Guest OverviewLast week I caught up with our guest from Episode No 56, the deep thinking, mathematician and musician, Marcus G Miller Marcus has written some thought provoking and expansive reflections on Covid19, about the death of George Floyd and the impact on the Black Lives Matter movement.  As one of the most well read and thoughtful guests we have had I was keen to hear Marcus’s perspective on our current world reality and how the future might play out. I seek Marcus’s advice on what white folk can do to support the drive for racial justice. We discuss his perspective on the need for moral consciousness, and imagination. Marcus reflects on the media’s reporting of the death of black men by the police and the broader underreported killings across the country, the media’s handling of this and how the left and right react. Marcus recommends the books we should read to build our insight and knowledge on the nature of racism. Toward the end of the discussion I seek Marcus’s perspective on meditation and the unifying principle of physics as he shares the latest thinking on the topic. I hope you enjoy the thoughts, reflections and expansive imagination of Marcus G Miller.   Links to SocialWebsiteInstagramSpotify FacebookLinks in the Show Toni Morrison Wolfram Theory of Everything Zero Point Field Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle James Baldwin Robin Diangelo Sam Harris Trevor NoahDr Philip Atiba Goff Center For Policing EquityInsight Timer The Shack Three Body Problem CrisprDr Merrit Moore Jean Baptiste Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest OverviewAs a football fan since a boy and a believer that sport and football have the power to create social impact, I am so privileged to have the opportunity to interview this week’s guest Jürgen Griesbeck, Co-Founder of the game-changing organization Common Goal.Thank you, Ben Miller for the connection.In part two, we dive deep into Common Goal, and the incredible work Jürgen and his team are doing to inject social impact into the DNA of football.Jurgen explains the incubation of Common Goal. Leaving aside the CSR model, believing that it would never create sustainable and systemic impact, Jurgen and his team set up Common Goal as a movement where players commit 1% of their earnings to Common Goal's central fund. Together, they allocate and fund high-impact social organizations that harness football's power to advance the United Nations Global Goals.Beginning with Juan Mata from Manchester United and Spain, Common Goal now has over 150 players including, Mats Hummels, Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan, Shinji Kagawa, Giorgio Chiellini, and Liverpool F.C. manager Jurgen Klopp. Jürgen explains his long term vision for Common Goal, and the potential impact it can as an enabling force for good.  Based on an ambition to build a culture where a better person is a better player, and that every person's contribution counts, Common Goal is now being adopted by younger players, managers, clubs, businesses and even supporters.Jürgen also discusses the organization's role in supporting the UN's Global Goals and using football to galvanize the global population around the goals.And Jürgen also answers our quick-fire questions.There is a lot to take out of this episode; the importance of avoiding the easy option, the value of collective responsibility, the power of teamwork, being prepared to take risks and trust in your gut and imagination.I hope you enjoy the wit, wisdom, and social impact of Jürgen Griesbeck. Social LinksLinkedin Instagram Twitter Facebook YouTube Links In the ShowCommon Goal Street Football World Andres Escobar Pablo Escobar Medellin AshokaFIFA UEFA Glasgow CelticUNICEF Juan MataManchester United Megan RapinoeAlex Morgan Jurgen KloppFC NorthyallanMoney Heist Handmaids Tale Between The World and MeMandela Long Walk to Freedom   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest OverviewAs a football fan since a boy and a believer that sport and football have the power to create social impact, I am so privileged to have the opportunity to interview this week's guest Jürgen Griesbeck. Co-Founder of the game-changing organization Common Goal. Thank you Ben Miller for the connection.In Part One we cover Jurgen’s early path to purpose. German-born, Jurgen’s journey began in the Black Forest. Growing up in Stuttgart with a mother who worked as a lawyer's assistant and a football-playing hospital administrator father Jurgen’s childhood provided little evidence that a life of social impact lay ahead. Studying sports science, travels through Mexico and Costa Rica, developing a love of Latin America and meeting his now wife all contributed to him taking a scholarship in Medellin Colombia three months after the death of drug cartel leader Carlos Escobar. In this dangerous and unpredictable environment, Jurgen witnessed first hand how football had the power to create unity when he saw two rival gangs set aside their weapons and participate in a football match. In this serendipitous moment, his idea for Football for Peace was born. Engaging the gang leaders he designed a novel accessible approach to football match rules that helped players develop conflict resolution skills, empathy, respect for women, and collective responsibility. The transformative impact in the city led to him being invited back to replicate the model to help address extremism in unified Germany and create Street Football for Tolerance.Soon he recognized the need and the opportunity to create a platform where resources and experiences could be shared. His Street Football World now has a presence in 135 countries, a network of social impact community organizations using football as a mechanism to address social inequity for underserved youth. Jurgen ends part one discussing why the global and regional football organizations like Fifa and Uefa have not embraced social impact at the core of their work.In part two we dive deep into Common Goal and incredible work Jurgen and his team are doing to inject social impact into the DNA of football. This episode is evidence that finding one's purpose is not a linear path. It takes time, trust, and faith that circumstances and life events have a unique value in the process