In this episode of The Jasper Blueprint podcast, Bessi welcomes Joshua Spodek to discuss how leadership and personal transformation drive environmental sustainability. They explore how individual change can ignite systemic shifts toward more sustainable living, with Josh sharing his personal journey and the mindset shift that fueled his mission. He introduces the Spodek Method, a unique framework designed to help people discover and act on their intrinsic motivations for sustainability. The conversation covers key topics such as personal responsibility, behavior change, and leadership in sustainability, drawing from historical examples and modern applications. Listeners are encouraged to reflect on their values and take practical steps to contribute to a more sustainable future, both personally and professionally.
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Leadership in sustainability begins with personal responsibility and understanding one’s intrinsic motivations.
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Approaching sustainable living is about challenging the perception of deprivation and instead recognising it as a source of personal and communal enhancement.
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The Spodek Method provides individuals and leaders with tools to discover and act in line with their intrinsic values, promoting sustainable practices.
About Joshua Spodek:
Joshua Spodek hosts the award-winning This Sustainable Life podcast, is a four-time TEDx speaker, bestselling author of Sustainability Simplified, Initiative and Leadership Step by Step, and professor at NYU.
He holds a PhD in astrophysics and an MBA from Columbia, where he studied under a Nobel Laureate and helped launch a satellite. He left academia to found a venture to market an invention that showed animated images to subway riders between stations.
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About Bessi Graham:
With nearly 25 years’ of experience working with business owners, governments, and large funding bodies to merge money and meaning, my experience spans from the grassroots of sitting in the dirt working with business owners across the Pacific Islands through to the United Nations in Geneva. This has given me an unparalleled perspective.
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