Lessons from Fogo Island and Zita Cobb

What happens when a fast-rising corporate leader realizes that success needs a deeper meaning?

In the first episode of The Next Mountain Podcast, Nathalia Del Moral Fleury shares her journey from a rapid rise leading a global cosmetics brand to redefining success as a coach and regenerative economist.

We explore how she reframed leadership, redefined achievement, and found purpose in contributing to the renewal of systems that sustain life.

Full References & Resources

• Donella Meadows – Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
  📄 Read the original paper (PDF)
• Tomas Björkman & Lene Andersen – The Nordic Secret (personal development & social evolution / Bildung)
  📘 Book on Amazon
• Robert Sapolsky – Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (emergence, behavior, complexity)
  📘 Book on Amazon
• Iain McGilchrist – The Master and His Emissary (divided brain, culture, and meaning)
  📘 Book on Amazon
• Martha Beck – Finding Your Own North Star (authenticity, truth, and life purpose)
  📘 Book on Amazon
• Frédéric Laloux – Reinventing Organizations (complex adaptive systems & self-management)
  📘 Book on Amazon
• Michelle Holliday – The Age of Thrivability (living systems principles & regenerative organizations)
  🌐 Author website
• Zita Cobb – Founder of Shorefast / Fogo Island model
  🎧 What the Fogo Island Inn Can Teach Us – CBC’s The Current
  📚 Wikipedia: Zita Cobb
• Dark Matter Labs & Shorefast – Regenerative, place-based economy models
  📄 A Possible Future for Canada: Capitalizing Places for Resilience and Regeneration (Report)
  🌐 Shorefast Institute for Place-Based Economies