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Joshua Spodek (born ____) is an American astrophysicist, entrepreneur, professor, public speaker, and coach. Josh is a major proponent of leadership and the environment - he's produced a number of TEDX talks, articles, and his own podcast advocating for humanity's ability and desire to change toward more environmentally sustainable behaviors.

Biography
Josh was born and raised in Philadelphia, PE. Josh studied physics at Columbia University, then briefly at the University of Pennsylvania, then back at Columbia, all the way to the level of getting his PhD in astrophysics. From there, he worked on launching a satellite into Earth's orbit. Struck by the entrepreneurial bug, Josh started his first company, Submedia, based on technology he invented and patented to allow for a unique display of advertisements along metropolitan subway rides. After being forced out of Submedia, Josh would go to work in the education space. Josh would then found a new company, FeBe, while also returning to Columbia for his MBA. Josh would then go on to do public speaking, teaching, and executive coaching on leadership, entrepreneurship, and sales. Josh is now primarily focused on his podcast, Leadership and the Environment, where he actively engages the public on behaving more sustainably with our environment on a personal level.

Early life
Joshua was born and raised in Philadelphia, PE. His parents, Marie and Howard Spodek, met together in India. As a result at one point, Joshua had lived for a year in India when he was still very young. Joshua attended Central High School, a public high school in the Logan section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Education
Joshua attended Columbia University, where he studied for his Bachelor of Arts in Physics. He received his degree in 1993. From 1993-94, Josh would attend the University of Pennsylvania for his Master of Arts. He would end up finishing his Master's degree at Columbia in 1996 again in Physics. In 1998, Joshua completed a Master of Philosophy in Physics, again at Columbia University. A year later, he would complete a Doctor of Philosophy in Astrophysics at Columbia. Years later, in 2006, Josh would return to Columbia University for his MBA. During his PhD, Josh helped write a number of published articles.

Early Career in Astrophysics
Through his PhD, Josh was invited to work on building a satellite, which has since been sent to space and still revolves around the Earth to this day. (would love to say more about this, and also get some transition from this to the Submedia days)

Entrepreneurship
Post his time as an astrophysicist, Josh has done a number of entrepreneurial ventures, first through a media company called Submedia, then toward an education content collaboration company called For Educators by Educators (or FeBe), and now lately as a host for a podcast titled Leadership and the Environment.

Submedia
From the world of academia, Josh moved to start a new company, Submedia, in 1997. Joshua invented a way to display advertisements along subways through motion-picture technology which he patented. Through Joshua's designed medium, subway riders would be treated to 15 second motion pictures that would only be seen while subway trains were moving. Submedia received essential early partnership with Coca-Cola. Through Coca-Cola, Submedia created a unique advertisement of the Dasani water brand. With additional partnership of Atlanta's MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority), Josh was able to make the first demonstration of Submedia's new advertising medium.



Troubles with Submedia
Josh planned to launch his company in 2001. Unfortunately, the launch date was set to be September 11. As a result of the terrorist attacks on that day, Submedia's launch was cancelled and moved to relaunch in October. By that time however, advertising markets had plunged, as did sources of Submedia's investment. With heightened security concerns all around public utilities and areas, installing new displays became and would remain to be difficult for years.

Still, Submedia expanded to New York City, Philadelphia, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Athens, Budapest, Mexico City, Chicago, and more. Unfortunately for Josh, Submedia's investors forced Josh out of the company. Josh described this period of time as one of being lonely and painful.

After Josh was forced out of Submedia, he took up a job to pay his mortgage and eat. Eventually he would go to business school and from there return to Submedia part-time as CEO & Director of Special Projects. During this time, Josh would roll out Submedia's subway displays in Shanghai... to this day...

Beyond Business School & Submedia
From business school, Josh moved into Public Speaking, teaching, and coaching on the topics of leadership, entrepreneurship, sales, among other skills.

For Educators By Educators (FeBe) '05-'08
In 2005, Josh founder For Educators By Educators or FeBe. FeBe was a software-as-a-service that allowed teachers and administrators to share and edit content with other educators. The technology behind FeBe was patented by Josh. FeBe was piloted with 19 NYC public high schools. (What happened to FeBe?)

