Cool Change

Fitness expert and former pro baseball player Colin Feldtman shares simple steps you can take now to take control of your fitness whether you have a trainer and a gym or are going it alone.

Author and Coach Darcy Eikenberg believes that many people can make a cool change without blowing up their current situation. Her new book: "Red Cape Rescue: Save Your Career Without Leaving Your Job" is available now at your favorite bookseller. In this episode, we discuss ways to take control of your job situation and how to think about jumpstarting your career right where you are.

The workplace has changed dramatically over the last hundred years or so. Today, for many people, it’s less about securing food, water and shelter, and more about finding work that is meaningful and aligned with how they’re wired. In this episode, Ben Ortlip discusses why the workplace has changed and how we can apply a simple method to better understand how we’re wired, and therefore what sort of work might be best suited for us.

Filmmaker Shuja Moore is on a mission to reduce violent crime and gun violence in inner cities. After being convicted of a killing and spending 12 years in the prison system, he has an inside perspective on what it takes to make major life changes. In this episode, he talks about what led to his life of crime on the streets, the tragic event that ended a life, and about the series of experiences that helped him change his perspective and put him on a new path forward.

His current film project, Walkies, shares stories of people who have committed serious crimes and made sweeping life changes to improve their lives and the lives of people around them.

Sasha Purpura left a successful career in the technology industry, working for tech giants such as Nokia and Lotus, to become a leader in ensuring food sustainability and accessibility for all. Under her leadership, Food For Free has grown dramatically, increasing food distribution from ~700k in 2012 to 4.7 million in 2020. She is also co-founder of Plato’s Harvest Organic Farm and serves on the Board of Directors of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce and Cambridge Nonprofit Coalition.

In this episode, Chuck and Sasha talk about how the fear of missing out (FOMO) can influence our behavior, how goal setting can both help and hinder, and how she pivoted from a career in technology to integrate all parts of her life in a new role.

The website is www.foodforfree.org and her email is [email protected].

This marks the one-year anniversary of the podcast! Join me for 15 minutes as I share a few key learnings and insights from the past year, and let you know what’s in store in the coming year of Cool Change.

In this episode, I break down the meaning of “Cool,” and the meaning of “Change” as I’ve grown to understand from my guests over the past 12 months.

Dr. Gilles Lamarche is one of the most energetic, positive people I’ve ever met. And he credits what he knows about chiropractic with saving his life after a terminal diagnosis about 20 years ago. Listen in on this fascinating story.

Diane Hessan is a nationally recognized entrepreneur and expert on the American voter. Her new book, Our Common Ground: Insights from Four Years of Listening to American Voters, will be published in June and is available for pre-order now. Her work has been featured on CNN, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, and includes more than fifty columns for the Boston Globe.

Diane is the founder and Chairman of C Space (formerly Communispace) and is a well-known disruptor in the market research industry. She serves on multiple boards and has been appointed to the Boston Globe’s editorial board. Her many honors include the Most Admired CEO award and Boston Power 50 awards from the Boston Business Journal, and Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year.

In this episode, we talk about how serendipity has played a leading role in her success journey, and how to create more opportunities for serendipity to occur in our own lives. We discuss the power of saying Yes more often, the nature of taking risks, and how she learned early on to improvise her way through life.

We also discuss her upcoming book, and how there is more common ground among American voters than they get credit for.

Jane Turner, Executive Director of the Atlanta Children’s Museum, talks with Chuck about her journey to leading one of the city’s cultural centerpieces. She discusses her decision to leave the workforce to spend more time as a mom and the identity challenges that brought with it, and about how getting involved in theater showed up in how she creates engaging environments at her current post and how taking risks has produced all the good things that have happened along her career journey.

She also talked about how learning and literacy fueled by play is true not only for children but also for us adults.

Please listen in on our conversation for a boost of inspiration and insight from one of Atlanta’s most well-known and respected leaders.