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- 113: The Future of Humanity and Learning From Covid-19 - Caroline Chubb Calderon
Guest Overview
Futurist and humanist Caroline Chubb Calderon thinks a lot about what it will mean to be human in the age of intelligent machines, genomic and robotics and why we must reimagine the future of humanity.
In light of the Covid-19 pandemic her perspective is vital if we are to understand the future role of economies, work, leadership and humanity, and to prepare ourselves for a world of exponential disruption and uncertainty.
This might be the most important interview we have conducted so far. Please share.
What we discuss
Caroline discusses what the virus is telling us about the future of work, and the economy, and how to reprioritize human wellbeing.
She discusses the parallels with what AI is challenging us to do.
Caroline explains the change cycles we are in. Moving from the ‘big squeeze’ into ‘the reckoning phase’ and the new reality for leaders to lead the emotions of teams, let feelings of discomfort guide us through the core human emotions of fear, anxiety, trust and love.
Caroline explains why the future needs courageous leaders and why courage requires vulnerability ( defined as uncertainly, risk and emotional exposure).
She discusses why we must all focus on developing our uniquely human capabilities of compassion and social emotional intelligence and creativity.
Caroline then discusses the big shifts that are at play
- How might we imagine the future of economies
- The acceleration of AI genomics and robotics - How we make them ethical. And the worm needs to be done by leaders and questions whether this work is being done.-She argues that the humbling nature of the virus creates an opportunity for global conversation
- The shift away from globalization to more local economies from supply chains and farming
- The emphasis on human wellbeing on leaders agendas
- Greater emphasis on existential crisis mitigation
This is an important discussion so please share with whoever you can.
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42 min - 112: The Power of Vulnerability, Empathy and Integrity with Robert Marchetti
Guest overview
Robert Marchetti is an Australian born celebrity chef and now New York based restaurateur and co-founder of Gran Tivoli and Peppi’s Cellar.
As founder and CEO of Marchettico, his hospitality lifestyle company, he delivers creative solutions that include Interior Design, Architectural, Food & Beverage, Concept Creation and Design.
Listen to Part One here.
In Part Two Robert discusses his vision for his NYC restaurant Gran Tivoli and why he is self funded. He reflects on the economic impact of Covid19 on New York restaurants and bars, the business environment, supporting his staff and how as humans we can use this period as a time to grow stronger and sharpen our tools. He discusses why vulnerability is a strength and how he has learned to thrive through failure and his perspective on organic food and the industrial food supply chain. The hard decision he had to make when he was at the top of his game.
Robert discusses his love of history books, the imperative to solve homelessness and the rest of his quick-fire questions.
I hope you enjoy the honesty, passion, curiosity Robert Marchetti.
Social Links
Instagram Gran Tivoli
Roberts Instagram
Gran Tivoli Website
Facebook
Show Links
The Surrender experiment
Jason Scott
Danny Myers and ShakeShack
David Thomson Thai Cook
Walkers Tavern
9/11
Elon Musk
Andrew Cuomo
Bill Gates
Change Please
Animals Australia
Bosch
Sweet Child of Mine
The Gift of Fear
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41 min - 111: Robert Marchetti - The Preparation, Passion and Principles of Celebrity Chef
Guest overview
Robert Marchetti is an Australian born celebrity chef and now New York based restaurateur and co-founder of Gran Tivoli and Peppi’s Cellar.
As founder and CEO of Marchettico, his hospitality lifestyle company, he delivers creative solutions that include Interior Design, Architectural, Food & Beverage, Concept Creation and Design.
In Part One of this wide ranging discussion Robert tells the story of his upbringing in Australia to an Italian father and German mother, how his youthful persistence led him to his first experience of the restaurant industry age thirteen, being hired at fifteen by his older brother in his iconic Italian restaurant, and honing his skills on his journey through the dysfunctional high pressured restaurant kitchen environments of the 80’s and 90’s and navigating a path through a culture of abuse and staff reliance on drugs and alcohol. Robert also discusses how he developed his leadership style, being self taught, mentoring and the importance of lifelong learning.
Social Links
Instagram Gran Tivoli
Roberts Instagram
Gran Tivoli Website
Facebook
Show Links
The Surrender experiment
Jason Scott
Danny Myers and ShakeShack
David Thomson Thai Cook
Walkers Tavern
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42 min - 110: Why We Do What We Do Post Covid19 - Nita Baum ( Part Two)
Guest Overview
Nita Baum is an entrepreneur, co-creator, facilitator, mentor-coach, and community-builder. She is also board lead for Solar responders - the NGO from previous guest Hunter Johansson - so thanks to Hunter for making this happen.
