Disruptive Conversations

Ideas are a dime a dozen, but for Steve and his colleagues, having a bias towards action helps us make things happen in the world. In this podcast we talk about his new book, Surge: Your guide to put any idea into action. In their book, they outline their "Action Surge Blueprint." In this podcast, we talk through how Steve and his colleagues help people strengthen their action muscle or build a bias towards action. They work with groups to help people make their ideas into reality. The goal of their work is to help people land on an idea statement. The idea statement is the first step in breaking your idea into actionable lists. Hope you enjoy this episode. Below are some links to some of the things we talk about in the podcast. Feel free to visit their website: www.actionsurge.com

For those of you who want to get a taste of the Action Surge content you can start with their Udemy course: https://www.udemy.com/make-your-ideas-happen-8-proven-steps-for-taking-action/

You can purchase their book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Surge-Your-Guide-Idea-Action/dp/1619615363/

You can find Stevve at his website: www.stevegarguilo.com

We made a reference to the Giant Flamingo story. You can find out more at their website. giantflamingo.com

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Educators and teachers do some of the most valuable work in society. As a teacher, Maria grapples with the question how might we create powerful learning environments? She then takes her insights and applies them in the classroom. Maria has also worked with the Critical Thinking Consortium and credits some of her insights to the work that they are doing.

In this podcast, we explore how Maria puts her work into practice. She describes her job as creating meaningful, authentic learning experience for her students. In this podcast, she talks about how she works to develop authentic moments, experiences, and relationships within her classroom. In this podcast, we talk about how she places thinking at the core of her classroom experience. For Maria, we need to put thinking at the heart of learning if we are to improve what and how students learn.

You can learn more about the Critical Thinking at The Critical Thinking Consortium https://tc2.ca/

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In this conversation how Bradley Tusk and his company, Tusk Strategies, helped UBER penetrate cities across the world. Bradley has several companies, and we learn about them in the podcast, but what is exceptionally good at is the socializing of innovations. When most people think about innovation, we tend to think of shiny new things. Few people think about how innovations are adopted. One of the most important questions for companies working to disrupt a sector or system, is how do we get people to use a new technology? In the case of UBER, how do you convince the public that it is okay to disrupt the Taxi industry? How do you convince a public that ordinary people can safely drive you around the city? How do you convince a city to change its policies, laws and procedures? These are not easy questions, but Bradley Tusk is one of the best in the business. In this podcast, we share a little about how helped make UBER what it is today

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In this podcast, I interview Al Etmanski, social entrepreneur, and author of the book Impact: Six Patterns to Spread Your Social Innovation. In this podcast, Al shares many insights on his years of working to change the system of care for people with disabilities. Al proposed and led the campaign to establish the world's only disability savings plan - the RDSP. He is an Ashoka Fellow, and a faculty member of John McKnight’s Asset Based Community Development Institute (ABCD). He was recently awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia. In this podcast episode, he provides wonderful insights from his years of experience on how we disrupt sectors or systems.


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In this podcast, I chat with Kaitlin Mongentale who founded her company after having an aha moment in the most unlikely place. She was watching a friend juice a carrot and was surprised by how much of the pulp is thrown away. In the podcast, she shares how she went from this kitchen insight to founding her company Pulp Pantry. Hope you enjoy listening to this podcast.

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In this podcast I talk with Toronto's chief city planner. How do you be disruptive under the public gaze, for public good and with public money. In this conversation Jennifer discusses her approach to building better cities. For her, if we want to plan great cities we have to human life and social interaction at the heart of the practice.

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In this podcast, Paul Heidebrecht at the University of Waterloo discusses the strange, yet beautiful connection between Peace Building and Startup organisation. With his work, he is working to disrupt how universities foster innovation. The strange podcast provides a lot of insight for those of us interested in disruption and system change.

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In this podcast, Chris explains how Bridgeable uses Service Design to disrupt how people think about their organisations and where they focus. His company works with large institutions and organisations to help them manage change and stay competitive in their market.

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In this podcast, I interview Yarrow Kraner. Yarrow started a social network of changemakers long before Facebook existed. Today, he is a filmmaker and full-time disruptor. He curates a similar community called HATCH. Where he and is community find ways to HATCH a better world. HATCH a network, movement, and a series of experiences designed to catalyze CREATIVITY to HATCH a better world.

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In this podcast, Crista shares her insights on the role of conflict and curiosity within the startup culture. She shares how helping people work through conflict can bring people to a place of breakthrough versus a place of breakdown. Crista works to support entrepreneurs at the University of Waterloo incubator Velocity.