On this episode, we are exploring how you can partner with future in order to create your future as opposed to feeling uncertain about it. We are joined by Ronni KImm, who helps clients and people in organizations imagine what is possible.

We look at the world building, which is often used in gaming and film, and apply some of those principles to future scenario making.

In this episode walk away with:

The idea of mapping scenarios for your future.

How to enter creation in a state of discovery

How to partner and dance with your future versus feeling uncertain

About our Guest

Ronni Kimm is the founder of Collective Future, a design and innovation consultancy based in Los Angeles. Her work focuses on utilizing human-centered design and storytelling to imagine new possibilities for the future. Project outcomes have included everything from strategic directives, digital prototypes, immersive AR/VR experiences, and narrative dinners. Ronni has led future-focused initiatives for Autodesk, Clif Bar, Ford, Nike, and VF, among others.

As an educator, her background includes lectureships, and visiting artist/critic roles at the ArtCenter College of Design, California Institute of the Arts, Cal State Long Beach, General Assembly, Otis College of Art & Design, SCI-Arc, UCLA, and USC. As part of her exploration of new meanings and forms, Ronni loves to incite conversations and collaborations with brilliant thinkers and doers whenever possible.

Contact our guest

[email protected] or at www.futurecollective.com

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I invited Andy Didorsi, because for as long as I have known him, when everyone is zigging he is zagging. As a serial “this is what the world needs, let’s make it happen” person, he has constantly been told no, not yet, only if you, and still finds a way through.

On the “side”, he is the head marketing officer for Basecamp and Hey (their new amazing email service).

When Covid “arrived”, I saw that he had pivoted his business within a few short months.

He asked himself would I get on a bus right now? With bills and employees to pay, what do people really need right now? What would be useful?

From the Detroit Bus company, (TOM style providing a ride for a ride) into an FDA approved sanitizer provider (bottle for a bottle), Arsenal of Clean was born.

AoC, donates thousands of gallons upon gallons of sanitizer to frontline workers and other people in need.

As well as ‘chemisting’, managing Paper Street, a small business incubator in Ferndale for the little guy who finds it hard to get space to work, he is part of 59 people Basecamp. Spread worldwide, they were doing remote since 1999.

They vote with their dollars and are against the creepiness of tracking their customers. If you’re looking for a makes-common-sense yet hadn’t existed until now email service, Hey, is your place to go for real privacy and oh my gosh, I’m saying it , emails becoming fun again.

In our conversation Andy and I talk about:

- A no is not always a no

- How to be useful

- What it takes to 180 pivot your business - how Arsenal of clean was born

- Grabbing footholds with dear life and growing that position

- How to stay sane during Covid

- How to stop getting in your own way to ship and put your ideas out into the world

- How cool the email service Hey is!!! (I’m a big fan).

Getting in touch, supporting and learning more about Andy

You can reach him on Twitter and Instagram both at @ThatDetroitAndy

https://arsenalofclean.com

https://thedetroitbus.com

Learn more about Andy : https://thedetroitbus.com/andy-didorosis-story/

As an entrepreneur, philanthropist, reporter turned medical administrator, 2010 Olympic torch barer, survivor of three different types of eating disorders, Kaitlyn shares with us lessons of resilience, how she has reframed fear, failure and pain to empower her journey in heart-led leadership. Kaitlyn believes those who create an extraordinary life and achieve their highest vision share one fundamental power: the ability to overcome any fear or personal limitation. This motto has allowed her to chase her wildest dreams. She believes, “Everyone in life has a personal story of excitement, love, desperation, hurt or a driven message.” She has used this as her fuel. As CEO and founder of Reel Stories. Real People., Inc’s, whose recent focus is the making of Empty - a film dedicated provide education and inspiration to schools for those who might be suffering or on the cusp of suffering from an eating disorder. To help this film come to fruition donate here: www.reelstoriesrealpeople.com Get in touch with Kaitlyn Chana on all platforms as well as her: www.kaitlynchana.com

In this episode you are invited to join us for an multi sensory experience. Think Willy Wonka mixed with electronic music. We will be exploring the interplay of sounds with food perception with food anthologist Caroline Hopkinson and creative, apple credo writer, Anita Strebenauch.

