My guest today is a dear friend of mine, Dr. Max Klau. We met nearly a decade ago at a songwriting class at Club Passim in Cambridge, MA, when Max was studying for his doctoral degree at Harvard Graduate School of Education. He's an author, coach, speaker, scholar, leadership development consultant, and a damn good songwriter. He recently published a book called Race and Social Change: A Quest, A Study, A Call to Action.
We explore Max's journey to writing this important book. We also dive into his current work with the New Politics Leadership Academy, a nonprofit dedicated to recruiting and developing military veterans and alumni of national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps to seek political office. And what a time to enter politics! I was deeply inspired to learn more about how Max and his team help people who have devoted their lives to public service step into the political arena.
Max draws on a wide range of scholarship in the realms of leadership and human flourishing, weaving them together with his own experiences and research. What we ultimately arrive at is the truth that how we show up from the inside actively shapes the world around us. Max calls this "the inner flame." If you care at all about what it is to show up for the world as your best self - about igniting and sustaining your own inner flame - then this conversation is for you.
Show Notes:
Race and Social Change: a Quest, a Study, a Call to Action
newpoliticsacademy.org
Joseph Campbell
cityyear.org/about
Milgram Experiment
Stanford Prison Experiment
newpolitics.org/podcast
MaxKlau.com
instagram.com/maxklau
linkedin.com/in/max-klau-0319a11
twitter.com/maxklau
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#33 The Inner Flame (with Max Klau)