9 to Thrive Janet McKenna Lowry

Join me this week for part 1 of my conversation with the effervescent Gabrielle Gould, Executive Director of the Amherst Business Improvement District and the Amherst Foundation. We talk about connection, finding yourself anew in a pandemic, and more! Also, a review of the book HumanKind by Rutger Bregman. If you have a negative view of the world right now, you've got to read this book.
Amherst Business Improvement District 
Amherst Downtown Foundation
HumanKind by Rutger Bregman

We'll look at the year in review and reasons for optimism, then have part 2 of a conversation with Azi Golshan, a public defender in Georgia about career, community, and creativity. Join us at 4:30 pm on @WMUA, or online at working9tothrive.com, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

This week's episode features a review of Peter Jackson's Beatles documentary, Get Back, with a lens on career, community, and creativity—and how when a team is unsupported, it falls apart. Then part 1 of our conversation with Azi Golshan, a public defender in Georgia, about finding a place that feels just right. Join us at 4:30 pm on @WMUA, or online at working9tothrive.com, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

Today's guest is illustrator, author, and cartoonist David Milgrim, and the book review is The Power of Giving Away Power by Matthew Barzun.
davidmilgrim.comThe Power of Giving Away Power 

Today's episode features a review of Drive, by Daniel Pink, and part 2 of our conversation with illustrator, author, and cartoonist David Milgrim about creativity, and if you ever feel like you've made it.
davidmilgrim.comDrive: the surprising truth of what motivates us

80% of what parents and kids argue about is school. What happens when we take that out of the equation? Join us for the rebroadcast of the second half of my conversation with Julie Leonard.Also: how do we learn if we bypass the shame of not reading "on time"?
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