We will explore the interrelationship between food and flavor.

We are inviting you to eat special ingredients, listen to custom designed pieces of music, and experience the impact that they have on each other.

Drawing on the latest gastrophysical research into sensory perception, the music uses exact sonic frequencies and musical gestures calibrated to enhance the mouthfeel, flavour and provenance of each ingredient.

We are not manipulating a flavor but modulating and highlighting what is already there. There is no right or wrong. Some sensations will be stronger than others.

So sharpen your ears and explore with us the fascinating relationship between sound and flavor.

Prepare by grabbing one or more of the following ingredients:

1. Coffee lozenge or a plain cup of coffee

2. Popping candy

3. A 2x3” piece of seaweed

4. Honey lozenge

5. Gum jaw breaker

6.Glass of water

AND bring plenty of Curiosity

If you’d like to participate but would rather Caroline handles the ingredients, you can purchase a lockdown kit from https://unusualingredients.co/lockdown-kit-1

Think of this as yoga for your mouth.

Feedback from the experience include:

“The experience is like a weird popping candy connection to the universe”. Caroline Hopkinson

“ In Harry Potter there was gilley weed. It felt like the seaweed was a mechanism that let me go underneath the water and let me be ok in this totally foreign environment where I wouldn’t normally be able to breath.“

“Takes you back to your seven year old self, so it is sonic time travel” Caroline Hobkinson

Get in touch with:

Caroline Hobkinson

www.carolinehobkinson.com or https://unusualingredients.co. on Instagram @caro_hobkinson.

Anita Stubenrauch

Linkedin or at www.causeeffectcreative.com or www.makeandbelieve.co

Getting your idea sold, launched and love your job doing it. Welcome to the intrapreneur’s joureny. Karen Holst shares that ideas at the very end are going to be the very best version of what they should be, versus what you thought they were going to be.

In this episode

Bringing a new innovation into the world as an entrepreneur has it’s host of challenges. Doing this within as an organization brings to the foreground it’s own perils, twists and dips.

If you are the kind of person who thrives on seeing ideas come into reality, Karen Holst, entrepreneur turned intrapreneur shares with us the key learnings and highlights from her book Start-Within, to making that journey.

Karen and I discuss as a Doer within an organization, what it takes to Get Ready, Get Set and Go forward to getting your idea launched.

She shares that in the end the idea in her head is going to look very different by the time it is launched. It’s going to be the best version of what it should be, versus what she thought it would be.

“What is locked up in my head may not be what it’s going to come out to be, I have to do the small experiments, share, get feedback, along the way iterate move forward and that is what all of this work looks like, its not just this idea locked up in you, and it comes out the way you believe it should, you’re involving many people you are taking many steps, and at the very end its going to be the very best version of what it should be, it won’t be what you thought it was going to be”. Karen Holst

Get in touch with at Karen Holst- https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenholst and the @ www.start-within.com.

About Karen Holst:

Karen Holst is an entrepreneur turned intrapreneur. She co-founded educational technology startup MyEdu, formerly Pick-A-Prof (acquired by Blackboard), and transitioned to intrepreneurial roles within the California Department of Education, IDEO, Autodesk, and LinkedIn Learning.

From government agencies and non-profits to startups and Fortune 500 companies, Karen has worked with organizations of varying sizes and across industries to help their leadership unlock creative potential and empower their employees to innovate. Her expertise on innovation has been featured in TechCrunch, The New York Times, NPR, The Chicago Tribute, CNN, and more.

Karen currently teaches courses through LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com), serves on the board of Thrive Education, and mentors entrepreneurs through TechStars and Stanford Latino Entrepreneur Leaders Program.

Harnessing the positive anchors that surround food and drink, explores and brings to life the new rituals that we can establish in liu of old ones that we might have released while at home. From the perspective of food artist and anthropologist Caroline Hobkinson we unpack the power of rituals that provide us with new anchoring, grounding and navigation.

