This Sustainable Life

This Sustainable Life

Do you care about the environment but feel “I want to act, but if no one else does, it won’t make a difference,” and “But if you don’t solve everything, it isn’t worth doing anything”?

We are the antidote! You’re not alone. Hearing role models overcome the same feelings to enjoy acting on their values creates meaning, purpose, community, and emotional reward.

Want to improve as a leader? Bestselling author, 3-time TEDx speaker, leadership speaker, coach, and professor Joshua Spodek, PhD, MBA, brings joy and inspiration to acting on the environment. You’ll learn to lead without relying on authority.

We bring you leaders from many areas — business, politics, sports, arts, education, and more — to share their expertise for you to learn from. We then ask them to share and act on their environmental values. That’s leadership without authority — so they act for their reasons, not out of guilt, blame, doom, gloom, or someone telling them what to do.

Guests include:

Dan Pink, 40+ million TED Talk views
Marshall Goldsmith, #1-ranked leadership guru and author
Frances Hesselbein, Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree, former CEO of the Girl Scouts
Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
David Allen, author of Getting Things Done
Ken Blanchard, author of The One Minute Manager
Vincent Stanley, Director of Patagonia
Dorie Clark, bestselling author
Bryan Braman, Super Bowl champion, Philadelphia Eagle
John Lee Dumas, top entrepreneurial podcaster
Alisa Cohn, top 100 speaker and coach
David Biello, Science curator for TED

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Martha Graham's quote

Here is the quote:

The dancer is realistic. His craft teaches him to be. Either the foot is pointed or it is not. No amount of dreaming will point it for you. This requires discipline, not drill, not something imposed from without, but discipline imposed by you yourself upon yourself.

Your goal is freedom. But freedom may only be achieved through discipline. In the studio you learn to conform, to submit yourself to the demands of your craft, so that you may finally be free.

Here it is in her voice:

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Fun, joy, discovery

Since I avoid flying too, I finally found someone I could share our mutual fun, joy, and discovery, not the usual arguments everyone gives about how flying is necessary.

This conversation shows two people sharing joy about something people considered impossible. Prepare for your beliefs to be challenged. Prepare to grow.