Lessons from Nature Podcast
Season 2: Modeling the Secrets of the Bees — Podcast Description
Mark Rubin, a lifelong Dreamweaver, has spent decades observing how nature turns energy into structure, purpose, and progress. In The Secrets of the Bees, he reveals the hidden mechanics behind the hive—how bees convert sunlight into motion, motion into honey, and honey into the architecture of thriving systems.
This podcast distills those insights into a practical framework for world-building and long-term thinking. Through stories, models, and the Long Game Framework, Mark shows how the principles inside every hive mirror the principles inside every dream, project, and organization. Each episode uncovers one of the Secrets of the Bees and translates it into tools you can use to build, optimize, and sustain the life you want.
If you’ve ever wondered how nature organizes complexity, why bees never waste a second, or how to turn your own ideas into living systems that grow, this podcast is your field guide. The hive has rules. The bees have lessons. And the long game has a pattern.
Come learn the secrets.
Season 1: Practical Dreaming — Podcast Description
In Practical Dreaming, visionary Dreamweaver Mark Rubin invites you into the space where imagination meets execution. Drawing on decades of observation since 1973, Mark shares the tools, mental models, and structural widgets that transform raw dreams into living systems.
This show is built on his signature Long Game Framework—a world-building engine designed to help you map your aspirations, connect them to nature’s patterns, and move them from nighttime stories into tangible realities.
Whether you’re sketching your first vision, refining a legacy project, or simply seeking permission to dream on purpose—this podcast gives you practical permission to “dream with design,” turning intangible ideas into actionable plans.
Tune in, pick up a widget, start your engine, and build the life you were meant to imagine.
Lessons from Nature Podcast
Seasonality: Secret 7. Honey Comes and Honey Goes #biology
Welcome to another episode of the Lessons from Nature Podcast! In this episode, Hannah Mather and I continue our look into the fascinating world of bees, exploring their adaptability, their unique business model, and the lessons we can learn from them. Join us as we discuss the secret of honey as money, the study of seasonal cycles, and how bees adapt to variability, competition, seasonality, and work.
[1:49] Seasonality is a predictable variability in your life.
[4:20] The importance of seasonality.
[6:36] Seasonality of the Junk Removal business.
[11:13] Are there any specific marketing tactics that different flowers have at different times of the season to attract the most number of workers to move their information around?
[16:19] The male bees in the hive are called drones.
[18:39] The queen bee lives the human equivalent of 1500 years compared to an 18 year lifespan.
[22:42] The world that’s bigger than the world right in front of us.
[24:18] Planning for the long term.
[29:13] The game of making money in business.
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