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TODAY'S GUEST

Jerry Colonna is the CEO and co-founder of Reboot.io, an executive coaching and leadership development firm whose coaches and facilitators are committed to the notion that better humans make better leaders.

For nearly 20 years, he has used the knowledge gained as an investor, an executive, and a board member for more than 100 organizations to help entrepreneurs and others to lead with humanity, resilience, and equanimity. He's been called the CEO Whisperer and the Coach with the Spider Tattoo, and has taken refuge in the Buddhist dharma tradition.

Previous to his career as a coach, he was a partner with JPMorgan Partners (JPMP), the private equity arm of JP Morgan Chase. And before that, had launched Flatiron Partners with partner, Fred Wilson. Flatiron became one of the most successful, early-stage investment programs in the New York City area.

Today, he lives in Boulder, Colorado.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• COVID, and how it exposed the interdependence, but also the inequality of American society.
• Leadership in the context of the Ukraine war, and how when leaders don't address their vulnerable and wounded parts, that expresses itself in violence. We discuss that in the context of malignant narcissism with Putin, and also with Trump.
• His childhood, and how he became keenly aware of how people around him are feeling.
• His career in venture, and how he veered from that into coaching.
• My therapy session, where he points his radical inquiry, his coach mind, at me.
• My tendency to hide, to not want to be very active on social media, at least not publicly on Twitter.
• My fear of being judged, and my fears of not being seen or appreciated.
• What it means to bring your whole self to every challenge in your life, at work, and at any other moment.
• How everything is an opportunity for self growth, and to practice that.
• His reboot system and method, and his book.
• How everybody in life is basically looking for love, safety, and belonging.

We had this conversation in mid-March 2022, and that was two years into the worldwide outbreak of COVID, and a couple of weeks into Russia's invasion of Ukraine. I was excited and nervous to talk to Jerry, who's famous for making podcasters cry. We also had a brief chat months before preparing for this interview and I already had a taste of his radical inquiry approach to coaching.

So as expected, this did not end up being a regular interview. While we got to explore his history and his ideas and his childhood a little bit, Jerry turned his radical inquiry on me as expected. And you'll get to hear a pretty detailed coaching/therapy session on this podcast and dive deeper into my fears and insecurities along the way. I have to say, I found it deeply therapeutic, both at the time, and now weeks later when I relisten. This was a very different, very meaningful process for me, and I hope that you'll find it beneficial as well. It definitely affected the way that I approach putting myself out there and allow myself to be more visible on social media.

Shortly after this interview was recorded, I definitely did start being more vocal and an amazing thing happened. As I started being more vocal on Twitter and other platforms, we got more and more downloads for this podcast and the podcast started growing very, very rapidly. And so I owe a big thank you to Jerry for challenging my assumptions and helping me pinpoint these insecurities. Jerry assured me that this is helpful to other people to hear. So I really hope that will prove true, and that you'll find this episode really helpful to you in your journey as well.

This conversation with Jerry is one of a dozen or so weekly conversations we already have lined up for you with thinkers, designers, makers, authors, philosophers, entrepreneurs, and investors who are working to change our world for the better. So follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app, or head over to remakepod.org to subscribe.

And now let's jump right in with Jerry Colonna.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[6:58] Life During Covid

[13:23] The War in Ukraine

[20:51] Early Childhood Empathy

[24:25] A Journey to the Venture World

[32:54] A Therapy Session

[52:17] Business as a Tool for Growth

[57:44] Bringing Your Whole Self

[1:00:20] The Reboot Approach

[1:05:01] A Short Sermon

EPISODE LINKS

• Jerry's Links
  • 🌎 Reboot.io
  • 📘 Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up
  • 💼 LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile
  • 📣 Twitter: @jerrycolonna
  • 📺 YouTube Channel
• Other Links
  • 🎧 SquadCast
  • 🏙️ Flatiron Venture Partners
  • 📕 The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake
  • 📕 The Lord of the Rings
  • 📕 This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See by Seth Godin
  • 🌎 Wikipedia
  • 📕 The Politics of the Brokenhearted: On Holding the Tensions of Democracy by Parker Palmer
  • 📕 When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chödrön
  • 📕 Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience by Sharon Salzberg
  • 📕 Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker Palmer
  • 🎤 TED Talk - Alain de Botton

