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Episode 381. Kathleen discusses her one month experiment with a Continuous Glucose Monitor.
The quote mentioned in the podcast, “When we know better, we do better,” is by Maya Angelou.
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TIME STAMPS:0:00 – Intro
0:35 – Why did Kathleen choose to wear a CGM?
5:37 – Biggest takeaways from the CGM
7:02 – What contributes to high, healthy, and low glucose levels?
8:28 – No naked carbs
8:51 – Burger and fries vs. steak and fries
12:47 – Data driving habits
15:22 – Exercise and glucose levels
20:09 – Sleep and stress on glucose levels
22:33 – Nutrisense app
23:33 – Who should use a CGM?
29:08 – Why Nutrisense over other brands?
31:30 – Onboarding experience
32:53 – Does the application hurt?
33:59 – Supporting education in the app
35:09 – Wearing the CGM in public
38:03 – What Kathleen wishes was different about the CGM
40:33 – Maintaining healthy glucose levels vs. calorie needs
43:31 – A Gen Z’s perspective on CGMs
46:12 – Conclusion
Episode 380. Kathleen interviews Dr. Phillip Tabb about biophilia and thin places and how to instill more qualities of both into the design of our cities, neighborhoods and every day lives. Dr. Tabb is Professor Emeritus of Architecture at Texas A&M University, the land planner of Serenbe and the author of Serene Urbanism, Biophilic Urbanism, and the soon to be published Thin Places.
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TIME STAMPS:0:00 – Intro
1:00 – Placemaking
2:25 – The first place
2:56 – Sacred/charged places
3:30 – What makes a village vital?
4:00 – Patterns in charged places
9:27 – English vs. U.S. villages
17:03 – Placelessness in U.S.
18:30 – Serenity and placemaking
20:30 – Streetscape in U.S.
26:30 – What is Biophilia?
30:57 – Land planning with biophilic design
36:06 – Criticalness of biophilic design
38:52 – Define thin places
42:48 – Why are thin places important?
49:08 – Everyday thin places
52:26 – Phill’s favorite thin places
55:31 – Thin places in Ireland
1:01:42 – Positive outcomes of thin places, biophilia, critical land use, and placemaking
1:03:13 – Pro-individual positive outcomes
1:04:21 – Pro-social positive outcomes
1:05:55 – Pro-environmental positive outcomes
1:07:12 – Expression of these concepts in Serenbe
1:10:58 – Themes in Serenbe
1:15:37 – Grateful for Dr. Tab’s work!
1:18:02 – What made Serenbe possible
1:19:12 – Dr. Tab’s book recommendation
1:21:42 – Conclusion
Episode 379. Kathleen interviews Prudence Ferreira about the power of design and engineering to solve some of our country’s biggest housing and energy issues. Prudence serves on the PHIUS Board of Directors where she was previously president. She has consulted on over 30 passive design projects across seven different climate zones.
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TIME STAMPS:00:30 Passive design definition
00:35 A climate specific, cost optimized set of building science principles
00:55 A logical pathway to Net Zero
01:20 What constitutes passive design
2:45 Building as assets vs liabilities
04:25 Continuous insulation
04:35 Avoidance of thermal bridging
05:35 Energy recovery ventilation
05:50 Air sealing
09:36 It comes down to how we design and construct the building
10:10 Maintain comfortable temperatures reagardless what is going on outside in terms of extreme temps
10:35 Allows our homes to protect and shelter us regardless of what happens to the grid
11:45 It’s about paying amazing attention to design and then construction execution
12:41 Cost differentials to build with passive design methods
14:22 Scale – large projects like multifamily and dorms, drives down the costs and may even not add to the cost at all because of savings in other areas like mechanicals
14:30 Passive design certification
15:30 Scale and costs further explained
19:00 Large scale at a 1% cost premium for passive design, setting up a pathway to net zero buildings.
19:40 We have the technology, we have the building science know how to do net zero energy buildings that don’t cost any more than conventional buildigs
21:00 Less reliant on heating and cooling needs, thus financial savings once the building is operating
21:25 What kinds of energy reductions do we see with passive design and how does that equate to operating cost differentials?
