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This Sustainable Life842: Silvia Bellezza, part 1.5 and 2: When at first you don't succeedSince Silvia teaches as a business school, I'll address a leadership aspect of our interaction. I skimped on a leadership step, so we did an episode 1.5, which is my lingo for redoing episode 1 when the person wasn't able to fulfill his or her commitment. That's my responsibility as leader of the interaction.Silvia and I had a wonderful first conversation that led to a commitment that sounded like she'd enjoy it and doable, but in the end wasn't quite. Even if a quick hike north of the city would be enjoyable, catching a Metro-North train from Columbia...
2025-12-2639 min
This Sustainable Life838: Zach Rabinor, part 2: What if your business and values clash?Zach and I got so into our first conversation that we had to take a second one to get to the Spodek Method.Listen for yourself, but I hear Zach working with three motivations:His surfer, outdoors self wants to conserve, protect, and enjoy nature and enable others to do the same by experiencing it.His CEO self wants to deliver what his customers want, despite what they want including polluting and depleting---that is, hurting people and wildlife---beyond what nearly anyone who ever lived has. They don't know it and his company's current...
2025-09-271h 01
This Sustainable Life830: Jo Nemeth, part 2: Nature improves time with loved onesWe jumped in to talking about her Spodek Method commitment. She lives in a suburban area. There's a place near her that borders on bush, which I guess is Australian for undeveloped land. This spot with a bench designed for experiencing nature has been a short walk away from her for a long time, yet until now she never experienced it. Even this time, she put off acting on the commitment.Then she went. You'll hear what it did for her. I had to compare her description to what many people derive from big vacations to Hawaii...
2025-07-3058 min
This Sustainable Life818: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 5: The Celebrity OpportunitiesLook 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 statesman.Business people say "culture eats strategy for breakfast," and our culture, while paying lip service to sustainability, promotes and rewards polluting, depleting behavior. Celebrities play a major role in setting culture. When I tell people, "Taylor Swift is probably in an airplane right now," they know what I mean. No one disputes because even if she isn't f...
2025-05-1030 min
This Sustainable Life816: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 3: Business/Entrepreneurial OpportunitiesThe 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 them, it was more like I unleashed and inspired them. That's the difference in acting on intrinsic motivation instead of extrinsic.Every other sustainability effort I'd ever come across convinced, cajoled, coerced, lectured, manipulated. It might get compliance, but squashed motivation.When someone wants to do something but doesn't know how to achieve it, and you know...
2025-05-061h 01
This Sustainable Life815: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 2: The SolutionNow 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 achieve the opposite.I share my path toward discovering a solution that works, now called the Spodek Method. Changing culture requires many things, and leadership is one. The Spodek Method is an experiential leadership technique that prompts people to share and act on their values---that is, based on intrinsic motivations. I describe how it works and what it achieves, in yourself and others.So...
2025-05-0458 min
This Sustainable Life813: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: Quick Introduction: Welcome to the Sustainability Simplified communityMany 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 do I want to see people continuing toLower earth's ability to sustain lifeDestroy others' life, liberty, or property without the consentDeplete from nature to where there is not enough as good in common for othersI'm partly insulted that they think I'm wasting my time or that I haven't developed a comprehensive plan...
2025-04-3019 min
This Sustainable Life808: Silvia Bellezza: Sustainable Marketing at Columbia Business SchoolSilvia 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 sustainable consumerism, she found the New York Times profile on me. She decided to invite me before realizing I'd gotten my MBA where she teaches. Only when we spoke did she learn I focus beyond just living sustainably to creating a leadership program with a mission to change global culture.When I spoke to hear class, I spoke...
2025-03-2136 min
This Sustainable Life806: Robert Fullilove, part 2: the spirit of the Civil Rights movementDr. 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 for how they resonated with the community, teamwork, and passion I see in the team I'm working with creating sustainability leadership workshops to change culture. He describes how they saw abolitionism as a role model movement. I see how they and abolitionism are role model movements for us.We did the Spodek Method. Since he works on engaging...
2025-02-211h 25
A Climate Change with Matt Matern176: How Personal Change Sparks Global Impact: Joshua Spodek’s Sustainability SecretsAstrophysicist, sustainability advocate, and author Dr. Joshua Spodek joins us to discusses breaking free from processed food addiction, building community-driven environmental solutions, and embracing the Spodek Method - a unique approach focusing on intrinsic motivation for sustainable action.
Josh shares insights from his latest book, Sustainability Simplified, which captures Josh’s life journey and reveals how our culture became so polluting, and shows practical and liberating solutions for individuals, nations, and the world.
You can pre-order his new book here: https://a.co/d/5HpYyXp
If you want to help us reach our goal of planting 30k tr...
2025-02-1328 min
This Sustainable Life801: Travis Fisher, part 3: Restoring time with familyMeaningful 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 to spend more time with his children (and dog) doing something he's meant to do a long time. It doesn't cost money. It sounds like it will give him more time. The cleaning part, we'll see how it goes, though I predict the activation that comes from that part of it will affect him.He works in policy so he describes...
2025-01-0938 min
This Sustainable Life799: Josh Bandoch, part 2: Leadership: Humans feel first, then reasonJosh 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 impacted him. Since leadership involves emotion, empathy, and related social and emotional skills, we talked about the emotional journey.If you ever want to infuriate me, maybe the most effective way is to get me talking about environmentalists who talk only science and policy, just what they consider the facts that make them right. They try...
2024-12-281h 02
This Sustainable Life797: Alden Wicker, part 2: Try and Try Again: E-biking in VermontMany people think sustainability requires fixing everything or else we'll collapse. The Spodek Method creates a mindset shift followed by continual improvement, not, as they might hope, a mindset shift followed by perfection.Alden has had her electronic bike in Vermont for some time but hasn't ridden it. She's used doing the Spodek Method as her excuse to ride it, but it's taken time. This time she used it and you'll hear both how she got it working as well as the challenges. As tends to happen with acting on sustainability, even the challenges end up rewarding.
2024-12-2039 min
This Sustainable Life794: Lorna Davis, part 3: Before taking the sustainability leadership workshopLorna first appeared on this podcast in 2021. We became friends and remained so, though we challenge each other, as you'll hear in this conversation. We don't try to. Just things about the other annoy us. But how much we respect and learn from each other outshines that annoyance.Lorna knew about the Spodek Method and workshops for years. I don't know why she didn't join one until now, but something clicked and she decided to. I think meeting Evelyn led her to see the technique appealed to people like her and unlike me; that acting as much...
