Gimme an ordinary life; I'll give you an extraordinary story. The podcast's host, Paul Ruderman, interviews everyday people with extraordinary life stories, and tries to discern the unique arc of their singular lives. With each guest, Paul seeks to understand both their professional AND personal development across their life… exploring both the external (what they did and how they did it) and the internal (their thinking and feeling along the way) so that by interview’s end, we’ve painted a ...
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Episode 11: Jim Axelrod (Anchor, Saturday CBS Evening News)
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Jim Axelrod may be best known for anchoring the CBS Evening News on Saturdays, or he may be best known as the long-time, first-rate reporter for CBS News. But I'm interviewing him here because he is the author of my favorite book of the past ten years, In The Long Run, the autobiographical story of his life and his relationship with his father, as …
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Episode 10: Mitch Blank (Dylan Archivist)
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Mitch Blank is well regarded as one of the pre-eminent archivists of Bob Dylan's music across the world. Mitch has over 180,000 recordings in his possession - many of which are Dylan's, but not all. Mitch is sought after for his breadth of knowledge about Dylan and his unmatched collection of the master's music. Interestingly, with tens of thousand…
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Episode 9: Sol Gittleman (Professor at Tufts)
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Sol Gittleman is one of those legendary professors that you had in college... that you will always remember. I was fortunate enough to have him while I was Tufts for one class... Yid Lit. Yiddish Literature. He was and still is a tour de force. Sol is heading into his 50th year at Tufts, and is as responsible as anyone else in forging Tufts into th…
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Episode 8: Joanne Sandler (Women's Rights Activist)
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Joanne has spent her life fighting for women's rights and gender equality across the globe. Over her 13 year tenure as the deputy director at the United Nations for Global Women's Issues, she helped raised dedicated budget from $18mm to over $200mm. She now writes books, and consults for agencies large and small, across the world, and continues hel…
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Episode 7: John Lee Dumas (Entrepreneur On Fire)
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John is host of Entrepreneur On Fire, the most popular podcast in the world about entrepreneurs and startups... and for good reason. He's a most passionate and generous host, but he's also the kind of host you love... because he doesn't let his guests evade his most important questions. John started his podcast only 9 months ago and already has ove…
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Episode 6: Cassandra Knight (Attorney)
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Cassandra is a double Stanford (undergrad and law) graduate, whose career path took her from Deputy County Public Defender in San Diego, to Legislative Aid in Sacramento, to boutique law firm in San Francisco, to City Attorney’s Office in SF, to in-house attorney at Morgan Stanley (first in SF, now NYC). She's a fanatical sports fan, and an incredi…
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Episode 5: Matthew Abrams (Founder, Mycelium School)
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Starting a new college is not for the faint of heart... so that makes this endeavor a good project for Matthew Abrams. Having traveled through 43 countries and 46 of these United States, Matthew got the idea to start a new college for entrepreneurs (The Mycelium School) while doing a residence in an underground Arts Collective in Havana, Cuba. Quot…
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Episode 4: Charles Rosen (Community Developer)
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Charles is an "individual" under the purest definition of the word. A unique worldview, a magnanimous spirit, and a colorful and varied journey from Kingston, Ontario to New York City to the suburbs around it. He's worked at a law firm, made interesting independent films and big budget commercials, and has created his own job type, if you will... a…
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Episode 3: Keoki Flagg (Phototographer)
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Keoki Flagg is a photographer, artist, and one of the most experienced and travelled travelers I have ever met in my life. His grandparents escaped Nazi Germany, and he grew up Jewish in Hawaii in the late 60’s early 70’s before his parents decided to take their 4 kids on a tour of Europe for 4 years, establishing residence in different countries e…
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Andrew Tedesco is a professional artist living and working just west of New York City. He's married with 3 daughters. And in this interview, Andrew tells the story of growing up on the Jersey Shore a talented athlete before transitioning to the artist's mindset in late high school and into college at the University of Maryland. He then moved to NY …
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Episode 1: Introduction to Every Life Is Interesting
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This episode is not so much the first episode of the 'every life is interesting' podcast as it is an INTRODUCTION to the 'every life is interesting' podcast. In this "episode" I tell you a little bit about the podcast, why I created it, and what you can expect from it in the future. Enjoy! And please send me your feedback!…
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