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Leadership Odysseys
Leadership OdysseysMichael Ragavan: The Founder Rewriting the Rules of Wealth in AustraliaMichael Ragavan was born in Australia to parents who had fled genocide in Sri Lanka, arriving with little more than resilience, hope, and an unshakable belief in opportunity. That belief would become the foundation for Our Leg Up, a bold venture reimagining home equity as a tool not just for building wealth, but for widening the path to ownership and opportunity. In this conversation, Michael shares the grit it took to challenge the system, the years spent learning the rules well enough to rewrite them, and why innovation and fairness must go hand in hand if we want to...
2025-08-111h 09The HPP Podcast
The HPP PodcastS04E19 - REMIX - Exploring the Application of a Language Justice Framework in Research with Maya I. Ragavan“Language justice shifts the responsibility from the person to the system.” Author Maya I. Ragavan shares best practices for including people who use languages other than English in research. She highlights how language justice can be a barrier to achieving health equity and exacerbates health disparities in these populations. The six core pillars required to achieve language justice are expounded upon in this episode. This episode references the article “⁠Applying a Language Justice Framework in Research: A Step Toward Achieving Health Equity⁠” by Tran Doan, Gabriela Lopez-Zeron, Guillermo Prado., and Maya I. Ragavan.
2024-11-2724 minThe HPP Podcast
The HPP PodcastS04E14 - Exploring the Application of a Language Justice Framework in Research with Maya I. Ragavan“Language justice shifts the responsibility from the person to the system.” Author Maya I. Ragavan shares best practices for including people who use languages other than English in research. She highlights how language justice can be a barrier to achieving health equity and exacerbates health disparities in these populations. The six core pillars required to achieve language justice are expounded upon in this episode. This episode references the article “Applying a Language Justice Framework in Research: A Step Toward Achieving Health Equity” by Tran Doan, Gabriela Lopez-Zeron, Guillermo Prado., and Maya I. Ragavan. The Heal...
2024-09-1125 minThe Elite Recruiter Podcast
The Elite Recruiter PodcastAI-Powered Hiring and Navigating Startup Success with Sabashan RagavanHow can AI-powered tools transform the recruiting landscape and what does it take to navigate the unpredictable journey of a startup successfully? How the Episode Relates to You: In today's competitive recruiting environment, the pressure to streamline your hiring processes while scaling your startup can be overwhelming. This episode of The Elite Recruiter Podcast, featuring Sabashan Ragavan from HeyMilo, dives deep into these crucial issues. Whether you're a recruiter inundated with high-volume applications, a founder looking for effective solutions to startup challenges, or someone interested in the future of AI in recruiting, this conversation will provide you w...
2024-07-2931 minThe Ron Show
The Ron ShowREPLAY: Chitra Ragavan on Fani Willis & powerful women plus White Flag app creator Jonny McCoyIn late February, I reached out to ⁠Chitra Ragavan⁠, a CEO and c-suite coach, journalist journalist ⁠and podcaster whose ⁠op/ed in the AJC last week⁠ discussing Fani Willis and the perils of being an ambitious "dominant" woman in the workplace caught my eye.  Hear us discuss Fani's dilemma, her mis-steps and how treacherous being a career-driven and successful woman in the workplace is. Follow Chitra on Twitter/X at @chitra_ragavan and read her latest blog expounding on her thoughts shared today and last week ⁠here.⁠ I'm also revisiting a February, 2023 conversation with Jonny McCoy, founder of Wh...
2024-04-0444 minSmartphone Nation
Smartphone NationHow Dairy Farmers are able to Access Reliable Financing ft. Ragavan VenkatesanIn this episode, hosts Niveditha and Utsav engage in a conversation with Ragavan Venkatesan, Founder, MD, and CEO of Digivriddhi (DGV), focusing on the company's efforts to provide tailored financial services to dairy farmers. Ragavan also shares insights into his journey as an entrepreneur, and the obstacles he encountered along the way. Listen to this episode to know more about the need for accessible financing, especially for marginalised communities like dairy farmers, and the Next Half Billion. A special thanks to Omidyar Network India for making this season possible. To know how ONI is partnering bold and p...
2024-03-1926 minThe Ron Show
The Ron ShowMonday, February 26, 2024 - UGA rocked by murder & the latest in the Fani saga - with Chitra RagavanThe ⁠murder of a 22-year old UGA nursing student⁠ by an undocumented immigrant has political ideologues racing to their foxholes to turn this into a linchpin incident to discuss immigration policy and enforcement. The right wants to put blood on Pres. Biden's hands, but naturally leaves out key details - including Donald ⁠Trump's action the last full day he was in office⁠, how Trump (like Biden now) ⁠sought Congressional action⁠, or the ⁠many times the GOP has walked from reform⁠ legislation. Trump defense attorneys are ⁠working had to try and prove Fani Willis and/or Nathan Wade perjured⁠ while under oath, citing cellpho...
2024-02-2645 minThe Ron Show
The Ron ShowUGA rocked by murder & the latest in the Fani saga - with Chitra RagavanThe murder of a 22-year old UGA nursing student by an undocumented immigrant has political ideologues racing to their foxholes to turn this into a linchpin incident to discuss immigration policy and enforcement. The right wants to put blood on Pres. Biden's hands, but naturally leaves out key details - including Donald Trump's action the last full day he was in office, how Trump (like Biden now) sought Congressional action, or the many times the GOP has walked from reform legislation. Trump defense attorneys are working had to try and prove Fani Willis and/or Nathan Wade...