2024-12-1253 min
This Sustainable Life793: Nick Loris, part 1.5: Heartwarming nature, family, and fatherhoodPeople I talk to on the political left who care about the environment see people on the political right as opponents to defeat. When I share that I talk to people from Heritage Foundation, where Nick worked, they sound skeptical at best, more commonly incredulous and fearful.In this episode, you'll hear heartwarming stories of Nick's childhood with his father, then Nick today finding a way to manifest what he experienced then. You'll also hear he just got married, so I predict the commitment he made in this episode helps contribute to his growing family life.
2024-12-1049 min
This Sustainable Life786: Jan Mulder, part 2: The joy of finding and leading communityUsually when someone does their commitment with the Spodek Method, they enjoy it. Nearly always they do more than they commit to. Sometimes someone really enjoys it.Jan went to town on his commitment. You might wonder if there's any appeal to picking up litter. Is it worth the effort? Who cares, anyway? After all, more people litter than pick it up, as anyone can tell by how much litter there is and how much it's growing.Yet the pattern I've discovered keeps happening. On the other side of working on sustainability is always community...
2024-11-0831 min
This Sustainable Life785: Josh Bandoch, part 1: Teaching persuasion and leadershipI participated in an online workshop in influence and persuasion that Josh led. We got in touch afterward and found our approaches to the practices and how to learn them overlap. We start this episode talking about his background and what led him to learning and training others in the practices. Then we talk about what we like about learning and practicing them, what works, what doesn't, misconceptions, and other aspects. Some related subjects include authority, extrinsic emotions, management, and such.We practiced the Spodek Method, him experiencing it for the first time. In this first conversation...
2024-10-301h 20
This Sustainable Life783: Jan Mulder, part 1: Listening to every episode of this podcast, starting from episode 000Jan is a listener of this podcast who contacted me about how it changed his life. He is listening to each episode, starting from the beginning. I invited him to be a guest and he accepted. We've also crossed paths through working with podcast guest Dave Gardner, and his work in Growthbusters and running for President of the United States.Jan is Dutch, living in Germany, so can't vote in the US, but acts on sustainability locally. He told me he found my podcast made him feel empowered to act in a world where most people seem...
2024-10-091h 11
This Sustainable Life780: Jack Spencer, part 2: Policy and the Individual ChoosingJack shares his love for nature and passion to care for it, how central it is to his life, how much of his time and focus he devotes to it. He shares his principles of individual choice over top-down regulation. He especially opposes government subsidy for squashing innovation, including industries he prefers, like nuclear. He's not anti-government.Listen to the episode for his views in more detail. He is as sincere as they come and has thought the issues through.I couldn't help wonder how many political conservatives and libertarians care deeply about the environment...
2024-09-0552 min
This Sustainable Life779: Nick Loris, part 2: Freedom to Explore, Freedom to ChooseNick and I talk about freedom, liberty, personal action and, however paradoxical to most people, how important personal behavior is in changing systems. Then we talk about markets, regulation, and democracy and how they interact with community norms. Looking at the words markets, regulation, and democracy, they may look academic or abstract, but I think you'll find the conversation fun because it's personal. We don't talk theory. We're talking about how we live and work.A core of our conversation is where a society or state draws a line between things that benefit some people but hurt...
2024-09-021h 03
This Sustainable Life777: How the Spodek Method Workshop Differs From Other Sustainability WorkIf you've listened to a lot of this podcast, you've heard me walk guests through sharing their values on sustainability and acting on them.Why do they enjoy what most people consider deprivation and sacrifice?You can learn to do it. A growing team of us teach workshops in sustainability leadership. One is coming up, September 10, 2024.You can become a leader in a movement to live joyfully sustainably, to change global culture at the last minute.Here is the recommendation I quoteI would like to share with you my...
2024-09-0118 min
This Sustainable Life776: Chuck Marohn, part 1: Strong Towns and Sustainability LeadershipI'd heard of Strong Towns for years, mainly through guest Jason Slaughter's Not Just Bikes video series, and finally joined the community by taking a couple of their courses. I can't recommend them enough. Chuck Marohn founded that community. He found and publicized several of their core discoveries. Some include: North American cities grow based on a Ponzi scheme, the combination of a street and a road fails at both and wrecks everything it touches, cores of cities usually make the most economic sense, and outlying areas usually sap money and vitality.I invited Chuck because of...
2024-08-3158 min
This Sustainable Life775: Bruce Alexander, part 4: The Spodek Method clicks at last!You've probably listened to Bruce's past three episodes, so you probably know he wants a path to exist that leads people to want to live more sustainably and spread that change to others. It would mean them overcoming their addictions. By them, I mean all of us, since if we order takeout, fly, and drive big cars, we're in the group that has to change.His experience with addicts tells him it's hard, maybe impossible. On the other hand, while people may be conflicted and may have suppressed many of our emotions around the environment, we love...
2024-08-2944 min
This Sustainable Life774: Alden Wicker, part 1.5: Foraging Is FunI ask guests to do episodes 1.5 when they tell me they couldn't do their Spodek Method commitment or keep postponing. Sometimes they say they don't want to share that they didn't do it. But experience has shown that talking about that vulnerability by sharing that they didn't do it overcomes it. Then redoing the Spodek Method usually leads to it working better than expected. The goal isn't perfection, after all. It's to create experiences that prompt emotions they like.Alden wasn't doing her ebike commitment, as you'll hear in this episode. She also shares some of her...
2024-08-2744 min
This Sustainable Life773: Frederic Laloux, part 1: His program, "The Week," creates space for conversations on the environmentFrederic describes his program The Week in our conversation. I did it last year, invited by a friend (whom I misname in our conversation, sorry) and recognized him. Podcast guest and mutual friend Lorna Davis had introduced us before he had started creating The Week.The Week is one of the few programs on sustainability approaching it as a leadership effort, not management or lecture. Anyone can do it. It's a series of videos you watch with a group, then engage in discussion about it. It's different than the Spodek Method, but shares many aspects....
2024-08-181h 10
This Sustainable Life772: Bruce Alexander, part 3: Advanced Spodek MethodI find this series of conversations with Bruce to be ending up excellent examples to learn advanced Spodek Method from. I think they're also engaging. I certainly enjoyed the conversations with Bruce.You can tell he believes in the vision and isn't trying to answer askew, or maybe I'm not picking up on cues, but the interaction is both not clicking but not falling apart either. If you're learning the Spodek Method from the How-To Guide or a workshop, or finished either, I think you can learn a lot from these conversations. Also, from Bruce, a lot...
2024-08-031h 06
This Sustainable Life771: Jack Spencer, part 1: The Heritage Foundation, limited government, free markets and the environmentRegular readers of my blog know I took a course, Conservatism 101, from the Leadership Institute, which led me to read conservative literature I hadn't before: Edmund Burke, Frederic Bastiat, Friedrich Hayek, Russell Kirk, and more. This reading came after I started reading and watching Milton Friedman, Julian Simon, Ayn Rand, and current followers of their work like Marian Tupy, Gale Pooley, and Alex Epstein. I had blogged about them after reading their works too. I began seeing relevance of their work to sustainability that I don't think even their fans appreciate.At a social event, I met...
