Podcasts about living cities

How do we put the genius of St. Francis to work in our own lives? In this final episode of our Third Season, Richard takes us through Chapter 13 of Eager to Love, "Francis: A Natural Spiritual Genius". Mike, Drew, and Paul then engage in a rich conversation with author Jon Sweeney, who shares his journey of writing about St. Francis and how it has shaped his understanding of compassion and sensitivity in daily life. The discussion emphasizes the importance of navigating the complexities of living out spiritual values in a world filled with challenges. Sweeney highlights the radical love inherent in Franciscan spirituality and the significance of daily practice in living out these principles. The conversation also touches on Francis' critique of social structures and his solidarity with the suffering of the world, culminating in the emotional depth of his teachings that intertwine love and wound. Jon M. Sweeney is an award-winning author and independent scholar. His books on Franciscan spirituality have sold a quarter million copies. He's also the author of forty books on spirituality, mysticism, biography, and memoir including Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart, coauthored with Mark S. Burrows and, Thomas Merton: An Introduction to His Life and Practices. Jon is religion editor at Monkfish Book Publishing, editor of Living City magazine, and the book reviewer at SpiritualityandPractice.com. Hosted by CAC Staff: Paul Swanson, Drew Jackson, and Mike Petrow Resources: Grab a copy of Eager to Love here. The transcript for this episode can be found here. Pick up a copy of Jon's book, The Complete Francis of Assisi: His Life, The Complete Writings, and The Little Flowers, here. Find Jon's book, St. Francis of Assisi: His Life, Teachings, and Practice, here

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Have you ever walked into a room full of empty tables and chairs? People are in the room and yet no one is sitting down. Conversations are happening all around you, but all of the chairs are still empty. Who is going to be the first to take a seat? Which table do you choose? What makes one empty table more appealing than another? I was recently faced with an opportunity to choose from several empty tables in a large room. I was the first to take a seat at the table, and I was joined by human beings I'd never met before, and it was the most magical experience!Empty tables are an invitation to delve into the possibilities that exist because we are human beings with lived experiences. What have you discovered from the tables at which you've chosen take a seat? What opportunities did you cease and were there any that you missed out on? What will you do differently the next time you're at the table? Living Cities is an organization that intentionally and collaboratively brings human beings to the table to center the topics that help us to thrive individually and collectively. To learn more about the work and the change they are committed to, visit https://livingcities.org/.

Welcome to Episode 9 of Season 3 of The R.A.C.E. Podcast. I am back after a bustling summer and I am absolutely delighted to be speaking with Ashleigh Gardere, President of Policy Link, a national research and action institute that is working to build a future where all people in the United States of America can participate in a flourishing multiracial democracy, prosper in an equitable economy, and live in thriving communities of opportunity.​ Our conversation delves into the honor and often challenge of upholding the legacy and continuation of social and racial justice work. I have watched and been inspired by Ashleigh and her work and am so thankful for her commitment and her time.Meet Ashleigh Gardere:Ashleigh has been recognized by Living Cities as one of the nation's Top 25 Disruptive Leaders working to close racial wealth gaps, Ashleigh is an expert in economic and workforce development, public policy, organizational leadership and culture change, and performance management for large-scale systems transformation.As *newly appointed* President at Policy Link, Ashleigh brings vision to life through PolicyLink programs, activating common and uncommon partners to develop a shared national equity agenda. She is a pioneer in inclusive economic growth. She works effectively across government, private, and nonprofit sectors to create infrastructure for a coalition broad enough to Win on Equity.Ashleigh serves as board chair of the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation which partners with organizations and networks to alleviate poverty and increase social and economic justice in 11 Southern states. She holds a bachelor's degree in Urban Studies from New York University and a master's degree in Public Policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where she was a Public Policy and International Affairs Fellow.Listen in as Ashleigh shares:The identities she holds closest including “21st century leader”How she defines Racial Equity and how it informs her leadershipThe goals and needs necessary for her role as President of Policy LinkThe results of her work and what keeps her motivatedHer sources of support and informationWhat she wants leaders to know, think, and feel in their quest to be leaders in this workAnd so much moreConnect with Ashleigh Gardere:Website: Policy LinkLinkedIn: Ashleigh GardereHi listener! Please take our short Listener Survey HERE to give The R.A.C.E. Podcast team feedback on the show. We will use the feedback to inform how we approach conversations in the future. Upon completion, you will be entered in our quarterly drawing for a $100 Visa gift card! Your email address will only be used for this purpose. Thanks in advance - we appreciate your feedback.Connect with Keecha Harris and Associates: Website: https://khandassociates.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/keecha-harris-and-associates/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/khandassociates YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCukpgXjuOW-ok-pHtVkSajg/featured Connect with Keecha: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keechaharris/

Episode produced by Angelina Campbell, Andrea D'Souza, and Guangrui Li (Rui) This episode of Sync into the Earth explores the fascinating global topic of urban sustainability. Given the breadth of the topic, we focused on sustainability efforts that we, and likely our audience, are familiar with here in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). We begin by defining urban sustainability, because this concept can be interpreted in different ways. Next, we dive into why urban sustainability is essential and why we as humans should care about it. This section provides information on the benefits humans gain from urban green spaces, such as positive physical and mental health effects. We further discuss the importance of this concept by looking at the ecosystem services biodiversity provides in an urban setting, and what urban biodiversity looks like. We end the episode by talking about the different ways that sustainability can be achieved in an urban environment. This includes speaking up against government plans and policies and working with members of your community to voice large-scale concerns and actions to be taken. We also mentioned individual efforts that are easier to achieve, such as planting a pollinator garden in your yard. We hope that this episode gives an insightful snippet on how to make urban living a little bit greener.

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Episode 73 of Messy Jesus Business podcast, with guest host, Rev. Adam Bucko Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts  | Email | RSS | More For Love of the Broken Body book cover IN THIS EPISODE In the latest episode of Messy Jesus Business podcast, guest host Rev. Adam Bucko interviews Sister Julia Walsh FSPA about her new spiritual memoir, For Love of the Broken Body. Their conversation explores the story of the accident that shaped Sister Julia's experience as a novice with the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. She speaks about how she felt called to share her powerful story. "In alignment with my vow of poverty, I felt like I couldn't keep this story to myself," Sister Julia admits. Rev. Adam and Sister Julia also explore how brokenness is a normal and sacred part of being human and how all people can give who they are for the sake of the common good. They explore vocational discernment, vulnerability, Sister Julia's experience in finding a publisher for the book, the messiness of maturing in faith, trusting in God, and sharing life in community. Download a free reflection guide to accompany Sister Julia's memoir, For Love of the Broken Body, here. ABOUT THE GUEST HOST Father Adam Bucko has been a committed voice in the movement for the renewal of Christian Contemplative Spirituality and the growing New Monastic movement. He has taught engaged contemplative spirituality in Europe and the United States, and authored Let Your Heartbreak be Your Guide: Lessons in Engaged Contemplation, and co-authored Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation and The New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative Living. Committed to an integration of contemplation and just practice, he cofounded an award-winning non-profit, the Reciprocity Foundation, where he spent 15 years working with homeless youth living on the streets of New York City, providing spiritual care, developing programs to end youth homelessness, and articulating a vision for spiritual mentoring in a post-religious world. He currently serves as a director of The Center for Spiritual Imagination at the Episcopal Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City, New York, and is a member of “The Community of the Incarnation,” a ‘new monastic' community dedicated to democratizing the gifts of monastic spirituality and teaching contemplative spirituality, in the context of hearing and responding to the cry of the poor and the cry of the earth. Adam leads The Buddhist-Christian Community for Meditation and Action along with his wife, Kaira Jewel Lingo, a Buddhist teacher and former nun in the community of Thich Nhat Hanh. ABOUT Sr. JULIA WALSH FSPA Sister Julia Walsh FSPA Sister Julia Walsh is a Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration and part of hercongregation's formation team, serving women who are discerning their vocation. Along with another Franciscan Sister, she co-founded The Fireplace, an intentional community and house of hospitality on Chicago's southside that offers spiritual support to seekers, artists, and activists. She has an MA in Pastoral Studies from Catholic Theological Union and is a spiritual director and secondary teacher. As a creative writer, educator, and retreat presenter she is passionate about exploring the intersection of creativity, spirituality, activism, and community life. A regularly published spiritual writer, Sister Julia's work can be found in publications such as America, Living Faith Catholic Devotional, and Living City. She hosts the Messy Jesus Business blog and podcast and is the author of FOR LOVE OF THE BROKEN BODY (Monkfish, March 2024). Rev. Adam Bucko with Sr. Julia Walsh FSPA MESSY JESUS BUSINESS is hosted by Sister Julia Walsh.  Produced and edited by Colin Wambsgans. Email us at messyjesusbusiness@gmail.com BE SOCIAL:https://www.facebook.com/MessyJesusBusiness Facebook: https://www.facebook.

