073: Leadership and The Environmental - Joshua Spodek

<p><strong>Guest overview&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Joshua Spodek is the epitome of a renaissance man.</p><p>A two-time <a href="https://youtu.be/Qb3nwRZmKBo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TEDx speaker</a>, #1 bestselling author, host of the award-winning <a href="http://joshuaspodek.com/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Leadership and the Environment</em></a> podcast, and professor and coach of entrepreneurship and leadership at NYU and Columbia Business School.</p><p>He is a regular speaker on environmental leadership at institutions such as Boston Consulting Group, Google, IBM,&nbsp;Harvard, Princeton, West Point, MIT, and Stanford,</p><p>Oh he also has a PhD in astrophysics and an MBA from Columbia, helped build an X-ray observational satellite with the European Space Agency and NASA.</p><p>He founded a <a href="https://www.forbes.com/2002/08/15/0815subway.html#7162c568490d" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">venture</a> to market his invention— an innovative media product</p><p>He’s an artist and has installed public works in New York and Amsterdam.&nbsp;</p><p>He studied Meisner acting Technique at the William Esper Studio. He has taught art at Parsons and NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.</p><p>He’s run seven marathons (3:51 best), rowed one, competed at the world level of Ultimate Frisbee&nbsp;</p><p>He’s <a href="http://joshuaspodek.com/saturday_morning_hudson_river" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">swum across the Hudson River</a>, has done over <a href="http://joshuaspodek.com/js_blogseries/burpees" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">140,000 burpees</a>, written over <a href="http://joshuaspodek.com/archives#" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">3,500 blog posts</a>, and has taken over <a href="http://joshuaspodek.com/js_blogseries/cold-showers-rock" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">430 cold showers</a>,&nbsp;</p><p>He <a href="http://www.inc.com/joshua-spodek/365-days-without-flying.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_b