2024-07-301h 03
This Sustainable Life766: Chip Conley, part 1: Learning to Love MidlifeI'd heard about Chip long ago but only met him recently at a launch event for his book Learning to Love Midlife. It resonated since at 52 years old, I was smack in the middle of the part of life he was talking about, after adulthood but before old age. I've also been approached by universities with programs for people in their third acts.A big topic is finding and creating meaning and purpose. My life is overflowing with them since no one seems to be leading on the biggest issue or even know effective things we can...
2024-07-1346 min
This Sustainable Life765: Bruce Alexander, part 2: Can the Spodek Method scale from the individual to the world?I think I can safely say Bruce and I have formed a friendship, both professional and from similar interests, even though he's retired and I'm not a psychologist. I learn psychology to help lead. We're both intrigued by addiction. We both want to improve our environmental situation, not just give in.He likes the idea of the Spodek Method. He hopes it works beyond just one person. He's not sure it can. In this episode we start practicing it.Working with him was one of the more challenging times doing the Spodek Method. I expect...
2024-07-111h 19
This Sustainable Life761: Dave Kerpen, part 2: Joyfully Skipping DonutsThis conversation was brief, but covered the important points, particularly the challenges of changing habits. Dave didn't do everything he intended, though I thought he succeeded more than he did. The goal of the Spodek Method isn't to make big changes, though some do, but to share and act on intrinsic motivation relevant to nature and the environment. Just accessing intrinsic motivation at all can be a challenge in a world where most messages on the environment are based in lecture and telling people what to do.Yet we care about the environment. If we expect to...
2024-06-1923 min
This Sustainable Life748: Stephen Broyles, part 2: A Calming, Life Change From One Small CommitmentAbout fifteen minutes into this conversation, it hit me how powerfully Stephen's commitment affected him. (Sorry I took so long to catch on, Stephen!) All he had to do was volunteer around a body of water.His experience shows the impact of intrinsic motivation. Maybe observing and spending time by the water means as much to you as to Stephen. Maybe it doesn't mean that much to you. It means a lot to him. Things mean as much to you that may not mean as much to others, but acting on them becomes meaningful. That resonance what...
2024-03-1352 min
This Sustainable Life744: Stephen Broyles, part 1: What Is Social Work and How Does It Relate to Leadership and Action?Regular listeners and readers of my blog will know my sustainability leadership workshops and one of the participants of the first, Evelyn (she's in the video on that link). After being the teaching assistant for a couple cohorts, she is leading this winter's session.Often when I talked to her about leadership, she would comment, "We do that in social work too, but we call it" . . . and she'd mention a practice she was learning while getting her Masters in Social Work at Howard University. I'd heard of social work, but didn't know what people in the field...
2024-01-251h 18
This Sustainable Life741: Tony Hansen, part 2: Volunteering hard labor creating meaning and generosityYou'll hear Tony's story of rolling up his sleeves and doing some hard labor. You'll also hear the labor being just the start of the reward. He shares about the less tangible but not lesser results in community, emotional reward, enthusiasm to do more.Given his leadership role and experience, we talk about the Spodek Method. I took the liberty of pulling some what he said and formatting it. Listen to the conversation for context for the full meaning, but here's some:You opened some doors. The idea [to act] was there but I'd come up...
2024-01-1038 min
This Sustainable Life733: Jacqueline Bicanic, part 1: Listener as Guest: Australian University Student, Very Active in SustainabilityJacquie emailed me that this podcast is inspiring her. She wrote that she'd "always had a spark of interest in sustainability, but I mostly followed the herd mentality and went about my life not really making a conscious effort & just thinking about ways I could reduce my impacts. In the last couple of years, it’s like jet fuel has been added to that spark and it’s changed the trajectory of my career aspirations, and had a significant impact on my life as a whole. . . It’s comforting to know that there are people all around the world who fe...
2023-11-261h 19
This Sustainable Life730: Tony Hansen, part 1 : McKinsey's Director of Natural Capital and NatureMost of the partners I know at the top tier consulting firms have worked there since business school. Tony has a different background, as he describes at the beginning.Because the Firm influences people at high levels of business and government, therefore potentially able to help change culture, I'm very interested in working with them. They are as prone to inertia as any other group, so I'm curious how much they can change others. After all, it's hard to help someone stop a habit while you keep doing it.I consider the Spodek Method the...
2023-11-0853 min
This Sustainable Life729: How to Develop a Sustainability Leadership Culture in Your Organization: a Panel I moderatedIf no one is changing culture in your world, it's your opportunity to fill the leadership vacuum, no matter where you are in your organization or communities.Many companies are making strides toward goals for greening their businesses but need to find ways to maintain the momentum now that they have tackled the easiest challenges. Others are about to embark on their sustainability journeys and seek a roadmap and best practices. Increasing regulations, particularly in Europe and the U.S., and demands from investors are pressing businesses to define, monitor and publish their net zero targets...
2023-11-041h 02
This Sustainable Life727: Fun, liberation, freedom: How people talk after seriously acting on sustainabilityEvelyn joined the first workshop I led in the Spodek Method: practicing it, leading others through it, and how to create a movement. She then became the teaching assistant for the next two workshops.The liberation, fun, and intimacy of sharing one's fears, anxieties, and other vulnerabilities from acting more sustainably in a corrupt culture that makes it hard, all the more so in teaching others to reveal these things and still to act, led us to get to know each other. We decided the world could benefit from hearing how people who have acted to live...
2023-10-271h 44
This Sustainable Life725: Gautam Mukunda, part 3: The Spodek Method Doesn't Always Create a Huge Mindset ShiftGautam and I had a lovely conversation about environmental things. He's become a good friend (we talk outside our recordings). Still, listen to determine for yourself, but I'd say this conversation exhibited a minor mindset shift if any. After we talked about Gautam's experience, we spoke mostly about abstract environmental issues, not personal ones.He spoke about some difference in his views and feelings brought on by his commitment, but mostly he talked about the beauty of nature flying-distance away. I want to help people find the beauty or any value they like of nature where they...
2023-10-2046 min
This Sustainable Life715: My mom, Marie Spodek, part 3: Starting a food coop and making ends meet as a single mom in a food desert with three kidsI've written about how people act like food coops don't work for people without resources like time and money or who have kids. It took me a long time to realize they didn't see food coops being started because the people starting them didn't have time or money and had kids. When my parents couldn't make ends meet, then after they divorced and struggled more to make ends meet, forming cooperative groups was their way out of poverty.Luckily nobody told them they couldn't do it! Likewise with the people behind Drew Gardens in the Bronx, Harlem...