of discovering one's purpose in life. I hope you enjoy the wit, wisdom, and social impact of Jürgen Griesbeck.Social LinksLinkedin Instagram Twitter Facebook YouTube Links In the ShowCommon Goal Street Football World Andres Escobar Pablo Escobar Medellin AshokaFIFA UEFA Glasgow Celtic UNICEF  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest OverviewBill Dowzer is a Principal of Australian Architectural practice BVN; he has been involved in the design and direction of numerous award-winning projects ranging from public, educational and cultural buildings to commercial work environments. Re-ply is his latest endeavor, the idea from Re-Ply came as NYC communities have experienced a spring of discontent. The COVID-19 virus, the murder of George Floyd, the resulting protests and then mass looting resulted in thousands of plywood panels being put in place to protect businesses. Soon they were covered in Graffiti and then street are. Now coming down, they would ordinarily have ended up in landfills—an unfortunate waste of resources. But Bill has assembled a team to Up-cycle the plywood barricades into a street furniture kits. He will help local restaurants recover after COVID-19 with part of the proceeds are being donated to Children of Promise a NY charity to support children of incarcerated parents & empower them to break the cycle of intergenerational involvement in the criminal justice system.We discuss the crisis, his social enterprise, and his expectations of how work and society will change coming out of this crisis.Social Links WebsiteInstagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week's guests Keith Kirkland, and Kevin Yoo, are co-founders of Wearable tech start up Wear Works.In part one we covered the challenges they both overcame growing up and their journey to entrepreneurship.  In part two we discuss the evolution of Wear Works. Keith explains how his interests in design, movement, and technology led him to a realization that he could use technology to teach movement. As a Matrix lover he asked himself the question, ‘can I create a suit that teaches me Kung Fu’. To answer this question he and Kevin set out to create a new language based on touch. Called Haptic technology, their first experiment in this technology was to create a haptic device that could assist a blind runner to complete the New York Marathon unaided. Kevin explains the journey and the wave they are riding in building this new language and the complex interdependencies. We also discuss the reality of funding that most startups face, the challenges of finding the right investors, Keith discusses the importance of impact, purpose, sustainability and why they created the company to be remote from the start.He also discusses their roadmap and how their technology will evolve. Kevin unpacks the importance of inclusive design and the value of incorporating that with touch and the power of touch as an educational or instructional tool and where this goes when it intersects with Augmented reality. They also explain their guiding principles and their relationship as founders.  I think this episode provides much insight into the reality of what running a startup involves, dealing with failure, uncertainty, persistence, and the importance of character and relationships.  I hope you enjoy the vision, candor, and resilience of Kevin and Keith.Social links Kevin’s Linkedin Keith’s Linkedin Instagram Links in the showWear WorksFIT Pratt Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest overview This week's guests Keith Kirkland and Kevin Yoo are co-founders of Wearable tech start up Wear Works.In part one we cover the challenges they both overcame growing up.    Keith was born into a loving family but faced growing up in one the most violent towns in the US, Camden, New Jersey. Always feeling an outsider, and a high performer he saw education as his way to escape the streets of Camden and avoid becoming just another statistic in the list of black male deaths under the age of 26Kevin was born in South Korea but faced the culture shock of moving to the US age 10 and navigating his way through school during a time his family was in survival mode.   While both Kevin and Keith grew up with economic scarcity each enjoyed an abundance of support and love.We cover their parallel paths to studying Industrial design at New York’s Pratt school. Keith explains how his a love of art, talent for math as well as some soul searching questions from a Professor set him on a path to Industrial Design Keith unpacks his circuitous path from art, engineering, to selling shoes to show and handbag design to studying Industrial design at Pratt.  I think this show demonstrates how persistence, hard work and willpower, wins in the end. I hope you enjoy the early insights on Keith Kirkland and Kevin Yoo. In part two we dive deep into their experience as start up founders, the challenges they have faced and overcome and their vision for the future of haptic technology. Social links Kevin’s Linkedin Keith’s Linkedin Links in the showWear WorksFIT Pratt Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest overview Dr. Priscilla Pemu was born in Nigeria into a family of seven children. With her Nigerian first name that translates to ‘I am what God has said’ her sense of purpose in life was conditioned at an early age. Brought up in a playful and abundant family environment, her education set her on a course to a career in medicine and a world view conditioned by British and American culture led her to life in the US.Married at 27, she studied medicine at Benin University - and gained her fellowship in Anesthesia. In the face of a turbulent political environment in Nigeria, her older sister persuaded her to move to the US. Landing in Atlanta Georgia Priscilla has built a successful medical career at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta Georgia. By 2003 she realized that educating patients about lifestyle behaviours, daily actions and choices around health goals was the approach to addressing long-term chronic illness. Starting out with a Microsoft grant to build an early online health platform - she scaled the platform to build a community of coaches in clinics and churches to educate patients on their lifestyle behaviours. Calling this Culturally Congruent Coaching Priscilla has developed a highly effective platform for addressing peoples inadequate nutritional knowledge, confronting their inactivity, and to reduce the incidents of smoking, it is now ready to scale beyond the successes of Atlanta. Having had her TED talk translated into multiple languages, her value based care program is gaining global coverage.  