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Results May Vary PodcastRMV 35 Bonus Episode! Psychedelic Medicine x Design Pop Up at Stanford University d.schoolHello Results May Vary listeners, it’s Tracy! I’m excited to share this very special episode featuring a panel conversation on the topic of Psychedelic Medicine and Design. I recently co-hosted this live event at the Stanford University Hasso Plattner Institute of Design aka the dschool, with my teaching colleagues Elysa Fenenboch and Dr. Gianni Glick. We set out to explore the question, what IS the role of design as we transition psychedelic medicine from the research lab to medical clinics and journey spaces? How might they be used for the most good to individuals, cultures, and e...
2023-06-191h 14
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 34 Katie Love: How To Design Your Love LifeThe pandemic has taken its toll on many people's romantic relationships. How can passion thrive as the world starts to rebuild? Katie Love is a life designer and expert on the human heart. The RMV chat to her about how to build a co-creative relationship, how to re-spark passion and when to decide if a relationship is coming to an end.
2021-10-1935 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 33 Ashley Jablow: How To Strike A Balance Between Work & LifeThe pandemic is forcing us to rethink how we work but how can you separate the home and the office if they're both the same place? Chris and Katia chat with life designer Ashley Jablow about how to overcome a toxic culture of excessive work. They also talk about the power of intuition and what true growth feels like.
2021-10-1225 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 32 Mollie Amkraut Mueller: How To Design Your CareerLife's too short to not love what you do but how should you approach that dream job? Mollie Amkraut Mueller founded the career-coaching company Crew to answer just that. Tracy and Katia chat to Mollie about incorporating life design into the job hunt and ask how to stay motivated in a bad job.
2021-10-0527 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 31 Gabrielle Santa-Donato: The Quiet Power of GraceGabrielle recently joined the Learning Team at Airbnb to create and deliver innovative learning experiences that help foster connection, unlock creativity and inspire action. Katia and Chris talk with Gabrielle about the fundamentals of life design, the potential for prototyping and practical steps everyone can take to unlock their full potential.
2021-09-2830 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 30 Lee Kim: Rediscovering The Wonder of PlayIn early 2017 Lee Kim forgot her friend Tracy's birthday. What would be a moment of fleeting regret for many of us, instead sparked a creative journey for Lee and @wearabletracy was born. Every day Lee would wear a different birthday crown made from multi-coloured pipe cleaners. On the show, Lee Kim talks about how this simple act of play has radically transformed her life.
2021-09-2129 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 29 Alyssa Chang: How Can Neuroscience Change Your LifeWellness expert Alyssa Chang talks to Chris and Tracy about the power of neuroscience. Based in sunny Honolulu, Alyssa's journey into brain-based coaching stems from a past career as a collegiate volleyball player. In the first episode of Season 3 of Results May Vary, Alyssa guides us through practical exercises that help improve the connection between our brain and body. Why not try at home too!
2021-09-1445 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 28 Bonus Episode! You Can Design Life After VaccinationDare to dream beyond the pandemic as Chris, Katia and Tracy guide you through life design in the age of Covid-19. In this bonus episode of the podcast, the team talk about how the vaccine offers a glimmer of light from fatigue and exhaustion. Also, how life can get harder when you get closer to the finish line and why it's important to keep moving forward.
2021-02-2618 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 27 Season 2 Finale: Ask Us Anything!Today we are excited to wrap up our Results May Vary podcast relaunch with the sixth and final episode of Season 2! To celebrate, we’re switching up the format a bit by inviting our talented producer, Jenny Luna, to ask us the life design questions that came up for her while editing our material as a newbie to this work. Since we recorded all of the episodes before we launched again, we found it was a great hack for us to get feedback about what might resonate best for you no matter how familiar you are, or aren’t, with...
2020-12-1838 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 26 Purin Phanichphant: You Can Design Tiny New Rituals To Spark Joy Throughout Your DayToday we are delighted to welcome artist, designer, and educator Purin Phanichiphant. With his roots in Northern Thailand, where he spent part of his life as a Buddhist monk, combined with his background in designing innovative products in Silicon Valley, Purin’s work reminds us to take a pause, play, touch, and take joy in simplicity.Whether it’s rethinking cultural rituals or using art to examine the parallels between the universe and the brain, Purin’s interactive objects and installations engage people in co-creation.Let’s listen in as Purin shares his perspective on the infi...
