Disrupt Yourself Podcast with Whitney Johnson

355 Ashley Smith: The Hidden River Of Energy Flowing Through All We Do


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In middle school physics, we learned that an object at rest has potential energy – an amount of currency it has to spend, if it wants to move. When you pull back an arrow, the potential energy flows from your muscles, to the bow, to the string, and then the string pays all that money in one go to propel the arrow – turning potential into kinetic energy in a single motion. Our lives are organized around those same flows of energy, too. We dream, we store energy, and then we trade in potential for kinetic. Ashley Smith has made a career out of translating these flows of energy – and showing others how to do it, too. It's in her dance studio, turning emotion into movement. It's in her partnership with her husband, Ryan Smith, the executive chairman and co-founder of Qualtrics. And it's in her love for the state of Utah, flowing from Ashley's love for community, downstream, to ownership of the Utah Jazz basketball team with Ryan. How can we better understand the flows of energy in our own life, and in our bodies?

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