Executive Coaching, Public Speaking '10-Present
Talk about TEDx talks, Coaching clients privately and at companies like McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Deloitte, American Express, Google, IBM, CBS, CNN...

Authorship
Joshua is the author of four books: Understanding North Korea (year), (description of book), ReModel (year), (description of book), Leadership Step By Step (year), (description of book) (#1 best seller), and Initiative (year), (description of book) (#1 best seller). Josh also wrote columns at Inc.com, the Huffington Post, and Thrive Global.

Awards
Joshua's Leadership and the Environment podcast was ranked #1 in Leadership on Amazon Alexa Skills. His blog was named Top 100 Leadership Blogs, Websites & Influencers in February 2020 by Feedspot. His blog was also named Top 15 Must Read Team Leadership Blogs by Weekdone.com around the same time. February 2020. In January 2020, Joshua was named Top 10 Influencers Profiles by TrackMyHashtag. In December 2017, Player.fm named his Leadership and the Environment podcast of the day. Medium.com awarded him “Top Writer” in three categories — Leadership, Inspiration, and Self-Improvement, back in 2017. In 2012, Union Square in Motion named Josh the Adobe Design Achievement Award Semifinalist. In 2003, Josh was named Best and Brightest by Esquire Magazine.

References/Notes and references
den Herder, J. W.; Brinkman, A. C.; Kahn, S. M.; Branduardi-Raymont, G.; Thomsen, K.; Aarts, H.; Audard, M.; Bixler, J. V.; den Boggende, A. J.; Cottam, J.; Decker, T.; Dubbeldam, L.; Erd, C.; Goulooze, H.; Güdel, M.; Guttridge, P.; Hailey, C. J.; Janabi, K. Al; Kaastra, J. S.; de Korte, P. A. J.; van Leeuwen, B. J.; Mauche, C.; McCalden, A. J.; Mewe, R.; Naber, A.; Paerels, F. B.; Peterson, J. R.; Rasmussen, A. P.; Rees, K.; Sakelliou, I.; Sako, M.; Spodek, J.; Stern, M.; Tamura, T.; Tandy, J.; de Vries, C. P.; Welch, S.; Zehnder, A. “The Reflection Grating Spectrometer on board XMM-Newton”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.365, p.L7-L17 (2001)

Christian Erd; M. Audard; Antonius J. F. den Boggende; Graziella Branduardi-Raymont; A. C. Brinkman; Jean Cottam; Luc Dubbeldam; Manuel Guedel; Jan-Willem den Herder; Jelle S. Kaastra; Steven M. Kahn; Rolf Mewe; Frits B. S. Paerels; John R. Peterson; Andrew P. Rasmussen; Irini Sakelliou; Joshua Spodek; Knud Thomsen; Cor P. de Vries; Alex Zehnder, “In-flight calibration of the XMM-Newton reflection grating spectrometers” Proc. SPIE. 4140, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, 13. (December 13, 2000) doi: 10.1117/12.409112

Jan-Willem den Herder ; Antonius J. F. den Boggende ; Graziella Branduardi-Raymont ; A. C. Brinkman ; Jean Cottam ; Luc Dubbeldam ; Christian Erd ; Manuel Guedel ; Jelle S. Kaastra ; Steven M. Kahn ; Rolf Mewe ; Frits B. S. Paerels ; Andrew P. Rasmussen ; Irini Sakelliou ; Joshua Spodek ; Knud Thomsen and Cor P. de Vries "Description and performance of the reflection grating spectrometer on board of XMM-Newton", Proc. SPIE 4012, X-Ray Optics, Instruments, and Missions III, 102 (July 18, 2000)

A. Rasmussen, J. Cottam, S. M. Kahn, J. Spodek, A. Brinkman, J. W. den Herder, F. B. S. Paerels, C. de Vries, “Coupled Dispersive and Nondispersive Spectroscopy with the Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) Experiment aboard XMM” American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #4, #17.14; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 31, p.719, April 1999