Today's episode of The Nonprofit Build Up Podcast is part 2 of a 2 part conversation titled “Drowning in Black Genius with Marcus Littles and A. Nicole Campbell”. While this topic could be discussed any time of the year we wanted to be sure that while the world is celebrating Black History this month, we can allow them to also pay attention to the literal present day genius of Black folks as well. In today's episode Marcus Littles, Founder and Senior Partner, at Frontline Solutions continues to discuss his organization's evolution over the last 18 years. Frontline Solutions, while a management consulting firm, was never intended to be just that. This Black-founded and led company is comprised of a diverse team of activists, scholars, advocates, coaches, strategists, and artists. They draw on these multifaceted perspectives and lived experiences to engage with organizations in the journey toward their boldest, most expansive visions. Tune in to learn more about how Frontlines continues to build and support an ecosystem that is "Drowning in Black Genius."Marcus Littles, Founder and Senior Partner:A strategist and visionary, Marcus has been instrumental in directing philanthropic investment at the intersection of race and gender. In 2005, he founded Frontline to advise philanthropists on a multi-billion-dollar investment in Gulf Coast recovery in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Since then, Marcus has led Frontline in reimagining the role of “consultant” and becoming an integral part of the racial justice ecosystem.Marcus is passionate about connecting with members of his network to leverage individual and collective assets to create a more equitable world. Over the course of his career, he has pursued racial justice in several sectors, including government, philanthropy, and education. In 2016, Marcus was named one of Living Cities' 25 Disruptive Leaders Who Are Working to Close the Racial Opportunity Gaps, alongside Ta-Nehisi Coates and Angela Glover Blackwell.Marcus is a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He serves on the boards of The Beautiful Project, Brotherhood Sister Sol, and School Justice Project, as well as the advisory boards of Communities for Just Schools Fund and the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color. A native of Mobile, Alabama, Marcus is a graduate of Auburn University. He holds a master's degree in public administration from the University of Delaware.

Today's episode of The Nonprofit Build Up Podcast is part 1 of a 2 part conversation titled “Drowning in Black Genius with Marcus Littles and A. Nicole Campbell” is a personal favorite. And while this topic could be discussed any time of the year we wanted to be sure that while the world is celebrating Black History this month, we can allow them to also pay attention to the literal present day genius of Black folks as well. In today's episode Marcus Littles, Founder and Senior Partner, at Frontline Solutions discusses his organization's evolution over the last 18 years. Frontline Solutions, while a management consulting firm, was never intended to be just that. This Black-founded and led company is comprised of a diverse team of activists, scholars, advocates, coaches, strategists, and artists. They draw on these multifaceted perspectives and lived experiences to engage with organizations in the journey toward their boldest, most expansive visions. Tune in to learn more about how Frontlines continues to build and support an ecosystem that is "Drowning in Black Genius."Marcus Littles, Founder and Senior PartnerA strategist and visionary, Marcus has been instrumental in directing philanthropic investment at the intersection of race and gender. In 2005, he founded Frontline to advise philanthropists on a multi-billion-dollar investment in Gulf Coast recovery in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Since then, Marcus has led Frontline in reimagining the role of “consultant” and becoming an integral part of the racial justice ecosystem.Marcus is passionate about connecting with members of his network to leverage individual and collective assets to create a more equitable world. Over the course of his career, he has pursued racial justice in several sectors, including government, philanthropy, and education. In 2016, Marcus was named one of Living Cities' 25 Disruptive Leaders Who Are Working to Close the Racial Opportunity Gaps, alongside Ta-Nehisi Coates and Angela Glover Blackwell.Marcus is a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He serves on the boards of The Beautiful Project, Brotherhood Sister Sol, and School Justice Project, as well as the advisory boards of Communities for Just Schools Fund and the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color. A native of Mobile, Alabama, Marcus is a graduate of Auburn University. He holds a master's degree in public administration from the University of Delaware.Transcript forthcoming. 

Getting into the nitty gritting of urbanism around the world and specifically what changes have happened in America over the years. This time with an actual expert! Youtube: https://youtube.com/@almostapodcastPatreon: patreon.com/almostapodcastMusic: Oyasumi by Smith The Mister

Lisa Hendey and Barb Szyszkiewicz enjoy a conversation on the “spirituality of messiness” at the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Religious Education Congress with Sr. Julia Walsh, FSPA, author of the forthcoming spiritual biography For Love of the Broken Body: A Spiritual Memoir (April 2024).  Julia Walsh is a Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration and part of her congregation's formation team, serving women who are discerning their vocation. She co-founded The Fireplace, an intentional community and house of hospitality on Chicago's southside that offers spiritual support to seekers, artists, and activists. She has a MA in Pastoral Studies from Catholic Theological Union and is a spiritual director and secondary teacher. As a creative writer, educator, and retreat presenter she is passionate about exploring the intersection of creativity, spirituality, activism, and community life. Sister Julia's work can be found in publications such as America, Living Faith Catholic Devotional, National Catholic Reporter, Living City, The Christian Century, Chicago Sun-Times, and St. Anthony Messenger. She hosts the Messy Jesus Business blog and podcast and is on Twitter and Instagram as @JuliaFSPA. A lover of the outdoors, she sometimes can be found studying wildflowers near Elgin, Iowa, her hometown.  Show Notes Links:  Messy Jesus Business   Instagram and Twitter - @JuliaFSPA  For Love of the Broken Body: A Spiritual Memoir 

This week we're chatting with professor Des Fitzgerald about his new book The Living City: Why Cities Don't Need to Be Green to Be Great. We chat about what trees mean to people, the proliferation of moguls that want to build new cities, and the idea of what makes the good city. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!  And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

We would like to point out that the incidental music used in this episode is NOT by Jon Hassell, who never played the Bassoon…OK, let's start here. This is a film of the night before the one that ended up on the record. …and here's an interview with Hassell about the album that the concert was kind of based on.Here's another live concert that Tom recommends……and, although this page is starting to get very YouTube video heavy, here is the album that got Gav into an altered state.* HERE is a link to Jon Hassell's website.* HERE is Hassell's obituary, which provides a succinct overview of his life and work.* …and here is Tom's sampler -The Elephant and the Orchid - Power SpotVoiceprint (Blind From the Facts) - City: Works of FictionBuzzsaw - Bluescreen: Dressing for PleasureAbu Gil (Live) - Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the StreetCaravanesque - Jon Hassell & Ry Cooder: FascinomaViva Shona - Vernal EquinoxParis I - The Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Things by the Power of SoundYou might have to look around for these, we're not sure if all of them are available on the same platform. Subscribe to Gas GiantsRSS https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/311033.rss This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gasgiants.substack.com

This week on BTE - when emerging tech meets city planning… This week we welcome a guest who's credentials include being everything from an Urban Tech fellow at Cornell University to a multiple time startup founder and advisor to a repeat champion on Jeopardy. Greg Lindsay joins the gang to get into how cities (and by extension large groups of people) deal with technology being thrust upon them and along the way take a trip down memory lane to remember Foursquare, the introduction of Uber, and even Pokémon Go! Connect with Greg Lindsay on LinkedIn! Moments to check out:  (starts at 8:42) Augmented Reality will be the killer app for Artificial Intelligence (and vice versa) (starts at 11:17) The challenges of regulating technology before it arrives (starts at 20:35) Burying 'the metaverse' and the role of VR in city planning (starts at 27:33) Improving collaboration between cities and technology companies (starts at 30:55) Opportunities for A&D in re-imagining the build environment (starts at 37:09) Considerations for building a responsible future Connect with our hosts on LinkedIn; Bobby Bonett Tessa Bain Andrew Lane References and resources: Greg Lindsay (.org) Cornell Tech, Jacobs Urban Tech Hub Death by Pokémon GO - Purdue University Hyper Reality (Short Film, Keiichi Matsuda, 2016) Agents (Short Film, Keiichi Matsuda / Niantic, 2023) Visual Positioning System (VPS) Definition Sidewalk Labs - Toronto Sideways: The City that Google Couldn't Buy (Book) His Dark Materials, Phillip Pullman (Wikipedia) Numina (VR urban planning data) Dennis Crowley / Living Cities Lessons from the Catastrophic Failure of the Metaverse, Kate Wagner (article) Unfrozen (podcast) - Greg Lindsay and Daniel Safarik Rafi Segal Discord (Recommended follows: Living Cities, Liquid Cities, Niantic   Discover more shows from SURROUND at surroundpodcasts.com.  This episode of Barriers to Entry was produced and edited by Wize Grazette and Samantha Sager. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When it comes to solving large problems and creating population-level results, the idea of treating urgent symptoms often seems in conflict with developing a cure. In this episode, we talk about a both/and approach in addressing issues to get “population level results.” And, we finally get consensus on what “population level results” means. Featuring Marian Urquilla, co-founder at the Center for Community Investment. Learn more: www.strivetogether.org

