Students of the World founder and Capture Your Flag interviewee Courtney Spence gives a TEDx Talk on the transformational power of multimedia storytelling for disaster relief and community rebuilding efforts. She talks about the potential of students and young professionals to be the changemakers and tell stories of progress that drive awareness around problem solving and sustainable solutions building in areas devasted by natural disaster or environmental distress.
Blending Passion and Community in the Holstee Manifesto #LifecycleFilm
Over the past two years, I've had the great pleasure of meeting Dave and Michael Radparvar as well as Capture Your Flag interviewee and Sandbox Network co-founder Fabian Pfortmüller. The inspiring threesome co-founded Holstee to create lifestyle goods that are designed with a conscience. It's been a joy to watch the Holstee story unfold as the company has combined messaging around living life passionately and purposefully with its own design and manufacturing efforts.
Today Holstee released their #LifeCycle film to bring the Holstee Manifesto - a call to action to live a life full of intention, creativity, passion, and community - to life via a biking passion narrative in an online video medium.
After you watch the embedded #LifecycleFilm, I invite you to watch Fabian Pfortmüller answer "What Does It Mean to Be Green?" as it relates to Holstee in his 2011 Capture Your Flag interview.
UPDATE 11/18/11: Wonderful Washington Post piece on "How the Holstee Manifesto Became the New 'Just Do It'."
Fabian is scheduled to come in for his Year 2 Capture Your Flag interview in early 2012 so stay tuned!
Be well. Capture Your Flag.
- Erik
Simon Sinek's "99 Percent Conference" Presentation
Simon Sinek inspires us. He constantly finds new ways and additional angles to teach us about understanding ourselves, our relationships with others, and how the interconnectedness creates more fulfilling ways to live with a clarified sense of purpose. He also encourages you to believe you can change the world. We believe he is right. Enjoy this amazing talk "If You Don't Understand People You Don't Understand Business" from this Year's 99 Percent Conference.
After you enjoy Simon's talk, please check out our Year 1 and Year 2 video interviews - 36 in total - with Simon. Here is one from 2011 - "How Finding Purpose Increases Sense of Fulfillment" - and one from 2009 - "How to Define Fulfillment and Measure Success Each Day." If you want to watch them later, save them to Instapaper.