2020-12-0433 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 25 Dr. Kyra Bobinet: You Can Design An Iterative MindsetToday we are excited to welcome our first Results May Vary repeat guest, and author of Well-Designed Life, Dr. Kyra Bobinet. Kyra’s specialty is combining brain science & design thinking to serve the health of whole populations of people, and to challenge them and herself to live healthy fulfilling lives; physically, mentally, and spiritually.Dr. Bobinet has spent her career working in the healthcare industry, building programs and algorithms to change behaviors at the million-person scale. Today she is the Founder and CEO of Fresh Tri, a simple, sustainable behavior change approach based on the brain science of...
2020-11-2045 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 24 Sasha Sagan: You Can Design Rituals To Celebrate Our Unlikely ExistenceToday we’re thrilled and honored to welcome Sasha Sagan. Raised in a secular household by the astronomer Carl Sagan and writer and producer Ann Druyen, Sasha was taught that the natural world and vast cosmos are full of profound beauty, and that science reveals truths that are more wondrous than any myth or fable. When she herself became a mother, Sasha began her own hunt for the natural phenomena behind our most treasured occasions — from births to deaths, holidays to weddings, anniversaries, and the simple ways we mark the rhythms of the everyday. Seeing life itself as w...
2020-11-0645 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 23 BJ Miller: You Can Design an Adventurous Life Inspired by DeathToday we are excited to welcome physician, author, speaker, and friend, Dr. BJ Miller. As a practicing hospice and palliative care doctor, BJ is best known for his TED Talk, "What Really Matters at the End of Life," and recently co-authored A Beginner’s Guide to the End, with the Editorial Director of IDEO, Shoshana Berger. BJ sees patients and caregivers through his online palliative care service, Mettle Health. And is the subject of Netflix's Academy Award-nominated short documentary, End Game. Listen in as BJ shares his story of recovery from a life altering accident at 19 through his...
2020-10-2340 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 22 Introducing Katia Verresen, Our New Co-Host: You Can Design An Abundance Advantage"Your mindset is like glasses. It's the lens through which you see the world."In this episode of Results May Vary, Chris and Tracy welcome new co-host Katia Verresen, an executive coach and dubbed "the fairy godmother of Silicon Valley." Katia's passion for life design and realizing that anything can be created inspires her work with startup cofounders, senior executives, and investors.Listen as Katia shares more about how you can approach life through the lens of abundance and choice, and how to fit little pleasures for yourself into every single day.Results...
2020-10-0927 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 21 Saeeda Hafiz: You Can Design Healing Out Of Childhood ChaosSaeeda Hafiz is a yoga teacher, author, and wellness expert. As a holistic health educator with the San Francisco Unified School District, she focuses on sharing her knowledge of physical and mental wellness within the school system. On this episode of Results May Vary, Saeeda talks with Chris and Tracy about how growing up in a household of chaos, gave her the freedom to choose a different life for herself. Saeeda shares how yearnings for something else started out as intuition as a child, until she could put words to those yearnings as an adult. She works to set...
2020-09-1152 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 20 Barbara Knickerbocker Beskind: You Can Design AgingBarbara has been designing her life for almost a century, with a stint at global design firm IDEO starting when she was just 93-years-old. After seeing founder David Kelley featured on an episode of 60 Minutes, Barbara wrote to the company offering to help design for aging and low-vision populations. Hailing from the field of occupational therapy, after training through the U.S. Army’s War Emergency Course, and serving for 20 years before retiring as a major in 1966, Barbara’s own experience with macular degeneration led her to design glasses to help her and others with the condition. In this episo...
2020-09-1140 min
Results May Vary PodcastSurprise, Listeners...Results May Vary is Back!Surprise, listeners! It’s been quite awhile since our last episode, but that doesn’t mean you’ve heard the last of me and Chris, or the amazing individuals we’ve met who have been intentionally designing their own lives. In fact, we dug into the Results May Vary vault and found 3 previously unreleased, yet truly inspiring episodes that we’re excited to be sharing with you now.In addition, Chris and I have big news: we’d already been planning to launch a comeback even before Covid hit, and now seems like a particularly useful time for us to follow throu...
2020-09-1102 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 19 Kristen Berman: You Can Design Your BehaviorKristen Berman spends a lot of time thinking about human behavior. As a behavioral economist, she helps people make the changes that they want in the long term, but are hard to implement in the short term. On this episode of Results May Vary, Kristen talks with Chris and Tracy about the ways our environment can alter our behavior and how incorporating small changes can yield giant results. Kristen shares strategies and tips on how to approach life from a behavior economist’s perspective in order to “hack back” our lives and design the lifestyle changes we want. In 2013, Kriste...
