Name and Fame, with Andrea Learned

Denise Baden is all about transformation through storytelling. She's a business professor and thought leader in sustainability communications who *refuses* to accept doom culture. Her joy lies in creating, convening, and celebrating green storytellers. Key Themes 1. Storytelling Moves People from Head to Heart Denise has been reading hundreds of reflections from business leaders at sustainable lea...

Days before California's primary, Andrea circled back to Janelle Kellman (candidate for Lieutenant Governor) via voice memo to see what's been coming up most in her recent campaign conversations. Here are the three key topics: Janelle makes the point that California doesn't lack ambition, values, or money, but it lacks implementation. While every candidate may bring up affordability, housing, clim...

Helene Cornell didn't come up through academia, nepotism, or a Google scholarship. She simply made her way into climate tech rooms by being the most accessible person there.  Andrea and Helene talk about how she uses humor ( she studied improv! ) to make the usually heavy climate conversations lighter, how she learned to connect with speaking audience members, and why she calls herself a nerd whis...

Andrea recently had a rich conversation with Gaël Duez, the host of GreenIO Podcast, so we are sharing that episode here. No matter your role or sector, listen in to learn how to understand and use *your* leadership influence.  *** You don't have to be a CEO to have a lot of influence. In fact, you can effect much more change that you might realise… On today's episode of Green IO, Gaël is joined b...

Some of Andrea's most inspiring conversations happen outside the co-op in the cold rain. This solo episode started with a new friend, a shared love of veganism, and a plot to put plant-based kids' cookbooks in little free libraries around the neighborhood. From there she gets into something she's been sitting with for a while: why the food-climate connection still isn't landing the way it should,...

Heidi Adams sees what most people walk past. She spent 25 years as a production designer in film and TV — building worlds from scratch and solving the unsolvable, all in an industry where failure simply isn't an option. But that's the backstory. What she is, at her core, is a design thinker who tears problems down to first principles and builds them back up for what's needed in this time. The stre...

Jack Hanson co-founded Run on Climate, an organization that gets climate champions elected to local office — and then supports them once they're there. At 24, he ran for the Burlington, Vermont City Council because the person he was managing dropped out and no one else would do it. He won. He got reelected without opposition. He helped flip four seats in two years. Then he built an organization so...

Janelle Kellman has been training for this moment her whole life — she just didn't know it. She's an environmental lawyer, ultra marathoner, former mayor of Sausalito, and candidate for Lieutenant Governor of California — AND she's one of the most genuinely joyful people I've talked to in years. In this conversation, she traces the through-line from flooding streets in Sausalito to the state commi...

Behind the Scenes: From Living Change to Name & Fame with Maria Paleologos | ~17 minutes Before the interviews start, a little origin story. In this pre-season conversation, I sit down with Maria Paleologos — producer of my 2023 podcast Living Change: A Quest for Climate Leadership — to talk about what's changed, what's carried over, and why I'm back with a new show built around a single stubborn...