Jenn Graham, founder of Civic Dinners and CEO of Aha! Strategies, talks about dining with strangers in a format where guests leave their egos, job titles, and religions at the door and show up as human beings. She explains how this can allow us to ask personal and value-based questions and have deep, rich, and… Read More »

McKenzie Wren, professional facilitator and former Executive Director of the Clarkston Community Center, has spent her life and career cultivating the tools of connecting with other human beings, and in doing so building strong and healthy relationships, trust, and safe spaces in which McKenzie and those she knows can practice and celebrate the art of… Read More »

On this week’s #NewBusinessMindset we talk with Stephanie Stuckey, Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Atlanta, about why she thinks building resilient cities is important work for our times. We also – and perhaps more importantly – talk about what this means at a practical level for each of us, and why this is… Read More »

Tommy, after a successful twenty-year accounting career, experienced a shift of heart and mind and moved into a completely new life – one in which he lives the life he chose, and helps others to do the same, both by the choices he makes and the relationships he builds in his everyday life, and through… Read More »

Jeanne is a returning guest on the show (listen to our last conversation at Jeanne Drake Ward: Living A Life Of Care) who on this week’s show talks about our mindset towards money, about the difficulty many people have talking about it, and about the harm this lack of dialog, collaboration, and strategic thinking can… Read More »

Dr. Jennifer Hirsch, Director of Georgia Tech’s Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain, talks about her passion for sustainability and for the work she is doing to create sustainable communities. She tells us how she came to this through social justice, and the importance of justice in the sustainability conversation. And in doing so she gives us a… Read More »

Ruwa, a millennial optimist, is constantly surprised by the abundance of successes. She focuses on the positive, being willing to join gatherings that are focused on unity the positive, but avoiding those that are “anti”; she works to dismantle judgments, both her own and those of other people; and as a young Muslim woman, she… Read More »

On this week’s #NewBusinessMindset, Bola Abisogun talked to us about how growing up in Hackney, one of London’s most deprived boroughs, affected the trajectory of his life, including both the founding of highly a successful real estate development and construction-related business, and major social and economic contributions he has made to the community in which… Read More »

James Watson left a career in education to enter the world of business, venture capital, and socially engaged business, and along the way he cultivated his other interests and skills, including musicianship, theater direction, and other creative endeavors…and found himself called back to education in a manner that brought all of his interests and experiences… Read More »

Wayne shared a fascinating life journey that has seen him travel the world, create an award winning food that is available in your local grocery store, and most recently assume a leadership role in perhaps the leading center for ethics in the world. Wayne has always had a passion for food, and this pervades his… Read More »