The Path Casey Moninghoff

1:00 Books, Reading, the Anti-Library
10:30 Zettelkasten
13:00 Originality
18:00 Paying attention to your own attention
26:00 Imbalance, Balance, Minimum Standards
40:00 Lenses
49:00 Losing power by “keeping your options open”
58:00 Uncertainty and admitting we don’t have the answer
1:06:00 Money, Identity, Time
1:18:00 Choice, Thought, Goal Setting
1:41:00 The Valley of Frustration
1:54:00 Democracy was never a guarantee

1:00 Nutritional Therapy
3:30 Joe’s story
6:15 Massive decline in male reproductive health and fertility (lower sperm count/quality; lower testosterone, increased reproductive pathologies)
12:00 Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDC’s) in personal products and in food
17:00 Inflammation, Oxidative Stress, Free Radicals, Antioxidants, Nutritional Co-Factors
22:30 Testosterone, Sex Hormone Binding Globulin (SHBG), Androgen Receptors
29:00 Testosterone Optimization: Body weight; Nutrients (Vit A, Vit D, Magnesium, Selenium, Zinc); Sleep; Exercise; EDC’s; Textile choice and loose vs. tight clothing
36:30 Types of dietary fat, evolutionary biology, food intolerances, immune reactions, nutritional ketosis
43:00 Joe’s Routine
46:00 Clinical Results

Kathleen Kiker is a software engineer at B612. B612 is a company that develops tools to understand, map, and navigate our solar system and protect our planet from asteroid impacts. She has a BS and MS in physics.

0:00 Asteroid Day
3:30 Board Games
6:00 B612 Foundation
10:00 Asteroid Discovery and Mapping (ADAM)
16:00 Tracket-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery (THOR)
21:00 Discovery & Precovery
27:00 1.3 million asteroids and planetary defense
40:00 Artificial Intelligence, Art, and Beauty
47:00 How much do we care about life that does not resemble us?

Arno Koch is a relationship coach based in Malibu, CA.

00:00 – triggered by a 2 year old asking “Why” – relationship advice should go full circle. “why” is a triggering word because it reminds us of other things. Replace with a “How” or “What” question – all advice goes both ways

3:30 – empathy while balancing authenticity and learned skills

7:30 – move perceptions away from your personality: “it seems/looks/sounds like” – have the chance to be wrong and not fixed to your perceptions – assign the issue to a behavior, not to a person

13:00 – “I can’t make you feel anything” & feelings are immediate and unconscious

18:00 – gratitude, kindness, presence, cortisol, adrenaline, creating safe and nurturing environments

30:00 – two or three sides to a story? “Set and enforce your boundaries, with love”

38:00 – a refusal of the call to adventure is a refusal to give up one’s own preferences/routines – in the hero’s journey and in love / state your preference and offer a true choice is the most powerful thing you can do

43:00 – the difference between justifiable things to do and say and the right things to do and say

49:00 – the fear may be real, but the danger is not

51:00 – books “the happiest toddler on the block” “never split the difference” “seven principles for making marriage work “ “nonviolent communication”

54:00 – if you don’t feel heard, you need to listen better / comparisons can be one of the biggest source of growth and learning, just don’t take it personally

59:00 – choices based on empathy

Anna Bruffy is the founder of Sea Side Fiber Arts in Virginia Beach, VA. Sea Side Fiber Arts focuses on sustainable natural dyeing of animal and plant fibers (such as sheep wool and banana tree fiber) with tree wood, plants and insects. She collaborates with the Iwokrama rainforest research center in Guyana, South America

[0:30] Sustainable dyeing using insects (cochineal and lac) and plants (osage orange, sequoia wood)

[4:00] Environmental consciousness and the history/process of dyeing

[10:00] Waste products and water use

[14:30] Guyana and the humble banana (1,000+ types of bananas in the world!)

[22:00] Banana: Medicinal use, Pseudo-stems, Carbon Sequestration, Insulation, Rhizomes

[31:30] NIH Study: “An experimental study on the effects of different type of textiles on conception”

[34:00] Microplastics, PFAS, Abaca Tree, Styrofoam, Banana Paper

[46:30] Fair Trade, Circular Economies, Surama Eco-Lodge, Iwokrama Research Center

[52:30] Dyeing yarn

[57:00] There are no shortcuts to the mountain top

[58:00] Physiology and aesthetics of natural dyes vs. synthetic dyes

[1:04:00] Waste: a cultural creation?

Randy Swaty is an ecologist at The Nature Conservancy with an interest in conservation science, landscape ecology, mycorrhizal fungi, and LANDFIRE state and transition modeling.

[1:00] Defining wildlife habitat and how to protect it

[7:15] Complexity

[10:45] Beavers, Woodpeckers, and Mistletoe

[18:30] The Landfire Project: Satellite mapping of vegetation and the terrestrial environment

[30:45] Soil, Fungi, Biomimicry

[36:15] Ecosystem change

[42:15] Climate change

[46:30] Measures of ecosystem health

[50:45] Plantations and problems of scale

[55:15] Landfire’s challenges

[1:03:45] Landfire’s priorities

[1:05:15] Crowdsourcing, citizen science, and “gamify-ing” nature

[1:08:45] Two cliffhangers: Conservation Data Lab and working with students/young professionals

[1:09:45] Randy’s current enthusiasm