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TODAY'S GUEST

Shari Davis is a TED speaker, a participatory budgeting facilitator, and as she defines it, a recovering local government employee. She joined the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP) after nearly 15 years of service and leadership in local government. As director of youth engagement and employment for the City of Boston, she launched Youth Lead the Change, the first youth participatory budgeting process in the US, which won the US Conference of Mayor's City Livability Award.

We spoke at the end of February, and I was very excited to talk to Shari because of her work on participatory budgeting, which seems to be one of the most promising new ways for everyday citizens, from all walks of life, to supervise and have a say in how public funds are being spent. Participatory budgeting has the potential for having an enormous impact on corruption, on efficient use of funds, on creating better, more efficient and more impactful programs, and also a huge effect on how people feel about their government. And all of this is already happening around the world, so I was very excited to hear about this from someone who's really leading this movement.

It was really fun to chat with Shari. She clearly has a lot of practice at connecting with, and including many different kinds of people. And so she puts you right at ease and she uses humor effectively. But it was the topic of the conversation that was really amazing to hear about.

( * Please note: this episode was originally recorded under they/she pronouns. )

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• How her early involvement in martial arts as a kid really shaped her attitudes towards practice, responsibility, and community.
• How she initially got involved in the city government in Boston, eventually leading the youth department and bringing together resources and services for the youth of the city into one place.
• How she was asked to lead Youth Lead the Change.
• How the city earmarked $1M to be spent however the youth decided it should be spent, using the power of participation to make better decisions, and how that whole process unfolded.
• The US democracy's fatal flaw and how a lot of decisions happen in non-transparent, closed-door ways, ways that deepen inequality and division.
• How to run and lead a successful inclusive participatory budgeting project, whether you're a local government, a school, a non-profit or a national government, and why that makes such a huge difference.

What stayed with me is this idea that by bringing people together and putting them in the right kind of process, and then paying attention and designing the process itself, how much better decisions are. Talking to Shari was really energizing and hopeful, and this is one of our goals with every conversation we bring you including several conversations we already have lined up for you with thinkers, designers, makers, authors, entrepreneurs, and activists who are working to change our world for the better. So if you're interested in these types of hopeful conversations, follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app, or head over to remakepod.org to subscribe.

And now let's jump right in with Shari Davis.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[4:48] Life During Covid

[9:26] Early Childhood Guiding Forces

[16:22] A Journey From Martial Arts to Government

[22:29] Democracy's Fatal Flaw

[26:51] Youth Lead the Change

[34:56] Participatory Budgeting Project

[43:04] Inclusive Design

[45:16] Traveling Into the Future

[49:54] Where Hope Lives

[53:02] A Short Sermon on Change

EPISODE LINKS

• Shari's Links
  • 🌎 Participatory Budgeting Project
  • 🌎 Youth Engagement and Employment
  • 🌎 Youth Lead the Change
  • 🎤 TED Talk
  • 💼 LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile
  • 📣 Twitter: @Shari_Davis1
  • 📺 YouTube Channel
• Other Links
  • 💻 Zoom
  • 🎮 Roblox
  • 🌎 Mayor's Youth Council
  • 🏫 Harvard University
  • 🎤 TED Talk - Alain de Botton

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TODAY'S GUEST

Dr. Natalie Nixon is a creativity strategist, global keynote speaker, and author of the award-winning The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work. As president of Figure 8 Thinking, she advises leaders on transformation by applying wonder and rigor to amplify growth and business value. Natalie's been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, LinkedIn's "Hello Monday" podcast, and Seth Godin's "Akimbo" podcast.

