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Our guest this week, Rob Hopkins, is a towering figure in the world of regenerative change.  Co-founder of Transition Network and of Transition Town Totnes, he is host of the podcast 'From What if to What Next', stars in the groundbreaking French film 'Demain', speaks at TED Global and TEDx events and most recently, has created a collaborative music project with artist Mr Kit, ‘Field Recordings from the Future‘ which will be released on 17th of May 2025, alongside his new book,‘How to Fall in Love with the Future'. With the subtitle, 'A Time Traveller's Guide to Changing the World', this book does what it says on the tin - it offers a radical, moving, deeply inspiring dive into the people and movements throughout history who have used visions of the future to inspire positive change on a large and dramatic scale. From the life and writings of musician Sun Ra and the history of Black utopian movements to the latest neuroscience on what goes on in our minds—and hearts—when we travel through time, Rob brings essential new thinking to anyone overwhelmed with dread and anxiety for the future. He asks us to consider: what would the world look like if we all got to work imagining—and then building—a world we were deeply in love with?So this is our invitation to you: Listen to Rob now, then read his book, then explore what a genuinely flourishing future would feel like for you. And then together, let's make this happen. Rob's website https://www.robhopkins.net/Rob's book on Hive Books https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Rob-Hopkins/How-to-Fall-in-Love-with-the-Future--A-Time-Travellers-Gu/31447799What we offer: Accidental Gods, Dreaming Awake and the Thrutopia Writing Masterclass If you'd like to join us at Accidental Gods, this is the membership where we endeavour to help you to connect fully with the living web of life. If you'd like to join our next Gathering 'Becoming a Good Ancestor' (you don't have to be a member) it's on 6th July - details are here.If you'd like to train more deeply in the contemporary shamanic work at Dreaming Awake, you'll find us here. If you'd like to explore the recordings from our last Thrutopia Writing Masterclass, the details are here

Send us a textProfessor Dr. Mark Kendall (BE PhD FRSA FTSE FNAI) is CEO & Founder of WearOptimo ( https://wearoptimo.com/prof-mark-kendall/ ), a private Australian health-tech company developing the next generation of wearable technology, redefining how we approach hydration and biomarker monitoring.Professor Kendall is also Vice-Chancellor's Entrepreneurial Professor at the Australian National University ( https://research.anu.edu.au/research-initiatives/wearoptimo ).Professor Kendall is a biomedical engineer, inventor, scientist, entrepreneur and business-builder with more than 25 years' experience in creating medical technologies to tackle key global health challenges, and companies licensing/advancing his patents/technologies have created a combined economic value of more than $2 billion for investors.​While at the University of Oxford, Professor Kendall was an inventor of the biolistics technology, commercialized with PowderJect (sold to Chiron Vaccines for US$1 billion in 2003), and then PowderMed, purchased by Pfizer for US$400 million in 2006. Professor Kendall was then Founder, CTO and a Director of Vaxxas (2011-2015), which was the commercialization vehicle for his Nanopatch vaccine delivery invention, featured in his TEDGlobal talk, which has more than 1 million views.In recognition of his innovation and translation of commercial technologies focused on the delivery of drugs to skin, and skin-based disease diagnostics, Professor Kendall has received more than 40 awards and accolades. These include the 2016 CSL Young Florey Medal, a 2012 Rolex Laureate Award for Enterprise and the Eureka Prize for Interdisciplinary Research (2011). He was also named a 2015 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, winner of The Australian Innovation Challenge in 2011 and 2004 Younger Engineer of Britain. Professor Kendall's work has featured in diverse media outlets, including TEDGlobal, WIRED, ABC, BBC, NBC, National Geographic, New Scientist, Popular Science and Vanity Fair.Professor Kendall's international recognition extends to his election as a Fellow: of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI, USA); the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, (RSA, UK); and Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE).With a strong global network, and a significant international profile, Professor Kendall serves on the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Biotechnology and is co-chair of the Australian Stem Cell Therapies Mission.Professor Kendall has a BE (Hons I) and a PhD, Mechanical Engineering from The University of Queensland.#WearOptimo #MarkKendall #WearableBiometrics #HydrationMonitoring #Dehydration #PeakPerformance #EliteAthletes #AgedCare #MarkWebber #CompanionDiagnostics #Theranostics #ProgressPotentialAndPossibilities #IraPastor #Podcast #Podcaster #ViralPodcast #STEM #Innovation #Technology #Science #ResearchSupport the show

Today I'm joined by Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman at Ogilvy UK and TED Global Speaker, for a masterclass on all things advertising and behavioural science.   Sponsored by https://www.b2bframeworks.com   Brought to you in partnership with https://awardsinternational.com

