carebydesign
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carebydesignJul 21, 2020
carebydesign 019 – Jeff Denby (Part 2 of 2)
"I want new public sustainability metrics where brands stand up on stage and [rather than say, “We produced X amount of product”], they instead say, “We reduced the amount of product we made in 2020, and our revenues grew by 20 percent.” That’s the shift that we want to see brands proudly making with new circularity metrics…
…80% of a brand's carbon impact is in the making of new things, while their stores, offices, warehouses, distribution is 1% of their carbon impact. Sorry, but you've just got to stop making new stuff! Therefore you need to transition your business model."
In this episode, we continue our conversation with Jeff Denby, co-founder of The Renewal Workshop. His passion for sustainability in the apparel industry drove him to develop a new business model that diverts apparel bound for landfill to The Renewal Workshop facility where it can be renewed and enjoyed by consumers again. In this episode, Jeff reflects on the past, present and future of the apparel industry through the lens of sustainability. He emphasizes how both the COVID crisis and consumer awareness are driving immediate innovation in this archaic system.
THIS EPISODE IS PART 2 of 2
carebydesign 018 – Jeff Denby (Part 1 of 2)
"These apparel brands need to be in a place where they realize that they're more than just selling rags to customers..."
Jeff Denby is the co-founder of The Renewal Workshop. His passion for sustainability in the apparel industry drove him to develop a new business model that diverts apparel bound for landfill to The Renewal Workshop facility where it can be renewed and enjoyed by consumers again. In this episode, Jeff reflects on the past, present and future of the apparel industry through the lens of sustainability. He emphasizes how both the COVID crisis and consumer awareness are driving immediate innovation in this archaic system.
Prior to The Renewal Workshop, Jeff was the co-Founder of PACT, an apparel brand that aims to change the apparel industry for good. PACT makes organic cotton basics in a transparent supply chain that aims to improve the lives of the farmers who grow the organic cotton and the workers who make the clothing. He managed supply chain, product development, and brand creative, while leading business development with key retailers. He led PACT through concept, fundraising, development, launch, acquisition, and growth spanning the full venture lifecycle of building a successful brand in the apparel industry. PACT has gone from selling its first collection of organic underwear online to a full-scale lifestyle brand available in more than 500 retail outlets with partners such as Whole Foods, Nordstrom, and Amazon.
THIS EPISODE IS PART 1 of 2
carebydesign 017 – Doniece Sandoval
“A shower is so vital to our sense of self and our dignity, and dignity is a very powerful two way street. It's as much about how you feel about yourself as it is about how people treat you. When you don't have the ability to get clean and stay clean, the way that people treat you erodes really quickly.”
In this episode, Doniece Sandoval, social activist, entrepreneur and founder of LavaMae, shares how she is alleviating the plight of the unhoused by offering personal sanitation services by converting buses into mobile showers.
The transformative power of LavaMae is in offering one of the most simple, basic human needs--a hot shower--kindly, beautifully and unconditionally.
carebydesign 016 – Robert Safian
"I love change. I know, that’s easy to say when you're an agent of change. Change is also terrible and hard and painful. This is the balance we live in. People often come to me and say, “Why do you talk about change so much?” I'm a realist who knows change is always coming, like it or not. That's what drives me - getting myself more comfortable with change. And that's what I'm hopefully helping my listeners and readers with, too; really, we're helping each other."
Robert Safian is the editor and managing director of the Flux Group. He previously oversaw Fast Company’s print, digital, and live events content, as well as its brand management and business operations. Under his leadership, Fast Company won the coveted National Magazine Award for Magazine of the Year in 2014. Robert created prestigious annual features like the world’s most innovative companies and the most creative people in business. He personally wrote more than 100 thought-leadership articles. He also currently hosts a new podcast segment for Masters of Scale called Rapid Response, dedicated to crisis response, agility, and leadership in fast-changing situations.
In this episode, Robert generously shares the distillation of his groundbreaking career, imparting innovative perspectives on life and doing business in these times.
carebydesign 015 – Khafre Jay
“Hip Hop is how I walk, talk, dress, paint, think, and act. That's just the way I interact with the world… I’m trying to find my power as a young black man and seeing all these toxic male narratives, and that had an effect on me.”
