Guest OverviewNita Baum is an entrepreneur, co-creator, facilitator, mentor-coach, and community-builder. She is also board lead for Solar responders - the NGO from previous guest Hunter Johansson - so thanks to Hunter for making this happen.Born in New York to an inspiring cancer scientist mother and a philosophical pharmacist father, her parents’ influenced her curiosity, appreciation for creation, and her right brain - left brain development.In Part One of this two-parter we cover Nita’s early story.In Part Two we discuss her perspectives on the broader impact of Covid19cover what led Nita to form her business Bfree to partners with organizations to help them to activate individual, team, and organizational potential. Nita questions purpose role of work in light of the crisis and our growing realization of what can be achieved so easily and quicklyWe discuss the transformative moment of now and how people are reacting and the opportunity for consciousness-raising, the reorientation of human capital and the transformative capacity in all of us.I hope you are inspired by the vision, values and life philosophy of Nita BaumWhat we discuss:Nita's mother's wonder and awe and love of scienceHer father’s broad expansive thinking and his concern for what it means to be human and our collective interdependence.How Nita grew up to understand about food as a healing agentHer Mother’s respect for scienceA growing appreciation for art and science, and the process of creationNita's memories of her conversations with her father about MLK and JFK and her rebellious sideShe discusses her sister's influence and their relationshipPlaying games of the imaginationThe love of school and the challenges she facedHer love of reading and art and literatureNita's growing social and political consciousness of local and global eventsBeing drawn to EducationStudying art history and east Asian studiesTraveling to China, Japan and Korea and becoming interested in the philosophy and spiritualityStudying in Japan after college.The combination of abundance and scarcity and how her parents taught them about value and gratitude.Witnessing the social inequity in educationThe exposure to black culture by being invited to a gifted child's education programHer emotional maturityThe realization that power of systems and her misalignmentIn Part two The impact of Covid19Humanities interdependency and being wired for survivalWhat might emerge from Covid19What is the purpose of workOur realization of what can be achieved so easily and quicklyThe transformative moment of nowHow people are reacting and the opportunity for consciousness-raisingWe discuss Bfree and its visionThe transformative power of leaving the workforceThe philosophy of BfreeThe reorientation of Human CapitalThe transformative capacity in all of usThe potential of self, teams, and our larger human collectiveProcessing our grief through institutionalized fear vs building from lovePrinciples - Presume we all come free. Gifted, equal in power and grounded.Nita's impossible adviceLinks to SocialWebsiteLinkedInTwitter Solar RespondersYak Collective Links in showJiro Dreams of SushiAmericorpGeorge Washington UniversityNetImpact Black National AnthemThe Tail EndRosa ParksI Will Survive Book When Things Fall Apart FocusMates Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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