Best Spencer Cohn Podcasts (2024)

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785: Josh Bandoch, part 1: Teaching persuasion and leadership 1:20:20

8h ago1:20:20

1:20:20

I participated in an online workshop in influence and persuasion that Josh led. We got in touch afterward and found our approaches to the practices and how to learn them overlap. We start this episode talking about his background and what led him to learning and training others in the practices. Then we talk about what we like about learning and pr…

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784: Serving in Uniform on September 11, 2024 14:42

19d ago14:42

14:42

If you haven't listened to episode 781: My New Major Life Volunteering Community Project, four years in the making, listen to it first for context. That episode describes my journey to start volunteering as an auxiliary police officer and the background to it. Depending on how well you know me or not, you may find the activity as surprising as I do…

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783: Jan Mulder, part 1: Listening to every episode of this podcast, starting from episode 000 1:11:03

21d ago1:11:03

1:11:03

Jan is a listener of this podcast who contacted me about how it changed his life. He is listening to each episode, starting from the beginning. I invited him to be a guest and he accepted. We've also crossed paths through working with podcast guest Dave Gardner, and his work in Growthbusters and running for President of the United States. Jan is Du…

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782: Jane Muncke PhD MSc: Toxins in your food from plastic packaging. You'd rather know. 43:39

1M ago43:39

43:39

Toxic chemicals leach from food packaging into your food. Some of these chemicals disrupt your hormones. Some cause cancer. Some affect your children more. Some disperse into the environment and harm wildlife. For 300,000 years, humans lived without plastic. We created this system, maybe thinking only of the effects we wanted, imagining these toxic…

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781: My New Major Life Volunteering Community Project, four years in the making 44:33

2M ago44:33

44:33

I started a new project volunteering in my community that is also a big life change I wouldn't believe I'm doing except that I am. In a sense I started the project over four years ago and it's only seeing the light of day now. Sorry I'm writing little about and the episode is long, but for now I wanted only those interested to learn in so you have …

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780: Jack Spencer, part 2: Policy and the Individual Choosing 52:41

2M ago52:41

52:41

Jack shares his love for nature and passion to care for it, how central it is to his life, how much of his time and focus he devotes to it. He shares his principles of individual choice over top-down regulation. He especially opposes government subsidy for squashing innovation, including industries he prefers, like nuclear. He's not anti-government…

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779: Nick Loris, part 2: Freedom to Explore, Freedom to Choose 1:03:58

2M ago1:03:58

1:03:58

Nick and I talk about freedom, liberty, personal action and, however paradoxical to most people, how important personal behavior is in changing systems. Then we talk about markets, regulation, and democracy and how they interact with community norms. Looking at the words markets, regulation, and democracy, they may look academic or abstract, but I …

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778: The Entrepreneurial Strategy to Restore Sustainability Globally Without Waiting for Governments and Corporations 21:27

2M ago21:27

21:27

This episode follows up the last one, on how you can learn sustainability leadership through our workshops, so you can practice sustainability joyfully. You can teach others to, and teach others to teach others. If the process only led to a few people changing, or even many, it wouldn't be worth pursuing. Unlike almost any sustainability work, it c…

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777: How the Spodek Method Workshop Differs From Other Sustainability Work 18:21

2M ago18:21

18:21

If you've listened to a lot of this podcast, you've heard me walk guests through sharing their values on sustainability and acting on them. Why do they enjoy what most people consider deprivation and sacrifice? You can learn to do it. A growing team of us teach workshops in sustainability leadership. One is coming up, September 10, 2024. You can be…

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776: Chuck Marohn, part 1: Strong Towns and Sustainability Leadership 58:16

2M ago58:16

58:16

I'd heard of Strong Towns for years, mainly through guest Jason Slaughter's Not Just Bikes video series, and finally joined the community by taking a couple of their courses. I can't recommend them enough. Chuck Marohn founded that community. He found and publicized several of their core discoveries. Some include: North American cities grow based o…

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775: Bruce Alexander, part 4: The Spodek Method clicks at last! 44:34

