Northstar Unplugged: Recent Episodes
Kristen Rainey
Hosted by Kristen Rainey and brought to you from Bozeman, Montana, Northstar Unplugged explores rest, unplugging, transitions, and finding what fuels you.
Majka Burhardt is a professional climber, conservation entrepreneur, author, and filmmaker. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Legado and the author of Vertical Ethiopia: Climbing Toward Possibility in the Horn of Africa, which was short-listed for the Banff Book Award. Her work and projects have been featured in The Economist, Outside Magazine, The Weather Channel, NPR and more, and her articles have appeared in publications including Afar, Men’s Health, Skiing Magazine, Backpacker, Patagonia, Alpinist, Women’s Adventure, The Explorers Journal, and Climbing. Majka is a climber and ambassador with Patagonia and an American Mountain Guides Association Rock Guide and Ice Instructor. She graduated from Princeton University cum laude and received a MFA in Creative Writing from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She and her husband, Peter Doucette, an internationally certified (AMGA/IFMGA) mountain guide, live in Jackson, New Hampshire with their twin children.
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Sarah Kitchin is an architect and faculty member at Montana State University who joined MASS Design Group in 2011 as a founding member of the Kigali Office, contributing to nearly all of MASS's built work in Rwanda. She has led design and implementation projects in various typologies, including healthcare, housing, and education, cultivating deep engagement with local builders, material suppliers, and agencies to maximize impact during the construction process.
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Matthew Marquardt is a professional triathlete and medical student at the Ohio State University College ofMedicine. A varsity swimmer while in college and US Olympic Trials Qualifier, he graduated from Princeton University in 2021 with a major in Chemistry and a minor in Entrepreneurship. A diagnosis of sleep apnea during his sophomore year of college sparked his interest in learning more about sleep and how sleep can be used to optimize performance in all aspects of life.
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Genevieve Walsh is the Co-founder and CEO of Iqra Fund, supporting the education of girls in the remote regions of northern Pakistan.
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Emily Stifler Wolfe has two kids, two donkeys, two cats, five chickens, one spunky, lanky, very enthusiastic teenage dog, and a mountain man husband. A journalist-turned-strategist, Emily has called Bozeman home since January of 2005. Her first job in town was selling homemade cookies off her tailgate while parked at the turnoff for Bridger Bowl.
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Leigh Marz is a collaboration consultant and leadership coach for major universities, nonprofit coalitions, and federal agencies. Along with Justin Zorn, she is a co-author of GOLDEN: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise.
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Ryan Green and Adrienne Huckabone are a husband and wife duo who founded and run Happy Trash Can Curbside Composting, a residential and commercial compost operation in Bozeman and surrounding areas.
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Amy Loughman is a Senior Research Fellow at Deakin University’s Food & Mood Centre in Australia. She is passionate about how the environments we live and work in affect our wellbeing. In this episode, we discuss the science about how the world around us - from our homes, workplaces, natural spaces, microbes and more - impacts our brain health.
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Melissa Lockman and her family are survivors of Dec 2021’s Marshall Fire in Louisville, CO. She is a somatic psychotherapist with a passion for supporting her clients in finding joy, meaning and satisfaction in motherhood and parenting. She is also passionate about assisting her clients in navigating trauma in order to move from a sense of overwhelm to a sense of power.
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Dylan Tomine is the author of two books published by Patagonia -- Closer to the Ground: An Outdoor Family’s Year on the Water, in the Woods and at the Table (2012), and most recently, Headwaters: The Adventures, Obsession, and Evolution of a Fly Fisherman (2022), winner of a National Outdoor Book Award. He is also a producer of the feature-length documentary "Artifishal," which has been watched by more than 3.5 million viewers.
Trained as a professional chef and cooking her way around the world as a private chef for over 25 years, who would have thought Rachel Vaughn would find herself on the border of Poland and Ukraine, cooking for refugees fleeing the war? World Central Kitchen asked her to join its team after witnessing her passion for justice, humanity, and food. When she isn’t saving the world, one pierogi at a time, Rachel resides in Bozeman, MT and Martha’s Vineyard, MA as an empty-nester, having raised her two boys.
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John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. After seven years at Time magazine, he moved to The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. A Fellow of the Geological Society of America and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he was awarded in 1999 the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (Annals of the Former World).
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Ethan Barlow is the co-founder and principal of Holding Ground, a design build firm in Bozeman, Montana. Before beginning his career as an architect, Ethan played professional baseball, worked in finance, and apprenticed to a master carpenter on an island in Maine.
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Husband and wife team Charley Graham and Lauren Reich are joint owners of Bozeman’s Little Star Diner, combining their talents of chef and farmer. Charley runs the kitchen and Lauren grows much of the produce for their small modern diner which highlights the peak flavors of each season.
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Nate Kouhana is the founder and CEO of Anthem Snacks, a premium veteran-owned meat snack company. He spent six years in the military and served as a Green Beret, where he received numerous awards, including two Bronze Star Medals and a Purple Heart.
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Emmet Gowin is a renowned photographer whose work has evolved from intimate portraits of his wife Edith Morris and extended Virginia family to aerial vistas of nuclear test sites, to scientific surveys of tropical ecosystems and their dependent biodiversity. Emmet also served on the faculty of Princeton University as a professor of photography in the Visual Arts Program from 1973 until his retirement in 2009, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1974) and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1977, 1979).
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As the founder and Executive Director of the Young Masterminds Initiative, a nonprofit organization offering young men of color with the tools, resources and empowerment needed to navigate life, Manny introduced the Camping to Connect outdoor mentoring program, which is the focus of Wood Hood, a short documentary film that recently premiered at the Mountainfilm Festival.”
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In 2007, Benjamin Sears founded the LUXYOGA retreat in the South of France, an experience featured in Esquire, Yoga Journal, Vogue, the New York Times Magazine, and more. LUXYOGA now exists as a transformational experience both in person at retreats and trainings in the Paradise Valley of Montana, wherever Benjamin travels, and online. He conducts seminars worldwide, mentors yoga teachers, and leads acclaimed 200, 300 and 500 hour Yoga Alliance certified teacher training programs.
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Kristin Ohlson is an author and freelance journalist based in Portland, Oregon. She wrote the book The Soil Will Save Us and appeared in the award winning documentary Kiss the Ground, speaking about the connection between soil health and climate health. Her latest book is Sweet in Tooth and Claw: Stories of Generosity and Cooperation in the Natural World.
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In 1999, Josh Morris moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand, intending to stay for a year or two in his position there teaching English, but life had other plans. 23 years later, Josh is still living in Chiang Mai. He and his wife Kat- whom he met there- started Chiang Mai Rock Climbing Adventures and later, the Progression Group. Josh was featured in the recent film The Rescue about the cave rescue of a Thai soccer team in July of 2018. In this interview, we learn more about Josh’s critical role in that complex, technical, cross-cultural rescue effort.
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Lorca Smetana teaches resilience in leadership to entrepreneurs and professionals as well as to students and faculty at Montana State University, helping them design for high levels of energy, innovation, compassion, and recovery. A survivor of the 1986 school mountaineering tragedy on Mt. Hood, Lorca has been teaching and learning for over thirty years about risk, personal sustainability, recovery from tragedy, and joy
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Philip Henderson has spent nearly 30 years in the outdoor industry. He has been on several major expeditions including Mount Everest, Mount Denali, Mount Kilimanjaro and Mt Kenya. Most recently, in May 2022, he led the first all Black team on an expedition of Mount Everest.
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Lucia Giovannini is a former international Italian supermodel turned transformational speaker and author of 13 books, including her most recent one, A Whole New Life.
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Doug Peacock is a Montana-based American naturalist, outdoorsman, and author who has spent decades of his life alone in the wilderness, observing Grizzly Bears in Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks following several tours as a Green Beret medic in the Vietnam War.
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Kareen Erbe owns Broken Ground, a permaculture education and design business in Bozeman, Montana that teaches people how to grow their own food and become more self-reliant.
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Rick Ridgeway is an outdoor adventurer, writer and advocate for sustainability and conservation initiatives. For 15 years, Rick was the VP of Environmental Affairs and then VP of Public Engagement at Patagonia, Inc. In addition, Rick is recognized as one of the world’s foremost mountaineers. With three companions, he was the first American to summit K2, which at over 28,000 feet is the world’s 2nd highest peak after Everest and is located on the China-Pakistan border. Rick has done other significant climbs and explorations on all continents. He has written seven books, many magazine stories and produced and directed dozens of television shows. National Geographic honored him with its “Lifetime Achievement in Adventure” award.
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Laura Putnam is the author of the award-winning Workplace Wellness That Works and CEO and founder of Motion Infusion, a leading well-being provider.
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Marah Hardt is both a scientist and a storyteller, focused on our oceans. In this interview, we dive into some of her research on the global impacts of COVID on the seafood industry. We also talk about her book Sex in the Sea to hear how human activities- including those leading to climate change- are wrecking havoc on how fish mate in the sea.
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After 9+ years of owning multiple gyms including CrossFit (™) affiliates, and a deep analysis of his “ideal day,” Eric Malzone decided to sell his businesses to create a bigger impact in the fitness industry while living the lifestyle that he and his wife had always dreamed of. He is now the host of two top-rated podcasts - The Future of Fitness and Fitness Blitz Radio, where he has interviewed 650+ professionals in the areas of fitness, health and wellness.
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Tanja Hester is the author of Wallet Activism: How to Use Every Dollar You Spend, Earn, and Save as a Force for Change and Work Optional: Retire Early the Non-Penny Pinching Way. She’s a former political consultant and journalist turned activist and early retiree.
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Nic Bryce is the founder and owner of Grotto Meats, a charcuterie company in Bozeman, Montana. He also launched Bozeman’s first food truck, Rendezvous, with a crepe and taco menu.
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Tired of wearing men’s work pants that didn’t fit, rural entrepreneur Sarah Calhoun founded Red Ants Pants, designing pants that would fit and flatter working women. Based in White Sulphur Springs, Montana, Calhoun is also the founder of the Red Ants Pants Music Festival held there every summer. Festival proceeds fuel the Red Ants Pants Foundation, supporting women’s leadership, working family farms and ranches, and rural communities.
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Chris lives in Bozeman, Montana and has worked professionally and volunteered in public service for more than three decades, most recently as Mayor and City Commissioner for Bozeman. He previously worked for ten years as the Policy Director at Headwaters Economics, a research group that works with communities across the West to promote community development and local economic growth. Before, Mehl was the Communications Director in the Northern Rockies Office of The Wilderness Society. Chris started his career working for 15 years in Washington, D.C. as Press Secretary for Members of the House of Representatives.
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Paige Davis is a mindfulness trainer, entrepreneur, author, and cancer survivor. She facilitates mindfulness, meditation, and resilience programming designed to enhance communication, productivity, and manage high-demand situations with more clarity, compassion and creativity. Paige, along with her sister, Melissa Nathan, is co-founder of Pebbl, a comfortable floor chair with back support. Described as "the yoga mat for meditation," Pebbl provides a lil' cush for the tush, peace for the soul, and support on the pathway to presence and well being.
