Peter Bregman consults with CEOs and their leadership teams to achieve high performance. He’s been doing this work in a deep way since 1989, and I’ve been fortunate enough to observe and sometimes assist him as he’s developed and delivered his methodology.
Over the last five or six years, he’s been spiraling in on a single profound concept utterly central to effective leadership: courage.
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When John Bruna was 10 years old, he was already stealing from liquor stores. Born into an environment of poverty, violence, and substance abuse, John began to turn his life around at the age of 22.
Along the way to his current leadership of the Mindful Life Program and Way of Compassion Foundation, John served as a dishwasher, auto mechanic, school teacher, substance abuse counselor, corporate manager, graduate student, and spiritual practitioner.
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Patrick Sherwin was decommissioning a solar hot water system on someone’s roof when he had a crazy idea.
Picking up one of the vaccuum tubes used to insulate and heat the water, he thought, “I wonder if I could cook a bunch of hot dogs in this thing?”
Ten years later, Patrick’s startup, GoSunStove, is cranking out the world’s most efficient solar cooker. Not only does the SunStove make tailgating cool as anything, it’s also a potential lifesaver around the globe, where accidental smoke inhalation from indoor cooking with dirty fuels is the second leading cause of death worldwide.
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Sparked by a situation in my own family, I devoted this episode to supporting parents who send their kids to daycare and still want to feed them well. I reached out to my network of “Here’s how to do it” genius educators and collated the short interviews into this comprehensive and hopefully valuable resource.
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When you think of the school you went to, or the school your child goes to, do these words pop into mind?
fun
fascinating
exciting
nurturing
empowering
joyful
community
teamwork
For most people, not so much. Even those of us who “won” at school, who got good grades and participated in the resume-stuffing clubs and activities, mostly preferred the time we spent outside of the classroom, doing things and exploring ideas we found interesting.
Kathleen Melanson, Director of the University of Rhode Island’s Energy Metabolism Laboratory, is conducting a series of brilliant and simple experiments about the connection between how fast we eat and how many calories we consume.
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In addition to being a bestselling science author, musician, and tiger-handler (really!), Glenn Murphy is an instructor of one of the most powerful, esoteric, and valuable martial arts ever developed: Systema.
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Alissa Bilfield and Adam Aronovitz are co-founders of The Cookbook Project, an amazingly inspiring, effective, and elegant not-for-profit dedicated to the fine mostly-lost art of home cooking.
With projects in 35 US states and over 20 countries around the world, Alissa and Adam are empowering communities to reclaim their culinary roots and break free from the industrial food system that creates disease, dependence, and displacement.
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Alan Roettinger packs a ton of wisdom, compassion, and humor into a 102-minute interview – one of the longest and most inspiring I’ve had the privilege to conduct.
Alan shifted his career as private chef to the rich and famous (he doesn’t name names, except for Bill Clinton and Frank Sinatra) to a successful stint as the author of four vegan cookbooks. In this far-ranging conversation.
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OK, so I’ve been procrastinating writing this intro to the Matt Frazier interview for about a week, because I wanted to get the prose just right.
Matt is the founder of No-Meat Athlete, originally a blog, then a book, and now a movement growing on its own steam.
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