She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, John, and is a lifelong student of dance—hip-hop and social ballroom of late.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• Learning patience and flexibility through her COVID experience.
• Growing up as a sensitive kid in Philly, and moving to a rough public school there and how that affected her.
• How her father's love of jazz and her mother's love of opera and classical music brought her closer to a world of art and creativity.
• Studying anthropology and Africana studies, and how she ending up getting a PhD in design management in London.
• The difference between being artistic vs being creative.
• Why strategy is creative, and why creativity is strategic.
• How we all have a creative capacity.
• The role of chaos in creativity.
• Her book, The Creativity Leap.
• How dance and design thinking are related, and what she learned about design and creativity from ballroom dancing and hip-hop.
• Embracing difference as a part of the creative process.
• And how we need people around that will ask different questions than we would.

This is one of a dozen or so weekly conversations we already have lined up for you with thinkers, designers, makers, authors, entrepreneurs, and investors, who are working to change our world for the better. So follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app or head over to remakepod.org to subscribe.

And now let's jump right in with Dr. Natalie Nixon.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[4:17] Life During COVID

[9:09] Early Childhood Driving Forces

[16:31] An Academic Background

[21:51] Strategy is Creative

[27:06] Toggling Between Wonder and Rigor

[32:25] Chaordic Systems

[36:17] Gifts of Dance

[41:49] Becoming the Movement

[44:18] Creative Abrasion

[47:10] A Short Sermon

EPISODE LINKS

• Natalie's Links
  • 8️⃣ Figure 8 Thinking
  • 📘 The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work
  • 📘 Strategic Design Thinking: Innovation in Products, Services, Experiences and Beyond
  • 🎤 TED Talk - 7 Rules for Improvising at Work
  • 🎤 TED Talk - The Nudge Imperative
  • 💼 LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile
  • 📣 Twitter: @natwnixon
  • 📺 YouTube Channel
• Other Links
  • 📚 Free Library of Philadelphia
  • 🍸 Silk City
  • 🎧 Akimbo - A Podcast from Seth Godin
  • 🏫 Shenkar College of Engineering, Design, and Art
  • 👚 The Limited
  • 👙 Victoria's Secret
  • 🏫 Thomas Jefferson University
  • 🛏️ The Ritz-Carlton
  • 💳 Visa
  • 📕 Dancing Culture Religion (Studies in Body and Religion) by Sam Gill
  • 🚗 Nissan
  • 🚀 NASA
  • 🎤 TED Talk - Alain de Botton

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TODAY'S GUEST

Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is an academic lecturer, a spiritual leader, a disillusioned activist, and the author of These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home.

He was born in 1983 into a Christian home, and to Yoruba parents in western Nigeria. Soon after he was born, his family emigrated to Bonn, Germany with his father on his first diplomatic assignment. This, Bayo's first trip, would foreshadow a life of travel, both literally and figuratively. He currently lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California and University of Vermont.

He's also Professor of Practice at Middlebury College. He sits on the board of many organizations including Science and Nonduality, Unashay Sanctuary, and more.

Now living between India and the United States, Bayo is a proud father and a devoted husband.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• Growing up in transition, Nigeria to Germany, and then many other places.
• Family being a constant value in his life.
• His love-hate relationship with India.
• His activism and his postactivism, and what does it mean to be a postactivist or to be postactivistic? And specifically, what it means to discover as an activist that your very activism has become part of the problem you're trying to solve.
• What does it mean to engage with the world without trying to apply your prejudices on it?
• Hope, and why it too can be problematic.
• How he sees the world, and how he tries to not get trapped by images and words, to experience a world that's alive and not static and dead. And to avoid overly defining things and overly restricting our view of the world through that definition.

I talked to Bayo at the end of January, and it was right after a Design Sprint with Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie (a former guest of the podcast), where Bayo's work and his online course was one of the demos that we looked at as an example.