Khafre Jay’s experience in merging activism and expressive cultural arts led to found Hip Hop for Change, a 501c3 educational organization that uses Hip Hop culture to educate and advocate for social justice. Khafre’s activism is deeply rooted in real communities dealing with real issues. He is at home on the humblest corner, the corporate board room, in the booth, on stage, and at the lectern speaking truth to power. Khafre’s open-hearted style combined with visceral truth makes this episode an eye-opening education on Hip Hop, black history and culture, and current movements towards a more just America.
Khafre travels the country now speaking academically at conferences, universities, consulting, and leading diversity workshops, and has also graced the TEDx stage. As a performing artist, Khafre has shared the stage with world-class acts such as Rakim, Method Man, Dead Prez, Hieroglyphics, The Pharcyde, Talib Kweli many more. He has used his art as a political tool and performed for the 2010 Democratic National Convention, for Kaiser's 2018 Health and Equity Summit, and the 2015 and 16 March on Monsanto, just to name a few. To top it off, since 2014 Khafre hosts Hip Hop For Change Radio, a weekly radio program on San Francisco's KPOO 89.5 FM that supports his local Hip Hop community.
carebydesign 014 – Raina Kumra
“We see the lack of ethics play out in every aspect of our lives and in recent headlines. During this pandemic, the safety of Amazon's frontline workers or the Facebook ad boycott that started this summer…”
Raina Kumra is highly creative operational leader with a proven track record for building & scaling initiatives with15+ years in branding, go-to-market & growth strategy. She is the CEO of Juggernaut, an agency focused on digital, design & disruption through behavioral & brand strategy. Some clients include: The Knight Foundation, The Walt Disney Company & the Federal Government. Raina also helped build the tech ethics portfolio at Omidyar Network, investing in alternative business models and ethical interventions for the technology industry. In addition, she was a co-founder of Mavin, a mobile startup focused on affordable internet access - creating India's first net neutral co-op engagement and advertising platform.
Raina previously served as Co-Director of Innovation at the BBG, the world's largest international media organization & advanced the BBG’s mission to reach global audiences & protect journalists under the Obama Administration. Prior to that she was the Senior New Media Advisor in the State Department's Office of eDiplomacy. Raina led the conversion of Wieden+Kennedy New York to a full-service digital agency in her role as Director of Digital Strategies & spent over a decade in digital advertising, planning and strategy at top agencies such as R/GA and Bartle Bogle Hegarty. Raina has worked with The Knight Foundation, ONE.org Microsoft, Burberry, Nike, Nokia, Levi's, Unilever, Nestle, Avaya, IBM, Intel, Cantor Fitzgerald, Johnnie Walker, Match.com, ING Direct, ONE.org, Mentos, JWT, ABC Family, EA, ESPN, Brand Jordan, & several of the world's best brands.
carebydesign 013 – Angel Grant + Michael Hebb (Part 2 of 2)
"I would love see funerals actually reflect the human who is being honored. I’ve been to so many funerals in my life where I am sitting there and thinking, "This sucks! This gathering in no way reflects this human whom I loved so deeply."
This week we continue our conversation with Angel Grant & Michael Hebb, the founders of Death Over Dinner and The End of Life Collective, for an intimate discussion of how to discuss death in a meaningful and fulfilling way.
carebydesign 012 – Angel Grant + Michael Hebb (Part 1 of 2)
"We built 'Death Over Dinner' to reduce the distance between us and our being human. Because when there are conversations about our end of life wishes that go unspoken between people who care about each other, that silence becomes synonymous with distance..."
Angel Grant & Michael Hebb are the founders of Death Over Dinner and The End of Life Collective, a community of care givers and care seekers gathered in one place to help you and your family through life’s most important time.
Angel served as Co-founder of Yoga in Common and Yoga in the Forest in coastal South Carolina, and has been leading teacher trainings with attention on somatic and emotional intelligence since 2010. She facilitates workshops, retreats, and supports one-on-one clients who are deeply committed to rewiring limiting patterns. The meditations Angel guides focus on empathy, rewiring addictions, and experiencing peace with death and dying.
