Why do people who volunteer 200 hours per year have a reduced risk of depression and hypertension? How can we use our skills to help each other? 

Author of the book How to Give Half of Your Work Away for Free, Matthew Manos is a consultant for some of the biggest companies and organizations in the world, including Google, UNICEF, Mozilla, Disney and NASA. 

Bringing pro-bono back and creating a new way of exchanging knowledge in our communities is what drives the designer, innovator, storyteller and guest of this episode. 

References heard in the episode: 

• The book “How to Give Half of Your Work Away for Free”, Verynice
• Forbes’s profile of Matthew Manos 
• Jim Dator, a professor and Director of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii

ESSENTIALS is podcast by BOSS BOTTLED. You can follow BOSS on Instagram @boss, and Gunnar Peterson @gunnarfitness.