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The Plant Yourself Podcast

The Plant Yourself Podcast

著者： Dr Howie Jacobson
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 Conversations on Transformation, Healing, and Consciousness© 2024 howieConnect, Inc. 個人的成功 哲学 社会科学 自己啓発 衛生・健康的な生活
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  • When Leadership Advice Becomes Toxic: Keith Corbin on PYP 632

    When Leadership Advice Becomes Toxic: Keith Corbin on PYP 632
    2026/03/24
    Leadership coach Keith J. Corbin and I talk about what's missing from mainstream leadership advice — and why the inspirational messages we see on LinkedIn and in bestselling business books often obscure the structural realities of work. And that’s putting it way too nicely.What We DiscussThe Simon Sinek problemKeith tells the story of working for a CEO who was a devoted Simon Sinek fan — who quoted Start With Why constantly — and then did a massive layoff right before IPO. How can you believe in "taking care of your people" and then respond to investor pressure in ways that contradict that belief? The answer: leaders aren't free agents. They operate within systems that constrain their choices.Why "Start With Why" landed when it didThe book arrived in late 2009, just as the economy was recovering from the 2008 crash and entering a long hiring boom. Caring about employees became structurally important because retention mattered. The message was real — but it was also enabled by market conditions.Missionaries vs. mercenariesLeaders love to say they want people who believe in the mission, not people who just want a paycheck. But we're all both. And when people over-identify with the cause, they can neglect their own material interests — which allows the system to extract more from them.The problem with universal adviceWhen someone on LinkedIn says "here's how to stand out" or "here's how to push back on your boss," Keith asks: who is the particular person being turned into the universal? It's usually someone with privilege, social capital, and easy job mobility — and the advice doesn't transfer to everyone else's lived experience.Fakey languageI remember reading Chip Conley's book Peak (I forgot the name during the conversation, but my Amazon orders list always remembers) about treating hotel customers as "guests" — and realizing that guests don't get a bill at the end. Keith shares Simon Sinek's story about a happy Four Seasons employee who also worked a second job at another hotel — and Sinek never asked why he needed two jobs.Individualism vs. solidarityThe dominant message in coaching and career advice is about individual optimization — how you can get ahead. Keith pushes back: if you're standing out to get ahead, you're getting ahead over someone else in your same position. How do we think about showing up in solidarity with coworkers rather than competing for scarce resources?The rise and fall of DEICorporate social justice movements — from BLM to Me Too to DEI — operated on the margins. DEI was often less about decreasing inequality and more about making sure inequality was evenly distributed. When it got tied to profitability ("diverse teams are more profitable"), it became easy to cut once it didn't deliver on that promise.Freedom vs. choice, solidarity vs. individualismKeith draws on the French Revolution's ideals — equality, liberty, fraternity — and argues that freedom has been replaced by consumer choice, solidarity by individualism, and equality by an even distribution of inequality.Democracy in the workplaceIf we believe in democracy, why don't we bring it to work? You don't choose your manager, you often don't choose what you work on, and you certainly don't vote on layoffs. Keith advocates for employee representation on boards, more democratic structures, and greater worker power — especially as AI reshapes the landscape.AI and the future of laborThe same de-skilling forces that have shaped blue-collar work since the Industrial Revolution are now coming for white-collar knowledge workers. This could create new precarity — or new opportunities for solidarity and collective action.The archeology of the futureKeith shares Fredric Jameson's idea that instead of forecasting from the past, we should look for "the archeology of the future" — finding undeveloped seeds in the present moment that could grow into something radically different.ResourcesBooksStart With Why by Simon SinekPeak by Chip ConleyIn Search of Excellence by Tom PetersThe Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David WengrowThe Engineers and the Price System by Thorstein Veblen (better known for The Theory of the Leisure Class)Other Thinkers & Authors ReferencedJim Collins — Business author (referenced alongside Peters for cherry-picked research)Fredric Jameson — Marxist literary critic; "easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism"; "archeology of the future"Erik Olin Wright — Sociologist; conflicting class positionsPeter Bregman — Author and leadership coach (mutual friend of Howie and Keith)Michael Moore — Filmmaker (on capitalism funding its own critique)Bill Mollison — Co-founder of permaculture ("all the world's problems can be solved in a garden")Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine, Stephen Porges — Referenced in the discussion of Polyvagal Theory and whose voices dominate the conversationConnect with KeithLinkedIn: Keith J. CorbinWebsite: ...
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    1 時間 15 分
  • Can a Better World Start with... Better Meetings? Dr Sheella Mierson and Henry Herschel on PYP 631