2023-08-241h 09
This Sustainable Life713: Matthew Matern, part 3: A trial lawyer's viewMatt and I talk about his commitment and how it affected him. I talk about the Spodek Method in general and other leadership tools like creating role models. Matt talked about his hopes and expectations about technology.When I asked him if he could imagine a world where no one polluted, he shared that he hadn't thought about it, but find the idea almost beyond conception. Think about it: if someone can't imagine an outcome, how likely do you think that person can achieve it? How likely do you think they'll subconsciously sabotage attempts? Won't it seem...
2023-08-2057 min
This Sustainable Life697: Dan Walsh, part 2: He sold his motorcycle and Playstation to gain freedomIn what looks to me like one of the biggest overcommitments of guests on this podcast and participants in the Spodek Method, Dan shares that to free his mind for meditation, he ended up selling his motorcycle and Playstation.Then we spoke about coaching and leading people to reach their potentials, which he experienced on the receiving end in reaching the Olympics twice and does now with others, and he appreciates me doing in corporations and on sustainability. You'll hear we both admire each other and are learning from each other.A curious note: you'll...
2023-07-041h 06
This Sustainable Life696: Anonymous executive from a fossil fuel corporation: A view from the insidePeople who work at fossil fuel companies are people just like you and me. When you buy what the industry sells, you support it too. You rationalize and justify that your money supports lobbyists, advertising, extraction, pollution, depletion, making refugees, dictators, and so on.Want to stop people working there? I suggest it helps to understand them. We can start by understanding ourselves. Stopping ourselves from supporting that industry is easier than stopping them, so I recommend starting with ourselves.Note: we recorded this episode a few years ago, before I fully developed the Spodek...
2023-06-2942 min
This Sustainable Life685: Chris Bailey, part 3: How to Calm Your Mind: Dropping the latest iPhone for a flip phone and loving itChris returns to share his experience with the Spodek Method. He did something different than he committed to: he stopped using his smart phone---the latest Apple iPhone---in favor of a simple flip phone hearkening almost back to the nineties.What happens? Does his life fall apart? Does he find more calmness?Should you simplify your life by avoiding the call for the latest and greatest?He shares his experience and you can find out (I'm not sure he did it for this podcast, in that I think he was planning to do it...
2023-05-1645 min
This Sustainable Life681: Albert Garcia-Romeu, part 1: Psychedelics and Time in NatureRegular listeners know I've been asking people what the environment means to them as part of the Spodek Method. Many people respond with touching answers that I would call something close to life-altering. Maybe more like life-guiding, life-enhancing, or giving meaning and purpose.I've heard of increasing research into psychedelics recently. Reading reports of people who took psylocibin in clinical settings with guides for the experience, I was struck by how similar their effects to those of quintessential moments in the environment. Both talked about oneness, awe, humility, understanding, feeling understood, connectedness, and similar things, though, of...
2023-04-161h 07
This Sustainable Life674: Oliver Burkeman, part 1: Time Management and Sustainability for MortalsOliver's book Four Thousand Weeks deserves the incredible praise it gets. I've recommended it to many friends and can't for the life of me put into words how he refines and changes how I look at time, priorities, how to choose what to do, why, and how to feel about it.The best I can come up with is that instead of worrying what I'm missing or craving doing what I can't, which leads to a life of feeling like I'm missing out and scarcity, it leads me to construct and build, which makes me feel abundant...
2023-03-041h 19
This Sustainable Life659: My video series, episode 01, introduction, part 2: Spodek Method resultsPart 2 of the introduction shares a few stories that illustrate the Spodek Method, a leadership technique to create mindset shifts and continual improvement on the environment. The optimism girds us for a more challenging next episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-01-1419 min
This Sustainable Life649: Listener Questions 04: What Started Me Acting Sustainably, Kids, and What to Do If You Don't Have TimeIn this episode, I answer a question a listener emailed:Can you share more details on what exactly prompted you to make the switch to acting more sustainably and if it was abrupt or gradual. And perhaps more practical ideas on what to do if you have kids, especially picky eaters, or if your schedule is just too busy to prepare meals 100% of the time.If you have questions on leadership, sustainability, sustainability leadership, doof, a guest, or anything I cover on the podcast, email me.Episodes with guests I mentioned, who are inspirational...
2022-12-1217 min
This Sustainable Life644: Janet Allacker, part 1.5: Joy firstIn our second conversation, Janet reveals that she did part of her commitment, but found traveling not by car took longer than she expected and didn't do it often.At one point in this conversation, she shares she felt she had to reduce pollution. I point out I didn't say she had to reduce pollution. I invited her to manifest emotions she liked.Our society burdens us with thinking we have to ACT BIG! SCALE! SOLVE GLOBAL PROBLEMS!, which create obstacles to starting and prime us to expect it takes work and sacrifice. Environmentalists create...
2022-11-2047 min
Solve For NatureHawaii: Case Study for the World w/ Joshua Spodek Pt. 2Today we continued our discussion about Hawaii being a case study for the direction the entire world is going: pollution leading to reducing the capacity for our planet to sustain life. Joshua Spodek is host of This Sustainable Life podcast and author of Leadership Step By Step. He guided me once again through exploring my own feelings while stopping me from evading negative feelings about my own pollution and instead exploring them. It ended up being a great conversation on sustainability! Tune in!Find Joshua Spodek Online: Joshua Spodek's Homepage Subscribe to This Sustainable Life Podcast...
2022-09-1945 min
This Sustainable Life627: Nadeem Akhtar, part 1: A Long-Time Listener from NorwayNadeem contacted me as a listener to suggest Abdal Hakim Murad as a guest, as I hadn't hosted any Muslims on the podcast by then. I learned a lot and enjoyed meeting Abdal, plus Nadeem and I stayed in touch. When Janet Allaker's first episode with a listener went well, I invited Nadeem to be a guest. He loved the opportunity. I think we both enjoyed the conversation. If you're a regular listener, you'll get to hear another voice from your position.You'll get to hear another listener's views on sustainability and this podcast. Nadeem cares enough...
2022-09-141h 14
This Sustainable Life626: Jay Walker, part 1: Organizing New York City's Queer Liberation MarchRegular readers and listeners know my passion for cleaning my local park, Washington Square Park, and how my heart breaks at how we abuse this sliver of a vestige of nature, especially the mornings after the Queer Liberation Marches of the past two years.As an organizer, Jay didn't have to respond to my request, but he did. By the end of this recording, you'll hear us talk about reducing waste next year. We begin by talking about the evolution of the pride marches from when he started attending in the 1980s. He describes them becoming more...
