CURRENT MISSION

Broaden Horizons. Diversify Perpectives. Explore, Dream, Discover.

ABOUT ME

Studied Marketing & Entrepreneurship at University of Wisconsin†Milwaukee. Studied International Business in Perth, Western Australia. I'm passionate about environmental/social good, technology, and living simply.

Connect:
http://johnsuhar.wordpress.com/
http://www.facebook.com/john.suhar
http://johnandjoesappalachiantrailblog.wordpress.com
http://twitter.com/jtsuhar
http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnsuhar

PHILOSOPHY

*** Live life well * Be here now * Appreciate your world ***

http://johnsuhar.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/aboutme/

My purpose as an entrepreneur, an adventurer, and an artist is both simple and multifold– to be a prism of vision, an instrument of light: to activate and elevate consciousness around issues of social well being and environmentalism. The foundation of this purpose is rooted in my interest in helping others form an environmental ethic. As an entrepreneur, what I enjoy most is seeing how businesses/organizations can be used as vehicles to generate action and inspire enthusiasm for environmentally and socially minded initiatives. While operating in this capacity, my ultimate intention is to do small things with great love by using a new form of “marketing” to better serve others, to inspire solutions, to express and evoke compassion, and to create something beautiful. To voyage into both the past and the future while being entirely present. To explore various perspectives on ideas, technology, the environment, and business while remembering what genuine human connections are all about. To bring vision to form and help build better businesses, to help deliver genuinely engaging messages, to establish meaningful connections between businesses and people, for a better world.

My ultimate intention as an adventurer is to promote peace and awareness and to enhance both cultures and communities by exploring the benefits of social utilities and emerging communication platforms. When sharing my adventures with others, I view these technological advances as forms of intuitive communication, blurring the boundaries between languages, capable of healing and accelerating our global vibration. I embrace all forms of emerging technologies as opportunities to create and collaborate and to transmit and share experiences, ideas, and thoughts. I view these advances as ways to act collectively, to inspire and implement environmental and social solutions to better our world, and to create work saturated with both love and innovation. Examples – website, video and slideshare.

As an artist, I have been evolving my style and approach since childhood. My work varies from the areas of marketing analytics to creative strategy to nonprofit management (all of which I believe to be an art form, in addition to more traditional art forms such as photography, writing, and fly fishing). To me, my art is the constant melding of quest and discovery, memory and moment, intention and intuition…each work is a meditation, an offering, a song, a gift, an artifact… a cascading waterfall of energy and dedication... a crystallized moment of inspiration…used to subtly introduce topics revolving around environmental and social good, culture, exploration and adventure, and technology.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

New to CS, looking to stay with fellow couch surfers when traveling.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Grateful to have the opportunity to connect with many amazing people.

Interests

Interests: Surfing, Fly fishing, Reading, Philosophy, Philanthropy, Photography, Food, Art, Culture, Ecology, Film, Environmentalism, Hiking, Camping, Openness, Eliminating Desire, Learning Something New Everyday, Rock climbing, Riding Horses, Mountain biking, Slacklining, Boating, Sailing, Diving, Kayaking, Kitesurfing, Lake surfing, Gardening, Climbing, Creating Things, Cooking, Traveling, Talking to Strangers, Fly Fishing and Fly Tying, Snowboarding, Soccer, Longboarding

• horses
• arts
• culture
• writing
• photography
• environment
• philanthropy
• ethics
• dining
• cooking
• coffee
• meditation
• flying
• gardening
• boating
• technology
• reading
• traveling
• cars
• cycling
• fishing
• hiking
• backpacking
• kayaking
• camping
• adventure races
• surfing
• scuba diving
• sailing
• snowboarding
• rock climbing
• soccer
• business
• communications
• ecology
• entrepreneurship
• languages
• lakes

Music, Movies, and Books

http://johnsuhar.wordpress.com/virtual-bookshelf/

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose – || Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter, How Today’s Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves – || Switch – || Three Cups of Tea – || Hot, Flat, and Crowded – || The World Is Flat – || The Numerati – || Buyology – || Natural Capitalism – || Blessed Unrest – || The Omnivore’s Dilemma – || Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman – || How to Win Friends and Influence People – || Think & Grow Rich – || A Confederacy of Dunces – || Mavericks at Work – || The Four Hour Workweek – || Stumbling on Happiness – || Last Child in the Woods – || In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto – || The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source – || The Maine Woods – || A Same Kind of Difference As Me – || The Longest Silence – || Open – || Walking With Spring – || Meditations of Thoreau – || The River Why – || The Rhythm of Life – || The Phantom Toolbooth – || The Selfish Gene – || West of Jesus – || The Tipping Point – || B|| – || Freakanomics – || The Paradox of Choice: Why Less is More – || A New Earth – || Outliers – The Story of Success – || Purple Cow – || The Celestine Prophecy – || The Odyssey – || The Biodynamic Farm – || Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction to His Life and His Work – || Walden or Life in the Woods – || Civil Disobedience and Other Essays – || The Power of Now – || On the Road – || Oneness – || A Man Without A Country – || A Sand Country Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections) – || The Monkey Wrench Gang – || Stillness Speaks – || The World Without Us – || Family Happiness – || God Laughs and Plays – || My Story As Told by Water – || The Unbearable Lightness of Being – || The Moon and Sixpence – || Moon Palace – || The Snow Leopard – || Indian Creek Chronicles: Alone in the Wilderness – || An Alchemy of Mind – The Marvels and Mystery of the Brain – || Eat Pray Love – || A Walk in the Woods – || Inside Facebook – || Into the Wild – || Honeymoon With My Brother – || Alive – || The Global Brain – || Ishmael – || The Birth of the Republic – || Kitchen Confidential – || The Stranger – || The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – || A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas – link

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiked 2,200 miles across the Appalachian Mountain range from Georgia to Maine. 150 day trek. 1 small backpack. Fun stories.

http://johnandjoesappalachiantrailblog.wordpress.com/

Teach, Learn, Share

I recently completed a Thru Hike of the Appalachian Trail. Hiked for 6 months from Georgia to Maine, over 2,200 miles, across 14 states, carrying everything needed to survive in a small backpack.

Calm nerves, clear thoughts, sharp focus – and the ability to keep smiling. I am a strategic thinker with large doses of creativity, initiative and endless curiosity – not to mention grace and poise.

As a creative professional, I'm enjoying exploring the benefits photography/videography and social media strategies can bring to nonprofit organizations. What I have been working on recently is bringing a new level of transparency to the conversation of environmental ethics and social responsibility. I have been fulfilling that role by sharing my time with organizations like Growing Power, Mequon Nature Preserve, Rain Reserve, Earthship Biotecture, Just Coffee, Jack Johnson (All at Once), FRESH, Reverb, Farm Aid and now with the Urban Ecology Center and the Surfrider Foundation: Wisconsin Great Lakes Chapter in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Mexico, Nicaragua

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, United States