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What If Instead? Podcast

What If Instead? Podcast

Di: Miriam Plavin-Masterman Alejandro Juárez Crawford
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A podcast co-hosted by Alejandro Juárez Crawford and Mim Plavin-Masterman. A show about everyday people reimagining the way things work—and tackling the obstacles they face. We explore adventures in democratizing innovation—how the chance to try one’s hand at something new affects people and even organizations, what “powers” they discover and what challenges they face along the way. We dig into access: what determines who gets the chance to try and disrupt the way things work? We examine obstacles in specific industries and communities, and go deep with people working to break through them. We look closely at the role of tech—how it can equip or disempower people to build experiments of their own—and society: what leads us to accept a role as consumers of the way things work, and what it means to discover our powers to ask in practice, “What if instead?” Producer of the What If Instead? Podcast: Srijan Banik© 2015 - 2024 ITSPmagazine Economia Gestione e leadership Leadership Scienze sociali
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  • How to Maintain the Oldest Democracy in the World | Michelle Schenandoah

    How to Maintain the Oldest Democracy in the World | Michelle Schenandoah
    Oct 12 2026
    In this episode of What If Instead?, Michelle Schenandoah, founder of the nonprofit Rematriation, joins Alejandro and Mim for a conversation about Haudenosaunee democracy, Indigenous matrilineal wisdom, and the possibilities for reimagining leadership and governance.Michelle shares the principles of peace at the heart of Haudenosaunee democracy, a representative-based system that has sustained communities for over 1,000 years. She explores the importance of women's authority and insights within this tradition and how Indigenous knowledge can offer valuable perspectives on the challenges facing democratic systems today.The conversation invites us to reconsider how power is distributed, whose perspectives shape our institutions, and what we can learn from traditions that place peace, collective well-being, and women's leadership at the center of decision-making.Listen in to discover how Indigenous matrilineal wisdom can help us imagine more inclusive and balanced systems of leadership, and why looking to enduring traditions may offer new possibilities for the future of democracy.In this episode, we explore:The Haudenosaunee and the history of one of the world’s oldest continuing representative-based democraciesThe principles of peace at the heart of Haudenosaunee democracyMichelle Schenandoah’s work as founder of the nonprofit RematriationThe role of women’s authority and insights in Haudenosaunee governanceHow Indigenous matrilineal wisdom offers a blueprint for rebalancing powerWhat contemporary leaders and organizations can learn from Indigenous approaches to governanceHow collective wisdom, shared responsibility, and peace can shape more inclusive systemsWhat it means to rethink democracy by asking whose voices are heard and valuedConnect with the Podcast Co-Hosts:Alejandro Juárez Crawford: LinkedInMim Plavin-Masterman: LinkedInConnect with Michelle Schenandoah, Founder, Rematriation:Michelle Schenandoah: LinkedInRematriated Voices: https://www.rematriatedvoices.org/Rematriation: https://www.rematriation.org/Ms. Magazine article in the Feminist250 series, “Haudenosaunee Governance: The Matrilineal Democracy That Shaped America” - https://msmagazine.com/2026/03/05/haudenosaunee-government-matrilineal-democracy-america-constitution-native-women/Cultural Survival article, “We’re Not Feminists, We’re the Law” - https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/were-not-feminists-were-law___________What if Instead? is produced with generous support from:The Democratizing Innovation InstituteEver look around you and ask what if instead things worked differently?The institute takes what we used to think only innovators and entrepreneurs did, and makes it normal. We're on a mission to provide the tools, the space, and the connections to ask the question in practice—by taking part in an experiment in how things could work.Social Impact Lab BRACULearn More About:One Size Fits None: Time for an Entrepreneurial RevolutionOne Size Fits None: Time for an Entrepreneurial Revolution on SpotifyOne Size Fits None: Time for an Entrepreneurial Revolution on Audible More From What If Instead? Diseconomies of Scale | Michael ShumanMentorship & Collaboration: The Alignment That Changes The World | Evelina Van Mensel and Martin NedevTalking To People Who Think Like Us Has Made Us Stagnant | Trevor Vaughn and Hunter BuffingtonA System for Unexpected Connections | David GarrisonWhy Building Communities with Fire-Resilient Standards is a Game Changer | Alister WattSPECIAL EPISODE: One Size Fits None Time for an Entrepreneurial Revolution is available on AudiobookChanging the World of Non-Fiction | Ramona Liberoff Why an Experimental Mindset Matters in Leadership and Innovation
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  • Why an Experimental Mindset Matters in Leadership and Innovation