2024-02-2645 minSolvanam - Tamil Arts and Literature: சொல்வனம்.காம்
Solvanam - Tamil Arts and Literature: சொல்வனம்.காம்பா.ராகவன் | சிறுகதை | பரிநிர்வாணம் | Pa. Ragavan | story | Parinirvanam பா.ராகவன் | சிறுகதை | பரிநிர்வாணம் | Pa. Ragavan | story | Parinirvanam எழுத்தாளர் பா. ராகவன்- ஒரு சிறு முன்னுரை. பா. ராகவன் தமிழகத்தின் குறிப்பிடத்தக்க எழுத்தாளர் ஆவார். புதினங்கள், சிறுகதைகள், மற்றும் அரசியல் வரலாற்று நூல்களையும் எழுதியிருக்கிறார். தமது படைப்பிலக்கியப் பங்களிப்புகளுக்காக பாரதிய பாஷா பரிட்சத் விருது பெற்றவர். இதைத் தவிர இலக்கியப்பீட விருது, திருப்பூர் தமிழ் சங்க விருது, கம்பம் பாரதி இலக்கியப் பேரவை விருது போன்ற பல விருதுகள் பெற்றுள்ளார். அலகிலா விளையாட்டு, அலை உறங்கும் கடல், பூனைக்கதை, யதி, டாலர் தேசம் மற்றும் நிலமெல்லாம் ரத்தம் ஆகியன இவரது படைப்புகளில் குறிப்பிடத்தக்கனஆகும். இவர் எழுத்துப் பயிற்சிக்கூடம் நடத்தி வருகிறார். மெட்ராஸ் பேப்பரின் (www. madraspaper.com) ஆசிரியரும் இவரே. To read: / முழுவதும் வாசிக்க https://uyirmmai.com/literature/tamil-short-story-by-pa-ragavan-2/ ஒலி வடிவம் சரஸ்வதி தியாகராஜன்/Voice o: Saraswathi Thiagarajan
2023-04-1714 minMicrosoft Innovation Podcast
Microsoft Innovation PodcastRagavan Rajan on The MVP ShowFULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/438 In this episode, we dive into Ragavan Rajan’s background - shares his love for travel and exploration and tells us about some of the fun adventures he and his family have had in New Zealand over the past few years. Learn about Ragavan’s journey from India to Scotland and eventually to New Zealand. Discussions about Ragavan’s career path in technology and sharing his background in the Microsoft world and his desire to break out and explore the open-source world. Ragavan shares his thoughts on the future of technol...
2023-02-2224 minDer Spielwaren Investor - spielend reale Rendite!
Der Spielwaren Investor - spielend reale Rendite!MTG: Ragavan Ban in Modern? / Standard dominiert die Preisentwicklung / TCG-VaultNachdem sich in der letzten Episode immens viel auf dem TCG Markt getan hat, passierte seit dem nicht viel. Daher besprechen wir heute einen potenziellen Ban von Ragavan in Modern. Was spricht dafür was dagegen und sollte ich meine Ragavan jetzt... Nachdem sich in der letzten Episode immens viel auf dem TCG Markt getan hat, passierte seit dem nicht viel. Daher besprechen wir heute einen potenziellen Ban von Ragavan in Modern. Was spricht dafür was dagegen und sollte ich meine Ragavan jetzt verkaufen? Am Ende schauen wir uns noch die Preisentwicklung von Standard Karten an. Show Notes...
2022-03-2309 minStuck In Between
Stuck In Between32. Tokenism (w/ Model, Ragavi Ragavan)In this episode, we unpack the issue of Tokenism with model, dancer and educator, Ragavi Ragavan. Ragavi shares her experiences working in the modelling industry and discusses inclusivity and diversity in media. Ragavi's Instagram: @ragavi__ragavan
2022-03-2051 minTechtopia with Chitra Ragavan
Techtopia with Chitra RagavanEp. 21 — The Global AI Arms Race and the Future of Artificial Intelligence / Courtney Bowman, Director of Privacy and Civil Liberties Engineering, Palantir Technologies. The world is engaged in a new form of war — this one centered around the technology called artificial intelligence — which, put simply — is the science and art of making machines more human. But at what cost? The race to dominate in Artificial Intelligence, also known as the global AI arms race has deep implications for how our society evolves in the decades to come and raises many troubling questions about privacy, civil liberties, and inherent biases transferred from human to machine and back to humans again.  I really enjoyed this deep conversation about the current state and future of AI with...
2021-12-0239 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 58 — A shocking loss leads a grieving daughter and budding communications leader to rethink the meaning of human connectivity / Susan McPherson, founder and CEO of McPherson Strategies, and author, “The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do MethEp. 58 — A shocking loss leads a grieving daughter and budding communications leader to rethink the meaning of human connectivity / Susan McPherson, founder and CEO of McPherson Strategies, and author, “The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Relationships.” When Susan McPherson was 22 years old, her parents were on vacation in Puerto Rico when the unthinkable happened. It was New Year’s Eve, December 31, 1986. Her dad had dropped her mother off at the casino of what then was the Dupont Plaza hotel in San Juan. At 3:30 pm, three disgruntled employees of the hotel who were embroiled in a lab...
2021-10-0635 minTechtopia with Chitra Ragavan
Techtopia with Chitra RagavanEp. 20 — How the Department of Defense is acting like venture capitalists to draw in and nurture startups and adopt the best of the best in technology / Daniel Borkhus Co-Founder and CEO, Holos; Jeremy Neilson, Master Sergeant, U.S. Air Force; and James The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has been on the forefront of some of the biggest technological innovations in history. At the same time, the so-called, defense industrial complex — that is, DoD, in cahoots with the big legacy defense contractors or the so-called “Beltway Bandits” —  have also built  some of the most expensive, bloated, and bungled technologies known to man. But now, increasingly, the Department of Defense is turning to lean, agile, and innovative software companies to build out its pipeline with dual-use technologies,  acting very much like venture capitalists to find and nurture the best of...
