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The Wicked Opportunities Podcast
The world is filled with Wicked Problems - incredibly complicated predicaments that don’t have simple solutions. However, the real problem isn’t our complex world, but rather our outdated mindsets. The way that we see the future directly impacts the actions that we take today, so a better world requires better visions. Join futurists Yvette Montero Salvatico and Frank Spencer each week as they use the Natural Foresight® Framework to reframe our Wicked Problems into the transformational ideas that they call Wicked Opportunities.
Episodes
68 episodes
We Belong to Stories
Sophie Strand – one of our favorite thinkers, writers, and “life-weavers” – shared in her article entitled “Myco Eco Mytho” that, “Stories don’t belong to human beings. But human beings belong to stories. Let’s enter back into the complex, tang...
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Transdisciplinary Collaboration and Innovation
In this episode of the Wicked Opportunities® Podcast, TFSX Principal Frank Spencer speaks with physician, aquanaut, dive medical technician, speaker, martial artist, skydiver, and VP of Immersive Medicine at Luxsonic Technologies, Dr. Shawna...
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46:52
Art as Foresight
Breaking free from conventional thinking, TFSX Principal Frank Spencer delves into futures through an "art-based" lens with ARTEFACTO Founders Andrea Busquets and Pablo Reyes Arellano. Explore their innovative approach, liberating us to envisio...
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Season 14
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Episode 2
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52:11
Pathways of the Unimagined with Nora Bateson
TFSX Co-Founder Frank Spencer discusses her new book, Combining, in-depth with Nora Bateson. Listen as Nora discusses poems, passages, and concepts from her book that reinforce our need to elevate our sacred connection to the co...
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Season 14
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Episode 1
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1:13:50
Humility - Acting Toward the Future Without Self-Importance
We know… it’s hard to be humble when you’re perfect in every way. (At least that’s what Mac Davis said back in 1980, and when was he ever wrong?). Nevertheless, we all need to realize that we hold only a small part of the larger human, planetar...
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Season 13
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Episode 13
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41:26
Connectedness - Commitment to Connection Around the Future
When you think about the future, does the idea of connection come to mind? It did for Kermit the Frog! (Well, at least in relation to rainbows, lovers, and dreamers). In reality, connection is a critical mindset when it comes to practicing rigo...
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Season 13
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Episode 12
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41:15
Appreciation: Appreciation for the Positive Qualities in Various Future Situations
You are about to enter another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop… the Relating dimension! (Thank you for letting us include a Twilight Zone...
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Season 13
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Episode 11
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33:02
Long-Term Orientation and Visioning: Embracing a Long-Now View in the Development of Visions of the Future
In this last episode within the Thinking dimension of the Inner Development Goals, TWOP hosts Yvette Montero Salvatico and Frank Spencer get to talk about their favorite subject: Kevin Bacon! Correction… we meant to say “visioning.” (B...
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Season 13
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Episode 10
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36:30
Sense Making: Actively Looking for Patterns and Stories About the Future
You want a story? Ok, “Once upon a time, there were two crazy but incredibly smart podcast hosts who loved to talk about the future…” Oh, you want us to help you find the stories all around you? Well, why didn’t you say so? We love to empower p...
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Season 13
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Episode 9
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38:29
Perspective Skills: Humility About the Short-Coming of One’s Own Future Orientation
Are you curious about our next episode in the 23 and Me series? If so, you’re in luck because this one’s all about being more open and curious. (See what we did there?) Our present-day political, social, and economic landscapes have created an ...
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Season 13
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Episode 8
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39:22
Complexity Awareness: Grokking Our Interdependencies and Emergent Futures
In most contexts today, from businesses to governments to social development, we’re told to view complexity as our mortal enemy - crush it, vanquish it, overcome it, and do everything in our power to simplify it. How would you feel if we told y...