Founder Amy-Willard Cross discusses the mission and operations of Gender Fair, the first consumer rating system for gender equality. Gender Fair aims to measure and promote gender equality within consumer-facing companies by utilizing data and the UN Women Empowerment Principles. Amy highlights the importance of transparency and data-driven insights to create social change, emphasizing that gender equality in corporate practices benefits not just women but overall fairness in the workplace. Gender Fair evaluates companies across five categories: women in leadership, employee policies, diversity reporting, supplier diversity, and philanthropy for women. Amy also shares how Gender Fair has incorporated technology to increase its impact, including an app and browser extension that allow consumers to easily access company ratings on gender equality. These tools enable users to make informed purchasing decisions based on a company's gender equality practices. The app features functionalities like barcode scanning and logo recognition to provide real-time information about products. Amy emphasizes the significance of making gender equality data accessible and actionable for consumers, believing that collective consumer power can drive corporate accountability and fairness. Throughout the conversation, Amy discusses the challenges and successes of building Gender Fair, the importance of leveraging economic power for social change, and the role of technology in facilitating gender fairness. She also touches on the broader impact of Gender Fair's work in promoting fair business practices and the potential for future expansions, such as a B2B database for procurement. Gender Fair (https://www.genderfair.com/) Follow Gender Fair on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/begenderfair/), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/GenderFair/), or Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/genderfair). Follow Amy-Willard Cross on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-willard-cross-genderfair/). Follow thoughtbot on X (https://twitter.com/thoughtbot) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/150727/). Transcript: CHAD: This is the Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots podcast, where we explore the design, development, and business of great products. I'm your host, Chad Pytel, and with me today is Amy-Willard Cross, the Founder of Gender Fair, the first consumer rating system for gender equality. Amy, thank you so much for joining me. AMY-WILLARD: Well, I'm very happy to be talking to robots, giant and small. CHAD: [laughs] We'll try not to smash into each other too much on this show. I think we probably have a lot to learn from each other rather than conflicting. AMY-WILLARD: I think so. CHAD: Let's just get started by digging in a little bit to what Gender Fair actually is in terms of what we mean when we say a consumer rating system for gender equality. AMY-WILLARD: It's about data. So, I was originally a journalist. I've written for a living my whole life: books, magazines, articles [laughs], you know, radio shows. I wanted to do something to promote equality in the world. And I realized that data is one way that you can want to have commercial value. Data has value that isn't, like, just blah, blah, blogging, and also, data can create social change. So, I decided to do something like, you know, we know fair trade has created great change as has, you know, marine stewards certified. And also, I was inspired by something that the Human Rights Campaign, the LGBTQ organization, does, which is called the Guide to Corporate Equality. So, our goal is to measure how companies do on gender and then share that with the public. And I didn't just make this up. We use a set of principles called the UN Women Empowerment Principles, which look at eight different sort of areas of an organization. And so, we created metrics that are based on these UN Women Empowerment Principles and also based on what is findable in the public record. We rate consumer-facing public companies, you know, like Unilever, Procter & Gamble, the shampoos that you use, the cars that you buy, the airplanes you ride on. And we look at five major categories, such as, like, women in leadership. We look at employee policies like parental leave, and flex time, part-time, summer Fridays. I'll be curious to know what you do at Giant Robot. I bet you have good ones. And then, we also look at diversity reporting. Our company is upfront with their attempt to bring more diversity into the workforce and also supplier diversity. I don't know, are you familiar with supplier diversity, Chad? CHAD: I am because we often are a supplier, so... AMY-WILLARD: You are. So, when they ask you if you're diverse...but one way companies, especially the big companies that we rate on this public database, they can make a big impact by trying to buy from women and minority-owned businesses, right? When procurement spending is huge. That's a metric that people may not know as well, but it's one that I would encourage every business to undertake because it's not that expensive. And you could just intentionally try to move capital into communities that are not typically the most rewarded. The last category that we measure is philanthropy for women, and that's important. People say, "Well, why do you measure philanthropy?" One, because the amount of philanthropy that goes to women and girls is 1.5% of all donations, and it used to be 1.8. So, pets get more money than women. I don't know how that makes you feel, Chad, but it doesn't make me feel very happy. I mean, I suppose if you're Monster Beverage and you don't have any women clientele, one, it's okay if you don't score well on your gender metrics; just meet the basic fairness. But maybe Monster Beverage doesn't have to donate to the community of women. But if you're making billions of dollars a year selling a shampoo, I would sort of think it's fair to ask that there's some capital that goes back the other way towards the community of women. So, that's the measurement. So, we could do it...and we do it for small companies like yours, too. I imagine your company would do well from the little bit I've talked to people on your staff. It sounds like you have a lot of women in leadership. And I don't know your policies yet, but I'm sure you...I bet in Massachusetts I know you have parental leave anyway in the state, but you're a more progressive state. But I think this is something that all of your listeners can benefit from is putting a gender lens on their operations because a gender lens is a fairness lens. And it includes usually, you know, this includes people who are not just all the same men, White men. So, it helps all businesses sort of operate in a more fair way to put a gender lens on their operations. And it's not hard to do. CHAD: So, one of the things that jumped out at me, in addition to just the Gender Fair mission, as I was learning about Gender Fair, is that you have an app and a browser extension. And so, that's part of why you're on the show, not only do we care about the impact you're having. AMY-WILLARD: That's right. Yeah [laughs]. CHAD: But you're a tech company. Did you always know as you got started that you were going to be making an app and a browser extension? AMY-WILLARD: Well, yes, that was the beginning because you have data. You have to make it used. You have to make it available, right? Personally, I like to see it on packages. But yes, we've had two iterations of the app, and I'm sure it could always get better and better. The current one has a barcode scanner and, also, it can look at a logo and tell you, "Oh, this soda pop is not gender fair. Try this soda pop, which is gender fair." And it can make you a shopping list and stuff like that. But, you know, tech is only good if people use it, so I hope they do. I mean, the idea is making it more accessible to people, right? I would like to have it as a filter, some easy tech. We've talked to big retailers before about having a filter put on online shopping sites, right? So, if I can choose fair-trade coffee, why can't I choose gender-fair shampoo? I like it when people can use technology to create more fairness, right? If this is a great benefit to us if technology can take this journalism we do and make it accessible and available and in your hand for someone, you can do it in the store, for Pete's sake. You could just go on the store shelf, and that's pretty liberating, isn't it? When you think of it. It should be easy to know how the companies from which you buy are doing on values that you care about. So, I never really thought of it as a tech. I wish it was better tech, but, you know, I'd need millions and millions of dollars to do that. CHAD: [laughs] Had you ever built in any of your prior companies, or had been directly responsible for the creation of an app? AMY-WILLARD: No, but I did actually once when I worked at the major women's magazine in Canada, I did hire the person who created the first online sort of magazine in Canada, and she made money, so I felt good about that. I plucked her from...she was working as sort of tech support at the major...what do you call those? Internet providers in Canada. But no, I had not, and so I relied on experts. I had a friend who was on the board of Southby, and he helped me find a tech team. I went through a few of them and, you know, it's hard to find. Like, where do you go and find people who will build something for you when you're a novice, right? As a journalist, I don't really know anything about building technology, and I certainly wasn't about to start at my age. It was definitely a voyage of discovery and learning, and I don't think I really learned much coding myself. CHAD: That's okay. AMY-WILLARD: That's okay [laughs]. CHAD: But was there something that sort of surprised you that you didn't anticipate in the process of creating a digital app? AMY-WILLARD: Oh gosh. Well, you know, of course, it's difficult, and there's lots of iterations, and there's lots of bugs. And in every business, mistakes are part of what people...in the construction industry, they'll tell you, "Mistakes are just going to happen every day. You just have to figure out how to fix each one." But, no, it's a difficult road. So yeah, I wish I could have coded it myself. I wish I could have done it myself, but I could not. But yeah, it's good learning. And, of course, you know, I think anyone who's going to start building a company with technology...if it were me now 10 years ago, I would have actually done some coding classes so I could just even communicate better to people who were building for me. But I did learn something, but not really enough. But it's a very interesting partnership, that's for sure. CHAD: And there is a lot of online classes now... AMY-WILLARD: Right [laughs]. CHAD: If someone is out there thinking, oh, you know, maybe that's good advice. And there's a lot of opportunities for sort of an on-ramp, and you don't need to become an expert. AMY-WILLARD: No. CHAD: But, like you said, even just knowing the vocabulary can be helpful. AMY-WILLARD: I think that would have been useful. Yeah, definitely useful. But I definitely, like, you learn a little bit as a text-based person. You learn the rigor of just sort of, like, you have to think in ones and zeros. It either is or isn't. That helps. I learned that a little bit in working with tech devs. The last version we did actually white labeled off of someone who had created a technology to do with...it was to do with building communities online. And their project failed, but it had enough backbone that we were able to efficiently build what we needed to on top of what they built. CHAD: Oh, that's really...was it someone you knew already, or how did you get connected? AMY-WILLARD: Yes, they knew one of our partners in New York. We tried it first as a community project. It didn't really work. And then, we realized it could actually hold our data at the same time. So, my first iteration of the app was different. But yeah, anyway, we've built it a couple of times, and I could build it even more times... CHAD: [laughs] AMY-WILLARD: And make it even better and better. CHAD: So, on the sort of company side of you've worked with companies like Procter & Gamble, MasterCard, Microsoft, do you find it difficult to convince companies to participate? AMY-WILLARD: What we do is data journalism. We don't contact the companies. We have researchers. We have journalists go and look through the SEC data and CSR reports and collect the data points on which we measure them. So, no one has to cooperate with us to get the data. It's journalism. It's not opt-in surveys, which is a very common...when I first started, no one was measuring women, and now there's lots of different measurements. And they're often pay-to-play surveys, so they're not really very valuable. Ours is objective and fully transparent journalism. But then afterwards, our business model how we typically used to pay for this is that companies that did well on our index were then invited to be quote, "certified." And this was a business model that was sort of suggested to us at the Clinton Global Initiative, to which I belonged in 2016. And they loved what we were doing, using the free market to drive gender equality. Because, you know, our whole point is that women and people who care about women and equality, we have a lot of power as consumers, or as taxpayers, or as tuition payers, or as donors to nonprofits. And whenever you give money to an organization or a company, you have the right to sort of ask questions about the fairness of that organization. Well, that's our whole ethic, really. I answered that question and came around to a different idea, but yes, no. So, the companies do participate to be certified, and some of them are interested and some of them are not, and that's fine. We do projects with them sort of like when we...we've talked about MasterCard, and we did a big conference with them in New York. This is pre-pandemic. And then, we did a big, global exhibit with P&G, and Eli Lilly, and Microsoft at TED Global, which was very fun. It was all about fairness. And it was great to talk to technologists such as yourself. And we made a booth about fairness in general, not just about women. And we had a fairness game, and it was very interesting to just discuss with people.  I think people like to think about fairness, right? I don't know if you have children, but little children get very interested in the idea of what's fair very early on. Yeah, so some companies participate...now we have companies...we do some work in B2B procurement which is something that your listeners might be interested in thinking about is that just, like, supplier diversity. If I were purchasing your services, your company services, I would ask about the gender metrics of your organization. I already learned they're quite good. So, big companies buying from other companies can put a gender lens on their B2B procurement. And so, that's a project we're doing with Salesforce, Logitech, Zoetis, Andela, which is another tech provider, and Quinnox, which is a similar sort of tech labor force, I believe. And so, we're going to be releasing a database about B2B suppliers. Actually, I should make sure that you get on it. That's a good idea. CHAD: Yes. AMY-WILLARD: That's a good idea because then it's going to be embedded in procurement platforms because this is a huge amount of money. It's even probably more...it could be more money than consumer spending, right? B2B spending. So, I'm excited about working with more companies on that to help promulgate this data and this idea because it's an easy way to drive fairness in a culture. When the government isn't requiring fairness, at least large companies can. And in some countries, actually, the government requires its vendors to do well on gender. Like, Italy now has a certification for gender, the government does, and companies that do well are privileged in RFPs and also get a tax deduction. CHAD: I don't want to say something incorrect, but I think the UK has, like, a rule around equity in pay... AMY-WILLARD: Yeah, absolutely. You're absolutely correct. CHAD: And yet they don't have equity in pay, the data shows. AMY-WILLARD: That's right. And we don't have that in the United States. It's voluntary in the U.S. We measure that, actually, too. That's seven points over a hundred points scale is whether they, one, publish the results of their pay study. In the U.S., though, we do it in a way that isn't rigorous as the way they do it in the UK. In the UK...you're great to remember that, Chad, in the UK, I mean, I wish my government did that. In the UK, companies report on the overall salaries paid to men and the overall salaries paid to women. So, that means if, you know, all the million-dollar jobs are held by men, it shows very clearly, and all the five-dollar jobs are held by women, it shows very clearly there's an imbalance. And in the United States, we just say, "Oh, well, is the male VP paid the same as a female VP?" That's sort of easier to do, right? CHAD: When we've talked with some larger companies about different products we're creating or those kinds of things, sometimes what I hear is they're looking for big wins, comprehensive things. And so, I was wondering whether you ever get pushback or feedback that's like, "Well, not that your issue is not important, but it's just focused on one aspect of what our goals are for this year." AMY-WILLARD: Right. Yeah, that's always a hard thing because when I think about fairness to half of the population, it's a hard thing for me to think that's not hugely important. CHAD: Yes. AMY-WILLARD: I have a really hard time, but yes, of course, we get that a lot. And, you know, quite frankly, when we did this B2B project with Logitech and Zoetis, they would ask their vendors, like, the major consulting companies and big companies, to take a SaaS assessment that we do. We have a SaaS product that private companies can take, or just instead of doing our journalism, they can just get their own assessment. And they were very, very reluctant to do this. That was just, you know, half an hour. It was a thousand-dollar assessment. And it took many months to convince these companies to do it. And that was their big customers. So, yes, it is very hard to have...what's the word? Coherence on what one company wants versus what a big company wants, and it's hard to know what they want. And it's, yeah, that's a difficult road for sure. And it changes [laughs]. CHAD: Part of the reason why I asked is because from a product perspective, from a business perspective, at thoughtbot, we're big fans of, like, what can be called, like, niching down or being super clear about who you are, and what you believe, and what you offer. And if you try to be everything to everybody, it's usually not a very good tactic in the market. AMY-WILLARD: That's right. That's right. CHAD: So, the fact that you focus on one particular thing like you said, it's very important, and it's 50% of the population. But I imagine that focus is really healthy for you from a clarity of purpose perspective. AMY-WILLARD: That's right. But at the same time, now there's lots of...when I started in 2016, there weren't a lot of things in this space, and now there's many, many, many, many, many, many, so corporations that want to sort of connect to the community of women or do better for women. There's many different options. So, there's many flavors of this ice cream. Even though we're niche, the niche is very crowded, I would say, actually, and people are very confused. I mean, I think I remember hearing from Heineken that they're assaulted daily by things to, you know, ways to support women in different organizations and events. And they said they took our call because we were different. But yeah, there's many competitors. But, I mean, that's the main thing. In any business, in any endeavor in life, one has to show one's value to the people who may participate, and that's a challenge everywhere, isn't it? CHAD: Yeah. AMY-WILLARD: But the niching down thing is...and interesting we hear a lot these days is that women are done. We've moved on from that. Now we care about racial equality, and we say, "That's a yes, and… We can't move on." CHAD: Well, the data doesn't show that we've moved on. AMY-WILLARD: The data doesn't show that at all, and we're going way backwards, as you well know. So, I mean, actually, I don't know if you know, there's something called the named executive officers in public companies. Are you familiar with that? The top five paid people. CHAD: Yeah. AMY-WILLARD: They have to be registered with the government. Well, that number really hasn't changed in six years. That's where the big capital is, and the stock options, and the bonuses, and the big salaries. So, to me, that's very important that I would like, you know, rights and capital to be more...well, I want rights to be solid and capital to be flowing. And so, that's what we hope to do in our work. MID-ROLL AD: Now that you have funding, it's time to design, build, and ship the most impactful MVP that wows customers now and can scale in the future. thoughtbot Liftoff brings you the most reliable cross-functional team of product experts to mitigate risk and set you up for long-term success. As your trusted, experienced technical partner, we'll help launch your new product and guide you into a future-forward business that takes advantage of today's new technologies and agile best practices. Make the right decisions for tomorrow today. Get in touch at thoughtbot.com/liftoff. CHAD: So, going back to the founding of Gender Fair, when did you know that this was something you needed to do? AMY-WILLARD: I wanted to serve, you know, you want to be useful in life. And I wanted to do work in this field that I care so much about. As I said, I think I told you I started doing journalism before, and I realized anyone could take the journalism, and they could, you know, Upworthy would publish things we would create and then not pay us for it. And I thought that's crazy. But it's interesting talking to my husband. My husband's, like, a very privileged White guy. And I remember he said something to me very interesting. He said, "You either have power, or you take it." And he said, "Women have all this power." So, he helped me understand this. Like, you know, I think sometimes as women or communities that are underserved, you start thinking very oppositionally about what you don't have. But at the same time, you can realize that you do have this power. So, what we're trying to do with Gender Fair is remind people they have this economic power, and they can use it everywhere, you know, in addition to our consumer database. I told you that we're doing a B2B database this year. And we also...I think next week I'm going to release a database of 20,000 nonprofits looking at their gender ratings. That was done as a volunteer project by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology if you know them. So, yeah, this is an ethic that you can take everywhere in your life is you have this power, even as a consumer. Chad, even in your little town, you can ask your coffee shop if they pay fair wages. Like, this is just a way of looking at the world that I hope to encourage people to do. CHAD: Along the journey of getting started, I assume you ran into many roadblocks. AMY-WILLARD: Mm-hmm. CHAD: Did you ever think maybe this is too hard? AMY-WILLARD: Oh yes. Well, not in building. In building, you're very optimistic, you know, it's just like when you're writing your first book. You think it's going to be a bestseller. Like, you build something, and you think the whole world is going to use it right away, and you're going to...I did have a great...when I first launched, I had a wonderful, I had, you know, press in Fortune. I had Chelsea Clinton. I had big people writing about us. Melinda Gates has written about us many, many times. The fact that...well, I've always wanted to build, like, a consumer revolution of women, and I'm going to keep at it. But it's very daunting. It's very daunting when you're trying to move a boulder such as, you know, big institutions and companies that don't really want to change, and they're not motivated to do it. So, yes, those are my roadblocks. It's not creating the massive amount of change that I wanted to do. And I'm not going to give up, but, yes, it is very daunting, and it's very daunting to see how little people care. Some people don't care about it, but some people in power don't care about it. But I think if you asked, you know, regular women, they would say, "We would like fair pay. We would like equal opportunity. We would like paid parental leave." They would want all these things, and hopefully, together, we can fight for them. CHAD: Well, and, like you said, the premise of what you're doing is you're focused on the power that you do have, which is the dollars that you spend with these companies. I think that's such a smart angle on this because especially for...it seems like the core in terms of the consumer-facing companies. That's so inherent in what this is. AMY-WILLARD: That's right. CHAD: Yeah, the angle of empowering consumers, and giving them the information, and leveraging the power that consumers have with these companies seems really smart to me... AMY-WILLARD: That's right. If it works -- CHAD: As opposed to individually going to the companies and saying, you know -- AMY-WILLARD: "Please make it." Yeah. And some people would refute your use of the word empower because that implies that people don't have power. So, when I give speeches...I have a pair of beautiful gemstone red pumps, and I say it's the ruby slippers. We had this power all along. We just were not exercising it. But this power will only work, Chad, if it's done in the aggregate. So, our challenge is to reach the aggregate of American women. I have to, you know, I have to go reach 50 million women this year. That's my goal. Reach 50 million women with this message that we have the power in the aggregate to make change. And that's the only way this will work. If it's just one by one, it really doesn't. When I first launched, I found when I showed the app to people on the lower end of the economic scale, like, you know, people in the cash register; they understood this more than middle-class women. They understood the fact that if all women come together and, you know, buy from this company or don't buy from this company based on how they treat women, they understood that as a collective power. Whereas middle-class women who don't have as many struggles didn't really groove to that idea as quickly, which I thought was very...to me, it was very interesting, you know, individuals feel more powerful on the higher end of the social scale. They may or may not -- CHAD: That is interesting. AMY-WILLARD: Yeah. So, yeah, that's my goal. We'll see if I can do it. That's going to be my life's work, I think, Chad. CHAD: How do you reach 50 million people? AMY-WILLARD: I don't know. That's what I'm going to think about. You know, we're talking to different people about campaigns. We actually stopped the consumer work during the pandemic because it just, you know, everything changed. And so, now, this year, we're going back. I don't know; I mean, I guess if Ryan Reynolds tweeted about me, you know, that would help. If [laughs] anyone listening has any ideas how to reach 50 million women...no, maybe 3 million is what I need to create social change. CHAD: I imagine that it doesn't just come down to spending money on advertising. One, you might not have that money. AMY-WILLARD: No. And that would be, you know, that also would be not in the ethics of what Gender Fair is, for example, right? That means I would be paying money to Facebook and basically Facebook, I guess, and Google. If you look at the major spends of nonprofits, they're advertising with these big tech giants. And so, we have...actually, we have some partnerships with large women's organizations, and I think that's the way we hope to spread that. And if I had money for advertising, I would want to spend it with other women's organizations, or women's owned media, or women influencers. There's another idea I talk about in my work I call the female domestic product, and so talking about how much money women earn or capital we control. And the more we can grow that female domestic product, the more we can achieve equality actually. I always say, in America, you get as much equality as you can pay for sadly. CHAD: I was just about to say, "Sadly." AMY-WILLARD: Sadly, yeah. It's true. We still don't have the Equal Rights Amendment. A hundred years. CHAD: Well, 50% of the population would say, "Why do we need an Equal Rights Amendment [laughs]?" AMY-WILLARD: All men are created equal, but yeah, it's quite astonishing. I don't know. Do you have daughter, too, or just a son? CHAD: I have a son, and my younger one is non-binary. AMY-WILLARD: Well, I'm sorry to be so binary. Excuse me. CHAD: It's okay. AMY-WILLARD: Well, interesting. And that's great, too, isn't it? Because we see how fluid gender is and their rights are just as important as a woman's rights. And these are, you know, women and non-binary people are often excluded from things. And so, we are all working together just to create fairness. I'm sure that the same thing happens in your family, too. CHAD: Yeah. I think fairness is one of those things. Sometimes equality is not necessarily the same as fairness. AMY-WILLARD: Yes. CHAD: But I think, like you said at the top of the show, fairness is something that we seemingly learn very early on. But one of the ways that it comes across is I'm being. It is unfair to me, especially in little kids, at least with my kids [laughs]. AMY-WILLARD: Of course, yes. CHAD: That was the thing that they learned first and caused them the most pain. And it was very difficult for them to see that something was unfair for somebody else. So, I remember saying to my kids when they were little, "Fair doesn't mean you get your way." AMY-WILLARD: That's right. Not fair. CHAD: Right [laughs]. AMY-WILLARD: It's true. But then, you know, it's funny. When I talk about equal pay, I often say to people, "When I used to cut cakes for my children, I cut equal slices, and I didn't put them under the table," like, you know what I mean [laughter]? So, why are we so cagey about the slices of economic pie we give to one another? I mean, there's no reason why pay has to be secret, right? If it's fair. You could easily talk to people. Well, you know, Chad gets paid more money because he's the CEO, and he does the podcast, and he has to talk to the bank, you know what I mean? So, you could easily explain that to people. And I don't know why we have to keep salaries a secret from one another. It seems very irrational to me and not really a part of fairness. CHAD: Yeah. Yep. That's something...so, all of our salary bands at thoughtbot are public on the internet. AMY-WILLARD: Cool. On the internet. Oh, I'm very impressed. CHAD: Yeah. So, you can go to thoughtbot and use our compensation calculator. You enter in your location, what role you have. AMY-WILLARD: Oh. So, you do it for other people. Oh, that's cool. That's a great service. And that was just some sort of tech that was sort of pro bono tech that you all built for the world. CHAD: Yeah, we created it for ourselves. AMY-WILLARD: And then you shared it. CHAD: Mm-hmm. AMY-WILLARD: Then you open-sourced it. Great. Well, I bet you have a lot of happy employees. CHAD: I like to think so [laughs]. I do think that there is an inherent understanding of fairness. And when people ask how we do things at thoughtbot or how we should do things, I say, "How do you want it to be?" I think that guides a lot of how we do things and why a lot of stuff we do is just common sense. And it's not until ulterior motives or maintaining power comes into play where the people in power don't want to give it up. Because, like you said, people don't understand that by giving someone else a bigger piece, they think that that means their piece is smaller. AMY-WILLARD: Right. Or they just think they deserve it. I was reading last night about succession planning and CEOs. And apparently, a lot of them just stay...oh, sorry, in big public companies, not in their own companies, they stay on way too long. And all these consultants are saying it's the four Ps, you know, position, privilege, pay, and then...I forget the other one. But one of them was jets. They don't want to give up their jets. So yeah, I think when you have things, it seems fair, and sharing them seems...giving up some of what you have seems unfair. But I do think humans can see fairness. But sometimes, when you have a lot, it's hard to see it. You're able to justify why it may be not unfair to people who don't have as much as you do. But anyway, I can't change human nature, but most people do understand fairness. I think you're right about that. CHAD: Well, one thing...I noticed...so, you're a Public Benefit Corporation. AMY-WILLARD: Yes. CHAD: Did you set out to be a Public Benefit Corporation from day one? AMY-WILLARD: Yes, you know, originally, when it came to how was I going to pay for this, the first part I paid myself with my own money. I hired MBAs. I hired researchers. I built the tech. And then, I wasn't sure how I was going to pay for it going forward. But I knew I didn't want to become a nonprofit because, in my mind, there are so many things that...there are so many problems that women have that need to be solved by nonprofit organizations, planned parenthood first among them. Like, I don't want to take money away from women's organizations that help women fleeing abusive homes. So, I wanted to see if I could pay for this in the private sphere, which we've been able to do, and not have to seek donations because, really, I felt very strongly about not taking money out of that. That's part of the FDP, the part of the female domestic product, but the part that's contributed by people philanthropically. And there isn't a lot of philanthropic dollars going to women, as I mentioned before. So, yes, I knew definitely I wanted to be a Public Benefit Corporation. And there's no tax benefits to that, you know, I don't know if you are yet, but... CHAD: No, it's something that we've looked at, but it's very attractive to me. AMY-WILLARD: Right. And there's also the private version of it being a B Corp, which is also very useful. It's an onerous process. Public Benefit Corporation isn't quite as onerous, I don't believe. I mean, we're in Delaware and New York, but it just says that you're, I mean, we exist for the public good. I'm not existing to make millions of dollars. I'm existing to create social change. And some organizations don't want...are leery of working with us because we're not a nonprofit so that's to assuage them. Well, it's not really about...we're not about enriching shareholders. It's just a different way to pay for it. But yeah, I would encourage all companies to look into being a Public Benefit Corporation or do a B Corp assessment or a Gender Fair assessment. It helps them, you know, operate in a world that is increasingly more values concerned. Maybe 20 or 30 years ago, it wasn't so on the top of mind of many people. We were coming out of, you know, warring '80s capitalism. But nowadays, the younger people, especially, are very focused on issues of fairness and equality. So, I think those tools making business better that way are very useful. CHAD: Well, I would encourage, you know, everyone listening to go check out the app, if you're at a company, to look at doing the assessment. Where can people do those things? AMY-WILLARD: Ah, well, yeah, I would encourage them to do all those things. You're right, Chad. I would encourage you to download the app and check some of your favorite brands. It's very simple. Do the paid subscription. And then, if you're a company, you can do an online assessment. You just go Gender Fair assessment, and you'll find it. If you're a business and would like to participate in our B2B database, you can also do the assessment, or there's a coalition for Gender Fair procurement, where you can get information. We had the prime minister of Australia speak at our launch. It was quite excellent. We'll be launching our nonprofit. Actually, I think it's already online. It's called genderfair-nonprofits.org, if you want to see how your favorite nonprofits do. But, basically, we're here to help any business or organization do better on gender. And you can email me amy.cross@genderfair.com. And I would love to help anyone in their journey for fairness of any kind. Yeah, many ways to participate. Just go to genderfair.com or genderfairprocurement.com. CHAD: Awesome. Amy, thank you so much for sharing with us. I really appreciate it. And thank you for all the good that you're doing in the world with Gender Fair. AMY-WILLARD: Well, I appreciate the way you're running your company in a very new, interesting, and apparently ethical way. Privately, I could look at your website and your career page and figure out how you're doing. But it sounds, to me, when I've talked to people, that you're doing very well. And I honor your curiosity about learning from others. CHAD: Awesome. Well, listeners, you can subscribe to the show and find notes along with a complete transcript for this episode at giantrobots.fm. If you have questions or comments, email us at hosts@giantrobots.fm. You can find me on Mastodon @cpytel@thoughtbot.social. This podcast is brought to you by thoughtbot and produced and edited by Mandy Moore. Thanks so much for listening, and see you next time. AD: Did you know thoughtbot has a referral program? If you introduce us to someone looking for a design or development partner, we will compensate you if they decide to work with us. More info on our website at: tbot.io/referral. Or you can email us at: referrals@thoughtbot.com with any questions.