2022-09-121h 16
This Sustainable Life625: Listener Questions, volume 01I answer my first listener questions. If you have questions on topics I write about, like leadership, sustainability, sustainability leadership, sidchas, habits, academia, physics, podcasting, and so on, contact me.This episode's questions:Hi, Joshua, in the winter months of this year, in New York, in your flat, will you use heating or blankets?Can you describe a time when you struggled with a decision about a polluting act? To give an example of what I mean from my own life, as you know I'm trying to reduce my car use. To go to my modern...
2022-09-0826 min
This Sustainable Life619: Dr. Michael Gurven, part 2: The Forager Population Paradox and what do we doMost second conversations on this podcast come weeks or months later, after the guest does his or her Spodek Method commitment. In Michael's case, our first conversation was so engaging, we kept talking almost two hours, so I split the conversation into two parts.The first mostly covered Michael and his research. This part covered applying his research and my leadership to sustainability. What can we learn from cultures that lived thousands of years or longer? What can we learn from cultures that thrive without polluting? What benefits do we enjoy that they lack and vice versa?
2022-08-2442 min
This Sustainable Life617: Janet Allaker: A long-time listener shares what This Sustainable Life means to herJanet shared how she found This Sustainable Life, what kept her coming back, the guests she liked, and how it's affected her. I wish I had recorded episodes with listeners before to learn what you all like, don't like, and want more or less of.Listening to it after recording, I consider our conversation one of the most accessible for new listeners. Janet described various aspects of it that I suspect will resonate with many listeners.One thing that hit me was how the podcast restored her enthusiasm to act. Years ago she acted as...
2022-08-191h 01
Solve For NatureSpecial Episode - The Inflation Reduction Act w/ Joshua SpodekInflation Reduction Act just passed through the senate, house, and is now heading for President Biden's desk. Today we’re going to talk about what’s in it, and then have a discussion on sustainability and whether this bill is making us more sustainable or not with Joshua Spodek, Author of Leadership Step by Step, Professor at NYU, and probably the most sustainably living person in the USA. Tune in!The Inflation Reduction Act Summary by the Bipartisan Policy CenterFind Joshua Spodek Online: Joshua Spodek's Homepage Subscribe to This Sustainable Life Podcast Josh Spod...
2022-08-1442 min
Solve For NatureHawaii: Case Study for The World w/ Joshua Spodek Pt. 1Today, I have something a little different for you. Usually, I'm interviewing someone on my podcast, but today, I'm the one getting interviewed! Some of you may know, I recently moved to Hawaii and ended up buying a home here. However, in looking for a house, I found myself feeling conflicted about it, and Joshua Spodek, host of This Sustainable Life podcast, suggested we talk about it. It was a good conversation that forced me to explore some of my own feelings about sustainability conflicting with my own personal wants for me, my wife, and my daughter. I hope...
2022-08-1442 min
This Sustainable Life598: Bill Benenson, part 2: Dirt! and Kiss the Ground, behind the scenesI indulge in asking Bill about his and his wife Laurie's passions, filmmaker friends, goals, and so on. He talks about passionate peers he's worked with like Michael Pollan and Paul Stamets. The names Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen come up too, as two other people who appeared in his movies. He explains the value of celebrity.He shares his storytelling techniques not to make political films or push people, despite covering fields others treat more bluntly. He and Laurie share nuance and subtlety. Also joy and appreciations.He takes an interest in the Spodek...
2022-06-2446 min
This Sustainable Life596: Sandra Pérez, part 1: Keeping New York's LGBTQIA+ Pride March cleanSandra took responsibility when she didn't have to, as the Executive Director of NYC Pride, to respond to my requests to talk to an organizer. Longtime listeners and readers of my blog know that last year, I was disgusted by the garbage covering Washington Square Park the morning after New York City's 2021 Pride March. I posted pictures and video with the quote from another person in the park I saw that morning, "Pride destroyed the park."It turns there are two Pride Marches and the other one ended in Washington Square Park, not the one Sandra organized...
2022-06-2032 min
This Sustainable Life588: Mark DiMassimo, part 1: Leading with integrityWe start with one of the great cases of a corporation choosing to act with integrity in the face of pressure and incentive not to. Mark was part of the team that chose for CVS drug stores in rebranding to stop selling cigarettes. The choice was superficially difficult in that cigarettes made them billions of dollars in profit and their competitors could gain market share. But it was easy in that if they wanted to identify with health, there was no question.Mark shares inside views of that story, then connects with leadership and integrity. We look...
2022-06-0554 min
This Sustainable Life581: Dr. Ambrose Carroll, senior, part 2: cultural differences on how we view the individual Ambrose and I start by reviewing his commitment. After a bit, as best I can tell, we talked past each other. Every now and then, the Spodek Method doesn't resonate and this conversation looks like one of them. His description of how he sees the world and my read don't seem to overlap.I suspect he felt I didn't understand him or his world. I read him as guarded, not sharing his personal views and feelings. I think it might be interesting and possibly fun to hear it as a third person. I tried to u...
2022-05-181h 14
This Sustainable Life563: Derek Marshall, part 1: Candidate for California's 23rd Congressional DistrictDerek is looking to flip a district that has been moving more Democratic through demographic shifts and redistricting. Can he pull it off?He reached out to me partly to share and explore environmental and sustainability issues. After we cover more of his background, he shared the environmental situation of a potentially stunningly beautiful region, including Joshua Tree and Death Valley, but exurban growth threatens it.Many people claim the environment should not be political. Can politicians act on sustainability coming from one party and attract people from another party? I chose to act outside...
2022-03-2452 min
This Sustainable Life560: Geoff Colvin, part 1: How to Become an ExpertMy first week's assignment to my leadership classes at NYU for years has been to watch Geoff's conversation with Charlie Rose. Geoff got his MBA at NYU, but somehow I took years to connect with him. He was delighted to be a guest.I assign Geoff's work because he communicates a message that you can become an expert and how to do it better than anyone. He speaks simply, eloquently, citing research, telling stories, and encouraging. In our conversation he explains and clarifies the meaning of deliberate practice. It's exactly what I want my students to learn...
2022-02-0958 min
This Sustainable Life559: The Silky Smooth Seduction of AddictionI decided to avoid putting screens on while I ate for a month. I expected to enjoy my food more, to find the euphoria I often feel from fresh, healthy food. I was surprised to find more the feeling of wanting to open a screen: a silky, seductive feeling that said, "It's good to turn on the screen. It's bad not to watch. You'll waste time if you don't put the screen on." The feeling came from inside.I've felt that feeling before, but I felt more conscious of it this time. I wasn't selling-family-heirlooms-to-fuel-the-habit level addicted...
