This week, Fortune Favors the Bold brings you a bonus episode. Ashley sat down with Trevor Mundel, President of Global Health at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Mike Froman, the Vice Chairman and President of Strategic Growth at Mast

How Can We Stay Bold? (Live at On Air Fest)

Mar 19th, 2020 29m 21s

This episode of Fortune Favors the Bold is coming to you LIVE from On Air Fest in Brooklyn.Ashley sat down with comedian, writer, and activist Baratunde Thurston and CEO and founderof The Helm, Lindsey Taylor-Wood to wrap up our season and an

How Do We Manage Our Passwords?

Mar 5th, 2020 30m

As our lives move increasingly online, it can seem like everything is password-protected. How do we choose good passwords? And how do we keep track of those passwords? Most importantly, what can we do to really keep all our data safe?On today

How Do I Make Work Work for Me? (Part Two)

Feb 27th, 2020 25m 43s

This week, Ashley heads to Albuquerque, New Mexico to continue exploring thequestion, “how can I make my work work for me?” To find answers, we’re doingsomething a little different: we’ll meet two people who are already talking through bigqu

How Do I Make Work Work for Me? (Part One)

Feb 20th, 2020 34m 9s

We’ve been hearing so much about the changing nature of work recently– whether it’s the rise of the gig economy, or millennials rising in the workforce. And we know so many people’s money questions are work questions, so we decided to do a two

How Can I Travel Responsibly?

Feb 6th, 2020 32m 38s

Travel is often a transformative part of our personal and professional lives. But there’s a growing conversation around the ethics of traveling. From the carbon emissions involved in flying to the impact on local communities, there are a lot of

How Can My City Be More Inclusive?

Jan 30th, 2020 32m 54s

The number of people living in cities grows by about 6 million each year. And with all this growth, experts are looking for ways to make cities more comfortable, affordable, and accessible for everyone. Ashley sits down with Shayna Pollock, a s

What Do We Get When We Pay for School?

Jan 23rd, 2020 32m 16s

It’s hard to know what exactly you’re paying for when you pay college tuition. Is it achance at a better career? Some time on a lush green campus learning from worldlyprofessors? The risk of six-figure debt that never seems to shrink? And if

How Do We Define Ourselves...Financially?

Jan 16th, 2020 32m 23s

Welcome to Season 3 of Mastercard’s Fortune Favors the Bold! Ashley C. Ford is back, and she’s kicking off our season by diving into the financial question that underlies everything else we’re talking about this season: how do we define ourselv

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Fortune Favors the Bold: Season 3 Coming Soon

Dec 12th, 2019 3m 4s

Season 3 of Fortune Favors the Bold, available wherever you get your podcasts in January 2020 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policyLearn more about your ad choices. V

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We're back! And we're taking your questions!

Oct 21st, 2019 1m 46s

Hey, Fortune Favors the Bold listeners— Ashley C. Ford here. I’m back and so is Fortune Favors the Bold Season 3.We’ll have new episodes of the podcast in just a few months, but I’m popping into your feed now because we need your help. This

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Money

Apr 3rd, 2019 39m 33s

Season One host Ashley C. Ford is back for this live bonus episode! She spoke with Nichole Perkins, co-host of the podcast Thirst Aid Kit, and Stefanie O’Connell, who specializes in talking to women about how to take control of their money.

Small Business Is Everyone’s Business

Jan 9th, 2019 24m 46s

There’s a misconception that small businesses are overshadowed by big businesses when it comes to driving the economy. The truth? Small businesses punch way above their weight, creating positive ripple effects far beyond their local community.

Better, Faster, Smarter: Cities of the Future

Jan 2nd, 2019 29m 5s

In 2012, for the first time in history, more people made their homes in cities than rural areas. But now, services designed for a few hundred thousand residents are straining under the pressure of meeting the traffic, housing and health demands

Reskilling: Good for Workers…and Companies, too

Dec 12th, 2018 24m 8s

What it means to be employed continues to shift. The old way of thinking? It’s up to employees to learn those new skills, or else companies will find someone else who has them. In this episode, we’ll hear from employers turning that way of thin

Who Gets to Be Creditworthy?

Dec 5th, 2018 22m 24s

Long-established methods for determining who gets credit are leaving a lot of people behind. In this episode, we’re talking to the people finding new ways to establish creditworthiness and getting more people access to opportunity in the proces

Financial Literacy: Money Lessons for a Digital World

Nov 21st, 2018 24m 8s

As technology changes at an ever-faster pace, it’s more important than ever to talk to kids about money. But that’s hard to do if you, as a parent or teacher, never learned about money yourself. We’ll hear from the rule breakers who are making

Upward mobility is hard. It doesn't have to be.

Nov 14th, 2018 25m 34s

Bootstraps, good attitudes and elbow grease? Sorry, that’s not enough to be upwardly mobile these days. See how individuals and countries can fight against the inertia that makes class transition so difficult, and look at some organizations who

Coming Soon: Fortune Favors the Bold, Season 2

Nov 7th, 2018 2m 56s

This season, host Mona Chalabi will help us explore the assumptions that shape the way we think about things like upward mobility, creditworthiness, financial literacy, and more. And then she’s going to talk about who’s kicking those assumption

The Cashless Society: A Live Episode

Mar 13th, 2018 28m 53s

Imagine using your phone to give a subway busker a couple bucks. Or, walking into a store knowing you won’t have to wait in line to check-out. Imagine a world beyond cash. In some Scandinavian countries, this is already a reality—roughly 90-per

Future-Proofing Your Career

Feb 20th, 2018 26m 38s

The fact is, many of us are working jobs that were created in the past ten years— app developers, social media managers, ride-share drivers! And because of major advancements in technology, the pace of this change is only going to get faster. S

You 2.0

Feb 13th, 2018 25m 40s

We use ID all the time. Maybe you use a driver’s license to prove you’re old enough to buy beer. You might have a PIN you use at your bank. You probably have a bunch of passwords for different websites and social media accounts. But we don’t re

The Business Case for Doing Good

Feb 6th, 2018 22m 38s

“It's not personal, just business" was a line that could have gotten you far in the 80s—but today, businesses need to adopt an entirely new mindset. To be successful you also need VALUES. In this episode, you’ll learn how some businesses are ta

The Next American Dream

Jan 23rd, 2018 23m 7s

It’s time to say ‘goodbye’ to white picket fences because that American Dream is history. In fact, the dream might not even be American at all. In this episode, Ashley C. Ford investigates what’s next. Hear stories from people who are walking a

Modern Nomads: The Future of Work

Jan 16th, 2018 30m 25s

Host Ashley C. Ford kicks off the series by examining the future of work through the lens of the gig economy. In this episode, you'll meet risk-takers who have chosen to put their personal values -- like experience and travel -- over traditiona