 Lee Cronin is a true mad scientist. He's a professor of chemistry in Glasgow, where he also founded Chemify. This is a company that has invented a new type of approach to accomplish chemistry, very analogous to using the tool chain that we use in computers and then adapting that to chemistry. I think this analogy holds very tightly. He's built this machine called a Chemputer, which is basically a 3D printer for chemistry. To make that work, he had to make a programming language for chemistry, a GitHub for chemistry. He basically had to rebuild the whole stack that we use in software, but for chemistry. That's very important because chemists are still acting in this kind of a dark ages, voodoo modality, where it's very difficult for somebody in one chemistry lab to replicate what you did in another one. This is going to really change the way that chemists work, because they'll have very systematic and replicable approach to what they do. Lee is a legitimate professor. He's the Regis Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. He's graduating Ph.D's in chemistry and they're doing all kinds of amazing stuff, and I think in part because they're stuck in remote Scotland, there's just no adult supervision and these people are able to think freely and go do amazing stuff. On top of this, if you don't know about Lee or some of the other things we don't get into, I highly recommend you listen to his conversation with Lex Friedman on that podcast, which is also wonderful and goes deep. Important Links: Chemify University of Glasgow Lex Fridman podcast About Lee Cronin Leroy "Lee" Cronin is the Regius Chair of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and appointed to the Regius Chair of Chemistry in 2013. He was previously the Gardiner Chair, appointed April 2009. Cronin was awarded BSc (1994) and PhD (1997) from the University of York. From 1997 to 1999, he was a Leverhulme fellow at the University of Edinburgh working with Neil Robertson. From 1999-2000 he worked as an Alexander Von Humboldt research fellow in the laboratory of Achim Mueller at the University of Bielefeld (1999–2000). In 2000, he joined the University of Birmingham as a Lecturer in Chemistry, and in 2002 he moved to a similar position at the University of Glasgow. In 2005, he was promoted to Reader at the University of Glasgow, EPSRC Advanced Fellow followed by promotion to Professor of Chemistry in 2006, and in 2009 became the Gardiner Professor. In 2013, he became the Regius Professor of Chemistry (Glasgow). Cronin gave the opening lecture at TEDGlobal conference in 2011 in Edinburgh. He outlined the initial steps his team at University of Glasgow is taking to create inorganic biology, life composed of non-carbon-based material.

Él es el Chief Creative Officer de MullenLowe Group UK y Presidente del Creative Council Global, después de haber sido cofundador de MullenLowe SSP3 en Colombia. Fue el líder creativo de la legendaria campaña para desmovilizar las FARC, por la que ganó el Black Pencil de la década y una condecoración del Ministerio de Defensa de Colombia. En 2011 migra a Londres donde hoy lidera el equipo creativo para Unilever de IPG que creó la última campaña de AXE, AXE ft. BZRP. Ha sido orador de TED Global, D&AD Black Pencil of Decade y presidente del jurado de Cannes Lions. Esa noche hablamos sobre el concepto de “brainstorming”, las sesiones de improv y cómo el miedo puede ser una barrera para la creatividad en la industria publicitaria. Recordamos lo duro que fue enfrentarse a la pandemia de COVID-19, pero también hablamos sobre las cosas positivas que dejó.Hablamos de la campaña de movilización de las FARC, las diferencias entre hacer creatividad en Bogotá vs. Londres y en la creatividad como una herramienta de cambio.Para cerrar nuestra plática, charlamos sobre el concepto de pensar fuera de la caja y de lo importante que es ponerse límites para resolver problemas. A manera de hack de vida nos compartió la frase dicha en la canción The Gambler de Kenny Rogers, “Cause every hand's a winner and every hand's a loser” para inspirarnos a aprovechar las oportunidades que se nos presentan y nunca darnos por vencidos.Visítanos en https://www.elmartinez.net/ y suscríbete en Spotify, Apple Podcasts o donde lo estés oyendo ahora. Síguenos en FB o IG @elmartinezpodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode of Planetary Regeneration Podcast, host Gregory Landua explores the history of money theory and the potential for regenerative finance with Per Espen Stoknes. They discuss the Jaguar Biocultural Credit pilot in Achuar Territory, Ecuador, showcasing its transformative impact. Tune in to uncover the intersections of economics, ecology, and culture, and discover how initiatives like this are shaping a more sustainable financial future. Per Espen Stoknes is a TED Global speaker, a psychologist with PhD in economics, and serves as the director of Centre for Sustainability and Energy at the Norwegian Business School in Oslo. An experienced foresight facilitator and academic, he's also serial entrepreneur, including co-founding clean-tech company GasPlas. Author of several books, among them Money & Soul (2009) and the award-winning book: What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming (2015). His latest books are Tomorrow's Economy (2021) on MITPress, and Earth For All (2022) with the Club of Rome. Per Espen has served as member of Norwegian Parliament, and on the EU Commission's mission board on Horizon Europe's Climate Change and Societal Adaptation. He has been project lead for the Club of Rome's www.Earth4All.life project. X: @estoknes // @gregory_landua

A world-class performer, speaker, consultant and a pioneer in the application of deception to real-world environments. Apollo Robbins uses pick-pocketing and sleight-of-hand to demonstrate perception management, diversion techniques and self-deception. Known as “The Gentleman Thief,” Robbins first made national news as the man who pick-pocketed the Secret Service while entertaining former U.S. president Jimmy Carter. He has picked the pockets of more than 250,000 men and women. Forbes has called him “an artful manipulator of awareness,” and Wired Magazine has written that “he could steal the wallet of a man who knew he was going to have his pocket picked.” Robbins has been featured in the New Yorker and in numerous publications such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He produced and co-hosted the National Geographic program Brain Games, which was nominated for an Emmy as an Outstanding Informational Series. His popular appearance on The Today Show is a YouTube favorite with more than 7 million views. The TED editors described Robbins's talk at TED Global 2013 as a revelation in the flaws of human perception. 

What if someone could study how we make choices? The attitudes and philosophies behind the decisions we make? When we reflect on our relationship choices or the patterns of behavior we have - sometimes it's hard to make sense of it!  Sheena takes us through her research about studying choice! It's fascinating and may provoke some new thoughts and insights. Enjoy! We have a Patreon membership account! Please check out how to participate behind the scenes and collaborate on growing the podcast! You can visit www.patreon.com/unbreakmyheart for more information.

This week Andrew talks with psychology researcher & author Tania Luna. Tania is an expert on the science of surprise — and how surprise can transform our work, relationships, & everyday life. Tania is the author of the book Surprise: Embrace the Unpredictable & Engineer the Unexpected.  In this conversation, Tania shares powerful insights on the science of surprise & how to “engineer' surprises that positively impact our own lives & the lives of others.  Additionally, you'll learn how to utilize surprise to unleash your creativity, improve decision-making, power your growth, & become more resilient. This episode is filled with groundbreaking ideas & actionable lessons for everyone. Show Notes:0:00 - Intro5:15 - Science of surprise5:59 - Surprise as an intensifier6:46 - The “surprise sequence”7:40 - Why we want to share surprise8:15 - Why surprise is more memorable11:43 - Clearing a flood at TED Global13:06 - Little surprises vs. big surprises14:12 - Engineering surprise14:39 - Changing perceptions18:16 - Setting expectations21:42 - How trees grow resilience22:50 - Finding the right amount of struggle24:51 - The “struggle sandwich”27:15 - Embracing the unexpected29:29 - Increasing cognitive output31:28 - Impact of “spontaneous collisions”33:29 - Improving decision-making36:54 - Sharing powerTwitter/X: @andrewhmosesInstagram: @AndrewMoses123Sign up for e-mails to keep up with Andrew's podcast at everybodypullsthetarp.com/newsletter