2022-02-0945 min
This Sustainable Life557: Rollie Williams, part 1: Comedy and climate changeI hope you know Climate Town. Watch a bunch of episodes if you haven't. This Sustainable Life listeners and hosts talk about the show. It's funny and fun, yet intelligent and informative. On top of the content, I watch the backgrounds, which often take place where I live in lower Manhattan and where I went to school, at Columbia, where Rollie went to.So I contacted him and his team. We spoke. Within minutes I could tell why Climate Town is so funny. He and his team are funny. Immediately, I could tell I could learn from...
2022-01-311h 03
This Sustainable Life550: Rick Ridgeway: A Life Lived Wild: K2, Everest, and places no human had seenPrepare to be awed at Rick's stories of adventure, discovery, nature, and humanity. He has summited K2, Everest, and more. He's visited places possibly no other human has. And he's an experienced, brilliant storyteller, so shares his experiences with a vitality that can only come from living it. Hear what it's like for animals that have never seen humans to approach him.His interactions with people show up too, including Sir Edmund Hillary, Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, and North Face and Esprit founder Dave Tompkins, and more.He shares what it's like at altitudes where...
2022-01-1445 min
Post-Growth Australia PodcastSeason 3 Premiere - Leadership toward This Sustainable Life with Joshua Spodek“I started bringing leadership into the environment. Because I felt like there’s a lot of people telling other people what to do, spreading facts and figures. But no-one really making it enjoyable. Saying you’re going to like this, you’re going to wish you started earlier, speaking from personal experience.”
Joshua Spodek is a bestseller author, multiple TEDx talker and host of award winning podcast “This Sustainable Life”. Joshua is a huge advocate for the environment and for system change toward a post-growth planet. He takes his politics into his home life and made some incredible lif...
2022-01-011h 02
This Sustainable Life521: Blake Haxton, part 2: Teamwork is crucial. How to solve that we're dividedI loved Blake and my conversation so much, I'm releasing our first two conversations back to back. Also, our first one didn't reach to The Spodek Method, so he hadn't taken on a commitment based on his environmental values, so we recorded a week later instead of having to wait for him to finish the commitment. He takes on a commitment in this episode, so he'll come back a third time at least.We talked about how life brings us challenges. In his case a disease led to losing both legs. For everyone, generations of a polluting...
2021-10-211h 24
This Sustainable Life510: Jonathan Hardesty, part 6: "This method of doing things is making me become a better husband and parent"Jonathan and I continue practicing the Spodek Method. Since last recording, he practiced it with his wife. This time he shares how it went. I picked up on a nuance, that she picked a commitment disconnected from her intrinsic motivation and ended up not finding the task meaningful.What we covered relates to leadership and relationships in general. The major theme we covered is uncovering people's intrinsic motivations. People often suppress them, sometimes consciously often unconsciously. They make us vulnerable.We also talked about art. I find Jonathan's explanations and insights fascinating for revealing what...
2021-09-2251 min
This Sustainable Life503: Jonathan Hardesty, part 5: Facing and overcoming gluttonyI hope you hear Jonathan and I sharing a great rapport---on art, stewardship, Christianity, and enjoying life.If you've reached this conversation, you know what we're covering in this episode: his results doing the Spodek Method, partly doing it, partly learning how to do it.He's an artist and family man. He started picking up trash, which naturally became a family activity and point of personal growth. He then did more. Why? Because he enjoys acting on his values. We all do.I also describe the Spodek Method for you, the listener, so...
2021-09-031h 04
This Sustainable Life485: Jonathan Hardesty, part 4: How to Lead Someone to Stewardship: The Spodek MethodJonathan and I continue practicing how to lead oneself and others to love acting in stewardship. Everyone thinks sustainability means deprivation and sacrifice.We started this conversation for him to review how his first time doing The Spodek Method with his kids. You'll hear that he did it slightly differently and didn't get the results. Very educational! Few people master challenging things the first time.We switched to restarting The Spodek Method with him and the value of practicing by the book before improvising.This episode will teach you how to lead someone...
2021-07-0959 min
Create a New TomorrowEP 59: Highlight Episode with Joshua SpodekHi, I am here with Joshua Spodek, He is a three-time TEDx speaker, #1 bestselling author of Initiative and Leadership Step by Step, host of the award-winning This Sustainable Life podcast, and professor at NYU. He holds a PhD in astrophysics and an MBA from Columbia, where he studied under a Nobel Laureate and helped launch a satellite (having emerged from some of Philadelphia’s most dangerous neighborhoods). He left academia to found a venture to market an invention that showed animated images to subway riders between stations.Ari Gronich 0:07 Welcome back to anoth...
2021-06-3014 min
This Sustainable Life474: Frederick Lane, part 2: Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic MotivationFrederick was a great sport in allowing me to explore working on a patterns that happens sometimes but that I had let slide before.We started talking about nature, then his commitment. About halfway through I noticed that his motivation to the commitment from his first episode didn't seem to come from inside, which I believe led to him doing the task for extrinsic, not intrinsic, reasons, resulting in him doing his task perfunctorily.Then came the part that may be uncomfortable to listen to---or may be intriguing or fun. I can't tell because I...
2021-06-161h 01
This Sustainable Life470: Sustainable Activities: I'm learning singing (my mortifying "before" recording)The average American watches 5 hours of TV per day. Many fly or drive around for fun. If we want to pollute less, will we lose the ability to enjoy ourselves?I've written before how Vincent Stanley's commitment to turn off his computer Friday mornings and Nicola Pirulli's walking me through The Spodek Method led to me turning off all my electronics and practicing singing daily. Since starting, I've missed a couple days, but have loved the results.Until recently I only sang songs, nothing attempting to learn, just to enjoy. Now I'm moving to voice...
2021-06-0617 min
This Sustainable Life459: Jonathan Hardesty, part 3: How to Continue a Sustainability PodcastJonathan and I have a good rapport. We joke around. I love his expressiveness as an artist. I think he values stewardship more than he's behaved so far in life, so I hear him enjoying aligning his behavior with his values.In this episode we review his leading his kids and wife in The Spodek Method from last time. You'll hear touching family interactions.The I teach the second interaction with guests---how to lead that conversation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-05-151h 26
This Sustainable Life458: The Spodek Method: How to Lead Someone to Act Joyfully SustainablyI’ve taught a half-dozen people the technique I use in this podcast---the hosts of the other branches of the This Sustainable Life podcast. They started calling it The Spodek Method, so now I do too. It's enabled me to reach amazing people, many of global renown, who enjoy the experience. It doesn't alone solve all the world's problems, but it works. The Spodek Method leads a person to share and act on environmental values.You can do it too with communities you’d like to join. You would contribute to a mission of changing culture from seei...
