PODCAST · society
Where Genius Grows
by Gideon Culman
The podcast navigating a rapidly evolving world: What does it mean to find your voice? How is our world changing? What keeps society together?
Episodes
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86: Valerie Livesay & Zafer Achi, Living in Full Color
"Once we can see that we are not this enduring, consistent, perfect self that we've constructed ourselves to be—that we see all the ways in which we don't show up aligned with our intentions or who we want to be in the world—we start to have compassion for other people and their challenges in…
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85: Patrice Laslett, Experimenting in Complexity
"The linear approaches are genuinely slow and methodical. And we've missed our window for that. We now need lots and lots of experiments that need unpredictable results, hopefully in the positive direction. And that's going to get us out of this next huge global challenge." — Patrice Laslett...
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84: William Torbert, Acting in the Theatre of Inquiry
"One of the great feelings about intimacy is that it keeps unraveling itself. It keeps exposing itself. It keeps flowering anew. You keep feeling like you're discovering an unknown other for the first time, because what you're discovering is new for you." — William Torbert William Torbert's…
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83: Jan Rybeck & Carl Sanders-Edwards, Tailoring Growth at Scale
"There is some really good coaching happening without even seeing the coach or knowing what the coach's name is. I've been doing some digital debrief . . . and it's my colleague Nick's picture up there, it's not even me. They don't even know who I am. And in some ways, it's kind of fun because…
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82: Jodi Sleeper-Triplett, Parenting through a Pandemic
"It's very important to just take those few minutes to hold that coffee cup, to think of that good memory, to pull out an old photo, listen to one song that you absolutely love. But that's the stuff, just those little tidbits, because the rest of it is not joyful. It's not." — Jodi…
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81: Carly Anderson, Conversing with a Purpose
"I want to have my insides match my outsides. I want how I view myself internally to match my external behavior. That's my objective every day. That's my purpose. And if I do that, then I know I'm a good human for others." – Carly Anderson Carly Anderson is a Master Certified Coach. Since 2005...
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80: Anne Huntington & Emily Newman, Educating Beyond the Classroom
"If I could tell every parent in the United States right now something from a teacher: 'You're doing fine. Whatever you're doing today is enough. And I don't think parents are hearing that enough. And it's true. Your child is learning. We promise.'" — Anne Huntington Anne Huntington and Emily...
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79: Lea Didion, Facing Sustained Global Trauma
"Nobody is doing this right. There's no rulebook. I think the best that we can do is acknowledge that we are struggling, find little moments of connection and enjoy, because we don't know what tomorrow is going to bring." — Lea Didion Psychologists define trauma in terms of incidents and events....
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78: Valerie Livesay, Inviting Our Full Selves into the Light
"It is an incredibly scary thing to do to face into the parts of self that we seek to deny, that we felt like we had obliterated. And to recognize that they live within us still is really frightening. And it can be painful to re-encounter them and there can be so much incredible loss in seeing…
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77: Courtney Lang, Redressing Healthcare Inequity
"That divide should not exist in healthcare right now. Why? Because we're too far along. We're too innovative. We have too much technology. There should never be a gap." — Courtney Lang Inequity in healthcare actively harms people in every area of society. Courtney Lang is the founder and…
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76: Amy Elizabeth Fox, Building a More Entwined World
"Part of the way out is extending the circle of care and the circle of who you feel entwined with, interdependent to, responsible for wider and wider. So if each of us would say, 'I'm responsible for listening to where the pain is that needs me,' rather than 'I'm just responsible to my nuclear...
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75: Akasha, Leaning into Friendship
There's a part of me that's like shouting, "Of course [we're friends]!" And there's another part that's like, "I want to be. I don't know?" And that part of me is alive. And this is gonna sound a bit contradictory, but that part of me is also alive in most other white friendships that I have. You...
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74: Kelly Lewis, Navigating Polarities II
"Oftentimes when we're talking about polarities, there's a false assumption that we have to let go of what we value the most. In actuality, when you're moving from operating from your preferred pole to the third way, it's not about letting go or losing, it's about loosening up your grip enough…
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73: Brian Emerson, Navigating Polarities I
"From very early, we are taught to see the world in certain ways. And one of the first ways that we're taught to see the world is through either/or. 'Either the stove is hot or the stove is cold. And I touch it or I don't touch it.' That it is possible to expand our thinking into understanding…
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72: Wendy Moomaw, Wielding the Power of Profit
"Choose to do something that supports what you care about and will help us all sustain life on this planet. Every day you make that choice and we all make those choices. The hope is that millions of people will be making the difference every day." — Wendy Moomaw Wendy Moomaw is the executive...
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71: Jennifer Garvey Berger & Carolyn Coughlin, Journeying to the Growing Edge
How does life change when we leave behind the initial fascination of reading about theories of adult development to learning how to actually assess stage development in conversations with the people around us? Cultivating Leadership partners Jennifer Garvey Berger and Carolyn Coughlin interview...
