Better humans, better business, better planet
A podcast bringing ideas for happier, more balanced and fulfilling lives.
The Better Beings Podcast brings together innovative and diverse thinkers to discuss the key challenges facing humanity - from the worlds of business, creativity, spirituality and wider society.
We believe that a more human approach will unlock the future we need. Kinder connection - to ourselves and each other - is the starting point.
Better Beings is a home for diversity of thought and backgrounds and a safe space for authentic and challenging perspectives.
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Better humans, better business, better planet
A podcast bringing ideas for happier, more balanced and fulfilling lives.
The Better Beings Podcast brings together innovative and diverse thinkers to discuss the key challenges facing humanity - from the worlds of business, creativity, spirituality and wider society.
We believe that a more human approach will unlock the future we need. Kinder connection - to ourselves and each other - is the starting point.
Better Beings is a home for diversity of thought and backgrounds and a safe space for authentic and challenging perspectives.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Journalist, author and political commentator Adam Lowenstein discusses business systems and power dynamics.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS EPISODE:
QUOTES & SNIPPETS:
“Corporations are claiming to be the solution to the problems they have created”
“It has nothing to do with bad people - it has everything to do with incentives and structures & the way human beings operate”
“When do you call someone out and when do you bring them into your movement?”
“There’s no secret formula for achieving power”
"If we’re going to die at some point, we might as well live”
"I’ve seen what's on the other side; and they're just people"
"At the end of the day, it's not going to be the emails I regret or the work I didn't do - it's going to be the walks in the park i didn't take"
REFERENCES:
The Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler
The Persuaders, Anan Giridharadas
Reframe the Day, Adam Lowenstein
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