Barbara Bonner on Inspiring Generosity and Courage

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Barbara Bonner started as an art historian and then went on to spend much of her professional career in nonprofit management, fundraising and philanthropy. Most relevant to this show, Barbara is the author of two books; Inspiring Generosity and Inspiring Courage. In this episode, she talks about both, using beautiful poetry, powerful quotes, and illustrative real-life stories. If you've ever wanted to cultivate these two qualities in your life, then this episode is for you. If there's one thing Barbara does through her work, it's inspiring action towards both of these qualities in the lives of everyday people.

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In This Interview, Barbara Bonner and I Discuss...

The Wolf Parable
Her books, Inspiring Generosity and Inspiring Courage
The power of putting ourselves in the way of inspiration
How we're different at the end of a book than at the beginning
Reframing how we look at generosity
How generosity flows from a sense of abundance
How a sense of abundance flows from being generous
That generosity and courage are action verbs
The fact that you should feel a pinch when you act generously
That saying the loving-kindness meditation can be generous
What it means to lead a courageous life
How no one who was courageous seems to claim courage
The spontaneity of courage
How authenticity seems to coincide with courage
That you see a pattern of courage throughout people's lives
Post-traumatic growth
How a strong childhood isn't necessary in order to lead a full life
The role of listening in generosity and courage
How important listening is in all of life
The correlation between generosity and courage
Practicing generosity and courage and growing the ability to act on these qualities over time
How to live a life of meaning you have to step forward
"Do something every day that doesn't compute" - Wendell Berry

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0:00.0	You really cannot just sit back and think generously. It requires action.
0:13.5	Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of
0:18.6	the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true,
0:25.6	and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity,
0:31.6	self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that
0:38.4	hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes
0:44.9	conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how
0:50.7	other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. How they feed their good wolf.
1:10.9	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Barbara Bonner. Barbara started her professional
1:16.8	life as an art historian and since has devoted her career to nonprofit management fundraising and
1:22.9	philanthropy. Barbara served as vice president of the Bennington College and of the Crippaloo
1:28.3	Center for Yoga and Health. Since 2009, she has had her own consulting company that helps
1:33.6	nonprofit organizations transform their board leadership and philanthropic support.
1:38.7	Barbara is the author of two books, Inspiring Courage and Inspiring Generosity.
1:44.3	Hey everybody, this is Chris and before we get started on this week's episode, I wanted to tell you
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