Sustainable League

Dave Cooch is a social entrepreneur, Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2019, and one of the co-founders of Green Gas Movement, which partners with gas stations to make it easy for people to offset their fuel each time by doing some kind of green action with the click of a button. The biggest theme of our chat is diving into the root of what’s underneath this crisis we find ourselves in and why we need a new story when it comes to climate change. I bounce around all over the place about plant medicines and personal growth, but Dave kept us on track with how beneficial meditation can be and what we can actually do right now to bring about the changes that we need to see. Connect with Dave: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-cooch-3745a8114/ Green Gas Movement: https://greengasmovement.org Read this book: https://charleseisenstein.org/books/climate-a-new-story/

This week on Sustainable League I chat with Lila Smith #SayThingsBetter Creator, Intentional Communication Speaker & Trainer, and Certified YouMap® Coach. Intentional communication is FUNDAMENTAL when it comes to building a more resilient world, from how we discuss problems and solutions, to how companies work on these issues, internally, externally, and in our very own personal lives.  I love this episode for many reasons, but most pertinent to strangers who don’t already love her. I have been a client of Lila’s and she helped me work through some of the most pivotal make or break times within my own company. If you or your company are interested in learning how to 'say things better', chat with Lila! www.SayThingsBetter.com www.linkedin.com/in/Lilasmith

Charles Barber is the founder and CEO of Crucial Four, a Dallas based company that is ushering in the return of food as medicine with a mission to help you enhance your health and well-being with essential nutrients. Charles traveled the world and from his experiences found what he believed to be the four missing food groups. Thus upon his return, Crucial Four was born. We dive deeper into these four missing food groups, discuss some unpopular opinions relating to the food and healthcare industry, and a bit about why the world would be a much better place if we started treating the Earth like a living thing versus the economic commodity that giant industries and consumers alike have allowed it to become. www.crucialfour.com www.instagram.com/crucialfour www.facebook.com/CrucialFour

Rock Robinson is the Co-Founder of CEO of eCarra, a software company that licenses technology to green ride sharing platforms. They are also an experience driven green car service company moving people through the experiences that matter most. Not only are they providing this eco-friendly option, but they are empowering other companies to do the same. We talk a bit about the future of transportation, how eCarra is changing the narrative, and some contradictions when it comes to being human. Connect with Rock & eCarra here: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsavvi www.ecarra.com www.instagram.com/ridesthatmatter Huge thank you to Sync Lab Media for partnering with us on this episode! They have a beautiful new podcasting studio located at Venture X Galleria in Dallas. Check them out for all of your video podcasting needs :) www.synclabmedia.com

  eCarra: www.ecarra.com www.instagram.com/ridesthatmatter Rachel Fisher: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phishphat/ Rock Robinson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rock-robinson-iv-17a4986b/ Show Notes: 2:30 You might be in your dream job and not even know it 3:01 Every company needs a Swiss Army Knife 4:43 CEO’s are just the crazy assholes with the dream and its their job to get the team together who can bring it together 5:12 What is eCarra? 9:18 The UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals are just a natural progression of growing as a person. 13:06 Just put your shoes on! 17:05 Clean disruption 18:55 The sun drops 430 quintillion Joules of energy every hour . That equals 430^18!! 22:41 Lucid Motors, Rivian, Fiskars 27:55 Sharing is caring = The sharing economy 32:13 Repercussions of automation, thoughts on universal basic income https://youtu.be/Xr-fVg6FQRA

  This week on Sustainable League I chatted and got to know the guys from Endangered Globe; Stephen, Zee, and Walber. We discuss the constant consumerism state that we find ourselves in, the damage that fast fashion is doing, and how to use business to do some good.  www.endangeredglobe.com www.instagram.com/endangeredglobe  Show Notes: 2:02 Check out The Cove 2:20 Steve’s story & RIP Steve Irwin 7:45 Walber’s story natural body building, vegetarian > pescatarian 10:03 The daily grind with Zee 14:28 Kindness is not woo woo shit 17:12 “What you purchase means something.” 18:54 There are more followers than leaders 21:22 “The whole point of planning something like Everest is to effect some sort of physical or spiritual gain. If you skip on the process you’re an asshole when you start out and you’re an asshole when you get back.” -Yvon Chouinard  27:15 Constant consumerism and cheaply made products 29:10 “Every dollar that you spend is a vote for the kind of world that you want.” 33:00