                                                          Rod Miller  is an President, CEO, Founder and Strategics. He explains why we should “Put people first”, how “Everyone is the CEO of their job” why we should “Suck it up and drive on” and much more. Hosted by Siebe Van Der Zee. About Rod Miller Rodrick Miller has emerged as one of the nation's foremost economic development leaders respected globally for his ability to maneuver in complex political and business environments, and craft strategies and structure deals to provide long-term value to communities and investors. Over the course of his career, he has brought more than $6B in private investment and 50,000 new jobs to communities where he has worked. As President and Chief Executive Officer of Miami-Dade County's official economic development organization, Miller is focused on attracting and retaining companies that create high-value jobs and actively invest in the community. Miller champions Miami's unique advantages as a diverse, global business destination, collaborating with key stakeholders in both the private and public sectors to leverage the strengths of the market's target industries, deliver workforce solutions, and create opportunities that drive long-term economic prosperity and inclusive growth for both residents and businesses. Experienced in leading economic recovery efforts in challenged markets across the country, Miller has launched or turned public-private development agencies around in New Orleans, Detroit and, most recently, Puerto Rico, where he served as Chief Executive Officer of Invest Puerto Rico.  Prior to those positions, Miller served as the Executive Vice President of the Baton Rouge Area Chamber, Vice President of International Economic Development for the Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC) and held several other positions in the public and private sectors. He began his career in the private sector in management consulting and infrastructure finance, is fluent in Spanish and proficient in Portuguese. Miller is also Founder and CEO of Ascendant Global, a boutique economic development firm focused on providing bold growth solutions to help economies sustain themselves, gaining jobs and private investment.  Ascendant Global has led diverse economic initiatives for a range of clients including Living Cities, the Kellogg Foundation, The Fund for our Economic Future, and the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Miller holds a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor of Science in International Business from St. Augustine's College. He also gained a Graduate Diploma in Finance from the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) in Mexico as a Fulbright Fellow. A scholar practitioner, he has been a featured speaker to organizations such as Google, AIG, and the World Bank, and has lectured at Harvard University, Arizona State University, The University of Michigan and the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has written extensively in scholarly and trade publications on the future of work, inclusive economic development, and market competitiveness. Miller is currently a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University's Taubman Center for State and Local Government where he is building a community of practice to rethink how economic development should be more inclusive and sustainable, training the next generation of economic development leaders, and researching diverse economic development topics including inclusive economic growth, incentives, and the Build Back Better program. Miller is a board member of the New Growth Innovation Network, the Harvard Kennedy School Alumni Board, New Corp (CDFI), and St. Augustine's University. He is a former board member of the International Economic Development Council and completed a term membership with the Council on Foreign Relations. He has advised various federal agencies on economic policy including the Federal Reserve Board, the Economic Development Administration, and the White House. Miller has received numerous accolades including Young Economic Developer of the Year (2013), Michigan Man of Excellence (2016), the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Harvard Kennedy School Black Student Union (2018), and various others. He enjoys playing the piano, reading, and spending time with his family. Episode Notes Lesson 1: Put people first.   06:25 Lesson 2: Remember, the arc of time is long. 10:04 Lesson 3: You don't know how much capacity one has until you put it to the test. 11:11 Lesson 4: Everyone is the CEO of their job. Take initiative and lead. Results matter.  Everything else is noise.  17:35 Lesson 5: Be interesting. Try something new. 21:14 Lesson 6: Suck it up and drive on. 23:49 Lesson 7: One's character is demonstrated when one's faced with adversity.  26:46 Lesson 8: No one is completely self-made. Everyone has had some help. 28:41 Lesson 9: The world is a large place.  Follow the news and travel.  33:53 Lesson 10: We'll all have to die one day; make time for the people you love. 36:39  

How can we talk about, feel into, express the ways that Divine Love moves through us? And how can we do that in a way that is relevant to the lives we live today? Jon M. Sweeney and Mark S. Burrows are here to talk about how the words of a 14th-century German mystic, Meister Eckhart, have relevance and challenges for modern explorers. Together they are the authors of Meister Eckhart's Book of Darkness and Light. -------- Jon M. Sweeney is an independent scholar and award-winning writer. He is a biographer of St. Francis of Assisi and commentator on his writings, and his books on Franciscan subjects have sold more than 200,000 copies. Jon is the author of more than forty books, including The Pope Who Quit, which was optioned by HBO. He edits the magazine Living City, and is religion editor/associate publisher of Monkfish Publishing in Rhinebeck, NY. He's appeared on CBS Saturday Morning and numerous other programs. Connect with him on Twitter, where he's jonmsweeney. Mark S. Burrows, Ph.D., is a speaker and leader of workshops and retreats on poetry and spirituality. Widely known for his work in the field of medieval mysticism, he is also one of the foremost experts on Rilke's writings, engaging them for experts and a wide general readership alike. An award-winning poet and translator, he is bringing out a new translation of Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus as well as a book inspired by Rilke which he co-authored with bestselling Australian author Stephanie Dowrick: A Wiser Way: Living the Questions with Rainer Maria Rilke, both to be published next year. Visit Mark at soul-in-sight.org.

The Cabinet is being briefed on proposals for using the large budget surpluses expected in the coming years. €65 billion is being forecast up to 2026, with much talk about how future finances can be ‘future proofed'. Kieran was joined by Independent Senator Michael McDowell and Lorna Bogue, An Rabharta Glas Councillor for Cork City Council to discuss...

Maria MacDonald, Executive Director of the Center for the Living City & founding faculty member of Marywood University's School of Architecture, speaking about Scranton native Jane Jacobs in anticipation of "Observe Scranton: Jane Jacobs's First City Festival," May 4th & 5th, 2023, to mark the 107th birthday of Jane Jacobs. One of the highlights will be a first look at the Historic Lace Village on Friday. For more information: www.observescranton.org/

Dennis Crowley hat Foursquare gegründet und ist einer der krassesten Insider der letzten 20 Jahre. Ursprünglich als Consumer Product bekannt geworden, macht die Firma heute mit B2B Lizensierung mehr als 100M Dollar Umsatz. Seine erste Firma hat Dennis an Google verkauft und als Failure betitelt. Deswegen hat er bei der zweiten Firma das Kaufangebot von Mark Zuckerberg abgelehnt.Nach dem Pivot des Geschäftsmodells auf B2B wusste Dennis, er möchte nicht mehr CEO sein. Seinen Nachfolger hat er mit Ben Horowitz von a16z ausgesucht.Nach Foursquare nicht vorgehabt, nochmals zu gründen. Gemeinsam mit zwei herausragenden Mitgründern ist er nun für das Produkt von Living Cities verantwortlich, mit welchem sie die Schnittstelle zwischen echter und virtueller Welt schaffen wollen.. Ein sehr offenes und ehrliches Gespräch über Imposter Syndrom, Challenges und gleichzeitig viele Erfahrungswerte von Dennis Crowley.ALLES ZU UNICORN BAKERY:https://zez.am/unicornbakeryWas du lernst:Kann ich mich als Startup für Viralität wappnen?Wie findet man als erfolgreicher CEO einen Nachfolger, der das Unternehmen gut führt und entkoppelt sich selbst mehr vom Unternehmen?Warum ist das innere Kind wichtig, um seriöse Businessentscheidungen zu treffen? Wieso sollte man sich selbst nie zu ernst nehmen?Was bewegt einen Gründer dazu, an seiner Idee festzuhalten, obwohl das gesamte Umfeld diese ablehnt?Wie geht Dennis mit dem Hochstaplersyndrom um (Spoiler: er hat es täglich)?(00:01:51)Was waren die schwierigsten Entscheidungen, die du als Mensch und als CEO/Founder treffen musstest?(00:05:47)Thema Wachstum: Wo ist der sweet spot zwischen auf Wachstum vorbereitet sein und überfordert sein?(00:08:55)Wie geht man Product Building an und welche Rolle spielt eine gute Reputation - baut das Druck auf?(00:13:45)Wo ist bei Entwicklung und Produktentwicklung die beste Balance zwischen datengetriebenen Entscheidungen und Bauchentscheidungen?(00:19:16)Kannst du den Pivot von Foursquare erklären?(00:24:32)Wie hast du einen passenden Nachfolger für deine Position als CEO gefunden und wie lief der Prozess ab?(00:28:58)Was hat dich überzeugt, doch nochmal ein Unternehmen zu gründen, obwohl du vor ein paar Jahren noch sagtest, du möchtest nicht mehr? Was macht Living Cities?(00:32:56)Was bedeuten Erlebnisse und Erfahrungen für dich?(00:36:57)Wieso hast du an deiner Geschäftsidee festgehalten, obwohl du zunächst von allen in deinem Umfeld abgelehnt wurdest?(00:40:41)Was sind eure Hypothesen zu zukünftigen Erfahrungen von Menschen, bezogen auf Living Cities?(00:47:36)Wie wichtig ist es, bei Businessentscheidungen und Product Building das innere Kind nicht zu verlieren bzw. zu befragen?(00:51:33)Welche Menschen und Mentoren haben dich auf deinem Gründungsweg inspiriert und dir geholfen?Dennis CrowleyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpstyles/ Foursquare: https://foursquare.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dennis Crowley founded Foursquare and is one of the most blatant insiders of the last 20 years. Originally known as a consumer product, the company now does more than $100M in revenue with B2B licensing. Dennis sold his first company to Google and dubbed it a failure. That's why he turned down Mark Zuckerberg's offer to buy the second company. After pivoting the business model to B2B, Dennis knew he didn't want to be CEO anymore. He picked his successor in Ben Horowitz of a16z. After Foursquare, not planning to start up again. Together with two outstanding co-founders, he is now responsible for the product of Living Cities, with which they want to create the interface between the real and virtual world... A very open and honest conversation about Imposter Syndrome, Challenges and at the same time a lot of experience from Dennis Crowley. ALL ABOUT UNICORN BAKERY: https://zez.am/unicornbakery What you learn: As a startup, can I gear up for virality? As a successful CEO, how do you find a successor who will run the company well and decouple yourself more from the company? Why is the inner child important in making serious business decisions? Why should you never take yourself too seriously? What moves a founder to stick to his idea even though the entire environment rejects it? How does Dennis deal with impostor syndrome (spoiler: he has it every day)? (00:01:51) What were the most difficult decisions you had to make as a person and as a CEO/Founder? (00:05:47) Growth issue: where is the sweet spot between being prepared for growth and being overwhelmed? (00:08:55) How do you approach product building and what role does a good reputation play - does that build pressure? (00:13:45) In development and product development, where is the best balance between data-driven decisions and gut decisions? (00:19:16) Can you explain the pivot from Foursquare? (00:24:32) How did you find a suitable successor for your CEO position and what was the process like? (00:28:58) What convinced you to start a company again, even though a few years ago you said you didn't want to? What does Living Cities do? (00:32:56) What do experiences mean to you? (00:36:57) Why did you stick with your business idea even though you were initially rejected by everyone around you? (00:40:41) What are your hypotheses about future experiences of people, related to Living Cities? (00:47:36) How important is it to not lose or consult your inner child when making business decisions and product building? (00:51:33) What people and mentors have inspired and helped you on your startup journey? Dennis Crowley LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpstyles/ Foursquare: https://foursquare.com/ Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

