Best Economic Hardship Reporting Project Podcasts (2024)

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#134: Corey Mintz — Freelance Food Reporter for The New York Times, Eater and more, Hospitality Operations Advisor, author of ‘The Next Supper: The End of Dining as we Know It’ 26:36

15d ago26:36

26:36

2024 is going to be remembered for a lot of things, one of them being that it was the year we finally moved past the COVID-19 Pandemic. Industries everywhere are claiming to ‘be back’ to pre-pandemic functions, with everything from return to office initiatives to the National Restaurant Association boasting that restaurants are back to 2019 rates o…

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#133: Amy Edmondson — Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, author of “Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well” 27:21

1M ago27:21

27:21

For any long time listeners of the podcast, you know we are firm believers in failure being a positive thing. From D1 coaches to cutting edge researchers, great performers and leaders across the board understand the importance of allowing people to fail well. But, how exactly do you do that? Enter today’s guest Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor of …

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#132: Kim Reed — Author of “Workhorse: My Sublime and Absurd Years in the New York Restaurant Scene,” Fmr. Executive Assistant for Chef Joe Bastianich 28:02

3M ago28:02

28:02

In recent years, the celebrity chef and restaurant has taken the world by storm. The rise of the ‘chefprenaur’ has created a $10 billion dollar industry encapsulating everything from restaurant chains, branded cookware, cook books, television deals, and social media empires. Despite the glamor, one fact still remains: the restaurant scene is an unf…

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#131: Dr. Magie Cook — CEO of Magie Cook International, Founder of Maggie’s Salsa, Fmr. Mexico National Basketball Team Member, Board Member at the University of Charleston, Nobel Prize Recipient 25:30

3M ago25:30

25:30

We’ve had a lot of impressive guests on the podcast, many who have overcome some real challenges in their lives to build something great, but today’s guest has an especially impressive story. Dr. Magie Cook began her life with 68 brothers and sisters in an orphanage in Mexico. Battling abuse, hunger, and poverty, during her high school years she ea…

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#130: Justin Brooks — Author of “You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent,” Founder of the California Innocence Project, Director of the LLM Program in Law at University of San Diego 28:23

4M ago28:23

28:23

According to a recent study, about 4-6% of all those incarcerated are considered to be wrongly imprisoned. That’s over 70,000 people who are wrongly incarcerated every year. Today’s guest, Justin Brooks has dedicated his life to representing those who have fallen victim to wrongful incarceration. Justin practiced as a criminal defense attorney in W…

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#129: Jennifer Pahlka — Author of “Recoding America: Why Government is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better,” Fmr. US Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Founder of Code for America 18:18

4M ago18:18

18:18

According to a Pew Research poll, over 40% of adults in the United States are considered to be digitally illiterate, and while America’s crumbling transportation infrastructure often makes headlines, its digital infrastructure is equally as out of date. Organizations from the IRS, to the healthcare system are still relying on technology from the 80…

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#128: Dave Eng, EdD — Clinical Professor of eLearning, Training + Development, + Instructional Design at NYU, Principle at University XP, Founder of Bandito’s Gaming on Games, Theory, and Tech 22:38

4M ago22:38

22:38

A study came across our desks recently that said, gamification was “just a fad.” We’re going to disagree with that, and so does our guest today Dr. Dave Eng; a creative intellectual, educator, designer, & researcher focusing on games, theory, and technology. Dave serves as the faculty member of NYU’s School of Professional Studies and the Principle…

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#127: Dr. Jerry Lynch — Author of “The Mindful Coach,” Founder and Director of Way of Champions, Former Naval Officer, Sports Psychologist, Philosopher 57:54

4M ago57:54

57:54

Who’s ready for our first podcast 3-peat? Dr. Jerry Lynch is back for his third solo appearance on the Bring It In podcast, to share with us some wisdom from his latest book, “The Mindful Coach.” Dr. Jerry Lynch is the Founder of Way of Champions, a performance consultancy that combines elite sports psychology, with international philosophy concept…

