This Sustainable Life

Joshua Spodek

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Booking Overview

This Sustainable Life spotlights leaders who model values-driven action on sustainability, reframing environmental work as leadership driven by intrinsic motivation rather than guilt or compliance. It’s a strong platform for authors, public intellectuals, and executives who can translate sustainability into practical, people-centered leadership lessons.

Metrics

Episodes: 861

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

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Host

Joshua Spodek - Bestselling author, 3-time TEDx speaker, leadership speaker, coach, and professor (PhD, MBA). Focuses on “leadership without authority,” emphasizing intrinsic motivation and self/social-emotional s...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Public-facing leaders who can connect sustainability or environmental values to leadership and human behavior—often authors, thought leaders, executives, educators, and recognized speakers. Strong emphasis on intrinsic motivation, self-awareness, community-building, and values-based action.
Required Achievements:  
Bestselling author, TEDx speaker or major speaking visibility, Leadership in established organizations (e.g., nonprofit/executive roles), Major media/publishing credentials (book awards, prestigious honors), High-audience thought leadership (podcasters/speakers with significant reach)

Recent Guest Discussions

J. Eric Oliver - Self-awareness Tools; Intrinsic Motivation For Values-based Leadership; Development Of A Self-awareness Course And Book.

AJ Harper - Writing And Community-building For Cultural Change; Leadership Through Honesty/integrity And Taking “the Reps.”

Josh Bandoch - Persuasion Theory And Practical Skills For Influencing Without Strong-arming; Emotional/logical Appeals; Storytelling And Communication Techniques.

Recent Topics

Sustainability, Leadership, Motivation, Self Awareness, Communication

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
This Sustainable Life
:

853: Kate Williams: CEO, 1% for the Planet

June 11, 2026

I'd seen the "1% for the Planet" logo many times and figured it was an organization that helped, but I didn't think of how. The businessman in me wondered, shouldn't companies just lower prices 1% and let people donate what they want? Does one percent make much difference?Kate was passing through New York so we got to meet in person. In this recording, she answers these questions and more. She describes the organization more comprehensively, but briefly, 1% for the Planet organizes other orga...

852: Steven Pressfield, conversation 2: His new book, The Arcadian (and A Man at Arms)

May 29, 2026

It turns out Steven's readers split into two camps with little overlap. I figure most listeners belong to the War of Art camp. If you haven't read the book and want to live a better life, I recommend it, in the top few percent of recommendations. It's powerful, engaging, memorable, and short.The other camp reads his fiction books. His latest is The Arcadian, which stands alone but connects with his last book A Man at Arms. I read both and now belong to both camps, proudly. One ...

851: J. Eric Oliver: How to Know Yourself

May 18, 2026

This podcast is about leadership first and foremost, applied to sustainability. Most of the time when people hear or read "sustainability," that concept overrides everything else. They forget or don't notice else, but here, in this podcast it comes second. If you haven't developed the social and emotional skills to lead based on intrinsic motivation, if you try to convince, cajole, coerce, or seek compliance, you'll probably influence people to resist and oppose you and what you're promoting....

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