Best Conversations Podcasts (2019)
Best Conversations podcasts we could find (Updated April 2019)
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Profiles, storytelling and insightful conversations, hosted by David Remnick.
 
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Dear Hank & John
Weekly
 
Hosts John and Hank Green (authors and YouTubers) offer both humorous and heartfelt advice about life’s big and small questions. They bring their personal passions to each episode by sharing the week’s news from Mars (the planet) and AFC Wimbledon (the third-tier English football club). WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including On the Media, Snap Judgment, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy and Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin. © WNYC Studios
 
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Slate Daily Feed
Daily+
 
The Slate Daily feed includes new episodes from more than 30 shows in the Slate Podcast Network. You'll get thought provoking analysis, storytelling, and commentary on everything from news and politics to arts, culture, technology, and entertainment. Discover new shows you never knew you were missing.
 
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Simple
Weekly+
 
Conversations about living well and ignoring the rest — with author and host Tsh Oxenreider.
 
A podcast for long distance besties everywhere. Co-hosted by BFFs Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow. Produced by Gina Delvac. Brand new every Friday.
 
Welcome to the Jenna & Julien Podcast where we talk about all the things. If you are looking for your everyday, normal, by the book podcast, then you're in the wrong place. We created this because we tend to have awesome, random, and sometimes drunk conversations that we realized had to be shared with the lovely internet world. So here we are. We also like to ustream during the podcast to get some live interaction and also quick on-the-spot input on our chats--you can participate here: http: ...
 
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The Mustards
Weekly
 
Jenny and David Mustard – the couple who's made a career out of yapping. Few people have before talked so much about topics so random. Prepare yourself for an abundance of coffee-induced reality depictions from the bubble that is influencer-hipster-London. Jenny Mustard is the popular fashion youtuber and author behind epic videos such as 'Why I Don't want Kids' and 'Why I don't have Eyebrows'. Jenny and David are also running the Swedish podcast called simply 'Jenny och David'.
 
Capturing the nation in conversation to build a unique picture of our lives today and preserve it for future generations.
 
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Citation Needed
Weekly
 
The podcast where we choose a subject, read a single article about it on Wikipedia, and pretend we’re experts. Because this is the internet, and that’s how it works now.
 
The Awkward Human Survival Guide answers the uncomfortable questions everyone encounters on an unfortunately regular basis and talks to people around the world who embrace the stranger side of life. Got a question or comment? Visit awkward.email for lots of options! Check out our Subreddit, too! If you love the show, please help us keep making them! (This does not require a financial contribution.) \*\*NSFW\*\* Hosted by Adam Dachis, Darren Herczeg, Erica Elson, and Richard Cardenas.
 
Learn to connect better with others in every area of your life. Immerse yourself in spirited conversations with people who know how hard it is, and yet how good it feels, to really connect with other people – whether it’s one person, an audience or a whole country. You'll know many of the people in these conversations – they are luminaries in our culture. Some you may not know. But what links them all is their powerful ability to relate and communicate. It's something we need now more than ever.
 
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Start the Week
Monthly+
 
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
 
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KERA's Think
Daily
 
Think is a daily, topic-driven interview and call-in program hosted by Krys Boyd covering a wide variety of topics ranging from history, politics, current events, science, technology and emerging trends to food and wine, travel, adventure, and entertainment.
 
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The Rizzuto Show
Daily
 
From pop culture, sports, current events and celebrities to just bustin' balls, Rizz, Tony Patrico, Jeff Burton and Moon Valjean chop it up and dish it daily on the Rizzuto Show... Trying to save the world one podcast at a time!
 
Merlin Mann's frank & candid weekly phone call with John Roderick of The Long Winters
 
Awaken, discover and connect to the deeper meaning of the world around you with SuperSoul. Hear Oprah’s personal selection of her interviews with thought-leaders, best-selling authors, spiritual luminaries, as well as health and wellness experts. All designed to light you up, guide you through life’s big questions and help bring you one step closer to your best self.
 
98KUPD Holmberg's Morning Sickness is Arizona's #1 Morning Show. John Holmberg attempts to both entertain and disturb as many listeners as possible with assistance from Brady Bogen, Creepy E, and Dick Toledo. Tune into 98KUPD weekdays 5:30a-10a.
 
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Brooke and Jubal
Daily+
 
Brooke & Jubal In The Morning is on-air weekdays from 6AM-10AM on MOViN 92.5, Seattle's #1 Hit Music Station. Listen to their daily podcasts which include some of their most popular segments "Jubal's Phone Taps," "Second Date Update," & more!
 