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#126: Alissa Quart — Author of “Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream,” Prof. at Columbia University, Executive Director of the Economic Hardships Reporting Project, Nieman Fellow 26:23

5M ago26:23

26:23

You’ve probably heard the term “pull yourself up by your bootstraps,” referring to one's ability to pick themselves up, and get to work. But what if we said the whole phrase was actually a joke? There’s no one better to explain this than Alissa Quart, an author, professor at Brown and Columbia Universities, and the Executive Director of the Economi…

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#125: Cody Royle — Author of "Second Set Of Eyes," "The Tough Stuff," and "Where Others Won’t," Head Coach at Where Others Won’t Inc., Former Head Coach of the Australian Football League Canada 28:12

8M ago28:12

28:12

We’ve had our fair share of coaches on the podcast on how to lead and guide people, but how do you lead and guide other coaches to improve their game?Enter today’s guest, Cody Royle, a coach who’s dedicated his entire focus on improving other coaches through the ‘user experience’ of coaching.Cody’s coaching career has taken him from playing Rugby i…

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#124: Harry Holzer — Former Chief Economist for the U.S. Department of Labor, Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown, Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution 25:51

8M ago25:51

25:51

The United States only spends 0.1% of its GDP on job training and reskilling initiatives, putting us in last place for funding towards job reskilling amongst other developed countries. Now, it may be hard to concretely define the effects of this, but let’s look at what we know: only 15% of workers are currently engaged at their jobs, 44% of workers…

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#123: Hara Estroff Marano — Author of “A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting,” Award-Winning Writer and Editor-at-Large for Psychology Today 37:54

8M ago37:54

37:54

Despite mountains of research showing how “helicopter parenting” is incredibly detrimental for kids, it still happens. A University of Michigan study published this year said that while the majority of parents said they encouraged kids to ‘do things for themselves,’ half also felt that unsupervised kids caused trouble, and a third felt that their k…

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#122: Jamie McCallum — Author of “Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice,” Award-Winning Sociologist, Filmmaker, Activist, Professor 31:06

8M ago31:06

31:06

The COVID-19 pandemic brought upon some of the most sweeping changes to benefit the modern workforce…or did it? Returning for a second episode on the Bring It In Podcast, author, professor, and filmmaker Jamie McCallum is back to talk about the findings of his new book, “Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice.” Ja…

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#121: Zeynep Ton — Author of “The Case for Good Jobs: How Great Companies Bring Dignity, Pay, and Meaning to Everyone's Work,” Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management 28:20

9M ago28:20

28:20

Don’t believe the jobs reports: it’s a tough labor market out there, and not in the way you’re thinking. 44% of workers have what’s considered a bad job, which is defined as a high risk, low wage position. The majority of these jobs are frontline, hourly positions, with little to no consistency or benefits. These organizations have some of the high…

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#120: WIlliam B. Bonvillian — Author of “Workforce Education: A New Roadmap,” Lecturer at MIT, Innovation and Technology Policy Specialist 38:28

9M ago38:28

38:28

There's a learning problem in America's workforce. Opportunities for workers to develop skills that can lead them down successful career paths are scarce, and often ineffective. 83 cents of every dollar goes towards training for people who already have received some form of higher education, and even then, 59% of workers claim they had no proper tr…

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#119: Saru Jarayaman — Author of “One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay In America,” Attorney, Activist, President of One Fair Wage, Director of The Food Labor Research Center at UC, Berkeley 14:20

10M ago14:20

14:20

Subminimum wage workers make about 10% of the American workforce. That means, of all working Americans, 13 million people make about $2.13. These workers are in an incredibly vulnerable position, as they’re often reliant on tips, receive little to no benefits, and lack consistent hours, to make ends meet. It’s a massive problem that's become endemi…