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70: Tony Quinlan, Downgrading Your Certainty
"I'd much rather look at the reality rather than the opinions people carry." — Tony Quinlan When we face intractable problems — wanting to change the trajectory of our lives and stalling, wanting to change the direction of our community and failing — an important area that we often don't examine...
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69: Carolyn Coughlin, Practicing Complexity Fitness
"One of the things that we know from complexity theory — especially used in leadership — is that we can't figure it out. There is no plan that can work, necessarily. But what we can do is we can pay attention to the patterns of behavior and we can just try stuff, experiment." — Carolyn Coughlin...
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68: Nitiya Sin, Creating Transportive Experiences
"It is 100% based around the idea of making dreams come true and going above and beyond the regular steps of service to build an experience that will be a memory that lasts a lifetime." — Nitiya Sin We've all experienced moments in which time seems to stop. It's as though we're transported. To...
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67: Alma Molina, Sharing What Would Otherwise Go Unheard
"I can project, I can whisper, I can do all these kinds of things. But when I'm code-switching, there's a mindful approach to how I want the information to be received and how I want to be perceived by this person. And I want to create connection." — Alma Molina How we communicate is highly...
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66: Magda Mook & Jean-François Cousin, Letting Learners Teach Themselves
"Don't be too quick to say 'Ah, that's the issue,' or 'That's the issue with the issue.' It's just to be uncomfortable, to be ambiguous, to stay in that space until it is uncomfortable, because great awareness comes with — especially in the task-based society we live in these days — having the...
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65: Jennifer Garvey Berger, Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps
"When we don't understand ourselves well enough and when we don't understand the ways we trip up consistently, we act as though we haven't tripped up, and that gets us into even more trouble." — Jennifer Garvey Berger Jennifer Garvey Berger writes in her new book Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps...
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64: Sarah Jane Curran, Choosing What You Like
"Just because it's rare, and just because somebody says it's the best, doesn't mean you even have to like it." — Sarah Jane Curran Sarah Jane Curran is the host of the podcast Beer Me! She has focused her studies on beer in culinary school and grad school, she has been a beer director at Eleven...
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63: Bob Anderson, Scaling Leadership
"The complexity we face is actually an evolutionary pressure. We evolve or we die. And we're there. We're there as a species, we're there in organizations, and we develop or else. And that's harsh, but it's also a spiritual bootcamp. It's a kind of evolutionary pressure on us to evolve into more...
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62: John King, Melting into Relationship
"If you do the work to get yourself and your group to Stage 4, where you're actually truly collaborating, you will be given offers in life to step in and participate effectively at Stage 5. This does not happen, this does not occur for the people at Stage 2 and 3. At Stage 3 they're too caught up...
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61: Dagmar Pruin, Binding the Narratives Together
"I always knew that this is a very complex issue and that I don't want to go for the easy victory. And I think this is what you can very much see in the structure in how we run Germany Close Up." — Dr. Dagmar Pruin Every year Germany Close Up brings 250 Jewish Americans to visit Berlin and get a...
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60: Jerrold Keilson, Honoring Humanitarian Relief Workers
"If you have been to a hockey game or a baseball game . . . you see a phenomenon where at some point in the proceedings a military person is recognized for their service. Always for their service. And I'm not meaning to denigrate the service that the military make, and certainly a very…
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59: Mark McGuigan, Fostering the Values that Bind Us Together
"Let us not kid ourselves: These 22 volunteers alone are not going to transform the transatlantic relationship. And yet! Through their individual relationships that they build here, through the experiences that they get here, they are hopefully learning about discrimination, they are hopefully...
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58: Katie Jett Walls, Being Unafraid to Be with Someone
"Exercise your witnessing muscle: Go find a good photography book and look at it long and hard. Look at the pictures and practice empathy. Practice witnessing a story that you weren't there to see and I promise you will find yourself moved. And whatever the source of that empathy is, see if you...
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57: Arik Ben-Zvi, Signaling in the Right Direction
"We live in a world where your attention is the most valuable thing you have to offer. It's in some ways even more valuable even than the money in your pocket, or even more valuable than your vote. The things you choose to allocate your attention to — the shows you watch, the news you consume…
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56: Jennifer Garvey Berger, Finding Meaning Underneath the Plot
"We're really interested in the plot of our lives, but we're not as interested in the way the plot unfolds — the meaning underneath the plot. And if we were to get more interested collectively in not just what's happening to me but making sense of what's happening to me, that is a question that…
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55: Gray Cox, Thinking for a Sustainable Planet
"How do we change our economic thinking so that we start to become people who are living in a way that's compatible with a sustainable planet?" — Gray Cox To look at the world and everywhere see strife and material consumption that our planet is unable to sustain can be demoralizing. But...
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54: Kate English, Seeing the Humanity in Others
"Listen and do your best to put yourself in someone else's shoes. That trait is the thing that has saved lives. It's when people cut themselves off from that recognition of the other person as a human being — that is what gets degraded when we move toward mass atrocities: one of the first steps…
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53: Arthur Traldi, Acting Like We're on the Same Team
"It's important to listen both to understand the details of what happened, because remembering the victims and accepting the truth is important to survivor communities, and it's also important just to make sure people feel heard. Sometimes it's important for closure, sometimes it's important as...