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Clint Ober is a leader in the grounding or earthing movement which consists of reaping the health benefits- including better sleep and reduced inflammation- from spending more time with our bodies in direct contact with the earth- such as simply walking in the grass barefoot. After spending 30 years in the communications industry where everything has to be grounded to the earth, Clint is now CEO of a business called Earthing FX, focused on the topic of grounding.
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Eva Gruber is a Habit Coach, Mental Fitness Advocate, and International Best-Selling Author. She supports people who have too much on their plate to improve their wellbeing, relationships, and peak-performance.
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Matt Skoglund is the founder and owner of North Bridger Bison, a bison ranch rooted in Regenerative Agriculture principles located in Montana's Shields Valley.
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Yale professor Justin Farrell’s most recent book, Billionaire Wilderness, offers a revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservation.
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When Vasu was only nine months old, he was diagnosed with septicemia, resulting in the amputation of one of his legs. Since then, Vasu has not looked back; with the motto of “ ninjasticking through the woods to bring intersectionality to the outdoors,” Vasu continues to challenge the biases that go with being a Disabled person of color with a through his intersectional work which include being the first adaptive athlete for The North Face, a founding member for The Outdoor F.U.T.U.R.E Initiative, the co-founder of Inclusive Outdoors Project, and a Disability Access strategist for The Avarna Group, In Solidarity Project and independently.
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Morgan Lindsey is an Austin, Texas based psychotherapist, specializing in resilience building, self-compassion, and trauma recovery. Her work consists of individual therapy, group psychotherapy, corporate mindfulness, and training coaches and therapists up and coming in the field. Her work aims to weave modern neuroscience with ancient wisdom traditions in an effort to help people find the love and connection they long for both within themselves and each other.
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Brandon LaGreca is a licensed acupuncturist, a thought leader in the synthesis of traditional and functional medicine, and the author of Cancer and EMF Radiation: How to Protect Yourself From the Silent Carcinogen of Electropollution.Full show notes at www.northstarsleepschool.com/podcast.
Based near Bozeman, Montana, Julie Fathy is an expert is zero waste living. Through systems she has developed throughout her home, Julie shares how to make this happen and why less is more.
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Best selling author John J. Ratey, MD is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an internationally recognized expert in Neuropsychiatry. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles, and 11 books published in 17 languages. With the publication of Spark-The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, Dr. Ratey has established himself as one of the world's foremost authorities on the brain-fitness connection.
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April Rinne helps individuals and organizations rethink and reshape their relationship with change, uncertainty, and a world in flux. She’s the author of the newly-launched book, Flux: 8 Superpowers for thriving in constant change. April has been weaving a story about how to thrive amid flux for as long as she can remember, drawing on her history as a futurist, advisor, global development executive, microfinance lawyer, investor, mental health advocate, certified yoga teacher, globetrotter (100+ countries), and insatiable handstander. April also harnesses her very personal experiences with flux, including the death of both of her parents in a car accident when she was 20. Through her travels and tragedy, vision and values, global perspective and grounded sense of purpose, April helps others better understand how we see, think about, struggle with, and ultimately forge positive relationships with change.
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After becoming financially independent at 32 years old, Jillian turned her personal and professional experience towards a creative life. She is a popular public speaker, coach, writer, and teacher of online classes. Her book Fire the Haters: Finding the Courage to Create Online in a Critical World helps creatives and entrepreneurs share their best work with the world. She hosts the Everyday Courage Podcast. Her husband and she live in Montana, near Glacier National Park, with their 5 kids, and a dog named Cheesy Taco. She’s an avid traveler and drinker of hot tea. You can connect with her at jillianjohnsrud.com.
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In one of Richard Manning’s 11 books, Go Wild, he and co-author John Ratey share why returning to a lifestyle more like that of our ancestors will restore our health and wellbeing.
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You may have seen Dr. Anna Lembke in the 2020 Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma about the impact of social media on our lives. She is a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Clinic. She’s the author of the book Drug Dealer, MD about the opioid epidemic and the forthcoming book Dopamine Nation, about compulsive overconsumption, including digital products.
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Bryan Stewart is CEO of Hacker Paradise, the longest running remote work and travel community, and he is also cofounder of Outpost, a network of coliving, coworking, and social spaces for location independent entrepreneurs, creatives, and professionals. Bryan is based in Indonesia, on the island of Bali.
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At the non-profit MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), Berra Yazar-Klosinski oversees research on the risk/benefit profile of psychedelics in compliance with the global regulatory landscape. In this episode, we hear more about how various psychedelics- such as MDMA and cannabis- have been successful in treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (or PTSD), sleep disorders, and more.
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In 2015, Canadian adventurer, writer, and photographer Bruce Kirkby, his wife, and two young sons left Kimberley, BC and began a six month adventure that included 97 days of overland travel to Ladakh, India where they spent three months living in a remote monastery, Karsha Gompa.
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Lina Menard has resided in a yurt and three tiny houses on wheels, exploring questions around intentional living, less stuff, and happiness. With a background in sustainable design-build and urban planning, Lina also has a penchant for experiential learning and healthy communities. She has found her niche nestled between small spaces, collaborative education, and community planning.
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After a particularly challenging day of work as a programmer, Carl Jensen typed into Google “How do I retire early?” He then started a blog, 1500 days to Freedom, about his ensuing journey of downsizing, saving and investing. Six years later, at the age of 43, he found himself with the newfound freedom to retire and spend his time however he wished. In this episode, we learn how he made it happen, as well as Carl’s sleep tips and his recent investigations into what actually makes us happy.
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Paul Snyder is Executive Vice President at the Tillamook County Creamery Corporation. A member of the Executive Team and reporting to the CEO, he leads several functions including corporate responsibility, sustainability, community engagement, corporate communications, government affairs, farm services, and co-op member relations. He works with a talented team to bring together these critical areas through the development, management and execution of comprehensive member relations, external relations and outreach, philanthropy and social responsibility strategies. He joined Tillamook in June of 2019.
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Kristine Zeigler is the co-founder of and chief executive officer at Planet Women, which addresses climate change and other conservation challenges through projects led by women and for women around the world. For the past 22 years, Kristine has been an environmental nonprofit leader focused on helping nature and people thrive.
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Dr. Mark Nelson was a member of the eight person “biospherian” crew for the first two year Biosphere 2 closure experiment, 1991-1993. The project included pioneering regenerative agriculture and waste and water recycling.
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JL Collins is widely regarded as one of the founders of the Financial Independence movement. His very popular stock series blog can be found at jlcollinsnh.com, and that blog and his book The Simple Path to Wealth have been credited by many as transformative in helping them think or rethink investing, allowing many to reach financial independence or “FI”, providing the freedom to do whatever they want with their time at a much earlier age than they might have otherwise.
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After Susan Comfort and Tyecia “Ty” Powell each experienced burnout, they teamed up to start an organization called Nonprofit Wellness, which is focused on supporting teachers and nonprofit employees, who, in their commitment to caring for others, tend to neglect their own care.
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Rick Curtis has served as Director of the outdoor education program at Princeton University for 40 years. He has utilized small group experiences in the outdoors for team building, personal growth and leadership development for tens of thousands of students. He has helped people develop their skills in the outdoors through his book The Backpacker’s Field Manual, published by Penguin Random House and through his web site—OutdoorEd.com—which has been an online resource for outdoor education professionals since 2001. Rick has focused specifically on risk management and accident prevention and is the CEO and Founder of IncidentAnalytix, a cloud-based Risk Management Information System. He has consulted and lectured internationally on outdoor education and risk management for over twenty-five years.
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Mary Tabacchi is a founder of the International Spa Association, The New York Spa Alliance, and the Global Wellness Summit/Institute and on the Board of Green Spa Network, a member of the New York Academy of Science, Sigma Xi, and serves on the Board of the Ronald McDonald House in NYC and an early fellow of Cornell Institute of Healthy Living.
She is Professor Emerita, School of Hotel Administration, Johnson College of Business, Cornell University. Since 1972, Mary served as Professor and Researcher. Before joining The Hotel School in 1978, she taught in the Division of Nutritional Sciences and was a Sr. Research Associate in Plant Sciences at Cornell.
Her credentials include: an AB Drury University, MS and PhD, Purdue University and University of Minnesota in Biochemical Nutrition and Biostatistics. Ms. Tabacchi is a consultant for destination health resort development and Spa Menu Engineering as well as a developer of the 1st corporate wellness classes, adventure tourism, healthful tasty food menus, and Healthful Senior Living. Walking her Talk, she is an advocate for independent senior living/ fitness in the actively older senior population.
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Tom Cronin spent 26 years in finance markets as one of Sydney’s leading bond and swap brokers. He discovered meditation in the early stages of his career, when the anxiety and chaos he was experiencing hit a crisis point. Meditation completely transformed his world, both personally and professionally. Today Tom is passionate about reducing stress and chaos in people’s lives, and his mission is to inspire one billion people to meditate daily. In this episode, we discuss Tom’s transformational journey and his newly-released film, The Portal.Full show notes can be found at northstarsleepschool.com/podcast.
Mellie Pullman is a professor at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. Since 1997, she has held previous appointments at Cardiff University, Cornell University, London Business School, Colorado State University, Southern Methodist University, University of Utah and is currently a visiting professor at University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
Professor Pullman’s major research interests include social impact supply chains, sustainability and supply chain management, food and beverage supply chains, impacts of regulatory turbulence on supply chains, and experiential service design. Currently, she is researching supply chains and UN sustainable development biodiversity goals, social enterprise supply chains in food and beverage businesses, sustainability competitive dynamics, and supply chain management in the emergent US cannabis market.
Mellie was the first woman brewer in the US craft brewery movement and started Wasatch Brewery in Park City Utah. She has also started a drought tolerant landscape company to put herself through graduate school as well as an online education company for creating specialty industry programs such as Business Skills for the Welsh Craft Brewers. She has served on numerous non-profit boards related to food policy, public health, the environment, wildlife and literary skills in rural Oregon.
She works with many regional sustainability-focused food and beverage producers, distributors, and retailers. She is the author of multiple books and cases including Craft Beverage Business Management, Food Supply Chain Management, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Restaurant Design, and Service Operations, And she has published in top journals such as Journal of Supply Chain Management, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences Journal, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Journal of Service Research, Journal of Service Management, and many others.
Resources:
Work Integration Social Enterprise (WISE)
Mescladis social enterprise (Barcelona)
Food Supply Management, 2nd Edition (Madeleine Pullman and Zhaohul Wu)
Faculty research: Why some cannabis businesses succeed and others fail (Madeleine Pullman)
Mellie Pullman's Google Scholar page
Duolingo
Mellie’s podcast recommendations:
The Stubborn Light of Things
In the Dark
Hidden Brain
You’re Wrong About
Mellie’s book recommendations:Entangled Life (Merlin Sheldrake)
Wilding: the Return of Nature to a British Farm (Isabella Tree)
Surfacing (Kathleen Jamie)
Crist began his career in restaurant and hotel operations, followed by graduate studies at Cornell University. His doctoral dissertation provided a foundation for the entrepreneurial conservation work he has been involved in ever since. In 1995 he was invited to lead the Tourism Competitiveness & Sustainable Development project, facilitating innovation in Latin America’s emerging “green” destinations. Starting in Costa Rica he worked with public and private sector leaders to ensure a coherent national strategy with conservation commitments as a key selling point. He continued this work over the next several years in the other Central American countries, followed by the Andean region, the Galapagos Islands, and Chile’s Patagonia region.
