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“People Are Ready to Heal” with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams: PYP 297

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2016.

Unwilling to surrender his health destiny to the medical profession, Adams did some research, adopted a plant-based diet, lost 30 pounds, and reversed his condition.

And he didn't stop there.

Instead, he committed to making Brooklyn into Ground Zero for healthy living.

And not just for his constituents.

Adams reminded us that Brooklyn, if it were a city in its own right and not a borough of New York City, would be the third-largest in the US.

With outsized influence – as Brooklyn goes, so goes New York City. And what happens in New York City often spreads to the rest of the US. And the US exports its values and culture to the rest of the globe.

Brooklyn, Adams explains, is the butterfly flapping its wings in China causing a storm in Mexico. Except in a good way 🙂

Josh LaJaunie and I got to meet with BP Adams during our recent trip to New York. We were ushered into an august paneled room with a long conference table and paintings of former borough presidents and mayors of Brooklyn adorning the walls.

The interview began with BP Adams asking us about ourselves and responding conversationally, which isn't what usually happens during my podcast interviews. So it took me a few moments to realize I was missing great audio.

You'll hear that I switched the recorder on just as Josh was telling BP Adams about himself.

This is a short episode – apparently running Brooklyn keeps BP Adams quite busy – but one of the most powerful conversations I've had as host of this podcast. I hope you enjoy!

Add your voice to the conversation via the comment box or audio recording box below, and please share – that's how we spread our message and spread our roots.

Links

Official Brooklyn website

Brooklyn's plant-based nutrition webpage

Farmshelf soilless farming

Plant-based News article on BP Adams Vegan program

Talk Back

Dr Howie Jacobson

This podcast is a labor of love and a way to give back to the world that has given me so much. That's why there aren't any sponsors (except me :).

My day job is helping leaders and their teams master their mindsets to remove all obstacles to heart-centered high performance.

Here are three gigs that I do:

1. Executive and Senior Leadership Mentoring and Facilitation

I work with high performing executive teams in organizations — and executive teams that need to become high  performing. My focus is mindset mastery, because it’s our mindsets that either support high performance or get in the way.

At this level, everyone’s got the skills and experience to excel and contribute at the highest level. What holds people back is mindset stuff: specifically the triggers that get them out of creative engagement and into fight-or-flight defensiveness.

My practice is all about teaching people to respond differently to those triggers by updating old maps — essentially removing the glitches that the triggers grab onto.

2. Executive Coaching: Quick Wins for High Performance

I work with individual executives and leaders, one on one. The program is called Quick Wins for High Performance, and what we do is, we work strategically on one or two areas that are holding you back and keeping you from performing at your best.

We reverse engineer the presenting problems — too much work and not enough time, underperforming employees and teams, maddening organizational inefficiencies, etc — and identify and rewire the suboptimal mindsets that are behind those problems.

The work is all about updating your mental maps so your actions and responses are always appropriate, proportionate, and strategic.

3. High Stakes Conversations for Fast Growing Small Business Teams

I help small business teams have high stakes conversations with skill, humor, and grace. When people feel safe, they can do their best, most creative, most collaborative work.

So that's what I do. If you'd like any of those results, drop me a line and tell me about yourself.

You CAN Change Other People!

Well, that's what Peter Bregman and I claim in our provocative book of that title.

What we really mean is, you can bring out the best in the people around you. If you think you're powerless to help people change, it's because you've been going about it the wrong way.

Discover our straightforward, replicable process here: You Can Change Other People.

 

Music

The Plant Yourself Podcast theme music, “Dance of Peace (Sabali Don),” is generously provided by Will Ridenour, a kora player from North Carolina who has trained with top Senegalese musicians.

It can be found on his first CD, titled Will Ridenour.

You can learn about Will, listen to more tracks, and buy music on his website, WillRidenour.com.

Gratitudes

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2 comments on ““People Are Ready to Heal” with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams: PYP 297

  1. Patricia DeMartino says:

    Hi, Howard!

    Eric Adams is an interesting guy…thanks to you and Josh. Saw his presentation with my son at the NYC Vegetarian Food Festival earlier this year. Dynamic speaker, and his story is relatable to so many, plus he looked fabulous. We got to meet the famous Rachel!
    If not already on your list of upcoming guests, Dr. Michelle McMacken is an incredible NYC plant-based doc. Very approachable, reasonable, smart and committed to this movement.
    Finally, last week Dr. David Dunaief spoke at our Plant Pure Pod group. He is Eric Adams’ personal physician. We learned even more about WFPB nutrition (high nutrient).

    Regards,
    Patty DeMartino

    1. Howard says:

      Thanks, Patty! Michelle is an honored Plant Yourself guest: https://plantyourself.com/integrating-plant-based-nutrition-medical-system-michelle-mcmacken-pyp-221/

      I’ll check out Dr Dunaief! Thanks for the heads-up!

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