2M ago44:34

44:34

You've probably listened to Bruce's past three episodes, so you probably know he wants a path to exist that leads people to want to live more sustainably and spread that change to others. It would mean them overcoming their addictions. By them, I mean all of us, since if we order takeout, fly, and drive big cars, we're in the group that has to chan…

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774: Alden Wicker, part 1.5: Foraging Is Fun 44:20

2M ago44:20

44:20

I ask guests to do episodes 1.5 when they tell me they couldn't do their Spodek Method commitment or keep postponing. Sometimes they say they don't want to share that they didn't do it. But experience has shown that talking about that vulnerability by sharing that they didn't do it overcomes it. Then redoing the Spodek Method usually leads to it wo…

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773: Frederic Laloux, part 1: His program, "The Week," creates space for conversations on the environment 1:10:29

2M ago1:10:29

1:10:29

Frederic describes his program The Week in our conversation. I did it last year, invited by a friend (whom I misname in our conversation, sorry) and recognized him. Podcast guest and mutual friend Lorna Davis had introduced us before he had started creating The Week. The Week is one of the few programs on sustainability approaching it as a leadersh…

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772: Bruce Alexander, part 3: Advanced Spodek Method 1:06:56

3M ago1:06:56

1:06:56

I find this series of conversations with Bruce to be ending up excellent examples to learn advanced Spodek Method from. I think they're also engaging. I certainly enjoyed the conversations with Bruce. You can tell he believes in the vision and isn't trying to answer askew, or maybe I'm not picking up on cues, but the interaction is both not clickin…

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771: Jack Spencer, part 1: The Heritage Foundation, limited government, free markets and the environment 1:03:51

3M ago1:03:51

1:03:51

Regular readers of my blog know I took a course, Conservatism 101, from the Leadership Institute, which led me to read conservative literature I hadn't before: Edmund Burke, Frederic Bastiat, Friedrich Hayek, Russell Kirk, and more. This reading came after I started reading and watching Milton Friedman, Julian Simon, Ayn Rand, and current followers…

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770: Nick Loris, part 1: A limited government free market approach to our environmental problems 1:04:23

3M ago1:04:23

1:04:23

Regular readers of my blog know I took a course, Conservatism 101, from the Leadership Institute, which led me to read conservative literature I hadn't before: Edmund Burke, Frederic Bastiat, Friedrich Hayek, Russell Kirk, and more. This reading came after I started reading and watching Milton Friedman, Julian Simon, Ayn Rand, and current followers…

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769: Kevin Fucillo, part 1: An inside view of our community fridge and its volunteers 46:18

3M ago46:18

46:18

Kevin and I talk about volunteering at the Chelsea Community Fridge, how it formed, how it's evolved, and our roles. You'll hear he's involved with it more. I was curious to learn about parts I don't know about. It's outdoors so it operates 24/7, 365 days a year. New York City has no lack of hungry people, nor places with extra food. It's insane to…

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768: Trish and Evelyn, part 2: The birth of sustainability awards 51:02

4M ago51:02

51:02

Trish and Evelyn took the workshop, and neither seriously acted on sustainability before it, so one thing to listen for in this conversation is what people who look at personally living more sustainably sound like. I think it's safe to say we have fun. Partly we express exasperation at the depravity of our polluting and depleting culture. We also s…

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767: Andrew Bennett, part 2: Behind the scenes with a New York City chef 47:13

4M ago47:13

47:13

If you like food, you'll love this episode. I shared before how unbelievably delicious Andrew's food was, even if it were at a top restaurant. But he works at a hospital, so it was healthy too. I almost don't go to restaurants any more since they just pile salt, sugar, and fat onto everything. I don't need a stick of butter in every dish. I also ta…

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766: Chip Conley, part 1: Learning to Love Midlife 46:52

4M ago46:52

46:52

I'd heard about Chip long ago but only met him recently at a launch event for his book Learning to Love Midlife. It resonated since at 52 years old, I was smack in the middle of the part of life he was talking about, after adulthood but before old age. I've also been approached by universities with programs for people in their third acts. A big top…

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765: Bruce Alexander, part 2: Can the Spodek Method scale from the individual to the world? 1:19:00