In 1999 he founded a management company to serve conservation-focused investors in this niche: La Paz Group has focused on developing and managing brands in the private sector dedicated to the entrepreneurial conservation of natural and cultural patrimony. This practice has included the planning, start-up and ongoing operations management of conservation-focused resorts such as Lapa Rios in Costa Rica, and Chan Chich Lodge in Belize, and expanding Xandari from a single resort in Costa Rica to a multi-property brand in Kerala, India.
From 2000-2010 Crist also taught courses in social enterprise for ESSEC in France, Instituto de Empresa in Spain, as well as Columbia University and Cornell University in the USA. For Cornell his course offered graduate students the opportunity to participate in semester-long field work on sustainable development projects in Senegal; Costa Rica; Croatia; Kerala, India; the Siberia region of the Russian Federation; and the Patagonia region of Chile.
In 2019 Crist co-founded Organikos, a company that works with entrepreneurs in the artisanal food sector to commercialize “taste of place” products, and Authentica, a retail business focused on locally produced design-forward handicrafts.
Resources:La Paz Group
Organikos
Organikos blog
“Beans, Birds, and Business Savvy” (Carol Latter)- Seasons Magazine
Professor Crist Inman on Sustainability, CBS Master Class, and beavers!- 3 minutes from/about the last course Crist taught
Patagonia Expedition Race
Crist’s book recommendations:
April Morning (Howard Fast)
Zorba The Greek (Nikos Kazantzakis)
Travels In Hyperreality (Umberto Eco)
Brigid Schulte is a journalist, public speaker, and program director of the Better Life Lab, the work-family justice and gender equity program at the nonpartisan think tank New America. She’s also the author of the New York Times bestselling book on time pressure, gender and modern life, Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play when No One has the Time, which was named one of the notable books of the year by the Washington Post and NPR, and won the Virginia Library Association’s literary nonfiction award.
Resources:
Brigid’s website, and Facebook page. Follow her on Twitter.
Better Life Lab
Better Life Lab Experiments (BLLx)
“Caring for Dying Loved Ones is a Luxury Few Can Afford. I was Lucky.” (Brigid Schulte) The Washington Post
“A woman's greatest enemy? A lack of time to herself” (Brigid Schulte) The Guardian
“It's Time to Reset Your Relationship's Power Dynamics” (Brigid Schulte) ForgeThe Third Path Institute
Brigid’s recommended books:Finding Time (Heather Boushey)
What Works (Iris Bohnet)
The Free-Market Family: How the Market Crushed the American Dream (and How It Can Be Restored) (Maxine Eichner)
Waiting for The Weekend (WItold Rybczynski)
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul (Stuart Brown)
Leisure: The Basis of Culture (Josef Pieper)
Rest: Why Your Get More Done When You Work Less (Alex Soojung-Kim Pang)
Andrew Shakman is CEO and co-founder of Leanpath, a mission-driven foodservice technology company based in Portland, Oregon. Leanpath invented the world’s first automated food waste tracking technology in 2004, which now operates in thousands of foodservice kitchens in 40 countries, cutting their food waste in half. From the beginning, Andrew has worked to catalyze the global movement to address the food waste crisis. He has been featured in BusinessWeek, NPR, Forbes, Fast Company and many other publications. He has presented at the World Bank, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the Culinary Institute of America, Harvard, and before hundreds of other audiences.
Resources:Leanpath
B Corp
Waste Free Kitchen Handbook (Dana Gunders)
Every Women Treaty
Portland Trail Blazers
ReFED
FAO
Andrew’s podcast recommendations:Hidden Brain
How I Built This
The Daily
Andrew’s book recommendations:American Wasteland (Jonathan Bloom)
Waste: The Global Food Scandal (Tristram Stuart)
No Rules Rule Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer)
The Art of the Start (Guy Kawasaki)
Beverly is a mentor and motivator for women who want to change the world throughpassionate commitment to their ideas, families, organizations, and communities.
After 20 years of a successful business and academic career that included a Ph.D. in Business Strategy, a post-doc at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, positions as VP, Strategy and Organization for Manco-Henkel, Inc. and Director of Strategic Initiatives for Stratton Corporation, she had a profound awakening. After investing two decades in change management with a large systems focus, she came to the conclusion that change happens one person at a time.
Acting on her discovery, she began training in ecopsychology and nature-based guiding with the Animas Valley Institute. In 2008, she joined Marlboro College’s Sustainability MBA, launching a 2-year nature-based leadership development course, where she stayed for the next seven years.
Also in 2008, she founded the Center for Nature and Leadership (CNL) to blend traditional leadership development with scientific and experiential findings on the beneficial effects of Nature on humans. The Generative Council is CNL’s keystone program, designed to provide diverse women leaders the time & space to develop their personal impact, meeting in places of wild magnificence two times/year, and supported by an ongoing community of previous participants. CNL now offers virtual and regional programming, as well, based on these same principles.
Creating and achieving bottom-lines of all sorts, and helping others see the wisdom of Nature at work in their own lives is what she loves to do. Cultivating fearless leaders, those who stand firmly on authenticity and truth, who strive to bring new visions into reality in concert with others is her passion and expertise.
And, when she’s not working with members of the Center for Nature and Leadership community, you’ll find her in the backcountry of her home in the San Juan Mountains in Colorado.
Resources:Center for Nature & Leadership
Generative Council
Growing Your Best Self (virtual & physical journey of personal & leadership development - Registration deadline: 5/9)
Leadership the Way Nature Intended (Beverly Winterscheid)
Beverly’s book recommendations:The Spell of the Sensuous (David Abram)
Widening Circles: A Memoir (Joanna Macy)
The Hoop and the Tree (Chris Hoffman)
As the Vice President of Global Programs for Real Estate & Workplace Services, Bakker leads Google’s renowned workplace programs and services such as food, transportation, events, guest services, sustainability, placemaking as well as fitness, massage and well-being. Bakker is focused on providing integrated offerings and experiences that enable Google to thrive. He is also focused on supporting the growth and future of Google through the scaling of these programs, ongoing innovation and partnerships.
Bakker has spent over 25 years in global hotel and food and beverage operations, creating and building out partnerships, hotel F&B developments, openings, and food experience design. Before joining Google, Bakker worked for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide in various roles for 17 years. From 2012 to 2017, Bakker led Google’s Food program, supporting all food service related activities and initiatives for Google’s global community as well as developing internal and external partnerships to explore and tackle the challenges and opportunities of the broader food systems.
Bakker continues to be very involved in the ever-evolving and growing intersection of food, health, and sustainability through various roles and organizations around the world such as the World Business Council for Sustainable Development Food and Nature Board, the EAT Forum Advisory Board,, the Yale School of Management Center for Customer Insights' Advisory Board and the Culinary Institute of America’s Menus of Change Business Leadership Council.
Bakker holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the Hotel Management School Maastricht (The Netherlands), an MBA from the University of Bradford (United Kingdom), a Master’s of Hospitality Administration degree from the University of Nevada (USA) and a Master’s degree in Real Estate and Construction Management from the University of Denver (USA).
Michiel’s podcast and book recommendations:
- The Land of the Giants podcast
- Essentialism. The disciplined pursuit of less (Greg McKeown)
- Team of Teams. New rules of engagement for a complex world (General Stanley McChrystal with Tantum Collins, David Silverman and Chris Fussell
- Leading WIthout Authority (Keith Ferrazzi)
- Locked In: The true causes of mass incarceration and how to achieve real reform (John F. Pfaff)
- The Death of Expertise The Campaign against knowledge and why it matters (Tom Nichols)
Since 2005 Katie Holloran has run her own business supporting families as a teacher, special education teacher, behavior analyst and sleep coach. Prior to starting her business, Katie graduated from Georgetown University and then earned her Masters in Special Education from George Washington University, both in Washington, DC. While teaching and working with children with Autism and Developmental Delays in Public, Private, Charter schools as well as in-home therapy programs in the DC area, Katie completed the coursework and obtained her Board Certification in Behavior Analysis in 2010.
While she had worked with many children and helped many families since starting as a classroom teacher in 2000, having her first child in 2008 helped her to see first-hand how confusing and overwhelming information and advice from other mothers, friends, family, and the internet could be. The single most effective parenting step Katie took was to learn about the science of sleep, and how to utilize that knowledge to create a healthier and more supportive schedule for children.
Since becoming a Certified Gentle Sleep Coach in 2012, Katie has combined her knowledge of sleep with her coaching practice. Katie co-authored a book, The Good Night Sleep Tight Workbook for Children with Special Needs, with renowned sleep expert Kim West in 2019. Every child and family is different, but Katie’s passion is helping other families to understand the foundations of a supportive sleep environment, and then learning how to apply that to their own specific family dynamic. As a sleep coach with expertise in education and special education, Katie works with families with children with unique strengths and needs across the globe, many who have specific medical, psychological, cognitive, behavioral and developmental diagnoses. Katie’s sleep work centers on supporting children and their needs, working together with tired parents everywhere to create a more positive - and more restful - home life.
Katie and her two kids, husband and rescue mutt Zoey live in the Capitol Hill area of Washington DC where they love exploring local attractions, nearby bike trails, participating in and watching all things baseball, swimming, and weekend backyard fire pit s’mores with neighbors.
Resources:
www.behavioristnextdoor.com
The Good Night, Sleep Tight Workbook for children with special needs (by Katie Holloran and Kim West)
Katie’s book recommendations:
Solving Sleep Problems in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Terry Katz, Ph.D. & Beth Malow, M.D., M.S.
The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
The Book of Two Ways, and everything else written by Jodi Picoult
Christopher Gardner is a nutrition scientist and Professor of Medicine. For 28 years at Stanford he has studied what to consume and to avoid for optimal health, and how best to motivate individuals to achieve healthy dietary behaviors. Some of the dozens of human nutrition intervention trials he has conducted include studies of garlic, omega-3 fats, soy phytoestrogens and antioxidants. Among his most cited studies are the A TO Z (2007) and the DIETFITS (2018) weight loss diet trials. His ongoing trials involve examining the impact of dietary changes (e.g., alternative meat, ketogenic diet) on the gut microbiome and inflammation/immune function. Current research interests include collaborating with chefs and dining operators as research partners in an effort to identify strategies to optimize the intersection of taste, health, environmental sustainability and social justice in institutional food settings (e.g., universities, hospitals, worksites). Professor Gardner teaches several food and nutrition classes at Stanford, including an on-line Nutrition Science course recently launched through the Stanford Center for Health Education. Christopher is on Twitter @GardnerPhD.
Resources:
Protein study
SWAP-MEAT study
Vegan Before 6 (Mark Bittman)
Flexitarian
EAT-Lancet Commission report (summary)
Christopher’s book recommendations:
Animal, Vegetable, Junk (Bittman)
Devoured (Egan)
The Good Gut (Sonnenburg)
Julie Kunen’s passion for sustainability studies began with her PhD studies in archaeology, where she focused on agricultural practices of the ancient Maya. Following completion of her degree she went on to hold roles in academia, government, non-profit, freelance journalism, and business consulting before joining Oatly at the end of 2020.