In this episode we explore the notion of food and drink rituals from the perspective of anthropology, with guest Caroline Hobkinson. We unpack the concept of enhancing rituals that serve, anchor and ground, that we can make our own, which become fundamental to purposefully navigating our days.

The power of the mind and it’s perception are opened up. This altered mindset of mindfulness, savoring experiences to be truly present - even to the unpacking of the dishwasher.

We share with you the Unusual Ingredients project and you are invited on the next show to experience sound, accompanied by certain ingredients, which will modulate and enhance each ingredient.

The headline is that our mind and experience are all open for coaching, coaxing, and exploration. We can choose the experience that serves our higher creative intention.

Unusual ingredients is a multi-sensory project bringing to life the relationships between sound and flavour through live musical events and an album.

Drawing on the latest gastrophysical research into sensory perception, our music uses exact sonic frequencies and musical gestures calibrated to enhance the mouthfeel, flavour and provenance of each ingredient. Think Willy Wonka mixed with electronic music and cutting edge cross-disciplinary science. Unusual ingredients is created by musicians Jacob Thompson-Bell and Adam Martin, and food artist Caroline Hobkinson.

You can reach Caroline at:

www.carolinehobkinson.com or https://unusualingredients.co. on Instagram @caro_hobkinson.

You can get your own kit for the Willy Wonka ingredient sound experiment, the Lockdown kit https://unusualingredients.co/album . The kit for the five ingredients is 10 British Pounds, $13 including postage.

The ingredients are:

Popping Candy

Coffee Sweets

Seaweed

Bubble Gum Stopper Candy

Honey lozenge

If you would like to experience this sourcing your own ingredients, visit Spotify to look at the Unusual Ingredients playlist.

About Caroline Hobkinson

Caroline Hobkinson is an anthropologist exploring and investigating the interrelationships between Tech, Food, Art and the Senses.

Born in Cologne in 1979, trained at Central Saint Martin’s where she gained a degree in Fine Art and SOAS where she earned a master’s degree in the Anthropology of Food, she has been creating events and sculptural installations, in galleries, museums and public spaces worldwide. She has published and co-authored numerous research and academic papers on the neuroscientific workings of eating and conducted anthropological qualitative research into food and drink habits and rituals.

Operating within the intersections of technology, food and the senses Caroline has been giving numerous interactive talks and lectures on the subject of food and eating rituals for Unilever, Disney, Barilla, Space 10 and many others and her work and research has appeared in numerous publications. She has recently co presented a 3-part series on multisensory aspects of cheese, due out in summer 2020.

Staying grounded throughout the day, allows us to live our lives with intention and purpose, navigating through the ambiguity of what a day may throw at us. Integrative health coach, Stas Arsonov and I uncover the techniques to infuse groundedness into our day.

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In this episode we explore the concept of what it is to be grounded, how we can be active participants, versus having a day happen to us.

Moving with intention and purpose throughout our day is always important, and the muscles reps really come into action during times of ambiguity.

Join my conversation with Stas Arsonov, integrative nutritiona coach, founder of mind and body optimization Think Clever, as we do just that.

We define what it is to be grounded, simple techniques to access that state, beginning the day with a ritual to carry with you throughout your day.

Stas refers to the following resources:

Meditation: Calm, Headspace and Insight Timer.

Short intense bursts of exercise: Tabata

About Stas Arsonov

Founder of Think Clever and Citta Nutrition Cittanutrition.com, a stress management supplement, Stas Arsonov is an integrative health coach based out of Los Angeles, California. Stas works to help his coaching clients live with intention, establish morning routines and uncover their limiting habits.

With a background in healing body-work, nutrition, and fitness. He spent the past decade immersing himself deeply in mind and body optimization and learning from some of the great masters in the field of ultimate wellbeing.

As an entrepreneur we often give life to an idea and then are faced with the task of nurturing it and having it thrive. Navigating between a creativity mindset and an order systems and processes mindset is like mixing oil and water, they do not mix and yet both are critical. We explore why they are important in innovation, how to tap into and shift between the two worlds to create sustainable success to the endeavors you put your mind to.

