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Skip to contentMenuHomeSPEECHES & WORKSHOPSSPEECHES & WORKSHOPSCONSULTINGCOACHINGWEBINARSPODCASTSFREE FORUMDISRUPTIVEPODCAST INTERVIEW GUESTS (Alphabetical)ARTICLESALTERNET ArticlesDISRUPTIVE TranscriptsARTICLE INTERVIEW GUESTS – AlphabeticalBLOGSA WORLD THAT JUST MIGHT WORKMESSAGE MATTERSRESOURCESABOUTCONTACT HomeUP NEXTFor 25 years, my interviews have sought A World That Just Might Work. I’ve also produced & hosted the podcast Disruptive for Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering._____________________FREE FORUMstreams onProgressive Voices Network TuneIn.comSaturday 6/18 7pmPT and Sunday 6/19 8pmPTListen any time to PodcastThis is personal.What if you or a loved onehad a stroke?JILL BOLTE TAYLORMY STROKE OF INSIGHTA brain scientist loses, regainsand rediscovers her brain.Listen any time to PodcastHow did we get here?LINDA GREENHOUSE (2021)JUSTICE ON THE BRINK12 Months that Transformedthe Supreme Court. Featured Podcasts:BILL McKIBBEN, Third Act: mobilizing boomersPAUL HAWKEN, Regeneration – life at the center of all we doGEORGE PACKER, Last Best Hope – four narratives that divide usDAVID HYUN & ERIN DUFFY, Are antibiotics doomed?TERRENCE McNALLY, 60s.2.0 meets OK Boomer _______________________________________________________Yuval Noah Harari (2018)Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, 21 Lessons forthe 21st CenturyLink to video._________________________________________ Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project (2017)Tversky, Kahneman and the ways our minds fool us.Link to video_________________________________________Continue reading →LATESTFEATUREDWhat if a stroke strikes you or a loved one? JILL BOLTE TAYLOR, MY STROKE OF INSIGHTFive weeks ago my wife suffered a stroke. She’s fine physically, but has language challenges and some processing issues. She improves every day and our connection is stronger than ever. Daily life is punctuated by moments of joy and others of crushing frustration. I share with you my recent conversation with JILL BOLTE TAYLOR, a Harvard-trained neuroanatomist, who in 1996 at the age of 37, experienced a stroke that left her unable to walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. It took Taylor 8 years to recover all physical, emotional, and thinking abilities. She’s author of the bestselling MY STROKE OF INSIGHT: A BRAIN SCIENTIST’S PERSONAL JOURNEY and her TED talk of the same name has been viewed 27 million times.Continue reading →Ahead of her time-HAZEL HENDERSON (2013) activist, green economist, global citizen, dies at 89Here’s part 2 my 2013 conversation with HAZEL HENDERSON – who as a mom in the 70’s who’d never been to college got upset about pollution threatening her young child, became a local NYC activist, and developed into a global expert on economics and sustainability. She’s creator of the television show and website Ethical Markets, and author of 10 books, including Beyond Globalization and Building a Win-Win World. Hazel passed away May 22 at the age of 89.Continue reading →Ahead of her time-HAZEL HENDERSON (2013) activist, green economist, global citizen, dies at 89Here’s part 1 my 2013 conversation with HAZEL HENDERSON – who as a mom in the 70’s who’d never been to college got upset about pollution threatening her young child, became a local activist, and developed into a global expert on economics and sustainability. She’s creator of the television show and website Ethical Markets, and author of 10 books, including Beyond Globalization and Building a Win-Win World. Hazel passed away May 22 at the age of 89.Continue reading →Why are we addicted to more? LEIDY KLOTZ, SUBTRACT: The Untapped Science of LessOur homes are full of stuff. Our minds are full of information. Our economies are built on never-ending growth while our planet chokes on pollution. In his book, SUBTRACT: The Untapped Science of Less, LEIDY KLOTZ reminds us that across challenges big and small, we neglect a basic way to make things better: we don’t subtract. What is it in our biology, our psychology, or our culture that leads us to often ignore even the possibility? Could the cultivation of subtraction reveal the path to both a better quality of life and an effective response to the climate crisis? You can learn more at leidyklotz.comContinue reading →After Buffalo-CHIP BERLET (2017), investigator of hate groups, author, Right Wing Populism in AmericaAfter the latest one-two gut punch of Buffalo NY and Laguna Woods CA, we’ll replay my 2017 conversation with the author of Right Wing Populism in America, CHIP BERLET, who’s been on the domestic hate beat for decades. Congressman Ted Lieu: “Of course we need common sense gun safety measures enacted but we also need to address the misinformation