Revolutionary Optimism: Changing The World With Extreme Acts Of Kindness
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Paul Zeitz, a preventive medicine physician, epidemiologist, author, and award-winning champion of global justice and human rights. For more than 35 years, Dr. Zeitz has been advocating, campaigning, and leading political movements aimed at achieving collective repair, justice, and peace.
His latest crusade, #unifyUSA, was launched in 2023: a peaceful revolutionary political movement committed to co-creating a United States 2.0 through urgent constitutional renewal…
In his latest book, Revolutionary Optimism: Seven Steps for Living as a Love-Centered Activist, Dr. Zeitz shows readers how to break free from feelings of confusion, pessimism, and cynicism – and instead foster empowerment, resourcefulness, and inspiration.
From climate transformation to racial and gender equity, Dr. Zeitz has dedicated much of his career to helping others heal despite the conditions of our broken world. Want to find out how his work has influenced people across the globe? Join the conversation now!
Jump in to learn about:
- How Dr. Zeitz's work in advocacy and movement building has impacted the world.
- How extreme acts of kindness can impact those around you.
- The seven steps for living as a love-centered activist.
- What would happen if our government declared a climate emergency?
To follow along with Dr. Zeitz and his important work, visit his website here!
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| 0:30.0 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | That is Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Fighting Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | My guest is Dr Paul Zeitz. He's a |
| 0:43.7 | preventative medicine physician, epidemiologist, and author of |
| 0:47.2 | revolutionary optimism. So we may talk about some of his work in medicine but |
| 0:51.7 | also we're going to talk about what I call extreme |
| 0:53.8 | acts of kindness but I was telling him offline that you know in my life luckily I've |
| 0:58.0 | been the recipient of extreme acts of kindness a few times and it really touched |
| 1:02.1 | me I never forgot the incident. |
| 1:03.7 | It was just an amazing thing and it really cut to the core of me. |
| 1:07.1 | So I want to find out more about it and his experience with it and I think it'll be a really nice |
| 1:10.9 | topic for people to listen to because hopefully most, if not all, the people listening have experienced at least one act like this and I think they're life changing. |
| 1:19.2 | So welcome Paul, thanks for coming. |
| 1:21.0 | Hey Richard, thanks so much for having me, honored to be here. |
| 1:24.0 | Yeah, if you would, just let's start out, tell me a bit about your background and then we'll |
| 1:27.7 | get into the, so many other work you do. |
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