Michael is also the founder of Convivium – a creative agency that specializes in the technology of the common table, and the ability to shift culture through the use of thoughtful food and discourse based engagements and happenings. He has worked closely with thought/cultural leaders and many foundations/institutions including: The World Economic Forum, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Clinton Global Initiative, X Prize Foundation, FEED Foundation, The Nature Conservancy.
carebydesign 011 – Angela Spangler
“Buildings are intended protect us. We must quantify building materials and policies based upon their potential to help or harm the individual who will come into contact with them.”
Angela combines expertise in human factors and human-environment relations with experience as a professional ergonomist to help the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) further its mission of transforming buildings and communities in ways that help people thrive. As a member of the Market Development team, she supports the global growth and adoption of the WELL Building Standard, an evidence-based system for measuring, certifying and monitoring the performance of building features to improve occupant health and well-being.
Prior to joining the International WELL Building Institute, Angela was the Ergonomics Department Manager for a large global financial firm. In this role she collaborated with the firm’s real estate team to develop guidelines around workplace design, partnered with the medical team to provide disability accommodations, and spent time working closely with clients to design and implement ergonomic workplace modifications to reduce and prevent workplace injuries. In this episode, she discusses the role that buildings play in health and new ways to look at the design of wellness.
carebydesign 010 – Alexandra Mysoor
“I’m a generalist, overly optimistic and naturally curious about many things so I ask a lot of questions. Those qualities facilitate problem-solving. From one angle an entrepreneur is basically a problem solver.”
Alexandra Mysoor, Founder and Chairwoman of The Alexandra Mysoor Group (AMG), is a gifted entrepreneur having started several multi-million dollar businesses out of her home. Her latest venture, MooCow Market, is an online, nationwide gourmet gift shop and organic delivered grocery store which Forbes described as “a company that revolutionized food delivery.”
Alexandra started her first company, Digital Marketing Agency, at the age of 24. She subsequently co-founded Generation Orange, a social commerce company that accelerated socially & environmentally conscious living.
She has been featured on NPR, San Jose Mercury News and was named CNBC's International Young Turk 2008 for her success as a self-made entrepreneur. Inc. Magazine named her a top entrepreneur to watch in 2011 and Huffington Post has named her a top 40 under 40 entrepreneur. Alexandra has also been a showcase speaker at numerous conferences including the Kaufmann Foundation Global Entrepreneurship Week, Digital Hollywood, Internet Retailer. Alexandra holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in Interdisciplinary Field Studies and studied at the Fashion Design at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising.
carebydesign 009 – Mitul Desai
"The workplace is the last place people feel safe asking for mental help."
Mitul Desai speaks about the light and dark sides of mental health in the midst of the pandemic. He advises corporations, startups, and nonprofits on mental health strategy, solutions, and technology. He also invests in aspiring mental health tech entrepreneurs. Join us for an in depth look at the changing face of both our internal mental health challenges at this time and the needed system overhauls.
His background includes 10+ years in the healthcare industry and 5 years leading teams in product, data services, and digital strategy at a global payments technology firm. Previously he worked as a patent attorney at Merck and global law firms, and as a healthcare equity research analyst at Piper Sandler. Mitul also served in the Obama Administration as a Senior Advisor at the U.S. State Department, where he handled international economic policy and public-private partnerships in South Asia (the first person to hold such a position).
carebydesign 008 – Jane Frederick
“As architects, when we are at our best, we don’t talk about the future – we create it.”
Our guest, Jane Frederick, FAIA, is the 2020-2021 President of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The AIA is the voice of the architectural profession and a resource for its members in service to society. Founded in 1857, the AIA and it's 95,000 members across 200 chapters in the US and abroad set the course for the architecture and construction industry.
As the current president, Jane rolled up her sleeves and hit the ground running. She’s a model of inclusion and deep listening, encompassing care by design that extends to the very heart of how we live and treat one another. You will hear her deftly analyze and admit past institutional errors and injustices. Simultaneously she outlines proactive efforts towards emergency services, climate action initiatives, and equality for people of color, women and all those lacking fair treatment and representation. Please join us for this talk from one of the most inspiring and substantive design thought leaders of our time!
