Beauty At Work Beauty as Action with Lisa Lindahl - S4E5 (Part 2 of 2)
Lisa Z. Lindahl is an award-winning inventor, artist, author, and entrepreneur best known for transforming women’s sports with her 1977 invention of the first sports bra, the Jogbra. As CEO of JBI Inc. from 1977–1992, she helped shape a global industry, earning ten patents and seeing her invention archived at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and even displayed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art as a “revolutionary piece of women’s undergarments.”
In 1999, she co-founded Bellisse and co-invented the Compressure Comfort® Bra, a breakthrough medical garment now supporting breast cancer survivors worldwide. She has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame (2022), received a U.S. Congressional Commendation, and has long served as an advocate for women’s health, most notably through her leadership roles at the Epilepsy Foundation of America.
She is the author of Beauty as Action (2017), her philosophical guide to practicing “True Beauty,” and the acclaimed memoir Unleash the Girls (2019).
In this second part of our conversation, we talk about:
- True beauty is harmony rather than glamour
- The problem of living in a culture rooted in fear, competition, and accumulation
- “Practicing beauty” works through simple, everyday disciplines
- Lisa’s 16 practices of beauty
- The three-legged stool of truth, beauty, and justice
To learn more about Lisa’s work, visit:
Links Mentioned:
- Beauty as Action by Lisa Z. Lindahl
- Unleash the Girls (Lisa’s memoir on inventing the sports bra)
This season of the podcast is sponsored by Templeton Religion Trust.