2021-09-2245 minThe Fasting Highway
The Fasting HighwayEpisode 89 Nambee Ragavan a successful intermittent fasting story from Asia losing 40 Kg (88 Pounds) over fourteen months.Nambee Ragavan 33 years old Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia SW 118 KG (260 pounds) CW 78 Kg (171 pounds) My Intermittent Fasting (IF) journey began back when the pandemic hit Malaysia. As we went on a lockdown, I realised that this is going to be a few challenging months ahead dealing with the pandemic, and as someone living alone, it was a challenge on its own. Having the idea that I want to do something for myself during this lockdown, many ideas were going around the internet, many were suggesting to pick up...
2021-09-1957 minTechtopia with Chitra Ragavan
Techtopia with Chitra RagavanEp. 19 — A Veteran CIA Operative Looks Back on the Early Days of the War in Afghanistan and the Implications of the Recent Pull Out / Michael Hurley, Former CIA Operations Officer & Senior Counsel and Team Leader 9/11 Commission. As we approach the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, the frenetic U..S. pullout of Afghanistan under dangerous conditions has reopened the wounds of those strikes and once again raises the specter of al Qaeda and ISIS taking root in Afghan soil —  posing new global threats to American security and those of our allies for decades to come. Joining me now to talk about the deepening crisis of the Afghanistan crisis and its ramifications is my dear friend, Michael Hurley who served for 25 years as a CIA operations officer, serving 15 of...
2021-09-101h 03When it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 57 — The Journalist and Author who Predicted the Rise of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda Examines the Legacy of the 9/11 Mastermind and the Global Jihad that he Spawned / Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst & Author, “The Rise and Fall of Osama bEp. 57 — The Journalist and Author who Predicted the Rise of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda Examines the Legacy of the 9/11 Mastermind and the Global Jihad that he Spawned / Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst & Author, “The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden.” In 1983, a British university student named Peter Bergen traveled to Pakistan with two friends to make a documentary called Refugees of Faith, about the Afghan refugees fleeing the Soviet invasion of their country. Little did he know it at the time. But that trip would be the first of many and one of the most consequential in Ber...
2021-09-0746 minThe Tamil Creator
The Tamil CreatorEP #27: Bindi Bosses (Shyamla Eswaran & Ragavi Ragavan) - Australian-Based Dance Group Creating Social Movement And Discussions Through Performance & Storytelling Shyamla Eswaran & Ragavi Ragavan from Bindi Bosses joins Ara on the latest episode of the Tamil Creator.  Bindi Bosses is a progressive South Asian performing arts company that seamlessly blends Traditional Indian Classical and Folk dances with influences from South Asian Cinema and Street dances from around the world.  We discuss a variety of topics including how they answer the question "Where are you from?", their views on social media, using their platform to spark discussions around significant issues, the importance of embracing your heritage, and much more! Follow Bindi Bosses - https://www.instagram.com...
2021-09-061h 44When it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 56 — A Retired Police Executive Returns to Duty to Help Rebuild the United States Capitol Police after the Violent January 6 Insurrection  / J. Thomas Manger, USCP Chief of Police.Ep. 56 — A Retired Police Executive Returns to Duty to Help Rebuild the United States Capitol Police after the Violent January 6 Insurrection  / J. Thomas Manger, USCP Chief of Police. After 42 years in policing, including for two of the largest police agencies in the National Capital Region, J. Thomas Manger had retired and was enjoying his life as a security consultant and public citizen. Then on January 6, thousands of white extremists — incited by former President Donald Trump and his minions — breached the U.S. Capitol, vandalizing the building and grounds, threatening the lives of members of Congress, of Vice President Mike Pence and his fa...
2021-09-0149 minTechtopia with Chitra Ragavan
Techtopia with Chitra RagavanEp. 18 — A War Photographer Assesses the Ramifications of the U.S. Pullout of Afghanistan / Lynsey Addario, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photojournalist. As the situation in Afghanistan deteriorates with shocking speed, tens of thousands of Americans and Afghan citizens — who’ve worked closely with Americans over the past two decades, are confronting perilous conditions as they try to reach the Kabul airport and leave the country. Major news organizations are trying to extract both U.S. and fellow Afghan journalists even as these reporters put their lives on the line and continue to report from the field for as long as they can under dangerous conditions.  Meanwhile, human rights activists are increasingly concerned about the plight of women...
2021-08-2529 minTechtopia with Chitra Ragavan
Techtopia with Chitra RagavanEp. 17 — The Global Race to Secure 5G Networks Against Cyber Threats from China and other Geopolitical Adversaries / Rob Strayer, EVP, Information Technology Industry Council & Former Ambassador for Cyber Policy at U.S. State Department. The world’s wireless systems are going through a major technology transformation through fifth-generation cellular networks — known as 5G for short. In addition to lightning-speed downloads for your smartphones, and faster speeds for your favorite streaming videos, 5G is expected to help the growth and adoption of other cutting-edge technologies such as connected cars, drones, industrial robots, AR/VR, medicine, and next-gen supply chains.   Indeed, the power and potential of 5G and its role in giving the United States a competitive edge is such that it is a national security asset… one that the U.S. government is aggressively moving to prote...