This week on Sustainable League, I chatted with Kira Day-former corporate ladder climbing badass turned entrepreneur. She is the founder of The Passion Centre and is heavily focused on raising human consciousness. This may seem esoteric but she does a great job of defining what that means to her and has tangible action items in order to do so. Kira is one of my good friends and we spent the better part of week diving deep into ideas and the human experience as a whole. She helps so many people to understand themselves better and I TRULY appreciate her insights into any given topic.  Show Notes: 2:00 From high performance corporate sales to following your passion 3:42 Complete body shut down 6:40 The Passion Centre 9:00 “You can’t get to world peace without inner peace.” -Dalai Lama 12:40 Freudian slips 13:59 There’s IQ, EQ, and Self Intelligence 16:15 Wim Hof breathing technique & microdosing death 19:34 Starved for human connection and tea with Uber drivers 25:00 The invisible bag of all the shit&nb

 Show Notes: 3:06 Buck your reservations 6:05 The drunken astrologer 11:07 Woo woo aside, this is an amazing way to grow 15:00 Your passion informs your stars, and your stars empower your passion 19:32 Trauma stems from childhood 26:00 Our mindset is the biggest tool we have to build towards a more sustainable world 27:32 Emotional spaghetti 30:15 Look for the similarities and not the differences 32:01 Question what you think 34:00 Re-condition your conditioning 36:20 Feng Sui your friend group 37:31 2020 Vision Quest, Finding Your Path and Purpose. @SensitiveSage  45:10 It can feel like no one is talking about things that matter. If you are someone that is craving a deep conversations, reach out to have a call, reading, or whatever with Diana.  Chat With Diana: Instagram: @thesensitivesage www.thesensitivesage.com

 This week on Sustainable League, I chat with Rachel Chang general manager for The Riveter, an LA based new co working space here in Dallas, built by women for everyone. She is an advocate for the entrepreneurial community , a wealth of knowledge, and resources and she is one of my really good friends. We talk about her early career and the difference between an experience explorer and a job hopper. We talk about the struggles of being a human, the cult of capitalism, mental health, entrepreneurship, and why it is so damn important to have equal representation of all people in order to build more sustainable communities and of course the world. Show Notes: 1:18 From architecture to the empowering the start up community, pit stop in entrepreneurship, dabbling in accelerations, and back to empowering the startup community with even more intention 4:01 Round out your career education 5:02 How to say ‘Yes’  6:58 “Is it going to offer me education or is going to be an experience that I want to have?” 13:

 Thomas Despin is the CEO & Founder of Reconnect and Hustler’s Villa. He has had an interesting journey to say the least, doing all sorts of things to avoid getting a job (in the best way possible). From biking 12,000 km across 18 countries, meeting 100+ CEOs along the way to getting trapped in Bali with no cash to staying there and building an e-comm business from 0 to 750k in sales in just 11 months. All of this before founding Hustlers Villa, a co-working, co-living, community geared towards like minded entrepreneurs.  We talk about all of these undertakings plus his newest project, Reconnect which is a sustainable, luxury retreat on an island off of Indonesia and how he started it with zero background in sustainability.  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasdespin/ Instagram: @thomasdespin Reconnect Retreat: www.Reconnect.id Show Notes: 2:01 Getting stranded in Bali and starting a company because that was the only option 6:05 Reconnect, sustainable retreat 8:38 Building a sustain

  Jordan Carroll is an ambassador for the remote work movement. He has been living that life for the past year+ and we talk about how traveling and plant medicines can be a fast track to get to the mindset shift needed to build towards a more sustainable and resilient world. Show Notes: 0:06 Getting uninvited from the podcast before it even starts 2:01 If you’re interested in traveling and doing remote work, Jordan is the man who can help you make a plan 4:11 Minimalism + traveling for a year with one carry on 7:15 Lizard brains and solo travel as a means to get comfortable with the uncomfortable. 11:27 Would you regret it if you didn’t do it?  13:20 “Commit to doing something first and then take out the obstacles.” 18:15 Lessons from plant medicines 22:23 Everyone could use a good ego smash 26:26 Everything is energy 29:01 The sound of silence 38:45 “It's a privilege to be lost sometimes.” https://medium.com/@jspensir/my-ayahuasca-manifesto-6-insights-to-bring-back-to-conventional-reality-78c56d81e

