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…
Katie continues the line of world class sailing champions who have translated their athletic success to leadership in their sport, business, and beyond. What success? How about three America’s Cups, including being the youngest member of the first ever all-female boat, two…
This episode is about a simple experiment anyone can do. It costs nothing and takes no extra time or other resource besides carrying a mug with you. Everyone knows how much garbage we’re dumping in the ocean. Everyone knows they can pollute…
Do you feel gratitude toward people who have helped you? Do you express that gratitude more than enough, not enough, or about right? You’re probably familiar with research that expressing gratitude and feeling it improve people’s lives. I loved my exercise of…
For context for today’s guest, those who know I’m avoiding flying might also know I’m learning to sail to explore off North America. When considering acting on their values, most people focus on the part they like of what they’re stopping. They…
Tom Szaky has been working on waste since his undergrad days at Princeton in 2001. Then I suddenly heard about him from many sources in the past few months. His company, Terracycle, recycles waste others don’t. The new initiative, Loop, got attention…
If you’ve never heard Carl Sagan’s spoken essay Pale Blue Dot, you’ll get to hear it in today’s episode. It still chokes me up. Here is an Earthrise image taken a few years ago like those he contrasts the pale blue dot…
A few months ago I attended the Summit. It was expensive, so I wasn’t sure I’d get the value out of it that I paid. As it came together for me, I met the founder, Elliott Bisnow, and then happened to meet…
Today, I’m sharing what value being a guest offers to influential, well-known people. I call Oprah and her peers the single-name people — people everyone knows by single names: LeBron, Serena, Sergey, Larry, Barack, Elon, Bill, Mark, Madonna, Giselle, Venus, Meryl, Bruce,…
Today’s guest, Sean, is a friend. We recorded this conversation before the podcast launched in November 2017. It took a while to get through the editing process, but I wanted to post it to document the evolution of the podcast and me.…
Nobody likes being coerced to do something you don’t want under threat of punishment. Nor do people like being told they’re wrong or ignorant by someone else telling you they know better. Yet it happens all the time. Much of our politics…
Since seeing Al Gore’s movies and speaking in person in November, I’ve wanted to share what I see as the next step in leading people to live by their environmental values. I love what Al Gore has done so far and could…
Everyone thinks about the environment. Nearly everyone gets bogged down in questions. What’s best? Will this or that change make a difference? What does all the science mean? What should I do? Science answers some of these questions. Science is the study…
Ana works in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Executive Director for Nipe Fagio (Give Me the Broom! in Swahili), my first guest who works in Africa. This conversation is about leadership in an area lacking it — environmental action. I wish I met…
When I met Ron in business school, he and Recycle Bank, which he co-founded, were well regarded. He’s continued to grow since. Beyond contributing into entrepreneurship in sustainability as an entrepreneur, he’s helped create policy, appears often in the media, and now…