2021-08-1237 minTechtopia with Chitra Ragavan
Techtopia with Chitra RagavanEp. 16 — The Abracadabra of the FDA’s Surprise Approval of Biogen's Alzheimer’s Drug, Aduhelm / Dr. Robert Pearl, Physician, Author, Podcast Co-Host, “Fixing Healthcare,” & Joanne Silberner, Freelance Health and Science Journalist. Ever since the disease was recognized more than 100 years ago, patients with Alzheimer’s, and their families and caregivers, have longed for an effective drug for this brutal and tragic disease. But last month, when the Food and Drug Administration finally approved a drug named Aduhelm for use as the first Alzheimer’s drug in 18 years, there was little rejoicing. Instead — a big uproar from critics both outside and inside the FDA who say that there’s no clear evidence that Aduhelm has any benefits. And, that it could actually have serious side effects including brain bl...
2021-07-2957 minTechtopia with Chitra Ragavan
Techtopia with Chitra RagavanEp. 15 — This sports startup is transforming the world of track and field data analytics for athletes, coaches, and fans / Chris Williams, Founder, and CEO, Zelos. For decades, like in many other sports, track and field athletes and coaches have been stymied by their inability to easily use analytics to help athletes reach their highest potential, with their performance data trapped largely in paper silos. In the lead-up to the Tokyo Summer Olympics, Seattle-based startup Zelos has integrated roughly 20 million track and field records dating back 50 years, into its data analytics platform to generate powerful, predictive insights into the world’s oldest and most popular sport. COVID-19 has changed all aspects of life, work, and careers, especially for athletes wh...
2021-07-1433 minTechtopia with Chitra Ragavan
Techtopia with Chitra RagavanEp. 14 — The ABCs of NFTs and their role in digital journalism and the creator economy / Zach Seward, Co-founder & CEO, Quartz. Over the past seven months, non-fungible tokens or NFTs have captured the world’s imagination and hype cycle, especially after the digital artist known as Beeple sold an NFT, which is a blockchain-verified proof of transfer of ownership, for one of his prints, for a record $69 million. Since then, demand for these types of collectible digital art has exploded. Artists, writers, and entire industries are trying to tap into this lucrative new art form and create all kinds of NFTs for movies, albums, photographs, even a single tweet. At the forefront of the NF...
2021-07-0836 minTechtopia with Chitra Ragavan
Techtopia with Chitra RagavanEp. 13 — The Exoplanet Revolution, Technosignatures, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence / Adam Frank, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Rochester.   After decades of secrecy, the US Government last week shared a new report about unidentified flying objects or UFOs and the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence. The bottom line: more studies are needed, the report said, raising more questions than it answered. Renowned astrophysicist Adam Frank says there’s little evidence to show a correlation between UFO sightings and extraterrestrial intelligence. In May, Frank wrote a guest essay in the New York Times titled, “I’m a Physicist Who Searches for Aliens. UFOs Don’t Impress Me.” But he argues that the gr...
2021-06-3042 minTechtopia with Chitra Ragavan
Techtopia with Chitra RagavanEp. 12 — A 64-year old non-fiction book, Flying Saucer Pilgrimage, has new resonance today in light of an upcoming U.S. government report on UFOs / Bryan Cunningham, Executive Director, UCI Cybersecurity Policy & Research Institute. UFOs are back in the news. After decades of secrecy, the American public and especially UFO-believers are waiting for a report from the Defense Department to Congress this month. The report is expected to reveal what our military, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies know, and don’t know, about unidentified aerial phenomena or UAPs. That’s the government’s fancy new terminology for UFOs. The upcoming report would have been a wish-come-true for Bryant and Helen Reeve. Between 1953 and 1955 — one of the most prolific periods in U.S. history for UFO sightings — the Detroit couple traveled 2...
2021-06-2300 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 55 — A fighter pilot and great-granddaughter of a SciFi pioneer sees a UFO and connects with the vast community of UFO believers / Lt. Cmdr. Alex Dietrich, U.S. Navy (retired).Ep. 55 — A fighter pilot and great-granddaughter of a SciFi pioneer sees a UFO and connects with the vast community of UFO believers / Lt. Cmdr. Alex Dietrich, U.S. Navy (retired). Lt. Cmdr. Alex Dietrich was going about her business this spring, getting ready to retire from active duty as one of the first female fighter pilots in the US. Then she got an unexpected feeler from 60 Minutes, the CBS television show. The U.S. Government was preparing to release a report on Unidentified Flying Objects or UFOs. Would Dietrich be willing to go on the show and talk about the st...
2021-06-1637 minTechtopia with Chitra Ragavan
Techtopia with Chitra RagavanEp. 11 – How Covid-19 is reshaping cities and smart cities / Michael Proman, Managing Director, Scrum Ventures. COVID-19 virtually overnight changed the tone, tenor, and texture of cities, bringing the global economy to a slow grind and forcing people to retreat into bubbles, silos, and pods, and remote work — connected mainly through social media and Zoom. Now, as we slowly start to get a grip on the virus and think about reopening society, what will the long-term impact of the pandemic be on cities and on the evolution of Smart Cities? My guest today has some of those answers. He’s Michael Proman, Managing Director at Scrum Ventures, an early-stage vent...
2021-06-0938 minTechtopia with Chitra Ragavan
Techtopia with Chitra RagavanEp. 10 – The data-driven transformation of Hollywood and the television industry / Anjali Midha, CEO & Co-Founder, Diesel Labs & John Mass, Executive Vice-President, Content Partners. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the entertainment industry was being upended by the rapid pace of streaming and other technology. Then COVID-19 hit, shuttering movie theaters, shutting down the world, and driving people into their homes and in front of our television screens, where we’ve largely remained over this past year. The pandemic has been a giant wakeup call to an already disrupted industry, which increasingly, is turning to data-driven insights, to figure out how to survive, and how to evolve in the post-pandemic streaming era. This week, I have two amazing gu...