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The Happy Rant
Weekly
 
Barnabas Piper, Ted Kluck, and Ronnie Martin cheerfully - if sarcastically - rant about all the things that don't matter all that much (and some that do).
 
This is the Official Podcast Of Danko Jones. Danko is joined by comedian Nick Flanagan to talk about just about anything and everything. Sometimes they're joined by a special guest too. It's fun stuff all around.
 
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RadioWest
Daily
 
Conversation and stories that explore the way the world works. Produced by KUER 90.1 in Salt Lake City and hosted by Doug Fabrizio. Find archived episodes at http://radiowest.org
 
A podcast about being Middle Eastern and immigrants in America, hosted by two friends, an Iranian and a Syrian, telling you what's up.
 
Being a person is hard, and The Lazy Genius Podcast is here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't. From laundry to cooking chicken to making new friends, Kendra is here to welcome you into an easier way.
 
It's all about life. Presented by Ray Darcy.
 
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Hello Internet
Monthly+
 
CGP Grey and Brady Haran talk about YouTube, life, work, whatever.
 
Podcast by Kenneth Hite and Robin D. Laws
 
A raw and uncut conversation about the world today. Six voices - six different perspectives. ITMSO covers a wide range of topics from social issues to life lessons delivered through the same hilarious unfiltered voices that you’ve come to love and appreciate.
 
Happy Hour is a weekly podcast hosted by Sofia Stanley, Emile Ennis Jr. and Kennelia Stradwick, that serves listeners a taste of exactly what happens when a lawyer, a host and a comedian, walk into a cyber bar. Listen as they discuss, argue, dissect, analyze anything and everything including sex, religion and politricks. They rarely agree on anything, except that, sometimes the only thing that gets you through the week is, a shot of conversation. At Happy Hour you BYOB, but the tea is on us.
 
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JuRY
Weekly+
 
Justin Robert Young is a man with a lot to say. If you don't listen to him, who will?
 
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Conversations
Daily
 
Spend an hour in someone else's life. Conversations draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may have heard about, but never met.
 
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It's A Thing
Monthly+
 
It's a Thing is a decidedly off-topic show. It's a show about trends. It's a show about obsessions. It's a show about sneakers, becoming a plant lady, buying a house (holy cow, sewers), books, food (holy cow, lining up for pastries). It's about things that are already a thing, might become a thing, always have been a thing, or are only things in our own minds. And of course, it's about your things! If a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, this show is us tying our shoes. A ...
 
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Two Drinks In
Monthly+
 
Two gays and two gals dish the dirt and dole out drunken advice, as only this funny foursome can — one drink at a time. Join Two Drinks In each week for you dose of Minnesota “nice” over ice. It’s chilly!
 
Hosts Claire Mazur and Erica Cerulo, co-founders of the emerging design site Of a Kind, expand upon the theme of their highly popular “10 Things” newsletter to share their latest and greatest discoveries. Each episode drills down into the nitty-gritty of two to four finds—covering topics across food, beauty, technology, literature, you name it—and often features a guest who has insider intel to contribute.
 
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Vox Day
Daily
 
Audio from Vox Day's Darkstream, Arkstream, Bookstream, Devstream, & more. http://voxday.blogspot.com
 
The Kojo Nnamdi Show — a daily talk show that serves as the meeting space for curious Washingtonians to make sense of the communities where they live and work. We'll introduce you to compelling newsmakers, fascinating artists, expansive thinkers, prominent activists, new ideas, cutting-edge technology, overlooked historic moments and up-and-coming talent.
 
Transformation Radio - Your Positive Talk Radio Network that will change your life! Live Internet and AM Radio with niche channels dedicated to higher conscious living. Download a podcast from the 24/7 On-demand library.
 
Ian McNamara shares Sunday morning with the whole of Australia - catch up anytime with the Australia All Over podcast
 
Personally connecting the dots. All of them. Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Learn more at radiotopia.fm.
 
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IEA Conversations
Weekly
 
A podcast from the Institute of Economic Affairs
 
Hosted by Ben Domenech, this is a daily podcast featuring engaging and in-depth conversations with journalists, scholars, authors, politicians, and thinkers of all stripes. Along with guest hosts Mollie Hemingway, David Harsanyi, and Mary Katharine Ham, Domenech delivers smart and compelling dialogues on politics, culture, religion, and entertainment every day of the week. Support the show by subscribing, rating, and writing a review!
 