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#118: Jonathan Fader — Author of "Coaching Athletes To Be Their Best: Motivational Interviewing In Sports," Performance Psychologist (NY Giants, NY Mets) 29:55

10M ago29:55

29:55

Leaders across the world are struggling to motivate their people to get fired up for the task at hand. A recent Gallup study found that only 1-in-3 of the entirety of the United States workforce is considered engaged. This issue has managers everywhere grasping for straws on how to motivate their people, using everything from the classic underwhelm…

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#117: Kirk Everist — 2x USA Olympian, 5x National Champion, Head Men's Water Polo Coach at The University of California, Berkeley 26:22

10M ago26:22

26:22

Water Polo is a very tough sport, demanding straight swimming for 30 plus minutes, grappling with opposing players, and the mental acuity to be able to remember strategies and positions. It’s also one of the oldest sports in the world, with the first game being played in 1888 in America, and quickly spread across the collegiate athletic circle. Our…

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#116: Matt Abrahams — Author of “Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot,” Instructor + Lecturer at Stanford University 18:15

11M ago18:15

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Glossophobia, is the fear of public speaking and it’s believed to affect about 75% of people across the globe. With this in mind, think about how critical being able to speak to an audience, to customers, to teammates, in any working environment is. It’s why communication skills are in such high demand in organizations, and why today’s guest is par…

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#115: Anna Tavis + Stela Lupushor — Authors of “Humans at Work: The Art and Practice of Creating the Hybrid Workplace,” Professors at NYU 39:29

11M ago39:29

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For as long as work has existed, new technologies have been a double edged sword for the workforce, making some jobs easier to do and making others obsolete. With data collection, computer processing, automation, and generative AI being implemented daily within our workforce, this issue has never been more apparent than today. Educators and authors…

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#114: Anne Walker — Head Women’s Golf Coach at Stanford University, 2x NCAA Champion 32:57

11M ago32:57

32:57

One of the biggest challenges of leading any team, is being able to coach the individuals in an organization, as well as coach the team that those individuals make up. A number of sports encapsulate this coaching challenge, and golf, is probably one of the best examples of it. That’s what led us to our conversation with today’s guest, Coach Anne Wa…

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#113: Alex Barker — Author of “How to Be: More Pirate” on Pirates and Future of Work 30:28

11M ago30:28

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AAAAAAAARRRRRRR MATEY!We’re still talking about pirates on the podcast, because there's just too much treasure to dig up here. Today, we’re looking at the “sequel” to “Be More Pirate” with the aptly named “How to Be: More Pirate” by our guest, Alex Barker. Alex graduated from Kings College in 2008 and after pursuing an MA in Conflict Resolution stu…

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#112: Sam Conniff — Bestselling Author of “Be More Pirate: or How To Take On The World And Win” on Pirates and the Future of Work 34:47

11M ago34:47

34:47

Steve Jobs once said, ‘I’d rather be a Pirate than be in the Navy.’ He believed it so much that often, the Skull and Crossbones would be flown at Apple HQ, so what can businesses learn from pirates? Our guest today, Sam Conniff is here to answer that with his book, Be More Pirate. Sam is a multi-company founder from the UK, starting with Don’t Pani…

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#111: Jerry Lynch + John O’Sullivan — Authors of “The Champion Teammate: Timeless Lessons to Connect, Compete and Lead in Sports and Life” 1:02:35

11M ago1:02:35

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Today’s a very special episode of the Bring It In podcast, as we’ve got not one, but two returning guests and friends of the podcast! First we’ve got John O'Sullivan, a member of the 1990 Patriot League Championship team, the former executive director of Oregon Rush Soccer Club, and founder of the Changing the Game Project, as well as the author of…

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#110: Margueritte Aozasa — Head Women’s Soccer Coach at UCLA, 2x NCAA National Champion 26:51

