A year of podcasts.

<p><strong><a href="https://evepicker.com/a-year-of-podcasts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BE SURE TO SEE THE SHOWNOTES AND LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE HERE.</a></strong></p> <p><strong>Eve Picker:</strong> [00:00:12] Hi there. Thanks so much for joining me today for the latest episode of Impact Real Estate Investing.</p> <p>Today marks the first anniversary of this podcast, something I am immensely proud of.  </p> <p>[00:00:36] A year ago, I didn’t know that our audience would grow as it has. In fact, a year ago I wasn’t sure we would have an audience at all.  And I certainly never imagined that I would have the opportunity to talk with so many extraordinary individuals, leaders and movers in their respective fields, all doing remarkable things. </p> <p>When we started the podcast, I thought we would focus on real estate and the impact it makes.  But I’ve discovered that “real estate” is a very broad industry. I’ve found a horde of people working in fascinating niches around this one big central theme – the built environment we all occupy.</p> <p>[00:01:26] These people work in city planning, on affordable housing, in impact investing, on mobility issues, in fintech, as architects, on sustainable development, on community capital, on equity in communities and in many other niches, pushing the boundaries of the built environment to be better for everyone. </p> <p>The range of work that is being accomplished, is quite frankly, astounding.</p> <p>[00:01:59] I learned how big, visionary thinkers make cities better. Like Josh MacManus in <em>How to leave places better than you find them</em>. He’s spent quite a lot of time rebuilding downtown Detroit. </p> <p>Or Tom Murphy, past mayor of Pittsburgh, who showed incredible fortitude in shepherding Pittsburgh from abandoned to reinvented in <em>How to transform a city</em>.</p> <p>And most recently, Avra Jain, who tells us all to look past the working girl on the corner in <em>Beyond the Vagabond.</em> When she looked she saw the future of Biscayne Boulevard.</p> <p> </p>