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Earth Day 2025: Practice Models for Public Health Interview with Molly Scanlon
What's considered sustainable from a public health perspective? Not necessarily the same things that we might otherwise uphold. We celebrate the 2025 Earth Day theme of Our Power, Our Planet with architect and integrative environmental specialist Molly Scanlon who shares insights on a new model for architecture practice.
Adjacent industries hold the key to practice innovation. Seeing the issues through another point of view moves us past the constraints of business as usual.
Advocacy requires having a flexible perspective and taking initiative to build your expertise and avenues of impact
Things don't change unless you do.
Buildings can become a non-pharmacological intervention in the world of public health as we add additional research related to safety and sustainability.
Architects can provide a holistic vs. a traditionally component based understanding common in public health.
Pick the right opportunities and keep your schedule open so you have the time and energy to get involved with what matters to you.
CONNECT WITH MOLLY: https://www.linkedin.com/in/molly-m-scanlon-phd-faia-facha-0116b813/
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Angela
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Loyal too Long? How sunk cost fallacy impacts your career
When are determination, loyalty, persistence not virtues? When you're deploying them in a no-win situation. There are more landmines like this than you might think in your career landscape. In today's episode, you'll learn how behavioral economics is keeping you stuck in situations that are aging like milk. Know when having grit is worth the payoff and when it's wasting your time.
The more time, money or effort you invest, the more you feel responsible for achieving success, and the less likely you are to abandon what's not working.
When you feel like you should keep trying, also consider the cost of a missed opportunity. What didn’t you do, explore, discover because you’re pouring resources down the drain? What did you put at risk in terms of your stress level? Your health, your well being?
Make sure that your expectations are realistic and clearly communicated
Don't get so emotionally invested that you can't walk away. Think about milestones and success measures and have a plan for what happens if they aren't met.
Ask "what's the best that could happen?" Then decide if that answer is good enough.
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Angela
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Urban Healthonomics: Martin Prince-Parrott Talks with Architects as Healers: Buildings as Medicine.
In this crossover episode, you'll hear the conversation we had on Architects as Healers: Buildings as Medicine with Martin Prince-Parrott about his new book Urban Healthonomics. You'll learn practical strategies to build for health, well being and economic vitality.
The economics of sustainable healthy cities in an interconnected web of downstream (consumer) and upstream (policies/incentives).
Look at change from multiple viewpoints: citizen, architect, engineer, developer, policy maker, stakeolder
There are tangential economic impacts to poor air quality urban heat islands, water pollution, and social isolation. Addressing them requires forging uncommon public and private partnerships.
Cities are multi-generational
Preventing despair is our imperative. In hope, we believe solutions are possible and work towards them.
CONTACT MARTIN:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-prince-parrott-founder-sci-fi-infrastructure-builder/
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Angela
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An Ecosystem for Design Innovation: Interview with Noam Platt
The story of non-profit MakeGood was forged in architect Noam Platt's desire to help people with disabilities. Whether you also have a passion for assistive technology or some other cause lights you up, you don't have to wait for a project to have an impact. Learn why he thinks architects are uniquely qualified (and called) to lead positive change in the community and how to get started.
Assistive technology is an emerging field that needs the creative thinking and problem solving skills of architects and designers. Finding areas like this and lending your expertise to them can have a lasting impact on your community.
When you advocate and for something that helps people, you're not worried about asking for help or support. Embarrassment or making mistakes pale in comparison to getting something accomplished.
You can't unsee problems especially if you know you have the ability to help solve them. One hour of your expert time is worth more than 20 hours of a non-experts time. Start by volunteering and building your network.
The experience you get volunteering is experience you won't get working at a firm. That experience can be brought back to better inform projects at your firm.
CONTACT NOAM:
https://makegood.design/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/noam-platt-92085344/
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Angela
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Big Thinking to Claim Success on Your Terms: Interview with Andrea Liebross
Big thinkers don't have pick me energy. They turn their visions into action by putting the work into making and executing clear plans. There's no better message than that to close out our celebration of Women's History Month. Podcaster, coach, and author Andrea Liebross shares her proven strategies to get out of stuck stress and be successful on your terms. What will be your legacy?
You have thought options (try challenging your go-to ones). That's on period.
Delegation is a skill to be developed. Go beyond basic detailed task and deadline outlines and learn how to truly get things off your plate.
Operate in your zone of extraordinary achievement by asking:
will it make a difference?
are you the only one who can do it?
do you need to know how to do it?
do you enjoy it?
Success has two ingredients- mindset and support systems. You need both.
Ask what if and operate out of curiosity not fear.
Confidence is the willingness to feel anything.
CONTACT ANDREA:
https://andrealiebross.com/links/
Get the Zone of Extraordinary Achievement matrix: https://www.andrealiebross.com/quiz
Give Architecting a Google review- be sure to name the episode! https://g.page/r/CVYGVmEtsUjdEAI/review
Stay Inspired,
Angela
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About ARCHITECTING Podcast - Career + Lifestyle Mentoring for Architects looking to move beyond overwhelm and make a difference through design
If you believe design can change the world, you’ve found your humans here on ARCHITECTING! This show is about the architect as a person and helps you bypass the status quo traps in our profession and teaches you how to make an impact with real life strategies. Angela Mazzi helps overwhelmed and burned out architects reclaim their passion for great design. Together, we‘ll explore Thought Leadership, how to achieve your next career level, Time/Energy Management tips to stay balanced, Promoting Wellbeing in work and life and Conscious Design and Social Change
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