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Sarah Davis was a corporate risk manager who began to chafe at the limitations on her life.

Sure, she had a safe job and a comfortable income. She ran marathons (3:38 PR — damn!) and was living the dream in Bondi, Australia.

But something was missing.

When Sarah interrogated herself, she realized that she wasn't living as big or as bold as she wanted.

Did risk management always have to be about minimizing risk at all cost? Or could the principles of risk management inform and guide actual risk taking?

Could she use her professional skill set in tandem with her experience in surf sea kayaking and her love of travel and her pursuit of novelty to do something big and bold and amazing?

In our conversation, we talk about the life lessons learned as she became the first woman to paddle the Nile River from its headwaters in Rwanda all the way to the Nile Delta in Egypt.

I hope you're inspired to step outside of any comfort zones that have got you stuck. I hope you're inspired to identify a passion project and pursue it. And I hope you stay safe and well the whole time!

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SarahJDavis.com

Paddle the Nile: One Woman's Search for a Life Less Ordinary, by Sarah Davis

Instagram: @sarahpaddles

Sarah's LinkedIn profile

Sarah's YouTube channel

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Over the years I've had the privilege of supporting thousands of people to make changes in their lives:

• entrepreneurs sharpening their focus and implementing their action plans
• executives growing their leadership and influence chops
• regular folks adopting healthy habits and uprooting self-sabotaging impulses

And I like to think that the net effect of all those individual changes is a more global shift, as the ripples extend beyond my clients to their families, organizations, communities, and the world.

But that's different from engineering large-change scale from the get-go.

And heaven knows, the human species could really use some transformation at scale at the present moment, if we are to survive on a livable planet for much longer.

So I reached out to change expert Huw Thomas to explore the keys to behavior change at scale.

In our conversation, we cover Huw's three keys to change:

• leadership
• management
• governance

We dig into empathy, resistance, adaptability, and influence, and a bunch of other buzzwords that actually contain real nuggets of wisdom.

And we talk about our own journeys of change, and the obstacles we've created, faced, and overcome.

Enjoy!

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HuwThomas.com.au

Maximum Achievement, by Brian Tracy

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R Covey

Leading with Emotional Courage, by Peter Bregman

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This is the first conversation that I had with Dr Richard Hodge, and it's the fourth podcast that I've published.

That's because after we talked, Richard sent me an email basically saying, "Hey, we covered some pretty advanced stuff, but I think we need to really break it down for folks."

So the last three conversations with Richard have been reverse engineering our way to this conversation, the culmination (so far).

This is the conversation about how to make a difference in the world.

How to use systems thinking, how to approach problems and issues holistically.

How to listen to up-until-now marginalized voices and community.

And how to still be how to be a small, insignificant human beings and still look at the world and know that there's "no problem too big."

I hope you enjoy our conversation, and that you're inspired to lend your mind, spirit, and shoulder to the wheel of Better.

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DrRichardHodge.com

Rory Sutherland's TED Talk

The Memory Code: Unlocking the Secrets of the Lives of the Ancients and the Power of the Human Mind, by Kelly Lynne

Unlocking the Emotional Brain, 2nd Edition, by Bruce Ecker, Robin Ticic, and Laurel Hulley

Right Story, Wrong Story, by Tyson Yunkaporta

Antifragile, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis (Video series by John Vervaeke on the Four Ways of Knowing)

The Greatest Night in Pop (Netflix documentary on the making of "We Are the World" in 1985)

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