I'm very excited to bring you this conversation with Bayo, and I was very excited to talk to him. His writing is intensely beautiful. He speaks and seems to think in poetry. His words paint pictures that move us, but avoid being captured. I think Bayo is an awakened person. He clearly sees things in a way that's deeper and that's hard to comprehend sometimes. But his efforts at clarity and communication are very obvious and evident here, and I think it will be appreciated. I'm a little bit worried that people who don't really have any strong spiritual background might find some of these topics hard to understand or relate to. So I want to leave you with this recommendation.

I would like you to imagine the world as a dynamic, elaborate, interdependent, ever-changing and shifting, an intensely alive cloud of interactions, where nothing is quite as solid or as clear-cut as it seems to be. Now, imagine seeing this mess so clearly you can feel it in your being, and then having to find the words to describe it, knowing full well that every word and sentence leaves out as much as it brings in. And so, as you listen to Bayo with words, I would like you to try to understand that he's trying to communicate something that's intensely nonverbal. That's at least how I connect with it and how I find my way into it.

This is one of a dozen or so weekly conversations we already have lined up for you with thinkers, designers, makers, authors, entrepreneurs, and activists, who are working to change our world for the better. So please follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app or head over to remakepod.org to subscribe.

And now let's jump right in with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[6:35] Life During Covid

[14:51] Early Childhood's Silent Lessons

[17:28] A Mode of Transit

[19:15] A Love-Hate Relationship with India

[24:11] Activism vs Postactivism

[29:20] Enacting Reality

[33:46] Invisible Forces at Work

[39:10] Thinking Happens in the Farm

[42:33] Corelessness

[43:53] The End of Hope

[53:06] Name the Color, Blind the Eye

[58:50] The Gift of Children

[1:03:49] A Short Sermon

EPISODE LINKS

• Bayo's Links
  • 🌎 Bayo Akomolafe Website
  • 📘 These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home
  • ⛰️ We Will Dance With Mountains
  • 🌎 The Emergence Network
  • 🌎 Science & Nonduality
  • 🌎 UNESCO
  • 💼 LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile
  • 📣 Twitter: @BayoAkomolafe
• Other Links
  • 🎧 Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie Interview
  • 🎧 Christian Madsbjerg Interview
  • 📕 Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm by Christian Madsbjerg
  • 🎧 David Peter Stroh Interview
  • 📕 Systems Thinking For Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results by David Peter Stroh
  • 🎧 Dr. Angel Acosta Interview
  • 📕 The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
  • 📕 Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant
  • 📕 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • 🎤 TED Talk - Alain de Botton

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TODAY'S GUEST

John Zeratsky is a bestselling author of Sprint and Make Time, and has reached millions with articles in The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Harvard Business Review, Wired, Fast Company, and other outlets.

He's a former Design Partner at GV (Google Ventures), where he developed a Design Sprint methodology alongside former guest of the podcast, Jake Knapp, and where he supported many of GV's most successful investments, including Slack, One Medical, and Blue Bottle Coffee. Before that, John was a design leader for YouTube, Google Ads, and FeedBurner.

Today, John is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Character, a venture fund where he supports technology startups with capital and sprints.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• His childhood, where he learned a strong orientation towards service being a boy scout, and where he learned that he doesn't have to accept the way things are, that he can challenge the status quo.
• His career as a designer before getting into GV, first working at FeedBurner, then after the acquisition by Google, working at Google Ads, and eventually leading design on the YouTube Channels feature at YouTube.

We also discuss:

• The particulars of being a designer at Google at the time, where he felt like he had to present hard data and actually learn how to code to even get a seat at the table.
• His time at GV, where he was brought in as a successful designer at YouTube to help portfolio companies benefit from his design experience alongside the other design partners, which eventually led to the creation and iteration of the Design Sprint.
• Their process of writing Sprint and Make Time, and how they treated it like any other design process.
• Character, their new venture fund, and John's idea of starting a fund as a way to create alignment again, between him as a designer and the companies he serves.