    Why an Experimental Mindset Matters in Leadership and Innovation
    Sep 15 2026
    In this episode, Steve Brookstein, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management of Innovation at the Saunders School of Business at RIT, joins Alejandro and Mim for a conversation about the mindset necessary to lead and innovate in an entrepreneurial environment. They explain why embracing failure, humility, and an experimentation mindset is critical to your organization's success. Steve shares his philosophy that “it takes someone very big to be small,” challenging the idea that entrepreneurs and leaders need to project certainty or have all the answers. Instead, creating the conditions for innovation often means being willing to acknowledge mistakes, listen to others, and learn from failure.Listen in to explore how a growth mindset can transform the way entrepreneurs and organizations approach innovation, and how some of history’s greatest success stories emerged from failure rather than in spite of it.In this episode, we explore:Why a fear of failure can hold entrepreneurs and organizations backSteve Brookstein’s philosophy that “it takes someone very big to be small”What a growth mindset looks like in entrepreneurship and innovationThe principles of bottom-up innovation and why great ideas don’t always come from the topHow entrepreneurs and visionaries have used failure as fuel for extraordinary successWhy mistakes can be an essential part of the innovation processHow organizations can create environments where experimentation and learning are encouragedHow Steve plans to use One Size Fits None: Time for an Entrepreneurial Revolution in his upcoming class at RITWhat it means to build a culture where people feel empowered to innovateConnect with the Podcast Co-Hosts:Alejandro Juárez Crawford: LinkedInMim Plavin-Masterman: LinkedInConnect with Steve, Adjunct Professor at Saunders College of Business :Steve Brookstein: LinkedIn___________What if Instead? is produced with generous support from:The Democratizing Innovation InstituteEver look around you and ask what if instead things worked differently?The institute takes what we used to think only innovators and entrepreneurs did, and makes it normal. We're on a mission to provide the tools, the space, and the connections to ask the question in practice—by taking part in an experiment in how things could work.Social Impact Lab BRACULearn More About:One Size Fits None: Time for an Entrepreneurial RevolutionOne Size Fits None: Time for an Entrepreneurial Revolution on SpotifyOne Size Fits None: Time for an Entrepreneurial Revolution on Audible More From What If Instead? Diseconomies of Scale | Michael ShumanMentorship & Collaboration: The Alignment That Changes The World | Evelina Van Mensel and Martin NedevTalking To People Who Think Like Us Has Made Us Stagnant | Trevor Vaughn and Hunter BuffingtonA System for Unexpected Connections | David GarrisonWhy Building Communities with Fire-Resilient Standards is a Game Changer | Alister WattSPECIAL EPISODE: One Size Fits None Time for an Entrepreneurial Revolution is available on AudiobookChanging the World of Non-Fiction | Ramona Liberoff
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    1 ora e 6 min
  • Changing the World of Non-Fiction | Ramona Liberoff

    Changing the World of Non-Fiction | Ramona Liberoff
    Sep 3 2026
    In this episode, our dear friend (and the narrator of the audiobook version of "One Size Fits None: Time for an Entrepreneurial Revolution") Ramona Liberoff talks about the crisis facing non-fiction and publishing, why traditional approaches to book discovery and summaries are falling short, and how Gist is creating a new kind of bridge back to long-form reading. Rather than asking people to simply pay attention for longer, Gist is asking a different question: What if technology could help us remember how to pay attention again? Listen in to learn more about the problem Gist is tackling, why our curiosity still matters, and what it might take to bring people back to books. In this episode, we explore the growing crisis in nonfiction and the disconnect between our appetite for ideas and our shrinking capacity for long-form attention. Ramona Liberoff, founder of Gist, discusses: Why nonfiction and publishing are struggling to keep people engagedHow summaries — from Cliff Notes and SparkNotes to AI — have changed the way we consume booksHow technology can stimulate curiosity rather than simply compete for attentionWhy Gist is building a bridge back to long-form nonfictionWhat the future of reading could look like when technology works with our curiosity, rather than against it The question Gist is exploring: How do we use the technology that has shortened our attention spans to help expand them again? And what if the way back to long-form reading isn't asking people to put their phones down — but giving them a reason to keep reading? Connect with the Podcast Co-Hosts: Alejandro Juárez Crawford: LinkedInMim Plavin-Masterman: LinkedIn Connect with Ramona, Founder of Gist: Ramona Liberoff: LinkedIn ___________ What if Instead? is produced with generous support from: The Democratizing Innovation Institute Ever look around you and ask what if instead things worked differently? The institute takes what we used to think only innovators and entrepreneurs did, and makes it normal. We're on a mission to provide the tools, the space, and the connections to ask the question in practice—by taking part in an experiment in how things could work. Social Impact Lab BRACU Learn More About: One Size Fits None: Time for an Entrepreneurial Revolution One Size Fits None: Time for an Entrepreneurial Revolution on Spotify One Size Fits None: Time for an Entrepreneurial Revolution on Audible More From What If Instead? Diseconomies of Scale | Michael Shuman Mentorship & Collaboration: The Alignment That Changes The World | Evelina Van Mensel and Martin Nedev Talking To People Who Think Like Us Has Made Us Stagnant | Trevor Vaughn and Hunter Buffington A System for Unexpected Connections | David Garrison Why Building Communities with Fire-Resilient Standards is a Game Changer | Alister Watt SPECIAL EPISODE: One Size Fits None Time for an Entrepreneurial Revolution is available on Audiobook
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    1 ora e 2 min
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