2021-06-0244 minLucky Paper Radio
Lucky Paper RadioHope Tender & Devoted Druid & Ragavan & LaeliaOn this episode, Andy and Anthony are discussing a recent draft of Anthony’s “Regular” Cube, in which Anthony made a stupid amount of mana with Hope Tender, making Andy question all of the decisions he made in his life that led to that moment. This dovetails into a conversation about the nuanced differences in what Anthony and Andy value about Magic and how they capture that in their respective cubes. What is the difference between having conditional cards as enablers vs having conditional cards as payoffs? What is the difference between having a power outlier 1 mana value card vs a p...
2021-05-311h 00Top Level Podcast
Top Level PodcastRagavan, Nimble Pilferer Seems AmazingRagavan, Nimble Pilferer from Modern Horizons Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer R Legendary Creature – Monkey Pirate Whenever Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token and exile the top card of that player’s library. Until end of turn, you may cast that card. Dash 1R 2/1 So this card is probably […] The post Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer Seems Amazing appeared first on Top Level Podcast.
2021-05-3100 minTop Level Podcast
Top Level PodcastRagavan, Nimble Pilferer Seems AmazingRagavan, Nimble Pilferer is spectacular! Is it the best red one drop of all time? Might not be tops in the SET. Still... Looks to be great
2021-05-3157 minTechtopia with Chitra Ragavan
Techtopia with Chitra RagavanEp. 9 — How Technology and the Digital Media Revolution are Transforming the Global Media Landscape / Marcus Brauchli, Journalist, Co-founder, North Base Media. Technology is shaking up the news media — as content creators of every ilk and genre have taken advantage of the digital revolution, commoditizing content and forever blurring the lines between e-commerce and content, news and entertainment, information and disinformation. One media executive who saw the digital revolution coming long before others did, is journalist, media investor and advisor, Marcus Brauchli. He is co-founder of North Base Media, an investment firm specializing in media and technology in global growth markets. Before co-founding North Base Media, Brauchli was executive editor of The Washington Post, shepherding the newspaper’s di...
2021-05-2642 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 54 — How writing a best-selling book on the deadly 1918 influenza pandemic positioned this author to become a prescient thought leader on the COVID-19 pandemic / John M. Barry, Author, Distinguished Scholar, Tulane School of Public Health and TropicalEp. 54 — How writing a best-selling book on the deadly 1918 influenza pandemic positioned this author to become a prescient thought leader on the COVID-19 pandemic / John M. Barry, Author, Distinguished Scholar, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. John Barry remembers the exact moment he gave up his boyhood dream of doing medical research for his other boyhood dream of writing. He was 13 years old and had returned from summer camp eager to examine some bacteria cultures he had grown and left in the freezer, only to find them gone. Little did he know it at the time, but after a long...
2021-05-1941 minTechtopia with Chitra Ragavan
Techtopia with Chitra RagavanEp. 8 — How Polaris is fighting QAnon in its use of human trafficking disinformation campaigns / Anjana Rajan, Chief Technology Officer, Polaris. When tech entrepreneur Anjana Rajan joined Polaris as its Chief Technology Officer last year, she thought she was setting aside her prior focus on domestic terrorism to help Polaris with its core mission of fighting human trafficking. But then Rajan learned the far-right conspiracy group QAnon had been making outlandish human trafficking allegations against Polaris resulting in massive Denial of Service or DDoS attacks by QAnon followers who were even making death threats against the non-profit. Suddenly, Rajan found that her world had come full circle. Over the past year, she’s had to...
2021-05-0640 minTechtopia with Chitra Ragavan
Techtopia with Chitra RagavanEp. 7 — How a patient with a rare tumor is taking personalized medicine to a new level through a unique non-profit biomedical research initiative / Vanessa Slavich, Head of Community, Celo & Peter Kane, Founder & Executive Director, Research to the Peopl For nine years, Vanessa Slavich took a traditional, reactive, “whack-a-mole” approach to manage her battle against a rare and aggressive tumor, working with highly specialized doctors operating in various treatment silos. Frustrated with the outcomes, this year, Slavich is taking a new more proactive and strategic approach. She’s using her career in technology startups as a model for turbo-charging her research and treatment options in a unique way — which she describes in a recent post in Substack, called “The Startup Body: managing my health #Likea Boss.” And Slavich is “designing her health” in collaboration with Peter Kane, Founder and...
2021-04-2837 minTechtopia with Chitra Ragavan
Techtopia with Chitra RagavanEp. 6 — How the COVID-19 vaccines will change our approach to future pxandemics / Dr. Robert Pearl, Author, Uncaring: How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Patients. The extraordinary scientific and technological innovations around the COVID-19 vaccines have enabled the U.S. government and governments around the world to deploy multiple vaccines against the lethal virus — allowing a gradual reopening of society and return to a new normal. What do we need to do to defeat COVID-19 once and for all and how can technology be used to prevent such devastating pandemics in the future? It’s always a wake-up call to speak with Dr. Robert Pearl, author of a new book out this spring called “Uncaring: How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Pat...
2021-04-2234 minTechtopia with Chitra Ragavan
Techtopia with Chitra RagavanEp. 5 — Technology has given women a powerful voice in the alt-right movement / Seyward Darby, Author, Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism. A large number of women participated in the rioting at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 by violent supporters of former President, Donald Trump. Some allegedly played a key role in plotting the protests and two of the five people killed in the riots were women. How have women exploited technology to expand their reach and influence in the alt-right movement? And have technology companies done enough to counter and combat their disinformation campaigns and hate messaging by white nationalists? Seyward Darby, author of Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism has...