Discover Chris Rock's Hacker-to-Hero Story on The Life Shift PodcastChris Rock, a cyber mercenary and co-founder of a leading security software company, shares his journey to becoming a cybersecurity icon. Chris shares his journey of self-discovery and embracing his dual identity.Episode Highlights:True Identity: Chris's story of reconciling his roles as a hacker and a cybersecurity expert.Defying Norms: How Chris's departure from traditional education led to his success in the tech world.Introspection and Acceptance: The pivotal question that propelled Chris's self-acceptance and career evolution.Chris Rock is a Cyber Mercenary who has worked in the Middle East, the US, and Asia for the last 30 years, working for both government and private organizations. He is the Chief Information Security Officer and co-founder of SIEMonster.Chris has presented three times at the largest hacking conference in the world, DEFCON in Las Vegas, on controversial vulnerabilities, including:How hackers could create fake people and kill them using vulnerabilities in the Birth and Death Registration systems around the world.How cyber mercenaries can overthrow a government working with coup mercenary Simon Mann.How cyber mercenaries can bypass modern-day Jammers using the earth as an antenna to trigger an IED at 2kHzChris is also the author of The Baby Harvest, a book based on criminals and terrorists using virtual babies and fake deaths for financing. He has also been invited to speak at TED Global.Tune In and Connect:Subscribe to "The Life Shift" on Apple Podcasts for more stories of pivotal life moments.Support us on Patreon for ad-free episodes and exclusive content.Follow The Life Shift Podcast on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, and our Website.Chris Rock's life story is not just about cybersecurity; it's a powerful example of embracing your true self against societal norms. Join us for this captivating episode on The Life Shift Podcast! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rory Sutherland is, perhaps, the closest thing to industry royalty that we have in marketing. He's Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, a best-selling author, owner of one of the best TED Talks you'll ever see and the man behind MAD Fest a marketing. Rory crashed straight into the top of the charts on the Strategy Sessions when he was on the first episode, so he came back for part 2. In this episode we discuss: • The father of behavioural economics • What Columbo can tell us about strategy • Why we should embrace accidents and post rationalisation • Why the death of the creative process and insights is a problem for advertising • The doorman fallacy • Is performance marketing focusing on the wrong thing • Start with the bottom of the funnel • The importance of ‘commercial innovation' • Premium economy and why it works • Price v quality • Rory's view on cinema • Why Britain gets trains wrong • What parking at Heathrow tells us about customer behaviour • Start with the consumer and work backwards • Why the average is the enemy Rory Sutherland Rory is the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy, an attractively vague job title which has allowed him to co-found a behavioral science practice within the agency. He works with a consulting practice of psychology graduates who look for ‘unseen opportunities' in consumer behaviour - these are the often small contextual changes which can have enormous effects on the decisions people make - for instance tripling the sales rate of a call centre by adding just a few sentences to the script. Put another way, lots of agencies will talk about "bought, owned and earned" media: we also look for "invented media" and "discovered media": seeking out those unexpected (and inexpensive) contextual tweaks that transform the way that people think and act. It is a hugely valuable activity - but, alas, not particularly lucrative. This is because clients generally do not have budgets for solving problems they did not know they had. Before founding Ogilvy's Behavioural Practice, Rory was a copywriter and creative director at Ogilvy for over 20 years, having joined as a graduate trainee in 1988. He has variously been President of the IPA, Chair of the Judges for the Direct Jury at Cannes, and has spoken at TED Global. He writes regular columns for the Spectator, Market Leader and Impact, and also occasional pieces for Wired. He is the author of three books: The Wiki Man, available on Amazon (at prices between £1.96 and £2,345.54, depending on whether the algorithm is having a bad day), and the best-selling Alchemy, The surprising Power of Ideas which don't make Sense, published in the UK and US in May 2019, and, co-written with his former colleague Pete Dyson, the newly released Transport For Humans on the behavioural science of transport. Rory is married to a vicar and has twin daughters. He lives in the former home of Napoleon III - unfortunately in the attic. He is a trustee of the Benjamin Franklin House in London and a Patron of Rochester Cathedral. Find Rory on LinkedIn or Twitter Rory's Other Stuff MAD Fest Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet? Chris Rock and Evolutionary Psychology Andi Jarvis If you have any questions or want to talk about anything that was discussed in the show, the best place to get me is on LinkedIn or Instagram. If you want the podcast emailed to you sign up for it on the Eximo Marketing website. Make sure you subscribe to get the podcast pushed to you and if you enjoyed the show, please give it a 5* rating. Andi Jarvis, Eximo Marketing.

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks to the Chief Information Security Officer Co-Founder of SIE Monster, Chris Rock.Chris Rock is not your typical CSO. He's a hacker by trade with a dual role that involves finding system flaws and presenting them at conferences like Defcon. Simultaneously, he serves as the CEO of SIEMonster, which provides security services for large enterprises. His clients range from governments to private organizations, each with unique objectives and security needs.Chris shared some intriguing stories from his work. He's uncovered employees setting up illegal activities within companies, helped track people escaping authorities in the Middle East, and dealt with a myriad of other complex situations. These stories, while fascinating, also highlight the darker side of our increasingly digital world.When asked Chris if there was any hope for a safer digital world, his response was sobering. The flaws he identified years ago still exist today, and the transition from paper-based systems to electronic systems has only increased the potential for security breaches.He also recommended using account IDs and virtual credit cards instead of traditional credit card numbers to further enhance security.Key Points from the Episode:Introduction of Chris Rock as CSO of Sea Monster and cyber mercenaryChris's work as a hacker and consultantClients and objectives of Chris's workStories and insights into vulnerabilities of systemsNeed for increased security measuresUse of tokens instead of passwords for account securityRisks of using passwords and benefits of tokensImportance of VPNs for data protectionChoosing a reliable VPN providerImportance of encryption and protecting personal informationAbout Chris Rock:As the Chief Information Security Officer and co-founder of SIEMonster, Chris has traversed the cyber landscapes of the Middle East, the United States, and Asia, lending his expertise to governmental and private entities. Renowned for his presentations at DEFCON, the world's largest hacking conference in Las Vegas, Chris has delved into contentious vulnerabilities.His talks covered topics such as the potential manipulation of Birth and Death Registration systems, the collaboration of cyber mercenaries in government overthrows, and innovative methods of bypassing jammers by utilizing the Earth as an antenna. As a thought leader, he authored "Baby Harvest," a compelling exploration of criminals and terrorists exploiting virtual babies and fabricated deaths for financial gain. Notably, Rock has graced the TED Global stage, further solidifying his status as a cybersecurity luminary.About SIEMonster:SIEMonster, established in 2015, is an innovative and cost-effective Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution. Founded by experienced hackers Chris and Dez Rock, the platform emerged from a recognized gap in the SIEM market. With over 20 years of penetration testing and white-hat hacking expertise, the founders and their team crafted a scalable and customizable SIEM tool. SIEMonster's pricing model doesn't penalize based on Events Per Second (EPS), offering affordability and automatic scalability as clients expand. SIEMonster incorporates automated tasks and data enrichment, reducing the reliance on external security consultants. The vision, shared by...

Jaclyn is joined by chef, author, and social activist, Pierre Thiam. Together, they discuss Pierre's journey as a chef, the importance of kindness to the environment, and how kindness transcends cultures. Pierre is Executive Chef of multiple award-winning restaurants around the world, and his company Yolele Foods advocates for smallholder farmers in the Sahel by opening new markets for crops grown in Africa. He has cooked for the King of Morocco, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. Through his advocacy and many media appearances, he has become known as a culinary ambassador, dedicated to promoting West African cooking throughout the world. His TEDTalk, given at TEDGlobal 2017 in Arusha, Tanzania, has been viewed over one million times. Thiam sits on the board of directors of IDEO.org and SOS Sahel, and on the advisory board for the Culinary Institute of America.This podcast is one of the many ways we live out our organization's mission to educate and inspire people to choose kindness. Visit our site kindness.org and sign up to become a part of our global community which spans more than 100 countries. It's free to join and when you do you'll be the first to get access to our latest research, tools, and even episodes of this podcast. Let's build a kinder world, together. Contact us at podcast@kindness.org or on social at @kindnessorg. Sponsored by VerizonImportant links from this week's episode:pierrethiam.comkindness.orgFollow Pierre on social:IG: @chefpierrethiamTwitter: @chefpierrethiamFacebook: @pierrethiamCredits Host: Jaclyn LindseyGuest: Pierre ThiamProducer: Melissa MaloneAssociate Producer: Becca ReedAssistant Producer: Nina Zaborney KlineMusic Composition: Chris ChristianaDesign: Ben Gibson, Christine Do, Smithfield StudioTranscript available at this link. 

"If he's so good, why doesn't he work for himself?"   This show is brought to you by SmartCookie Media where we provide end-to-end podcast production and VIP Day marketing services. Book a complimentary content session and ask for our free podcast checklist here.   How would you react to a CEO making that statement about you and your work? Well, today's guest reacted in a way that would create a ripple effect around the world.   Meet Chris Rock, co-founder of SIEMonster. SIEMonster is a modern security tool to manage threats and risks to your personal information. He is a Cyber Mercenary who has worked in the Middle East, US, and Asia for the last 30 years working for both government and private organizations. Chris Rock has presented three times at DEF CON, the largest hacking conference in the world, and is the author of Baby Harvest, a book based on criminals and terrorists using virtual babies and fake deaths for financial gain.   In this episode, Chris gives us tips to keep your information secure, tells us how hackers use their power for good — or how they can overthrow a government, and that one time he was the only invited TED Global guest — who was uninvited.   Get Weekly Tools to Build Your Business (for free!): The Entrepreneur's Toolkit Connect with Nicole: Nicole Schmied Linkedin; @Nicole Schmied Get Your Data-Driven Marketing Strategy: SmartCookie Media FREE: Content Strategy Session Learn More: Chris Rock Visit: SIEMonster Have a story to tell? Signup here: www.serialentrepreneurshow.com

I am so excited to say that my guest on the great women artists podcast is one of the most pioneering – and my favourite – writers alive today, Elif Shafak! In this episode, we talk about the power of storytelling, the importance of writing women's lives into history and fighting for their rights. Shafak has said: "...as a young Turkish student, it occurred to me that the history that was taught to me top down could be seen in different ways depending on who is telling the stories..." We speak about Artemisia Gentileschi to Frida Kahlo, Ana Mendieta to Georgia O'Keeffe; Shafak's upbringing and the importance of multitudinous narratives, and the power of images when it comes to writing novels. We explore the similarities between a painting and a novel; how storytelling can be transmitted through so many different artforms, from word of mouth or the written word. As a novelist, Shafak spends so much time dreaming up worlds, and, in a way, this is not that dissimilar from an artist. But we also talk about the importance of emotion, and how stories can give us that, as Shafak has said: “Why is it that we underestimate feelings and perceptions? I think it's going to be one of our biggest intellectual challenges, because our political systems are replete with emotions … and yet within the academic and among the intelligentsia, we are yet to take emotions seriously…” Shafak is the author of 19 books, which have been translated into 57 languages. A shortlister for the Booker Prize and Women's Prize for Fiction, she holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at universities in Turkey, the US and the UK. A Fellow and a Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature, Shafak is also instrumental in her work as an advocate for women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights and freedom of expression. A twice TED Global speaker, Shafak contributes to publications around the world, such as the Guardian with her poignant articles on women's rights in Turkey. Books by Elif: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-to-stay-sane-in-an-age-of-division/elif-shafak/9781788165723 https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-bastard-of-istanbul/elif-shafak/9780241972908 https://www.waterstones.com/book/three-daughters-of-eve/elif-shafak/9780241978887 https://www.waterstones.com/book/10-minutes-38-seconds-in-this-strange-world/elif-shafak/9780241979464 https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-island-of-missing-trees/elif-shafak/9780241988725 -- THIS EPISODE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE LEVETT COLLECTION: https://www.instagram.com/famm.mougins // https://www.merrellpublishers.com/9781858947037 ENJOY!!! Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Nada Smiljanic Music by Ben Wetherfield https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/

Anne Ghesquière reçoit dans Métamorphose Yannick Roudaut, essayiste, conférencier et entrepreneur. À la fois optimiste et réaliste, il se définit comme "éveilleur des consciences”. Parce que ce n'est pas dans son caractère d'être résigné, il œuvre à l'éveil des peuples pour l'avènement d'un autre monde. Car oui, il y a de quoi être effrayé, mais pas question de baisser les bras. Certes, le changement de paradigme ne se fera pas dans la douceur, mais il est nécessaire, et de “l'improbable” naîtra la possibilité d'un futur. Dans cet épisode, Yannick Roudaut nous invite à retrousser nos manches et ouvrir nos esprits pour arrêter d'avoir peur et avancer avec optimisme vers l'avenir car pour lui la résignation n'est pas une option rationnelle. Épisode #437Avec Yannick Roudaut j'aborderai les thèmes suivants (extrait des questions) :Comment fais-tu pour ne pas te résigner ?Penses-tu que la société a besoin de passer par des phases de colère pour trouver la force d'agir ?Comment ne pas se laisser paralyser par la peur, l'anxiété ?Tu évoques le rôle qu'a eu la pensée de Carl Gustav Jung dans ton évolution. Peux-tu nous en parler ?Sommes-nous à un moment charnière de l'histoire du Monde ? Qu'est-ce que cela signifie ?Comment renouer avec le lien que nous avons perdu avec la nature ?Tu appelles à une révolution tout à la fois scientifique et spirituelle, quels en sont les fondements ?Tu dis que “le futur agit sur le présent”. Qu'est-ce que cela signifie ?En 2013, tu as co-créé une maison d'édition indépendante (Les éditions de la Mer salée) avec ton épouse Sandrine Roudaut. Dans quel but ?Qui est mon invité Yannick Roudaut ? : Yannick Roudaut est essayiste, conférencier et entrepreneur. Il crée des passerelles entre le monde de la finance, les ONG, l'économie, l'écologie, la philosophie et les questions sociales et sociétales. Depuis près de 20 ans, il sillonne la France et l'Europe pour sensibiliser les citoyens et les dirigeants d'entreprises à la nécessité d'envisager l'avenir sous le prisme Economie-Ecologie-Social. Son Tedx a été vu près de 420 000 fois en France et presque autant sur le site Ted Global américain. Il est l'auteur de L'Alter Entreprise (Dunod), La Nouvelle Controverse paru en 2013, Zéro pollution paru en 2016 et Quand l'improbable surgit, un autre futur revient dans la partie en octobre 2020.Expert APM, Germe, Yannick Roudaut co-dirige les éditions La Mer Salée depuis 2013.Quelques citations du podcast avec Yannick Roudaut : "Si nous sommes dans une renaissance, une grande bifurcation, ce que je crois profondément, on va complètement changer notre regard sur le monde, sur notre façon de l'habiter et sur la compréhension du monde.""Si on va vers l'apocalypse, on va vers une grande révélation équivalente à la fin du géocentrisme.""Je suis convaincu que le 21e siècle sera le siècle de l'abolition de la pollution.""Nos enfants risquent de nous regarder plus tard comme on regarde aujourd'hui les maîtres esclavagistes du 18e siècle.""On peut aller vers la pérennité d'une entreprise, de l'emploi et des revenus sans parler de croissance."Retrouvez Métamorphose Podcast sur Insta & FacebookInscrivez-vous à la Newsletter ici : https://www.metamorphosepodcast.com/Découvrez gratuitement La Roue Métamorphose et les 9 piliers de votre vie !Soutenez la Tribu Métamorphose, devenez actifs !Abonnez-vous à Métamorphose, le podcast qui éveille la conscience sur YouTube / Apple Podcast // Spotify / Deezer / Google Podcasts / CastBoxPhoto DR Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Chris Rock is a Cyber Mercenary who has worked in the Middle East, the US, and Asia for the last 30 years working for both government and private organizations. He is the Chief Information Security Officer and co-founder of SIEMonster.Chris has presented three times at the largest hacking conference in the world, DEFCON in Las Vegas on controversial vulnerabilities including.How hackers could create fake people and kill them using vulnerabilities in the Birth and Death Registration systems around the world.How cyber mercenaries can overthrow a government working with coup mercenary Simon Mann.How cyber mercenaries can bypass modern-day Jammers using the earth as an antenna to trigger an IED at 2kHz.Chris is also the author of “The Baby Harvest,” a book based on criminals and terrorists using virtual babies and fake deaths for financing. He has also been invited to speak at TED Global.Linkshttps://kitcaster.com/chris-rock http://www.siemonster.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-roc... https://twitter.com/chrisrockhacker https://deadamerica.website/chris-roc... 