Dr. Kunen served as the forestry and natural resources advisor for Latin America at the US Agency for International Development, and then stepped into dual roles as chief of staff of the policy bureau and senior environmental policy advisor, leading development of USAID’s first climate change and development strategy.
She later moved into executive management of conservation portfolios as Vice President of the Americas for the Wildlife Conservation Society, a major international non-profit, where she led efforts to promote conservation through cuisine, including partnerships with renowned Latin American chefs. After leaving WCS, she founded Passiflora Consulting, a business consultancy working with chefs, restaurants, travel companies, and government agencies to promote sustainable gastronomy.
Before joining Oatly, Dr. Kunen spent 4 months during the COVID-19 pandemic working as a farmhand on an organic vegetable farm in northern Montana. She is also a writer on topics at the nexus of food, culture, and the environment for independent food and travel-focused media outlets. Her most recent articles were about innovations in food studies programs and the indigenous roots of regenerative agriculture.
Resources:Two Bear Farm (Whitefish, MT)
“Getting Dirt Under My Fingernails” by Julie Kunen, Montana Women magazine
World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF)
Fork and Spoon- pay-as-you-can restaurant in Bozeman, MT
Passion’s fruit - Julie’s website
Timeless Seeds
Julie’s recommended books:
Lentil Underground (Liz Carlisle)
Love, Life, and Elephants (Dame Daphne Sheldrick)
The Wolf Hall Trilogy (Hilary Mantel)
Christopher Lindholst is CEO and co-founder of MetroNaps. A pioneer in corporate fatigue management solutions, he oversaw the development of MetroNaps’ i20 system, which has since become the leading technology for optimizing workplace napping.
Christopher has been instrumental in putting sleep on the corporate wellness agenda and has established partnerships on four continents. He is a frequent speaker at corporations and conferences, where he talks about implementing sleep into corporate wellbeing programs. He has been cited in the media hundreds of times, including by the BBC, Monocle and the Financial Times.
MetroNaps was founded in 2003 with a simple goal: to fight workplace fatigue. Our mission is based on a simple scientifically proven fact: that a brief nap improves alertness, learning, memory, mood and long term health. Today, MetroNaps remains a pioneer and the world’s leader in developing short rest solutions for our corporate, health care, university and aviation clients in over 50 countries on five continents.
Resources:Metronaps: Home of the EnergyPod
Home | Restworks - Workplace nap facilities to boost employee productivity
Short Rest Solutions in Healthcare Settings
Short Rest Solutions in University Settings Christopher’s book recommendations:Rest (Alex Soojung-Kim Pang) (guest from episode 12 of the podcast)
Churchill: Walking with Destiny (Andrew Roberts)
9 Stories (JD Salinger)
In this episode, Montana State University Professor of Sustainable Food Systems Selena Ahmed PhD notes that “tea is the plant that’s carried me through my career.” Selena shares insights about the connection between taste and environment, the launch of her business providing education around tea and bitters, the magic of the 3rd infusion of pu’er, and her research around climate change’s impact on tea.''
Selena’s bio:
Selena Ahmed, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Sustainable Food Systems at Montana State University where she co-leads the Food and Health Lab and serves as the Director for the Translational Biomarkers Core of the Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity. Her research focuses on identifying the socio-ecological determinants of wellbeing in the food system with a focus on wild and cultivated food environments in rural and Indigenous communities. The ultimate translational goal of her collaborative research program is to transform food systems through evidence-based innovations that support human and planetary health.
She serves as an Advisory Committee Member of People & Plants International; Consultant for the United States Agency for International Development Advancing Nutrition; Committee Member of the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity Task Force of the American Nutrition Association; Co-Founder of Shoots & Roots Bitters; Research Partner for the Real Food Campaign of the Bionutrient Food Association and; Associate Editor for the journals Elementa, Food Security, Frontiers of Sustainable Food Systems and Frontiers of Nutrition.
Selena is the co-author of two popular culture books, Tea Horse Road: China’s Ancient Trade to Tibet and Botany at the Bar: The Art and Science of Making Bitters. She has co-authored over 65 peer-reviewed research articles and two dozen book chapters, technical briefs, and general audience publications.
Resources:NSF CNH Tea and Climate Project
Shoots & Roots Bitters
Botany at the Bar
Tea Horse Road
Selena’s recommended books:
Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice (Plotkin)
The Art of Not Being Governed (Scott)
Why Some Like it Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity (Nabhan)
Chef Matt Colgan found his way into a kitchen as a cook and dishwasher at age 14 and never left. Matt is a native of the Bay Area and has cooked in several restaurants here and everywhere else he has lived and traveled. Matt has a degree in philosophy having studied at UC Santa Cruz, CA and UC Galway in Ireland. His travels brought him to cooking stages in Europe with an extended stay at L’Albergaccio Restaurant in the heart of Tuscany, Italy. There, Matt learned much of what has shaped him today; cook with quality seasonal ingredients, respect those ingredients, and put copious amounts of love in your food.
Matt was the Executive Chef of À Côté Restaurant in Oakland for 15 years where he was a SF Chronicle Rising Star Chef and longtime resident of their Top 100 Restaurant list. With the same owners, Matt later opened Rumbo al Sur of Oakland and The Chapel food and music venue in San Francisco as well.
Looking for a change to spend more time with his kids, Matt transitioned to corporate dining where he worked for Guckenheimer overseeing Google’s food and beverage program in San Francisco. Matt was very involved in Google’s expansion which led to a role as the Director of Culinary overseeing Google cafe operations in San Francisco, Redwood City, Irvine, Venice Beach, Playa Vista (all CA), Austin TX and Boulder CO. This included 17 cafes feeding 13k+ Googlers per day.
Matt is now the Director of Culinary for Mixt and Split where he is very excited to bring together all his experience to create delicious and healthy food for everyone.
Resources:Mixt
BCorps
L’Albergaccio Restaurant
À Côté Restaurant (Oakland, CA)
Ooni pizza oven
St Vincent de Paul (Oakland)- The Kitchen of Champions program
Matt’s book recommendations:Dirt (Buford)
Born to Run (McDougall)
Why We Sleep (Walker)
Darcy Winslow is the co-founder and President (2010-2020) of the Academy for Systems Change, an organization focused on advancing the field of awareness-based systemic change in order to achieve economic, social, and ecological well being.
The Academy designs, develops and delivers a range of programs to support, coach and build community among emerging and existing leaders who are at the pioneering edge of systems change work. Unlike conventional leadership training organizations, the Academy’s approach fosters deep understandingof the powerful connection between change within the individual and changing the systemsin which they work. The Academy was in part founded to create a network of networks to contribute to the growth of the emerging field of ‘awareness based systems change’, thus accelerating our impact on the critical global ecosystems we rely on to thrive.
Darcy also founded the recently launched Magnolia Moonshot 2030 (MM2030), a project within the Academy, which is a new narrative for women’s leadership, creating the conditions to activate our collective power to address the greatest challenges we face today. By convening networks of women leaders who are urgently addressing the climate crisis, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, deep equity, conscious leadership and the divine feminine, MM2030 amplifies our collective ability for positive impact.
Darcy also worked at Nike, Inc. for 21 years. She led large scale systems change efforts within Nike, and held several senior management positions, most notably starting the Sustainable Business Strategies in 1999, Global Director for Research Design and Development, General Manager/VP for Nike’s Global Women’s Footwear, Apparel and Equipment division, and Senior Advisor to the Nike Foundation.
Darcy participates as a Board Member for The Carbon Underground, The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education, and Advisory Board for Regenerative Earth. She is an avid athlete and draws inspiration from her time in nature.
Resources:
Academy for Systems Change
Magnolia Moonshot 2030
Generative Council
Oregon Coast Trail
Clubhouse app- drop-in audio chat
Swimply app- to rent a local pool by the hour
Way of Nature | Sacred Passage
Darcy’s recommended books:Presence: Human Purpose and the the Field of the Future (Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski, Flowers)
The Residence (Brower)
A Promised Land (Obama)
Morning Altars (Schildkret)
The Great Disruption (Gilding)
Jud Brewer MD PhD (“Dr. Jud”) is a thought leader in the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery”, having combined over 20 years of experience with mindfulness training with his scientific research therein. He is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in Behavioral and Social Sciences and Psychiatry at the Schools of Public Health & Medicine at Brown University. He is also the executive medical director of behavioral health at Sharecare Inc. and a research affiliate at MIT. A psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for addictions, Brewer has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including both in-person and app-based treatments for smoking, emotional eating, and anxiety. He has also studied the underlying neural mechanisms of mindfulness using standard and real-time fMRI and EEG neurofeedback. He has trained US Olympic athletes and coaches, foreign government ministers, and his work has been featured on 60 Minutes, TED (4th most viewed talk of 2016, with 16 Million views), the New York Times, Time magazine (top 100 new health discoveries of 2013), Forbes, BBC, NPR, Al Jazeera (documentary about his research), Businessweek and others. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association, among others. Dr. Brewer founded MindSciences to move his discoveries of clinical evidence behind mindfulness for anxiety, eating, smoking and other behavior change into the hands of consumers (see www.drjud.com for more information). He is the author of The Craving Mind: from cigarettes to smartphones to love, why we get hooked and how we can break bad habits and Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind. Follow him on twitter @judbrewer.
Resources:Jud’s website
A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit (Jud’s TedTalk)
See Anderson Cooper Unwind Anxiety with Dr. Jud
Books Jud recommends:Barbarian Days (Finnegan)
Becoming (M. Obama)
The Underground Railroad (Whitehead)
The Art of Racing in the Rain (Stein)
Suzan is an Hispana-Latina-American and was born and raised in the Caribbean. Her films have been shown on Independent Lens, World Channel, Pivot TV and on the Documentary Channel, at Lincoln Center, and at many festivals. Her first film, BAG IT, was a winner of the Britdoc Impact Award in Berlin and has been televised in over fifty countries. URANIUM DRIVE-IN was a recipient of Sundance Institute and Chicken and Egg funding and was featured at Good Pitch and at Hot Docs Pitch Forum. The film was awarded the Big Sky Award, was honored for documentary excellence by the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, and was part of the American Film Showcase, an international film program of the U.S. State Department. Her most recent film, MASSACRE RIVER: The Woman Without a Country aired on PBS in 2019, is the recipient of ITVS funding, and was selected for the Latino Media Market, Camden International Film Festival Points North Fellowship, and IFP Spotlight on Documentaries. Suzan became Festival Director for Mountainfilm festival in Telluride, Colorado in 2017, and is currently Chair of New Day Films’ Steering Committee.
Suzan’s films:Bag It | vimeo
- The Last Plastic Straw
- Environmental Working Group: verified personal care + cleaning products
Uranium Drive-In
Massacre River | watch page
Suzan’s film recommendations:Close to Eden (original title: Urga). (1991) Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov.
American Factory (2019) Oscar winner directed by Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar
Minding the Gap (2018) Audience Choice and Best Doc Winner at Mountainfilm. Directed by Bing Liu. (on Hulu)
Film festivals recommended by Suzan:Mountainfilm | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram (Telluride, CO)
Telluride Film Festival (Telluride, CO)
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (Missoula, MT)
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (Arkansas)
Hot Docs (Toronto)
Camden International Film Festival (Maine)
Sundance Film Festival (Utah)
Additional Resources:Protect Our Winters
New Day Films
Andrew Towne is an endurance athlete, speaker, lawyer and international business consultant.