and stoking of grievances that is pushing people to take these heinous actions.”Continue reading →Are Antibiotics Doomed? DAVID HYUN & ERIN DUFFY on the Crisis No One Talks AboutIn 2019, about 1.27M people died directly due to antimicrobial resistance – significantly more than from Covid in two years.When we lose antibiotics, we will be in a different world. Joint and organ replacement and many other surgeries will be a thing of the past. I talk about the growing dangers of antibiotic resistance and the lack of new drugs with DAVID HYUN, MD, who directs the Antibiotic Resistance Project at the Pew Charitable Trust, and ERIN DUFFY, Chief of R&D at CARB-X, the Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator. You can learn more at saveantibiotics.org and carb-x.orgContinue reading →LINDA GREENHOUSE (2021) – JUSTICE ON THE BRINK – 12 Months that Transformed the Supreme CourtI realize this conversation with LINDA GREENHOUSE first posted only 6 months ago, but there’s no bigger domestic story right now than the rightwing Supreme Court majority’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade and do away with a woman’s right to an abortion.GREENHOUSE begins her book, JUSTICE ON THE BRINK, shortly before Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, covers McConnell’s cynical and unethical rush to confirm Amy Coney Barrett, and then reports on the Court through the end of its term in June 2021 – providing history and context, gathered in her 30 years covering the Court for the New York Times.Continue reading →BILL McKIBBEN-THIRD ACT-New Movement to Mobilize Boomers vs Climate ChangeI’m excited to replay for you my late 2021 conversation with BILL McKIBBEN, author, and co-founder of the global climate campaign 350.org. In it which he introduces Third Act, the new activist organization he’s founded. While millions of young people are effectively engaging to confront climate change, those over 60 are not yet delivering what the crisis demands, and Third Act is dedicated to changing that.Continue reading →ELIE MYSTAL, ALLOW ME TO RETORT: A Black Guy’s Guide to the ConstitutionELIE MYSTAL, Justice Correspondent for The Nation magazine and a contributor to MSNBC, opens his first book, ALLOW ME TO RETORT: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution, with the following words: “Our Constitution is not good. It is a document designed to create a society of enduring white male dominance, hastily edited in the margins to allow for what basic political rights white men could be convinced to share.” The starting point is that far from perfect, this document of compromises necessary to win ratification from slaveowners is unworthy of the veneration promoted by the Right and accepted by too many on the Left. Once we get over that, perhaps we can roll up our sleeves and get to work to bring some of its underlying ideals to fuller realization in the real world.Continue reading →Can the press or international law influence Putin? MARIA ARMOUDIAN, REPORTING FROM THE DANGER ZONE; LAWYERS BEYOND BORDERSAs we confront Russia’s war on Ukraine – What is the role of the press or international law? How can either stand up to those who defy and ignore them? MARIA ARMOUDIAN has written three books on the possibilities and limitations of “soft power”: KILL THE MESSENGER: The Media’s Role in the Fate of the World; REPORTING FROM THE DANGER ZONE, and LAWYERS BEYOND BORDERS: Advancing International Human Rights through Local Laws and Courts. She is also host/producer of the syndicated radio program,The Scholars’ Circle. You can learn more at armoudian.comContinue reading →"Stories are the most powerfulcommunications tool we have."Let me help you achieve deeperconnections and greater impact.What’s even better than a story?Story + Data + Call to Action.Sign up to receive The 3 Elements of a Successful Story PackageWHAT DO YOU THINK? “Change the Story to Change the World.”We hear it all the time. How are we doing with that?When have we been successful?How do we do it?What stories do we need to change?Add your thoughts, examples, questions.Join the conversationListen to deep dive interviews withtop tier thinkers, doers, and visionariesabout a world that just might work.Saturday 7pm PT on TuneInCheck right column for this week’s show.LATEST POSTSWhat if a stroke strikes you or a loved one? JILL BOLTE TAYLOR, MY STROKE OF INSIGHTAhead of her time-HAZEL HENDERSON (2013) activist, green economist, global citizen, dies at 89Ahead of her time-HAZEL HENDERSON (2013) activist, green economist, global citizen, dies at 89Why are we addicted to more? LEIDY KLOTZ, SUBTRACT: The Untapped Science of LessAfter Buffalo-CHIP BERLET (2017), investigator of hate groups, author, Right Wing Populism in AmericaCopyright © 2022 Terrence McNally