23:15 Greatly reduced utility bills due to energy preservation. In a cold climate, the buildings heat themselves
23:35 Use and contain the heat thrown off from people, appliances, etc.
24:00 Not wasting any useful internal gains
24:15 How do energy reductions in passive design compare to conventional construction and other certifications like LEED
26:45 PHIUS – Sets passive house standards for North America
27:30 Climate specific passive house vs German passive house methods which are one size fits all
28:00 Why have we been slower in the United States to adopt this very basic, solid engineering approach?
30:40 The politics of energy. Not a left vs right thing, just solid engineering and building design.
34:00 Passive design and self reliance
34:30 Not dependent on the grid, energy independent
35:30 Not a political issue, an engineering issue. Engineering is above politics
36:00 Other barriers to passive design
36:15 Public misperception is that passive design is aesthetically unattractive. How do we overcome that barrier?
37:00 Early adopters, lessons learned.
37:30 Trump speech on passive house
38:00 Passive house can look like anything you want.
38:15 Passive house branding, and the word passive does not connect with people.
40:30 ‘Resilient’ as a better word than passive?
41:45 Passive design as a matter of national security.
42:30 The fragility and aging of our grid.
43:15 The Department of Defense, the Army Core of Engineers, Armed Forces
44:00 The state of Massachusetts, building code
44:15 Once local contractors have experience, things snowball
45:15 Train the trades
47:10 Once they go passive, they don’t go back
47:15 The builder gets to bring back a nobility to the trade.
47:30 Builders make a massive difference to the process
48:30 That contagious excitement and pride is contagious.
49:00 A noble, honorable trade
49:20 Experience as a solution
50:10 Personal journey
53:30 Thornton Tomasetti
58:20 Book Recommendation: Transforming Design and Construction
Episode 378. Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau answers listener questions and comments about meditation. Although there are many ways to approach meditation and to answer these questions, Kathleen responds directly from her personal experience and a practical approach.
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TIME STAMPS:00:00 Why Meditation?
00:43 See the Fiction, Drop the fiction
01:20 “I have tried meditation, but I am bad at it. I can’t sit still.
02:04 We practice meditation, we practice. That is how we become skillful.
02:30 Basketball analogy
03:11 “I play guitar. Isn’t this a form of meditation?”
03:30 Pilot/Fighter Jet
04:45 Meditation – 3 Skills
08:16 “How often should I meditate and how long should I do it?”
09:35 “Why focus on the breath? The breath feels vague to me.”
12:20 “I know that meditation would help me, but I do not have the time to do it.”
14:00 “I love meditation because it is a time I can solve my work problems.”
16:20 “I am religious and not sure how meditation fits into that.”
18:10 “The transition from the calm of meditation back to the reality of my day feels jolting. Any suggestions?”
20:55 “My back hurts when I try to sit in the meditation posture.”
23:00 The side benefit of meditation —the physical benefits.
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Episode 377. Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau shares five books that have a profound influence on her life.
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TIME STAMPS::43 The first book: A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein
1:50 If you have an interest in architecture, interior design, home building, urban planning
2:06 Why some places, buildings, rooms feel amazing and others do not
2:47 The second book: Collapse by Jared Diamond UCLA
3:07 The most important book I have ever read. Should be required reading.
4:04 How we should be building, where we should be building, urban planning, the environment, soil, erosion, farming.
4:29 The third book: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, Phd
4:55 My insomnia journey
6:39 The fourth book: Atomic Habits by James Clear
8:36 James Clear has the perfect name. Clear and robust writer
9:04 The fifth book: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
11:37 Passage from Maya Angelou
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Episode 376. Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau interviews architect Christopher Locke about his perspectives on the current state of architectural design and the influence that buildings, and who designs them, has on individuals and society at large.
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Links to Christopher Locke: Design in Color, Steinberg Hart
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TIME STAMPS::28 The current state of architecture
1:37 Who do architects serve?
2:09 Architecture in response to people, the times and politics
2:48 Diversification
2:58 Inherent tension/challenges of architecture
4:20 What makes for great building design?
