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Solutions on the Edge of Change with Eleanor LeCain
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Eleanor LeCain shows the way to a new America and a new world. An inspirational speaker, author, and advisor to policymakers, she communicates a compelling vision of a better future and practical pathways to create it. Her first book, Breakthrough Solutions: How to Improve Your Life and Change the World by Building on What Works, has a foreword by the Dalai Lama. This compelling book profiles nine game-changing social innovations that dramatically improve peoples’ lives and strengthen families and communities.
Eleanor advises candidates and policymakers on issues and strategy. Eleanor helped elect Elizabeth Warren to the US Senate, and many other candidates win races for school committee, city council, state legislature, and statewide offices. Eleanor served in Massachusetts state government as Assistant Secretary of State. She was Executive Director of Blueprint 2000, leading strategic planning for the state government.
Earlier this month, she is led the inaugural 2023 Solutions Summit on Capitol Hill. Eleanor also hosts a weekly radio show and podcast, All Together Now, on PRN Radio. She graduated from Yale College and Boalt Law School. She lives in Washington, DC and Massachusetts with her husband, daughter and kitty.
Sandra welcomes Eleanor and shares a quote by Yale historian and Holocaust expert Timothy Snyder. Eleanor responds with her outlook that systems are collapsing, and through her work she is focusing on the solutions that are emerging to the enormous challenges we are facing in America and around the world.
Focus at The Solutions Summit:
1. Climate + Environment
2. Democracy under siege
3. Economic Inequality
4. Healthcare
Four crises with a full focus on emerging solutions that ARE being implemented.
Eleanor touches on why the Media is not covering the news about solutions to our challenges. She shares a bit about her background that led to her choice to create the much needed Solutions Summit 2023. We then discuss what her largest takeaways were, and what will follow from this inaugural Summit. Eleanor shares her thoughts on the intergenerational reinvigoration of democracy, and implementation of climate peril solutions.
Watch on YouTube:
https://app.maximizeu.life/podcast/edgeofeveryday
Find Eleanor:
www.SolutionSummit2023.com
@thesolutionsummit
www.EleanorLeCain.com
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