4M ago1:19:00

1:19:00

I think I can safely say Bruce and I have formed a friendship, both professional and from similar interests, even though he's retired and I'm not a psychologist. I learn psychology to help lead. We're both intrigued by addiction. We both want to improve our environmental situation, not just give in. He likes the idea of the Spodek Method. He hopes …

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764: Erica Frank, part 2: "No Hairshirt At All." Instead: Abundance 1:02:13

4M ago1:02:13

1:02:13

I rarely get to talk to people who expect living more sustainably to be joyful and rewarding from personal experience, not just hoping for the best. I enjoyed sharing that perspective with Erica last time, I invited her back with no specific agenda. This episode presents conversation between two people who have left mainstream culture and are livin…

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763: Guy Spier, part 2: Limited government, free market, low tax sustainability solutions 1:27:25

4M ago1:27:25

1:27:25

I loved where this conversation led. We began by talking about recent news: Greta Thunberg taking a political stand and acting publicly on it on an issue unrelated to the environment. Guy described how he saw this action distracting and undermining her credibility in sustainability. We got to talking about overwhelming tribalism today. In the proce…

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762: Chef Andrew Bennett: Changing the Culture of Hospital Food 1:12:29

4M ago1:12:29

1:12:29

I start my conversation with Andy with what brought me to him: the meal after recording with the guy who hired him, podcast guest Sven Gierlinger, and the Washington Post article that read like a paid ad for their food, Hospital food is a punchline. These chefs are redefining it. I didn't record in my conversation with Sven how off-the-charts the f…

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761: Dave Kerpen, part 2: Joyfully Skipping Donuts 23:04

4M ago23:04

23:04

This conversation was brief, but covered the important points, particularly the challenges of changing habits. Dave didn't do everything he intended, though I thought he succeeded more than he did. The goal of the Spodek Method isn't to make big changes, though some do, but to share and act on intrinsic motivation relevant to nature and the environ…

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785: Josh Bandoch, part 1: Teaching persuasion and leadership 1:20:20

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784: Serving in Uniform on September 11, 2024 14:42

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783: Jan Mulder, part 1: Listening to every episode of this podcast, starting from episode 000 1:11:03

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782: Jane Muncke PhD MSc: Toxins in your food from plastic packaging. You'd rather know. 43:39

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781: My New Major Life Volunteering Community Project, four years in the making 44:33

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780: Jack Spencer, part 2: Policy and the Individual Choosing 52:41

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779: Nick Loris, part 2: Freedom to Explore, Freedom to Choose 1:03:58

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778: The Entrepreneurial Strategy to Restore Sustainability Globally Without Waiting for Governments and Corporations 21:27

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777: How the Spodek Method Workshop Differs From Other Sustainability Work 18:21

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776: Chuck Marohn, part 1: Strong Towns and Sustainability Leadership 58:16

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775: Bruce Alexander, part 4: The Spodek Method clicks at last! 44:34

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774: Alden Wicker, part 1.5: Foraging Is Fun 44:20

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773: Frederic Laloux, part 1: His program, "The Week," creates space for conversations on the environment 1:10:29

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772: Bruce Alexander, part 3: Advanced Spodek Method 1:06:56

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771: Jack Spencer, part 1: The Heritage Foundation, limited government, free markets and the environment 1:03:51

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770: Nick Loris, part 1: A limited government free market approach to our environmental problems 1:04:23

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769: Kevin Fucillo, part 1: An inside view of our community fridge and its volunteers 46:18

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768: Trish and Evelyn, part 2: The birth of sustainability awards 51:02

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767: Andrew Bennett, part 2: Behind the scenes with a New York City chef 47:13

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766: Chip Conley, part 1: Learning to Love Midlife 46:52

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765: Bruce Alexander, part 2: Can the Spodek Method scale from the individual to the world? 1:19:00

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764: Erica Frank, part 2: "No Hairshirt At All." Instead: Abundance 1:02:13

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763: Guy Spier, part 2: Limited government, free market, low tax sustainability solutions 1:27:25

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762: Chef Andrew Bennett: Changing the Culture of Hospital Food 1:12:29

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761: Dave Kerpen, part 2: Joyfully Skipping Donuts 23:04

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