2021-05-1223 min
This Sustainable Life325: My Mom, Marie Spodek: All in the FamilyI thought about recording with parents for a while. Environmental action is personal and people keep asking me what motivates me.Well, now you'll get almost 50 years more background.Another issue with family and changing habits, lots of people talk and ask about challenges of changing others or selves within close relationships. This episode will give you my background, environmental and otherwise, how it affects our relationship, her views, and some dirty laundry.Both my mom and I think or hope you'll enjoy toward the end, where we talk past each other. We...
2020-04-131h 42
This Sustainable Life321: Marni Kinrys, part 2: Making Stewardship NormalBefore we recorded, Marni humbly said what she did wasn't that big of a deal, just a bit more than she normally did. She wondered the point of sharing it. So this second conversation with Marni was short and we talked as much about the podcast as about what she did. Which is to say, the episode narrated itself.I look forward to where it's mainstream for stewardship to feel second-nature, for people not just to say they care but act that way naturally. I don't feel that everyone doing little things adds up. I don't argue...
2020-04-0716 min
The Impossible Network073: Leadership and The Environmental - Joshua SpodekGuest overview Joshua Spodek is the epitome of a renaissance man.A two-time TEDx speaker, #1 bestselling author, host of the award-winning Leadership and the Environment podcast, and professor and coach of entrepreneurship and leadership at NYU and Columbia Business School.He is a regular speaker on environmental leadership at institutions such as Boston Consulting Group, Google, IBM, Harvard, Princeton, West Point, MIT, and Stanford,Oh he also has a PhD in astrophysics and an MBA from Columbia, helped build an X-ray observational satellite with the European Space Agency and NASA....
2020-01-291h 01
This Sustainable Life255: Joshua Becker, Becoming MinimalistI've recorded a few posts about how what many people call minimalism is really more maximal. From the outside it looks like minimizing stuff.d People who practice it, as I see it, don't focus on stuff. Getting rid of it is a means to an end. The end is more emotion, relationships, and connection---family, community, faith, and other things that bring meaning, which people prefer more of. They maximize those things.Joshua Becker stands out as one of the main figures in that world. Millions of people have read his blog and books and taken his...
2019-12-0251 min
The Leadership A.I.™ Podcast083: Method Learning, Living, and Leadership With Joshua SpodekMany of us have heard that one of the best ways to learn something is by actually going out and doing it. We've heard that "practice makes perfect". But we've also heard that there is a danger in practicing the wrong things, because "practice makes permanent". In short, we need to know for sure what the BASICS are for any skill we're trying to grow, whether it is leadership, environmental intelligence, or happiness. We need the right method and we need to take INITIATIVE!In this episode, we meet Joshua Spodek, PhD, who is a multiple-time TEDx...
2019-10-2447 min
This Sustainable Life212: The Amazon Burning and UsWhat's the difference between burning rain forests for someone's livelihood and family in the Amazon and paying for people to drill oil that we squander in the rest of the world?I'm not asking to accuse. I see some differences, but not big ones.If you're easily offended I recommend not listening to this episode.Letter from Birmingham Jail excerptJoshua Becker's book The More of Less Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2019-09-0123 min
One Last ThoughtI Want You to Try It - Dion Metzger, Joshua Spodek - Episode 09Looking for more One Last Thought content? You can now join the OLT Insider program at: glow.fm/oltinsider and unlock your very own private feed packed with exclusive episodes!Guests: Dion Metzger, Joshua Spodek.In this week’s episode of The One Last Thought Podcast, we are joined by Dion Metzger, and Joshua Spodek. Unbeknownst to them, they were both sharing thoughts about how important it is to try and fail, what it teaches you, and how learning through experience is the most meaningful way of learning....
2019-08-1107 min
The Self-Employed Life498: Joshua Spodek - Initiative and PassionA lot of us Creative Warriors have lots of passion but no initiative. We have a dream and a talent, but we often don't know where to put our energy. We can't tell the difference between passing fancies and things that are worth doing. Fear can also hold us back from putting all of our energy into something because we're scared that we'll get stuck on the wrong path. If taking the first step to allow opportunity to unfold is difficult, know that baby steps are a great way to start. It's like a pianist doing scales...
2019-06-0545 min
The Dov Barron ShowLeadership and Loyalty - Initiative: Bring Your Passions to Life with Joshua SpodekLeadership and the environment. Is a conversation about climate change and the environment relevant to you and I as leaders…Or is it just the flavour of the day?Environmental issues are part of the everyday news cycle. But here’s the question: Above and beyond either side of the discussion and the environment being a a political catapult. Is it relevant to us as leaders of industries? And if it is why is it relevant? Well stay tuned because we are about to take a dive into this controversial subject.
2019-05-241h 00
The Dov Baron ShowJoshua Spodek Initiative: Bring Your Passions to Life (audio)Leadership and the Environment Is a conversation about climate change and the environment relevant to you and I as leaders… or is it just the flavour of the day? Environmental issues are part of the everyday news cycle. But here’s the big question: If we think above and beyond either side of the discussion (and the environment being used a political catapult), are these issues relevant to us as leaders of industries? And if so, why are they relevant? Well stay tuned because we are about to ta...
2019-05-171h 02This Sustainable Life055: Our first Leadership and the Environment Panel of ExpertsDo you care about the environment?Do you care about leading?The Leadership and the Environment podcastNYU’s School of Liberal Studiesinvite you to listen in on our Panel of Leadership and Environment Expertswhich was held on Tuesday, April 3rd at the NYU Silver BuildingFeaturing Vincent StanleyVincent, co-author with Yvon Chouinard of The Responsible Company, has been with Patagonia since its beginning in 1973, including executive roles as head of sales or marketing. Informally, he is Patagonia’s chief sto...
2018-06-261h 05This Sustainable Life037: Our first Leadership and the Environment Panel of Experts: April 3 at NYUDo you care about the environment?Do you care about leading?The Leadership and the Environment podcast andNYU's School of Liberal Studiesinvite you to improve both at aPanel of Leadership and Environment ExpertsTuesday, April 3, 6pm – 8pmNYU Silver Building, 100 Washington Sq E (at Washington Sq N), room 405Free, register hereFeaturing Vincent StanleyVincent, co-author with Yvon Chouinard of The Responsible Company, has...
2018-03-2804 min
Growth to Freedom™ - Transform Your Life, Business, and Relationships with Clarity, Confidence, and DirectionDiscover Leadership that Works, Lessons Learned from Failure, and the Necessity of Listening with Joshua SpodekHow do you lead and inspire? How do you go out and truly impact and contribute to others? Today's conversation is with Joshua Spodek. Joshua is the author of the bestselling "Leadership Step by Step" and host of the award-winning "Leadership and the Environment" podcast. He's earned such praise as "Best and Brightest" (Esquire's Genius Issue), "Astrophysicist turned new media whiz" (NBC), and "Rocket Scientist" (Forbes and ABC) with success in such diverse fields as science, invention, entrepreneurship, art, leadership, coaching, and education. In this segment, Joshua shares his valuable insights around leadership and what...