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Ozone Nightmare
Daily
 
Twin Engines Of Destruction: Gentle Arts Of Conversation Punctuated With Bloody Power Tools
 
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Nancy
Weekly
 
BFF Kathy Tu and Tobin Low are super queer, super fun and ready to take over your podcast feed. Join them for provocative stories and frank conversations about the LGBTQ experience today. Because everyone’s a little bit gay. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other podcasts including Radiolab, Death, Sex & Money, Snap Judgment, On the Media, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin and many others. © WNYC Studios
 
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The PodGOATs
Weekly+
 
Baby boomer. Millennial. Father. Son. Culture. History. Hilarity. One-word sentences. Got your attention? Great. Listen. Leave smarter. Phil Valentine. Campbell Valentine.
 
A weekly podcast featuring wide-ranging and in-depth conversations with the NBA's best thought leaders.
 
The Takshashila Institution is a centre for research and education in public policy. We at Takshashila keep having several interesting conversations on public policy topics over lots of coffee. High on coffee, the Conversations podcast brings to you one short episode on a policy issue every weekday. Join in and let us know what you think.
 
ʻA Little About A Lotʼ is a variety show where Kelsey and Becky spill the tea about their personal lives, talk the struggles of relationships and dating (Becky is married, and Kelsey is very much single), research their favourite celebs from the 90ʼs, answer audience questions, interview some badass people, and more! We want to challenge perspectives, and leave our audience feeling refreshed, inspired, and with a little more knowledge about a lot!
 
Tune into Joe Budden and his friends Rory & Mal and follow along the crazy adventures of these very random friends.
 
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TheLifeXTimesofEric
Monthly
 
The Life X Times of Eric is a podcast that is built on giving you a positive word on any situation that you are dealing with in life whether it be working at your job, starting your entrepreneurship journey or maybe you are already down the entrepreneurship path. The Life X Times of Eric is a podcast that ask important questions regarding life, business, friends and numerous other things while giving you vital information on important topics that will empower, inspire, motivate and uplift yo ...
 
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Shambhavi Naik, Yazad Jal and Anirudh Kanisetti discuss the contentious issue of germline gene editing.Eminent scientists have called for a five year moratorium on clinical applications of germline (concerning reproductive cells) gene editing. Such a move will reduce funding and transnational research in congential diseases. In this episode, th ...…
 
Adventurer Adrian Hayes on what he learned while attempting the world’s second tallest summit
 
The Government took a swipe at global internet giants on Monday, suggesting rules that would require companies to proactively remove content the government views as illegal or “harmful,” and giving the government the right to block or even shut down offending sites.As part of the Online Harms White Paper, a joint proposal from the Department fo ...…
 
In a live appearance at UCLA’s Royce Hall, New York Times best-selling author, happiness expert and Harvard-trained researcher Shawn Achor says that pleasure isn't the only thing that brings people happiness. How do you explain the joy felt during spiritually and emotionally challenging moments, such as when your legs are burning halfway throug ...…
 
León Krauze talks to the New Yorker’s Jonathan Blitzer about how climate change deepens the U.S. border crisis, stories of Central American migration, and the tremendous spiraling debt that is taken on to embark on this dangerous journey.
 
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Jamelle Bouie discuss the arrest of Julian Assange; Trump’s purge of the Department of Homeland Security; and the 2020 contenders for President. Topic ideas for next week? You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @SlateGabfest. Tweet us your cocktail chatter using #cocktailchatter or pos ...…
 
This week, the Slate Money hosts are joined by Natalie Jaresko. She talks about her time as the Minister of Finance in Ukraine and her current position as the Executive Director of the Financial Oversight and Management Board of Puerto Rico. And in the Slate Plus segment: Creditors and Puerto Rico. Email: slatemoney@slate.com Twitter: @felixsal ...…
 
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Harvard Law School Professor Carol Steiker, co-author of Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment to explore recent death penalty cases before the Supreme Court and why the 8th amendment has raised tensions among the justices. This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus. Get your free tr ...…
 
Preschool kids get their first taste of democratic participation when they vote on their class name, and democratic private school try to display the value of democracy by making kids vote on everything, even the school budget. Does it work or do kids make terrible decisions? One diagnosis of our modern-day political problems is that too many s ...…
 
This week, Tom and Molly take a step back from total pop culture predictive domination to discuss cats in movies, UwU, small cans, a great Instagram account, and problematic biohacking.By tommerritt+itsathing@gmail.com (ToMolly).
 
