{"podcast":{"title":"This Sustainable Life","slug":"this-sustainable-life-924670","podcast_index_feed_id":924670,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/5a481aca95dfbf9d13d4dc6f","website_url":"http://joshuaspodek.com/podcast","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/5a481aca95dfbf9d13d4dc6f/1607568708606-ddbbab92b7e0736c16ba3a24a6ef974f.jpeg","author":"Joshua Spodek","episode_count":860,"summary":"Do you care about the environment but feel “I want to act, but if no one else does, it won't make a difference,” and “But if you don't solve everything, it isn't worth doing anything”? We are the antidote! You're not alone. Hearing role models overcome the same feelings to enjoy acting on their values creates meaning, purpose, community, and emotional reward. Want to improve as a leader? Bestselling author, 3-time TEDx speaker, leadership speaker, coach, and professor Joshua Spodek, PhD, MBA, brings joy and inspiration to acting on the environment. You'll learn to lead without relying on authority. We bring you leaders from many areas — business, politics, sports, arts, education, and more — to share their expertise for you to learn from. We then ask them to share and act on their environmental values. That's leadership without authority — so they act for their reasons, not out of guilt, blame, doom, gloom, or someone telling them what to do. Guests include: Dan Pink , 40+ million TED Talk views Marshall Goldsmith , #1-ranked leadership guru and author Frances Hesselbein , Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree, former CEO of the Girl Scouts Elizabeth Kolbert , Pulitzer Prize-winni…","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-sustainable-life-924670"},"episode":{"title":"842: Silvia Bellezza, part 1.5 and 2: When at first you don't succeed","slug":"842-silvia-bellezza-part-1-5-and-2-when-at-first-you-don-t-succeed","published_at":"2025-12-26T20:00:19+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-sustainable-life-924670/842-silvia-bellezza-part-1-5-and-2-when-at-first-you-don-t-succeed","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-sustainable-life-924670","url":"https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episodes/842-silvia-bellezza-part-2","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5a481aca95dfbf9d13d4dc6f/e/694072be80257c9e35045925/media.mp3","summary":"Since Silvia teaches as a business school, I'll address a leadership aspect of our interaction. I skimped on a leadership step, so we did an episode 1.5, which is my lingo for redoing episode 1 when the person wasn't able to fulfill his or her commitment. That's my responsibility as leader of the interaction. Silvia and I had a wonderful first conversation that led to a commitment that sounded like she'd enjoy it and doable, but in the end wasn't quite. Even if a quick hike north of the city would be enjoyable, catching a Metro-North train from Columbia University isn't that convenient and her schedule may not have bee as flexible as she suspected in our first conversation. For those listening to these conversations to learn the Spodek Method, in our first conversation I didn't check with her how practical the commitment was given her constraints. As the leader of the interaction, I should have asked ahead to imagine her schedule, the logistics of catching the train, and so on. The key measure the first time someone acts on their intrinsic motivation isn't how big it is. It's if they person does it. When someone acts on intrinsic motivation, they'll find it rewarding. If they feel reward, they'll want to do it again and the next time will be bigger, especially if they've always considered acting on sustainability a sacrifice or something that has to be big or any of the other myths people propagate. Sadly, even ardent environmentalists lead people to think of acting more sustainably as something they won't like or won't find rewarding when they use tactics like trying to convince, cajole, coerce, or seek compliance. In this double episode we hear how she did something more practical. At the end, note that she's open to doing more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy…","meta_description":"Since Silvia teaches as a business school, I'll address a leadership aspect of our interaction. 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