Where Genius Grows
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Where Genius Grows
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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86 episoodi
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 d...
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 unp...
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...
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...
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 son...
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...
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...
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 connec...
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 tha...
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 shou...
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....
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 p...
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'r...
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. '...
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...
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 st...
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...
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 wor...
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...
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 informati...
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 th...
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,...
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 J...
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 organizat...
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...
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 t...
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 recognize...
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 rel...
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 wi...
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 you...
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 w...
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?”
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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 fr...
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 sur...
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...
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 offe...
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 th...
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 recogniti...
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 th...
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 oblig...