DEBORA CAHN

DEBORA CAHN

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Showrunner & Executive Producer of Netflix’s The Diplomat starring Keri Russell & Rufus Sewell
Exec. Producer Homeland · Grey’s Anatomy · Vinyl
Co-Producer The West Wing

So the idea was to look at what it's like to be an ambassador for the United States abroad and to do that in the context of a married couple, both of whom are in the same field. And what kind of tensions come from being in a relationship with somebody where you're both collaborators and personal partners and sometimes competitors? And what does that do to your life? What does it do to your work experience? And it felt like a military alliance and a marriage are not so different in many ways. You know, you get together under certain circumstances, and then time marches on and things change, and both parties change, and you're still in this relationship that either can or can't bend with you.

JF BROSSCHOT

JF BROSSCHOT

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Professor of Health Psychology on Psychophysiological Mechanisms of Stress in Daily Life · Leiden University

So social animals need to be connected. Lonely animals show chronic stress responses and die earlier if these needs are not met. Now, what are our concrete, non-negotiable needs? How many friends are enough to keep our default stress response down? Our social media needs, the need to talk, touch, and so on? And what physical spaces do we exactly need? How much nature do we need to be in? Stress science needs to stop studying stressors and focus on what we need to be healthy. Finally, this is not only health. It reduces our general performance, our cognitive flexibility, our creativity and exploration, our mood, and our libido.

DR GINDI

DR GINDI

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Sculptor

As a sculptor, I aspire to model the infinity of our existence – I know, that’s a very long perception and even longer effort. I am looking for the organic in our being and that shimmying state of infinite being. Likewise, I believe that human mankind should not be driven exclusively by momentary gratification but shall instead think about what lives on when our lives end. The shortcomings of capitalism are obvious – it is mostly based on self-interest and competition, and it is often anti-collaborative on the macro-level. As an artist, I recommend redesigning capitalism, to make it more socially oriented and inclusive. Markets need to grow for the benefit of all, obliged to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in general and the environment in particular.

TODD B. KASHDAN

TODD B. KASHDAN

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APA Award-winning Author of The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively
Curious? · The Upside of Your Dark Side
Leading Authority on Well-being, Curiosity, Courage & Resilience

We're really talking about principled rebels. And when we talk about insubordination, we're talking about most of us live in these social hierarchies, and there's the idea, this started in the military and still goes on, where if someone at a lower rank questions or challenges a command or a norm that someone of a higher rank, that's considered an act of insubordination. And one of the main problems of that, I think anyone who's listening can acknowledge, is it depends on the quality of the idea of the person who's raising the question. I just realized there was this whole body of literature on minority influence that no one had put together into a book for the general public, and considering the racial reckoning that occurred during COVID-19, the extra attention to diversity, to disadvantaged groups, every moment of society, it just feels like it's more and more relevant of what I've been working on.

AMANDA E. MACHADO

AMANDA E. MACHADO

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Writer, Public Speaker, Facilitator · Founder of Reclaiming Nature Writing

So much of the travel industry was built on the idea of colonialism which really makes us all inherit this idea that whatever we need in life is going to come from seeking it elsewhere and grabbing it from somewhere else, I think looking at that, really deeply thinking about what is lost from that mindset and the harm that is caused by it has been something I've been trying to do over the last few years. And a lot of that has to do with land trauma, right? Like really acknowledging where our settlement of land comes from and how we can heal that in the ways that we travel.

DR GINDI

DR GINDI

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Sculptor

As a sculptor, I aspire to model the infinity of our existence – I know, that’s a very long perception and even longer effort. I am looking for the organic in our being and that shimmying state of infinite being. Likewise, I believe that human mankind should not be driven exclusively by momentary gratification but shall instead think about what lives on when our lives end. The shortcomings of capitalism are obvious – it is mostly based on self-interest and competition, and it is often anti-collaborative on the macro-level. As an artist, I recommend redesigning capitalism, to make it more socially oriented and inclusive. Markets need to grow for the benefit of all, obliged to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in general and the environment in particular.