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Mark Divine is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of USCrossFit, SEALFIT, Unbeatable Mind, and NavySEALs.com. Mark spent twenty years with the Navy SEALS as an officer and commander. He is an expert in the human performance arena and has tested his training techniques on special operations candidates with a 90 percent success rate. Mark is a New York Times bestselling author and has written books including The Way of the SEAL, 8 Weeks to SEALFIT, Kokoro Yoga, Unbeatable Mind, SEALFIT Training Guide, and most recently, Staring Down the Wolf.

Mark joins me today to discuss the contents of Staring Down the Wolf and the importance of self-awareness and facing your fears and shadows. He shares the distinction between principles and commitments and how committing to excellence and embracing a growth mindset as a leader can help your team experience accelerated growth. Mark also highlights how relationships play a role in our lives and why you should lead with togetherness and heart rather than ego.

“Nothing happens to us without us impacting how it happened.” – Mark Divine

This week on The School for Good Living Podcast:

• Why Mark wrote Staring Down the Wolf, who he wrote it for, and the structure of the book
• The seven commitments outlined in Mark’s book and the two primary aspects of every commitment
• Why it is essential to look at the ‘shadow side’ of your commitments
• What you need to do as an entrepreneurial leader to build an elite team, and its benefits
• Whether everyone has the potential to be an effective leader
• Why no one is exempt from the need to lead and the earliest relationships and leadership roles we all have
• How the nature of our minds can impact our perception of experience and the responsibility we have to acknowledge our role in our reality
• Why you should find and fight for your calling rather than merely getting by
• The opportunities we have during this time of crisis and uncertainty
  

Resources Mentioned:

• The Way of the SEAL: Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed by Mark Divine
• 8 Weeks to SEALFIT: A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Unconventional Training for Physical and Mental Toughness by Mark Divine
• Kokoro Yoga: Maximize Your Human Potential and Develop the Spirit by Mark Divine
• Unbeatable Mind: Forge Resiliency and Mental Toughness to Succeed at an Elite Level by Mark Divine
• SEALFIT Training Guide by Mark Divine
• Staring Down the Wolf: 7 Leadership Commitments That Forge Elite Teams by Mark Divine
• Bhagavad Gita
• Kiva
  

Connect with Mark Divine:

• SEALFIT
• Unbeatable Mind
• NavySEALs.com
• Courage Foundation
• Mark Divine website
• Mark Divine on LinkedIn
• Mark Divine on Instagram

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Rebecca Henderson, FBA, is an economist and author of Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire. She is a professor at Harvard Business School, where she teaches Reimagine Capitalism, the most successful MBA elective course at HBS in the last five years. In addition to her authorship and work at Harvard, Rebecca also serves as Research Fellow at the National Bureau for Economic Research and as a sustainability advisor to the world’s largest companies. Rebecca is a leading authority in organizational and strategic change whose work focuses on purpose-driven capitalism and the role that businesses and individuals can play in making change happen.

Rebecca joins me today to share her ideas on Reimagining Capitalism and contemplate how we can contribute as individuals to social, political, and economic change. She illustrates how the idea of shareholder value maximization is destructive to the environment and society and reveals the two foremost causes of the world’s enduring predicaments. She also describes how working with others can act as an antidote to despair and highlights the need to reimagine democracy as a means to reimagine – and change – capitalism.

“We will only be able to reimagine capitalism if we bring our personal purpose to work.” – Rebecca Henderson

This week on The School for Good Living Podcast:

• The roots of the world’s problems and why Rebecca wrote Reimagining Capitalism
• The destructive nature of maximizing shareholder value
• Our illusion of separateness and what makes it difficult for us to think about others and the future
• Finding our paths to changing the world and how we give up our power by believing we don’t have any
• Working with others to drive change as an antidote to despair
• Self-care as a radical act of political resistance and the importance of finding joy
• How writing and publishing Reimagining Capitalism has changed Rebecca’s life
• Why we need to reimagine our democracy
• Rebecca’s writing routine and how it has evolved over the years
• The challenge of cultivating discipline in writing and the role of caffeine in Rebecca’s work as a writer
• How Rebecca identified stories to include in Reimagining Capitalism
• The most challenging part of writing and Rebecca’s advice for writers

Resources Mentioned:

• Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire by Rebecca Henderson

Connect with Rebecca Henderson:

• Reimagining Capitalism
• Rebecca Henderson Website
• Rebecca Henderson on LinkedIn
• Rebecca Henderson on Twitter

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Jill Heinerth is a cave diver, underwater explorer, filmmaker, author of the memoir, Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver, and producer of the documentary, We Are Water. She is the first Explorer in Residence for the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and for over 30 years, she has worked in film, photography, and exploration. As an explorer, Jill documents deep ocean environments and other places where humans have never been, making fascinating contributions to climate change and geology. Jill is a recipient of the Sir Christopher Ondaatje Medal for Exploration, granted by the RCGS for her lifetime achievement.

Jill joins me today to explore the role of cave divers as the hands and eyes of scientists. She shares some of the biggest fears she faced in her life and explains how fear can be transformative experiences. She illustrates the experience of cave diving and how she prepares for a diving mission. She underscores the importance of water and describes how we’re already fighting wars over water supply, and what we can contribute as individuals in response to climate change. She also shares her writing process, reveals the most challenging part about having her book written, and explains why it’s essential that we run towards, not away from, fear.

“Fear is genuine, no matter the source or expression. Whether it’s a dark cave we’re swimming or of our own making, there are strategies to employ to deal with that fear.” – Jill Heinerth

This week on The School for Good Living Podcast:

• How Jill’s relationship with water began and how she transitioned from her career in advertising to become a cave diving explorer
• What sump diving is and why it’s the most dangerous form of diving
• What it’s like to cave dive, why it’s not for amateurs, and exploring “The Pit” in Mexico
• Photographing the cover of Into the Planet and surviving a near-death experience while diving in The Pit
• What discovery learning means and how failures can become gifts
• How a terrifying night became a transformative experience for Jill and why experience is the best teacher
• How Jill prepares for an exploration mission and why she chooses people who have fear to become part of her team
• Jill’s contributions to science as a cave diving explorer
• Climate refugees in the US and why we’ll start fighting wars for water
• The differences a person could make for climate change
• Shooting Under Thin Ice and consulting for James Cameron
• The most challenging part of writing, publishing, and marketing Into the Planet
• What it’s like to write vulnerable and emotional experiences into a book
• The power of running towards fear

Resources Mentioned:

• Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver by Jill Heinerth
• Against All Odds: The Inside Account of the Thai Cave Rescue by Craig Challen and Richard Harris
• The SAS Survival Handbook by John Lofty Wiseman
• Jill Heinerth: The Mysterious World of Underwater Caves, TEDYouth 2015

Connect with Jill Heinerth

• Into The Planet Website
• Jill Heinerth on Twitter
• Jill Heinerth on Facebook
• Jill Heinerth on Instagram
• Jill Heinerth on YouTube
• Jill Heinerth on Vimeo
• Jill Heinerth on LinkedIn

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