2020-09-1143 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 18 Stanford d.school Civic Innovation Fellows: You Can Design Impact at ScaleIn our last episode, community architect Sandra Kulli talked to us about fostering human connection through the design of extraordinary places. Today we are excited to share this very special episode of Results May Vary. We’re featuring this year’s Stanford d.school Civic Innovation Fellows, which this year was sponsored by Knight Foundation. This event was recently recorded live as the fellows wrapped up their program and reflected back on their journey of learning design thinking. Fellows are “restless experts” in their field, accomplished professionals who are focused on accelerating large-scale impact. Over the course of the year, they lea...
2017-04-171h 14
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 17 Sandra Kulli: You Can Design CommunityIn our newest episode, we introduce you to Sandra Kulli, a community architect, dedicated to creating extraordinary places that focus on fostering human connection. As she practices the business and art of placemaking, Sandra is an advocate of thoughtful design and innovative problem-solving. Starting her career as a teacher in a rich and vibrant inner city school system, over the years, Sandra has learned that community is local. And personal. So in her work, and her daily life, she is always looking to connect with others in a more meaningful way. Today she shares her story and experience with us...
2017-03-0658 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 16 Dr. Mick Smyer: You Can Design Climate ActionOn the newest episode of Results May Vary, we introduce you to aging and climate change expert, Dr. Mick Smyer, and his Graying Green movement, which aims to engage more older adults in taking impactful action on climate change. Among his many accomplishments, Mick is the former Provost and a current Professor of Psychology at Bucknell University. In addition, currently on his second year of sabbatical, he is working on Graying Green as a Civic Innovation Fellow at Stanford d.school, learning the power of applying design thinking to social activism. And maybe most impressive are his prodigious skills as...
2017-01-0337 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 15 Jenny Jin: You Can Design For College (and Beyond)Today we introduce you to designer, Jenny Jin, whose motto is “always be learning!” A graduate of Stanford and MIT, she recently worked at the Alicia Foundation, founded by world renowned chef of El Bulli, Ferran Adria, to promote healthy eating for everyone. Jenny is an entrepreneurial learner and doer, and is here to inspire us with her a sense of optimism, and roll-up-your-sleeves / kick open your own door attitude. Living up to her motto, we recently caught up with Jenny as she was preparing to lead a class at MIT’s Edgerton Center for Experiential Learning to teach undergrads how to...
2016-10-2049 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 14 Aaron Sklar: You Can Design HealthcareAs the U.S. healthcare system undergoes a technology revolution, the impact on us as patients, and for providers, often falls short of the promises made. In our newest episode, we ask healthcare innovator, Aaron Sklar, how we can fix our broken system. You may not be surprised to hear, he thinks it involves a whole lot of Design Thinking! Aaron is the VP of Design at Welltok, and the founder of Prescribe Design, a network of healthcare experts and design professionals collaborating to re-imagine medical products and services. Its underlying intention is to use design (and designers) as key...
2016-07-1550 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 13 Story Musgrave: Should You Really Try To Design Your Life?What CAN'T you say about Story Musgrave? He holds 7 graduate degrees in math, computers, chemistry, medicine, physiology, literature and psychology, and has been awarded 20 honorary doctorates. He was a part-time trauma surgeon during his 30 year career as an astronaut, AND has had a cameo on Home Improvement. Today, in his 80s, he operates a palm farm in Florida, among other things, including giving amazing talks about human performance, and raising his youngest daughter, also named Story. We asked him how he designed such an incredible life and he told us he’s not sure you can or should. However he do...
2016-05-071h 05
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 12 Ela Ben Ur: You Can Design An Intuitive CompassHave you ever wanted a fast and reliable way to make changes in your life? In our newest episode of Results May Vary, we orient ourselves with Ela Ben Ur and her Innovators' Compass, a simple tool that allows you to take swift action on any opportunity or challenge you're facing. As Ela describes it: "The Compass orients us to the powerful directions we stretch in different practices of “innovation” and intuition—from personal learning and reflection practices to organizational processes like design thinking and agile development. It works over months or in just seconds—on a whiteboard, digital document, scrap of p...
2016-03-171h 00
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 11 Deke Sharon: You Can Design A Cappella Into A Global PhenomenonToday we talk to the father of contemporary a cappella, Deke Sharon. In college, Deke decided to make a career of contemporary a cappella.[22] even though people laughed at him [23] and thought he was crazy for doing so. Since then, he’s arranged for The Social Network, and served as music director and arranger for Pitch Perfect 1 and 2, the sing off, and now his new show Pitch Slapped premiered this week on Lifetime. In this episode, we talk to Deke about how you can design a whole new industry based on passion and perseverance.
