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James Miller | Lifeology is a 30 minute weekly inspirational radio show dedicated to teaching practical life lessons. The concept of Lifeology (study of life) asserts that there is always a lesson to learn in life. We are all linked by our ability to express and feel emotions but the scenario in which it is experienced will be different for each person. What sets Lifeology apart from other radio shows is James is licensed psychotherapist with years of experience. In each episode he teaches v ...
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Jeff Kushmerek, with 20 + years of software professional services experience, gets deep into the details of Customer Success, Implementation, and Professional Services in software. Joined by experts in the industry, he covers everything from ops, growing teams, selling services and products, customer success, and everything in between.
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(Recorded September 18 2024) Over past decades, abundance and peace have become the prevailing narratives in modern societies. The reality, as usual, is both more nuanced and more complex. Today, our financial and material wealth exists in parallel with declines in natural and social capital. Similarly, recent decades have caused us to become uber …
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(Conversation recorded on July 30th, 2024) The science surrounding our planet’s dynamic and complex climate can be difficult to understand, and perhaps even more challenging to decipher what the actual realities and trajectories are among so much media coverage. Yet the study of Earth’s systems has been ongoing for decades, with a majority of scien…
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Episode 593: Today I chat with artist, muralist, podcast host, teacher, & mother, Brandi Hofer. She’s a master at juggling it all. We talk about being thankful for burnout, the positive way motherhood has affected her career, “Be Brave Days,” & much more! All images used with permission. This episode is brought to you by: The post My chat with arti…
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(Conversation recorded on September 3rd, 2024) As the United States continues to play a major role in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the risk of a direct engagement, possibly leading to a nuclear exchange, may now be higher than ever. In this episode, Nate is joined by Professor Jeffrey Sachs to discuss the escalating tensions between the…
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Episode 592: Today I chat with Sewist, Elizabeth Watkins. I’ve known Elizabeth for years & known about her sewing career, but she’s started doing these new things called fabric collages, which are fabulous! I knew I had get her on the pod to chat with her about it. All images used with permission. This episode is brought to you by: The post My chat…
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(Conversation recorded on July 24th, 2024) In the past century of abundant energy surplus, humanity’s globalized, large-scale approach to problem-solving has yielded remarkable benefits and innovations. However, as we face a future with reduced energy resources, mounting waste, and a biosphere in danger, the negative impacts of this approach are in…
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(Conversation recorded on May 8th, 2024) Without a systems lens, the full reality of the human predicament will never be understood. It is only when we adopt this kind of holistic, wide-boundary thinking that we are able to see the complexity and nuance of how the biosphere, geopolitics, economics, energy, and many other systems interplay with and …
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Episode 590: Listen to my chat with restauranteur, Irene Demas, who didn’t know when she & her husband traded a grilled cheese sandwich for a Maud Lewis painting that it would net them $272 thousand 52 years later! This episode is brought to you by: The post Irene Demas: From Grilled Cheese to Maud Lewis Painting appeared first on Let's Talk Art Wi…
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(Conversation recorded on July 17th, 2024) Addressing the risks we face on a global scale is a challenge that can feel both enormous in execution and personally daunting. When it comes to finding the motivation and inspiration to do such work, one of the best sources of insight comes from the visionaries and activists who have come before us, who k…
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(Recorded August 11, 2024) The content of The Great Simplification (on Youtube and in real life) can be complex, nuanced and multi-faceted. In today’s Frankly, Nate offers reflections on a selection of viewers’ direct questions about the myriad topics covered on this channel. The goal of this podcast is to integrate the head, the heart and the hand…
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(Conversation recorded on July 25th, 2024) Show Summary: Human overpopulation is often depicted in the media in one of two ways: as either a catastrophic disaster or an overly-exaggerated concern. Yet the data understood by scientists and researchers is clear. So what is the actual state of our overshoot, and, despite our growing numbers, are we al…
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Episode 589: Today I talk to Expressionist artist, Caroline Rust. She does these fabulous paintings with textiles that are heavily influenced by things like history, women’s rights, & intuition. We talk talk creative vs. administrative work, listening to your gut, & the history of the baker’s dozen. This episode is brought to you by: The post Liste…