This session of the radio show shares the audio recording of the housing and zoning discussion with Brad Chafee, Melanie Hamblen, Cobi Frongillo and Dean College Chancellor Ed Augustus. Brad, Melanie, Ed and I were in the Franklin TV Studio on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Cobi joined us for the discussion via Zoom.Consider this a continuation of the downtown zoning discussion from the “Franklin For All” project which is underway with review and discussion at the Economic Development Subcommittee Plus meetings that Melanie Chairs and for which Cobi is Vice-Chair. We were joined by Chancellor Ed Augustus for this session to include his insights as former Town Manager of Worcester, MA and the lessons from the Worcester experience that might be considered for Franklin. The recording of our conversation on zoning runs about 57 minutes. Let's listen in.--------------Principles of walkability: useful, safe, comfortable, and interesting. Watch the TED Talk with Jeff Speck - https://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_speck_the_walkable_cityJane Jacobs writer and activist on urban design wrote her book in 1961 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities Center for Living City is an organization that continues in the spirit of her work -> https://centerforthelivingcity.org/janejacobs/#jane-and-the-centerOther podcast episodes in this series:4th discussion with Melanie and Cobi included Brad (FM #942) ->https://www.franklinmatters.org/2023/02/listen-to-this-discussion-on-housing.html 3rd discussion with Melanie and Cobi included Joel D'errico (FM #922) ->https://www.franklinmatters.org/2023/01/downtown-zoning-discussion-with-derrico.html 2nd discussion with Melanie and Cobi in December (FM #904) -> https://www.franklinmatters.org/2022/12/downtown-zoning-discussion-with.html 1st discussion on Franklin For All project -> (FM # 755) https://www.franklinmatters.org/2022/03/this-franklin-for-all-discussion.html--------------We are now producing this in collaboration with Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm) or 102.9 on the Franklin area radio dial. This podcast is my public service effort for Franklin but we can't do it alone. We can always use your help.How can you help?If you can use the information that you find here, please tell your friends and neighborsIf you don't like something here, please let me knowThrough this feedback loop we can continue to make improvements. I thank you for listening.For additional information, please visit

For the banker turned impact investor, building wealth for women and people of color is as much about numbers as it is about equity. “The reason we are the U.S. and we are at the top of the heap, globally, is because we've invested in our prior majorities, which has been primarily white men,” Demetric Duckett of Living Cities told ImpactAlpha's David Bank in this Agents of Impact podcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

For the banker turned impact investor, building wealth for women and people of color is as much about numbers as it is about equity. “The reason we are the U.S. and we are at the top of the heap, globally, is because we've invested in our prior majorities, which has been primarily white men,” Demetric Duckett of Living Cities told ImpactAlpha's David Bank in this Agents of Impact podcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha-briefing/message

#metaverse #digitaltwin #india #xrom #podcast #gaming Anurag Banerjee is a games and technology industry leader with 18 years of extensive experience in engineering AAA game titles and providing Games as a service (GaaS). In his pursuit, he has traveled the world from India to Canada to Singapore, and currently he is based in London. In his prior adventures, he has shipped several open-world titles including the Batman Arkham series, Assassin's Creed series, and many more in engineering leadership roles. Following that, he joined Improbable where he spent considerable time extending the reach of multiplayer technologies to new limits working with partners as an Engineering Director. Most recently, he has been working as an Engineering advisor for Game7 which is a collective formed to accelerate the Blockchain Gaming industry through Grants, Education, and Strategic Initiatives. A combination of building open-world games, and enabling large-scale multiplayer environments with Web3 puts him in the unique place to build a Metaverse where the virtual world meets the physical world. https://livingcities.xyz https://uk.linkedin.com/in/anuragbanerjee https://twitter.com/banerjeeanurag https://game7.io/

Sterling Johnson currently serves as Director for the Partnership for Southern Equity's (PSE) Just OpportunityPortfolio, where he oversees administration of PSE's economic justice programs, including regranting, small business support, and workforce development initiatives. Prior to joining the PSE, he spent nearly 4 years providing consulting and project management services to over 40 state and local governments, including former mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms' (through her Commission on Workforce and Economic Development.) In this second of a two part interview, Nathan Stuck sits down with Sterling to discuss the value of social utility and social contract, what he wishes everyone understood about the Partnership for Southern Equity, how his lived experiences fuel his personal purpose, and challenges he encountered entering the field of public policy and community economic development.   About Sterling Johnson Sterling currently serves as Director for the Partnership for Southern Equity's (PSE) Just Opportunity Portfolio, where he oversees administration of PSE's economic justice programs, including regranting, small business support and workforce development initiatives. Sterling also provides subject matter expertise as a facilitator and consultant for other PSE clients. Prior to joining PSE, he spent nearly 4 years with Atlanta based law firm Griffin & Strong, P.C. as Director of Public Policy, providing consulting and project management services to over 40 state and local governments, non-profit organizations, and private businesses nationwide. His specialty areas include community economic development, government contracting and supplier diversity, workforce development, and inclusive economic ecosystems. Sterling also project managed more than 15 procurement disparity studies, managed supplier diversity programs on major public-private development projects, including Atlanta's State Farm Arena, and served as project manager for Living Cities' City Accelerator 4 and 6, which explored procurement inclusion as a tool for economic inclusion. He also has provided policy guidance to several mayoral administrations, including former mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms' (through her Commission on Workforce and Economic Development), Birmingham (AL) Mayor Randall Woodfin, and Mayor David Briley of Nashville (TN), among others. He also consulted with the Shelby County government on passage of its 2022 Minority and Women Business program ordinance. Sterling obtained his master's degree in Public Administration with a concentration in Planning and Economic Development from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and holds an undergraduate degree in Sociology from Furman University, where he was a Bill and Melinda Gates Millennium scholar, football letterman, and participated in Track and Field. In 2022, Sterling was also inducted into the Outstanding Atlanta class of 2022 and recognized as an Emerging Leader through the Bank of America Neighborhood Builders Program. He remains active in the Atlanta community as a graduate of the United Way VIP program, a board member with the South DeKalb Tribe, Board member and co-chair of the Diversity Committee for the Museum School, and as a member of the Clark Atlanta School of Public Administration advisory board.   RESOURCES RELATED TO THIS EPISODE [Book] In Search for Our Mothers' Gardens [Book] Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (King Legacy) Justice 40 Accelerator The Great Retention Podcast  Partnership for Southern Equity Mareatlas.org   CREDITS Theme Music