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Season 13
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Episode 7
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45:43
Critical Thinking: Asking Probing Questions to Determine the Validity of the Future
We’re now entering the “Thinking” dimension of the Inner Development Goals. If you weren’t already 100% convinced that the 23 traits and skills highlighted in the IDGs are the same attributes necessary for robust futuring, then these nex...
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Season 13
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Episode 6
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32:54
Presence: I’m Here, I’m Present, I’m Listening To the Future
“Hey, Yvette and Frank, I’ve been loving how you’re demonstrating the connection between the Inner Development Goals and a futurist mindset, but what does “being present” have to do with foresight?” We’re glad you asked! (And, no, you won’t hav...
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Season 13
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Episode 5
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35:46
Self-Awareness: Ability To Regulate Our Emotions About the Future
Have you ever heard the phrase, “Check yourself before you wreck yourself”? It certainly seems like a lot of governments and organizations have never listened to Hip Hop, and that lack of awareness is making us an Endangered Species. (Two Ice C...
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Season 13
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Episode 4
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32:12
Openness and Learning Mindset: Curiosity About Multiple Ways of Futuring
A famous axiom states that “If you never know, you’ll never grow; if you don’t grow, you’ve got no place to go.” (OK, we just made that up, but it’s pretty catchy… right?) Even if it isn’t an actual timeless idiom, the sentiment holds true - wh...
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Season 13
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Episode 3
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33:48
Integrity and Authenticity: Being True To the Future
In a zeitgeist of extreme tribalism and partisanship, it may seem that having integrity and authenticity means standing firm in your worldviews no matter how they might impact those around you. The truth is that acting with sincerity has much m...
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Season 13
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Episode 2
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32:23
Inner Compass: Responsibility to the Future of the Whole
Welcome to 23 and Me, a series that explores the synergy between Foresight and the 23 skills and qualities that comprise the Inner Development Goals. The IDGs represent the inner capac...
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Season 13
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Episode 1
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31:40
Foresight Deficit Syndrome
When it seems hard to think about the future with intention. When you feel surprised by events that could have been easily imagined, when nostalgia for the future seems impossible to embrace, if you or a loved one have struggled with any of the...
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32:58
Me, Myself, and I
We are fond of saying that foresight is a team sport, but what happens if you are the sole player on your squad? Whether because of funding constraints or due to a lack of organizational support, navigating foresight implementation all alone ca...
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Episode 10
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35:48
The Kids Are Alright!
The ideological war that has raged between the youth and the traditional environments that they are born into is nothing new. However, our present-day “meta crisis” - the confluence of climate change, supply chain disruption, authoritarian gove...
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Episode 9
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36:30
Where’s Your Crystal Ball?
Welcome on board! Let's go on a metaphorical flight from the turbulence of prediction to the friendly skies of perception, recounting every foresight practitioner’s most agonizing journey - the screening process of organizational professionals ...
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Season 11
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Episode 8
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38:26
The Future of Haircare In-Shower
While an organization may care about the “future of hair care in-shower,” framing our future thinking efforts around immediate concerns and very short time horizons will only reinforce organizational blinders that result in missed opportunities...
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Season 11
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Episode 7
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33:54
The Future is not a footnote
Traditional long term planning does not really consider the future; it extrapolates the past. Often our Five Year Plans include only an asterisk alluding to future "threats" and "opportunities." It's time to stop making the future just a ...
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Season 11
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Episode 6
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32:27
Is Foresight a Luxury or a Right?
It was the great civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer that said, “Nobody’s free until everybody is free.” We would add that unless everybody is empowered to think proactively about our collective tomorrows, then we will continue to see foresigh...
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Season 11
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Episode 5
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32:26
Where are the Whales?
How do we explore the future if we are tethered to today? Framing our foresight efforts can be a challenging balance of the "right now" and the "what's possible." Hear Frank and Yvette share how they've helped clients expand their vision beyond...
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Season 11
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Episode 4
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33:58