Request A Customized Workshop For Your Company: https://www.americannegotiationinstitute.com/services/workshops/ In this episode of Negotiate Anything, host Kwame Christian sits down with Nidhi Tewari, an expert in emotional intelligence and conflict resolution, to explore the crucial role of self-awareness in successful negotiations. Nidhi shares powerful insights into the importance of acknowledging and understanding our own internal emotions within conversations, providing practical strategies to navigate defensiveness and foster productive dialogue. Tune in as they delve into the art of introspection, recognizing the impact of past experiences, and developing empathetic listening skills for optimal negotiation outcomes. You'll learn:  - How to identify and challenge internal emotions during negotiations - Strategies for regulating emotions and responding thoughtfully instead of reactively - The power of active listening and empathy in building trust and connection during negotiations Nidhi Tewari is a workplace culture and wellbeing keynote speaker, expert, & consultant. She brings a decade of clinical expertise as a therapist who specialized in working with high performing leaders to her work with organizations, leadership teams and event audiences who are looking to improve workplace culture, mental health, and leadership skills. Nidhi has helped to transform workplace culture with organizations like Godiva, NPR, and SHRM, and she has spoken to the World Economic Forum, National Speakers Association, UC San Diego, American Society for Quality (ASQ), Meeting Professionals International, and many more. She has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, The Washington Post, TED Blog, Oprah Daily, Thrive Global, and HuffPost. She has built a community of over 10k Instagram and over 120k on the social audio platform, Clubhouse, which led to a collaboration with TED Global in 2022. She has collaborated on brand partnerships with Mars Inc., Adobe, Social Chain, TOGETHXR, among others. www.LinkedIn.com/in/NidhiTewariLCSW www.instagram.com/nidhitewarilcsw  www.Twitter.com/lcswnidhi www.Facebook.com/nidhitewarilcsw Contact ANI Request A Customized Workshop For Your Company: https://www.americannegotiationinstitute.com/services/workshops/ Follow Kwame Christian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kwamechristian/ The Ultimate Negotiation Guide: https://www.americannegotiationinstitute.com/guides/ultimate-negotiation-guide/ Click here to buy your copy of How To Have Difficult Conversations About Race!: https://www.amazon.com/Have-Difficult-Conversations-About-Race/dp/1637741308/ref=pd_%5B%E2%80%A6%5Df0bc9774-7975-448b-bde1-094cab455adb&pd_rd_i=1637741308&psc=1 Click here to buy your copy of Finding Confidence in Conflict: How to Negotiate Anything and Live Your Best Life!: https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Confidence-Conflict-Negotiate-Anything/dp/0578413736/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2PSW69L6ABTK&keywords=finding+confidence+in+conflict&qid=1667317257&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjQyIiwicXNhIjoiMC4xNCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMjMifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=finding+confidence+in+conflic%2Caps%2C69&sr=8-1

Request A Customized Workshop For Your Company: https://www.americannegotiationinstitute.com/services/workshops/ In this episode of Negotiate Anything, host Kwame Christian sits down with Nidhi Tewari, an expert in emotional intelligence and conflict resolution, to explore the crucial role of self-awareness in successful negotiations. Nidhi shares powerful insights into the importance of acknowledging and understanding our own internal emotions within conversations, providing practical strategies to navigate defensiveness and foster productive dialogue. Tune in as they delve into the art of introspection, recognizing the impact of past experiences, and developing empathetic listening skills for optimal negotiation outcomes. You'll learn:  - How to identify and challenge internal emotions during negotiations - Strategies for regulating emotions and responding thoughtfully instead of reactively - The power of active listening and empathy in building trust and connection during negotiations Nidhi Tewari is a workplace culture and wellbeing keynote speaker, expert, & consultant. She brings a decade of clinical expertise as a therapist who specialized in working with high performing leaders to her work with organizations, leadership teams and event audiences who are looking to improve workplace culture, mental health, and leadership skills. Nidhi has helped to transform workplace culture with organizations like Godiva, NPR, and SHRM, and she has spoken to the World Economic Forum, National Speakers Association, UC San Diego, American Society for Quality (ASQ), Meeting Professionals International, and many more. She has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, The Washington Post, TED Blog, Oprah Daily, Thrive Global, and HuffPost. She has built a community of over 10k Instagram and over 120k on the social audio platform, Clubhouse, which led to a collaboration with TED Global in 2022. She has collaborated on brand partnerships with Mars Inc., Adobe, Social Chain, TOGETHXR, among others. www.LinkedIn.com/in/NidhiTewariLCSW www.instagram.com/nidhitewarilcsw  www.Twitter.com/lcswnidhi www.Facebook.com/nidhitewarilcsw Contact ANI Request A Customized Workshop For Your Company: https://www.americannegotiationinstitute.com/services/workshops/ Follow Kwame Christian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kwamechristian/ The Ultimate Negotiation Guide: https://www.americannegotiationinstitute.com/guides/ultimate-negotiation-guide/ Click here to buy your copy of How To Have Difficult Conversations About Race!: https://www.amazon.com/Have-Difficult-Conversations-About-Race/dp/1637741308/ref=pd_%5B%E2%80%A6%5Df0bc9774-7975-448b-bde1-094cab455adb&pd_rd_i=1637741308&psc=1 Click here to buy your copy of Finding Confidence in Conflict: How to Negotiate Anything and Live Your Best Life!: https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Confidence-Conflict-Negotiate-Anything/dp/0578413736/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2PSW69L6ABTK&keywords=finding+confidence+in+conflict&qid=1667317257&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjQyIiwicXNhIjoiMC4xNCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMjMifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=finding+confidence+in+conflic%2Caps%2C69&sr=8-1

Chris Rock is a Cyber Mercenary, A three-time presenter at DEFCON, Author of The Baby Harvest, and Co-Founder of SIEMonster. Chris has spent the last 30 years in the Middle East, the US, and Asia preventing cyber attacks for governments and private organizations alike. Chris and his team excel at countering sophisticated cyber threats with the implementation of advanced SIEM methods for all types of organizations. Chris is passionate about raising the public's awareness of modern cybersecurity threats and trends. 00:00 Introduction 00:24 Our Guest 01:18 How many Chris Rocks are there? 02:58 3 Cyber Threats to Society 05:56 Can you use Genralative Ai for malicious reasons? 09:00 The Third Cyber Threat to Society 12:26 Looking for flaws in the process 16:15 The Gartner Model 18:16 Is it Laziness, Apathy, or Indifference? 23:59 Terminated from speaking at TED Global ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Order his book here: https://www.amazon.com/Baby-Harvest-terrorist-criminal-laundering/dp/1515014576 To learn more about Dark Rhino Security visit https://www.darkrhinosecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SOCIAL MEDIA: Stay connected with us on our social media pages where we'll give you snippets, alerts for new podcasts, and even behind the scenes of our studio! Instagram: @securityconfidential and @OfficialDarkRhinoSecurity Facebook: @Dark-Rhino-Security-Inc Twitter: @darkrhinosec LinkedIn: @dark-rhino-security Youtube: @Dark Rhino Security ​ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- #darkrhinosecurity #securityconfidential #cybersecurity #cyberpodcast #ai #artificialintelligence #securitypodcast #cybernews #technews #techsoftware #informationtechnology #infosec #cybersecurityforbeginners #technewstoday

Rory Sutherland is, perhaps, the closest thing to industry royalty that we have in marketing. He's Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, a best-selling author, owner of one of the best ⁠TED Talks⁠ you'll ever see and the man behind ⁠MAD Fest⁠ a marketing, advertising and disruption event taking place in London 4 – 6 July. In this episode we discuss: Lionfish, toothfish and pilchards – how rebranding fish drives sales Humans have strange value systems The map is not the territory – Alfred Korzybski The relationship between innovation and marketing All decisions look different with hindsight Rory being a heretic Mercedes v Toyota and how they manufacture quality without trade offs Why people buy expensive wines How to get young people to invest in pensions When you shouldn't use nudges Why economists are the worst people on the planet Why the Uber map is genius Why random brands exist on Amazon The benefits of being on Chris Evans' breakfast show How the Walls Viennetta came about How managers can convince the board to invest in radical thinking Rory Sutherland Rory is the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy, an attractively vague job title which has allowed him to co-found a behavioral science practice within the agency. He works with a consulting practice of psychology graduates who look for ‘unseen opportunities' in consumer behaviour - these are the often small contextual changes which can have enormous effects on the decisions people make - for instance tripling the sales rate of a call centre by adding just a few sentences to the script. Put another way, lots of agencies will talk about "bought, owned and earned" media: we also look for "invented media" and "discovered media": seeking out those unexpected (and inexpensive) contextual tweaks that transform the way that people think and act. It is a hugely valuable activity - but, alas, not particularly lucrative. This is because clients generally do not have budgets for solving problems they did not know they had. Before founding Ogilvy's Behavioural Practice, Rory was a copywriter and creative director at Ogilvy for over 20 years, having joined as a graduate trainee in 1988. He has variously been President of the IPA, Chair of the Judges for the Direct Jury at Cannes, and has spoken at TED Global. He writes regular columns for the Spectator, Market Leader and Impact, and also occasional pieces for Wired. He is the author of three books: The Wiki Man, available on Amazon (at prices between £1.96 and £2,345.54, depending on whether the algorithm is having a bad day), and the best-selling Alchemy, The surprising Power of Ideas which don't make Sense, published in the UK and US in May 2019, and, co-written with his former colleague Pete Dyson, the newly released Transport For Humans on the behavioural science of transport. Rory is married to a vicar and has twin daughters. He lives in the former home of Napoleon III - unfortunately in the attic. He is a trustee of the Benjamin Franklin House in London and a Patron of Rochester Cathedral. Find Rory on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ or ⁠Twitter⁠ Rory's Other Stuff ⁠MAD Fest⁠ ⁠Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense⁠  ⁠Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet?⁠ Andi Jarvis If you have any questions or want to talk about anything that was discussed in the show, the best place to get me is on ⁠Twitter⁠ or ⁠LinkedIn⁠. If you don't get the podcast emailed to you (and a monthly newsletter) you can ⁠sign up for it on the Eximo Marketing website.⁠ Make sure you subscribe to get the podcast every fortnight and if you enjoyed the show, please give it a 5* rating. Andi Jarvis, ⁠Eximo Marketing.⁠

In this episode of Med Tech Gurus we have Mr. Joe Landolina CEO and Co-founder of Cresilon. Joe is an amazing guest he created his first medical product at 17 years of age He was a TED Global fellow a Forbes 30 under 30 and a finalist in Richard Branson's Extreme Tech Challenge.  Joe brings all of this experience and insight and discusses why we should love data points. And how we can use that data to try to deliver the perfect patient experience. You will enjoy the insights that Joe brings in this episode.

Learn more about Jeffrey Pfeffer and where you can buy or listen to his books: JeffreyPfeffer.com EPISODE 20 –  Tadia James, Managing Partner, Aligned Generation SHOW NOTES: Tadia James is the Managing Partner at Aligned Generation. Tadia shares the rules of power which have helped her excel in the financial industry, where women or people of color manage less than 2% of global assets.  In this episode, you will learn: How Tadia has consciously built her career How her jobs at JPMorgan and Gingerbread Capital led her to start her own company The three pillars Aligned Generation advises and develops startups within How her story speaks to issues of women and underrepresented minorities What she focused on to gain visibility when she was often the youngest and only woman and person of color in the room How she gets out of her own way and shows up in ways that convey power The discipline necessary to help achieve goals The things done to acquire visibility while at Stanford Business School Being clear on using time intentionally The considerations of time and opportunity costs in attending graduate school Advice to students regarding making use of opportunities available on campus Why she started her own firm The joy of helping founders, entrepreneurs, and capital investors What the process of ‘gassing' herself up before public appearances looks like Special note: In this episode Ms. James is referring to Amy Cuddy's TED Talk, "Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are." This talk was given at TEDGlobal in 2012.  https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_may_shape_who_you_are/c GUEST BIO:  Tadia James Bridge-Builder, VC Investor, and Strategist, Tadia is the Managing Partner at ALIGNED GENERATION, a strategic consulting agency on a mission to accelerate and scale the impact of investors and startups building a more equitable and balanced society.  Current Focus: Addressing the racial wealth gap.  Tadia started her career in finance at the JP Morgan Corporate & Investment Bank in various positions including: Sales Strategy, Product Management, and Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence. She also taught financial literacy to inner-city youth in NYC at the DREAM Organization for 5 years where she led the development of the DREAM Scholarship Fund. Tadia went on to become an early employee at Gingerbread Capital, a family office venture capital fund that invests in female founders and female fund managers at the seed stage and beyond.  An avid tech investor and startup advisor, Tadia is known for her ability to bring big visions to life through disciplined business execution and strong partnerships. Featured in “Forbes” and “31 under 31: The Future of Venture Capital”, she has a Bachelor's Degree in Finance from the University of Florida and an MBA from Stanford. Website: https://www.alignedgeneration.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadiajames Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/TADIAJAMES/   Produced by The MunnAvenuePress.com  

Listen in as Matt interviews a dynamic TED Global environmental speaker, accomplished author, podcaster and coalition builder. Chad believes we must activate humanity to become a planet-positive species to create our regenerative future!

