Douglas Rushkoff makes another appearance on our podcast, sharing his latest thoughts on What Could Possibly Go Right?  Listen to his previous interviews in episodes 52, 84, and 97.

Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, his twenty books include Team Human, based on his podcast.

Enjoy this casual chat between Douglas and Vicki, including themes of:

• Re-socialization and finding connection for well-being
• Putting the soul back into our interactions
• Questioning our social constructs and triggering our agency to create change
• How experiences of awe can have profound impacts

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Laura Oldanie is a green living and money coach who blogs at Rich & Resilient Living, where she explores money and lifestyle choices for a regenerative future. Her goal is to help people achieve financial freedom and live their best lives in socially and environmentally conscious ways that equally value people, planet, and profit. 

She received her Permaculture Design Certificate in 2009 and has been exploring how to earn, spend, invest, and manage her money to bring about the change she wants to see in the world ever since. She has been a sought-after source of knowledge on regenerative investing, and her work has been featured in Forbes, Your Money or Your Life, Good Housekeeping, CNBC, All Star Money, ChooseFI, The Firedrill Podcast, the Permaculture podcast, and many others!

She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:

• The “possibilities for us to think more holistically, more resourcefully about wealth and what constitutes wealth”
• The need to “think about retirement planning on a climate challenged planet”, and to build resilient homes and communities
• The self-actualization and joy elements that come from resourcefulness and creative frugality
• Thinking beyond socially responsible investing to more regenerative and meaningful opportunities

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For over fifty years, through twenty books and one Pulitzer Prize finalist, Susan Griffin has been making unconventional connections between seemingly separate subjects. Whether pairing ecology and gender in her foundational work Woman and Nature, or the private life with the targeting of civilians in A Chorus of Stones, she has shed a new light on countless contemporary issues, including climate change, war, colonialism, the body, democracy, and terrorism.

She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:

• An exploration of the boundaries or “binding” of gender 
• The relationship between matter and spirit
• The value of writing, “a sort of miracle, of something being created”
• That “people need meaning… as much as food, water, and air” and that meaning often comes through stories

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