Born in New York to an inspiring cancer scientist mother and a philosophical pharmacist father, her parents’ influenced her curiosity, appreciation for creation, and her right brain - left brain development.
In Part One of this two-parter we cover Nita’s early story.
In Part Two we discuss her perspectives on the broader impact of Covid19
cover what led Nita to form her business Bfree to partners with organizations to help them to activate individual, team, and organizational potential. Nita questions purpose role of work in light of the crisis and our growing realization of what can be achieved so easily and quickly
We discuss the transformative moment of now and how people are reacting and the opportunity for consciousness-raising, the reorientation of human capital and the transformative capacity in all of us.
I hope you are inspired by the vision, values and life philosophy of Nita Baum
What we discuss:
Nita's mother's wonder and awe and love of science
Her father’s broad expansive thinking and his concern for what it means to be human and our collective interdependence.
How Nita grew up to understand about food as a healing agent
Her Mother’s respect for science
A growing appreciation for art and science, and the process of creation
Nita's memories of her conversations with her father about MLK and JFK and her rebellious side
She discusses her sister's influence and their relationship
Playing games of the imagination
The love of school and the challenges she faced
Her love of reading and art and literature
Nita's growing social and political consciousness of local and global events
Being drawn to Education
Studying art history and east Asian studies
Traveling to China, Japan and Korea and becoming interested in the philosophy and spirituality
Studying in Japan after college.
The combination of abundance and scarcity and how her parents taught them about value and gratitude.
Witnessing the social inequity in education
The exposure to black culture by being invited to a gifted child's education program
Her emotional maturity
The realization that power of systems and her misalignment
In Part two
The impact of Covid19
Humanities interdependency and being wired for survival
What might emerge from Covid19
What is the purpose of work
Our realization of what can be achieved so easily and quickly
The transformative moment of now
How people are reacting and the opportunity for consciousness-raising
We discuss Bfree and its vision
The transformative power of leaving the workforce
The philosophy of Bfree
The reorientation of Human Capital
The transformative capacity in all of us
The potential of self, teams, and our larger human collective
Processing our grief through institutionalized fear vs building from love
Principles - Presume we all come free. Gifted, equal in power and grounded.
Nita's impossible advice
Links to Social
Website
LinkedIn
Twitter
Solar Responders
Yak Collective
Links in show
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Americorp
George Washington University
NetImpact
Black National Anthem
The Tail End
Rosa Parks
I Will Survive
Book When Things Fall Apart
FocusMates
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39 min - 109: Nita Baum - Her Serendipitous Journey To Transformational Leadership
Guest Overview
Nita Baum is an entrepreneur, co-creator, facilitator, mentor-coach, and community-builder. She is also board lead for Solar responders - the NGO from previous Guest Hunter Johansson - so thanks to Hunter for making this happen.
Born in New York to an inspiring cancer scientist mother and a philosophical pharmacist father, her parents’ influenced her curiosity, appreciation for creation and her right brain - left brain development.
In part one of this two parter we cover Nita’s early influences, her love of school and education, sisters' influence, playing games of the imagination and growing up in an environment of scarcity and abundance.
Nita discusses experiencing the social inequity in education, developing a social and political consciousness of local and global events, traveling to China, Japan and Korea and becoming interested in the philosophy and spirituality.
In Part Two we discuss her perspectives on the broader impact of Covid19 and cover what led Nita to form her business Bfree to partners with organizations to help them to activate individual, team and organizational potential. Nita questions purpose role of work in light of the crisis and our growing realization of what can be achieved so easily and quickly
We discuss the transformative moment of now and how people are reacting and the opportunity for consciousness raising, the reorientation of human capital and the transformative capacity in all of us.
I hope you are inspired by the vision, values and life philosophy of Nita Baum
What we discuss:
Nita's mother's wonder and awe and love of science
Her father’s broad expansive thinking and his concern for what it means to be human and our collective interdependence.