Sterling Johnson currently serves as Director for the Partnership for Southern Equity's (PSE) Just OpportunityPortfolio, where he oversees administration of PSE's economic justice programs, including regranting, small business support, and workforce development initiatives. Prior to joining the PSE, he spent nearly 4 years providing consulting and project management services to over 40 state and local governments, including former mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms' (through her Commission on Workforce and Economic Development.) In this second of a two part interview, Nathan Stuck sits down with Sterling to discuss the value of social utility and social contract, what he wishes everyone understood about the Partnership for Southern Equity, how his lived experiences fuel his personal purpose, and challenges he encountered entering the field of public policy and community economic development.   About Sterling Johnson Sterling currently serves as Director for the Partnership for Southern Equity's (PSE) Just Opportunity Portfolio, where he oversees administration of PSE's economic justice programs, including regranting, small business support and workforce development initiatives. Sterling also provides subject matter expertise as a facilitator and consultant for other PSE clients. Prior to joining PSE, he spent nearly 4 years with Atlanta based law firm Griffin & Strong, P.C. as Director of Public Policy, providing consulting and project management services to over 40 state and local governments, non-profit organizations, and private businesses nationwide. His specialty areas include community economic development, government contracting and supplier diversity, workforce development, and inclusive economic ecosystems. Sterling also project managed more than 15 procurement disparity studies, managed supplier diversity programs on major public-private development projects, including Atlanta's State Farm Arena, and served as project manager for Living Cities' City Accelerator 4 and 6, which explored procurement inclusion as a tool for economic inclusion. He also has provided policy guidance to several mayoral administrations, including former mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms' (through her Commission on Workforce and Economic Development), Birmingham (AL) Mayor Randall Woodfin, and Mayor David Briley of Nashville (TN), among others. He also consulted with the Shelby County government on passage of its 2022 Minority and Women Business program ordinance. Sterling obtained his master's degree in Public Administration with a concentration in Planning and Economic Development from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and holds an undergraduate degree in Sociology from Furman University, where he was a Bill and Melinda Gates Millennium scholar, football letterman, and participated in Track and Field. In 2022, Sterling was also inducted into the Outstanding Atlanta class of 2022 and recognized as an Emerging Leader through the Bank of America Neighborhood Builders Program. He remains active in the Atlanta community as a graduate of the United Way VIP program, a board member with the South DeKalb Tribe, Board member and co-chair of the Diversity Committee for the Museum School, and as a member of the Clark Atlanta School of Public Administration advisory board.   RESOURCES RELATED TO THIS EPISODE [Book] In Search for Our Mothers' Gardens [Book] Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (King Legacy) Justice 40 Accelerator The Great Retention Podcast  Partnership for Southern Equity Mareatlas.org   CREDITS Theme Music

This week we have the awesome privilege to here from Govind Prabhu on the topic of missional living.If this podcast helped you please share it with a friend who can also benefit from it.

Sterling Johnson currently serves as Director for the Partnership for Southern Equity's (PSE) Just OpportunityPortfolio, where he oversees administration of PSE's economic justice programs, including regranting, small business support, and workforce development initiatives. Prior to joining the PSE, he spent nearly 4 years providing consulting and project management services to over 40 state and local governments, including former mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms' (through her Commission on Workforce and Economic Development.) In this first of a two part interview, Nathan Stuck sits down with Sterling to discuss the value of social utility and social contract, what he wishes everyone understood about the Partnership for Southern Equity, how his lived experiences fuel his personal purpose, and challenges he encountered entering the field of public policy and community economic development.   About Sterling Johnson Sterling currently serves as Director for the Partnership for Southern Equity's (PSE) Just Opportunity Portfolio, where he oversees administration of PSE's economic justice programs, including regranting, small business support and workforce development initiatives. Sterling also provides subject matter expertise as a facilitator and consultant for other PSE clients. Prior to joining PSE, he spent nearly 4 years with Atlanta based law firm Griffin & Strong, P.C. as Director of Public Policy, providing consulting and project management services to over 40 state and local governments, non-profit organizations, and private businesses nationwide. His specialty areas include community economic development, government contracting and supplier diversity, workforce development, and inclusive economic ecosystems. Sterling also project managed more than 15 procurement disparity studies, managed supplier diversity programs on major public-private development projects, including Atlanta's State Farm Arena, and served as project manager for Living Cities' City Accelerator 4 and 6, which explored procurement inclusion as a tool for economic inclusion. He also has provided policy guidance to several mayoral administrations, including former mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms' (through her Commission on Workforce and Economic Development), Birmingham (AL) Mayor Randall Woodfin, and Mayor David Briley of Nashville (TN), among others. He also consulted with the Shelby County government on passage of its 2022 Minority and Women Business program ordinance. Sterling obtained his master's degree in Public Administration with a concentration in Planning and Economic Development from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and holds an undergraduate degree in Sociology from Furman University, where he was a Bill and Melinda Gates Millennium scholar, football letterman, and participated in Track and Field. In 2022, Sterling was also inducted into the Outstanding Atlanta class of 2022 and recognized as an Emerging Leader through the Bank of America Neighborhood Builders Program. He remains active in the Atlanta community as a graduate of the United Way VIP program, a board member with the South DeKalb Tribe, Board member and co-chair of the Diversity Committee for the Museum School, and as a member of the Clark Atlanta School of Public Administration advisory board.   RESOURCES RELATED TO THIS EPISODE [Book] In Search for Our Mothers' Gardens [Book] Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (King Legacy) Justice 40 Accelerator The Great Retention Podcast  Partnership for Southern Equity Mareatlas.org   CREDITS Theme Music

Sterling Johnson currently serves as Director for the Partnership for Southern Equity's (PSE) Just OpportunityPortfolio, where he oversees administration of PSE's economic justice programs, including regranting, small business support, and workforce development initiatives. Prior to joining the PSE, he spent nearly 4 years providing consulting and project management services to over 40 state and local governments, including former mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms' (through her Commission on Workforce and Economic Development.) In this first of a two part interview, Nathan Stuck sits down with Sterling to discuss the value of social utility and social contract, what he wishes everyone understood about the Partnership for Southern Equity, how his lived experiences fuel his personal purpose, and challenges he encountered entering the field of public policy and community economic development.   About Sterling Johnson Sterling currently serves as Director for the Partnership for Southern Equity's (PSE) Just Opportunity Portfolio, where he oversees administration of PSE's economic justice programs, including regranting, small business support and workforce development initiatives. Sterling also provides subject matter expertise as a facilitator and consultant for other PSE clients. Prior to joining PSE, he spent nearly 4 years with Atlanta based law firm Griffin & Strong, P.C. as Director of Public Policy, providing consulting and project management services to over 40 state and local governments, non-profit organizations, and private businesses nationwide. His specialty areas include community economic development, government contracting and supplier diversity, workforce development, and inclusive economic ecosystems. Sterling also project managed more than 15 procurement disparity studies, managed supplier diversity programs on major public-private development projects, including Atlanta's State Farm Arena, and served as project manager for Living Cities' City Accelerator 4 and 6, which explored procurement inclusion as a tool for economic inclusion. He also has provided policy guidance to several mayoral administrations, including former mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms' (through her Commission on Workforce and Economic Development), Birmingham (AL) Mayor Randall Woodfin, and Mayor David Briley of Nashville (TN), among others. He also consulted with the Shelby County government on passage of its 2022 Minority and Women Business program ordinance. Sterling obtained his master's degree in Public Administration with a concentration in Planning and Economic Development from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and holds an undergraduate degree in Sociology from Furman University, where he was a Bill and Melinda Gates Millennium scholar, football letterman, and participated in Track and Field. In 2022, Sterling was also inducted into the Outstanding Atlanta class of 2022 and recognized as an Emerging Leader through the Bank of America Neighborhood Builders Program. He remains active in the Atlanta community as a graduate of the United Way VIP program, a board member with the South DeKalb Tribe, Board member and co-chair of the Diversity Committee for the Museum School, and as a member of the Clark Atlanta School of Public Administration advisory board.   RESOURCES RELATED TO THIS EPISODE [Book] In Search for Our Mothers' Gardens [Book] Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (King Legacy) Justice 40 Accelerator The Great Retention Podcast  Partnership for Southern Equity Mareatlas.org   CREDITS Theme Music

Throughout Australia, people want our cities to be more affordable, to have more vibrant social and green spaces, and to be better environmentally suited. And yet our sprawling cities typically fail to meet these goals – often because they have been designed for the convenience of real estate developers, and exclude life sustaining processes and community from them. Even though the ways we work and live have shifted, and we've made leaps and bounds in technology, transport, architecture, and infrastructure, our blueprint for a city has not changed since the Second World War. Given our ability to create cities that are socially vibrant, economical, and in harmony with the land and climate of Australia, isn't it about time we reimagined our cities to reflect the lifestyles we want for the future?  John CarrJohn Carr is an urban and legal geographer whose work focuses on the intersections of urban form, law, planning, and human and non-human environments. His research seeks to address how knowledge from across disciplinary boundaries can be mobilised to make human-built environments more environmentally and socially regenerative. Carr is a senior lecturer with the Environment and Society Group at UNSW Sydney, and teaches in the School of Humanities and Languages, Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture. For more than a decade, he practiced law in the areas of civil rights, complex litigation, and construction law before entering academia.  For more information, visit unsw.to/JohnCarrSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Esmee Geerken is kunstenaar en aardwetenschapper. Ze studeerde aan de Gerrit Rietveld Academie en behaalde een PhD in geochemie bij het Nederlands Instituut voor Zeeonderzoek (NIOZ). Momenteel is Esmee o.a. research fellow bij Waag, Artist in Residence bij het UvA-Institute for Advanced Study, en docent 'Deep Ecology' bij de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Aan de RAVB was ze docent Urban Ecology en betrokken bij de studio Wet Urbanism. 

We spreken over zelforganisatie, ontwerpen met onzekerheid in complexe systemen, bouwen in harmonie met een ecosysteem, het plek bieden aan niet-menselijke stemmen en de sweet spot tussen orde en chaos.