This conversation with John is one of a dozen or so weekly conversations we have lined up for you with thinkers, designers, makers, authors, entrepreneurs, impact investors, and more, who are working to change our world for the better. So follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app, or head over to remakepod.org to subscribe.

And now let's jump right in with John Zeratsky.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[4:27] Life During Covid

[9:13] Early Childhood Guiding Forces

[12:35] Alignment and Incentives

[16:19] A Tech Journey

[30:42] On Being a Designer

[36:22] On Being a Designer at a VC

[42:54] Making Investment Decisions

[49:22] The Evolution of the Design Sprint

[56:16] Scaling the Portfolio

[1:00:52] The Creation of Sprint

[1:06:26] The Creation of Make Time

[1:09:49] Building Character

[1:16:22] A Short Sermon

EPISODE LINKS

• John's Links
  • 🌎 John Zeratsky Website
  • 📘 Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
  • 📘 Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
  • 🌎 The Design Sprint
  • 🌎 Character
  • 💼 LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile
  • 📣 Twitter: @jazer
• Other Links
  • 🦅 Boy Scouts of America
  • 🌎 GV (Google Ventures)
  • 🔌 WIRED
  • 🍎 Apple
  • 💻 WordPress
  • 🔥 FeedBurner
  • 🌎 Google
  • 🌎 Google AdSense
  • 📈 Google Analytics
  • 🔧 Google Ads Editor
  • 🌎 Google Chrome
  • 🌎 Google Meet
  • 🌎 Gmail
  • 🌎 X - The Moonshot Factory
  • 👋 Facebook
  • 📣 Twitter
  • 🌎 NetNewsWire
  • ▶️ YouTube
  • 📱 Motorola
  • 🛍️ RetailMeNot
  • 🛋️ Crate&Barrel
  • 🌎 Craigslist
  • 🌎 Rocket Lawyer
  • 🔨 CustomMade
  • 🌎 Etsy
  • 📌 Miro
  • 🌎 Getting Things Done - David Allen's GTD Methodology
  • 🚗 Uber
  • 🌎 Slack
  • 🎤 TED Talk - Alain de Botton

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TODAY'S GUEST Lee Mun Wah is an internationally renowned documentary filmmaker, TED speaker, author, poet, folkteller, educator, community therapist, and master diversity trainer at Stir Fry Seminars and Consulting, a diversity training company he founded. He's most famous for his truly incredible documentaries, like The Color of Fear, Last Chance for Eden, and If These Halls Could Talk. His films feature hard-hitting, honest and raw conversations about race relations, racism, sexism, systemic inequality and more, with participants from different backgrounds and ethnicities.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• Growing up as a Chinese American kid, just trying to fit in.
• His love for teaching and how he became a teacher.
• The day that changed his life, his mother's murder by an African-American man, which started his journey into ultimately becoming a therapist and diving into the topics of race, inequality, and hatred.

We also discuss:

• His documentary, The Color of Fear.
• The implicit racism of who we see and how we see the people in front of us.
• The names we're willing and the names that we're unwilling to learn.
• The minority group society doesn't bother to get to know and to make feel welcome.
• The critical importance of empathy and listening.
• What he's learned about facilitating workshops, discussing tough topics in a mindful way.
• On standing up for others who are different from oneself.
• His autobiography in the making, River of Jade.
• And many other topics.

I was really touched by this conversation with Mun Wah. He brings such ease and openness to the conversation, even when the topics are quite challenging. He helps us see our society from points of view other than our own and teaches us the skills to reach out and connect across differences, which is the first step towards correcting some of the structural injustice embedded in our systems.

This conversation is one of a dozen or so weekly conversations we have lined up for you with thinkers, designers, makers, authors, and entrepreneurs who are working to change our world for the better. So please follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app or head over to RemakePod.org to subscribe.