2018-03-1937 min
This Sustainable Life034: Joshua Spodek, Before, Living by Others' ValuesAfter sharing my "after" stories about after taking on my environmental challenges, in this episode I share the "before" situations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2018-03-1616 min
This Sustainable Life026: Joshua Spodek, The View From The FutureOur world is filled with systems based on beliefs that made sense in the past, but that evidence contradicts.Growth and technology are contributing to environmental degradation. The invisible hand doesn't win against the tragedy of the commons. And so on.We didn't create these systems but we can act to create new ones based on new beliefs, such as accepting having enough, or considering the results of our actions on others more, say, when we pollute or expand into new territory.Actions are easier when we adopt beliefs that...
2018-02-1910 min
This Sustainable Life020: Joshua Spodek, The Big PictureI describe the big picture of this podcast. So far I've influenced a few people to make modest changes.The big picture for this podcast is systemic change on a national, even global level.I'm not just hoping to achieve it. I have a strategy. It's different and I expect it to work more than the existing strategies.I describe how you can help. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2018-01-3118 min
This Sustainable Life018: Joshua Spodek: Enron EnvironmentalismI coined the term Enron Environmentalism to explain the gap between what people say they value about the environment and what they do.If you're an American, you probably practice Enron Environmentalism. Sadly, it's the opposite of self-awareness and integrity, as this episode of the podcast shows.Here are the articles I mention:My Inc. article: Are You an Enron Environmentalist?From Energy Policy Journal: Does pro-environmental behaviour affect carbon emissions?From Environment and Behavior Journal: Good Intents, but Low Impacts: Diverging Importance of Motivational and Socioeconomic Determinants Explaining Pro-Environmental Behavior, Energy...
2018-01-2803 min
This Sustainable Life014: Joshua Spodek: My friend's anger and why I'm doing the showMy friend told me this show angered him -- hearing people act as if little changes were significant... not knowing not to get new plastic bags.I shared some of my thoughts on people making trivial changes and what motivates me.I expect I'll share more personal thoughts on leadership and the environment as I develop my voice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2018-01-1408 min
This Sustainable Life000: What Leadership and the Environment is aboutWhy Joshua Spodek created Leadership and the Environment, what it does, and how you can help.EDIT: A team has formed and we changed the podcast name to This Sustainable Life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2017-10-2431 min
Anatomy of LivingLeadership & Spirituality - Conversation with Joshua Spodek [Episode 10]What do x-ray satellites, writing, learning, leadership, art, burpees, entrepreneurship and marathons have to do with one another? They are all part of the diverse life of our special guest: Joshua Spodek. He has led seminars in leadership, entrepreneurship, creativity and sales at Harvard, Princeton, MIT, INSEAD (Singapore), the New York Academy of Science, and at private corporations. He holds five Ivy league degrees, including a PhD in Astrophysics, and joins us to talk about his life, spirituality, and how we can all become better leaders. --- Anatomy of Living Podcast with Ashton Szabo ...
2017-06-2750 min
Can I Pick Your Brain?78: 90,000 Burpees: Becoming a Super Achiever by Mastering Consistency with Joshua SpodekMy guest today is probably one of the most accomplished and consistent individuals I have had the pleasure to meet.
Joshua Spodek holds five Ivy-League degrees, including a PhD in Astrophysics and an MBA from Columbia University, has finished six marathons, holds six patents, has co-founded several education ventures, competed at the World and National level of Ultimate Frisbee, including playing at the first Ultimate Tournament in North Korea, swam across the Hudson River, has done over 90,000 burpees (we’ll explain what those are in the show), wrote over 2,400 blog posts, has taken over 250 cold showers, has jumped out of tw...
2017-04-2700 min
The Hardware Entrepreneur#022 - Effective project-based learning from astrophysicist turned entrepreneur, professor, with Joshua Spodek of NYU, Spodek Academy, USAI’ve interviewed Joshua Spodek, a professor at NYU and an entrepreneur. This has been an eye-opener interview for me on leadership, how to master it and also on his teaching methods, his entrepreneurial journey. Joshua is a best-selling author of the book called “Leadership Step by Step”, which has recently come out. In this interview we talked about his leadership principles which he describes also in his book. He’s a professor and a coach, teaching about leadership and entrepreneurship. In addition he writes regularly for Inc magazine, holds five Ivy-League degrees, including a PhD in Astrophy...
2017-04-1958 min
The Hardware Entrepreneur#022 - Effective project-based learning from astrophysicist turned entrepreneur, professor, with Joshua Spodek of NYU, Spodek Academy, USAI’ve interviewed Joshua Spodek, a professor at NYU and an entrepreneur. This has been an eye-opener interview for me on leadership, how to master it and also on his teaching methods, his entrepreneurial journey. Joshua is a best-selling author of the book called “Leadership Step by Step”, which has recently come out. In this interview we talked about his leadership principles which he describes also in his book. He’s a professor and a coach, teaching about leadership and entrepreneurship. In addition he writes regularly for Inc magazine, holds five Ivy-League degrees, including a PhD in Astrophy...
2017-04-1958 min
Becoming Your Best | The Principles of Highly Successful LeadersThe Passion of Leadership | An Interview with Joshua SpodekIf you are going to become a good pianist it takes practice. If you want to be a good athlete it takes practice. The same goes for becoming a good leader. Joshua Spodek earned such praise as “Best and Brightest” (Esquire Magazine’s Genius Issue), “Astrophysicist turned new media whiz” (NBC), and “Rocket Scientist” (Forbes Magazine and ABC News) with success in such diverse fields as science, invention, entrepreneurship, art, leadership, coaching, and education. Joshua started his first venture over twenty years ago and has led, coached, taught, and developed courses since. Before...
2017-01-2633 min
Outlier On Air | Founders, Disruptors, & MavensEp 331: Joshua Spodek Interview - Finding Your Hudson River"..our greatest passions are also our greatest vulnerabilities." - Joshua Spodek Joshua Spodek is an Adjunct Professor at NYU, leadership coach and workshop leader for Columbia Business School, and Columnist for Inc. He has led seminars in leadership, entrepreneurship, creativity, sales, strategy, and motivation at Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, MIT, the NYU-Stern School of Business, INSEAD (Singapore), NYU-Tisch's ITP, the New York Academy of Science, and in private corporations. He holds five Ivy-League degrees, including a PhD in Astrophysics and an MBA. He also helped build an X-ray observational satellite for the European Space Agency and NASA, co-founded...
2016-05-201h 08