Andrew holds 5 world records in ocean rowing, US national championships in collegiate rowing and club running, and a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. He has also climbed the tallest mountain on every continent (including Mt Everest).
Passionate about international relations, Andrew advises multi-national corporations on strategic and organizational issues as a Principal in the Boston Consulting Group's Minneapolis office. Andrew has lived/worked in 8 countries, promotes intercultural exchange as the Board Chair of Youth For Understanding USA and has served the US government in a variety of foreign policy roles.
Andrew earned his JD/MBA from The Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was a Morgenthau Scholar, Friedman Scholar, and Institute of Law and Economics Scholar. Andrew holds a bachelor's degree in political science with honors from Yale University and studied for a year at the University of Nairobi as an NSEP Boren Scholar.
Resources:Andrew’s Instagram account
Andrew’s Wikipedia page
The Impossible Row - 14 short videos about the trip
The Impossible Row - feature-length documentary available by signing up for a free 7-day trial of Discovery+ and searching within its streaming content for “The Impossible Row”
Articles:
- “6 Men Successfully Cross Drake Passage in a Rowboat” (National Public Radio Morning Edition)
- “Minneapolis resident among rowers who were first to cross Drake Passage” (Minnesota Public Radio All Things Considered)
Andrew’s recommended books:Boys in the Boat (Daniel James Brown)
Profiles in Courage (JF Kennedy)
A Grief Observed (CS Lewis)
Violinist Angella Ahn of the Ahn Trio shares her experience growing up in two cultures- in Korea and the US; studying at Juilliard; performing with her two sisters as the Ahn Trio all over the world including at the White House; teaching at Montana State University in Bozeman; and redefining her relationship with her violin during COVID.
Resources:Ahn Trio: website
11th and Grant | Angella Ahn & Friends
Ahn Trio: Facebook page
Ahn Trio: Instagram
Ahn Trio: Twitter
Ahn Trio: TEDWomen2010
Tippet Rise: "The Hive"
Ahn Trio: Nuvole Bianche
Bravo! Big Sky
Montana Chamber Music Society
Bozeman Symphony
Montana Arts Council
Films mentioned:Whiplash | YouTube trailer
Bohemian Rhapsody
Rocketman
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson & The Band
Angella’s book recommendations:Becoming (Michelle Obama)
The Island of Sea Women (Lisa See)
A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles)
Dr. Stuart Brown is a medical doctor, psychiatrist, clinical researcher, founder of the National institute for Play, and author of the book Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul. From his research on young murderers to animals in the wild, Dr. Brown addresses why he calls play “a public health necessity.”
Resources:
National Institute for Play
PlayCore | Stuart’s blog
Play is more than just fun (TedTalk, 2008, 26 mins)
Why is Play Important? (2016)
The Neuroscience of Play (The Aspen Institute, 2015
The Promise of Play- PBS series
“Taking Play Seriously” New York Times Magazine (2008)
Play Doesn’t End with Childhood: Why Adults Need Recess Too (NPR, 2014)
How Does Play Shape Our Environment? (NPR, 2015)
American Journal of Play
International Journal of Play
Animals at Play, (National Geographic magazine, Dec 1994)
Stuart’s book recommendations:
PLAY: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul. (Stuart Brown, MD)
Animal Play Behavior (Robert Fagan)
The Ambiguity of Play (Brian Sutton-Smith)
The Playful Classroom (Jed Dearybury + Julie P. Jones)
Stephanie was most recently on the Biden 2020 campaign, leading the product team for Fundraising to help elect our next president. Previously, she was at Netflix's animation studio building out tools and technology to create original animated content.
Prior to these experiences, she worked at Hillary for America building products such as the Hillary 2016 mobile app and a live debate fact checker, DreamWorks Animation designing production tools, and her own game company, Kooapps, building immersive mobile games.
She loves building products for spaces that are historically untouched by technology, and is passionate about using game design to increase user engagement and retention across other industries. Stephanie has a BA from Stanford University in Psychology and an MBA from MIT Sloan. She loves mythology, Motown, and eating staggering quantities of food.
Resources:Stephanie’s site
Press on Hillary mobile app: CNN, Wired
Kooapps- Stephanie’s game company
The Alicia Foundation
Ferran Adria on Transforming El Bulli from a restaurant into a legacy (Eater)
El Bulli: Cooking in Progress (US trailer on YouTube)
El Bulli: the movie
www.JoeBiden.com
Stephanie’s recommended animated films:Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
How to Train Your Dragon
The Incredibles
Stephanie’s recommended multiplayer games:Alone Together
A Way Out
Stephanie’s book recommendations:Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung? (Ajahn Brahm)
The Art of Choosing (Sheena Iyengar)
Behave (Robert M. Sapolsky)
Calvin D. Sun, MD is a currently practicing Attending Physician and Clinical Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine, a public speaker, phoblographer, activist, choreographer, and entrepreneur based in NYC.
Calvin is also the Founder & CEO of The Monsoon Diaries: a blog-turned-travel community that has taken hundreds of readers to 190+ countries and territories in the past 10 years including North Korea, Nauru, Iraq, and Antarctica. The Monsoon Diaries has since been featured on BBC News, ABC News, MSNBC, TED, National Geographic, and USA Today.
He completed his residency training at Jacobi Medical Center in 2018 where he served as the Director of Resident Wellness. Calvin now practices as an attending physician at multiple underserved emergency departments and large-scale events around the country, including having been designated as the supervising medical captain at the finish line of the annual NYC Marathon.
Calvin has been most recently notable for his first-hand reporting on the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in New York City emergency rooms. Finally, he has been a prolific nationwide public speaker since 2008, and continues to be one of the most active Public Speakers in the Asian American speaking circuit.
Resources:
Calvin D. Sun, MD
https://www.linkedin.com/in/calvindsun/
Calvin on Wikipedia
www.monsoondiaries.com
Monsoon diaries on Instagram
Monsoon Diaries on Facebook
Take the Path of More Resistance (Calvin Sun) TedX Talk (2015)
COVID-related articles + interviews with Calvin:
Emergency room doctor gives inside look at supply shortage in New York City (CNN)
An ER Doctor Shares Heartbreaking Stories from the Front Lines of COVID-19 (Katie Couric)
Lisa Ling on Instagram (interviewing Calvin)
ER doctor in NYC shares what it's like to work in dozens of hospitals during pandemic (NBC news)
Scrolling the Pandemic: Silenced Frontliners (Fox)
LIVEMEDAID: Dr. James Maskalyk and Dr. Calvin D. Sun
Calvin’s book recommendations:
The Alchemist (Coelho) & Life of Pi (Martel)
Fight Club (Palahniuk)
The Year of Magical Thinking (Didion)
“This is Water” (David Foster Wallace)
This episode turns the tables on Northstar Unplugged’s host, Kristen Rainey. Guest host Holly Fowler navigates the conversation to explore various threads from Kristen’s past and present, including her prior work in sustainable food at Google, her inability to slow down, her recent move to Bozeman, and the launch of Northstar Sleep School and The Northstar Unplugged podcast.
About Kristen:
Kristen Rainey is the founder and CEO of Northstar Sleep School, offering online classes and in-person workshops to help people get better sleep. Using a data-driven approach, her students learn what behavior changes they can make in their daily lives to yield the most impact.
Kristen recently finished a six-year run at Google, where she led sustainability and procurement for Google’s 271 cafes across 54 countries. She is a graduate of Princeton University and received a MALD in International Affairs at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and an MBA at Cornell University.
She has lived, worked, and studied in Indonesia, France, Morocco, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Mexico, Thailand, Italy, Spain, and Australia. After 33 zip codes and an Appalachian Trail thru-hike, she has landed in Bozeman, Montana.
Resources:
Northstar Sleep School
Northstar Unplugged podcast
Kristen’s book recommendations:Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (William Finnegan)
The Golden Spruce (John Vaillant)
The Orchid Thief: a True Story of Beauty and Obsession- Susan Orlean
Euphoria (Lily King)
Why We Sleep (Matthew Walker)
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking (Susan Cain)
Anything written by Jhumpa Lahiri
About Katie (in her own words):
I grew up in Maryland, was a lacrosse goalie, went to Princeton and taught high school for 2 years prior to med school at University of Maryland. Since I loved taking care of babies, children, teens and adults, as well as doing procedures, I landed in family medicine and did my residency at the University of Vermont. A one-year Obstetric fellowship took me and my husband to Seattle, and then back to Vermont where he was raised and we now have three daughters, 11, 9, 6. He and his family own Butternut Mountain Farm which produces and distributes maple syrup, so our girls are growing up with the working knowledge of running a sugarbush. They drive 4 wheelers and stack wood and aren’t afraid to get dirty.
In the spring as sugaring wraps up, I still coach lacrosse at our local high school, going on 11 years now. Mentoring girls is important to me, especially in an underserved community where they might not otherwise have the opportunity to learn and be good at a new sport.
For similar reasons I work at a FQHC, Federally Qualified Health Center, where we see all comers, regardless of their ability to pay, and work to make basic high quality health care both accessible and affordable. As it should be. Finally, as for family medicine, I still love the variety, and have found a strong passion for taking care of community members with substance use disorder. Dispelling stigma around this topic really improves access to care, and saves lives. I enjoy the work because I know that it benefits not only these patients and their families, but also the whole community and therefore my children.
Resources:www.VTMAT.blog
Stowe Family Practice Facebook page
Take Back Day- to return unused medications
Katie’s book recommendations:Mindset (Carol Dweck)
Good Night Rebel Girls (Francesca Cavalo)
When Breath Becomes Air (Paul Kalanithi)
In 2011, Jesse Friedman and his wife Laura began welcoming both friends and strangers into their 500 sq ft apartment in Brooklyn for a series of dinner parties to celebrate the cuisine of each of 194 countries, in alphabetical order. Since then, they have moved to Portland, OR, and have since hosted dinners featuring 152 out of 194 countries’ cuisines. Although interrupted by COVID, they look forward to resuming sometime in 2021 with Senegal.
About Jesse (in his own words):I'm from Oakland, graduated with a degree in linguistics from the University of Chicago, and lived in San Francisco and Brooklyn for most of my eleven years at Google.
I now live in Portland, Oregon. Outside of work, when we're not tending to our hilarious and strong-willed daughter, my wife Laura and I run United Noshes. It's a series of 194 dinner parties, one per UN member. It's a stimulating culinary challenge, a deep dive into the ingredients and cultures of the world, a fantastic community builder, and a successful fundraiser. I'm also a passionate home gardener, mildly enthusiastic cyclist, and studious travel planner. My two dogs and two cats are adorable, but useless as interns.
For the business side of things, please reference LinkedIn.
Resources:https://www.jessefriedman.com/
https://www.unitednoshes.com/
Video & articles about United Noshes
Global Table Adventure
Everyone Speaks Food (Google Translate’s multicultural pop-up restaurant in NYC)
Jesse’s book recommendationsSalt, Fat, Acid, Heat (Samin Nosrat)
Salt (Mark Kurlansky)
Winners Take All (Anand Giridharadas)
About Naomi:Naomi Darling, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP is founding principal of Naomi Darling Architecture and Five College Associate Professor of Sustainable Architecture.
