The Impossible Network

Guest Overview  Jessica Carson, creator, teacher, and author of Wired This Way, a book about Finding Mental, Emotional, Physical, and Spiritual Well-being as a Creator, is this week's guest. In this wide ranging episode, we cover Jessica’s early life and development being the perfect combination of her right and left-brained parents.  Jessica refers to Jungian psychology as a reference p...

This week we re-publish our first ever episode, recorded on a cold day in late 2018 on the streets of South Philadelphia with Tyrique Glasgow.  Tyrique Glasgow is the Founder of the Young Chances Foundation, an organization providing after-school support, sports programs, and mentoring for South Philadelphia’s youth.  Besides running the foundation, Tyrique works with the District Attorn...

Guest overview  Schuyler Moore is Director of Science and Technology at the Defense Innovation Board, in the US Department of Defense, by day. At night she is a competitive Hip Hop Dancer by night. She is sister to our previous guest Dr. Merritt Moore(Episode No14). Everything Schuyler shares in this episode is her personal view and perspective. She only speaks herself and does not speak...

This week’s guest, Dr Christian Basch, describes himself as a practical philosopher.  He is also Author of the new book the Serendipity Mindset , and Director of NYU’s Global Economy program. In this absorbing interview Christian describes his upbringing in Germany to a cerebral intellectual father and empathetic and loving mother.  Christian explains how his supportive parents instilled...

This week I want to make a change to our usual interview format. Instead, I want to talk about the issue of climate change. Whatever your perspective on the causes few will deny that dramatic and potentially irreversible changes are occurring that threaten humanity’s existence on the planet. We're now well into the fourth quarter of this tumultuous year. With news around our tiny un...

This week's guest Linda Rislin is evidence of how life’s path leads us in directions we could never have planned. In Linda’s case, a visual designer turned Open Relationship Coach.  Born to Haitian parents, Linda was born in New Jersey and grew up in an inter-generational home and at the intersection of diverse cultures.  In part one Linda discusses the early years, her catholic educatio...

GUEST OVERVIEW This week's guest is Linda Rislin, is evidence of how life’s path leads us in directions we could never have planned. In Linda’s case, a visual designer turned Open Relationship Coach.  Born to Haitian parents, Linda was born in New Jersey and grew up in an inter-generational home and at the intersection of diverse cultures.  In part one Linda discusses the early years, he...

Jennifer L Williams is this week's guest and our first guest of Series 3. Jennifer is a leading thinker and advocate for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.  During this open, honest, and expansive discussion Jennifer discusses why diversity, equity, and inclusion must be foundational to reimagining how we work and how we build teams and move toward a more equitable society. In part one Jennife...

Guest Overview Jennifer L Williams is this week's guest and our first guest of Series 3. Jennifer is a leading thinker and advocate for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.  During this open, honest and expansive discussion Jennifer discusses why diversity, equity, and inclusion must be foundational to reimagining how we work and how we build teams, and move toward a more equitable society. In pa...

This weeks bonus episode we go back to Episode 76 where we interviewed Carmen Medina - the ex-Deputy Director for Intelligence at the CIA. We pick up this episode where I ask Carmen about her perspective on the state of the World today and the direction we are headed. Carmen discusses the web of causality, our interconnectedness and her perspective on communications, and being heard in a polarized...

Guest Overview This week we go back to Episode 30 with Co-founder of the Masters in Branding program at New York’s School of Visual Arts and host of one of the most popular and longest-running podcasts, Design Matters, Debbie Millman.  We pick up the interview at 20 min where Debbie discusses the serendipitous events that have effects her path in life and we go from there.  If you missed...

Guest Overview B Corp evangelist Lorna Davis is a transformational thinker, leader, and visionary for why and how organizations can combine social, and environmental priorities with their financial imperatives to deliver improved business performance. As a highly respected coach, international speaker Lorna also serves on a number of boards to help them embrace meaning and purpose. Born in South A...

