107. A Career of “Place-Making”—at his Restaurants, or in Sustainable Community

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Steve Nygren sums up his 50-year career as a renowned restaurateur and now the developer of a sustainable wellness community as being “all about place-making”—a place at a table at one of his 34 critically acclaimed Peasant restaurants, or a place in his Serenbe community minutes away from downtown Atlanta. “Really dig down into your heart and your gut, not just your head. Listen with your heart or your gut to what you intuitively feel, and then have the courage to follow that intuition. When we go strictly by logic we will end up in situations we're not passionate about.”

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.
0:17.8	Every day I interview someone from around the world who has discovered his talents
0:22.6	to do work he loves, to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. Today I'm delighted
0:30.3	to bring you our featured guest, Steve Nygren. Welcome, Steve. Thank you. Steve, are you
0:36.5	using your talents doing work that you love?
0:38.3	Absolutely.
0:39.3	We want to hear the whole story.
0:42.3	Steve Nygrin is the president and founder of Serenby, a wellness community created as a model
0:48.3	to demonstrate that preserving 70% of green space interlaced with agriculture, housing, and retail is not only economically
0:56.6	viable with the future of community well-being. Steve currently serves on multiple national
1:02.3	boards dealing with children, agriculture, and environmental issues, including the Racey Anderson
1:08.3	Foundation, Children and Nature Network, Chattahoochee Now,
1:12.7	the Biafellic Institute, and Wholesome Wave.
1:15.8	Steve, that's a very short summary of your very long and illustrious career.
1:19.6	Would you take it away for a few minutes and tell us what you're engaged in now
1:23.3	that has you excited, motivated, and fired up?
1:27.0	Well, generally, if you look at what I'm doing now, I call myself a developer by default,
1:33.2	and I can tell you more about how that happened.
1:36.0	But as I look back, you know, over my 50-year career, yes, with the gray hair I have,
1:43.6	it's been 50 years.
1:47.2	I've come to realize that whether I was in the restaurant business and the hotel business
1:53.8	and agriculture and now actually housing development, that my passion has really been about placemaking.
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