One of the things I love about being an executive coach and organizational consultant is how creative I get to be and how many different things I get to try.Every year, at least 10 or 20 pretty significant books on related topics get published. They talk

According to climate activist Joanna Macy, there are three stories that explain the world we're living in.The first is Business as Usual.That is, "Don't worry. Everything's fine."For example: "Global warming? No sweat — we're going to figure out how to su

Doctors Ayesha and Dean Sherzai founded the Healthy Minds Initiative (HMI) to scale their impact on the tragic epidemic of dementia plaguing the world today. The first thing that we have to understand is that the majority of dementias are preventable

Lewis Bertus was following medical best practices as a physician's assistant when his wife's illness forced him to take a hard look at the limitations of the healthcare industry.The drugs weren't helping her type 2 diabetes, no matter how much her doctors

If What Lights You Up were simply an extremely practical guide to job hunting, I wouldn't have been interested in a conversation with the author, Mary Olson-Menzel.Not that job hunting isn't an important topic — it clearly is, especially if you'

Just because homelessness is a complex problem doesn't mean that there aren't simple solutions.The obstacles to ending homelessness stem from the "address homelessness" industry itself, which benefits from the persistence of the problem rather than its er

Tom Solid and Paco Cantero are the minds behind the Paperless Movement, a consultancy and educational program for people who aspire to high performance in a fast-changing digital landscape.Which is to say, they're here to help us get shit done in a world

In the movie There's Something About Mary, there's a scene where Ben Stiller's character picks up a hitchhiker who tries to pitch him on a business idea.There's a popular exercise video called Eight Minute Abs, but the hitchhiker is going to capture marke

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Let's get started because we don't have a lot of time.At least that's the perspective of today's guest, Jodi Wellman. Jodi is an executive coach and speaker, and the author of You Only Die Once. And she's a big fan of

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Sarah Davis was a corporate risk manager who began to chafe at the limitations on her life.Sure, she had a safe job and a comfortable income. She ran marathons (3:38 PR — damn!) and was living the dream in Bondi, Austr