Episodes
May 28, 2025
821: Rob Reed MD, part 1: Learning leadership transforms your life and work
Rob is one of my coaching clients. I asked him to be a guest here since many people perceive leadership and learning it as different than I mean. His work in medicine may not be at the center of sustainability, but I work in ...
May 22, 2025
820: Andy Samuel CBE: From worry before the workshop to Fun and Community during and after
Are you thinking about acting more but concerned about feeling guilty or judged that you aren't doing enough? If so, you'll love this conversation. I feel honored to work with people with Andy's background and community, whic...
May 12, 2025
819: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 6: Our Brighter Future
This last recording in the series brings together the opportunities. We can't fix all the world's problems or to go back in time and change history. We can't change that people are already dying by the tens of millions annual...
May 9, 2025
818: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 5: The Celebrity Opportunities
Look up "Greatest of All Time" on Wikipedia and you'll find Muhammad Ali. This lesson shares how he went from being just the heavyweight champion of the world to the greatest of all time, transcending sport to becoming a stat...
May 8, 2025
817: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 4: The Political Opportunities
Sustainability has become a polarized partisan political issue, despite everyone wanting clean air, land, water, and food. In the US, neither the Democrats nor Republicans have a vision of or plan to sustainability. Both rely...
May 5, 2025
816: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 3: Business/Entrepreneurial Opportunities
The solution in video 3---the Spodek Method---creates a new, more effective situation than anything I know of in sustainability. People act on their own motivation that they felt before I met them. Instead of me motivating th...
May 3, 2025
815: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 2: The Solution
Now that we understand our environmental problems as cultural, proposals based in technology, market incentives, and legislation don't address the problem. They generally won't achieve the desired outcome and will often achie...
May 1, 2025
814: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 1: The Actual Problem
Do you think our environmental problems are rooted in greenhouse gas levels or emissions? Or biodiversity loss? Or any of what makes the headlines? They are symptoms. They all result from our behavior, which results from our ...
April 29, 2025
813: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: Quick Introduction: Welcome to the Sustainability Simplified community
Many people see whatever part of what I do, think that's everything, and conclude I'm just doing some personal action or other form of spitting into the wind. I don't like wasting my time any more than anyone else does, nor d...
April 19, 2025
812: Robert Fullilove, part 3: Politics, family, race, and sustainability
Our third conversation matches the first two in intrigue and quality. We talk about the things that came up for Dr. Bob that got in the way of his commitment. These issues come up for nearly everyone (implying they aren't per...
April 14, 2025
811: Tina Tombstone: A friend I volunteer delivering food to the needy with
Tina is one of the central characters in that group that everyone knows (another is Kevin Fucillo , also a podcast guest). We go back a few years. She was born in the south in 1933, so you can do the math, but you'd never gue...
March 30, 2025
810: Giora Netzer, part 2: Leadership coaching leads to far more than "just" the C-Suite
In our second conversation, Giora reveals more about his developing as a leader. If you listen for it, you can hear the vision he had for himself and his profession, but also the development he needed to realize it. This podc...
March 28, 2025
809: Alexander Clapp: Waste Wars, how we profit off polluting the world claiming to help them
I found Alex when listeners sent me an opinion piece in the New York Times he wrote, The Story You’ve Been Told About Recycling Is a Lie . Getting to where I take years to fill a load of trash means I've researched waste a lo...
March 20, 2025
808: Silvia Bellezza: Sustainable Marketing at Columbia Business School
Silvia created the course Sustainable Marketing at Columbia. It's an elective and has become the class at the business school with the most students from other schools at the university. In looking for a guest speaker on sust...
March 4, 2025
807: Giora Netzer MD MSCE, part 1: A leader I coached to the C-suite
Are you reaching your potential, professionally or personally? Have you wondered what would happen if you got coaching? Giora did. A friend of his who was a client of mine recommended he get coaching from me. We worked togeth...
Feb. 21, 2025
806: Robert Fullilove, part 2: the spirit of the Civil Rights movement
Dr. Bob shares more about his experience acting during the 1960s, as well as today on helping prisoners and more. I hope you can hear the electricity I felt listening. Two kinds of electricity: one for the stories, another fo...
Feb. 19, 2025
805: Osprey Orielle Lake: Founder and Executive Director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN)
I was pleasantly surprised in reading Osprey's book The Story is in Our Bones that she also sees the need to change culture, including elements like our stories, role models, images, and beliefs. Focusing on cultural elements...
Feb. 13, 2025
804: Robert Fullilove EdD, part 1: Lessons from America's Civil Rights era and effective action today
People call my behavior extreme, though I'm just acting in service of others. To be more precise, I'm acting in love for others. When people suggest what I'm doing is too hard, I sometimes remark how during America's Civil Ri...
Jan. 28, 2025
803: Nick Loris, part 3: Liberty, freedom, sustainability, and Rock Creek Park
You probably came to hear Nick's experience exploring Rock Creek Park in Washington DC based on his childhood experiences in nature with his father. Since we recorded shortly after my visit to DC, where I missed Nick but visi...
Jan. 14, 2025
802: Lorraine Smith, part 2: The hidden, dirty secrets of corporate "sustainability" work
I start by sharing how much value I get from participating in Lorraine's weekly coaching group. Then she shares her path to coaching on sustainability. She worked in the heart of the corporate sustainability accounting and re...
Jan. 9, 2025
801: Travis Fisher, part 3: Restoring time with family
Meaningful interactions don't have to be complex. Travis simply shares his experiences in nature in childhood and finds ways to recreate the emotional experience today. To me the most meaningful part is the result: he expects...
Dec. 31, 2024
800: Lorna Davis, part 4: After the Sustainability Leadership Workshop
If you haven't listened to my conversation with Lorna before taking the sustainability leadership workshop , I recommend listening to it first: 794: Lorna Davis, part 3: Before taking the sustainability leadership workshop . ...
Dec. 28, 2024
799: Josh Bandoch, part 2: Leadership: Humans feel first, then reason
Josh and I talked about a few aspects of his acting on his commitment from the Spodek Method. For one thing, since he and I both study, practice, and teach leadership, we talked about the technique, how it works, how it impac...
Dec. 25, 2024
798: Nick Romeo: The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy
Regular listeners and readers of my podcast and blog know I grew up with parents who helped form a grocery buying group which folded into a food co-op. Different co-ops work differently, but the general idea is that shoppers ...