Leading from Being with Marti Spiegelman and Todd Hoskins delves into the untapped dimensions of leadership, weaving together the possibilities within full consciousness and indigenous wisdom. This isn't another "conscious leadership" podcast – it's an invitation to experience leadership beyond our thinking minds, accessing depths of human experience that most leadership conversations never touch.
Drawing from Marti's deep work in 'precision consciousness,' grounded in both Harvard biochemistry and three indigenous wisdom traditions, and Todd's expertise in organizational design and natural systems, each episode bridges principles and practices of leadership with timeless ways of knowing. Together, they guide listeners beyond conventional paradigms to explore how accessing our innate consciousness can transform not just how we lead, but how we exist in relationship with ourselves, our teams, communities, and the living systems around us.
Perfect for leaders seeking to transcend traditional frameworks, whether you're navigating complexity in the boardroom, catalyzing transformation in your organization, or fostering change in your community.
Send us Fan Mail In the fourth episode of their Landscapes series, Marti and Todd explore ecotones — the zones in nature where different environments meet and interact, generating new forms of life that neither could produce alone. Todd opens with the etymology of ecotone — eco from the Greek for household, the living relationships of a place, and tone from the Greek for tension and stretching, the same root that gives us the vibration of a musical string and the vitality of a tonic. From the...
7 Mar 2026
Episode 36: Landscapes of Being - Wayfinding
Send a text Wayfinding once meant discovering one's path through never-before-encountered territory, step by experiential step — the opposite of its modern meaning, which is following signs through spaces already fully mapped. This inversion becomes the episode's animating question: what have we lost when we stopped reading the intelligence of living territories and started looking for the right playbook? The conversation moves through Wade Davis's writings on dead reckoning, the Polynesian n...
12 Nov 2025
Episode 35: Landscapes - Animals Build Ecosystems with Simon Mustoe
Send us a text What if 50% of wildlife species are actually recovering—and no one's talking about it? Wildlife ecologist Simon Mustoe challenges the catastrophe narratives dominating conservation, revealing a radically different picture of what's happening on Earth. In this Landscapes episode, Simon explores how animals don't just inhabit ecosystems—they build them. From whales fertilizing ocean food webs to elephants shaping forests, wildlife carries the cultural knowledge and behaviors that...
28 Sept 2025
Episode 34: Landscapes of Being-External Territories and Internal Geographies
Send us a text In this inaugural Landscapes episode, Marti traces the word's surprising origins from Dutch "land" and "ship," revealing how understanding of place began with fluid conversation between territories. The discussion moves from physical geographies to what Andean elders call "landscapes of the heart"—internal territories of relationship and meaning that shape who we become. The conversation explores how Western separation from Nature impoverishes both external and internal landsca...
9 Jul 2025
Episode 33: Relationality & the Deeper Dynamics of Life
Send us a text In the final episode of their "Problem with Problems" series, Marti Spiegelman and Todd Hoskins explore the deeper dynamics that lie beneath our habitual problem-solving orientation. They introduce the Andean principle of "sourcing from who you're becoming, not from who you have been" and examine how this shift in awareness transforms leadership, relationships, and our capacity to respond to life's challenges. Marti and Todd discuss how moving beyond the fixed, self-referential...
12 May 2025
Episode 32: Stepping into Belonging
Send us a text In this second installment of "The Problem with Problems" series, hosts Marti Spiegelman and Todd Hoskins explore how our dualistic worldview impacts our sense of belonging. They discuss how a binary "either/or" perspective shrinks our awareness to two dimensions, forcing us to see ourselves as either included or excluded, which fundamentally limits our creative capacity and connection to the world. Marti and Todd propose that true belonging isn't about fitting in with specific...
11 Mar 2025
Episode 31: The Problem with Problems - Shifting our Worldview
Send us a text In this episode, Marti and Todd begin a new three-part series exploring "The Problem With Problems," focusing first on the worldview that centers around problems and solutions. They open with a revealing story about forest management, where the seemingly simple solution to prevent all forest fires actually created the conditions for far more devastating blazes – a perfect illustration of how our problem-solution mindset often backfires in complex living systems. The conversatio...
24 Nov 2024
Episode 30: Climate Consciousness with Liz Carlisle
Marti and Todd, along with guest Liz Carlisle, explore how regenerative agriculture can heal our relationship with the earth and each other through indigenous wisdom and conscious leadership.