In this episode we explored the infinity loop of creation and maintaining that creation, by looping from a creative, inception big picture mindset of creativity, into an orderly systems and processes mindset of Order.

Asking which one is more important would be like asking do you prefer breathing in or out.

We bring to life that we are able to shift either by ourselves or others. Ourselves being the acquistion of skills and tools in the alternate area, and through others by tapping into individuals who already have a disposition or energy in areas different to you.

About Heather Papoulis

Heather is the founder and CEO of Techpawlogy; training pets through positive tech. She teaches people how to train their pets pain free and fear free focusing on a balanced relationship of affection, respect and trust.

As a behaviorist, she’s worked with big cats, dolphins, elephants, horses, killer whales and wolves to name a few. Heather understands behavior and habit creation; she uses a mix of motivators and redirections to identify

our current point A and move purposefully to a desired point B of transformation.

Heather unlocks these mechanisms through a mix of psychology, philosophy and science in a fluid and applicable way. She believes through understanding our own behavior as wells as how we connect with others, we can reach our full potential and create positive change.

As a leader you can occupy one mindset but sustainable success requires that you have the ability to tap into both.

https://www.techpawlogy.com/hihellosura

You can get in touch with Heather Papoulis at: www.techpawology.com and for our podcast listeners: www.techpawlogy.com/hihellosura, as well as on instagram and other social mediums.

On this episode we are joined by Ex-Apple creative veteran, Anita Stubenrauch. Over the course of her 13-year career, she reimagined Apple's credo, designed presentations given to Steve Jobs, and was Angela Ahrendts' speechwriter. She shared with us her approach to helping individuals and organizations author the stories they want to live into.

Whether you are developing your personal brand, tapping into the truth of your team and organization or have a new something happening that needs sharing, Anita guides us through the thought provocations that get our whispers to reveal themselves and start shouting loud.
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On this show we explore how to craft the story of you as a human in the world, your projects, team, organization. We uncover how to unlock your true purpose and the impact you want to create in the world.

This Anita calls the backstory! By having a clear focus, you are empowered to draft yourself as the hero in your own story and are able to move through the world with confidence as you have a clear sense of self.

We explore how to get the answers to these universally applicable, soul searching questions, which include being able to create a climate of radical transparency, and daring to have audacious dreams.

Some of the questions include:

1. Why are you here?

2. What do you do?

3. What makes you different?

4. What is you personality?

5. Who here for?

6. What do you value?

As we know it takes a moment to suspend the busy, the judgement and step into a space of possibility.

Tips for temporarily suspending our inner critic:

1. Recognizing that it is there to help - say thanks!

2. Ask yourself if you won the lottery, would your dreams change?

3. Ask those that care about you, when you are at your best, why are you here. What is your purpose?

A deep dive into how to craft your story, your plot, how to add the twists and turns that make it compelling and true are available at her course:

https://courses.causeeffectcreative.com

Get in touch with Anita Stubenrauch on Linkedin or at:

https://www.causeeffectcreative.com.

About Anita Stubenrauch

Anita is an Apple Inc. creative veteran. Over a thirteen-year career, she authored Apple's new credo, designed presentations given to Steve Jobs and the Board of Directors, and was Angela Ahrendts' executive speechwriter. She also wrote for Jeff Williams, Eddy Cue, Jay Blahnik, and Matt Fischer, among many, many others.

She left Apple in 2018 to tackle my most ambitious project yet—founding The Land of Make+Believe and Cause:

The Land of Make+Believe: a transformational fourteen-acre creative retreat center where unlikely heroes learn to slay their dragons. For artists, activists, and social impact organizations.

Cause:Effect Creative—helping individuals and organizations author the stories they want to live.

Being courageous is leaning into the things that make us afraid, and seeing if you can unlock creativity in that moment. To share one of your ideas, is an act of courage. In this episode we learn how to harness courage, to understand our insurmountable sphere of influence for impact, and from that place how to build an ecosystem and supports our audiacious vision.