The Overview Effect; Falling Back in Love with Human Potential with MaryLiz Bender (Episode #04)

[00:01 – 07:17] Opening Segment

• Let’s welcome our guest for today, MaryLiz Bender
  • Connecting things no one thought to combine
  • Journalist and storyteller
• Words from MaryLiz
• MaryLiz talks a bit about herself
  • Founded C.P. to inspire and unite people
  • Connecting people through Space exploration
  • Falling in love with human potential
  • Considering things bigger than ourselves

[07:18 – 20:41] The Overview Effect; A Profound Shift in Awareness

• I talk about MaryLiz’s background and work
• MaryLiz’s talks about what inspired her
  • The Overview Effect
  • Astronaut’s profound shift in awareness
  • The borders disappear, you fall in love with the planet and turn to humanitarianism and art
• MaryLiz shares about the start of her mission
  • One foot in front in front of the other
  • What haven’t you done yet
  • MaryLiz’s magical moment
  • Tweeted at and emailed by Frank White
  • Mission to take the overview effect down to earth
• MaryLiz talks about her journey with Frank White
  • A work coming through fruition

[20:42 – 31:09] The Innovator’s Recipe

• You have to be driven by the greater good not the idea of instant success
• I talk about my new book – Best Seller in 2 days
  • Link below
• The majority want better and want to be better
• Innovators do 5 things – Innovator’s recipe
  • Peel back the onion – attack the problem at the source
  • Get creative
  • Use what’s in surplus
  • Involve community
  • Always led by someone with a graceful, measured good nature
• MaryLiz talks about what resonates with her about the innovator’s recipe
  • Finding the source
  • The issue of tribalism
  • Lack of empathy
• We are born with empathy and exploration but trauma inserts fear
• Making people fall back in love with human potential

[31:10 – 42:24] A Moment of Pause

• Finding the things we have in common
  • Find empathy and positivity
• We live on a giant spaceship that is perfectly designed for us
• MaryLiz puts things into a cosmic perspective with a story
  • The importance of a moment of pause
  • The Canadarm
• Creating something because of humans coming together
  • An astronaut’s story

[42:25 – 51:48] Closing Segment

• We may be close to turning a corner as humans
• It’s my job to plant those seeds for the revolution
• If we listen we can improve each other’s way of thinking
• Tired of the ‘us’ and ‘them’ mentality
  • We desire more complex, nuanced conversations
• Exchange contempt for curiosity
• What reminded you every day that it’s still an amazing world?
  • MaryLiz’s story of being homeless and addicted to drugs
  • Putting one foot in front of another – I’m doing ok
• How can we find you?
  • See links below
• Final words