12M ago26:51

26:51

It’s World Cup Season and if you’ve caught the past few games, you’ve probably seen a few former players from the UCLA Bruins on the field, coached by the great Margueritte Aozasa. Coach Margueritte is the 6th head coach in UCLA women's soccer history and only one of five Asian American women currently serving as a head coach for a NCAA women's soc…

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#109: Patricia Ryan Madson — Author of “Improv Wisdom: Don’t Prepare, Just Show Up,” Professor Emerita in Stanford Theater Department on How to Use Improv at Work 28:58

1y ago28:58

28:58

While there are specific skills that go into doing any job, being able to learn by doing and make it up as you go along, is a skill a lot of workers need to have in today's market. With 80% of Americans in a job where they’ve had little to no training for, a surprising skill is becoming more and more important for workers every day: the ability to …

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#108: Todd Burnham — Author of “Comeback: Epic Rebound Strategies for Personal or Business Adversity,” Founding Partner of Burnham Law, Keynote Speaker, Podcast Host 25:10

1y ago25:10

25:10

Words like desperation, rock bottom, and adversity probably don’t inspire the best of feelings in people. But for Todd Burnham, embracing these extremes has led him to become one of the most successful litigators in the country. A two-time All American NCAA Lacrosse Star from Hobart College and graduate from Albany Law School, Todd is the founding …

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#107: Charles Vogl — Author of the International Bestseller “The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging" on What It Takes to Build a Strong Community at Work 30:37

1y ago30:37

30:37

Today, we’re living in the loneliest time in history. Despite the marketing campaigns from major social media companies claiming to be able to connect with one another, technology, globalization, and urbanization have driven humanity at large to be more isolated, disconnected, and disengaged than any other time in human history. Charles Vogl has ma…

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#106: Val Grubb — Author of “Clash of the Generations: Managing the New Workplace Reality,” Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Trainer, Founder of Val Grubb & Associates 32:15

1y ago32:15

32:15

Never before have we seen 5 generations of workers at work at the same time. Almost like a tradition, the previous generation has always bemoaned the newest one as lazy, spoiled, and in general, not as good as they were “back in the day.” Naturally, this can cause quite a lot of friction in a workplace and in the age of social media and 24/7 news c…

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#105: Dr. Fergus Connolly — Performance Coach for Liverpool FC, Boston Bruins, San Francisco 49ers, & Carolina Panthers, Speaker, Author of "Game Changer: The Art of Sports Science" 27:06

1y ago27:06

27:06

To the dissatisfaction of a lot of leaders out there, there’s no definitive, cookie cutter way to manage and get the best out of people. But to Dr. Fergus Connolly, that's actually a good thing. And he should know a thing or two about developing people: he’s been the performance coach for franchises across all sorts of pro sports, like the Boston B…

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#104: Brandon Chrostowski — James Beard Nominated Chef, Restaurateur, Sommelier, Fromager, Politician, and Founder, President, and CEO of Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute 26:01

1y ago26:01

26:01

The restaurant and hospitality industry is one of the leading sources of jobs not just in America, but across the globe. What an individual learns working in a kitchen, front of house, behind a bar, or in support of a restaurant can serve as lifelong skills to develop across industries. Chef Brandon Edwin Chrostowski knows this better than most peo…

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#103: Talmon Smith — Economics Reporter for The New York Times, Harvard Institute of Politics National Campaign Ambassador 30:44

1y ago30:44

30:44

Navigating the restaurant industry can be tough for workers involved in it. From constantly changing schedules, demanding, and unruly customers, even A.I. and robots beginning to disrupt the space, restaurant workers are contending with a lot these days. The last thing they need is an organization using their own wages to lobby against increases to…

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#102: Ken Hom — Michelin Star Winning Chef, Author, TV Host, Cookware Producer, Restaurant Consultant, and Ambassador for Action Against Hunger 29:07

