109: Nita Baum - Her Serendipitous Journey To Transformational Leadership

<p><strong>Guest Overview</strong></p><p>Nita Baum is an entrepreneur, co-creator, facilitator, mentor-coach, and community-builder. She is also&nbsp;board lead for Solar responders - the NGO from previous Guest Hunter Johansson - so thanks to Hunter for making this happen.&nbsp;</p><br><p>Born in New York to an inspiring cancer scientist mother and a philosophical pharmacist father, her parents’ influenced her curiosity, appreciation for creation and her right brain - left brain development.&nbsp;</p><br><p>In part one of this two parter we cover Nita’s early influences, her love of school and education, sisters' influence, playing games of the imagination and growing up in an environment of scarcity and abundance.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Nita discusses experiencing the social inequity in education, developing a social and political consciousness of local and global events, traveling to China, Japan and Korea and becoming interested in the philosophy and spirituality.&nbsp;</p><br><p>In Part Two we discuss her perspectives on the broader impact of Covid19 and cover what led Nita to form her business Bfree to partners with organizations to help them to activate individual, team and organizational potential.&nbsp;Nita questions purpose role of work in light of the crisis and our growing realization of what can be achieved so easily and quickly</p><p>We discuss the transformative moment of now and how people are reacting and the opportunity for consciousness raising, the reorientation of human capital and the transformative capacity in all of us.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><br><p>I hope you are inspired by the vision, values and life philosophy of Nita Baum&nbsp;</p><br><p><br></p><p><strong>What we discuss:</strong></p><p>Nita's mother's wonder and awe and love of science&nbsp;</p><p>Her father’s broad expansive thinking and his concern for what it means to be human and our collective interdependence.&nbsp;</p><p>How Nita grew up to understand about food as a healing agent&nbsp;</p><p>Her Mother’s respect for science&nbsp;</p><p>A