Show Notes: 1:59 Sustainability is the ability for everything to work in conjunction with everything else 4:29 It all started with mental health issues… 10:31 The disenchantment that comes with non profits 12:59 Make kindness cool again 14:40 You can’t teach anyone anything, people have to experience 17:31 Linear vs exponential thinking 20:21 The asteroid talk begins and why the thought of being destroyed by one comforts me 23:20 Things I’m not cool with and other systems that don’t make any damn sense 30:29 When the lizard brain kicks in 31:35 Lessons from an anonymous program 34:45 The dying experiment  Mark Metry https://www.markmetry.com Naveen Jain https://www.instagram.com/p/BvgB70mh-UR/ Ray Kurzweil https://www.forbes.com/sites/techonomy/2012/11/09/ray-kurzweil-on-using-exponential-thinking-to-predict-the-future/ Graham Hancock https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/analysis/fresh-clues-in-the-hunt-for-a-lost-civilization-graham-hancock-interview-1-9679129 Darwin was wrong https://www.nationalgeogra

  Quincy Holloway lived and taught in the art scene until his daughter’s health issues spurred him to do his part and take action in cleaning the world up.  Show Notes: 4:10 From the art world to the war on carbon 5:40 Flipping the solar model on its head, commercial solar car ports 6:20 Power purchase agreements 10:20 Future proofing solar car ports for autonomous vehicles 11:40 The usual solar push back 15:49 What you can do to lessen your impact 19:50 Texas PACE Authority 22:44 Doesn’t matter if you believe in climate change, your insurance does 28:27 Let’s get political  35:46 Live like you give a shit 36:02 Check out Rivian! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dyingproject/support

 This week we chatted with Kory Farooquie, CEO at Invaterra. He is no stranger to the highs and lows of both the corporate and entrepreneurial world. We talk all things AI, automation, the future and the sustainability implications of it all.  1:21 Being future focused and preparing for Gen Alpha, our first generation that will likely be AI native 5:12 Breaking down AI and Automation with some predictions. Insert article 6:01 Pakistan to London to Kuwait to Connecticut 9:30 When kids turn to Siri after you give silly answers 11:52 “Organizations aren’t selling products anymore, they’re selling experiences.” 18:05 Why $1.99 seems like ‘highway robbery’ for an app 25:03 Why does it have to be you either believe in what I believe or it’s a conspiracy theory. Let’s just do better. 28:58 Breaking down AI, it’s not the Terminator y’all. 36:42 Its not step 1, 2 ,3…we’re taking exponential steps + L.E.A.P Mindset 43:00 Fossil fuels are about to be the equivalent of cigarettes. It used to be cool, but nah.&

Jaime Cohen is the founder of Jaimbalaya & Use The Right Words. Real communication is hard, it's not wonder that the world is a literal mess.  We discuss why communication can be so difficult, ways to do it better, and how we can build towards a more sustainable world starting with dialogue.  5:00 How does sustainability tie into communication 11:00 Living in most connected time in human history 11:16 Why do we talk about the weather? 14:00 Our need for control vs being fully present 17:50 Creating boundaries 21:55 Safe Conversations method “we will use what you say against you vs we will use it to understand you” 26:00 RF Its not what you say, its how you say it 35:02 The foundation to build more resilient infrastructure  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dyingproject/support

Rock Robinson is co-founder and CEO for eCarra, which stands for "electric car ride share awareness". We chat candidly about what it's like to be an entrepreneur in the green space and ways that you and your business can reduce your carbon emmissions.   Show Notes: 4:27 Climate change apathy 13:58 Why Teslas make sense 18:36 Competition versus collaboration 19:50 Abundance mindset 28:14 "Disrupt You!" Jay Samit and why no one cares about you and your ideas 29:40 Rock’s number one piece of advice to anyone looking to make an impact…DONT F*CKING STOP www.ecarra.com Find eCarra in the App Store! “First1000” sign up code --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dyingproject/support