6:11 Buildings as part of the public realm
7:21 Architecture as product
9:45 Product vs process
10:10 The politics of space
10:25 It takes strong leaders
10:37 The financial component how projects get funded
10:57 What drew Christopher to architecture
11:51 Architecture as lasting legacy
12:06 Architecture as stewardship
12:22 Righting the wrongs and amplifying voices
13:29 The positives of architecture are infectious
14:30 Architecture school, educational journey
14:47 Design in Color
16:49 Architecture and identity
19:12 A cross section of architecture
20:36 Roadblocks and springboards
21:00 A lack of black and brown architects
22:50 How do we solve for a lack of diversity in architecture?
24:23 Revisiting apprenticeship in architecture
26:33 Moving beyond quotas and token employees
29:38 What do you wish more young people knew?
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Episode 375. Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau shares her personal pickleball tips and her philosophy about why the sport is striking a chord.
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TIME STAMPS::37 Why? Why is pickbleball so popular?
2:14 An emphatic case for warming up.
2:34 Lateral movement, achilles tendon.
3:48 The ping pong comparison. Don’t sweat it.
4:45 Singles vs. Doubles.
7:00 Nobody to play with? You have options.
9:09 Bad habits. Nip them fast.
9:40 Pickleball lessons.
10:25 Affordable ways to play pickleball.
12:04 Strength work for lateral movement/knees/injury prevention.
15:20 Wrist and elbow injury.
16:38 Paddle tweaks. Grip size.
19:30 Inflammation.
20:37 Lower back.
23:04 The beauty of an athletic stance.
24:43 My bad habit is…
25:44 Nuance, touch, brain health, winning.
26:35 The downside of only hitting the ball hard.
27:44 A philosophical bend: Pickleball and the educational system. Feeling success, getting inspired, getting obsessed and staying in school.
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Kurt Paulsen is a Professor of Urban Planning in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
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TIME STAMPS:1:44 What makes a city great?
6:50 Urban Planning Definition
10:40 Los Angeles as case study
13:25 Cities born out of transportation
14:48 Accommodating the car, ceding control of the streets to the engineers
18:46 Growing up versus out
19:50 The American city has made driving cheap and housing expensive
23:10 Zoning tension
31:17 Soulless
24:21 Small town vitality
34:25 The nationalization of retail
36:05 State DOTs
36:28 We can stop doing stupid
39:04 The impact on humanity, the human experience
43:00 The public realm
46:36 The case for poetry
47:33 Learning what gets built and why
52:13 Breaking out of the scripts
Kathleen recommends three things to see, three things to pack and her unexpected spiritual takeaways.
A scenario we can all relate to. With practice, we become adept at staying cool cool when things don't go our way.
We grossly underestimate the impact that major life changes and transitions have on our emotions, our spirit, our energy.
Looking for clarity? Kathleen talks about how we can transcend racing thoughts and emotional fog...
No time to lift weights? Kathleen digs into the details of her daily 10 minute strength workout...
Kathleen talks about the impact our personal environment has on how our lives play out...
Kathleen opens with a reading from Mr. Henry David Thoreau which shines a bright light on what is possible...
We become what we consume. Drop the news. Drop the scrolling. Invite breathing space, nature and higher minded content into your days.
Sleep! Your highest level of performance, your immediate and long term health, your joy...cannot happen without adequate sleep...
We each have the power to elevate the energy of any room or suck the life right out of it. Can we pay more attention to that power?...
On days we want and need to bust out of small and contracted thinking, we can use the body as an entry point...
We trade our lives for money. Shouldn't we be taking a more mindful approach to our personal finances?
Kathleen talks about becoming aware of and transcending the labels that contain us, hold us back...limit us. On the other side? Freedom.
Can you imagine what your life would be if you could focus better? Can you imagine the impact on your life’s work?
Kathleen shares the one thing she can hang her hat on during the times she is feeling cornered or small.
Impermanence is everywhere and always has been. Prior to this current situation, most of us were asleep to that fact. We were lulled by concepts of normalcy and stability.
These dark times will become our finest hour ⏤ I have no doubt about that. But they will require the best of us in terms of ingenuity, awareness, creativity and resourcefulness.
In a word, this interview is thrilling. You will see yourself and everyone you know through a new lens resulting in an opportunity to unleash a more powerful side.