1y ago29:07

29:07

With a culinary career spanning over six decades, Chef Ken Hom, CBE is a legend in the restaurant space. Starting at his family's restaurant, Chef Ken has helped build restaurants from Bangkok to Rio de Janeiro, and is credited with championing traditional Chinese cuisine around the world. He’s developed his own line of Chinese cuisine cookware, wh…

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#101: Dr. Jeff Brown — Harvard Psychologist, Psychologist for the Boston Marathon Medical Team, Author of “The Winner's Brain: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use To Achieve Success” 41:42

1y ago41:42

41:42

Winning is hard. Whether it’s coming in first place in a race or making it to the end of a marathon, winning takes a lot of effort. In an age of Instagram life coaches, TikTok motivation accounts, “Alpha” and “Winner” influencers, there are a lot of external forces that can make you feel that the path to winning is one dimensional, “have it or you …

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#100: Nick Wallace — Chopped Season 34 Winner, Top Chef Contestant, Named 2020’s Best Chef of Mississippi, Executive Chef, Founder of Nick Wallace Culinary 30:02

1y ago30:02

30:02

It’s episode 100! For hitting such an incredible milestone, we decided to bring in a guest that works in one of the most high pressure fields in the world; a place where mentorship, teamwork, process-oriented hard work, and demands of the highest quality are needed: the professional kitchen. Chef Nick Wallace is Mississippi born and raised and with…

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#99: Tom Sterner — Author of “It’s Just a Thought: Emotional Freedom Through Deliberate Thinking,” Founder & CEO of the Practicing Mind Institute, Professional Coach 28:52

1+ y ago28:52

28:52

Between remote work, quiet hiring, quiet firing, forced back into office, gig work, A.I., automation, and so much more, the workforce is in a challenging position today. Workers are sandwiched between anxiety towards an unsure future and strict performance reviews saying ‘do better!’ of the past. Sadly, what workers lack support in, is focusing on …

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Introducing Other People’s Pockets: Ray Suarez on Aging and Work 43:44

1+ y ago43:44

43:44

In this special episode, we’re sharing a conversation Ray had on the new podcast, Other People’s Pockets. On Other People’s Pockets, journalist Maya Lau asks people from all walks of life to get radically transparent about their personal finances in order to learn more about who we are and level the financial playing field along the way. Ray and Ma…

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#98: Sanjay Sarma — Professor at MIT, Author of “Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn” + “Workforce Education: A New Roadmap” 24:09

1+ y ago24:09

24:09

According to the 2022 World Talent Ranking from the IMD, the U.S. ranked 16th out of 64 developed countries, dropping 2 spots from 2021. What accounts for this decline? “Education is the oxygen to work, you can’t breath without air, you can’t work without education,” says Sanjay Sarma, our very special guest on today's episode. Sanjay is a professo…

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#97: Joe Baker — Author of “The Tyranny of Talent: How it Compels and Limits Athletic Achievement…and Why You Should Ignore It,” High-Performance Sports Coach, Professor at York University 25:25

1+ y ago25:25

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Talent is a good thing…right? In today’s episode, we’re joined by professor, PhD, coach, author, scientist, Joe Baker. Joe is a Professor at York University whose work focuses on studying human development, looking at psychosocial and environmental factors, to see how the best athletes in the world achieve peak performance. Joe’s work has led him t…

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#96: Marsha Lovett, PhD — Co-Author of “How Learning Works: 8 Research Based Principles of Smart Teaching,” Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning Innovation at the Carnegie Mellon University 29:30

1+ y ago29:30

29:30

In a back-to-back special, we’re continuing to explore how learning works through the book “How Learning Works: 8 Research Based Principles of Smart Teaching”. Picking up from our last episode with Dr. Marie Norman at the University of Pittsburgh, a short walk down Forbes Ave towards Carnegie Mellon, you can find the office of today’s guest, Dr. Ma…

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#95: Dr. Marie Norman — Co-Author of “How Learning Works: 8 Research Based Principles of Smart Teaching” on the Science of Learning, Motivation, and the Future of Work 30:34