2021-03-2548 minTechtopia with Chitra Ragavan
Techtopia with Chitra RagavanEp. 4 — The semiconductor chip shortage, what's causing it, why it matters, and what we need to do about it / John Neuffer, President and CEO, Semiconductor Industry Association. There’s a global semiconductor chip shortage brought on by the massive supply chain disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And it’s hurting U.S. industries in a big way. President Joe Biden recently signed an executive order to try to help industries ranging from medical supplies to electric vehicles, that have been affected by this shortage. But will it solve the problem? If not, what does the U.S. government need to do to resolve the chip crisis? That’s the focus of our conversation today. Read the Transcript Download the PDF...
2021-03-1024 minTechtopia with Chitra Ragavan
Techtopia with Chitra RagavanEp. 3 — Bitcoin and the boom in cryptocurrency investing / Perianne Boring, Founder and President, Chamber of Digital Commerce. What’s causing Bitcoin mania and massive investments in cryptocurrency by institutional investors? Perianne Boring, Founder and President of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, explains the economic and geo-political forces at play. Read the Transcript Download the PDF Chitra Ragavan: Well, Bitcoin mania is sweeping the world. Investors, big and small, have propelled the cryptocurrency to record highs, rallying more than 400% over the past year, with one Bitcoin worth more than $50,000. That’s per coin as of this taping. Although with the volatility of Bitcoin, that price could dramatically plum...
2021-03-0538 minTechtopia with Chitra Ragavan
Techtopia with Chitra RagavanEp. 2 — Radicalization and the January 6 Capitol Hill Riots / Anne Speckhard, Director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism. How did technology fuel the explosive birth and growth of the nationalistic extremist movements fueled by former President Donald Trump? How does it compare to the proliferation of foreign terrorist threats? And how can the U.S. government wield technology to combat domestic radicalization? Anne Speckhard, Director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism has interviewed hundreds of terrorists all over the world and offers her expert perspectives. Read the Transcript Download the PDF Chitra Ragavan: The January 6th attacks on the US Capitol by violent s...
2021-02-1134 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp.53 — A journalist upends her life and career to help identify and bring to justice the network of militants who murdered her friend and fellow correspondent at The Wall Street, Daniel Pearl / Asra Nomani, journalist, author, activist and co-founder, ThEp.53 — A journalist upends her life and career to help identify and bring to justice the network of militants who murdered her friend and fellow correspondent at The Wall Street, Daniel Pearl / Asra Nomani, journalist, author, activist and co-founder, The Pearl Project. On January 23rd, 2002, Asra Nomani was waiting at her home in Karachi, Pakistan, for her dear friend, Daniel Pearl, a correspondent at The Wall Street Journal, to return from a reporting assignment. Pearl and his wife, Mariane, who was pregnant with their first child were staying with Nomani while he was investigating the Al-Qaeda networks that had conspired to...
2021-01-2748 minTechtopia with Chitra Ragavan
Techtopia with Chitra RagavanEp. 1 — Conspiracy Theories and the January 6 Capitol Hill Riots / Joseph Coohill, Professor Buzzkill History Podcast. How did technology fuel the conspiracy theories that resulted in the unprecedented sacking of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th by violent Donald Trump supporters? Joseph Coohill, professor of modern world history and host of the popular Professor Buzzkill History Podcast offers perspectives on how this event compares to others in history and its implications for American democracy.  Read the Transcript Download the PDF Chitra Ragavan: How did technology help fuel the spread and reach of conspiracies that resulted in the unprecedented sacking of the US Capitol on J...
2021-01-2433 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp.52 — A  15-year old develops a passion for making music mixtapes and revolutionizes the way you listen to music, and now he’s doing it for podcasts / Don MacKinnon, CEO & Founder, Hark.Ep.52 — A  15-year old develops a passion for making music mixtapes and revolutionizes the way you listen to music, and now he’s doing it for podcasts / Don MacKinnon, CEO & Founder, Hark. Don MacKinnon will never forget how he first began experimenting with music mixtapes back when he was a high school student. “I remember sitting on the floor of my room with the records spread out, organizing them, and making notes about the order I wanted to have the songs appear in. As you recorded it, you dropped the needle on the song and it's recording it in real-time on to t...
2020-11-171h 01Connecting Generations
Connecting GenerationsConnecting with Chitra Ragavan What’s your story? Chitra Ragavan, Founder and CEO of Goodstory, feels passionate about the story. From her early days as a journalist to now working with tech startups helping organizations identify their stories, Chitra is open to the journey of identifying unique stories and how they can lead you to your next step. Chitra’s drive, passion, compassion, foresight, and adaptability can all be seen throughout her journey and story.
2020-08-0437 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 51 — A young employee gets a mediocre performance rating in her first job and transforms herself into an influential human resources leader and career strategist / Madeline Mann, Founder, Self Made Millennial.Ep. 51 — A young employee gets a mediocre performance rating in her first job and transforms herself into an influential human resources leader and career strategist / Madeline Mann, Founder, Self Made Millennial. Three months into her first corporate job as a market research analyst, Madeline Mann got her performance review and it was a nasty wakeup call. Always an academic high achiever, Mann was stunned to see her mediocre work scores. “And it really was a moment of me realizing, ‘Wait, I do need to work harder. I do need to find more ways to contribute,’ says Mann. ‘I wasn't in those meet...
2020-07-0633 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 50 – A legendary sports agent reflects on an extraordinary career and overcoming seemingly insurmountable personal challenges / Leigh Steinberg, CEO, Steinberg Sports & Entertainment.Ep. 50 – A legendary sports agent reflects on an extraordinary career and overcoming seemingly insurmountable personal challenges / Leigh Steinberg, CEO, Steinberg Sports & Entertainment. Early in his career, legendary sports agent Leigh Steinberg had a crisis of conscience. His clients were suffering from multiple concussions and doctors didn't fully understand the long-term impact of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). There was one particular moment that was a turning point for Steinberg. "When we would go to doctors back in that period, no doctor could really tell us how many hits were too many and what the longterm consequences were." So Steinberg decided to ma...