ABOUT OUR GUEST:
Jane has held a myriad of leadership positions at the AIA, including serving as the AIA 2019 first vice president; South Atlantic Regional representative on the Strategic Council; at-large director on the National Board; and president of AIA South Carolina. Additionally, she has served on the AIA Small Firm Round Table Executive Committee and NAAB Accreditation teams. She has also chaired numerous local planning boards and is a Liberty Fellow.
Her award-winning firm Frederick + Frederick Architects—where she is a principal—in Beaufort, South Carolina, specializes in custom residences and has earned 18 state and local design awards. It was honored with AIA South Carolina’s 2017 Firm Award as well as Southern Living Magazine’s Best Renovation of 2009.
carebydesign 007 – Chip Conley (Part 2 of 2)
“Be aware of too many pivots. There are people I know who've built their companies and grow them and pivoted so many times along the way, that by the fifth pivot, nobody has any clue.”
This week we continue with Part II of our conversation with Chip Conley as he discusses more about the thinking behind Modern Elder Academy, his school dedicated to helping people navigate midlife, plus the collective experience of wisdom sharing, and how our societal narrative on aging is at odds with our personal narrative on aging. Join us and learn how his views on aging and wisdom have evolved.
Rebel hospitality entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author, Chip Conley disrupted his favorite industry... twice. At age 26 he founded Joie de Vivre Hospitality (JdV), transforming an inner-city motel into the second largest boutique hotel brand in America. He sold JdV after running it as CEO for 24 years, and soon the young founders of Airbnb asked him to help transform their promising start-up into the world’s leading hospitality brand. Chip served as Airbnb’s Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy for four years and today acts as the company’s Strategic Advisor for Hospitality and Leadership. His books have made him a leading authority at the intersection of psychology and business. Chip was awarded “Most Innovative CEO” by the San Francisco Business Times, is the recipient of hospitality’s highest honor, the Pioneer Award, and holds a BA and MBA from Stanford University. Today he runs Modern Elder Academy, a school dedicated to helping people navigate midlife.
This is Part Two of a two-part episode.
carebydesign 006 – Chip Conley (Part 1 of 2)
"We are going to see a travel industry that is less focused on the two-night road warrior stay and more on the two month digital nomad stay. And so the question is: how does the industry remake itself in that possibility? Isn't that screaming for a design solution?"
Chip Conley makes it look easy--life, work, leisure. And he has plenty to show for it. He enjoys tremendous success in re-creating the hospitality industry, establishing transformational elder programs and writing best sellers. Similar to great athletes or world class musicians, listening to Chip you begin to sense the level of commitment and sacrifice underlying those achievements. He reminds us that all deeply committed visionaries keep the hard parts to themselves. They live their inspirations and victories out loud. In his case the crowning jewel of his life is his passionate pursuit of wisdom. Join us and learn about how he shares these gifts with others.
Rebel hospitality entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author, Chip Conley disrupted his favorite industry... twice. At age 26 he founded Joie de Vivre Hospitality (JdV), transforming an inner-city motel into the second largest boutique hotel brand in America. He sold JdV after running it as CEO for 24 years, and soon the young founders of Airbnb asked him to help transform their promising start-up into the world’s leading hospitality brand. Chip served as Airbnb’s Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy for four years and today acts as the company’s Strategic Advisor for Hospitality and Leadership. His books have made him a leading authority at the intersection of psychology and business. Chip was awarded “Most Innovative CEO” by the San Francisco Business Times, is the recipient of hospitality’s highest honor, the Pioneer Award, and holds a BA and MBA from Stanford University. Today he runs Modern Elder Academy, a school dedicated to helping people navigate midlife.
This is Part One of a two-part episode.
carebydesign 005 – Sierra Campbell
“What I've learned in more than 20 years of being at the bedside of the dying is it takes a village to have a good death.”
Sierra is a certified End of Life Doula. She began working in a skilled nursing facility at age 16 and considers herself a lifelong caregiver.
After a decade of owning and operating a successful home care agency, Sierra burnt out and took time to reflect on her time helping more than 100 (mostly elders) people through death and dying. She realized the urgent need for families to understand the path ahead, make plans, and prepare for the inevitable in ways that bring them closer and affirm fully living this life.