Prior to founding Naomi Darling Architecture in 2011, Naomi worked in Seattle, Washington, with Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects, in New Haven with Studio ABK and in Tokyo, Japan with Kengo Kuma and Associates.
Resources:
www.naomidarling.com
https://www.instagram.com/naomidarling_architecture/
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/architectural
http://fcarch.org/
Thailand collaborative studio
Sea Education Association
Solid Foundations: Naomi Darling on her Commitment to Sustainability, Managing her own Expectations and to Doing More With Less (Madame Architect, Oct 8, 2020)
Naomi’s recommended books:
Cradle to Cradle (William McDonough and Michael Braungart)
In Praise of Shadows (Jun'ichiro Tanizaki)
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Alfred Lansing)
The Songlines (Bruce Chatwin)
In the wake of suddenly losing his job, marriage, and grandmother at the beginning of 2019, Tim left home and headed west. What he imagined would be a brief solo road trip has become something else entirely: a multi-year pilgrimage across America's wildest places, especially its National Parks. He shares reflections, stories, and images from his wanderings on his website (This Walking Life). Tim is currently writing a book about his experiences on the road these past two years.
Resources:
Tim’s blog: www.thiswalkinglife.com
instagram: @this.walking.life
New Year’s Virtual Retreat (co-led by Tim)
US National Parks
Map of US National Parks
Brown Bear Cam @ Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park
EJI- Equal Justice Initiative
Tim’s book recommendations:The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
The Art of Living by Thich Nhat Hahn
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
About Kristy & Bryce:Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung are world traveling early retirees. Their story has been featured in media outlets all over the world, including the New York Times, CBC, CNBC, Women's Health Magazine Australia, Germany's Handelsblatt, GQ Russia, and the UK's Independent. They spend their time helping people with their finances and realizing their travel dreams on www.millennial-revolution.com.
Financial resources:
Quit Like a Millionaire (Kristy & Bryce’s book)
Little Miss Evil (Kristy & Bryce’s children’s book)
www.Millennial-Revolution.com
-The 8 Stages of Early Retirement
-Investment workshop- online, self-paced, free
How to Retire in your 30s with $1M in the bank (NY Times)
How a 30-something couple got rich and retired by not joining home ownership ‘cult’ (CBC)
Playing with Fire (documentary about FIRE)
Pat Flynn
Mr. Money Mustache blog
JL Collins blog
Chautauqua
Other:Miracle Morning
Book recommendations:The Simple Path to Wealth (JL Collins)
Quiet (Susan Cain)
American Kingpin (Nick Bilton)
Dr. Annie Fenn is a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist specialized in menopausal health. After practicing medicine for 20+ years in Jackson, WY, she began focusing on health care through the lens of diet and lifestyle. She traded her stethoscope for a chef’s coat and went back to school to study culinary arts in Mexico, Italy, and at the Culinary Institute of America.
In 2015, Dr. Fenn founded the Brain Health Kitchen, an evidence-based online resource about how and what to eat to resist cognitive decline. The Brain Health Kitchen Cooking School, founded in 2017, is the only school of its kind focused specifically on fending off Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Dr. Fenn lectures frequently about the impact of lifestyle and diet on Alzheimer’s risk as part of the Sempre Sano Wellness Retreat in Tuscany, Italy and as a frequent Visiting Chef at Rancho La Puerta.
Dr. Fenn serves on the Science Advisory Board for actor Seth Rogen and his wife Lauren’s HFC (Hilarity For Charity) where she also creates content helping caregivers eat for brain health. She partners with Maria Shriver and the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement to host events to fund grants for female-specific dementia research. She also serves on the Scientific Advisory Council for the Alzheimer’s Research and Prevention Foundation.
A 25-year resident of Jackson, Wyoming, Dr. Fenn partners with her local hospital to provide the Brain Works 7-day Boot Camp, a novel community-based dementia prevention program. When not developing recipes, writing, or teaching the Brain Health Kitchen method of cooking, Dr. Fenn enjoys hiking, cycling, skiing, fly-fishing, and foraging for mushrooms and huckleberries with her husband, sons, and dogs Orzo and Olive Oyl.
Resources:Website: Brain Health Kitchen
- What to Eat to Fend Off Alzheimer’s
- Foods to Avoid to Keep Your Brain Healthy
Free monthly Brain Health Kitchen Newsletter
Instagram: @BrainHealthKitchen
Facebook: @Brain Health Kitchen
Annie’s blog
Hara Hachi Bu: Okinawans’ practice of eating until they’re 80% full
Intermittent fasting
paper referenced by Annie about coconut oil raising LDL and cardiovascular risk factors
Annie’s recommended books:The New Rules of Aging Well (Lipman & Claro)
Hidden Valley Road (Kolker)
The Murmur of Bees (Segovia)
Tim McCollum is founder and CEO of Beyond Good. In 1999, Tim traveled to Madagascar as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Twenty years later, that experience still colors Beyond Good’s mission and model.
Today, Beyond Good is the only brand in the U.S. making chocolate at source in Africa. Beyond Good recently celebrated one year and one million bars at Africa’s most modern chocolate factory. Beyond Good sources organic, heirloom cocoa from 100 farmers and employs 42 full-time employees at origin in Madagascar. By manufacturing finished product in Africa, Beyond Good is redefining quality and sustainability for the global chocolate industry.
Prior to Beyond Good, Tim spent several years at the American Express Company. He managed a team in global marketing, but often found himself on uninspiring conference calls, gazing at the world map in his cubicle, eyes and mind inevitably landing on Madagascar. While formative experiences, neither the Peace Corps nor American Express left him particularly qualified to run a start-up, much less challenge the status quo in the global chocolate industry. Most of Beyond Good’s success can be attributed to an outsider’s perspective, never giving up, and the ability of a dedicated team to do things differently.
Tim has been recognized by Food & Wine Magazine’s 40 Under 40 list of Americans “changing the way we eat and live” and named a Leader of Change by the United Nations. Fast Company recognized Beyond Good as one of the 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World.
For the first 10 years of Beyond Good’s existence, Tim’s favorite chocolate bar has been Beyond Good Sea Salt & Nibs, 63% cocoa, heirloom chocolate from Madagascar. That status is now threatened by the new Beyond Good Crispy Rice, 73% cocoa, single origin chocolate from Uganda. Always, he rations himself to 1/3 of a 2.64 oz bar per day, the exact serving size in the nutrition facts. Almost always.
Resources:Beyond Good
US report: Much of the world’s chocolate supply relies on more than 1 M child workers (Washington Post)
Cocoa: a Bittersweet Supply Chain (visualcapitalist.com)
Tim’s book recommendations:Tao Te Ching (Lao Tzu, translated by Stephen Mitchell)
The Snow Leopard (Peter Matthiessen)
Zero to One (Peter Thiel)
This episode goes behind the scenes with Lynn Simon to hear how she has addressed nearly 20 years of battling insomnia; her recent transition to a multi-generational household; and her career path in the sustainable building industry, including her current role leading real estate sustainability globally for Google.
Lynn’s bio:Lynn N. Simon, FAIA, LEED Fellow, is head of Sustainability for Real Estate and Workplace Services at Google. She leads a team that focuses on three primary areas: accelerating carbon free buildings, mobility & living; advancing circular systems; and cultivating healthy spaces and places. Lynn is responsible for leading the strategic vision across REWS sustainability initiatives and programs from establishing baseline standards across a global real estate portfolio to strategic thought leadership on targeted aspirational goals.
She is a recognized pioneer in the sustainable building industry as well as an entrepreneur and catalyst for change. Lynn has consulted on millions of square feet of sustainable projects ranging from multi-family, affordable housing to large scale commercial and institutional projects. She is an experienced and popular speaker on sustainability and leadership topics. Lynn has received several honors including the USGBC’s President's Award (2011); the Women in Sustainability Leadership Award from gb&d magazine (2017); and the SHERO Leadership Award from the USGBC Pacific Region (2020). Lynn is also a certified professional coach through New Ventures West.
Resources:Cognitive therapy course
FitBit
New Ventures West coaching program
Lynn’s recommended books:Daisy Jones and & The Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid- loosely patterned after Fleetwood Mac
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by Stanley Gen. McChrystal
The Weight of Ink, by Rachel Kadish
In this episode, Leon Pellicer shares the significant lifestyle changes- giving up alcohol, meat, and dairy- that he has made over the past few years. He is an enthusiastic wellness advocate, and includes running, meditation, and healthy eating into his day to day, all while raising three beautiful young daughters with his wife and managing a demanding day job overseeing the food program at Google's Pacific Northwest locations.
Resources:The Science of Well-Being- online course (Yale/Coursera)
The Happiness Lab & Podcast
Purple Carrot
Whistler Ironman event
Seattle Marathon
Boku products
Meditation apps:Insight Timer
Calm
Headspace
Leon’s book recommendations:The Power of Now (Tolle)
The Untethered Soul (Singer)
Team of Teams (McChrystal)
Authentic Happiness (Seligman)
Deana Zabaldo is a certified coach and a professional guide. She supports inner journeys exploring mind, body, and soul and also leads adventures through the Himalayas.
An award-winning trekking and cultural guide, Deana has more than 20 years of hands-on experience in the Himalayas and a passion for its culture and peoples. She designed and led Outside Magazine’s Best Himalayan Trip in 2012 and won first place in the 2013 World Guide Awards based on her service, knowledge, and ethical travel standards. She continues to lead in-depth cultural, spiritual, and trekking journeys in Nepal and Bhutan.
As a somatic coach, Deana specializes in helping people to map and bridge the inner territories of their felt experience, intuition, and aspirations and then apply that whole-body intelligence in their professional and personal lives. With pragmatic wisdom, Deana inspires and supports people to discover, value, and cultivate their inner compass — an approach clients report has enabled them to forge their own unique paths toward self-awareness and happier, more fulfilling lives.
Deana’s wide-ranging interests have led her to conduct productivity training for businesses, launch and direct cultural exchange programs, design and deliver training in manufacturing facilities, and teach university psychology courses. She also founded and continues to direct Changing Lives Nepal, a nonprofit that catalyzes sustainable, effective change and alleviates poverty through local leadership and grassroots development. Through small, targeted funding and long-term commitment, CLN continues to improve the lives of thousands of people in remote villages of Nepal.
Deana resides in Marin County, CA and has lived in rural Nepal as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer. She has travelled across the U.S. and more than 25 countries in her explorations of spirit, soul, nature, and embodied awareness.
Resources:Parahamsa
Upcoming journeys:Snowman Trek (Bhutan, Oct 2021)
Spiritual Journey (Bhutan, Nov 2021)
Changing Lives Nepal
World Guide Awards
Outside Magazine’s Best Himalayan Trip
Spirit Rock
Info about Deana’s coaching + 2021 trips:info@parahamsa.com
Deana’s book recommendations:How to Not Always Be Working (Marlee Grace)Inward (Yung Pueblo)The New Silk Roads (Peter Frankopan)
Deana’s podcast recommendations:Jay Shetty (on Rich Roll)Rangan Chatterjee(on Rich Roll)
Michael Singer (on Tony Robbin podcast)|
The Moth podcast
Newton Cheng has spent his 12-year career at Google developing, launching and scaling global programs aimed at helping Googlers to thrive. Today he oversees Google’s global fitness and massage/recovery programs. He explores how Google can leverage spaces and services, community, culture and technology to drive the physical, mental, and social health of Googlers, their families, and neighbors.
