it, though hasn’t acted on it, for reasons he eloquently explains. I take the liberty of persisting politely, so if you haven’t acted or want…
Chase runs GirlsChase, one of the most trafficked sites for dating coaching, which recently celebrated 10 years in business. It sets itself apart from its peers, besides its longevity with basic material, not gimmicks, for men to improve their lives, still getting…
When many people enter my apartment for the first time say something about it being minimalist. I feel like I have a lot of stuff because I have many things I don’t need, mean to get rid of, but haven’t. Apparently, my…
I love watching Dr. Michael Gregor’s videos on nutrition. A common theme of his videos is how medical school barely teach doctors nutrition and exercise despite how important they are for health. He shows how industrial food companies promote profit over healthy…
A lot of people say, “Josh, easy for you to act on the environment. You don’t have kids.” First, I could point to former guest Bea Johnson, who with her husband and 2 sons, produce less than a mason jar of trash…
Srini has run his podcast over 10 years, written several books, hundreds of articles, interviewing hundreds of researchers, entrepreneurs, artists, me, and more. His business is helping people develop themselves — to dream, to play, to create, to go on adventures, to…
As a professor of leadership, host of this podcast, and constant student of acting by my environmental values, I live and work in the intersection of leadership, education, and the environment. Ken Robinson does too, but with a big difference: he’s been…
Business, based on growth, loves the ideas of a circular economy and recycling because both promote more — more consumption, more material stuff, more growth — but may keep us on track to unsustainability, global warming, plastic, etc. I’m a big fan…
With some guests I have a hard time finding a quote to start the episode with. With Anand, I had the opposite — at least half of what he said wowed me. When I first saw him speak and saw the title…
I met Colonel Read through Colonel Everett Spain, who has also been a guest of the podcast. Two myths about the military have unraveled in me as a result of seeing West Point from the inside and talking to 4-star Generals and…
Anna is down to earth for anyone, let alone a gold medalist and Crossfit champion. Watch her videos to see the contrast with what she does, her abilities, and how she doesn’t have to be humble. She does something hard, that most…
Kevin and I have been friends since we both wrote for Inc, and before I appeared on his podcast, which always opens a conversation. It’s two guys talking about leadership and love with examples of hardball football and basketball coaching and the…
I got an email that Bob Langert, McDonald’s former head of Corporate Social Responsibility, wrote a book on his experience in over two decades at the corporation. With my goal of seeking to reduce how we’re diminishing Earth’s capacity to support human…