Ideas up for the challenge
What if you or your company, could be improved by crisis?
We all experiences difficulties and failures likely more often than we do ease and good fortune. Yet the vulnerability these conditions create in us keep us from talking with one another about them. Hence we don't learn how to handle them. Our only school becomes personal experience, a good one yes but the lessons are considerably more expensive.
On the podcast I have conversations with people from a variety of fields to get their stories, ideas or research on how people and companies handle present day challenges or problematic futures. If there are concepts, systems, physical practices or pragmatic philosophies that can help, I want to learn them.
My guests include authors, thought leaders and Ted Talk alums like Kyle Maynard, James Altucher and Seth Godin.
The show is long-form and despite the fact that I’m scratching my own itch and even through frequently dumb questions, the guests are game, very insightful and many times downright inspirational.
I'm learning a lot, I think you will too.
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