This Sustainable Life

Joshua Spodek

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Booking Overview

This Sustainable Life blends leadership guidance with environmental action, featuring prominent leaders who model how to act on sustainability from intrinsic motivation rather than authority or guilt. It’s a strong fit for guests with business, education, policy, science, or advocacy credibility who can connect values-driven leadership to measurable environmental outcomes.

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). He brings leadership approaches that help people lead without relying on authority, so they act on envi...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
High-profile authors, TED speakers, leadership experts/coaches, business and organizational leaders with sustainability-relevant track records, and recognized public intellectuals or subject-matter experts (e.g., Pulitzer Prize winners, leadership gurus, executive directors/CEOs).
Required Achievements:  
Bestselling books, TEDx/TED speaking, Major awards/honors (e.g., national honors described in the show), Leadership roles at influential organizations, Significant audience reach (e.g., large podcast followings), Super Bowl or other major sports recognition (for guests)

Recent Guest Discussions

Kate Williams - 1% For The Planet’s Purpose And Vetting Model; Cultural Change; How Her Leadership Experience And Style Relate To Sustainability Action

Steven Pressfield - Leadership Applied To Sustainability; How Inducing People To Violate Values Affects Behavior; Dealing With “wounded Warriors” Dynamics And Relating Them To More Diffuse Everyday Value Violations

J. Eric Oliver - Self-awareness Tools For Intrinsic-motivation-based Leadership; How Self-awareness Affects Leading Yourself And Others In Sustainability Contexts

Recent Topics

Sustainability, Leadership, Environment, Values, Corporate

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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