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Lecture series Urban Ecology
Urban Ecology: Making the Living City presentaties
11:25 Eric Smith - The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth + lezing16:20 Peter Sloot lezing 1 lezing 228:30 Ruimte voor de Rivieren

I'm joined by Nick Rau who recently went 4-1 at the NOVA Open '22 to talk about Cities of Sigmar in 3rd edition Warhammer Age of Sigmar. Lots has happened in the Cities of Sigmar between changes to Living City, the addition of a Witch Hunter warband and a shifting meta... so how does Nick build a list with Sigmars finest?

Joseph Grima takes a step back, literally, to show us an image of the earth taken from the Apollo 17 space shuttle. This is the moment when we realise that we operate within a finite, closed ecosystem while coming to terms with the fact that our economies depend on exponential growth. Discussing the historical, entrenched views humans have towards the environment – notably dominated by our economic framework – Joseph unpacks the ways in which this world view was created, how it evolved, and why it is flawed. Finishing with a provocation, Joseph asks us to question whether environmental depletion is necessary and what other models are out there, calling for a ‘non-extractive architecture' – design without depletion. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Living Cities Forum is an annual assembly exploring the role of design, planning and architecture in shaping our society. In July 2022 it returned to Melbourne with an impressive array of international and local architecture and urban design leaders—featuring keynote addresses from globally renowned thinkers including Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Elder Dave Wandin, British architect and co-founder of Dark Matter Labs Indy Johar, Canadian landscape architect Jane Mah Hutton, British architect and educator Joseph Grima, Ghanaian educator and architectural scientist Mae-ling Lokko, Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia, and Chinese architect Xu Tiantian. For as long as humanity has traded, materials have flowed. The 2022 Living Cities Forum theme ‘Material Flows' examined the global material flows that underwrite our growing built environments. Within the 2022 theme, Living Cities Forum delivered its fifth program of keynote lectures, with cross-disciplinary talks over the course of the day by globally renowned thinkers from around the world. While there has been increased awareness into the impacts of our material use in recent times, our approach to building construction continues to reflect short-term commercial interests over long-term environmental sustainability. These short-term interests are most evident in the material flow of pollution. Against this backdrop, the forum explored if the current global disruptions to material flows—as a result of the global pandemic, wars and other destabilising factors—might well be our chance to rethink the materials we have taken for granted. Can we seize this moment to accelerate our first steps towards a genuine circular economy? Can we support those who are decarbonising our supply chains, while also breathing new life into smaller footprint manufacturing? The forum was an opportunity to rethink logistics as ethics and to reframe scarcity as the catalyst for new abundance. The Living Cities Forum is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and Development Victoria. Living Cities Forum is the sister event to MPavilion, and is presented by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit: livingcitiesforum.org Subscribe to the MPavilion YouTube channel for our latest videos and live streamed events: http://bit.ly/subscribempavilion​​​ Explore our Living Cites Forum video & podcast library: https://livingcitiesforum.org/watch #LivingCities22

Dan Hill curates a discussion with Mae-Ling Lokko, Xu Tiantian and Joseph Grima to discuss the commonalities between them and their work in more detail. After delving into the specifics of the highly-localised nature of Mae-Ling's and Tiantian's work,the panellists turn to a broader discussion around whether a local response can contribute to a global response. Questioning how we can factor externalities into the design process to ensure that the idea of stewardship is ingrained in projects, they discuss where responsibilities lie and how we can get more people to pay attention to our global problems. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Living Cities Forum is an annual assembly exploring the role of design, planning and architecture in shaping our society. In July 2022 it returned to Melbourne with an impressive array of international and local architecture and urban design leaders—featuring keynote addresses from globally renowned thinkers including Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Elder Dave Wandin, British architect and co-founder of Dark Matter Labs Indy Johar, Canadian landscape architect Jane Mah Hutton, British architect and educator Joseph Grima, Ghanaian educator and architectural scientist Mae-ling Lokko, Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia, and Chinese architect Xu Tiantian. For as long as humanity has traded, materials have flowed. The 2022 Living Cities Forum theme ‘Material Flows' examined the global material flows that underwrite our growing built environments. Within the 2022 theme, Living Cities Forum delivered its fifth program of keynote lectures, with cross-disciplinary talks over the course of the day by globally renowned thinkers from around the world. While there has been increased awareness into the impacts of our material use in recent times, our approach to building construction continues to reflect short-term commercial interests over long-term environmental sustainability. These short-term interests are most evident in the material flow of pollution. Against this backdrop, the forum explored if the current global disruptions to material flows—as a result of the global pandemic, wars and other destabilising factors—might well be our chance to rethink the materials we have taken for granted. Can we seize this moment to accelerate our first steps towards a genuine circular economy? Can we support those who are decarbonising our supply chains, while also breathing new life into smaller footprint manufacturing? The forum was an opportunity to rethink logistics as ethics and to reframe scarcity as the catalyst for new abundance. The Living Cities Forum is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and Development Victoria. Living Cities Forum is the sister event to MPavilion, and is presented by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit: livingcitiesforum.org Subscribe to the MPavilion YouTube channel for our latest videos and live streamed events: http://bit.ly/subscribempavilion​​​ Explore our Living Cites Forum video & podcast library: https://livingcitiesforum.org/watch #LivingCities22

If we can re-conceptualise material flows as flows of energy – from the land, during use, and back to Country – we open the door to a conscientious stewardship of materials by acknowledging that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed. After welcoming us to Country, Uncle Dave Wandin discusses how the financial cost of material acquisition ignores the ecological costs of material consumption. Following a discussion of circular ecology – an alternative method for valuing our global environment – Dave urges us to consider our personal responsibility to the environment and the energy that we borrow and use. The stage is set for the following speakers as we are invited to shift perspectives and ask ourselves: where does our personal and professional responsibility begin and end? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Living Cities Forum is an annual assembly exploring the role of design, planning and architecture in shaping our society. In July 2022 it returned to Melbourne with an impressive array of international and local architecture and urban design leaders—featuring keynote addresses from globally renowned thinkers including Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Elder Dave Wandin, British architect and co-founder of Dark Matter Labs Indy Johar, Canadian landscape architect Jane Mah Hutton, British architect and educator Joseph Grima, Ghanaian educator and architectural scientist Mae-ling Lokko, Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia, and Chinese architect Xu Tiantian. For as long as humanity has traded, materials have flowed. The 2022 Living Cities Forum theme ‘Material Flows' examined the global material flows that underwrite our growing built environments. Within the 2022 theme, Living Cities Forum delivered its fifth program of keynote lectures, with cross-disciplinary talks over the course of the day by globally renowned thinkers from around the world. While there has been increased awareness into the impacts of our material use in recent times, our approach to building construction continues to reflect short-term commercial interests over long-term environmental sustainability. These short-term interests are most evident in the material flow of pollution. Against this backdrop, the forum explored if the current global disruptions to material flows—as a result of the global pandemic, wars and other destabilising factors—might well be our chance to rethink the materials we have taken for granted. Can we seize this moment to accelerate our first steps towards a genuine circular economy? Can we support those who are decarbonising our supply chains, while also breathing new life into smaller footprint manufacturing? The forum was an opportunity to rethink logistics as ethics and to reframe scarcity as the catalyst for new abundance. The Living Cities Forum is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and Development Victoria. Living Cities Forum is the sister event to MPavilion, and is presented by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit: livingcitiesforum.org Subscribe to the MPavilion YouTube channel for our latest videos and live streamed events: http://bit.ly/subscribempavilion​​​ Explore our Living Cites Forum video & podcast library: https://livingcitiesforum.org/watch #LivingCities22

Have you ever paused to consider where all the materials around us come from, and what will happen to them? Walking us through her recent book – Reciprocal Landscapes – Jane Mah Hutton shares her research tracing the origins, labour practices and regimes required to bring five key materials to the streets of Manhattan. Guano fertilizer, granite, steel, trees and wood provide examples of how material flows can be disrupted by humans, and how we have become alienated from our materials, the places they come from and the people involved in making or providing them. Ultimately Jane invites us to consider: how can design, de-construction and materials stewardship help to change the history of exploitation of both people and the environment? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Living Cities Forum is an annual assembly exploring the role of design, planning and architecture in shaping our society. In July 2022 it returned to Melbourne with an impressive array of international and local architecture and urban design leaders—featuring keynote addresses from globally renowned thinkers including Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Elder Dave Wandin, British architect and co-founder of Dark Matter Labs Indy Johar, Canadian landscape architect Jane Mah Hutton, British architect and educator Joseph Grima, Ghanaian educator and architectural scientist Mae-ling Lokko, Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia, and Chinese architect Xu Tiantian. For as long as humanity has traded, materials have flowed. The 2022 Living Cities Forum theme ‘Material Flows' examined the global material flows that underwrite our growing built environments. Within the 2022 theme, Living Cities Forum delivered its fifth program of keynote lectures, with cross-disciplinary talks over the course of the day by globally renowned thinkers from around the world. While there has been increased awareness into the impacts of our material use in recent times, our approach to building construction continues to reflect short-term commercial interests over long-term environmental sustainability. These short-term interests are most evident in the material flow of pollution. Against this backdrop, the forum explored if the current global disruptions to material flows—as a result of the global pandemic, wars and other destabilising factors—might well be our chance to rethink the materials we have taken for granted. Can we seize this moment to accelerate our first steps towards a genuine circular economy? Can we support those who are decarbonising our supply chains, while also breathing new life into smaller footprint manufacturing? The forum was an opportunity to rethink logistics as ethics and to reframe scarcity as the catalyst for new abundance. The Living Cities Forum is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and Development Victoria. Living Cities Forum is the sister event to MPavilion, and is presented by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit: livingcitiesforum.org Subscribe to the MPavilion YouTube channel for our latest videos and live streamed events: http://bit.ly/subscribempavilion​​​ Explore our Living Cites Forum video & podcast library: https://livingcitiesforum.org/watch #LivingCities22