How Nita grew up to understand about food as a healing agent
Her Mother’s respect for science
A growing appreciation for art and science, and the process of creation
Nita's memories of her conversations with her father about MLK and JFK and her rebellious side
She discusses her sisters influence and their relationship
Playing games of the imagination
The love of school and the challenges she faced
Her love of reading and art and literature
Nita's growing social and political consciousness of local and global events
Being drawn to Education
Studying art history and east asian studies
Traveling to China, Japan and Korea and becoming interested in the philosophy and spirituality
Studying in Japan after college.
The combination of abundance and scarcity and how her parents taught them about value and gratitude.
Witnessing the social inequity in education
The exposure to black culture by being invited to a gifted child's education program
Her emotional maturity
Realization that power of systems and her misalignment
In Part two
The impact of Covid19
Humanities interdependency and being wired for survival
What might emerge from Covid19
What is the purpose of work
Our realization of what can be achieved so easily and quickly
The transformative moment of now
How people are reacting and the opportunity for consciousness raising
We discuss Bfree and its vision
The transformative power of leaving the workforce
The philosophy of BFree
The reorientation of Human Capital
The transformative capacity in all of us
The potential of self, teams, and our larger human collective
Processing our grief through institutionalized fear vs building from love
Principles - Presume we all come free. Gifted, equal in power and grounded.
Nita's impossible advice
Links to Social
Website
LinkedIn
Twitter
Solar Responders
Yak Collective
Links in show
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Americorp
George Washington University
NetImpact
Black National Anthem
The Tail End
Rosa Parks
I Will Survive
Book When Things Fall Apart
FocusMates
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42 min - 108: Covid19 - Frontline Heroes Feeding New York - The Migrant Kitchen
Guest overviews
This is a special Covid19 episode.
Recorded over Zoom, I interview Nasser Jaber, the co-founder of The Migrant Kitchen who’s team is currently delivering 50 thousand free meals a day in NY and NJ to feed the families of those impacted by the Covid-19 crisis, including local healthcare workers on the front line in and around the city.
Joining us is Israa Nasir - a clinically trained psychotherapist with experience of working with minority communities in NYC and treating their cultural and immigration-based challenges, anxiety issues, traumas, and the stresses people are suffering as this crisis unfolds.
We cover the amazing work Nas is doing, the logistical challenges they face daily, in this disaster relief program, the complexity of sourcing, preparing, cooking, and delivering under CDC guidance and social distancing standards, and his go fund me campaign,
We also cover the issues facing the food insecure communities, and the social injustice of the current food supply chain and the broader social issues this virus has exposed and his personal experience of dealing with and overcoming his own mental health challenges growing up in occupied Palestine.
Israa discusses the work she is doing to confront the stigma in Asian communities and some of the mental health challenges they face, how the virus has equalized the calls for help, and the impact on frontline workers. She also expands upon cultural and generational taboos around mental health and anxiety and the changes underway.
We also discuss the mental health issues facing people working in restaurants and kitchens and the exploitation of people of color, undocumented workers and gender-based bias
Due to some connection issues at around the halfway, there are some sound glitches for a minute or two but we have left them in as the sound returns to normal just after.
I hope you are inspired and moved to support the great work of Nas Jaber and Israa Nasir.