And now let's jump right in with Lee Mun Wah.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[3:36] Life During Covid

[9:15] Early Life Lessons

[19:21] Relational Relationships

[25:48] A Tragedy and a Transition

[35:52] A Journey Through Grief

[40:00] Every Day a Lifetime

[44:51] A Mindfulness Approach

[55:55] Diversity 101

[1:08:51] A Ripple Effect

[1:12:06] River of Jade

[1:23:47] Writing Our Own History

EPISODE LINKS

• Mun Wah's Links
  • 🌍 StirFry Seminars & Consulting
  • 🎥 The Color of Fear
  • 🎥 Stolen Ground
  • 🎥 If These Halls Could Talk
  • 🎥 Last Chance for Eden
  • 📘 Let's Get Real: What People of Color Can't say and Whites Won't Ask About Racism
  • ❓ What Stands Between Us
  • 🎤 TED Talk: The Secret to Changing the World
  • 🎤 TED Talk: Curiosity is the Gateway to the Heart
  • 🎤 TED Talk: But...I am an American
  • 💼 LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile
  • 📺 YouTube Channel
• Other Links
  • 🌍 American Psychological Association
  • 🎬 San Francisco International Film Festival
  • 🎥 My Fair Lady
  • 🎥 Slumdog Millionaire
  • 💧 Harbin Hot Springs
  • 💻 Hewlett Packard
  • 💻 IBM
  • 📕 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

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TODAY'S GUEST

Professor Steve Evans leads one of those fields that sound boring, but are actually super critical to our world and our future. He is a Director of Research in Industrial Sustainability at Cambridge University, where he leads research that helps factories become sustainable at scale. He helps industry bring about sustainable change at scale, including business model innovation, system transformation, and helps push the limits of efficiency in both advanced and developing countries.

Steve has over 30 years of academic experience and spent over 15 years in industry, where he led groundbreaking projects with Airbus, Jaguar Land Rover, Nissan, Electrolux, Toyota, as well as the city of Porto, Portugal, among many others.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• What he learned from his early interest in martial arts.
• How his time in both academia and industry helped him think about the right relationship between the two.
• Why industrial sustainability is so crucial for avoiding catastrophic climate change and why it also represents an enormous financial opportunity.
• How to make making itself more sustainable.
• What the shadow of a bike is, and why we need to think about the sustainability of products we buy as larger than simply the materials used in their making.
• What his vision for industry in 2050 is.
• And what are some of the most promising developments he's seen in this field?

This conversation is one of a dozen or so weekly conversations we already have lined up for you with thinkers, designers, makers, authors, scientists, entrepreneurs, and impact investors who are working to change our world for the better. So follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app, or head over to remakepod.org to subscribe.

And now let's jump right in with Professor Steve Evans.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[3:22] Life During Covid

[9:05] Early Childhood Guiding Forces

[11:31] Tenacity in Sustainability

[14:20] The Importance of Industry

[18:09] Seeing the Whole

[22:01] A Teacher's Trick

[25:36] The Size of the Shadow

[28:12] Optimizing for Variables

[30:18] Science Based Targets

[34:56] Industrial Revolutions

[38:09] The Future of Factories

[46:26] Sustainable Design

[50:09] A Wishlist for Designers

[53:53] The Future of Cities

[57:40] A Short Sermon

EPISODE LINKS

• Steve's Links
  • 🏫 University of Cambridge
  • 🎤 Falling Walls Talk
  • 🎤 The DO Lectures
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  • 🎤 TED Talk - Alain de Botton

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TODAY'S GUEST

Dr. David Fajgenbaum is a groundbreaking physician-scientist, disease hunter, speaker, and author of the national bestselling memoir, Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope Into Action, which has been translated into five languages and named one of the "Best Non-Fiction Books" by the Next Big Idea Club.