Vo Trong Nghia's approach to architecture embodies mindfulness towards materials which demonstrates the possibilities of thoughtful, considered designs. Join Vo Trong Nghia as he presents a series of projects created by his practice – each one a powerful testament to his belief that we need more greenery in our cities for the health of our urban environments, as well as our own. Building predominantly in Vietnam, Vo Trong uses familiar materials such as stone and bamboo in his designs, to create an immediate and direct relationship with the sourcing and production of materials. While this certainly keeps construction processes simple, his designs appear anything but. He credits this material mindfulness to his daily meditation, which he has also embedded in his design practice – a holistic approach toward problem-solving. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Living Cities Forum is an annual assembly exploring the role of design, planning and architecture in shaping our society. In July 2022 it returned to Melbourne with an impressive array of international and local architecture and urban design leaders—featuring keynote addresses from globally renowned thinkers including Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Elder Dave Wandin, British architect and co-founder of Dark Matter Labs Indy Johar, Canadian landscape architect Jane Mah Hutton, British architect and educator Joseph Grima, Ghanaian educator and architectural scientist Mae-ling Lokko, Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia, and Chinese architect Xu Tiantian. For as long as humanity has traded, materials have flowed. The 2022 Living Cities Forum theme ‘Material Flows' examined the global material flows that underwrite our growing built environments. Within the 2022 theme, Living Cities Forum delivered its fifth program of keynote lectures, with cross-disciplinary talks over the course of the day by globally renowned thinkers from around the world. While there has been increased awareness into the impacts of our material use in recent times, our approach to building construction continues to reflect short-term commercial interests over long-term environmental sustainability. These short-term interests are most evident in the material flow of pollution. Against this backdrop, the forum explored if the current global disruptions to material flows—as a result of the global pandemic, wars and other destabilising factors—might well be our chance to rethink the materials we have taken for granted. Can we seize this moment to accelerate our first steps towards a genuine circular economy? Can we support those who are decarbonising our supply chains, while also breathing new life into smaller footprint manufacturing? The forum was an opportunity to rethink logistics as ethics and to reframe scarcity as the catalyst for new abundance. The Living Cities Forum is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and Development Victoria. Living Cities Forum is the sister event to MPavilion, and is presented by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit: livingcitiesforum.org Subscribe to the MPavilion YouTube channel for our latest videos and live streamed events: http://bit.ly/subscribempavilion​​​ Explore our Living Cites Forum video & podcast library: https://livingcitiesforum.org/watch #LivingCities22

In this summative discussion, Mel Dodds is joined by Dave Wandin, Indy Johar, Jane Mah Hutton and Vo Trong Nghia, as together they crystalise the common themes throughout the morning's presentations. Emphasising our need to examine our relationship to materials, panellists discussed how to re-orient our focus from ideas of ownership towards ideas of material stewardship and responsibility towards the land. Although the scale of both the projects and the ideas presented differed greatly between speakers, they all discuss how the greatest challenge is in the conflict we currently have in our relationship with the environment. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Living Cities Forum is an annual assembly exploring the role of design, planning and architecture in shaping our society. In July 2022 it returned to Melbourne with an impressive array of international and local architecture and urban design leaders—featuring keynote addresses from globally renowned thinkers including Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Elder Dave Wandin, British architect and co-founder of Dark Matter Labs Indy Johar, Canadian landscape architect Jane Mah Hutton, British architect and educator Joseph Grima, Ghanaian educator and architectural scientist Mae-ling Lokko, Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia, and Chinese architect Xu Tiantian. For as long as humanity has traded, materials have flowed. The 2022 Living Cities Forum theme ‘Material Flows' examined the global material flows that underwrite our growing built environments. Within the 2022 theme, Living Cities Forum delivered its fifth program of keynote lectures, with cross-disciplinary talks over the course of the day by globally renowned thinkers from around the world. While there has been increased awareness into the impacts of our material use in recent times, our approach to building construction continues to reflect short-term commercial interests over long-term environmental sustainability. These short-term interests are most evident in the material flow of pollution. Against this backdrop, the forum explored if the current global disruptions to material flows—as a result of the global pandemic, wars and other destabilising factors—might well be our chance to rethink the materials we have taken for granted. Can we seize this moment to accelerate our first steps towards a genuine circular economy? Can we support those who are decarbonising our supply chains, while also breathing new life into smaller footprint manufacturing? The forum was an opportunity to rethink logistics as ethics and to reframe scarcity as the catalyst for new abundance. The Living Cities Forum is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and Development Victoria. Living Cities Forum is the sister event to MPavilion, and is presented by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit: livingcitiesforum.org Subscribe to the MPavilion YouTube channel for our latest videos and live streamed events: http://bit.ly/subscribempavilion​​​ Explore our Living Cites Forum video & podcast library: https://livingcitiesforum.org/watch #LivingCities22

Introducing us to the concept of ‘architectural acupuncture' Xu Tiantian presents four projects in rural China, where small projects have created big opportunities for revitalising rural villages. Each project is vastly different, an outcome of the highly-localised approach to design using traditional materials and building techniques. In this way, materials and their production are a cultural expression and each of Xu Tiantian's projects seeks to restore cultural heritage, preserving tradition and history as a resource with which to revitalise local villages. Demonstrating how architecture acupuncture can make use of limited funds to create low-tech systems for public buildings, Xu Tiantian is able to achieve cultural, social and economic sustainability through her work. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Living Cities Forum is an annual assembly exploring the role of design, planning and architecture in shaping our society. In July 2022 it returned to Melbourne with an impressive array of international and local architecture and urban design leaders—featuring keynote addresses from globally renowned thinkers including Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Elder Dave Wandin, British architect and co-founder of Dark Matter Labs Indy Johar, Canadian landscape architect Jane Mah Hutton, British architect and educator Joseph Grima, Ghanaian educator and architectural scientist Mae-ling Lokko, Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia, and Chinese architect Xu Tiantian. For as long as humanity has traded, materials have flowed. The 2022 Living Cities Forum theme ‘Material Flows' examined the global material flows that underwrite our growing built environments. Within the 2022 theme, Living Cities Forum delivered its fifth program of keynote lectures, with cross-disciplinary talks over the course of the day by globally renowned thinkers from around the world. While there has been increased awareness into the impacts of our material use in recent times, our approach to building construction continues to reflect short-term commercial interests over long-term environmental sustainability. These short-term interests are most evident in the material flow of pollution. Against this backdrop, the forum explored if the current global disruptions to material flows—as a result of the global pandemic, wars and other destabilising factors—might well be our chance to rethink the materials we have taken for granted. Can we seize this moment to accelerate our first steps towards a genuine circular economy? Can we support those who are decarbonising our supply chains, while also breathing new life into smaller footprint manufacturing? The forum was an opportunity to rethink logistics as ethics and to reframe scarcity as the catalyst for new abundance. The Living Cities Forum is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and Development Victoria. Living Cities Forum is the sister event to MPavilion, and is presented by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit: livingcitiesforum.org Subscribe to the MPavilion YouTube channel for our latest videos and live streamed events: http://bit.ly/subscribempavilion​​​ Explore our Living Cites Forum video & podcast library: https://livingcitiesforum.org/watch #LivingCities22

Living Cities is a digital twin XR startup announced on May 26th, 2022 with an article titled “Reality is Scarce…and The Metaverse is infinitely abundant.”

