The story of Darren Walker’s life is a quintessential American story. He was born to a single mother in a charity hospital, lived in a shotgun shack in a small, rural community in East Texas, attended public schools and colleges. Darren was in

Ertharin Cousin on Feeding the Hungry

Nov 19th, 2019 50m 4s

Ertharin Cousin has been called one of the world’s most powerful women, and rightly so. For five years, she was Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, the largest humanitarian agency in the world solving hunger. During h

Fei-Fei Li on AI and the Future of Work, Policy and Geopolitics

Nov 19th, 2019 45m 47s

Fei-Fei Li’s life bridges two countries and two industries. She moved to the U.S. from China when she was 16 years old and just a few years later, graduated from Princeton with an undergraduate degree in physics. Fast forward to today, Dr. Li i

Cecilia Muñoz on the Bigger Burden of Pretending You're Not Scared

Nov 19th, 2019 35m 25s

Not many people serve in an Administration for all eight years at a senior level. It’s exhausting, often daunting work. But, Cecilia Muñoz, New America’s Vice President for Public Interest Technology and Local Initiatives, did just that. First

Ama Marston on Transforming Challenges; from Patti Smith to the Global Arena

Nov 19th, 2019 50m 23s

In this age of anxiety that we’re living in, it’s arguably more important than ever that all of us learn to meet uncertainty head-on. As my next guest, Ama Marston, would say, “It’s imperative that we learn to deal with challenges not as a pass

Arianna Huffington On Our Cultural Dismissal of Sleep

Nov 19th, 2019 28m 24s

Arianna Huffington helped to disrupt and reshape the newspaper business as we once knew it when she co-founded The Huffington Post. In its first week online in 2005, HuffPost had postings from Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Larry David, Gary Hart, John C

Judith Rodin on Failing Safely

Nov 19th, 2019 48m 19s

Judith Rodin began her career as a psychologist thinking about stress and coping mechanisms. She wanted to know why some people seem to do better with comparable stressors. This area of interest continued throughout her career when she later be

Vincent Stanley on Patagonia's North Star

Nov 19th, 2019 38m 49s

Vincent Stanley is informally known as Patagonia’s chief storyteller. Day-to-day, he’s the company’s Director of Philosophy, where he works to ensure that the company’s culture remains true to its origins, while also adapting to and being resil

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