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52: Jerry Johnson, Creating Your Own Relevance
"What people need to do is look at their lives through that lens 'How much of what I do is intentional and how much of what I do is routine? How much of what I do is considered and how much of what I do is simply a function of I did it that way yesterday, I did it again today, and likely I'll do…
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51: Sara Mansfield Taber, Offering Your Truth to the World
"Anybody offering their truth to the world is a generous act. It doesn't have to be perfectly wrought or perfectly abstractly conceptualized. But offering your authentic take on the world is just a gift, really. We don't get a lot of honesty in the world. And emotional honesty is even rarer." —...
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50: Angela Hayes, Respecting and Appreciating Diversity
"Life is filled with great diversity. You see it all through nature. When we as people take the opportunity to respect and appreciate the diversity that we have as humans, we have the power to build a better and more just society." — Angela Hayes Angela Hayes is the owner of Collins Hayes...
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49: Albert Cahn, Believing in a Wellspring of Humanity
"I always like to say 'Stay vocal, stay local,' that focusing on the issues in your most immediate community . . . it never seems to get the recognition it deserves but it's always the most transformative role that we can play in our society." —Albert Cahn Albert Cahn serves as the legal director...
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48: Cheryl Kagan, Doing the Best We Can
"We all do the best we can. And I think whatever someone decides to do is the right step for them. But speaking out does have an impact. And I know that sharing my story brought comfort to many women, brought accountability to one man in particular, got legislation passed, and I think served as a...
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47: Richard Chisholm, Walking Away from Money
Everybody's going to have to do tax planning now. At least for the first year or two — to see what, if anything, they can do to reduce their tax obligation. Even if they're going to get a savings automatically, just from being who they are with the tax laws the way they're going to be, there may…
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46: Bob Anderson, Learning to Be Authored
Most of us don't have literacy — we weren't trained in school to be literate — in the language of transformation, in the basic math and ABCs of transformation. So how do I learn to listen to my silent thoughts and feelings and track them down to core assumptions that are actually limiting? That…
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45: Bastian Hermisson, Fostering an Engaged Citizenry
A democracy cannot function if you basically have a political civil war: The sense that politics is a zero-sum game, where one side loses everything and the other wins everything, and it's all about winning against the other side. That can bring you political wins for a certain amount of time…
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44: Michael Wu, Building Adaptive Capacity
Do we want to build a secure and resilient system for powering . . . our country? And do we want to attack the biggest challenge of collective action in the course of human civilization? And those are the two questions that we have to answer. — Michael Wu Michael Wu is the founder and CEO of...
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43: Aykan Erdemir, Taking Faith Hostage
"Take a look at the mirror. Reflect on the values and the traditions that have brought what I would call the Transatlantic Civilization into existence as a civilization that has ensured individual rights and liberties and economic success to billions of people around the world." — Dr. Aykan…
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42: Lydia Borland, Selling without Inventory
My experience growing up taught me, 'Just 'cause they said 'No' doesn't mean I'm not qualified. They think I'm not qualified, but I'm qualified. They're idiots.' My view was that I was going to come to Washington, I was going to get them to offer me the job, and then I was going to turn them…
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41: Robert Tobias, Developing Public Sector Leadership
There ought to be room for joy in the workplace. There ought to be room for experiencing the joy that comes from working collaboratively with others: feeling that joy, celebrating that joy, acknowledging that joy. It turns the daily slog into . . . joy. That doesn't exist without collaboration.…
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40: DeVere Kutscher, Filling the Vacuum of Political Leadership
"We need to look beyond institutions to stand up for our rights, for our lifestyle, our quality of life. Time to broaden that to the organizations, to the businesses we interact with each and every day and realize there is power there." — DeVere Kutscher DeVere Kutscher is a principal at Public...
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39: Melissa Frakman, Emerging Markets Fintech Advisor
It's a really interesting moment in the world where there's large emerging markets that will transform the way the rest of the world looks. And so staying engaged and aware and open to change and to new technology and innovation, while also remaining focused on the human aspect of it — of how is…
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38: Bettina Hager, Passing the Equal Rights Amendment
One of the things that will be incredibly important this year, in 2018, is everyone's action to vote. And to vote out the people who don't support our issues and vote in the people who do. Because this year has really shown people that politics touches your life, whether or not you like it. It is...
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37: Joshua Sanderlin, Passing Federal Cannabis Law
As state after state passes laws regulating the use of cannabis, a booming industry has sprung up. Many people believe that this momentum — which they see as analogous to sweeping tides of civil rights legislation — will ultimately result in the passage of federal laws. Cannabis lobbyist and...
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The podcast navigating a rapidly evolving world: What does it mean to find your voice? How is our world changing? What keeps society together?
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