On The Gist, two popes is one pope too many. In the interview, songs like “The Sign” and “I’ll Make Love to You” dominated the charts in 1994, but they weren’t all that emblematic of what was happening in music that year. Chris Molanphy has ideas as to why, and also opines on why there were so few number one singles that year—and why was Lisa L ...…
 
For the first four years of the Obama administration, Janet Napolitano guided the Department of Homeland Security with the mission of keeping the country safe. She joins host Krys Boyd to take stock of our post-9/11 efforts to root out terrorism without crippling our free society. Her new book is called“How Safe Are We?: Homeland Security Since ...…
 
Masha Gessen and Keith Gessen have, taken together, written more than a dozen books and a thousand articles. Keith Gessen is a founder of n+1, an influential literary journal; Masha has written for major newspapers and journals as well as, since 2014, The New Yorker. Their parents emigrated from the Soviet Union in its latter days. Keith has sp ...…
 
This uncensored behind the scenes weekly recap of the Rizzuto Show with Patrico and King Scott is the ultimate look into the WOW moments of the show. We love birthdays... Follow us because King Scott is movin out. Email: wow@1057thePoint.com Socials: @RizzWow @RizzShow @Patrico1057 @KingScottRules http://www.1057thepoint.com/Rizz…
 
This week we're talking about The Division 2, Microsoft, Ommwriter, and Google Fiber. Show music by Reed Love and OGRE. Support the show!
 
Are you really open to receiving? We are the Keepers of an Ancient Ancestral Wisdom that flows just as naturally as we breathe. It leads and guides, but we have forgotten how to tune in and so we wait. We wait for the right person, the right time, the right season…we wait. There is a part of us that remembers the old ways, “everything comes, in ...…
 
The New Age movement has benefited many of us by helping us become more conscious on our spiritual journeys. However, there are potential downsides to this as well. On this show, Christine continues her previous discussion about The Top 20 Myths about Spirituality, sharing more ways in which our spiritual beliefs can actually get in our way of ...…
 
This week on Spoiler Specials, Marissa Martinelli, Inkoo Kang and Heather Schwedel review Little. They talk the logistics of body switching movies, the zany fashion choices and Marsai Martin’s star power. Podcast production by Danielle Hewitt. Engineered by Merritt Jacob.
 
Join us for a dynamic conversation with Daren Martin, PhD, author, speaker, and thought leader. Dr. Martin shares what it takes to architect a company of owners, using change strategies that inspire, motivate, and transform. Get his book A Company of Owners Here: https://www.amazon.com/Company-Owners-Maximizing-Employee-Engagement/dp/1942557345 ...…
 
Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Guadalupe Squares - Friday April 12, 2019 - Today's Squares guests included Golf Commentator Jim Nantz, Sam & Gilly from Game Of Thrones, Mickey Mouse and NBA HOFer Charles Barkley along with all the regular players and more.By dhutchinson@hubbardradio.com (Holmberg's Morning Sickness).
 
We catch up with Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich, who assumed office earlier this year. And we sit down with Virginia House Delegate Karrie Delaney to discuss how state Democrats are viewing campaign season after state leadership became embroiled in scandals.
 
Holmberg's Morning Sickness - The Entertainment Drill - Friday April 12, 2019By dhutchinson@hubbardradio.com (Holmberg's Morning Sickness).
 
He LOST over 300 lbs to be the BIGGER Man. The Fort McMurray wildfire in Alberta sparked the beginning of an extreme weight loss journey that was fuelled by the desire to love and connect with himself again. Tony might have weighed nearly 600 lbs but he was playing small, it was time to be MORE but not in size. The shame Tony Bussey felt from t ...…
 
Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Friday April 12, 2019By dhutchinson@hubbardradio.com (Holmberg's Morning Sickness).
 
Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Comedian Ian Edwards @ Stand Up Live, In Studio - Friday April 12, 2019 - For tickets/info call 480.719.6100 or click www.standuplive.comBy dhutchinson@hubbardradio.com (Holmberg's Morning Sickness).
 
In this thriller of a show, Emily and brilliant, sexy, coach and author Natalie Vartanian will divulge the sneaky ways we sabotage "good" or connected sex. Divinely timed right before Valentine's Day, (we didn't even plan that), this show is a great way to look at what might be getting in the way in the bedroom and in your intimate life. What a ...…
 
Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Brady Report - Friday April 12, 2019By dhutchinson@hubbardradio.com (Holmberg's Morning Sickness).
 
In episode 37, we discuss controlling your emotions. If you can`t control your emotions in situations, problems or places. Welll... Shout out 2 this season`s sponsor Looks4Cooks "Where they Bring the Love of Good Food and Good People together" Listen to this podcast and more on www.thelifextimesoferic.com…
 
Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Opening Break - Friday April 12, 2019By dhutchinson@hubbardradio.com (Holmberg's Morning Sickness).
 