1+ y ago30:34

30:34

How does learning really work? Who better to join us on the podcast than Dr. Marie K. Norman -- the co-author of “How Learning Works: 8 Research Based Principles of Smart Teaching,” to answer the question? After graduating from University of Pittsburgh and acquiring her Ph.D, Dr. Norman began teaching at Carnegie Melon and has been there for 14 yea…

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#94: David Fahrenthold — Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter for The New York Times on "How Restaurant Workers Pay for Lobbying to Keep Their Wages Low" 18:47

1+ y ago18:47

18:47

For anyone who has ever worked in the food service industry, the word ServSafe will likely bring back painful memories of some of the most mind-numbing, waste of time online courses in the world. But, as New York Times reporter David Fahrenthold has uncovered, there’s a much more sinister side to the infamous food safety software. David’s been a re…

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#93: Sam Caucci — Founder & CEO of 1Huddle, Thought Leader, Executive Coach, Keynote Speaker, and Bestselling Author 23:40

1+ y ago23:40

23:40

2022 is in the bag and with that, comes our traditional End of Year Special where Sam and our very own Jaime, Manager of Branded Media sat down and to chat about the year. 2022 was a year filled with craziness in the workforce, from in-office mandates, to The Great Resignation, Boss Loss, to the rise and fall of dozens of companies, the year certai…

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#92: Justin Reich — Associate Professor at MIT and Author of “Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can't Transform Education” 29:16

1+ y ago29:16

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How do teachers learn how to teach? They go through a whole process of licensing, and academic theory, but where do teachers practice teaching? Justin Reich is an Associate Professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT, as well as the Director for the MIT Teaching Systems Lab, a space where teachers can practice how to teach. He’s compiled nearly t…

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Anne Strainchamps and Ray Suarez talk about reporting on poverty and why the care economy matters 14:45

1+ y ago14:45

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The hosts of "Going for Broke" discuss reporting on poverty and how to give economic insight a tone of empathy and a tangible sense of human connection. More about the series at ttbook.org/goingforbroke.By The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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Can Work Be Love? 51:02

1+ y ago51:02

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In this final part of our series, we’re talking about work — about the right to meaningful work, the search for jobs that pay enough to live, and what happens to people who look for work while also having a disability that’s invisible to most. Original Air Date: November 19, 2022 Guests: Andrea Dobynes Wagner — Angela Garbes — Rodrigo Toscano — Bar…

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Making Up Our Minds 51:02

1+ y ago51:02

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Post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health challenges can push people into poverty. Meanwhile, the experience of financial desperation can also create even more trauma, even more suffering. How do you break the cycle? How do we truly care for people mentally and financially? If you or someone you know are having mental health struggles,…

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Change of Address 51:02

2y ago51:02

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In the first of three episodes of "Going For Broke" all about the care economy, we're thinking about housing. Many of us would consider it a basic human right. But in America, it can be hard to come by. Original Air Date: November 05, 2022 Guests: Bobbi Dempsey — David Harvey — Annabelle Gurwitch — Justin Garrett Moore Interviews In This Hour: When…

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#91: Mathieu Stevenson — CEO of Snagajob on the Jobs Report and Hourly Workers 20:05

2y ago20:05

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Hourly workers have always been the backbone of the US economy. That’s 82 million workers who earn an hourly wage for their service— and 82 million workers who are too often left time poor, without the training and development resources so often afforded only to management and salaried employees.So today, Sam was joined by Mathieu Stevenson, the CE…

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Coming November 5: Going For Broke on the Care Economy 1:17

2y ago1:17

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Going for Broke returns and this time, we're talking about the care economy. This three-part series hosted by broadcaster Ray Suarez centers on Americans who have lived on the edge. They share their sometimes startling economic experiences and also insight into our society as a whole. Each hour also includes some of our country’s top thinkers on in…

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