Latest Optimist drinks Podcast Episodes
Talking with a Frontline Optimist - Dr Jonathan Leary
OPTIMIST In Progress - May 14, 2022 07:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAfter the isolation and loneliness of the pandemic, we are rediscovering the positive benefits of social connections again and no one understands this better than our guest this week, Dr Jonathan Leary, who has taken holistic wellbeing to a whole new level. Dr Leary created Remedy Place, the wor...
Third culture insights
OPTIMIST In Progress - April 30, 2022 07:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAs we enter the recovery phase of the pandemic and at a time of great alienation and dislocation from society, how do we find a sense of belonging and strength in others and the wider community? To answer this, Tom and Drea reflect on the conversation with frontline optimist Tony Kim who, like m...
Talking with a Frontline Optimist - Naomi Hallum
OPTIMIST In Progress - April 16, 2022 07:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis week on OIP, we talk to Naomi Hallum, the CEO of Million Dollar Vegan, about taking on the enormous mission of educating and empowering people to adopt a plant-based lifestyle. While the environmental, ethical, personal, and public health benefits of a vegan lifestyle are overwhelmingly com...
Talking with a Frontline Optimist - Tom Kay
OPTIMIST In Progress - April 01, 2022 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAlmost two decades Tom Kay quit his corporate job in London and moved to a small Cornish village to build a company that inspired a love of - and connection to - the sea, in order to better protect our oceans for future generations. Finisterre, makes functional, sustainable clothing for cold wat...
Talking with a Frontline Optimist - Tony Kim
OPTIMIST In Progress - March 19, 2022 07:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsTony Kim is the founder of Hero Within, a lifestyle fashion brand for fanboys and fangirls of pop culture and the cosplay community. A child of Korean immigrants, he talks to Tom and Drea about the struggles of growing up in the “inbetween” space between two cultures and eventually discovering t...
Talking with a Frontline Optimist - Jon Alexander
OPTIMIST In Progress - March 05, 2022 08:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsJon Alexander is co-founder of New Citizen Project, and for the past decade he has looked deeply at the impact that the dominant narrative in which we all live - the consumer story - has shaped our lives, our institutions and most troublingly, our self perception. In his new book, Citizens: Why...
Talking with a Frontline Optimist - Andrew DeAngelo
OPTIMIST In Progress - February 19, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsGroundbreaking cannabis activist and consultant Andrew DeAngelo has been a key actor in the legalization of this industry. This week on OIP he talks to Tom and Drea about his personal connection with cannabis on both sides of the law and his commitment to redressing past and continuing injustice...
Chop wood, carry water
OPTIMIST In Progress - February 05, 2022 08:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe beginning of a new year can often bring on pressure to make significant changes in our lives. But how often do we really pay attention to the thing right in front of us, to the task at hand? This week, we revisit an episode of Optimist in Progress, in which Dr Drea Letamendi shares her insig...
Life in the Living
OPTIMIST In Progress - January 22, 2022 08:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIt’s easy to feel the heaviness of the setbacks of the past year, and let’s be honest, 2022 has already served up some doozies. Nonetheless, as we move through the year ahead, Tom and Drea discuss how to pause the everyday demands and make plans that spark joy; the importance of saying yes to ne...
Talking with a Frontline Optimist - Tara Roth
OPTIMIST In Progress - January 08, 2022 08:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsTom and Drea talk to future-shaper Tara Roth about what's ahead for social innovation in Los Angeles, the convergence of business and philanthropy, and the conviction and tenacity needed to really create, drive and support meaningful and lasting social change in the city and beyond. As presiden...
Flow
OPTIMIST In Progress - December 25, 2021 08:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAfter OIP’s inspiring conversation with Citizen Cope - a musical artist who has successfully tuned into his intuitively-creative process throughout his career - Tom and Drea reflect on the concept of “flow” - a mental state that is also referred to as “being in the zone”. This transformative fe...
Talking with a Frontline Optimist - Citizen Cope
OPTIMIST In Progress - December 18, 2021 08:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis week on OIP, the phenomenally-talented recording artist and producer, Clarence Greenwood, AKA Citizen Cope, talks to Tom and Drea about his musical journey from learning the trumpet at school to signing with multiple major labels and working with renowned artists such as Carlos Santana and ...
Self-compassion
OPTIMIST In Progress - December 11, 2021 08:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAs the year draws to a close, it is oftentimes a period of reflection - and not always in a good way. Many of us sway towards focusing on the things we haven’t accomplished, our personal shortcomings and what goals we plan to set ourselves in the future. This week, Tom and Drea are energized by ...
Talking with a Frontline Optimist - Apryl Electra Storms
OPTIMIST In Progress - December 04, 2021 08:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIt’s difficult not to be captivated by Apryl Electra Storms’ infectious optimism. In this episode the entrepreneur and co-founder of Minus Moonshine talks to Drea and Tom about their journey from chef to musician to owner of a ground-breaking alcohol-free drinks store in Brooklyn. Apryl has disr...
Set free by setbacks
OPTIMIST In Progress - November 27, 2021 08:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWhat keeps us going after a devastating loss, crisis or tragedy? How do we recover and even flourish after a traumatic event? This week on OIP, Tom and Drea discuss the remarkable resilience and positivity of bartender and chef Matthew Biancaniello. His restaurant, Mon-Li, was burned in the Wool...
