Today I want to talk about the value being a guest on my podcast offers to influential well-known people. I call Oprah and her peers single-named people because everyone knows them by one name. So LeBron, Serena, Sergey, Larry, Barrack, Beyoncé, Jay-Z. I also mean anyone influential or with a big audience. People in politics, accomplished actors, journalists, singers, artists and the like, bestselling writers, public speakers, winning athletes and[…] Keep reading →

My strategy for this podcast is largely based on my learning from Sandy Reisky in Episode 28 that community influences people behavior more than facts and that’s the strategy that most other people are doing. I’m not going to stop people from spreading facts and legislation and things like that. These things are important and I support them but I’m doing something different and I believe essential and effective. I’m[…] Keep reading →

Being coerced to do something you don’t want to do under threat of punishment is an experience that nobody likes. Nor do people like being told that they’re wrong or ignorant by someone telling them that they know better yet it happens all the time. Our politics and public dialogue that is our leadership is about coercion, it’s about self-righteousness, it’s about hitting people over the head with facts. And[…] Keep reading →

I saw Al Gore speak for the first time in November in person. I’ve seen both of his movies and I guess I’ve seen a lot of him in the news. I’ve been meaning to record this episode since probably November, probably since I saw Inconvenient Sequel. So I confess that I have not interacted with Al Gore personally so I don’t know how he leads in person. I saw[…] Keep reading →

Everybody thinks about the environment. Nearly everyone also gets bogged down in questions. Will this or that change make a difference? What does all the science mean? One of the great things about science is that there are answers to all these questions. Science is a study of nature. People associate it with going to the Moon or people in lab coats. But it’s about nature, sunsets, gravity, why is[…] Keep reading →

Boy, do I wish I’d met Ana before. She works in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She’s the executive director for an organization called, I hope I pronounce this right, Nipe Fagio which means “Give me the broom.” in Swahili as in let’s do something ourselves. I wish I’d met her before because it sounds to me like she leads effectively not telling other people to do but leading them. She[…] Keep reading →

Ron is deep into entrepreneurship and sustainability. As an entrepreneur he’s contributed to making policy. Now he’s in investing. He started several ventures starting with recycling but then moving in to lots of different areas with transparency and trust and other parts of sustainable business. And he’s grown a lot. He’s been a founder and investor. He’s gotten in press coverage, he’s got awards, working with city governments. Again, I[…] Keep reading →

  My conversation with Rob is about joy, responsibility, community and values that you undoubtedly share. Rob Greenfield used to live like an average American. He saw the environmental problems we all see on the headlines but we all dismiss but then he decided he could no longer abdicate the responsibility of how he affected others or our world. I consider him a role model. Nearly everyone I talked to[…] Keep reading →

Nikole Beckwith is a celebrated director of playwright and more in Hollywood, on Broadway. Her movie Stockholm, Pennsylvania premiered at Sundance in which she directed Academy Award nominees Saoirse Ronan as well as Cynthia Nixon of Sex and The City fame who had just done well running for governor of New York, and of course that one movie is just the tip of the iceberg. I approached Nikole not because[…] Keep reading →