On today's show, Mick Wallace on visiting Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy, June Rogers on Soundtrack to her life and what it is like to visit every train station in Ireland
 
Every Friday we invite people to tell us about the soundtrack to their life and youth. Today, Ray chat's to comedian June Rogers
 
Two people who have literally just traveled the length and breadth of Ireland! Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe have visited EVERY RAILWAY STATION IN IRELAND and Geoff and Vicki are here to tell us how they get on!!
 
What's the difference between a scarcity and an abundant mindset? It really comes down to gratitude as the ultimate antidote, whether it's fear, overwhelm, jealousy, or good old-fashioned FOMO. What does it mean to be a hometown tourist? It’s also about mindset, discovering where you live with a spirit of curiosity. Tsh and Christine get into b ...…
 
To understand what’s happening on the border, you have to look at the policies and leaders on both sides of it. So, how has Mexico, under its new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, changed its approach to refugees and migrants fleeing north? And how has the Mexican president changed, himself? Guest: León Krauze, columnist for Slate, co-hos ...…
 
Last week you heard us from Carcosa Con in Poland. This time we’re back and ready to share out experience of the show and the local RPG scene in the Gaming Hut. Then, in Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else, we chat with one of our estimable hosts, Daria Pilarczyk. As project manager of Black Monk Games she has much knowledge to drop on the li ...…
 
Shine Theory is cropping up everywhere from social media to the halls of Congress. But you might have wondered or had a friend ask, what exactly is Shine Theory? We go deep on its origin, what it is and is not, and how Shine Theory can fortify friendships, work alliances, and help diminish the role of jealousy in your life.…
 
Justin is back in studio with more thoughts on the magician's memorial in Vegas and more!
 
Follow us because good or gross is not good...@RizzShow@RizzWow@HereLiesMoon@Patrico1057@burton_Jeff@KingScottRuleshttp://www.1057thepoint.com/RizzBook DJ DONUTSchoosepatrico@gmail.comCheck out Moon's bandsGREEK FIRE @GreekFireGOLDFINGER @GoldfingerMusicTHE TEENAGE DIRTBAGS @TheTeenageDbagsBy info@podcastone.com.
 
Research shows that egalitarian couples who fairly share work and home responsibilities are happier, healthier and have better sex. But are egalitarian partnerships really possible, especially when U.S. work cultures demand all-out devotion and women still carry the load as primary caregivers and household managers? We hear stories from workers ...…
 
Charles Lane is an editorial writer for The Washington Post and author of the new book, "Freedom's Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who Masterminded America’s First War on Terror." Lane and Domenech discuss post Civil War American history, the disruption of traditional news media, and the role of opinion pages in poli ...…
 
On The Gist, the political parties of Israel. In the interview, Jean McConville’s murder in 1972—when The Troubles were at their bloodiest—sparked what few deaths did in Northern Ireland: a reckoning. The New Yorker’s Patrick Radden Keefe joins us to give context to McConville’s death, from the various factions at war back then to the country’s ...…
 
Adventurer Adrian Hayes on what he learned while attempting the world’s second tallest summit
 
What is the karma of fear?Is it possible to own your fear?What does that even mean?Can fear help you to change your karmic path?Let's take the fear out of life and start to face our karmic paths with strength and courage!
 
From waaaaaaaaaay back in episode 5, the infamous H-Bomb makes a return to our studios, and we're also joined by Right Brain Networks...Don't forget to check out the IoT Tech Connect event -The deal we are offering ITinTHED listeners is a 36 percent discount on the $125 admissions ticket that also includes breakfast and lunch. So using the code ...…
 
At 82, the writer Frederic Tuten has published a memoir of his formative years in New York, “My Young Life,” and Kurt Andersen strolls the East Village with him as he reminisces. Cartoonist Cathy Guisewite looks back at how some of her own struggles and insecurities inspired the “Cathy” comic strip, and how while many women loved the strip, oth ...…
 
The U.S. government has spent $36 billion over the last decade in an effort to turn handwritten medical charts into electronic records. Fred Schulte joins host Krys Boyd to talk about how all of that time and money has somehow made healthcare record keeping even less efficient. His story,“Death By 1,000 Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records W ...…
 
As a black woman, Dani McClain knows America to be hostile territory. And after becoming a mother, she now must figure out how to guide her daughter through the same experience that she’s still figuring out how to navigate. McClain joins host Krys Boyd to talk about how she and other mothers are grappling with the challenge, which she writes ab ...…
 
A lawyer, a host, and a comedian mix a cocktail that will make you return to Zion. This episode they discuss Nipsey Hussle's funeral; reactions to Dwayne Wade's 11 year old son Zion attending Miami's pride; and the movie Little Executive Produced by 14 year old Marsai Martin. If you consider yourself a conversational mixologist, then hit play, ...…