Sierra created Nurture.Co, a resource site to support and prepare individuals and families through all experiences end of life. On the site, you find many free resources, including Five Conversations, a free guide to plan with a parent or loved one for care at the end.
In this episode she directly, openly and warmly engages us around the realities of Covid19, death, dying and the urgent shortfalls of our elder care system. Her composure and compassion have a disarming effect, supporting us in facing these realities bravely and truthfully, with renewed commitment to positive change.
carebydesign 004 – Dr. Daniel Kraft
“We might prescribe a pill, or prescribe the digital layers around that, and increasingly the data will flow more readily to the clinician to not just make sense of the data, but of the insights that come from it.”
Dr. Daniel Kraft is Chair of Medicine for Singularity University and Founder and Chair of Exponential Medicine, a program that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare. In response to the pandemic he has jumped in to Chair the XPRIZE Pandemic Alliance Task Force, a data powered alliance to stop Covid-19 through collaboration and technology.
It’s Daniel’s belief that the tragedy of Covid-19 could also be humanity’s finest hour; a way of honoring these terrible sacrifices. These emerging design innovations will staunch this outbreak, more thoroughly prepare us for future events, stream-line outdated and inequitable systems, support more sustainable practices, instill a stronger sense of and commitment to our individual health, provide invaluable shared global data, and utilize the most miraculous aspects of technology in true service to our health and well-being as a global community.
carebydesign 003 – Monique Woodard
"You said 'Black Lives Matter.' What does that mean? Where are you putting the activity that goes behind the words? Where are you putting that to work? So it's been a really tumultuous time. But I think it's the beginnings of change."
Monique Woodard is a venture capital investor at the intersection of technology and newly powerful consumer groups. She has invested in startup ecosystems across the US and sub-Saharan Africa. Her investments as Venture Partner at 500 Startups (a venture capital firm with +$350M AUM) and an angel investor include Blavity, Encantos Media, Mented Cosmetics, Silvernest, and many others.
Today, Monique invests in the future of technology being driven by major demographic trends like the shift to majority-minority, an increase in the spending power of women, and an aging Baby Boomer population. She invests in companies with global ambitions who are creating technology products that meet the needs of tomorrow’s internet users.
carebydesign 002 – Nathan Shedroff
“We need to really think about what it means to care and what it means to design, and then we'll get somewhere.”
Listening to Nathan speak about his principles, practices and contributions, helps one to feel heard. His communication style is designed to honor relationships, assume connectedness, build trust, enhance critical thinking and inspire creativity. What could be more needed at this time?
Nathan is a leading business thinker, helping advance the understanding of total value, customer experience, and meaningful business. He is a pioneer in Conversational Interfaces, Experience Design, Interaction Design and Information Design, is a serial entrepreneur, and researches, speaks and teaches internationally about meaning, strategic innovation, and science fiction interfaces.
carebydesign 001 – Cameron Sinclair
“We have the solutions. The challenge is how do we implement them and get them into the hands of the people that need them most. And that has to do a lot with leadership and financing.” – @casinclair
New York resident, architect Cameron Sinclair, is a force of nature in the world of humanitarian, innovative architectural design during crises. In response to the current pandemic his organization, Worldchanging Ventures, a shelter solution company, is looking at rapidly deployable mobile housing, schools, and medical facilities such as hospitals, clinics, and testing, vaccine, and recovery unit sites. This design concept has unlimited applications for a variety of regional and global disasters. As a first step he formed Frontline Care, partnering with Jupe Health and Amplifier to create rapidly deployable rest and recovery units for frontline workers.
Join us for this timely, gloves off conversation regarding the role of design amidst our current global crises. A self- responsible examination of design deficiencies and potential solutions.
Topics will include:
- Listening and responding effectively to the impact of the virus on our communities of color, our healthcare system and our environment.
- What is needed right now in response to the failure of leadership, misdirected financial resources, and lack of a marshal plan?
- How to prioritize when everything is in peril?
- How do we rebuild community after a pandemic?
- Approaching resiliency from the standpoint of both current and future crises, including implications around potential concurrent disasters.
- How do designers value and quantify their work sufficiently to ensure quality and continuity in the field of design?
- Where to find hope in design?