Best known as the 'doctor who cured himself', Fajgenbaum went from being a hyper-fit college quarterback to receiving his last rites while in medical school and nearly dying four more times battling Castleman disease. To try to save his own life, he spearheaded an innovative approach to research through the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN) and discovered a treatment that is saving his life and others.

Now, he is spreading this approach to other diseases, including COVID19. His CDCN launched the CORONA Project in March 2020 to identify and track all treatments reported to be used for COVID-19 in an open-source data repository. The CORONA team has reviewed 29,353 papers and extracted 2,399 papers on 590 treatments administered to 437,936 patients with COVID-19, and in continuing to help researchers to prioritize treatments for clinical trials and inform patient care.

Beyond his medical work, he continues to share the lessons he learned about life, hope, and resilience.

I was inspired by David's unbounded optimism and focus on hope that leads to action. This conversation is one of dozens of conversations we have lined up for you with researchers, designers, makers, and thinkers who are re-imagining our world in all walks of life. If you don't want to miss them, please follow this show on your favorite podcast app.

And now, let's jump right in with Dr. David Fajgenbaum.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[3:23] Life During Covid

[5:44] Do Your Own Research

[8:48] Early Childhood Driving Forces

[10:02] Two Parallel Paths

[13:08] From Doctor to Patient

[17:00] From Alignment to Action

[21:08] The Collaborative Network Approach

[24:49] A Scientific Intuition

[29:15] Open Innovation

[33:55] Identifying a Pathway

[39:10] The Power of Hope

[41:46] A Long Tail of Rare Diseases

[46:38] A Complex Relationship with Authority

[49:49] A Mindset of Co-Creation

[53:26] Wise Engagement

[56:39] A Short Sermon

EPISODE LINKS

• David's Links
  • 🔬 Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN)
  • 🔬 Center for Cytokine Storm Treatment & Laboratory
  • 🔬 Chasing My Cure Website
  • 🔬 ACCELERATE
  • 📕 Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope into Action
  • 💼 LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile
  • 📣 Twitter: @DavidFajgenbaum
  • 📺 YouTube Channel
• Other Links
  • 🌍 Wikipedia
  • 🌍 UpToDate
  • 🏫 The Wharton School
  • 🎧 Dr. Hila Lifshitz-Assaf Interview
  • 🔭 NASA
  • 🎤 TED Talk - Alain de Botton

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TODAY'S GUEST Max Rashbrooke's TED Talk on upgrading democracy has touched a nerve, and has been viewed over 1 million times in a matter of months. He's a Wellington-based writer and public intellectual, with twin interests in economic inequality and democratic renewal. His latest book is Too Much Money, about wealth disparities in New Zealand, and his previous books include Government for the Public Good: The Surprising Science of Large-Scale Collective Action. Max is a Senior Associate of the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies. His work appears in outlets such as the Guardian and Prospect magazine.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• How moving from a wealthy school to a failing school in a low income neighborhood opened his eyes to his own privilege and the extent of poverty in the world.
• How he became fascinated with the problem of entrenched and compounded inequality and lack of mobility as a financial journalist in London during the financial crisis.
• The dangers of increasing inequality and immobility, and how it leads to a mistrust in institutions, an attraction to populist authoritarianism, and a crisis for democracy.
• How he proposes to upgrade democracy for the digital age, by increasing participation and incorporating tools like citizen assemblies, online consensus building, and participatory budgeting.
• And why having faith in our fellow citizens and in the power of the government to do good is essential to healing democracy in our lifetime.

I really enjoyed talking to Max, and hope that you'll enjoy his excellent introduction to the growing movement of more participatory democracy. Max is one of dozens of great conversations with thinkers, activists, and makers who are trying to remake our lives in some meaningful way. If you don't want to miss them, please make sure you subscribe in your favorite podcast player.