    Can a Better World Start with... Better Meetings? Dr Sheella Mierson and Henry Herschel on PYP 631
    2026/02/24
    I thought this conversation was going to be about meetings. And it was. But it turned out to be about something much larger: a fundamental redesign of power in organizations.Sheella Mierson, PhD is a scientist-turned-organizational-consultant whose whole practice is built on a simple, subversive premise: meetings are a window into culture, and if you can fix the meeting, you can fix the culture. Henry Herschel brings a complementary lens — a business background helping packaged goods startups navigate the journey from entrepreneurial chaos to IPO — now applied to the fascinating challenge of governing a Jewish co-housing community in Berkeley called Berkeley Moshav.And I came to this with skin in the game. I spent nine years in co-housing myself, in a 22-household community in Durham, North Carolina. So I know firsthand how quickly idealistic visions of communal living can devolve into parking disputes, pet policy standoffs, and festering factions. What Sheella and Henry are describing — the governance framework called Sociocracy — is the most elegant answer I've encountered to the question of how groups of passionate, opinionated people (and let's be honest, co-housing and startups both attract people with very strong opinions) can make real decisions together without anyone losing their mind or their dignity.Sociocracy was developed by Gerard Endenburg, a Dutch electrical engineer who looked at a traditional organizational chart and said: I would never design a power system this way. There's no feedback loop. You can't steer it. What he built instead is a system of distributed decision-making, structured rounds, consent (not consensus), and built-in review cycles that treat every policy as an experiment rather than a decree.After this conversation, I've been thinking about what a Sociocratic world might look like. The question that keeps haunting me: what could Google or Meta or Microsoft contribute and stand for if all their talented, idealistic people had a real say in what they built?Topics We CoverMeetings as Cultural Diagnostics"Show me a meeting and I'll tell you what your culture is like" — why fixing meetings is a route into fixing everythingThe difference between meetings that drain and meetings that buildWhat Sociocracy Actually IsGerard Endenburg's insight: a traditional org chart has no feedback loop, so it can't self-correctHow distributed decision-making gives everyone a say in the policies that affect their workWhy Endenburg built the system to run his own electrical contracting company — and what that has to do with power gridsConsent vs. Consensus: A Crucial DistinctionWhy Sociocracy doesn't seek agreement — it seeks the absence of paramount objections"Is this good enough to try?" as a more useful question than "Does everyone love this?"How consent decision-making short-circuits faction formationThe Structure of a Policy MeetingClarifying questions round → Reaction round → Consent roundWhy having a proposal that's well-thought-out before the meeting matters enormouslyWhat happens when someone raises an objection — and why that's the point, not a problemPolicy Meetings vs. Operational MeetingsThe crucial two-track system: setting guidelines vs. coordinating workWhy mixing these up is a recipe for frustration and dysfunctionThe third type: picture-forming meetings, where you gather information before you can even shape a proposalFeedback Loops Built Into the SystemEvery policy has a lifespan, success metrics, and a built-in review dateWhy "we've always done it that way" becomes structurally impossibleHow the system surfaces problems without requiring someone to be brave enough to speak upCircles and Distributed AuthorityHow circles (teams with defined domains) make decisions within agreed-upon boundariesWhy this frees up the whole group from having to weigh in on everythingHow information flows between circles — and how a frontline idea can reach the boardReal-World Application: Berkeley MoshavParking, kashrut, pets — the hot-button issues that tested the modelHenry on the learning curve: making errors, getting over the hump, building momentumWhy having about a third of the community fully competent in Sociocracy is enough to carry the wholeWhat This Could Mean for Your OrganizationHow a manager and direct report can run a two-person policy meeting as equalsWhy people who feel heard stop building factionsA thought experiment: if the employees of major tech companies had real voice, would they be building the same things?ResourcesMierson Consulting — Sheella's practiceThe Sociocracy Consulting Group — Sheella's group practice, and where to find training courses including Foundations of Sociocracy and Facilitating SociocracyWe the People: Consenting to a Deeper Democracy, by John Buck and Sharon Villines (a great book about Sociocracy)
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    53 分
  • Can You Heal Trauma by Watching Puppies Play?: Thomas Zimmerman on PYP 630

