BETTER with Mark Brand

Tim Daly is an award-winning actor best known for his roles in MADAM SECRETARY, WINGS, PRIVATE PRACTICE, and THE SOPRANOS. He’s also the voice of Superman for the animated series. But, beyond a 40-year acting career, Tim is a dear friend and advocate in some of the most critical spaces. He’s president of The Creative Coalition, a nonprofit advocacy group that focuses on funding for the arts and shaping policy in a way that supports our creativity as humans. He’s also on the board of Inside Out Writers, a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing juvenile recidivism. In this important conversation about art and politics, he shares with us how creativity can be used as a catalyst for personal transformation, so much so, that it actually saves people from re-entering the prison system by finding their own voice, power, and inner-artist. We also talk about unlocking memories that leads to creating more space for presence and learning how to properly honor the part of you that is creative. One of the many great lessons here is that even if you think you’re not, you are. We are. And your individual creativity can unlock opportunities for a BETTER world.

WORKS:

Madam Secretary

Wings

Private Practice

The Sopranos

Superman, The Animated Series

The Creative Coalition, (President)

Inside Out Writers, (Board Member)

Recipient of Theater World, Golden Satellite, GLAAD, Gracie, and Peabody Awards, and also has been nominated for Emmy and SAG awards

TOOLS:

Insightful reflections on discovering your inner artist

Guidance on how to take the first step toward a cause you care about

Advice and wisdom on sobriety

Uplifting messages of the heart to inspire your greatest abilities in life

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
BETTER is recorded on the unceded and ancestral territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples, the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, and has been stewarded by them since time immemorial.

BETTER with Mark Brand is produced by Pamela Rothenberg of I HEAR YOU STUDIOS and Adam Karch with Orbyt Media

Yarrow Kraner is the founder of HATCH—a global network of innovators and co-conspirators actively doing the work to create a more beautiful, sustainable, and just world (people who Yarrow refers to as “real-life superheroes”).

HATCH'S mission is to accelerate solutions to global challenges. The how: by fueling extraordinary humans. The why: to HATCH a better world.

Yarrow is a creative alchemist whose heart has the distinct ability to draw people out of a state of self-uncertainy and into a state of self-empowerment—one that has the literal power to change the world.

I say that with no fluff.

He is, with all sincerity a creative alchemist, builder of community, facilitator of hope, and someone who shows me the truest side of friendship.

We have traveled the world together, backpacks on tight, creating safe spaces for people (like you, yes You) to see and discover their ability to make REAL change in this world.

Today, you’ll hear him wax poetic like, “There's a race between consciousness and catastrophe.” And speak truth that brings you deeper into the hope we need.

This one IS that: “You are either tapped into what you're meant to do in the world, or you have the potential to.”

This one goes out to all of us.

WORKS:
- Founder of HATCH—a global network of innovators who are actively pursuing a more beautiful, sustainable, and just world.
- Founder of H360, a machine learning platform that brings silos of organizations together to activate collaborations and create a "Network of Networks" for collaborations with the power to improve the world.
- Tate and Olivia's stepdad
- Named 2015 top 100 creatives in the U.S. by Origin
- Founder, Superdudes—the original online community (pre-MySpace) connecting and empowering real life superheroes while gamifing community volunteerism
- Director, Virgin Produced, which is the entertainment arm of Richard Branson’s Virgin group
- Filmmaker, photographer, and director, leading projects with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Richard Branson, Sean Combs (aka P. Diddy), as well as, international brands
- Aspen Institute Fellow

TOOLS:
Reflections that help us remember the endless value of true friendship
Insights to guide you towards your own backyard and the changes in your hands
Hope—THAT’S the tool
Truths that help us restore balance in ourselves and inner-knowing

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
BETTER is recorded on the unceded and ancestral territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples, the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, and has been stewarded by them since time immemorial.

BETTER with Mark Brand is produced by Pamela Rothenberg of I HEAR YOU STUDIOS and Adam Karch with Orbyt Media

Sara Roversi is transforming the future of food and doing it in the most powerful spaces on the planet. She is my dear friend and a powerhouse accomplice in developing global food systems. Her focus directly addresses climate change, planetary health, and global poverty, but amongst the heaviness, she brings so much light, wisdom and joy. Among her many influential roles, she is the founder and President of the Future Food Institute, an organization dedicated to facing the urgent challenge of protecting our planet while feeding humans in a way that is sustainable, equitable, and nourishing. In this episode, she brings her love of Earth, people and food to brighten our vision of what’s truly possible for our planet’s health and shows us how certain mindset changes can empower Us to create a sustainable world together. The beauty of this episode is indescribable, but I’ll give you one off the top: you’ll see and FEEL that you’re never “just one person,” you are much more than that—connected, capable and creative. And together, we can do big things.

WORKS:

Future Food Institute, Founder & President

Singularity University, Faculty Member

B20, Member of the Action Council

Food for Climate League, Partner & Board Member

You Can Group, Founder

Food Innovation Program, Executive Director

CAAB - The Agri Food Center of Bologna, Board Member

Bibimbap, Co-Founder

Well Done Burger, Co-Founder

TOOLS:

Powerful mindset changes that will help you be a BETTER ally for the planet

Empowering ideas to help inspire actionable change within your local community

Information about our planet that will help us unify in saving her

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
BETTER is recorded on the unceded and ancestral territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples, the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, and has been stewarded by them since time immemorial.

BETTER with Mark Brand is produced by Pamela Rothenberg of I HEAR YOU STUDIOS and Adam Karch with Orbyt Media

Mark Groves is a massively insightful human dedicated to helping us understand human connection. He shows up in the world as a teacher and translator of some of our most challenging and beautiful experiences in life so we can better understand the pathways to true love within ourselves and within relationship. In this conversation, we talk about discovering and creating liberating love, and also offer some powerfully conscious tools to help you create the love you wish to experience most deeply in life.

WORKS:

Mark Groves Podcast
- @createthelove on Instagram
- Create The Love Cards

TOOLS:

Frameworks and questions to ask yourself when considering how to consciously be in love and truth
- Permission to explore your relationships, what they need, and what you need with absolute honesty & integrity
- Insight on how to hold joy and grief at the same time alongside tools to honor “the beauty of the departure”
- Liberating ways to let divorce be a sign of self-love
- Reminders of your humanness and how worthy of love you naturally are

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
BETTER is recorded on the unceded and ancestral territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples, the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, and has been stewarded by them since time immemorial.

BETTER with Mark Brand is produced by Pamela Rothenberg of I HEAR YOU STUDIOS and Adam Karch with Orbyt Media

This week's guest is award-winning broadcaster Ziya Tong. She is best known as the anchor of Daily Planet, Discovery Channel’s flagship science program. Her book The Reality Bubble won the Lane Anderson Prize for best science writing in Canada and was shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize. The book has been translated into multiple languages, and has earned praise from luminaries including Naomi Klein and David Suzuki who calls Tong’s book, “required reading for all who care about what we are doing to the planet.”

Tong also hosted the CBC’s Emmy-nominated series ZeD, PBS’s national prime-time series, Wired Science, and worked as a correspondent for NOVA scienceNOW alongside Neil deGrasse Tyson on PBS.

Ziya served as the Vice Chair of the World Wildlife Fund Canada and is now on the board of directors of WWF International. She is currently working on a new documentary called Plastic People, looking at the frightening impact of microplastics on human health.

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