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How sports teams decide to make money as entertainment centers and not just sporting venues is a subtle but vital change in the way the economics of sports franchise ownership is being defined. Doug Bentz is the VP Marketing for the San Jose Sharks. They are one of the most innovative franchises in sports entertainments and what they are doing and thinking about.

The healthcare system is the largest single commercial industry in the USA. One every 6.5 dollars of GDP is invested in it. Are we happy though with what it is and what it could be and how much it costs? The answer is probably not. From drug prices to the incredible cost of procedures our guest today, Eric Langshur: CEO Abundant Partners says Millennial's would rather have a broken phone than a bone because of those fears. Eric and the company he is CEO of is investing in many different elements of the healthcare system to solve these challenges.

Over 10 billion plastic and other material packages are consumed every day in the planet, or trillions every year. We are all responsible for this, so we all have a responsibility for changing it all. In a world where we are increasingly becoming middle class the current consumption of packaging is unsustainable. Listen to Holly O’ Driscoll a 25 year P&G packaging designer and expert as she talks about future ideas on packaging we are seeing now. From packaging that goats to eat to rice based materials.In Part TwoHolly O’Driscoll and I talk a lot more about leading examples of consumer packaging ideals that should dominate our world of ten years from now. As an executive with over 25 years CPG packaging design at P&G we also talk about how the increasingly flattening of middle class opportunities around the globe are rapidly re shaping our views of what packaging can and should look like. 

Over 10 billion plastic and other material packages are consumed every day in the planet, or trillions every year. We are all responsible for this, so we all have a responsibility for changing it all. In a world where we are increasingly becoming middle class the current consumption of packaging is unsustainable. Listen to Holly O’ Driscoll a 25 year P&G packaging designer and expert as she talks about future ideas on packaging we are seeing now. From packaging that goats to eat to rice based materials.

A lot of mental-conditioning coaches focus on a positive mindset. Our guest today, Trevor Moawad, who cofounded Limitless Minds with Russell Wilson, quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks, is truly unique in this field. He teaches to live in a state of neutral. These days, there is far more noise than signal -- and our environment will surely get louder. Knowing how to handle that situation is going to need a very different set of skills for all of us.

Part two of our conversation with Sonny Magana. Our current education was set up at the turn of the 20th century, and we still use it today to fully prepare ourselves for the near and distant future. Do you still have the wiring in your house from 1900 running all your appliances? The answer is hopefully no. Dr. Sonny Magana, award-winning author on technology in education argues that a radical shift in how we educate and what content is included in our education has to happen now.

Our current education was set up at the turn of the 20th century, and we still use it today to fully prepare ourselves for the near and distant future. Do you still have the wiring in your house from 1900 running all your appliances? The answer is hopefully no. Dr. Sonny Magana, award-winning author on technology in education argues that a radical shift in how we educate and what content is included in our education has to happen now.

Listen to the daily life a decade forward for a leading three-star Michelin chef in Spain. She cares so much about everything to do with food, her gardens and her kitchens.

There are only 15, three-star Michelin restaurants in the US and a total of 150 worldwide. They are rare indeed. Heloise Vilaseca is a food scientist and runs a rare breed of restaurants which includes a 3-star Michelin restaurant in Spain, El Celler de Can Roca. Though fine dining is experienced by fewer than 5% of humanity, Vilaseca’s vision peers into a future that applies to us all. The discussion today is about how we eat, prepare and think about the ecosystem that feeds us, as well as what our potential future food-fashion habits might look, smell and taste like in the near future.

Listen to one of the world’s leading cloning companies and its founders view of his personal world a decade into the future. You will be very surprised by how he expects commute to work.

Cloning is full of possibilities, both as an application of  science and research, but also because it could lead to the preservation of rare and endangered species -- or beloved pets.  It’s a subject and idea that may well be more than just an odd outlier in ten years’ time as costs come down and acceptance goes way up. Blake Russell, the CEO and president of Viagen is leading this movement in areas with the San Diego Zoo to work with cloning high-performance dogs for police, military and other services.

Hear more about the future of carbon footprint management, and how it is going to change future economies around us all. We also get a chance to hear about Bruno’s own future vision about what his future world might look like in a decade forward. This is second and final part of this episode.

We all breathe much of the same air, but certain groups are going to be far more responsible for the carbon footprints we all leave than others. The eco-system, economies and the responsibilities around carbon foot prints are going to affect us all.  Listen to the US president of CDP, Bruno Sarda, as he is at the forefront of measuring, educating and helping every type of organization through this process so that we arrive in 2030 with a net positive position. This is maybe the most important conversation about the future we need to have.This is part one of a two-part episode.

Every one of us will use and need insurance in the future. Telisa Yancy is leading the innovation and marketing for one of the America’s leading insurance providers. Hear her thoughts on what here world might look like ten years from now.

The need for insurance is ubiquitous, now and into the future. As we look to purchase, lease and experience everything from new forms of transportation to new forms of travel, new products and services, insurance will have to innovate, as well. Telisa Yancy is the COO and CMO of American Family Insurance, and we talk about everything from piano’s to fractional insurance ideas.

In a fast, dynamic and near latency free globe we cannot use the same working or collaboration framework we have used before to be successful. It sounds utterly obvious, but less than 30% of major companies have embraced new ideas in how they plan. The CEO of Anaplan is going to walk us through the unique ideas that should be common practices ten years from now.

In a fast, dynamic and near latency-free globe, we cannot use the same working or collaboration framework we have used before to be successful.  It sounds utterly obvious, but less than 30% of major companies have embraced new ideas in how they plan. Frank Calderoni, CEO of Anaplan is cracking the code for delay-free collaborative planning.

More famous than the Beatles, inside and outside of Liverpool. 771 Million digital fans (one in seven humans on the planet). The current European Champion for a sixth time, and the CEO, Peter Moore is a gaming software executive who understands Millennials and younger X, Y, Z and Alpha in really unique ways. Today we talk about the future of fan experiences from biometrics to VR and more.

In this two-part podcast we talk about the future of warfare, cancer treatments, energy, society and much more with Safi Bahcall, author of Loonshots. In this second-part of the conversation, Michael and Bahcall discuss how businesses of any size can take their own crazy shots without the massive resources that supported NASA in the 1960s.

In this two-part podcast we talk about the future of warfare, cancer treatments, energy, society and much more with Safi Bahcall, author of Loonshots. Michael and Bahcall’s conversation about talks through countless examples of how “crazy” ideas needed to be nurtured in order to thrive. This is part one of a two-part episode.