2020-06-2945 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 49 — A teenage runaway tries his hand at migrant work and becomes one of the most powerful food safety lawyers in the world / William Marler, Owner & Managing Partner, Marler Clark, LLP.Ep. 49 — A teenage runaway tries his hand at migrant work and becomes one of the most powerful food safety lawyers in the world / William Marler, Owner & Managing Partner, Marler Clark, LLP. When Bill Marler was 16 years old, he ran away from home and became a migrant worker for a while, living in squalid cabins, sleeping outdoors, and hitchhiking rides to farms to pick crops. The low point of Marler’s life came when he lost a gig and completely ran out of money. For a week, he lived on just a five-pound sack of pancake flour. “And it has changed my per...
2020-06-2235 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 48 — A close encounter with a Mack Truck on an icy freeway convinces a New York native to move to warmer climes and pursue a career in marketing / Linda Souza, Senior Vice President of Marketing, CareerArc.Ep. 48 — A close encounter with a Mack Truck on an icy freeway convinces a New York native to move to warmer climes and pursue a career in marketing / Linda Souza, Senior Vice President of Marketing, CareerArc. Driving home from her martial arts class in the middle of a January snowstorm in Pittsburgh, Linda Souza lost control of her pickup truck on the icy freeway and skidded straight onto the path of a Mack Truck. Fueled by adrenalin, Souza accelerated into a grassy ditch, narrowly avoiding serious injury even as the Mack Truck slammed into the back of her of pickup, su...
2020-06-1529 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 47 –  A diplomat’s travel forces his psychologist wife to reinvent her career which she does by talking to terrorists / Anne Speckhard, Director, International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism.Ep. 47 –  A diplomat’s travel forces his psychologist wife to reinvent her career which she does by talking to terrorists / Anne Speckhard, Director, International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism. When her husband was named US ambassador to Belarus, Anne Speckhard was forced to give up her thriving private counseling practice in Virginia and reinvent her life and work. Some security-related projects led her to begin talking to terrorists and it led to a most unique second career researching terrorists. “When I went into Palestine was the first time I went in and just announced myself. I was very honest...
2020-06-0859 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 46 — A chance encounter and an impulse decision takes a public health expert on a wild ride into the world of dangerous pandemics / Julie Schafer, Chief Technology Officer, The Flu Lab.Ep. 46 — A chance encounter and an impulse decision takes a public health expert on a wild ride into the world of dangerous pandemics / Julie Schafer, Chief Technology Officer, The Flu Lab. Julie Schafer was sitting in her tiny office in a big office building in Washington D.C. having second thoughts about how the Presidential Management Fellowship that she had just begun fit in with her career goals. Then, a chance introduction to Bruce Gellin, then the head of the National Vaccine Program Office and now the President, Global Immunizations, at Sabin Vaccine Institute became the inflection point of her ca...
2020-06-0237 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 45 — A U.S. Army Special Operations team leader is haunted by the death of two comrades and devotes his career to data-driven decision-making / Justin Richmond, Founder, and Executive Director, impl. project.Ep. 45 — A U.S. Army Special Operations team leader is haunted by the death of two comrades and devotes his career to data-driven decision-making / Justin Richmond, Founder, and Executive Director, impl. project. The twist in the road for Justin Richmond surfaced on September 29, 2009, at Camp Bautista — a key Filipino military base in the Southern Philippines — when two of his colleagues were killed in an IED attack. Richmond was deployed as a U.S. Army Special Operations team leader helping the Filipino army with stabilization, counterinsurgency, and information operations. His superiors had decided to support what would prove to be a disast...
2020-05-2537 minSiva Narrates Stories
Siva Narrates Storiesஎனக்குள் நான்| Enakul Nan - Audio Drama, Crime mystery, Ragavan SeriesStory written by Na Siva. This is a crime mystery story. It is about the serial kidnap of school students and Ragavan who solved the mystery. This is also a introduction story for Ragavan series and this is the first part . Second part is already published as book named "Maram Vettum Paravai". Third part is under creation. This audio drama had multiple vocal actors. Nandha As Ragavan, Karthi As Villian & Gokul, Amritha as Narrator, Subbiah as Natarajan, Manipandi as Gokul's Father, Balaji as DGP Sadasivam, Divya as Doctor, Selvi as Nurse, Siva as Ravi, Sivasankar as Naveen
2020-05-2533 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 44 — A mentee takes up her mentor's mantle and devotes her career to diversity and inclusion in banking / Karen A. Clark, Senior VP and Multicultural Strategies Manager, City National Bank.Ep. 44 — A mentee takes up her mentor's mantle and devotes her career to diversity and inclusion in banking / Karen A. Clark, Senior VP and Multicultural Strategies Manager, City National Bank. When Karen A. Clark got her first management assignment as a young banker at Bank of America in Los Angeles, she was blown away when a senior executive and Chinese immigrant named Regina “Reggie” Chun flew in from San Francisco to take her to lunch. Chun told Clark that she had a unique opportunity to help other minorities rise in corporate America and she reminded Clark that if a person in her...
2020-05-1839 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 43 –– A physics major pursues a grounding in philosophy and finds his niche in Silicon Valley / Courtney Bowman, Director, Privacy and Civil Liberties Engineering Team, Palantir.Ep. 43 –– A physics major pursues a grounding in philosophy and finds his niche in Silicon Valley / Courtney Bowman, Director, Privacy and Civil Liberties Engineering Team, Palantir. Courtney Bowman thought he was destined for a career in physics until he took a philosophy class. It triggered a deep skepticism of the ability of hard sciences to solve mankind's biggest problems. When Bowman told his academic mentor and family about the desire to pursue philosophy, they were alarmed and tried to dissuade him, fearing a dead end to his career. But Bowman went with his gut and ignored conventional wisdom and it paid...