Jim talks with Daniel Suarez about his science-fiction imaginings in the near future of space exploration, Delta-V and Critical Mass. They discuss the inspiration for the novels, the beginning of a renaissance in private space exploration, characters in the series, space law, choice-making at the beginning, the nature of explorers, the research process, a frontier economy, experiments with money systems, the Age of Exploration, the debate over asteroid mining, robots vs humans in space missions, speed of light lags, the meaning of delta-V, the nexus of Luxembourg City, carbonyl metallurgy, climate change & economic disruptions, mining operations on the moon, the Shackleton crater, how space exploration is of benefit to Earth, space station design, space-based solar energy, cryptocurrency on the moon, money vs wealth, bringing the universe to life, the responsibility of stewardship, the minimum dose of gravity, and much more. Episode Transcript Delta-V, by Daniel Suarez Critical Mass, by Daniel Suarez "Dividend Money: An Alternative to Central Banker Managed Fractional Reserve Banking Money, "by Jim Rutt (lecture) A Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960, by Milton Friedman The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space, by Gerard K. O'Neill Daniel Suarez is a New York Times bestselling author, TEDGlobal speaker, and former systems analyst whose unique brand of high-tech fiction explores the causes and impacts of rapid technological change. The author of seven novels, he has a track record of anticipating what's next, and his latest book, Critical Mass brings readers on a daring journey to the new frontier of private space exploration. Second book in the Delta-v series, Critical Mass realistically portrays humanity's urgent transition from an Earthbound to a spacefaring civilization -- and brings home why that's critical to our future.

Ep.149 features Grimanesa Amorós. Throughout her career, Peruvian-born American artist Grimanesa Amorós has harnessed the medium of light to create immersive monumental sculptures that engage visitors in contemplation of their cultural heritage, community, and relationship to technology. In the art of Amorós, the past is meeting the future. Her childhood fascination with light began on the shores of her homeland in Lima. The tumultuous waters of the immense pacific ocean would create iridescent sculptural foam. Amorós sites watching bubbles deflate and inflate, as if breathing, for the formal decisions in her later work. Describing her work as a "constant romance with the unknown", Amorós first incorporated light into her practice following a fated trip to Iceland. While there, she saw the northern lights and realized the powerful ephemeral magic light held. She discusses light's ability to transcend social and geographic boundaries "we all connect to light." Drawing upon critical cultural legacies and landscapes, Amorós is inspired by the communities she creates within. Installing and programming each piece on-site, direct interaction with the surrounding architecture is key to creating her work. "Ultimately, the piece connects the viewers, space, and light sculpture, merging them into one." Jane Farver writes, "A joyful and generous spirit, Amorós views her art as a gift to others." Amorós has connected cultures and viewers through the medium of light in the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and a Latin America as a guest speaker at TED Global 2014 and as a part of the Art in Embassies Program of the US. Photo credit : Chiara-Cusssatt Artist https://www.grimanesaamoros.com/ Artist interviews https://www.grimanesaamoros.com/interviews/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/grimanesa-amorós-ab0a285/ Leila Heller Gallery http://www.leilahellergallery.com/exhibitions/grimanesa-amoros-scientia Curbed https://www.curbed.com/article/grimanesa-amors-tribeca-loft-tour.html Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/688431/an-artist-brings-light-to-mumbai/ Ted Global https://www.grimanesaamoros.com/press/ted-global-oct-2014-2/ BBC https://www.bbc.com/storyworks/culture/noor-riyadh/grimanesa-amors Wellbeing Project https://wellbeing-project.org/grimanesa-amoros-journey-in-the-arts/ A Women's Thing https://awomensthing.org/blog/grimanesa-amoros/ Arte & Lusso https://arte8lusso.net/art/grimanesa-amoros/ Arab News https://www.arabnews.com/node/2143986/lifestyle Arte Realizzata https://www.arterealizzata.com/interviews/a-fascinating-conversation-with-grimanesa-amoros Brooklyn Museum https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/about/feminist_art_base/grimanesa-amoros Art Summit https://www.art-summit.com/grimanesa-amoros/ Arc Magazine https://www.arc-magazine.com/grimanesa-amoros/ Arab News https://www.arabnews.com/node/2222456/saudi-arabia Bazaar https://ar.harpersbazaararabia.com/hbanews Artforum https://www.artforum.com/artguide/azkuna-zentroa-12869/scientia-207490 Art Nexus https://www.artnexus.com/en/news/62ed3a99b426d929471ca150/grimanesa-amoros-scientia Artists Studios https://artists-studios.com/grimanesa-amoros

A Spring Equinox episode to inspire new beginnings and plant seeds of change... Rob Hopkins is the co-founder of Transition Network and Transition Town Totnes, and author of The Transition Handbook, The Transition Companion, The Power of Just Doing Stuff, 21 Stories of Transition and most recently ‘From What Is to What If: unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want'.  He is an Ashoka Fellow, has spoken at TED Global and at several TEDx events, and appeared in the French film phenomenon ‘Demain‘.  He is a keen gardener, a founder of the New Lion Brewery in Totnes (an example of 'REconomy'), and a director of Totnes Community Development Society, the group behind Atmos Totnes, an ambitious, community-led development project.  Rob hosts the podcast ‘From What If to What Next‘, inviting imaginative thinkers to travel in a time machine to 2030 and create a visceral, tangible, innovative sense of a greener, more integrated future, where he champions collective imagination.  Rob shows us that rapid, radical and resilient change can happen. It is possible and here are some ideas, solutions and ways to create a greener future joyfully.Recommended reading:The Entangled Activist by Anthea LawsonJoin us at ANCESTRAL and explore our other gatherings, episodes and website.Gift forward by becoming a patron. Bonus content comes out with every episode alongside giveaways and discounts. Thank you to Mike Howe and Chris Park for the music in this episode. Contribute your music and artwork.Support the show

As we are out here trying to make our dreams come true, we need to clarify whether we know how to communicate so that people want to join our vision. If we don't, it doesn't matter how excellent the product or execution is; our dream won't go far. This week, episode 101 of The Jen Marples Show is about The Power of Authentic Communication with Bronwyn Saglimbeni, Authentic Communication Coach.For the past 20 years, Bronwyn has prepared clients for their big moments on shows such as American Idol, Real Time with Bill Maher, Bloomberg TV, CNBC's Power Lunch, The Oprah Winfrey Show, the Home Shopping Network, and PBS NewsHour. She's “midwifed” over 150 TEDx, TEDGlobal, and TED Talks. Her work has always had a singular focus: She helps people shine.Bronwyn and I discuss:Bronwyn's journey from PR burnout to reimagining her new career as an authentic communication coach.The power of authenticity and showing the good along with the imperfect.Practical tips to authentically communicate who you are.The #1 way to shine on camera.How to do an effective 30-second pitch to get noticed.Women supporting women and how we can do better.How we can accomplish our goals in midlife and be kind to ourselves.You're Not Too F***ing Old! to communicate like a badass!Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag me on Instagram @jenmarples!  And don't forget to follow, rate and review the podcast and tell me your key takeaways!Learn more about Jen Marples at https://www.jenmarples.com/ Unedited AI Transcript HereCONNECT WITH BRONWYN:Bronwyn CommunicationsInstagramLinkedInYouTubePodcast - AppleCONNECT WITH JEN MARPLES:Subscribe to my NewsletterJoin Jen's Private, Free Facebook GroupSend Jen a Voice Message InstagramLinkedInTikTok Work with Jen! Website

We are living with a global epidemic of injustice, but we've been choosing to ignore it.  More than 25 years ago, Vivek Maru told his grandmother that he wanted to go to law school. “Grandma didn't pause,” he recounted. “She said to me, ‘Lawyer is liar.’” Though he went on to fulfill that desire, Vivek soon realized that his grandmother wasn’t entirely wrong. Vivek came to see that “something about law and lawyers has gone wrong.” Law is “supposed to be the language we use to translate our dreams about justice into living institutions that hold us together” – to honor the dignity of everyone, strong or weak. But as he told an audience on the TEDGlobal stage in 2017, lawyers are not only expensive and out of reach for most – worse, “our profession has shrouded law in a cloak of complexity. Law is like riot gear on a police officer. It's intimidating and impenetrable, and it's hard to tell there's something human underneath.” In 2011, Vivek founded Namati to demystify the law, facilitate global grassroots-led systems change, and to grow the movement for legal empowerment around the world. Namati and its partners have built cadres of grassroots legal advocates in eight countries. The advocates have worked with more than 65,000 people to protect community lands, enforce environmental law, and secure basic rights to health care and citizenship. Globally, Namati convenes the Legal Empowerment Network, made up of more than 3,000 groups from over 170 countries who are learning from one another and collaborating on common challenges. This community successfully advocated for the inclusion of justice in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, and for the creation of the Legal Empowerment Fund, with a goal of putting $100 million into grassroots justice efforts worldwide. Though he nearly dropped out of law school after his first year because the law felt disconnected from the problems of ordinary people he had encountered in rural villages the year earlier, Vivek stuck with it and moved to Sierra Leone soon after he graduated, just after the end of a brutal 11-year civil war. Several years before Namati, he co-founded an organization called Timap (which means “stand up”) to help rural Sierra Leoneans address injustice and hold government accountable. Realizing that a conventional legal aid model would have been unworkable, as there were only 100 lawyers in Sierra Leone (more than 90 of which were in the capital rather than in rural areas), he instead focused on training a frontline of community paralegals in basic law and in tools like mediation, advocacy, education, and organizing. Just like a health care system relies on nurses, midwives, and community health workers in addition to physicians, he saw that justice required community paralegals (sometimes called “barefoot lawyers”) to serve as a bridge to serve the legal needs of communities and “to turn law from an abstraction or a threat into something that every single person can understand, use and shape.” As he later recounted, “We found that paralegals are often able to squeeze justice out of a broken system: stop a school master from beating children; negotiate child support payments from a derelict father; persuade the water authority to repair a well. In exceptionally intractable cases, as when a mining company in the southern province damaged six villages’ land and abandoned the region without paying compensation, a tiny corps of lawyers can resort to litigation and higher-level advocacy to obtain a remedy.” More significantly, he realized: Paralegals are from the communities they serve. They demystify law, break it down into simple terms, and then they help people look for a solution. They don't focus on the courts alone. They look everywhere: ministry departments, local government, an ombudsman's office. Lawyers sometimes say to their clients, "I'll handle it for you. I've got you." Paralegals have a different message, not "I'm going to solve it for you," but "We're going to solve it together, and in the process, we're both going to grow." And case by case and story by story, community paralegals help paint a portrait of the system as a whole, which can serve as the basis for systemic change efforts in laws and policy. “This is a different way of approaching reform. This is not a consultant flying into Myanmar with a template he's going to cut and paste from Macedonia, and this is not an angry tweet. This is about growing reforms from the experience of ordinary people trying to make the rules and systems work,” Vivek says. It’s ultimately “about forging a deeper version of democracy in which we the people, we don't just cast ballots every few years, we take part daily in the rules and institutions that hold us together, in which everyone, even the least powerful, can know law, use law and shape law.” Vivek was named a Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the World Economic Forum, a “legal rebel” by the American Bar Association, and an Ashoka Fellow. He received the Pioneer Award from the North American South Asian Bar Association in 2008. He, Namati, and the Global Legal Empowerment Network received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2016. He graduated from Harvard College, magna cum laude, and Yale Law School. His undergraduate thesis was called Mohandas, Martin, and Malcolm on Violence, Culture, and Meaning. Prior to starting Namati, he served as senior counsel in the Justice Reform Group of the World Bank.  Vivek is co-author of Community Paralegals and the Pursuit of  Justice (Cambridge University Press). His TED talk, “How to Put the Power of Law in People’s Hands,” has been viewed over a million times. He lives with his family in Washington, DC., and though he travels a lot, he tries to spend time in a forest or other natural place every week, wherever he is. Vivek studies capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art that mixes dance with fighting techniques as a creative form of resistance, with Dale Marcelin at Universal Capoeira Angola Center. “There’s a mischievousness and soulfulness even though you’re engaging in a life-and-death struggle,” Maru says. “I like its lesson of smiling in the face of danger.” He is also deeply influenced by his Jain spiritual background and Gandhian principles. He is interested in a Jainism that balances an inward turn with an engagement in the outer world, citing a Jain monk who said “The test of true spirituality is in practice, not isolation . . . there is a need to strike the right balance between internal and external development.”   Join us in conversation with this exceptional leader and warrior for justice!