They discuss the positive changes in mental health literacy and changing attitudes resulting from the Virus,
Social Links
Migrant Kitchen
NasJab83
Instagram - The Migrant Kitchen
Facebook
Instagram Well.guide
Israa’s Linkedin
Links In the Show
The Migrant Kitchen Gofundme
World Central Kitchen
Jean George
Door Dash
Chelsea Rental
NYU IC
Crisis Textline
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48 min - 107: Evolution of Education & Impact of Covid19 - Maria Dantos Part 2Guest Overview Maria Dantos was born to a gregarious Greek immigrant father and ‘Mayflower compact’ mother. She grew up in her family-run haunted hotel in Vermont, with safety and freedom to play and explore her imagination. Immersed in abundant love she developed a world view of social justice and the importance of removing the inequity in education. Maria is an educator to her core; with 15 years of teaching, administration and educational reform experience. She has worked with people of diverse backgrounds and to advocate for justice in education as a means of upward social mobility for minority, female or otherwise less advantaged people. Her work reflects the importance of lifelong education and encouraging curiosity.She founded, and led multiple daycare and pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) education programs and schools of up to 100 students. Driven by her conviction that every child deserves to have access to quality education led her to launch her non-profit organization, Philox to provide humanitarian relief and education to underserved at-risk children in humanitarian areas of concern. Maria is also seeking to collaborate with educators, healthcare workers, community organizers and artists to provide solutions for at-risk children in this time of crisis. Applying her organizational, management and creative skills together Maria has worked as producer for several live events, short films, documentaries and one feature length film. She has also collaborated with members of Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, Lincoln Center, and with Bank Street College at Columbia University.In Part two we cover her work in educational development and perspectives on the future impact of Covid19 on education and child development. I hope you enjoy the caring compassion and commitment of Maria Dantos. What we discuss Growing up in a playful outdoor environment she discusses her making her own adventures. Maria reflects on the influence of her Greek roots, and her curiosity about ‘otherness’ in a non greek community. We discuss the abundance of love but changing material scarcity. Maria explains how her education piqued her curiosity and broadened her worldview and led her to winning a scholarship to Japan aged fourteen and learning what was an alien culture but forged lifelong connections. Maria explains how serendipity set her on a path to a career in education as a result of 9/11 that led her to signing up to a Masters program at University of Pennsylvania.She discusses the impact of living with the Navajo Nation and the influence of living with a Navajo Indian elder and revolutionary Catherine Smith and how this opened her eyes to systematic social injustice, poverty, addiction, malnutrition, lack of human rights and dignity . We cover her first experience in teaching in New York working between two economically diverse schools Maria tells the story of the serendipity of one set of parents who decided to fund her school start up. Maria discusses early childhood education curriculum strategies and her hope for the future of education and the relationships and discussions she is having to address the changes we need in education. We cover behavioral and neural changes in children due to the impact of technology and the lack of human interaction that is affecting child and interpersonal developments. We dive into the importance of quality content for children. Maria describes her collaborations with Columbia and Yo Yo Ma create new educational experiencesI ask Maria to describe her educational NGO Philox and how its creating access to education to children and the community and protection. We discuss this in relation to Covid 19 and where the education system will change and how she hopes that more value will be focused on education.She names her principles of justice and Integrity Social LinksLinkedinInstagramV...
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38 min - 106: A Serendipitous Path To Educational Reform - Maria DantosGuest Overview Maria Dantos was born to a gregarious Greek immigrant father and ‘Mayflower compact’ mother. She grew up in her family-run haunted hotel in Vermont, with safety and freedom to play and explore her imagination. Immersed in abundant love she developed a world view of social justice and the importance of removing the inequity in education. Maria is an educator to her core; with 15 years of teaching, administration and educational reform experience. She has worked with people of diverse backgrounds and to advocate for justice in education as a means of upward social mobility for minority, female or otherwise less advantaged people. Her work reflects the importance of lifelong education and encouraging curiosity.She founded, and led multiple daycare and pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) education programs and schools of up to 100 students. Driven by her conviction that every child deserves to have access to quality education led her to launch her non-profit organization, Philox to provide humanitarian relief and education to underserved at-risk children in humanitarian areas of concern. Maria is also seeking to collaborate with educators, healthcare workers, community organizers and artists to provide solutions for at-risk children in this time of crisis. Applying her organizational, management and creative skills together Maria has worked as producer for several live events, short films, documentaries and one feature length film. She has also collaborated with members of Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, Lincoln Center, and with Bank Street College at Columbia University.In Part One we cover Maria’s early years. In Part two we cover her work in educational development and perspectives on the future impact of Covid19 on education and child development. I hope you enjoy the caring compassion and commitment of Maria Dantos. What we discuss Growing up in a playful outdoor environment she discusses her making her own adventures. Maria reflects on the influence of her Greek roots, and her curiosity about ‘otherness’ in a non greek community. We discuss the abundance of love but changing material scarcity. Maria explains how her education piqued her curiosity and broadened her worldview and led her to winning a scholarship to Japan aged fourteen and learning what was an alien culture but forged lifelong connections. Maria explains how serendipity set her on a path to a career in education as a result of 9/11 that led her to signing up to a Masters program at University of Pennsylvania.She discusses the impact of living with the Navajo Nation and the influence of living with a Navajo Indian elder and revolutionary Catherine Smith and how this opened her eyes to systematic social injustice, poverty, addiction, malnutrition, lack of human rights and dignity . We cover her first experience in teaching in New York working between two economically diverse schools Maria tells the story of the serendipity of one set of parents who decided to fund her school start up. Maria discusses early childhood education curriculum strategies and her hope for the future of education and the relationships and discussions she is having to address the changes we need in education. We cover behavioral and neural changes in children due to the impact of technology and the lack of human interaction that is affecting child and interpersonal developments. We dive into the importance of quality content for children. Maria describes her collaborations with Columbia and Yo Yo Ma create new educational experiencesI ask Maria to describe her educational NGO Philox and how its creating access to education to children and the community and protection. We discuss this in relation to Covid 19 and where the education system will change and how she hopes that more value will be focused on education.She names her principles of justice and ...
