#148: Activating the Activist in All of Us with Mark Brand

#148: Activating the Activist in All of Us with Mark Brand

Mark Brand is a pioneering entrepreneur and chef in the field of Social Impact and Community Development. Along with overseeing the 5 organizations under MB Inc, Brand leads his A Better Life Foundation in Canada, the United States, he is a Stanford fellow, Professor of Innovation and Design Thinking, and has served as executive chef for the American Refugee Committee and Pope Francis's Climate Challenge. Brand has recently been appointed to the United Nations Catalyst team focusing on food waste, poverty, and the impacts of current systemic structures on the most marginalized. At the root of everything he works on, his belief is that the solutions are all attainable with deep cooperation and the understanding there is no “Us and Them, only Us.” This transformative episode is one that can't be missed. Mark and I discuss poverty and how it affects all of us. Mark walks us through how we as individuals can take immediate steps towards eradicating poverty and becoming and activists in our own communities. ~ Discover: "The one vs. the one percent" The incredible things Mark Brand is doing to eradicate poverty What do you care about and why? Why volunteering and contribution will light you up Never stop following your inner guidance If the community is unwell, we are unwell. We have to sit in our grief because there is something powerful inside of it How socialization has caused us to dehumanized Ways you can show up for humanity Find Mark on Instagram, or at www.markbrandinc.com www.abetterlifefoundation.ca www.abetterlifefoundation.us Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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#500: Lessons From 500 Podcast Episodes

#500: Lessons From 500 Podcast Episodes

In this episode I mark 500 conversations by pulling back the curtain on the most important lessons I’ve learned about integrity, humility, codependency, leadership, and evolving out loud. I share how ...

23 Feb 25min

#499: Codependency is Keeping You Small

#499: Codependency is Keeping You Small

In this episode I go straight at the truth most of us avoid: if you don’t decide who you are, someone else will decide for you. I unpack how people pleasing, codependency, and the fear of saying no qu...

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#498: Ditch The Narcissist & Stop Entertaining BS

#498: Ditch The Narcissist & Stop Entertaining BS

In this episode I speak directly to anyone stuck in a manipulative or emotionally abusive relationship and wondering why leaving feels so impossible. I unpack how empathy, hope, and old attachment wou...

9 Feb 18min

#497: The Truth Isn’t Always Loud

#497: The Truth Isn’t Always Loud

In this episode I share a deeply personal reflection on how a recent therapeutic psychedelic experience helped me untangle inner conflict, release resentment, and reconnect with a clearer sense of pur...

2 Feb 16min

#496: Healing Inherited Trauma: Mark Wolynn

#496: Healing Inherited Trauma: Mark Wolynn

In this episode Mark sits down with acclaimed therapist and author of It Didn’t Start With You, Mark Wolynn, to unpack the shocking science and lived reality of inherited trauma. They dive into resear...

26 Jan 58min

#495: Stop Pretending You Don’t Have a Choice

#495: Stop Pretending You Don’t Have a Choice

In this episode I deliver a no-BS reminder that you’re not stuck, you’re actually choosing, and the moment you stop owning your choices is the moment you hand your life over to resentment, helplessnes...

19 Jan 14min

#494: The Cost of Constant Consumption

#494: The Cost of Constant Consumption

In this episode I take a hard look at our addiction to speed, noise, and constant consumption—and how it’s quietly pulling us out of our bodies, our relationships, and our lives. I unpack why silence ...

12 Jan 10min

#493: Not Someday. NOW.

#493: Not Someday. NOW.

In this episode I deliver a wake-up call for anyone who keeps delaying the changes they know they need to make—because the cost of avoidance always shows up as anxiety, addiction, and quiet self-betra...

5 Jan 25min

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