We're losing so much time, going from point A to point B, that we really don't get as much quality time as you would think.

Welcome to the Lavenderet Lifestyle, the podcast on personal growth and lifestyle design.

My name is Eileen and I'm here to guide you to shine as your brightest self and create your dream life.

We all have a light within and the power to create a life we love.

Every Sunday we'll share thoughtful conversations exploring how we can build a better future for ourselves and our world.

Life is an art, make it your masterpiece.

Hello my loves, welcome back to the Lavenderet Lifestyle Podcast. It's Eileen.

I'm super excited about today's episode. I know you're going to love it as much as I did.

So here at Lavenderet we talk about creating our dream life, but our dream life actually also includes the environment we live in.

So today I wanted to bring in a guest to speak about how to build a better world.

So better communities, better cities, so that we can all live in beautiful places that feel good.

Today's interview was so fun and full of passion. I am so happy to introduce our guest, Kobe Lefkowitz.

Kobe Lefkowitz is a real estate developer, writer and thought leader in the world of urban planning and development.

Based in New York, and in addition to his own projects at his firm Backyard, Kobe works with people and cities around the world in the pursuit of creating more beautiful, walkable, sustainable and dynamic communities for all.

Through his on-building optimism project and forthcoming book, he tries to help people understand why the world looks the way it does and how to create the types of places we all love from scratch, highlighting projects that are doing this today around North America.

Kobe tries to marry romantic ways of looking at the world with how to actually implement them in our built environment, something he calls romantic pragmatism.

Hello, Kobe. Welcome to the Lavender Lifestyle Podcast. How are you feeling today?

I'm doing well. Thanks so much for having me on, Eileen. I'm really excited to get to talk with you.

Yeah, I'm super excited. I was telling you before we got on air how excited I was to like find your Twitter because this is something that I've always dreamt about.

Like how do I create better cities and communities, but it always seems so lofty and such a big thing that's out of our control and then I found you and this is what you do.

So I think it's awesome. So why don't you start by telling us like describe what do you do?

Yeah, my day job when I'm out on Twitter, I'm not writing is I'm a real estate developer. We predominantly do stuff in Southern California in San Diego.

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