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You'll hear a healthy dose of agreement on principle and disagreement on implementation between me and Matt Perez on sustainability leadership. He hosted me on the Radical World podcast. About the podcast: In a world shaped by force, we've dared to envision a different path. Together with like-minded guests startup founders, corporate leaders, and professionals from diverse backgrounds we're challenging the established norms. Our conversations on RADICAL WORLD delve into questioning the system and exploring radical transformation. Join us as we engage with guests who share our vision, charting a course towards our own RADICAL WORLD where new perspectives flourish and old paradigms are reimagined. Radical Pioneers: We will explore the origins of the Radical Movement through conversations with Matt and José. We dive into…

Ali Horriyat and I have become friends since we started recording together. He hosts the Compassiviste Dialogues podcast. Friendship doesn't mean always agreeing. On the contrary, I consider one of the roles of friendship---true friendship---is to disagree when appropriate and to confront a friend when you think they're wrong, deserve criticism, or the like. People who aren't friends may hold back from confrontation. That holding back may be polite, but it may hold the person back from the opportunity to grow. We allude in the recorded conversation to our previous conversation where we---to put it politely---disagreed with each other and let each other have a piece of our mind. I think that friendly confrontation led to this conversation being more meaningful. Ali brought out of…

I recommend this podcast if you like my work and learning more of where my passion comes from. Srikanth, the host, prompted me to share my origin story and describe the Spodek Method. I haven't appeared on another podcast for a while, so I share things I've been developing how to communicate but haven't. Available on all podcast platforms: Amazon Music - https://tinyurl.com/2z9renes Spotify - https://tinyurl.com/yyuvc8o6 Apple Podcasts - https://tinyurl.com/y26mqkkg YouTube - https://lnkd.in/gv3fD2C Audible - https://tinyurl.com/y4wbywpf https://youtu.be/0COPrMng-Ck From the show notes: Joshua Spodek is a sustainability advocate whose transition from physics to eco-consciousness has been nothing short of inspirational. Together, we recount the small steps and giant leaps we've taken to live in harmony with our planet, from savoring the pure taste of nature's bounty…

I was invited to an event at NYU with the daughter and granddaughter of Nelson Mandela, Dr. Makaziwe Mandela and Tukwini Mandela. You don't have to read or listen to much of my work to know his importance to me so I was interested to learn from family members who knew him privately and work for freedom on their own. It turned out the last question came to me. I thought I was giving them a question that would both give me a useful answer and be straightforward for them to answer. They had spoken about the environment and invited questions on it. I asked, roughly: in many areas people acknowledge individuals can't change everything, but they act. In sustainability, they say "what I do…