Swan Dive

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Swan Dive captures pivotal moments in meaningful lives and features the inspiring stories of people who had the clarity and courage to chase their dreams and visions. Hosts and life-long friends, Ron Rothberg and Stu Sheldon, both made their own swan dives from successful careers in media and finance to the unknowns of content creation and fine art. Through their journeys, both found their true voices and, with Swan Dive Podcast, they dive deep into the big pivots of their myriad guests. From Africa's first black, female neurosurgeon to legendary performing artists, storied sea captains, NPR hosts, National Geographic photographers and so much more, each dynamic guest opens up about the unique emotional trials and the triumphs of becoming their most authentic selves. Wisdom, vulnerability and inspiration abound. Hopefully, you'll find comfort and kinship in your own big pivot, whether you've made it yet or not. Share your Swan Dive story with us and we may feature you. Find us @stuart_sheldon and [email protected].

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Ron Rothberg Stu Sheldon

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Eric Gottesman
Eric Gottesman is a photographer, professor, and collaborator known for his work that addresses themes of nationalism, migration, structural violence, and intimate relations. He is a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, a Creative Capital Artist, and a Fulbright Fellow. Gottesman is a co-founder of For Freedoms, an artist-led organization that promotes art as a catalyst for civic engagement, recognized by TIME Magazine as the 'largest creative collaboration in United States history.' He has co-created the books Sudden Flowers (2014) and For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here? (2024). Additionally, he serves as a mentor in the Arab Documentary Photography Program in Beirut, Lebanon, and holds the position of W.W. Corcoran Visiting Professor in Community Engagement at George Washington University.
Robert Earl Sinclair
Robert Earl Sinclair is a Future Architect & world-builder striving to make sense of our rapidly changing world and co-create bold futures. Dedicated to beauty, justice and inclusive imagination, Robert is tinkering, building and designing at the crossroads of art, culture and technology. Born in 'the hood' of Los Angeles and challenged with dyslexia, Robert became a successful international hip-hop recording artist in his teens and went on to graduate from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Now, via his Sinclair Futures, this multicultural, classically trained artist, actor and writer focuses on world building and storytelling aimed at highlighting and addressing the beauty and struggles of marginalized people, perspectives and artists. His dyslexia has become an asset, because Robert is an original member of the Guild of Future Architects' celebrated Futurist Writers Room, a diverse community of visionary artists, intellectuals, engineers and technologists. Working with Dot Connector Studio, Robert is committed to finding ways to shape alternative economic models of sustainability and thrivability for everyone. This polymath has created original content and designed and facilitated world-building workshops for: NYU, Google Creative Lab, Sundance Film Festival, The Guggenheim, the Rockefeller Foundation, Pop Culture Collaborative, The Doris Duke Foundation and For Freedoms, where he co-created For Freedoms News and its month-long residency at the Brooklyn Museum. Most recently, Robert has lectured at USC's School of Cinematic Arts, ASU Center for Science and the Imagination, bringing writers, artists and other creative thinkers into collaboration with scientists, engineers and technologists to reignite humanity's grand ambitions for innovation and discovery. He is also currently teaching Emergent Expressions at the Harvard Divinity School.

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photography collaboration nationalism migration structural violence art civic engagement Future Architect world-builder culture technology dyslexia hip-hop storytelling marginalized perspectives sustainability

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Eric Gottesman - "Where Do We Go From Here?" - Photographer/Professor/Collaborator

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Ron Rothberg Stu Sheldon
Guests
Eric Gottesman
Keywords
photography collaboration nationalism migration structural violence art civic engagement

Eric Gottesman teaches, organizes, writes, and makes artworks with other people that address nationalism, migration, structural violence, history, and intimate relations. His work is always collaborative; he has never made an artwork alone. One of Eric’s creative superpowers is his ability to take his time and gently notice the delicacy and hard edges of his subjects, without judgment, before capturing their images. The resulting pictures are remarkably soulful and honest. He is a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, a Creative Capital Artist, a Fulbright Fellow and a co-founder of For Freedoms, an artist-led organization that centers art as a catalyst for creative civic engagement and was named the "largest creative collaboration in United States history" by TIME Magazine. He co-created the books Sudden Flowers (2014) and For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here? (2024). Gottesman is a mentor in the Arab Documentary Photography Program in Beirut, Lebanon, and the W.W. Corcoran Visiting Professor in Community Engagement at George Washington University.

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Robert Sinclair - "Speculative World Builder" - An artist writes the future he wants to live in

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Ron Rothberg Stu Sheldon
Guests
Robert Earl Sinclair
Keywords
Future Architect world-builder art culture technology dyslexia hip-hop storytelling marginalized perspectives sustainability

Robert Earl Sinclair is a Future Architect & Speculative World-Builder striving to make sense of our rapidly changing world and co-create bold futures. Born in "the hood" of Los Angeles and challenged with dyslexia, Robert became a successful international hip-hop recording artist in his teens and went on to graduate from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Now, this multicultural, classically trained artist, actor and writer uses storytelling to activate the idea that if something is broken, we can fantasize about what it looks like unbroken, and that exercise, in and of itself, can help us to find our way to a solution. This is speculative world-building. In this pursuit, Robert’s dyslexia has become an asset, because dyslexic people experience information as story and possess a much higher retention of facts which allows Robert, a voracious reader, to draw from a vast store of resources and disciplines. Dedicated to beauty, justice and inclusive imagination, Robert designs at the crossroads of art, culture and technology and has created original content and world-building workshops for: NYU, Google Creative Lab, Sundance Film Festival, The Guggenheim, the Rockefeller Foundation, Pop Culture Collaborative, The Doris Duke Foundation and For Freedoms, where he co-created For Freedoms News and its month-long residency at the Brooklyn Museum. Robert is an original member of the Guild of Future Architects' celebrated Futurist Writers Room, a diverse community of visionary artists, intellectuals, engineers and technologists. Working with Dot Connector Studio, Robert is working to shape alternative economic models of sustainability and thrivability for everyone. Most recently, Robert has  lectured at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and the ASU Center for Science and the Imagination. He is currently teaching Emergent Expressions at the Harvard Divinity School.


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