What is a Good Life? What is a Good Life? #23 - Calling & Courage with Robyn O'Brien
On the 23rd episode of the What is a Good Life? podcast, I am joined by Robyn O’Brien, who is on the Forbes’ Impact 50 List for her work at the intersection of food and climate, the best-selling author of The Unhealthy Truth, the Founder at Sirona Ventures - providing impact capital, advisory and consulting services, and an Adjunct Professor at Rice Business.
In this episode, Robyn shares moments of adversity from her journey of confronting the food industry in America over the use of chemicals in the food supply after her own child experienced an allergic reaction. She discuss the importance of surrounding yourself with the right people, not numbing ourselves to pain, paying attention to moments in our lives where our calling can be revealed, and then having the courage to follow it.
This episode provides plenty of inspiration as to where this life can take us when we decide to act in the face of sizeable challenges, appreciate the lessons or clues that adversity provides, and how a life of service and collaboration can help us overcome many obstacles.
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Running Order:
01:30 Podcast begins
03:45 Surrounding yourself with the right people
06:30 Being in service and alignment
10:40 Paying attention
12:30 Staying open to pain as a teacher
15:20 Challenges in confronting the food industry
21:05 The importance of having the right people around
23:57 I’m grateful that I know my purpose
30:00 Everything and everyone is either nourishing or extracting
32:30 A movement with collaboration not ego
36:30 Making a breakthrough with a TED talk
41:52 Curiosity in finding solutions
45:34 The significance of people having our backs
48:18 Courage can be in the smallest steps
50:37 What is a good life for Robyn?
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