And now let's jump right in with Max Rashbrooke.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[3:31] Life During Covid

[7:06] Early Life Lessons

[13:03] A Journey to Economic Inequality

[17:00] Compounded Inequality

[18:34] A Lack of Progress

[20:13] A Lack of Trust

[22:31] The Rise of Authoritarianism

[24:53] A Mistrust of Institution

[28:08] Defense of Democracy

[32:05] Upgrading and Renewing Democracy

[35:59] Citizens Assemblies

[40:06] Political Brands

[41:45] Online Consensus Building

[46:02] Participatory Budgeting

[48:43] The Delegation of the Vote

[54:11] A Mindset of Faith

[57:52] Working Together

[1:00:25] A Short Sermon

EPISODE LINKS

• Max's Links
  • 🌍 Max Rashbrooke Website
  • 🏫 Institute for Governance and Policy Studies
  • 📘 Too Much Money: How Wealth Disparities Are Unbalancing Aotearoa New Zealand
  • 📘 Government for the Public Good: The Surprising Science of Large-Scale Collective Action
  • 🎤 TED Talk
  • 🎤 TEDx Talk
  • 💼 LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile
  • 📣 Twitter: @MaxRashbrooke
• Other Links
  • 🚗 Uber
  • 🌍 Polis
  • 🎤 TED Talk - Alain de Botton

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TODAY'S GUEST Catherine Griffin is the founder and CEO of ImpactableX, and sits squarely at the intersection of capital, social innovation and execution to drive world-changing technologies. She has designed impact measurement and management tools that help social entrepreneurs to measure, track, and improve their social impact, as well as demonstrates its connection to revenue, and help startups make better impact decisions and investors to quantify their social impact. Prior to launching ImpactableX, Catherine served as Managing Director at an award-winning impact accelerator, GoodCompany Ventures, where she helped accelerate the application of new technologies to address the world's most pressing challenges.

Catherine serves as a lecturer at Wharton, and her work has been featured in FastCompany, Forbes, and The New York Times, among others.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• How growing up in a family of doctors instilled in her a focus on healing and a sense of care for others.
• How her personal struggles in college led her to ask tough questions about herself, her privilege, and her path in the world.
• How she got disillusioned with the world of nonprofit social development, and turned to private markets to see if their innovation could help more effectively.
• Getting involved with GoodCompany Ventures in collaboration with the city of Philadelphia, and how that put her in touch with acute public needs and innovative private solutions.
• The challenges of monetizing social impact ventures, and the inherent connection between value creation and value capture.
• And what she's learned about finding one's path in life and making a difference.

This conversation with Catherine is one of dozens of wonderful conversations we have for you with designers, authors, researchers, makers, investors, and activists who are trying to make our lives better. So if you don't want to miss those episodes, please make sure to follow this show on your favorite podcast player.

And now let's jump right in with Catherine Griffin.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[3:26] Life During Covid

[8:14] Early Childhood Core Values

[10:43] A Period of Personal Struggles and Reflection

[15:53] A Pivot to the World of Private Markets

[19:43] GoodCompany Ventures

[24:29] Solving a Problem

[28:07] Building Various Business Models

[33:14] The Importance of Measuring Impact

[40:53] Defining Key Impact Metrics

[48:44] Three Summary Analytics

[55:51] Providing the Full Picture

[58:34] A Framework for Harmony

[1:01:03] A Commitment to Service

[1:04:39] A Short Sermon

EPISODE LINKS

• Catherine's Links
  • 🌍 ImpactableX
  • 🏫 The Wharton School
  • 💼 LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile
  • 📣 Twitter: @impactable_x
  • 📺 YouTube Channel
• Other Links
  • 🌍 GoodCompany Ventures
  • 🌍 Wharton Social Impact Initiative
  • 🌍 Bloomberg Philanthropies
  • 🔭 NASA
  • 🔭 NOAA
  • 🌍 Propel
  • 🌍 Edovo
  • 📕 Measure What Matters: OKRs - The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth by John Doerr
  • 👋 Facebook
  • 🌍 Meta
  • 📣 Twitter
  • 🚗 Tesla

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