On today's episode, we're thrilled to be joined by New York Times Bestselling Author Daniel Suarez to discuss his latest space-tech thriller and new book Critical Mass.  Fans of Delta-v, one of his previous novels, will be delighted to pick back up where the previous crew left off!  We'll be discussing Daniel's inspiration behind these novels, what to expect from Critical Mass which is set to publicly release on January 31st (you can pre-order now!), and what he believes lies ahead for the future of the space industry.Daniel Suarez is a New York Times bestselling author, TEDGlobal speaker, and former systems analyst whose unique brand of high-tech fiction explores the causes and impacts of rapid technological change.  The author of seven novels, he has a track record of anticipating what's next, and his latest book, Critical Mass (due out from Dutton Publishing on January 31, 2023) brings readers on a daring journey to the new frontier of private space exploration.  The second book in the Delta-v series, Critical Mass realistically portrays humanity's urgent transition from an Earthbound to a spacefaring civilization -- and brings home the message of why that's critical to our future.We also want to extend a big thank you to our sponsors this year for supporting our show!Learn more about our Gold Sponsor Multiverse Media, an integrated media company focusing on space exploration, science, and technology, and check out the Cislunar Market Opportunities report produced by NewSpace Global, a Multiverse Media property, for a snapshot and user guide to the players and opportunities ahead for the cislunar economy.  To get your own copy please go to cislunar.report and use coupon code citizen10 for 10% off a single user license.Learn more about our Silver Sponsor the Colorado School of Mines Space Resources Program, a first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary program that offers Certificate, Master of Science, and Ph.D. degrees for professionals around the world interested in the emerging field of extraterrestrial resources here.Support the showSubscribe to our newsletter and follow us on social media!Instagram: @thecelestialcitizenTwitter: @celestialcitznLinkedIn: Celestial CitizenYouTube: @thecelestialcitizen

See links and images on the companion blog post.Rob Hopkins is the co-founder of Transition Network and of Transition Town Totnes, and author of several books including ‘The Transition Handbook‘ and most recently, ‘From What Is to What If: unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want'. He is an Ashoka Fellow, has spoken at TED Global and at several TEDx events, and appeared in the French film phenomenon ‘Demain‘. He holds a PhD from the University of Plymouth, and is a Director of Totnes Community Development Society and of New Lion Brewery. He also hosts the podcast ‘From What If to What Next‘. In November 2022 he was made an Honorary Citizen of Liège in Belgium by the Mayor of the city. His website is robhopkins.net.Thanks for listening!Green Urbanist website Contact Form Substack Twitter Instagram Linkedin

Rob Hopkins is a cofounderTransition Network, and the author of The Transition Handbook, and most recently, From What Is to What If: unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want. He hosts the wonderful podcast series ‘From What If to What Next‘ which invites listeners to send in their “what if” questions and then explores how to make them a reality. In 2012, he was voted one of the Independent's top 100 environmentalists and was on Nesta and the Observer's list of Britain's 50 New Radicals. Rob is an inspiring speaker, who has spoken at TEDGlobal and three TEDx events. His ideas and perspective on imagination are crucial today in order to solve our most pressing issues, like climate change. He is thoughtful, open-minded, and imaginative. He blogs at transtionnetwork.org and robhopkins.net and tweets at @robintransition. Follow us on TikTok @medicineexplained and IG @medicine.explained. If you want to search our entire library of video explainers - go to our Youtube @MedicineExplained

Per Espen Stoknes, a psychologist with PhD in economics, is a TED Global speaker, and serves as the director of Centre for Green Growth at the Norwegian Business School. An experienced foresight facilitator and academic, he's also serial entrepreneur, including co-founding clean-tech company GasPlas. Author of several books, among them Learning from the Future (2004, in Norwegian), Money & Soul (2009) and the “Outstanding Academic Title of 2015” award winning book: What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming (2015). Per Espen has also served as member of Norwegian Parliament.He answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:The work of Earth4All in encouraging a change to systems thinking to address the multiple threats to our survivalThe need to shift our identity beyond self-interested individuals, to earthlings sharing a commons in need of preservationThe call to let go of American exceptionalism and recognize the innovation taking place across the globeResourcesBook: Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity (2022) https://www.earth4all.life/book Support the showComplete Show Notes

It's the Season 14 finale! We meet Skinder Hundal MBE who is the British Council's Director of Arts!!!! We discuss his extraordinary career in Visual Arts including recently working with Sonya Boyce, for the 2022 British Pavilion, who won the Golden Lion prize for her exhibition 'Feeling Her Way', which runs until 27th November.Before joining British Council, Hundal was CEO/Director of New Art Exchange, a contemporary arts space in Nottingham where he worked for 12 years to create connections between the UK and overseas through arts and cultural projects. Working across art forms, his international experience includes projects for La Biennale di Venezia, TED Global, Google Cultural Institute and for the UK's official arts programme for the First World War Centenary, 14-18 Now.Major projects under his tenure at New Art Exchange includes Here, There & Everywhere, an ambitious international programme of artistic development, cultural exchange and artist residencies between the UK and Africa, South Asia, South Korea, Middle East, North America and Europe.Skinder Hundal is Executive Producer and co-Artistic Director of the UK's original South Asian outdoor festival, Nottingham Arts Mela, and a Board member at Artist News (a-n) and Tom Dale Dance Company. In 2019, he was awarded an MBE for his contribution to visual arts.As Director of Arts, British Council, Hundal oversees multiple art forms, including: Architecture, Design and Fashion; Film; Literature; Music; Theatre and Dance; and Visual Arts. The British Council's major arts activity includes cultural programmes for annual bilateral seasons such as UK/Italy 2020 and UK/Australia 2021-22; the British Pavilion exhibitions at La Biennale Arte and La Biennale Architettura, Venice; and the Market Focus Cultural Programme at the London Book Fair."Connecting, engaging and sharing knowledge through arts and culture is now more important than ever. I believe artists and cultural professionals help challenge, provoke and make sense of the world, so I'm looking to connect the unique and diverse UK's arts scene with many brilliant artists and organisations around the world in my role at British Council.' Skinder Hundal MBEFollow @SkinderHundal and @BritishArts on Instagram, or @SkinsBC on Twitter. Learn more: https://www.britishcouncil.org/arts and explore the British Council Visual Arts Collection here: http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/collectionThanks for listening to Season 14!! We will be back next week with a whole new series 15!!! Plus we will be announcing some very exciting news next week. WATCH THIS SPACE!!! Enjoying the podcast? Follow us and say hello via our Instagram: @TalkArt Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jill Blakeway is a Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine (DACM), a licensed and board-certified acupuncturist (LAc), and a clinical herbalist practicing energy healing for over 20 years. Jill founded the Yinova Center in NYC in 1999 and acts as Clinic Director. Blakeway is the co-author of Making Babies: A Proven 3-Month Program for Maximum Fertility, the author of Sex Again: Recharging your Libido, and recently published her third book Energy Medicine: The Science and Mystery of Healing. She traveled the world for two years for her book, Energy Medicine, interviewing and apprenticing with top scientists and energy healers to explain the science behind energy healing. Jill was the first acupuncturist to ever give a TEDTalk, at TEDGlobal in 2012. To learn more, please visit www.yinovacenter.com. Tell us about how you got into Traditional Chinese Medicine. What is the difference between Western and Eastern Medicine? Is there a balance between Western and Eastern Medicine? Let's talk about the benefits of having a support group while navigating fertility issues. Let's talk about your multiple books - Sex Again, Energy Medicine and Making Babies. How can we balance our own energy and chi? Where can we find you? https://www.yinovacenter.com/ https://www.yinovacenter.com/fertility-coaching-with-dr-jill-blakeway/ https://www.yinovacenter.com/team/jill-blakeway/

Carolyn Steel is a leading thinker on food and cities. A London-based architect, author and academic, she wrote the award-winning Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives (2008) and Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World (2020). Her concept of sitopia, or food-place (from the Greek sitos, food + topos, place) has gained broad recognition across a range of fields in design, ecology, academia and the arts. Carolyn studied architecture at Cambridge University and has since taught at Cambridge, London Metropolitan University, Wageningen University, Slow Food University and at the London School of Economics, where she was inaugural studio director of the Cities Programme. Her lecture series on Food and the City, given at Cambridge between 2002-12, was the first of its kind. Carolyn is a non-executive director of Kilburn Nightingale Architects, a trustee of the Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery and is currently a Research Fellow at Aeres University in the Netherlands. She writes and broadcasts regularly about food, cities and culture and is in international demand as a speaker. Her 2009 TEDGlobal talk has received more than one million views. On this episode, Carolyn joins host Mitchell Davis and discusses the potential to change the world through food, placing value on what we eat, and why the word “mundane” is anything but. Follow Carolyn on Twitter @carolynsteel For more on Carolyn and her work, visit: https://www.carolynsteel.com/

Today Mary is talking to Gavin Pretor-Pinney. Gavin is founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society, which has over 58,000 members in 120 countries. He is the author of the internationally bestselling Cloudspotter's Guide and Cloud Collector's Handbook as well as A Cloud A Day. Gavin is a winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. He is a TED Global speaker with over 1.3 million views. He has presented television documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4 and is a Visiting Fellow at the Meteorology Department of Reading University and winner of the Royal Meteorological Society's Michael Hunt award. Gavin co-founded the Idler, a magazine that argues for the importance of downtime in creative thinking.Join the Cloud Appreciation Societyhttps://cloudappreciationsociety.orgGet the bookhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Cloud-Day-Gavin-Pretor-Pinney Contact Mary Bermingham atmary@burrennaturesanctuary.ieCheck out Burren Nature Sanctuary at www.burrennaturesanctuary.ieSupport the Nature Magic Podcast athttps://www.patreon.com/naturemagicShow websitewww.naturemagic.ie

Spits je oren voor deze zeer bijzondere gast in DenkTank. Jimmy Nelson is één van de beste fotografen ter wereld. Zijn fotoboek ‘Before they pass away' over de schoonheid van inheemse culturen verkocht meer dan 350 duizend exemplaren. Bizar veel voor een koffietafelboek.Als spreker maakte Jimmy zoveel furore dat hij werd uitgenodigd om te spreken op TED Global: het prestigieuze HOOFDpodium van de TED conference.In deze podcast deelt Jimmy zijn persoonlijke verhaal en zijn diepere missie. Hij vertelt op meeslepende wijze hoe hij connectie maakt met culturen waar hij op bezoek gaat. En hoe hij vanuit respect, empathie en nederigheid erin slaagt om opgenomen te worden in de tribe. Ook maak je kennis met zijn nieuwste werk: Between the Sea and the Sky. Een fotoboek met eerbetoon aan Nederlandse (sub)culturen. Kijk hier de cover reveal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kU2LMMrAp0Meer info over dit prachtige boek: https://www.jimmynelson.com/product/between-the-sea-and-the-sky/Wat een man. Wat een verhalen.  

Episode Summary:In today's episode we are diving into the inspiring world of Dr. Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg. Named "One to Watch" by the Financial Times and voted a Future 50 by Icon Magazine, this Cambridge University and Royal College of Art graduate makes artworks that explore our fraught relationships with nature and technology. Through artworks, writing, and curatorial projects, Ginsberg's work explores subjects as diverse as artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, conservation, and evolution, as she investigates the human impulse to “better” the world. In this candid conversation we ask Daisy about her ongoing one of a kind interspecies artwork entitled Pollinator Pathmaker that transforms how we see gardens and who we make them for. This conscious art project will come into full bloom for the first time this May at the Eden Project, Cornwall. Further public Pollinator Pathmaker gardens will be planted this year in other locations globally including the Serpentine in London. Meanwhile, anyone in Northern Europe will be able to plant their own garden at home, as well as globally by creating a garden plan at pollinator.art, supported by the Google Arts and Culture Lab.The Speaker:Dr. Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is an artist examining our fraught relationships with nature and technology. Through artworks, writing, and curatorial projects, Ginsberg's work explores subjects as diverse as artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, conservation, and evolution, as she investigates the human impulse to “better” the world. Ginsberg spent over ten years experimentally engaging with the field of synthetic biology, developing new roles for artists and designers. She is lead author of Synthetic Aesthetics: Investigating Synthetic Biology's Designs on Nature (MIT Press, 2014), and in 2017 completed Better, her PhD by practice, at London's Royal College of Art (RCA), interrogating how powerful dreams of “better” futures shape the things that get designed. Ginsberg won the World Technology Award for design in 2011, the London Design Medal for Emerging Talent in 2012, and the Dezeen Changemaker Award 2019. Her work has twice been nominated for Designs of the Year (2011, 2015), with Designing for the Sixth Extinction described as “romantic, dangerous... and everything else that inspires us to change and question the world”. Ginsberg exhibits internationally, including at MoMA New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, the National Museum of China, the Centre Pompidou, and the Royal Academy, and her work is held in museum and private collections. Talks include TEDGlobal, PopTech, Design Indaba, and the New Yorker TechFest. Daisy is a resident at Somerset House Studios, London.Follow Alexandra's journey on InstagramHosts: Elizabeth Zhivkova & Farah Piriye, ZEITGEIST19 FoundationSign up for ZEITGEIST19's newsletter at https://www.zeitgeist19.comFor sponsorship enquiries, comments, ideas and collaborations, email us at info@zeitgeist19.com Follow us on Instagram and TwitterHelp us to continue our mission and to develop our podcast: Donate

First time I set eyes on Özlem Tan was during a leadership-training we both attended a few years back. I liked how he showed up there, and ever since, we’ve kept in touch, having interesting conversations which made me invite him to the third season of the podcast. - Where are you from? - I'm from Helsingborg. - No, no, no, I mean like from the beginning? - Well, yeah, I was born in a little village called Billesholm. - That's not what I mean. - Yeah, I understand you, you mean where my roots are? I'm a Swedish Kurd. - Well, you can't be both. - Of course, I can be both. What are you talking about? As Özlem (born in Sweden to Kurdish parents, coming to Sweden before he was born) narrates an all too familiar dialogue for me, he helps me see (again) the absurdity of the question Where are you from? reminding me of the TED TalkTaiye Selasi held at TEDGlobal 2014 ‘Don’t ask me where I’m from, ask where I’m a local’. ‘Relationship role models: Do you have anyone in your life you can look at, in a marriage or a partnership, where you go, they are doing that thing, that's what I want to have. I want to model at least part of what they're doing, because that really hits home. Do you have anyone like that?’ ~Helena And as I ask him for relationship role models, I wonder if he sees what becomes apparent to me as I work with the post-production for this episode: He and his wife are just that to their two daughters. [My two daughters] want to avoid me interfering or helping them, they want to sort [conflicts] out themselves. ~Özlem I don’t prepare for these episodes (except invite my five partners for the season and set up dates for our conversations), but I do read through the transcripts, looking for snippets as well as brush up on where we meandered, so that I can write these episode descriptions. It takes time, yes, and there’s tremendous value to it. I see more that what was apparent (to me) in the moment, during the conversation, my mind connects dots (like the TED Talk above, which I didn’t connect to during the conversation, but which popped into my mind once I started on the episode description). The potential for tankespjärn is alive and present, sometimes sprouting in the most surprising ways, as the meandering continues beyond the actual conversation. This is what I hope happens to/in you as well. That there’s a potential for tankespjärn that goes beyond the actual content; a memory awakened, a nudge that makes you take action on something, an infusion of energy into your life. Links: Find Özlem Tan onLinkedIn My doodle from Internetstiftelsen’s seminar ’Why conspiracy theories are a threat to democracy’ När och varför slutade ni följa nyheterna?

