Business
Edited highlights of our full conversation. Here’s a question. How much power do you give the past? Hi. I’m Charles Day. I work with creative and innovative companies. I coach their leaders to help them maximize their impact and grow their business. To help them succeed where leadership has its greatest impact. The intersection of strategy and humanity. This week’s guests are Vincent Bragg and Joe Nickson, two of the co-founders of ConCreates. They started the company in federal prison where, as you’ll hear, you can learn a lot about business and even more about life. There are so many aspects to the story of ConCreates that it’s difficult to know which ones to highlight. The resilience of human beings. The power of imagination. The capacity to look beyond the easy, obvious presentation of who someone is to see the person beyond that. And the possibilities that appear when we become clear about the impact we want to make. All of these truths have one thing in common. A willingness to see ourselves not through the mists of our past - the stories we have told ourselves about our history, our circumstances, our limitations. But through a lens that is focused on our future. Who we want to be, the difference we want to make, the impact we want to leave behind. It is said that the greatest lesson of history is that we do not learn the lessons of history. Unless we do. And then everything is possible.