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(Recorded August 5 2024) As a problem-solving species, technology is an embedded part of the human experience – we assess, innovate, invent and adapt. But as we move out of the anomalous era we have just lived through and into less stable economic, social, geopolitical and ecological circumstances, humanity will require different kinds of innovatio…
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(Conversation recorded on June 25th, 2024) Although artificial intelligence tends to dominate conversations about solving our most daunting global challenges, we may actually find some of the most potent ideas hiding in plain sight in the natural world around us. In this episode, Nate is joined by Janine Benyus, who has spent decades advocating for…
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(Recorded July 23 2024) Description In this week’s Frankly, (coincidentally released the day after Earth Overshoot Day), Nate breaks down seven factors contributing to humanity’s increasing overshoot – which is defined as the point at which species’ use of ecological resources and services exceeds what Earth can regenerate in a given time period – …
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(Conversation recorded on June 19th, 2024) Show Summary: While the mainstream conversation about our planet’s future is heavily dominated by the topic of climate change, there are other systems which are just as critical to consider when thinking about the health and livability of our world. Just like climate change, each of these systems has its o…
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(Conversation recorded on June 14th, 2024) Show Summary: There’s a growing understanding of the need for biodiversity across ecosystems for a healthy and resilient biosphere. What if we applied the same principles to the way we communicate and use language to relate to each other and the world? Today Nate is joined by Nora Bateson, Rex Weyler, Vane…
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Episode 587: Today I talk to Jeffrey Katzin about the Cleveland Urban Folk artist Michelangelo Lovelace. His goal was to document the realities of inner city life. His his current exhibition Art Saved My Life currently showing at the Akron Art Museum. It goes until August 18, 2024. This is such an inspiring story! At the Intersection of St. Clair a…
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Recorded July 23 2024 In this week’s Frankly, Nate addresses the common desire for solutions to the human predicament - and why the championing of “solutions” is less clear-cut than we might perceive. To this end, he offers a three-dimensional model for thinking about a framework for responses. Effective responses greatly depend on the context of a…
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(Conversation recorded on June 12th, 2024) Show Summary: As we move through difficult cultural transitions and rethink our governance systems, it will be critical that we listen to voices that are rooted beyond the conventional Western thinking that has come to dominate our society. As such, it is always an honor when Indigenous leaders share their…
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Episode 586: Dr. Tom Hanchett, aka “Dr. History,” is a local historian & author in Charlotte, NC. I met him at the local library when he was talking about our city’s food culture when I realized he had the perfect career: He gets to investigate all sorts of cool things [& report about them]. I find out how his career developed & what he does. This …
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Recorded July 16 2024 Description Following the attempted assassination of former United States President Donald J. Trump, Nate reflects on the dysfunctional social dynamics which have brought many of us to high levels of tribalism and mistrust toward others and divorced from the deeper challenges facing us in coming decades. As humans, we all - fo…
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(Conversation recorded on June 27th, 2024) Show Summary: Artificial intelligence has been advancing at a break-neck pace. Accompanying this is an almost frenzied optimism that AI will fix our most pressing global problems, particularly when it comes to the hype surrounding climate solutions. In this episode, Daniel Schmachtenberger joins Nate to ta…
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(Recorded July 8 2024) There are many so-called ‘solutions’ out there that, upon first glance, seem like great ideas - yet when we look beyond the narrow scope of the immediate benefits, we discover a slew of unintended (and often counterproductive) consequences. Today’s Frankly offers a series of examples of modern issues using a “wide-boundary” l…
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(Conversation recorded on June 14th, 2024) Show Summary: If plants are considered the lungs of the Earth, cycling CO2 into oxygen for animals to breathe, then animals act as the heart and arteries, spreading nutrients across the Earth to where it’s needed most. This is the metaphor that today’s guest, conservation biologist Joe Roman, uses when des…
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Episode 587: Today I am talking with Flanzella. She’s a collage artist from Toronto, Canada. She uses vintage & historical magazines & let me tell you, it is lush. We talk inspiration, we talk process, we talk business, we cover it all. All images used with permission. This episode is brought to you by: The post Check out my chat with Toronto based…
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(Conversation recorded on May 16th, 2024) Show Summary: At the intersection between science and spirituality lies some of the most profound questions we can ask ourselves about the future - the answers to which could mean the difference between humanity’s mere survival or a flourishing. Today’s episode with Peabody-award winning broadcaster Krista …
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