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…
I recorded a preface to episode 142 because I got the backstage pass, attended the meet and greet, shook Sam’s hand, and asked him if he was open to alternatives to conversation and violence. I won’t be able to do his answer…
This conversation is about joy, responsibility, community, and values you undoubtedly share. Rob Greenfield lived like an average American. He saw the environmental problems we all see on headlines and dismissed them as most do. Then he decided he could no longer…
While Nikole’s being a celebrated director and writer is a great reason to feature her and listen to her, I approached her because she graduated from Sudbury Valley School. I hope you’ve heard of Sudbury. If not, it’s likely a different school…
Martin Luther King, Jr. talked about a negative peace, where a problem exists but people don’t face it or deal with it, and a positive one, where people solve the problem, which requires facing it. He used non-violent civil disobedience to lead…
In End of Faith Sam Harris says “We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence.” I like his podcast, listened to most episodes, read several of…
Right off the bat, we talk about Olympians, Americas cup winners, and a Crossfit games champion. The places Dawn brought me to were elite — this time a fundraiser on Wall Street, the first time the New York Yacht Club, the next…