He lives in Sunnyvale, CA with his wife, daughter and four cats. In his spare time he trains as a competitive powerlifter, has set five U.S. and 18 California state records, and is a world bronze medalist and two time US national champion.
Resources:Newton Cheng- Haas interview, YouTube, 2018
Articles featuring Ericsson study on correlation between high performers + naps
- Sure, Practice Makes Perfect-- but it isn’t enough Inc.
- The Quiet Secret to Success- Greater Good
Newton’s beer recommendations:Pliny the Elder
Hazy IPAs
Heady Topper
Humble Sea
Heineken
Newton’s recommended books:Building Brand Communities & The Art of Community (Vogl)
Life on Purpose (Strecher)
Relentless (Grover)
Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology (Siegel)
Together (Murthy)
The Science of Organizational Change (Gibbons)
Doughnut Economics (Raworth)
Margot Darling and Callie Martin met several years ago while kickboxing and together launched the Starseed vegan food truck in Bozeman which just completed its first season. This episode explores the challenges and joys of launching a food truck, and each of their journeys prior to the collaboration, including Margot’s experience co-leading a whitewater rafting company and raising two kids and Callie’s career as a pastry chef and her battle with anorexia.
Resources:
Starseed- website
Starseed- Facebook page
Forever Strong kickboxing + fitness studio (Bozeman)
Krav Maga self-defense
Margot’s book recommendations:
Healing with Whole Foods (Pitchford)
Oh She Glows cookbooks- (Lidden)
The Gene Keys (Rudd)
Women Who Run with the Wolves (Estés)
Callie’s book recommendations:
The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness, and the Making of a Great Chef (White)
My Fight/ Your Fight (Rousey)
Daring Greatly (Brown)
Siddhartha (Hesse)
About Margot:
Margot is a Canadian girl who never recovered from summer camp. She came to Bozeman over 20 years ago to be a whitewater rafting guide. She is a mother of 2 wild children and a student of all things mystical. She loves eating, and finding ways to make healthy food super yummy.
About Callie:
Born in Montana, Callie Martin moved back in 2016 and is happy to call Bozeman home again. Her culinary curiosity began at a young age baking biscuits with her mom on the family ranch. Her passion for health, fitness, community, food, and kickboxing have led her to become a kickboxing instructor, pastry chef at Wild Crumb, head chef at Starseed vegan food truck, and personal chef. All of these ventures allow Callie to find fulfillment in supporting others in living active, strong, empowered, healthy, lives. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, yoga, meditating, drawing, creating recipes, cooking and baking, traveling, and getting tattoos.
In this episode, Sally Wolf will share how she combines her love for personal development, positive psychology and the corporate world to empower clients to flourish in both their jobs and their lives.
Sally has spent two decades developing strategies for leading media companies and brands, including creating and launching OneFifty, an incubator within WarnerMedia that invests in innovative storytellers and filmmakers.
She is a breast cancer survivor and thriver, an avid dancer, and an enthusiastic iPhone step counter.
Resources:
https://www.sallywolf.com/
“12 Ways to Practice Self-Care After a Metastatic Breast Cancer Diagnosis”(Glamour, Oct 29, 2020)
Life’s Twists and Turns: Stanford GSB 15 year reunion (Sally’s speech, on YouTube)
www.onefifty.com
Sally’s talk to Lake Bryan Mawr Camp counselors
Self-assessments:
- VIA character strengths
- Sparketypes
Sally recommends:
- Sally’s dance classes & teacher
- CAPP (Certification in Applied Positive Psychology)
- Better Than Before: 30 day/$30 short courses during COVID (next begins 11/23)
- Steve Jobs’s 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (YouTube, 22 mins)
Sally’s book recommendations:
- The Crossroads of Should and Must (Elle Luna) - hard copy recommended
- How To Live A Good Life (Jonathan Fields)
- The Rosie Project, The Rosie Effect, The Rosie Result (Graeme Simsion)
- The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
- anything by Brené Brown
In this episode, Nigel Smith shares his journey from roots in Trinidad to becoming Valedictorian at Howard University and a graduate of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, as well as career chapters at Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, and AARP. Most recently, he has begun his latest chapter, focusing full-time on growing his beverage company, Zurena, whose core product is a mixer for both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
Resources:Zurena (website)
Zurena (Facebook group)
@MyZurena (IG) / #MyZurena
Uplifting Spirits (website)
Uplifting Spirits (Facebook group)
@UpliftingSpirits.By.Zurena (IG) / #UpliftingSpirits.By.Zurena
Trinidad links:Trinidad soca music
Carnival
Doubles (street food)
Pelau dish made with pigeon peas, chicken or beef, coconut milk and burnt sugar
Tobago
AARP links:AARP
AARP Innovation Labs/ The Hatchery
The Longevity Economy Outlook
Books & Articles Nigel recommends:
- Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us (Michael Moss)
- From Behind the Bridge to The Impossible Dream (Akini Gill)
- Storytelling for Leadership: Creating Authentic Connections (Charles Vogl)
- How Will You Measure Your Life (Clayton Christensen)
Thea O’Connor is a senior advisor on workplace wellbeing and productivity, helping leaders, teams and individuals improve their workplace engagement and effectiveness through body intelligence and better health. She draws on 30 years of experience in health promotion including in the fields of nutrition (as a dietitian), body image, sleep science and workplace health.
Thea is committed to rehumanising our work ethic so it is fashioned around human biological rhythms rather than around machines. That's why she is a Naptivist, promoting the powernap as the new coffee break. She also promotes a life stage approach to worker wellbeing, so different stages of the life cycle, such as menopause, can be accommodated.
Nap NowLearn How to PowernapNap Before You Snapvideo
The Change - empowering working women through menopause.
2 min video about The Change
Thea’s book recommendations:The Art of Napping at Work (Anthony)Take a Nap! Change your Life. (Mednick)The Curly Pajama Letters (Leunig)
northstarsleepschool.com/podcast
New York Times bestselling author Chip Conley is the hospitality maverick who helped Airbnb's founders turn their fast-growing tech start-up into a global hospitality brand. In Wisdom@Work: The Making of a Modern Elder he shares his unexpected journey at midlife — from CEO to intern — learning about technology as Airbnb’s Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy, while also mentoring CEO Brian Chesky. Chip is the founder of the Modern Elder Academy, where a new roadmap for midlife is offered at a beautiful oceanfront campus in Baja California Sur, Mexico. He serves on the board of Encore.org and the advisory board for the Stanford Center for Longevity. www.ChipConley.com
Modernelderacademy.com
Sabbatical Sessions / themed weeks
Wisdomwell.modernelderacademy.com
Linkedin: @chipconleysf
Facebook: @chipconleyauthor
Twitter: @chipconley
encore.orgStanford Center for LongevitySleep Score
Chip’s books:
- The Rebel Rules: Daring to be Yourself in Business
- Marketing That Matters: 10 Practices to Profit Your Business and Change the World
- PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow Emotional Equations:
- Simple Steps for Creating Happiness + Success in Business + Life
- Wisdom@Work: The Making of a Modern Elder
Chip’s book recommendations:
- Man’s Search for Meaning(Viktor E. Frankl)
- The 40 Rules of Love (Elif Shafak)
- Life is in the Transitions (Bruce Feiler)
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In this episode, Tara Youngblood, Co-Founder and CEO at Chili Sleep, shares why temperature is such a critical component of getting good sleep. She’s the author of Reprogram Your Sleep: The Sleep Recipe That Works and a highly regarded international speaker to high profile platforms including TEDx, Skookum Tech Talks, and National Sleep Foundation’s Sleep Show.
chiliPADWhite paper on connection between temperature and deep sleepOOLERHow a Sleep Recipe Changed My Life TedX talk by Tara Youngblood (Dec 2019)Reprogram Your Sleep (Tara Youngblood)The Sleep Geek Coach Instagram : @the_sleep_geek
Twitter: @the_sleep_geek_
Facebook: @sleepgeek.me
Yoga Nidra
COUPON CODES for any listeners who want to purchase the Chilpad or Ooler on the chiliPAD website:
NSSS25 – 25% off chiliPAD NSSS15 – 15% off OOLER
BOOKS Tara recommends:Tiny Habits (BJ Fogg)Why We Can’t Sleep (Ada Calhoun)NPR episode with Ada CalhounWhy We Sleep (Matthew Walker)The Order of Time (Carlo Rovelli)
northstarsleepschool.com/podcast#tarayoungblood #sleep #insomnia #chilipad #ooler #sleepgeek #gratitude #sleephacking #weightedblanket #grounding #EMF #chronotypes
Alan Donegan is co-founder of the PopUp Business School, which has helped over 7000 people in six countries start their own companies.
Alan is also a well-known member of the FIRE Movement (Financial Independence, Retire Early), he’s a Chautauqua speaker (which we talk about in this episode) and an outspoken critic of both traditional business and financial advice.
Alan works tirelessly to inspire people to take control of their own financial destiny, making and investing their own money to build the life of their dreams. He does this through PopUp Business School, Rebel Entrepreneur Podcast, and his blog Alandonegan.com
Resources:
www.Alandonegan.com
Pop-Up Business School
F.I.R.E. resources:
Playing with Fire
Chautauqua
Choose FI
JL Collins
Mr. Money Mustache
Millennial Revolution
Alan’s book recommendations:
The Simple Path to Wealth (JL Collins)
The Four Hour Body (Tim Ferriss)
northstarsleepschool.com/podcast
Many of us check our email within 30 seconds of waking. Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, author of three books, Shorter, Rest, and The Distraction Addiction, shares in this episode why we might consider refocusing our relationship with technology (“managing our attention”), why mind wandering, deep play, and rest are so critical for creativity and problem solving, and why many companies are successfully adopting a four-day workweek or a shorter workday.
Resources:"How better routines create happier workers," (Financial Times, Sept 2020)
"How do you switch to a four-day week?” Kingsley (The Economist Applied) (Oct 2020)
“Surprising COVID-19 Side Effect: More Companies Adopt the 4-day Workweek,” Fast Company, Aug 2020.
“To Safely Reopen, Make the Workweek Shorter. Then Keep It Shorter,” The Atlantic, Apr 2020.
“It’s Time to End 9-5 Office Hours,” The Guardian, Mar 2020.
“Shorter Hours Make Stronger Businesses,” Wall Street Journal, Feb 2020.
“Why Companies Should Say Goodbye to the 996 Work Culture, and Hello to 4-day Weeks,” South China Morning Post, Apr 2019.
Talks at Google- Alex's interview at Google (2019)
Strategy and Rest- Alex’s consultancy
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/askpang
Twitter and Instagram: @askpang
Alex’s book recommendations:The Innovation Delusion (Vinsel + Russell)
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Csikszentmihalyi)
The First Emancipator: Slavery, Religion, and the Quiet Revolution of Robert Carter (Levy)
Bio:Alex Soojung-Kim Pang studies people, technologies, and the worlds they make. His latest book SHORTER explains how companies all over the world, in a variety of industries, are shortening their working hours while improving productivity and profitability.
Through his company Strategy + Rest, Alex speaks and works around the world with companies who want to apply these insights in their organizations.
