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Change is happening everywhere eliciting excitement and anticipation in its wake. How do we harness that excitement for ourselves when we find work to be overwhelming, monotonous, or dissatisfying and we’re ready for change?
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He Quit Big Oil for His Passion Project - Now He's Taught 10,000 People to Regenerate Land | Rob Avis | Episode 67 (opens the original)
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At 8 years old, Rob Avis wrote a letter to his prime minister, begging him to stop the destruction of the Brazilian rainforest. Two decades later, Rob found himself on the other side of that same fight as the oil and gas engineer clearing Canada's boreal forest to lay pipelines. The contradiction broke something open in him. So he quit. He walked away from a six-figure oil and gas career, converted his van to run on used deep-fryer oil, and drove across Canada, the U.S., and Mexico learning how
Meghan Wolfgram: Lori Greiner's Golden Ticket & the Founder's Playbook | Episode 66 (opens the original)
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Meghan Wolfgram is the Founder and CEO of Swift Paws and the recipient of Lori Greiner's golden ticket on Shark Tank. In this episode of Productive Passions, she breaks down the real founder's playbook behind Swift Paws: the two-year gap with nothing to sell during her B2B-to-B2C pivot, the transparent Kickstarter update that saved customer trust, and the surprising decision to license her IP to a former knockoff competitor. In this episode: What Lori Greiner's golden ticket actually means to he
He Walked Away From the Establishment: Jonathan Lundgren on Regenerative Agriculture | Episode 65 (opens the original)
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Florida's citrus industry is now producing approximately 4% of its former capacity. The soil that once supported it has been farmed down to sand. On this episode of Productive Passions, host Christy Tagye talks with Jonathan Lundgren, founder of Ecdysis Foundation and Blue Dasher Farm, and a former USDA agroecologist who received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Obama in 2011, about what regenerative agriculture really means, and why the conventiona
Pain Points vs. Joy Points: A New Way to Design Business | Episode 64 (opens the original)
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What's the difference between joy and pleasure, and why does it matter for business? Pleasure is external and temporary, and it can flip into pain once it fades. Joy is internal and momentary, something you can design for in a product, a workplace, or a life, without needing to chase it again and again. In this episode of Productive Passions, host Christy Tagye sits down with Himanshu Bharadwaj, founder of Joyful Design and a NeuroUX innovator, to unpack why separation, not scarcity, is the real
What the West Misses About Doing Business in the Gulf: Trust First, Deal Second | Ep. 63 (opens the original)
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Trust First, Deal Second: The Real Rule of Doing Business in the Gulf | Episode 63 Most Western professionals walk into the Gulf reading the room the way they'd read a room at home, and miss almost everything that actually decides the outcome. In this episode, Taqua Malik, founder of Freedomvisory and Regional Vice-President for the UAE and GCC at EUCED, joins Christy Tagye to unpack why trust, not the contract, is what actually determines whether a deal happens in the GCC. Taqua explains why si
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