7 Apr 2024
Episode 29: Climate Consciousness with Felipe Benitez
In the third episode in their series on climate consciousness, Marti and Todd are joined by Felipe Benitez, the founder of Corazón Latino. They dive into a discussion on approaches to leadership and addressing climate change through a lens of love, compassion, and engaging diverse communities. Benitez emphasizes the importance of reconnecting people, especially communities of color, with Nature in joyful and experiential ways, rather than relying on top-down messaging or policy changes ...
21 Dec 2023
Episode 28: Climate Consciousness with Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir
In continuing the series on climate consciousness, Marti and Todd welcome guest Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir, an Icelandic author, filmmaker and sustainability leader. Hrund discusses the Icelandic concept of "InnSæi" which means intuition or "inner sea." She describes how InnSæi represents seeing within oneself, understanding one's place in the world, and navigating life with an inner compass.The conversation explores how modern life has disconnected people from their InnSæi and the natural world....
10 Dec 2023
Episode 27: Climate Consciousness with Hilde Fålun Strøm and Sunniva Sorby
Marti and Todd welcome citizen scientists Hilde Fålun Strøm and Sunniva Sorby for this inaugural episode on climate consciousness. They discuss their eyewitness experiences with climate change in the Arctic over 19 months living in a small cabin, as well as their work educating others. Key points include the disproportionate impact occurring in polar regions, the importance of individual action, and the need for people worldwide to reconnect with Nature.Despite having no modern amenities in S...
23 Sept 2023
Episode 26: Bridging with Elizabeth Soltis
Marti and Todd welcome guest Elizabeth Soltis, author of Authentic Collaboration, to discuss the topic of bridging—the art of connecting ideas, groups, and perspectives. They explore how to shift mindsets from predetermining connections to living into the process of exchange and relationship building. The hosts and guest share insights on attuning groups, finding common ground, embracing vulnerability, getting comfortable with not knowing, and opening up to new possibilities. Key themes...
24 Apr 2023
Episode 25: Expressing Power
In their final episode in the series on leadership and power, Marti and Todd explore what makes each person's expression of power unique and valuable, and how these expressions create a sense of wholeness in teams, organizations, and communities.From the Edge: Dam Dismantling (Todd)Conscious Rant: In Case You Didn't Notice (Marti)
28 Dec 2022
Episode 24: Collective Power
In Episode 23, Marti and Todd spent most of the hour discussing what power is not—our misconceptions and fears around power. In this discussion, they explore the relationships and experiences of being people of power.What does it mean to be in a state of collective power? What does it feel like? What are the needed conditions?From the Edge: The Age of Meeting Ourselves Again (Marti)Conscious Rant: Accountability (Todd)
17 Jul 2022
Episode 23: The Essence of Power
What exactly is power? If we’re not playing “power games” or King of the Hill, then how do we perceive power? Work with power? Be people of power?Marti and Todd explore power in the negative, and then move into a conversation about how we can shift our perception and experience of power to participate in something much larger than ourselves.From the Edge: Tribute to Christopher Alexander (Todd)Conscious Rant: Frothing (Marti)
5 Feb 2022
Episode 22: New Beginnings & Governance
We spend so much time analyzing and choosing governance models. What if there is a different approach? Marti and Todd get into the dynamics of organizations that move beyond rigid structures and become negotiable in the experience of working together. They also introduce a new segment at the end of today’s episode:Takeaways.From the Edge: Being a Person of Power (Marti)Conscious Rant: Stop Managing Your Time (Todd)
1 Feb 2022
Episode 21: New Beginnings & The Masculine Principle
Marti and Todd welcome guest Ted Wallach, founder of the Quantum Warrior program, to explore the principle of masculinity in the context of new beginnings. They discuss the principles of the feminine and masculine as complementarities that are needed for creation—energies not attributes. The conversation moves from our obsession with defining, to how we can discuss, interact, and weave with these principles.From the Edge: Appreciative Inquiry (Todd)Conscious Rant: Why are We Still Ranti...
27 Mar 2021
Episode 20: New Beginnings and Capitalism
Are we in “late stage capitalism?” Can capitalism be reformed, restored, or redeemed? Marti and Todd cover why these are not the most important questions to consider. Rather, we need cycles of action at all scales that create the frameworks of the future. This is the first episode in the series "New Beginnings" -- Marti and Todd's exploration of what may be coming to completion, and what may be emerging simultaneously.From the Edge: Cosmology (Marti)Conscious Rant: Simplistic Platitudes ...
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