Toward the end of this interview Priscilla reflects on the issue of race in the US, the different cultural context of arriving as an immigrant Nigerian in 1996 versus the challenges her children have growing up in the US, code switching and dealing with racism and becoming resilient adults. This is a shorter interview than normal but I hope you are inspired by the vision, empathy and purpose of Priscilla Pemu.Social LinksLinkedinTwitterWebsite Links In The ShowBenin UniversityMorehouse Hospital Atlanta Priscilla’s TED TALKDare to Lead Brenee Brown   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a follow up from last year's interview with Your Mom Cares Founder, Sharon Feldstein, Sharon provides an update on the amazing work she and her team of celebrity moms have been doing to support kids during the Covid-19 pandemic. Sharon reference supporting the Children'sHealth Fund in LA to create a unique group therapy program for kids living on the streets, to build their toolbox for dealing with mental health issues. Sharon also updates us on the mental health app being developed by the University of Pittsburgh, a mental health early diagnostic app to identify children at risk and connect them with a counselor, social worker, or therapist. She discusses its value as we face a Tsunami of mental health issues following the pandemic. Sharon reflects on their mega mom program to help other moms seeking support in dealing with their kid's mental health challenges. Finally, Sharon discusses how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted her life. If you want to support or donate or have an idea for YourMomCares go to YMC.org or email them at moms@yourmomcares.org or follow on Instagram @youmomcares. Links in ShowTryFrameYour Mom Careshttps://www.childrenshealthfund.org/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest overview Dr. Morgaine Gaye’s path to being a leading thinker in Food Futurology was any but predictable. As an only child with a partying, Butcher for a mother and an ex-pat bodybuilding construction worker for a father, she grew up in a home with little money, love, attention, and direction. Self-parenting was her only option as she immersed herself in art, books, and a fantasy world.  Leaving school at sixteen, she traveled to the middle east, spent a year at university in Wisconsin, and by 19 was working as a ‘weather girl’ on Hong Kong TV. She discusses drifting through life until finding herself in the game-changing spiritual community at Findhorn and how serendipity led her to discover Quantum Philosophy and starting her PhD.Upon discovering she had always been seeking connection, she was drawn to the universal connector - food. Morgaine breaks down why she focuses on the future of food and we cover how we first met in 2007 working on the development of a raw chocolate bar. Morgaine explains the disruptive decade we have been living through and why we are moving from a phase of life ‘Having’ to a phase of ‘knowing’ and the seminal shifts that will occur in society, as we become more nature-focused, on an eco-future of biophilia, rewilding and experience the rise of hyper-local communities, and why our global economy will evolve, she observes how fast countries closed borders.Morgaine discusses her experience of suffering from Covid-19 and losing her sense of smell, which has been her superpower. We discuss her principles, her hard choices, how 9/11 led her to launch her own brand of superfood and her perspectives on diets, DNA, and genetics.I hope you enjoy the artistry, vision, and philosophy of Dr. Morgaine Gaye. Social Links Instagram Facebook Linkedin Email Links Show Keith Critchlow Unorthodox Netflix Rich Food Poor FoodFood a Love Story - Jim GaffiganA Good Life Leo Hickman Edible-Love.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

James Bradley was born in Glasgow, brought up in England by a surgeon father and research science mother. In a supportive home environment, he grew and developed his interest in Geo-biology. With a curiosity for outdoors and travel, and an explorer gene, his adventurous and inspiring geography teacher encouraged him to pursue an education in environmental science and geography. In Part One we discuss James’s upbringing, education, and journey to a life in exploration and geo-biology and climate research.In Part two we dive deeper into the climate crisis and James discusses the shifting focus to sustainable renewable energy sources, the challenges of electric vehicles, and battery technologies. James provides his perspective of working in extreme and remote parts of the planet and the climate impact he’s witnessed. He reflects on why big industry needs to take responsibility and stop placing responsibility on individuals. James provides his considered perspective on the climate crisis, the timeline to existential disaster, the current modeling, and the uncertainty of how we humans react to the data we have. James discusses his upcoming research during the arctic winter and the experience of working in such extreme environments. We cover how he balances his work and personal life, how serendipity has guided his path, embracing ambiguity and the role of curiosity and creativity in his work.  James discusses his principles, the hard choices he has made, the one problem worth solving, the question no one asks him, who has made him re-evaluate himself, and his impossible advice. I hope you are uplifted by the balanced perspective and curious scientific mind of Dr. James Bradley   Social Links James SiteTwitter Links in the ShowDuke of Edinburgh AwardBloc party Project Drawdown Trillion trees InitiativeSir Ranulph Fiennes Albedo levels The Guardian Article on AlgaeQueen Mary University London Climate Countdown ClockIrvine Welsh Marabou Stork Nightmares Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.