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159: Chris Schembra: Expressing Gratitude
Episode 159
Do you feel gratitude toward people who have helped you?
Do you express that gratitude more than enough, not enough, or about right?
You're probably familiar with research that expressing gratitude and…
Published on 6 years, 9 months ago
158: Dee Caffari, part 1: Turning the Tide on Plastic
Episode 158
For context for today's guest, those who know I'm avoiding flying might also know I'm learning to sail to explore off North America. When considering acting on their values, most people focus on the …
Published on 6 years, 9 months ago
157: Tom Szaky, part 1: TerraCycle's new initiative: Loop
Episode 157
Tom Szaky has been working on waste since his undergrad days at Princeton in 2001. Then I suddenly heard about him from many sources in the past few months.
His company, Terracycle, recycles waste oth…
Published on 6 years, 9 months ago
156: Pale Blue Dot Today
Episode 156
If you've never heard Carl Sagan's spoken essay Pale Blue Dot, you'll get to hear it in today's episode. It still chokes me up.
Here is an Earthrise image taken a few years ago like those he contrasts…
Published on 6 years, 9 months ago
155: Margot Machol Bisnow, part 1: Raising an Entrepreneur
Episode 155
A few months ago I attended the Summit. It was expensive, so I wasn't sure I'd get the value out of it that I paid.
As it came together for me, I met the founder, Elliott Bisnow, and then happened to …
Published on 6 years, 9 months ago
154: Why You, Famous Person, Will Like Being a Guest on this Podcast
Episode 154
Today, I'm sharing what value being a guest offers to influential, well-known people.
I call Oprah and her peers the single-name people -- people everyone knows by single names: LeBron, Serena, Sergey…
Published on 6 years, 9 months ago
153: Sean O'Connor, part 1: From paper cups to evaluating life
Episode 153
Today's guest, Sean, is a friend. We recorded this conversation before the podcast launched in November 2017. It took a while to get through the editing process, but I wanted to post it to document t…
Published on 6 years, 9 months ago
152: Peter Gray, part 1: Free to Learn
Episode 152
Nobody likes being coerced to do something you don't want under threat of punishment. Nor do people like being told they're wrong or ignorant by someone else telling you they know better.
Yet it happe…
Published on 6 years, 9 months ago
151: What Al Gore Misses
Episode 151
I confess I haven't interacted directly with Al Gore so I don't know how he leads in person. I saw him on stage once, but the person interviewing him, Jaden Smith, was 20 years old and I didn't see g…
Published on 6 years, 9 months ago
150: Tom Murphy, part 1: Do the Math, the language of nature
Episode 150
Everyone thinks about the environment. Nearly everyone gets bogged down in questions.
What's best?Will this or that change make a difference?What does all the science mean?What should I do?Science ans…
Published on 6 years, 9 months ago