    Can You Heal Trauma by Watching Puppies Play?: Thomas Zimmerman on PYP 630
    2026/02/18
    Ohio therapist, EMDR trainer, and consultant Tom Zimmerman is doing something I find genuinely thrilling: taking one of the most promising trauma treatment approaches in recent memory — the Flash technique — and grounding it in a rigorous neuroscience framework called predictive processing.The result is a model of healing that is both deeply humane and almost startlingly elegant. What if you could help someone process a traumatic memory by barely touching it? What if the brain's prediction machinery — the same system that keeps trauma locked in place — could be gently tricked into releasing it, a micro-slice at a time?Tom connects Flash to Bruce Ecker's work on memory reconsolidation (which long-time Plant Yourself listeners will recognize, and if that's not you, check out the link to my interview with Bruce below), to the neuroscience of rumination, and to the possibility that modern trauma therapies may be rediscovering what ancient communal healing rituals always knew. And he's building a Cleveland-based nonprofit to study all of this formally.This conversation left me buzzing. I hope it does the same for you.Topics We CoverWhat EMDR Actually Is (and Isn't)Why "eye movements" is a misleading shorthand — the real mechanism is present-based bilateral stimulationEMDR's "admission cost": why some clients can't tolerate slowing down long enough for it to workThe Flash Technique: Healing Without RelivingHow Flash "micro-activates" tiny slices of a traumatic memory — just enough to tag it, not enough to overwhelmWhy immediately pivoting to something pleasant (yes, puppy videos) is the therapeutic mechanism, not a distractionThe crucial difference between Flash and ordinary scrolling: one is structured processing, the other is escapismThe Predictive Processing FrameHow trauma functions as a very loud, very sticky prediction: danger is real, I am not safeWhy precision weighting makes it so hard to stay present long enough for disconfirming experiences to landHow Flash creates the "juxtaposition" Bruce Ecker identifies as the key to memory reconsolidation — in micro-dosesWhy Rumination Is the Opposite of HealingHow internally replayed experiences register as new confirming data — reinforcing trauma rather than processing itThe feedback loop that keeps people from getting the sensory mismatch needed for changeFlash vs. Coherence Therapy: Fine Paintbrush vs. Wide BrushWhy a single powerful disconfirmation often can't unlock a schema built from tens of thousands of hours of adverse learningHow Flash targets small representative memories and relies on generalization to update related networksWhen you'd reach for one approach vs. the otherThe Risk of "10-Minute Cure" MarketingWhy the early results from Flash look dazzling — and why that makes it vulnerable to repackagingTom's clear-eyed insistence that complex trauma recovery is not a brief programHealing as a Revolutionary ActHow cultural stories about trauma (reliving scenes until a final cathartic insight) can actually impede healingWhether modern trauma therapies echo ancient communal rituals — drumming, bilateral rhythm, deep witnessingWhy healing your own nervous system is a contribution to a more loving worldWhat You Can Do Right NowStop feeding the rumination loopFind present-based practices that give your nervous system genuine disconfirming experienceScope-of-practice questions for coaches, teachers, and parents interested in these approachesResourcesTom's YouTube Channel: EMDR TomTom's professional trainingsPhil Manfield's work on FlashPYP interview with Bruce EckerThe Experience Machine, by Andy Clark
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    1 時間 11 分
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