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48 min - 105: Cancel Corona - Nick Fitz Co-Founder Momentum App
We just interviewed our past guest Nick Fitz on his team's amazing Cancel Corona initiative.
Nick explains how he and his team have quickly pivoted to build out the web app to enable anyone or any brand to use the platform to generate purposeful Covid donations based on what people are not spending during Covid19.
'Millions are losing work, kids are going hungry, and coronavirus cases are rising. At the same time, we’re collectively spending billions less by not commuting, not eating out, and not going to bars and canceled events. Let’s put that extra cash to work.
See how much you’re saving, then easily donate to help those most affected by Corona.'
Link to Cancel Corona
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15 min - 104: The Serendipity of Nookie Town And Beyond - Tori O'Connell
Tori Chickering O'Connell was born in New Jersey to parents that cultivated a loving, safe, and creative home environment where comedy, music, and dance were a central part of the daily furniture of growing up.
There is no question that this nurturing environment set her on a path to a creative career of being a journalist, producer, documentary filmmaker, comedy writer and published author of two books Nookie Town and Twisted Family Values.
In this vibrant two-parter, we cover Tori's upbringing and the influence of her parents, infusing the importance of having fun and not giving a damn.
Tori's discusses the importance of gratitude, having a 'why not me' attitude, and how in her early career, this attitude landed her a job at MTV, as she applied her creativity and embraced life's uncertainty and ambiguity with gusto. Tori reflects on using this attitude in the time of Covid19, and we discuss how new models are emerging in comedy, music and the arts during the lockdown.
We cover her extraordinary experience of making a documentary of some of today's most lauded comedians 20 years ago before they were famous.
And we dive deep into how the serendipitous personal experience of becoming a divorcee in Jersey led to the idea for her first novel, NookieTown, and covers her second book, Twisted Family Values.
I hope you enjoy the fun and freedom of not giving a damn with Tori O'Connell.
What We Discuss
Tori's parental impact
Glitter balls and dancing on Saturdays
The experience of her youth
Art Therapy
The importance of fun
The impact of her grandparents
Living in a household of love
Freedom and life force of not give a damn
Being outspoken and out there and the bullying that resulted
The importance of Halloween costumes
The connection of dis-ease to disease
Her 'let's do it' attitude
An early love of song and dance
Having a sellout show at the Edinburgh festival with New York, Sex, Killing and Shopping
Having start over attitude
You Can Do it attitude
Great Day in Harlem
The evolution of NookieTown
The idea behind Twisted Family Values
Her upcoming novel
Fun, accountability and social risk
Social Links
VC Chickering - author's site (with loads of fun links to buy books and procrastinate)
@vcchickering - author's Instagram
Tori Erstwhile & The Montys - author's band's YouTube channel
Links in the Show
Nookie Town
Twisted Family Values
Tori Erstwhile and the Montys
St Martin's Press
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Mike Birbiglia Tip Your Wait staff
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
International Opera Choir Nabucco Opera
Hamilton on Zoom
Stuck in the Middle Fallon
CBGB's
Bust
Joan Jet
Hurricane Sandy
Great Day in Harlem
VEEP
Flight of the Conchords
Sex Education
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42 min
About The Impossible Network
From the publisher's feed
The weekly podcast tells the stories of curious-minded, purposeful people, creating positive change for social good.
Our guests include creative problem-solvers, storytellers, activists and…
artists, social impact entrepreneurs, and philanthropists from across the arts, business, science, and technology, working to solve some of our more pressing problems.
Each week, host Mark Fallows explores who his guests are as humans, who or what made them, what they are working to achieve or impact in the world, and where serendipity has impacted their journey.
Learn, gain insights, and be inspired by how a diverse range of people have broken through obstacles, fearlessly exceeded the boundaries society sets, and taken chances, regardless of risk, that most fear, in pursuit of their ‘impossible’.
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