Guest Overview  Ecuadorian born, she became an undocumented migrant at 13, founded United We Dream, the largest youth-led US organization, fighting to protect and defend the rights of undocumented immigrants at 23, a MacArthur Fellow at 33; welcome this week/s guest, social justice activist Cristina Jiménez  In this double length episode, Cristina recounts the story of her upbr...

Guest Overview Whether a startup founder, someone with a good idea that can’t get taken seriously due to gender, sex, or race, or if you're feeling jaded by the lack of passion and purpose in business; you’ll be uplifted by this weeks interview with Mark Gilmour, Allyn Shaw, and John Basnage. John, Allyn, and Mark recently joined forces to launch a new purpose-driven investment firm and fuse their...

Guest Overview Whether a startup founder, someone with a good idea that can’t get taken seriously due to gender, sex, or race, or if you're feeling jaded by the lack of passion and purpose in business; you’ll be uplifted by this weeks interview with Mark Gilmour, Allyn Shaw, and John Basnage.  John, Allyn, and Mark recently joined forces to launch a new purpose-driven investment firm and fuse...

Guest Overview  Simon Wheatcroft is living proof that resilience is born from adversity, accepting that things will go wrong, not go to plan, and being prepared to embrace failure without fear.  Having lost his sight at an early age Simon used running solo as his foundation to building an abundant life as a runner, motivational speaker, and now teacher.   In part one Simon disc...

Guest Overview  Simon Wheatcroft is living proof that resilience is born from adversity, accepting that things will go wrong, not go to plan, and being prepared to embrace failure without fear.  Having lost his sight at an early age Simon used running solo as his foundation to building an abundant life as a runner, motivational speaker, and now teacher.   In part one Simon disc...

Guest Overview This week's guest was named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, was featured in WIRED' s Smart List and Founder of Fine Acts a global creative activist platform. Welcome Yana Buhrer Tavanier. We cover a lot of ground in this episode.  Yana discusses the impact of being born in Communist Bulgaria, being driven at an early age to confront injustice using wo...

Guest Overview This week’s guest Julia Black is at the forefront of innovation in education, designing an educational approach that unleashes the talent, and unlocks the passion and true potential of every child.    As the founder and CEO of Explorium, Julia’s Lights On methodology is changing the way we think about education. Julia explains that when becoming a mother, the values o...

Guest Overview  Over the course of the series, we have often asked our guests about what they would change to education to equip a generation of children with the skills they need to survive and thrive in our AI-driven future.     This week’s guest Julia Black is at the forefront of innovation in education, designing an educational approach that unleashes the talent, and unlock...

Guest Overview Last week I caught up with our guest from Episode No 56, the deep thinking, mathematician and musician, Marcus G Miller  Marcus has written some thought provoking and expansive reflections on Covid19, about the death of George Floyd and the impact on the Black Lives Matter movement.   As one of the most well read and thoughtful guests we have had I was keen to hear Ma...

Guest Overview As a football fan since a boy and a believer that sport and football have the power to create social impact, I am so privileged to have the opportunity to interview this week’s guest Jürgen Griesbeck, Co-Founder of the game-changing organization Common Goal. Thank you,  Ben Miller  for the connection. In part two, we dive deep into Common Goal, and the incredible work...

Guest Overview As a football fan since a boy and a believer that sport and football have the power to create social impact, I am so privileged to have the opportunity to interview this week's guest Jürgen Griesbeck. Co-Founder of the game-changing organization Common Goal.  Thank you Ben Miller for the connection. In Part One we cover Jurgen’s early path to purpose.  German-born, Jurgen’...

Guest Overview Bill Dowzer  is a Principal of Australian Architectural practice BVN; he has been involved in the design and direction of numerous award-winning projects ranging from public, educational and cultural buildings to commercial work environments.  Re-ply is his latest endeavor, the idea from Re-Ply came as NYC communities have experienced a spring of discontent.  The COVI...

This week's guests Keith Kirkland, and Kevin Yoo, are co-founders of Wearable tech start up Wear Works. In part one we covered the challenges they both overcame growing up and their journey to entrepreneurship.   In part two we discuss the evolution of Wear Works. Keith explains how his interests in design, movement, and technology led him to a realization that he could use technology to...