Alex received a Ph.D. in history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania, and has been a lecturer or visiting scholar at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Oxford University, and Microsoft Research Cambridge.
Alex lives in Silicon Valley.
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Shauna Sadowski’s career as a sustainability leader in food companies has spanned from Clif Bar to Annie’s to General Mills to Simple Mills, where she is now. Shauna grew up with six siblings on a farm in Saskatchewan, Canada and has an intimate understanding of how agricultural and farming systems connect to the foods we eat, why that matters, and what a food business can do about it. She has leveraged her background in business and agriculture to be a voice for change in the food industry, including as a huge advocate of regenerative agriculture which we’ll dig into today.
Resources:
- Simple Mills
- General Mills on Why Biodiversity is Key to Success (2019) (Food Tech Connect)
- The Kirschenmann Lecture (2019): How Big Food Can Drive Big Change: Scaling Regenerative Agriculture for Everyone (Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture)
- Patagonia Provisions
- Quinn Snacks
- “How Regenerative Agriculture and organic farming helps the earth” (Food Dive, 2019)
- “How regenerative land and livestock management practices can sequester carbon,” (GreenBiz, 2019)
- Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
- The Land Institute: kernza
- Project Drawdown
- Frog Hollow Farm
- River Dog Farm
Books Shauna recommends:Positivity (Barbara Frederickson)
Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
Dirt (David Montgomery)
The Hidden Half of Nature (David Montgomery)
Growing a Revolution (David Montgomery)
Pulse: the Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by Living Things (Robert Frenay)
Dinner- Melissa Clark
Anthony Michael Russo's career pursuits span from emceeing large sporting events like NCAA championships and the Super Bowl, to motivational speaking, to founding an organization/platform/movement called #Be the Change. Drawing on his roots with a gambling-addicted father, Anthony embraces what he calls the "double down approach" and has found failure, coupled with positivity, can accelerate success.
Resources:
#bethechange
BetheChange Facebook page
Be the Change YouTube channel
Double Down Strategy
The Dallas Five- NY Times article about 2016 event that inspired Anthony to start #bethechange
Truth Will Set You Free (#bethechange’s podcast)
Biscuits & Gravy
Streetlights Unity Movement
Anthony’s recommended books:
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea (Bob Burg and John David Mann)
Becoming Supernatural (Dr. Joe Dispenza)
anthonymichaelrusso #bethechange; #doubledownstrategy #positivity #motivationalspeaking #emceeing #overcomingfailure #gamblingaddiction #resilience #changemaking #risktaking #streetlightsunitymovement
In this episode, Sarah Nelson shares the history of 18 Reasons, a San Francisco-based nonprofit cooking school, and what strategies she's using to successfully navigate the organization through a pandemic. Sarah explains the E.O.S. system for running the most efficient and productive team meetings you've ever heard of and also offers secrets on how she successfully got her baby to sleep through the night consistently.
About Sarah:
Sarah Nelson has worked on food-related projects in the Bay Area since 2008. She launched Cooking Matters in the Bay Area in 2010 to bring free cooking classes to low-income families. In her youth, she taught yoga and guided bicycle tours in France. In 2011, she founded the nonprofit Three Squares, which merged with 18 Reasons in 2013. She is passionate about cooking, rock climbing, riding her bike, and, yes, her job. She lives in San Francisco with her partner and daughter. Contact her at sarah@18reasons.org.
Resources:
18 Reasons
- Free tickets to Annual Fundraiser (Oct 13 @6pm PST, virtual)
- Volunteer
- Upcoming cooking classes
- Membership
- Donate
Entrepreneurial Operating System (E.O.S.)
Asana- web and mobile app to help teams organize, track, and manage their work
Slack- communications platform
Buy Nothing Project / Facebook groups
Baby Wise Facebook group
Sarah’s book recommendations:
Traction (Gino Wickman)
Get a Grip (Gino Wickman & Mike Paton)
On Becoming Baby Wise (Robert Buckman MD & Gary Ezzo)
Salt Fat Acid Heat (Samin Nosrat)
18Reasons, #sanfrancisco #cookingschool, #cooking, #culinaryskills #community #yoga #mysoreashtangayoga #entrepreneurialoperatingsystem #effectivemeetings #sleep #sleepforbabies #babywise #buynothing
www.northstarsleepschool.com/podcast
In 1967, while a student at San Francisco State University, Charles Hall designed a 300 lb gelatin-filled chair for his masters thesis. This concept eventually evolved into the modern day water bed. He has also designed and earned over 40 patents for other products, from inflatable kayaks to solar showers. In this episode, we'll hear from Charles about his various designs, why a water bed might provide a better night's sleep than a traditional mattress, and how Charles has recently revamped the water bed into a version for today, called AFLOAT.
Charles’s current companies:
Advanced Elements- inflatable kayaks
Afloat- redesigned waterbed
Articles/videos/podcasts about Charles:
“Meet the Man who Invented the waterbed after the ‘60s ‘Summer of Love’”- Business InsiderCuriosity-ness: Inventor of the Waterbed, Charles Hall (video)
The Squishiest, Sweetest Sleep The New York Times
A new wave in waterbeds: Introducing the afloat CBS- video + article
Meet the Bainbridge Island Man who Invented the waterbed (King 5)- video
“Who Made That Water Bed?” The New York Times
The Groovy Origins of the Waterbed (YouTube video)
The History of Waterbeds (YouTube video)
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson podcast (S3: EP6)
Waterbed- Wikipedia
Sleep tracker he uses:
Sleep Tracker AI
His book recommendation:
Game Changer: The Story of Pictionary and How I Turned a Simple Idea into the Bestselling Board Game in the World (Rob Angel)
Bio:
- Born Miami Beach, FL
- High school in St. Louis, MS
- Attended Univ. of Miami
- Transferred to SF State Univ. (BA in history)
- After graduation, found his true interest was in product design, entered industrial design dept, SF State University; received MA in product design
- Developed modern day water bed while a grad student
- Waterbed first showing was at cannery art gallery in San Francisco, Aug 1968
- Started Waterbed manufacturing and retail company (Inner Space Environments). Grew to 32 retail stores throughout CA
- Applied for and received US patent on basic waterbed concept. Patent validity upheld in 9th district US federal court. Judgment against one of largest infringers exceeded $6M
- Founded Basic Designs company that designed and manufactured camping, outdoor, and sailboat equipment. Later sold the company to division of K2
- Cofounder of Advanced Elements, design and manufacturing company for inflatable kayaks and other outdoor equipment
- Cofounder of Hall Flotation, manufacturers of AFLOAT waterbeds, the reimagined improved and updated modern day waterbed
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Kraig Kempt was described in 2012 in a Bozeman Daily Chronicle article as “a hulking athlete of a man and lifelong skier.” That’s for sure. Kraig has been a highly successful ski racer, an alpine ski racing coach and director for 33 years in Bozeman and beyond, an ultimate frisbee national champion, and an entrepreneur. In 2009, Kraig experienced a traumatic skiing accident, resulting in amputation of his leg nearly three years after. He has been rebuilding his life and lifestyle since then.
Videos of Kraig:
Whitetail Peak: The Inspirational Story of One Man’s Overcoming the Loss of his leg (Sept 2020)
Bridger Bowl Powder Day with Sly Dog Production (video)
Kraig Kempt- amputee skier, paralympic hopeful (2012 video; 3 mins)
Winter flight 1988 (video at Bridger Bowl)
Articles of Kraig:
Former Montana State ski coach Paralympic hopeful (Bozeman Chronicle article, 2012)
Ridge Run links:
Ridge Run event website
Ridge Run (article on the trail run)
Ridge Run- video by Eric Bendick/Grizzly Creek Films – Part One
Ridge Run video by Eric Bendick/Grizzly Creek Films – Part One
Amputee Resources:
Amputee Coalition
Kraig’s recommended reading:
The Race of My Life- Hermann Maier
The Alpinist publication
Ski Racing
How to connect with Kraig:
Kraig’s Instagram page
Kraig’s Facebook page
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Charles Vogl supports leaders in technology, finance and government to grow more effective in creating change. Using principles drawn from 3000 years of spiritual traditions, he teaches how to build critical connections for leadership that impacts generations.
In his 20s, Charles served in the U.S. Peace Corps in northern Zambia. There, he witnessed inspirational community inside his rural village. After the Peace Corps, Charles founded Broken English Productions in New York City. His PBS projects touch on topics such as education, school reform and civil rights advocacy. His film work won many awards including the Amnesty International prestigious “Movies That Matter” award.
He is the author of three books, his first book, the international bestseller, The Art of Community, shares how both community and belonging can be built through time-tested principles and rituals. The book is a guide to creating meaningful communities that enrich both individuals and humanity. It won a Nautilus Book Award for Business and Leadership writing. His latest book, Building Brand Communities, speaks specifically to organization leaders connecting the people important for success.
Charles is also an advisor to Google’s global performance and health programs and a member of the Google Vitality Lab where he collaborates to innovate healing in our era.
Show notes:
www.Charlesvogl.com
Building Brand Communities by Charles Vogl
Storytelling for Leaders: Creating Authentic Connections by Charles Vogl
Art of Community by Charles Vogl
Community & Accountability
Simple Invitations Matter
Talks@Google: The Art of Community & Belonging YouTube video
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Kendall Youngblood is a recovering achiever who walked away from a six figure salary over six years ago. Since then, she has been exploring the transformative power of choosing pleasure. She and her husband of 19 years and their two teenage daughters are “unschoolers,” meaning they learn by following their passions and interests. They are also unlearning the cultural stories that no longer serve people or the planet. They gave up their home a year ago to travel the world. They made it through 26 of the US states living in a 24’ RV (160 square feet of living space!) before the virus inspired their current chapter—putting roots down on a farm and yoga retreat in the forests of Oregon.
The Huffington Post has referred to Carl Honoré as “The unofficial godfather of a growing cultural shift toward slowing down.” His first book, titled In Praise of Slow is an international best-seller. His 2005 TedTalk on this topic has gotten over 3 Million views. Before spearheading the Slow Movement, Carl spent a decade working as a journalist. He covered Europe and South America for the Economist, Observer, Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, Time, National Post and other publications. Carl grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and is based in London.
By age 16, Rory Martin had already lived on five continents due to his father’s career as a US diplomat. Rory was born in Bogota, Colombia, and grew up there as well as in Paraguay, Brazil, Pakistan, Iceland, and Botswana.
His adventures have continued into his adult life, from the Russian Arctic to the South Pole. He even re-entered the workforce to pursue his passion for expedition travel. Rory currently resides in Bozeman, MT.
When Jeff Kirchick was a 17 year-old high school senior, he fell asleep at the wheel while on the way home from soccer practice and crashed into a tree. In this episode, we’ll get to the bottom of what caused the accident and what Jeff has learned from it….
In January, Amy Yip left her job at Google, sold everything in her New York apartment, and took a 1-way flight out to Ghana with her husband to volunteer at a breast cancer non-profit. The plan was to volunteer until May then start traveling around the world. Clearly COVID had different plans for them. Amy is still in Ghana now and embracing the gift in all of this: the time to focus on her area of passion: inspiring and empowering more women to let go of their 'should's' and write the narrative they want to tell about the rest of their life.