2016-01-1649 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 10 Mike Duncan: You Can Design The PastWe’re in the double digits, y'all! (sfx: NYE party horns) In the newest Results May Vary episode, we talk to fish-monger turned award-winning history podcaster, Mike Duncan, about how you can design the past — to engage more people in our shared human history, as well as to gather insights that our useful for us to design our future. His approach to design thinking is as much guided by passion and creativity, as it is intentional and exhaustive. Best known for The History of Rome podcast, Mike’s latest endeavor, Revolutions, is a weekly podcast series examining great political revolutions. His up...
2015-12-1845 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 9 Steve Almond: You Can Design Your Creative PracticeIn the newest Results May Vary episode, we talk to New York Times bestselling author Steve Almond about how you can design your creative practice and make a career out of following your artistic passions. Steve's way of design thinking is intentional and intuitive, and offers incredible insight around: - Living a more examined life - Finding a patron to support your creative work (pro tip: your patron is probably you!) - Fighting depression with candy (or other passions) - Being honest about your needs so you can create habits and behavior change that will stick. How can you use...
2015-12-0356 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 8: Dr. Ellen Vora on Holistic PsychiatryToday we’re so grateful to introduce you to Dr. Ellen Vora, a psychiatrist who prefers NOT to prescribe drugs. Instead, she really looks at the whole picture from sleep, nutrition, relationships, diet, and spirituality, in order to help people repair, heal, and optimize their lives in the least risky way possible. Dr. Vora studied English at Yale University, attended Columbia University for medical school, and completed her residency at Mount Sinai. Currently, she practices at the Eleven Eleven Wellness Center in New York City. She's boarded in Psychiatry and Integrative and Holistic Medicine, and is also a licensed medical ac...
2015-10-2851 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 7: Dr. Kyra Bobinet on Well Designed LifeToday we're proud to introduce you to Dr. Kyra Bobinet, whose specialty is combining two medicines together: behavior change and design thinking. After completing med school, she decided to change course in order to dig deeper into the science behind behavior change.
2015-10-0549 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 6: Jessica Semaan on Pursuing Your PassionDo you have that recurring idea that’s really cool but hard to make time for? That’s the insight today’s guest, Jessica Semaan, has built an entire company around. Despite her success at Stanford Business School and as an early employee at Airbnb, Jessica found herself unfulfilled. So she spent a year interviewing 100 people who were doing what they love. During this time she found her own passion, which is helping people find theirs. And today she’s dedicated full-time to this through her company, the Passion Co. What are the biggest barriers to pursuing your passions? And how can...
2015-09-0127 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 5: Andy Weir on The MartianToday, we are beyond THRILLED to introduce you to Andy Weir, a computer programmer turned New York Times #1 Bestselling author of The Martian. He joins us to talk about turning his nights and weekend hobby into, not just one of the most successful self-published novels of all time, but also a soon-to-be major motion picture starring Matt Damon. How did he do it? And exactly how does a guy survive life on Mars with only a handful of potatoes and a thumb-drive full of disco music? Andy was kind enough to fill us in.
2015-08-1034 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 4: Aaron Scott on Van LifeToday we're excited for you to meet Aaron Scott, a data scientist who made the very conscious decision to move from his gorgeous San Francisco home overlooking the Pacific Ocean into a van. Why would anyone do that? And how is it working out for him? Aaron shares his story and makes it sound like it might just be a really great idea!
2015-07-2229 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 3: Elle Luna on Choosing MustToday we introduce you to San Francisco-based artist, designer, and writer, Elle Luna. After her own success as a designer for companies such as Mailbox, Uber, Medium, and IDEO, Elle completely redesigned her life and started a movement around Choosing Must. Her first book, "The Crossroads of Should and Must" just launched in April. If that wasn't enough, she is currently partnering with The Great Discontent to kick off The 100 Day Project, which asks anyone who will answer, what could you do with 100 days of making? If anyone epitomizes the concept David Kelley mentioned in our last episode about Bias...
2015-06-0335 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV 2: David Kelley on Creative ConfidenceToday we want to introduce you to one of the most influential people on the planet when it comes to design, innovation, and creativity. Founder of IDEO and the Hasso Platner Institute of Design at Stanford (The d.school), David Kelley has spent decades helping students, employees, and organizations apply unleash the creativity that lies within each and every one of us. We thought, if there was one person most qualified to give advice on how you can design your life, it would be David.
2015-06-0345 min
Results May Vary PodcastRMV Episode 1: You Can Design Your Life!In our inaugural episode, we talk about what design means to us, how we've applied the tools of design used in business to our own lives, and what it could all mean for you. In future episodes, we'll talk to people already designing their lives, as well as those curious to get started. Maybe that's you! Our dream is to build a community of people who can create and take advantage of any opportunity that interests them.
2015-05-3133 min