The Dying Project

Jordan Carroll is an ambassador for the remote work movement. He has been living that life for the past year+ and we talk about how traveling and plant medicines can be a fast track to get to the mindset shift needed to build towards a more sustainable and resilient world.

Show Notes:

0:06 Getting uninvited from the podcast before it even starts

2:01 If you’re interested in traveling and doing remote work, Jordan is the man who can help you make a plan

4:11 Minimalism + traveling for a year with one carry on

7:15 Lizard brains and solo travel as a means to get comfortable with the uncomfortable.

11:27 Would you regret it if you didn’t do it? 

13:20 “Commit to doing something first and then take out the obstacles.”

18:15 Lessons from plant medicines

22:23 Everyone could use a good ego smash

26:26 Everything is energy

29:01 The sound of silence

38:45 “It's a privilege to be lost sometimes.”

https://medium.com/@jspensir/my-ayahuasca-manifesto-6-insights-to-bring-back-to-conventional-reality-78c56d81ecc4

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Show Notes:

1:59 Sustainability is the ability for everything to work in conjunction with everything else

4:29 It all started with mental health issues…

10:31 The disenchantment that comes with non profits

12:59 Make kindness cool again

14:40 You can’t teach anyone anything, people have to experience

17:31 Linear vs exponential thinking

20:21 The asteroid talk begins and why the thought of being destroyed by one comforts me

23:20 Things I’m not cool with and other systems that don’t make any damn sense

30:29 When the lizard brain kicks in

31:35 Lessons from an anonymous program

34:45 The dying experiment 

Mark Metry https://www.markmetry.com

Naveen Jain https://www.instagram.com/p/BvgB70mh-UR/

Ray Kurzweil https://www.forbes.com/sites/techonomy/2012/11/09/ray-kurzweil-on-using-exponential-thinking-to-predict-the-future/

Graham Hancock https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/analysis/fresh-clues-in-the-hunt-for-a-lost-civilization-graham-hancock-interview-1-9679129

Darwin was wrong https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/09/darwin-evolution-crispr-microbiome-bacteria-news/

Kevin Kelly https://www.thisamericanlife.org/50/shoulda-been-dead

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”

― Alan Wilson Watts, The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts

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Quincy Holloway lived and taught in the art scene until his daughter’s health issues spurred him to do his part and take action in cleaning the world up. 

Show Notes:

4:10 From the art world to the war on carbon

5:40 Flipping the solar model on its head, commercial solar car ports

6:20 Power purchase agreements

10:20 Future proofing solar car ports for autonomous vehicles

11:40 The usual solar push back

15:49 What you can do to lessen your impact

19:50 Texas PACE Authority

22:44 Doesn’t matter if you believe in climate change, your insurance does

28:27 Let’s get political 

35:46 Live like you give a shit

36:02 Check out Rivian!

 This week we chatted with Kory Farooquie, CEO at Invaterra. He is no stranger to the highs and lows of both the corporate and entrepreneurial world. We talk all things AI, automation, the future and the sustainability implications of it all. 

1:21 Being future focused and preparing for Gen Alpha, our first generation that will likely be AI native

5:12 Breaking down AI and Automation with some predictions. Insert article

6:01 Pakistan to London to Kuwait to Connecticut

9:30 When kids turn to Siri after you give silly answers

11:52 “Organizations aren’t selling products anymore, they’re selling experiences.”

18:05 Why $1.99 seems like ‘highway robbery’ for an app

25:03 Why does it have to be you either believe in what I believe or it’s a conspiracy theory. Let’s just do better.

28:58 Breaking down AI, it’s not the Terminator y’all.

36:42 Its not step 1, 2 ,3…we’re taking exponential steps + L.E.A.P Mindset

43:00 Fossil fuels are about to be the equivalent of cigarettes. It used to be cool, but nah. 

49:43 “Work towards a future that makes the world a better place.”

Jaime Cohen is the founder of Jaimbalaya & Use The Right Words. Real communication is hard, it's not wonder that the world is a literal mess.  We discuss why communication can be so difficult, ways to do it better, and how we can build towards a more sustainable world starting with dialogue. 

5:00 How does sustainability tie into communication

11:00 Living in most connected time in human history

11:16 Why do we talk about the weather?

14:00 Our need for control vs being fully present

17:50 Creating boundaries

21:55 Safe Conversations method “we will use what you say against you vs we will use it to understand you”

26:00 RF Its not what you say, its how you say it

35:02 The foundation to build more resilient infrastructure 

Rock Robinson is co-founder and CEO for eCarra, which stands for "electric car ride share awareness". We chat candidly about what it's like to be an entrepreneur in the green space and ways that you and your business can reduce your carbon emmissions.

Show Notes:

4:27 Climate change apathy

13:58 Why Teslas make sense

18:36 Competition versus collaboration

19:50 Abundance mindset

28:14 "Disrupt You!" Jay Samit and why no one cares about you and your ideas

29:40 Rock’s number one piece of advice to anyone looking to make an impact…DONT F*CKING STOP

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