Category Archives: Podcast

810: Giora Netzer, part 2: Leadership coaching leads to far more than “just” the C-Suite

on March 30, 2025 in Podcast

In our second conversation, Giora reveals more about his developing as a leader. If you listen for it, you can hear the vision he had for himself and his profession, but also the development he needed to realize it. This podcast is about sustainability leadership. You probably envision a sustainable world, or at least trying with everything you can to help achieve it. Maybe you’ve adopted my vision and mission.[…] Keep reading →

809: Alexander Clapp: Waste Wars, how we profit off polluting the world claiming to help them

on March 28, 2025 in Podcast

I found Alex when listeners sent me an opinion piece in the New York Times he wrote, The Story You’ve Been Told About Recycling Is a Lie. Getting to where I take years to fill a load of trash means I’ve researched waste a lot, so based on the headline, I thought, “yeah, I’ve read this story before. I’ll skim it so I can say I read it and then[…] Keep reading →

808: Silvia Bellezza: Sustainable Marketing at Columbia Business School

on March 20, 2025 in Podcast

Silvia created the course Sustainable Marketing at Columbia. It’s an elective and has become the class at the business school with the most students from other schools at the university. In looking for a guest speaker on sustainable consumerism, she found the New York Times profile on me. She decided to invite me before realizing I’d gotten my MBA where she teaches. Only when we spoke did she learn I[…] Keep reading →

807: Giora Netzer MD MSCE, part 1: A leader I coached to the C-suite

on March 4, 2025 in Podcast

Are you reaching your potential, professionally or personally? Have you wondered what would happen if you got coaching? Giora did. A friend of his who was a client of mine recommended he get coaching from me. We worked together for several years. People who think my podcast is primarily about sustainability may think it’s off-topic, but those who know I focus primarily on leadership will see this conversation is exactly[…] Keep reading →

806: Robert Fullilove, part 2: the spirit of the Civil Rights movement

on February 20, 2025 in Podcast

Dr. Bob shares more about his experience acting during the 1960s, as well as today on helping prisoners and more. I hope you can hear the electricity I felt listening. Two kinds of electricity: one for the stories, another for how they resonated with the community, teamwork, and passion I see in the team I’m working with creating sustainability leadership workshops to change culture. He describes how they saw abolitionism[…] Keep reading →

805: Osprey Orielle Lake: Founder and Executive Director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN)

on February 18, 2025 in Podcast

I was pleasantly surprised in reading Osprey’s book The Story is in Our Bones that she also sees the need to change culture, including elements like our stories, role models, images, and beliefs. Focusing on cultural elements doesn’t mean ignoring or leaving out measurable things like greenhouse gas emissions or plastic waste. On the contrary, focusing on those things without addressing our stories tends to result in people complying at[…] Keep reading →

804: Robert Fullilove EdD, part 1: Lessons from America’s Civil Rights era and effective action today

on February 12, 2025 in Podcast

People call my behavior extreme, though I’m just acting in service of others. To be more precise, I’m acting in love for others. When people suggest what I’m doing is too hard, I sometimes remark how during America’s Civil Rights era, some people went to jail for different people’s freedom. Nobody looks forward to going to jail, yet people did. Their actions make mine look easy and fun. Still, I[…] Keep reading →

803: Nick Loris, part 3: Liberty, freedom, sustainability, and Rock Creek Park

on January 27, 2025 in Podcast

You probably came to hear Nick’s experience exploring Rock Creek Park in Washington DC based on his childhood experiences in nature with his father. Since we recorded shortly after my visit to DC, where I missed Nick but visited his friends and colleagues, and podcast guests, Jack Spencer and Travis Fisher, we talked about them. I mentioned visiting Heritage and Cato. Then we spoke about differences between conservatism and classical[…] Keep reading →

802: Lorraine Smith, part 2: The hidden, dirty secrets of corporate “sustainability” work

on January 13, 2025 in Podcast

I start by sharing how much value I get from participating in Lorraine’s weekly coaching group. Then she shares her path to coaching on sustainability. She worked in the heart of the corporate sustainability accounting and reporting. She saw it mostly did nothing and often exacerbated the situations it purported to solve. She has created a practice that exposes and helps fix these problems. I ended up coaching her back[…] Keep reading →

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