In this conversation, I speak with the brilliant Rob Hopkins - cofounder of the Transition Network and Transition Town Totnes, and author of several wonderful books: From What Is to What If? (one of my personal favourites), The Power of Just Doing Stuff, The Transition Handbook, and The Transition Companion. Voted one of the Independent's top 100 environmentalists in 2012, and named among Nesta and the Observer's list of Britain's 50 New Radicals, Rob has appeared on BBC Radio 4's Four Thought and A Good Read, and was featured in the French film phenomenon Demain and its sequel Après Demain. An Ashoka Fellow, Rob has spoken at TEDGlobal and three TEDx events, and holds a doctorate degree from the University of Plymouth and two honorary doctorates from the University of the West of England and the University of Namur. A keen gardener, Rob is a founder of New Lion Brewery in Totnes, and a director of Totnes Community Development Society, the group behind Atmos Totnes, an ambitious, community-led development project. He's also an artist whose beautiful lino prints you can check out at robhopkins.net, and his podcast, From What If to What Next is really worth a listen if you're looking for inspiration as to how we can unleash our collective imaginations to create a more resilient world. Recorded on 28th January 2022.

Time For a Reset is back! In this episode, Paul chats to Rory Sutherland.Rory is an industry legend having been at Ogilvy for 35 years,  one of the early pioneers of behavioural science in marketing, author of Alchemy: ‘The Magic of Original Thinking”, and a regular Ted Global and marketing conference circuit speaker. In this bumper episode, Rory and Paul cover everything from the role of marketing at the board table through to the behavioural science of transport and Rory's view of the metaverse.  Rory reminds us that marketing is a vast discipline that is in danger of being side-lined as the ‘colouring-in' department within business. He shares a fascinating view of why the obsessive focus on shareholder interest is counterproductive to driving growth. Rory encourages leaders to broaden their perception of where marketing and innovation play a role and reminds us that marketing is everything that a finance director despises –probabilistic, experimental, and tough to quantify.  Paul and Rory also discuss how corporate culture can stifle innovation, the origin of corporate conventional 'norms' and how to navigate around this. Lastly, Rory talks about his new venture, the MAD//Masters course brought to you by Rory and the makers of MadFest, designed to help marketers upskill and adapt in this ever-changing marketing landscape.

How to Remain Sane in the Age of PopulismIn recent years, a wave of populism has swept the world, fuelled by fear, anger and resentment. Internationally award-winning author and TED Global speaker Elif Shafak asks how we remain sane in the age of populism. Should we retreat into tribes of our own; should we create new tribes, or should we, and can we, find a way beyond tribalism? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The way you think influences the outcome of whatever you choose to do. The only reason we feel like we're stuck in a rut is that we're thinking in the wrong way. But did you know that by thinking more and working less, we can actually make more? And this way, we can do things with purpose and meaning. In today's episode, we are joined by our guest, Jarrod Hanning, a retired musician who is now a Master Coach at Mindset Performance. He will tackle how you can get a breakthrough in your business by having a breakthrough in how you think. Learn how you can earn more by leveling up your way of thinking by listening to this episode! Tune in and don't forget to share this episode with your friends!   Bio: Jarrod Hanning is an award-winning speaker. He has been featured on ABC night lines, spoken on stages all across the country, and has clients all across the world. He has been chosen by Ted Global as the featured speaker of the week. As a result of this training, the majority of his clients go on to more than double their income by working twice as many hours.   Key Takeaways: How he paved his way towards his Meant for More Moment Thinking About the Bigger and Meaningful Things What made him go outside the world of music and pursue where he is now The problems in the entrepreneurial world and what that can look like with how our brain operates Asking what makes you come alive and doing it What is the reason why we feel like we are stuck? What do the Mindset Gym offers?  How can mindset pushup shift things for you? The Importance of Having Thinking Patterns What is his favorite part about working with people in this space? What is his next growth or evolution?     Links:   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jarrod-haning-5831578/ Website: https://www.mindsetperformance.co Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/haning   https://www.wearemeantformore.com/live   WeAreMeantForMore.com/moment  _______________________________________   If you want to share your story on the "Meant For More Podcast," text the word "MOMENT" to 833-231-8098 to submit your story and have Charity read it on the podcast and give you a shoutout! To join the Meant For More Community, text the word “COMMUNITY” to 833-231-8098 to learn more…   Text Charity the word "DEVO" to 833-231-8098 for 5 FREE texted daily devotionals with her new devotional card deck.   Grab Charity's DevoDeck by going to DevoDeck.com Be sure to visit my website at CharityMajors.com And come hang out with me on social media -  @CharityMajors on Instagram and Charity Majors on Facebook.   https://www.instagram.com/charitymajors/ https://www.facebook.com/CharityMajorsFanPage/   Join my FREE FB Group: http://www.charitymajors.com/meantformoretribe I look forward to connecting with you!   xoxo - Charity   Terms & Conditions   -----------------------------------------------------   ***If you are feeling STRESSED and are struggling with anxiety, please download Charity's FREE "Reduce Stress Guided Meditation" - http://charitymajors.com/reducestress   ***If you desire to place your identity on a firm foundation, grab Charity's "DevoDeck" - a deck of devotional cards, rooted in the identity of who and whose you are.  Go to http://devodeck.com/    Grab your copy of my book (and #1 New Release), "Meant For More; Igniting Your Purpose In a World That Tries to Dim Your Light... go to http://book.wearemeantformore.com/ today!  ==============================

In today's conversation, I speak with David Rowan – renowned technology expert and former editor-at-large of WIRED magazine's UK edition, Conde Nast's award-winning technology-and-innovations magazine that stays ahead of the trends transforming businesses. In his role as editor of WIRED UK, he traveled extensively to investigate the companies and entrepreneurs who are changing our world, and his insights and research are documented brilliantly in his captivating book, Non-Bullshit Innovation: Radical Ideas from the World's Smartest Minds. As a speaker, David has given keynotes around the world on the themes of technology, business, and innovation, and he has chaired and moderated high-profile events for the UK and French governments, for Google Zeitgeist and TED Global, and for international banks, and Fortune 100 businesses. His most recent awards include Techmark Technology Journalist of the Year, DMA Editor of the Year, and British Society of Magazine Editors' Editor of the Year. With wide newspaper experience as an editor, he has made TV films for Channel 4 News, and written regular columns in GQ, Condé Nast Traveller, The Times, and The Guardian. Recorded on 12th January 2021.

There are far far more biases in collective and institutionalized decision-making than in consumer decision-making. Companies pretend that the process is hugely rational when in reality it really isn't. That's why we've invited a guest. And what a guest that was! Rory Sutherland dropped by and we recorded a great episode for the Funky Marketing Show on the topic of Behavior sciences in B2B In case you've been living under the rock and you have no idea who he is, Rory Sutherland is a Vice-Chairman Ogilvy UK. He co-founded a behavioral science practice within the agency. Before founding Ogilvy Change, Rory was a copywriter and creative director at Ogilvy for over 20 years, having joined as a graduate trainee in 1988. He has variously been President of the IPA, Chair of the Judges for the Direct Jury at Cannes, and has spoken at TED Global. He's a writer, speaker, and inspiration. We said lots of things, such as 1. B2B decision-making is definitely not exempt from the psychological analysis 2. The key to B2B is understanding business people's problems 3. B2B buyers make their decisions to avoid blame and that's why we have defensive decision making. 4. Unlimited seating capacity greatly impacts online events 5. Spreadsheets and data can't read human emotions 6. The reward for thinking weird is greater than the risk And we dived deeper into more with amazing examples from everyday life. Now tell me, what are some of the most known biases in B2B that you're seeing? p.s. find Rory on Twitter @rorysutherland and feel free to reach out to him to continue the conversation --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/funky-marketing/message

Navi Radjou is a New York-based innovation and leadership scholar who advises senior executives worldwide on breakthrough growth strategies. A Fellow at Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, Navi has served as vice president at Forrester Research. In 2013, Navi won the prestigious Thinkers50 Innovation Award—given to a management thinker who is re-shaping the way we think about and practice innovation. He delivered a talk at TED Global 2014 on frugal innovation which has over 2 million views. Navi co-authored Frugal Innovation: How To Do Better With Less, as well as the global bestseller Jugaad Innovation (over 250,000 copies sold worldwide) and From Smart To Wise. He is working on his next book Conscious Society: Redefining Who We Are, Reinventing How We Consume, Work, Relate, and Live. In this podcast, Navi discusses with Kaihan what we can do to reinvent how business is done—concepts like frugal innovation and focusing on a regenerative economy—both aimed at making the most of the resources we have to affect a larger social impact. He'll also talk about recovering from Covid-19 in a 'Y' pattern rather than a 'V' as many tend to, and the new opportunities that can create.__________________________________________________________________________________________"So, this is...what regeneration is about. It's essentially going from the old notion of sustainability, which was all about doing less harm, to doing more consciously, to have a more positive impact on the environment, but also the society."-Navi Radjou__________________________________________________________________________________________Episode Timeline:00:00—Introducing Navi Radjou + The topic of today's episode2:13—If you really know me, you know that...2:43—What is your definition of strategy?6:15—The 'Y' shaped recovery vs. 'V' shaped recovery path11:46—Is technology and crowdsourcing creating a drive for a multi-stakeholder approach?14:48—Digging into the "Regenerative Economy" concept17:31—The concept of "Frugal Innovation"19:36—What should strategists do now? __________________________________________________________________________________________

Do you ever wish you were a communications rockstar and the kind of person who can persuade, inspire, delight, and motivate in any given situation? Well, my guest today will share how it's not a magic trick or something you have to be born with - you can learn to be a great communicator and feel like you have developed a superpower. On the show today, Bronwyn Saglimbeni and I discuss the essential ingredients to being a great communicator, how empathy plays a pivotal role in being a superstar on stage, and how to have No Enemy conversations that get powerful results and create lasting relationships. Bronwyn even reveals three of her favorite modern-day communicators and what you can learn from them.  Key Takeaways:When we meet an audience's needs first, our needs get met tenfold, every time.You're not born a good storyteller. We can ALL be good storytellers, it just takes practice!Warmth allows you to be direct. The greatest thing we can do is have a good intention. "The skill of this new age is no longer going to belong to the people that are really good at fencing conversationally, it's knowing how to reach across and create a handshake where there used to be fists." —  Bronwyn Saglimbeni About Bronwyn Saglimbeni: Bronwyn Saglimbeni is a communication coach, writer, and speaker devoted to helping people SHINE. Known for her playful, irreverent approach to coaching (and life in general), Bronwyn teaches serious transformation in how we communicate, inspire and connect with those around us. She is also the host of the Twenty Minutes with Bronwyn podcast.Bronwyn has prepared clients for television appearances on American Idol, Real Time with Bill Maher, Bloomberg TV, CNBC's Power Lunch, the Oprah Show, the Home Shopping Network, and PBS Newshour. Bronwyn has midwifed over a hundred and twenty TEDx, TED Global, and TED talks. Connect with Bronwyn:Instagram: instagram.com/bronwynsfLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/bronwyn bronwyncommunications.com/subscribe**Sign up to get access to the POWERFUL TECHNIQUE for getting better on camera! Don't forget to download your free guide! Discover The 5 Business Benefits of Empathy: http://red-slice.com/business-benefits-empathy Connect with Maria: Get the podcast and book: TheEmpathyEdge.comLearn more about Maria's brand strategy work and books: Red-Slice.comHire Maria to speak at your next event: Red-Slice.com/Speaker-Maria-RossLinkedIn: Maria RossInstagram: @redslicemariaTwitter: @redsliceFacebook: Red Slice

Do you ever wish you were a communications rockstar and the kind of person who can persuade, inspire, delight, and motivate in any given situation? Well, my guest today will share how it's not a magic trick or something you have to be born with - you can learn to be a great communicator and feel like you have developed a superpower. On the show today, Bronwyn Saglimbeni and I discuss the essential ingredients to being a great communicator, how empathy plays a pivotal role in being a superstar on stage, and how to have No Enemy conversations that get powerful results and create lasting relationships. Bronwyn even reveals three of her favorite modern-day communicators and what you can learn from them.  Key Takeaways:When we meet an audience's needs first, our needs get met tenfold, every time.You're not born a good storyteller. We can ALL be good storytellers, it just takes practice!Warmth allows you to be direct. The greatest thing we can do is have a good intention. "The skill of this new age is no longer going to belong to the people that are really good at fencing conversationally, it's knowing how to reach across and create a handshake where there used to be fists." —  Bronwyn Saglimbeni About Bronwyn Saglimbeni: Bronwyn Saglimbeni is a communication coach, writer, and speaker devoted to helping people SHINE. Known for her playful, irreverent approach to coaching (and life in general), Bronwyn teaches serious transformation in how we communicate, inspire and connect with those around us. She is also the host of the Twenty Minutes with Bronwyn podcast.Bronwyn has prepared clients for television appearances on American Idol, Real Time with Bill Maher, Bloomberg TV, CNBC's Power Lunch, the Oprah Show, the Home Shopping Network, and PBS Newshour. Bronwyn has midwifed over a hundred and twenty TEDx, TED Global, and TED talks. Connect with Bronwyn:Instagram: instagram.com/bronwynsfLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/bronwyn bronwyncommunications.com/subscribe**Sign up to get access to the POWERFUL TECHNIQUE for getting better on camera! Don't forget to download your free guide! Discover The 5 Business Benefits of Empathy: http://red-slice.com/business-benefits-empathy Connect with Maria: Get the podcast and book: TheEmpathyEdge.comLearn more about Maria's brand strategy work and books: Red-Slice.comHire Maria to speak at your next event: Red-Slice.com/Speaker-Maria-RossLinkedIn: Maria RossInstagram: @redslicemariaTwitter: @redsliceFacebook: Red Slice