This week the hosts are joined by Matt Miesnieks, CEO of Living Cities.Thank you to our sponsors, Virbela & Zappar!Don't forget to like, share, and follow for more! Follow us on all socials @ThisWeekInXR! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Despite being encouraged to create an episode of just 15 minutes duration by one of our followers, the team have this month extended their coverage – hear Tracy, Damien and Phil discuss vtubing, Ricky's Duke Henry the Red character in the game Evil Dead, the FTC's proposed updates to social media guidelines, Unreal's review of the Matrix Awakens Experience, John Gaeta's latest exploits, metaquette, Reallusion's iClone 8 and CC4 and a number of other exciting developments relevant to the world of real-time filmmaking and machinima.  Thankfully, you can use the timestamps to jump to the bits your most interested in!Timestamps - 1:34 Feedback from our followers: 3DChick, Al Scotch, Spentaneous, Mike Clements, Circu Virtu, Notagamer3d 8:14 Vtubing and Face Rig app (Steam), VTuber Studio – real time puppeteering using faceware 17:41 Interactive video on Vimeo, branching narrative storylines 20:23 Ukranian films of the recent war, showcased at Milan Machinima Film Festival website 24:17 Evil Dead and the character Duke Henry the Red played by Ricky Grove and IP generally, Ricky Grove on IMDb 39:29 FTC updating ‘disclosures 101 for social media infuencers' guide' discussion, the relationship between brands, platforms and influencers and see also [Company] Rulez! (Phil Rice aka zsOverman & Evan Ryan aka Krad Productions) 54:55 Competition updates: Nvidia Omniverse Machinima promo video ‘Top Goose' and Unreal competition, Ben Tuttle's The Amazing Comet and William Faucher's YouTube channel. 58:03 Making of Unreal's Matrix Awakens Experience, Behind the Scenes on The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience, released 6 June 2022, and Tracy's interview with John Gaeta, VFX, The Matrix films, released 17 February 2022. Living Cities is a new metaverse mirror world and Inworld AI 1:00:16 Pooky Amsterdam's blog on metaverse etiquette, called Metaquette 1:00:39 Reallusion's iClone 8 character animation processes including Character Creator 4 launch 1:13:08 Mesh to MetaHuman in Unreal Engine by Unreal Engine, released 9 June 2022 1:13:33 Meta's new model allows creating photoreal avatars with an iPhone, 80.lv, 14 June 2022 and full research publication 1:14:02 Mocap with the MoCats: Livestreaming with Multiple Actors (Faceware & Movella/Xsens) by Faceware 1:14:29 Love, Death & Robots, Jibaro character creation Love, Death + Robots | Inside the Animation: Jibaro, Netflix, released 9 June 2022 and Art Dump 1:16:48 Jonathon Nimmons WriteSeen.com, launched June 2022, website connecting creative writers with industry professionals (upload written content, attach a video pitch, audio clips, video clips and a link to a prototype if required) 1:19:08 A word of thanks to our sponsors Credits - Speakers: Tracy Harwood, Damien Valentine, Phil RiceProducer/Editor: Damien Valentine Music: Scott Buckley – www.scottbuckley.com.au

Join Maestro Jerry Tello and Joe Scantlebury as they come together for a discussion about embracing our whole selves, staying open to new perspectives, and reimagining what our communities could be. For more, please visit: Living Cities, Chronicle of Philanthropy Article, NCRP Board Member, National Compadres NetworkInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/healgenpodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/HealGenPodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Healing.Generations.Podcast

Taj Mahal or TejoMahalaya? Recently there was a stormy debate about whether the Taj Mahal is a Hindu Temple, Rajput Palace or mausoleum. In The Wire Talks, our host Sidharth Bhatia interacts with Rana Safvi to get more insights on it. Rana Safvi is a writer, blogger and translator. She has published eight books so far on the culture, history, and monuments of India. She has penned books- Tales from the Quran and Hadith, the Delhi Trilogy : Where Stones Speak, The Forgotten Cities of Delhi and Shahjahanabad the Living City of Old Delhi and A Saint, A Folk Tale and Other Stories: Lesser Known Monuments of India. She has translated both the editions of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan's seminal work on Delhi -Asar us Sanadid, Dastan e Ghadar and four accounts of 19th and 20th century Delhi from Urdu to English. She is also a regular contributor to various national newspapers and magazines. Follow Rana Safvi on Twitter and Instagram @iamrana and ranasafvi.Follow Sidharth Bhatia on Twitter and Instagram @bombaywallah and https://instagram.com/bombaywallahYou can listen to this show on The Wire's website, the IVM Podcasts website, app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.

Mark Twain once said, "Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend and looks twice as old as all of them put together." Banaras which is called by different names such as Kashi and Varanasi is said to be a timeless city. It is also called Avimuktaka, the sacred space never to be forsaken by Shiva. It is believed to be the original ground created by Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati. Those who die here are guaranteed liberation from the repeated cycle of birth and death. Manikarnika which is the chief burning ghat on the Ganges bank in Banaras is never to be without a body burning on the pyre. It is said to be every Hindu's duty to make sure Manikarnika never goes idle! Considered to be one the holiest Hindu cities, this town breathes divine bliss. And today on the Indian Podcast, we will be talking about the living history of Banaras which is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world with Ms. Pooja Sodhi, who is a seasoned marketing professional and a blogger. She has been studying Indian traditions and is a culture enthusiast and writes about them on her blog poojasodhi.com

During this episode, Natalie shares how she has been working with organizations to apply wonder and rigor to amplify growth and business value. She unleashes creativity in people and areas that have previously not thought of themselves as creatives. Putting it simply, Natalie says that "to be human is to be hard wired to be creative".Natalie suggests that the organizations and leaders that work at the intersection of technology, productivity and meaningful human experience will be most likely to flourish in the new way of working. She also shares that the best businesses she has worked with are full of people who know how to fall in love with solving people's problems. We also talk about defining new systems and processes to maximize success in the new reality of working from home, with blurred boundaries between work and home and work and play. Natalie Nixon, PhD is a creativity Strategist, global keynote speaker and author of the award winning The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation and Intuition at Work. As President of Figure 8 Thinking, LLC, she advises leaders on transformation - by applying wonder and rigor to amplify growth and business value. Some clients have included Comcast, Citrix, Living Cities, VaynerMedia and Bloomberg. Natalie has lived in Germany, Brazil, Portugal, Israel and Sri Lanka and is proficient in Portuguese and Spanish. She is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is certified as a Foresight Practitioner by the Institute for the Future. When she's not dancing up a storm in hip-hop class, Natalie is fine-tuning her foxtrot, salsa and tango on the ballroom floor. She lives in her hometown of Philadelphia, PA, with her husband, John Nixon, and is the proud stepmother of Sydney.Links from this episode:Natalie's LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/natalienixonphd/Natalie's Instagram & Twitter: @natwnixonNatalie's Books: https://www.figure8thinking.com/books/ Figure 8 Thinking: https://www.figure8thinking.com/ Strategio: https://strategio.tech

In this episode with Natalie Nixon, PhD - Creativity Strategist, Author, and President of Figure 8 Thinking, LLC.: ✔️ The path to becoming a high-achieving leader across various disciplines, ✔️ The role of rigour and wonder in any (career) journey, ✔️ How technology + productivity will achieve meaningful human experiences, ✔️ Why consistent self-care is so crucial, and much more! Natalie Nixon, PhD changes lives through ideas so that people build their creative confidence for years to come, make an impact and get paid their worth She is a creativity strategist, global keynote speaker and author of the award-winning The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation and Intuition at Work, which has been recognized as a game-changing innovation book by Fast Company, Porchlight and Soundview. As president of Figure 8 Thinking, LLC she advises leaders on transformation- by applying wonder and rigour to amplify growth and business value. Clients have included Comcast, Citrix, Living Cities, VaynerMedia and Bloomberg. A hybrid thinker, Natalie consistently applies her background in cultural anthropology and fashion. She began her career in education and as a hat designer. Later, Natalie worked in global apparel sourcing for a division of The Limited, Inc. Previous to Figure 8 Thinking, she was a professor for 16 years. Natalie is an early-stage investor at two social impact ventures. She's valued for her ability to work at the intersection of commercial value and stakeholder equity. Natalie has lived in Germany, Brazil, Portugal, Israel, and Sri Lanka and is proficient in Portuguese and Spanish. She is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is certified as a Foresight Practitioner by the Institute for the Future. She received her BA (honors) from Vassar College, and her PhD from the University of Westminster in London.

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Shang (pronounced "shUng") is a badass stock investor who hit FI at age 31 in NYC. Shang bravely shares their IVF journey to have their beautiful baby boy. Shang has taught me so much, from how to negotiate to ways to keep the #igetto attitude despite all the changes life WILL throw your way. We open by talking life in COVID. She makes me greatly appreciate NOT having to deal with the rules and regulations of real estate in NYC. We deep dive into how to always negotiate when considering a new job. Shang shares that you should always negotiate (especially the ladies), always be interviewing and that negotiating a better bonus may be the way to go. We both strongly agree that choosing a career field based on passion is simply a bad idea, even thought permeates our culture today. Shang dives into who should and should not use a financial advisor. She gives us some amazing books to read -- my personal favorite, The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins, The Broke Millenial's Take on Investing and Boggleheads Guide to Investing. And how, for the average investor, getting an average rate of return is WAY more simple than you think. While financial advisors get all the hype, we think the real MVPs are good CPAs, aka tax people. My FAVORITE part is our deep dive into expense ratios. I pick Shang's brain on using traditional vs. Roth retirement accounts Shang gives us her take on paying off the mortgage vs. investing in real estate (hitting on the classic 5% rule of personal finance … and we agree that, in America, your primary residence tends to be a terrible investment (and may not even be a true asset!) Here is my all-time favorite explanation of why the home you live in may not be AS great as an investment as it seems) We wrap up talking about FIRE as a lifestyle, not just a buzz word. Plus how to choose gurus who truly have your best interests in mind. I hope you all enjoy Shang as much as I always do, and I bet she will have you googling something after this podcast. LEARN: Investopedia Morning Star Save My Cents: Backdoor Roth IRA Mega backdoor Roth IRA with The Mad Fientist Rich Dad Poor Dad Suzie Orman Dave Ramsey --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nerdsguidetofi/support