Talking with a Frontline Optimist - Matthew Biancaniello
OPTIMIST In Progress - November 20, 2021 08:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMeet an indomitable creative force on OIP this week, and perhaps the best embodiment of the proverb “fall down seven times, stand up eight”. Category defying and self-taught bartender and chef, Matthew Biancaniello, came to fame with the legendary, farmers market-inspired cocktails he constructe...
Ideas to ease
OPTIMIST In Progress - November 13, 2021 08:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAfter existing for so long with pandemic restrictions, even the most familiar spaces can make us feel anxious or intimidated. And then there are those places and moments - the gym, the public speaking event, the difficult conversation - that make the adrenaline rush, and not always in a good wa...
Talking with Frontline Optimists - Hero’s Journey Fitness founders
OPTIMIST In Progress - November 06, 2021 07:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWhen self professed nerds Christy Black and David Nett felt a little out of place in traditional gyms, they decided to create their own inclusive space where all bodies - and minds - could feel that they belong. Hero’s Journey is Los Angeles’ first fitness space specifically designed for the “ge...
Syience lessons
OPTIMIST In Progress - October 30, 2021 07:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsLast week’s conversation with Reginald "Syience" Perry got a lot of love and started up many conversations. When trying to work out which theme or insight to explore in this follow-up episode, we really struggled. We don’t use the term "self-actualized" lightly, but when it comes to Syience … S...
Talking with a Frontline Optimist - Reginald "Syience" Perry
OPTIMIST In Progress - October 23, 2021 07:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis week, OIP steps into another dimension with multi Grammy-award winning producer and creative dynamo, Reginald “Syience” Perry. He talks about his roots in Flint, Michigan and the remarkable, self-willed leap that led him to NY and - in less than a year - to collaborations with artists such ...
The mental health continuum
OPTIMIST In Progress - October 12, 2021 07:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsOne of the upsides to the pandemic is that people have opened up to conversations around mental wellbeing. In fact, it seems like everyone is talking about mental health right now, but for most of us it is pretty intangible, and responses still seem to be limited to general terms - “fine/not fin...
Talking with a Frontline Optimist - Mark Hunter
OPTIMIST In Progress - October 05, 2021 17:33 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsOlympic gold medalist and world rowing champion, Mark Hunter, talks to Drea and Tom about his three Olympic performances, what he refers to humorously as “the bad, the good and the ugly”. His turbulent journey forced him to develop the mental strength and resilience to deal with pressures that ...
Optimism in Flux
OPTIMIST In Progress - September 28, 2021 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAs Optimists in Progress we hoped to spring into Season 2 firmly in a “post-pandemic” world or at least something approaching 'normal', but as the pandemic morphs into an endemic, we are welcoming our new season of guests into a time of cautious acclimation to a new reality. In this first episo...
Emotional Contagion
OPTIMIST In Progress - August 17, 2021 07:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWe are living through a global pandemic, and viral contagion is something we are all very familiar with. But what about emotional contagion? How can the idea of collective energy help us to navigate through difficult times, and empower us to create something better? In this episode Drea and Tom ...
Talking with a Frontline Optimist - Jamiah Hargins
OPTIMIST In Progress - August 10, 2021 07:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsGrowing vegetables might seem an unlikely way to fight the power, but Jamiah Hargins has no doubt it offers a revolutionary means by which to address social inequity, build community and address problems centuries in the making. He quit a career in finance to focus on social entrepreneurship, fo...
Permission
OPTIMIST In Progress - August 03, 2021 07:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWhy do so many of us feel guilty or lazy when resting? This week on OIP, Tom and Drea discuss why our fast-paced, high-achieving culture values “busyness” and how taking an intentional pause seems at odds with this concept of productivity. They talk about how writing our own ‘permission slips’ t...
Talking with a Frontline Optimist - Timeka Drew
OPTIMIST In Progress - July 28, 2021 07:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsCannabis entrepreneur Tamika Drew talks about how a debilitating disease led her to embrace cannabis as medicine and her personal journey to establishing her family-run cannabis business Biko Flower. She tells Tom and Drea about how her Nigerian ancestry and strong female leadership inspired her...
Reframing
OPTIMIST In Progress - July 20, 2021 07:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings‘Reframing’ or ‘cognitive restructuring’ is a concept accessible to all of us. Tom and Drea discuss how it takes some work, but we can shift our perspective in order to lift the lens of negativity and distorted thoughts. Sometimes a small shift in thinking can have a huge impact in our daily liv...
Talking with a Frontline Optimist - Josh Harris
OPTIMIST In Progress - July 13, 2021 07:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsRenowned hospitality entrepreneur and influential San Francisco bar owner, Josh Harris, discovered his passion for bartending after a sports injury cut short his athletic ambitions in his early twenties. He talks poignantly about his early struggles with alcohol and drug addiction, the calm he f...
The space we're in.
OPTIMIST In Progress - July 06, 2021 07:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsInspired by their conversation with award-winning architect Michael Lehrer, Tom and Drea discuss how we can enhance - and even challenge - our own environments for better well-being and spark joy in our daily work spaces/lives. As companies make decisions about a return to the office, how could ...
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