2020-05-1151 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 42 — A voiceless young clubfoot patient grows into one of the most outspoken and renowned vaccine advocates in the world / Dr. Paul Offit, Professor of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.Ep. 42 — A voiceless young clubfoot patient grows into one of the most outspoken and renowned vaccine advocates in the world / Dr. Paul Offit, Professor of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. When Dr. Paul Offit was five years old he got surgery for clubfoot and was sent to recover at a chronic care facility in Baltimore which was also a polio ward. He spent six lonely weeks there, feeling like a prisoner, with virtually no distractions, recreation, or visitors like many of the polio patients in that ward. "It was hell. This was the mid-1950s, it was a polio ward...
2020-05-0442 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 41 — A young man gets held up at knifepoint and learns the value of grit and perseverance / Cliff Banks, Founder and President, The Banks Report.Ep. 41 — A young man gets held up at knifepoint and learns the value of grit and perseverance / Cliff Banks, Founder and President, The Banks Report. When Philadelphia native Cliff Banks was 19 years old, he traveled to New York City to take a connecting train to Detroit to start a new job and a new life. But he got the fright of his life as he hailed a cab to get from Penn Station to Grand Central Station. “Before I got into the cab, two guys came up and asked if they could help and I said, ‘No, thanks. I've got it.’ A...
2020-04-2732 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 40 – The granddaughter of a Civil Rights-era healthcare worker and union advocate grows up to become an employment mediator and arbitrator / Angela Reddock-Wright, Founder, Reddock Law Group.Ep. 40 – The granddaughter of a Civil Rights-era healthcare worker and union advocate grows up to become an employment mediator and arbitrator / Angela Reddock-Wright, Founder, Reddock Law Group. For labor lawyer Angela Reddock-Wright, geography was definitely destiny. Moving from Birmingham, Alabama to working-class Compton, California at age nine and then winning a scholarship to the Brentwood School in the exclusive westside of Los Angeles would prove to be the most transformational events of her life. Her dual existence commuting between her blue-color and privileged worlds reminded Reddock-Wright of the importance of honoring one’s roots while being open to new opportunities. As a...
2020-04-2035 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 39 — A New York college graduate’s surefire path to success is upended by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks /Jared Carmel, Managing Partner, Manhattan Venture Partners.Ep. 39 — A New York college graduate’s surefire path to success is upended by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks /Jared Carmel, Managing Partner, Manhattan Venture Partners. New York native Jared Carmel was ready to take on the world in 2001 when he hit the job market fresh out of college. But his dreams of a cushy job at a big Wall Street investment firm evaporated in the dust of the 9/11 attacks. Carmel eventually got hired at a boutique investment bank where he earned his chops wearing lots of hats and learning lots of skills. Carmel became a pioneer in the development of seco...
2020-04-1345 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 38 — A father’s gift and a brother’s illness sets a young boy  on track to becoming a cryptocurrency pioneer / Joey Krug, Co-CIO, Pantera Capital, Core Dev, Augur.Ep. 38 — A father’s gift and a brother’s illness sets a young boy  on track to becoming a cryptocurrency pioneer / Joey Krug, Co-CIO, Pantera Capital, Core Dev, Augur. When Joey Krug  was 10 years old, his dad bought him an old Apple computer on eBay. Although neither realized it at the time, it would prove to be a timely gift. Around that same time, Krug's brother became really sick with a rare disease affecting only 600 people in the world. Krug quit school to be there for his brother during his year-long hospitalization, homeschooled himself and learned programming to help him cope wit...
2020-04-0636 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 37 — A tumultuous childhood filled with displacement and abuse draws a healthcare expert to the psychology of human behavior / Nicole Fisher, President of Health and Human Rights Strategies.Ep. 37 — A tumultuous childhood filled with displacement and abuse draws a healthcare expert to the psychology of human behavior / Nicole Fisher, President of Health and Human Rights Strategies. To say that Nicole Fisher's childhood was tumultuous would be an understatement. Fisher's world fell apart when she was two years old when she began to experience a pattern of psychological, and physical abuse by her mother. When her parents divorced, her dad won custody of Fisher and raised her with the help of loving relatives. But Fisher still endured years of brutal custody battles in which the courts often sided with he...
2020-03-3135 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 36 — A succession of friends dying early propels a hospital revenue cycle consultant to rethink the foundation of American healthcare / Dave Chase, Creator, Co-Founder, and CEO of Health Rosetta.Ep. 36 — A succession of friends dying early propels a hospital revenue cycle consultant to rethink the foundation of American healthcare / Dave Chase, Creator, Co-Founder, and CEO of Health Rosetta. When Dave Chase turned 40, he was stunned to realize that nearly a dozen of his friends all around his own age had died due to health problems. One in particular hit him the hardest, a successful executive who got cancer. “And really, at every step of the way the system failed. I mean, she got the wrong diagnosis which led to the wrong treatment plan,” says Chase. “Ultimately, this devastated her physical...
2020-03-2342 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 35 — A war photographer confronts her own mortality as she bears witness to the world’s worst wars / Lynsey Addario, Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist.Ep. 35 — A war photographer confronts her own mortality as she bears witness to the world’s worst wars / Lynsey Addario, Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist. Renowned photojournalist and war photographer Lynsey Addario and three fellow journalists were documenting the Arab Spring uprising in Libya in March 2011 when the unthinkable happened at a hostile checkpoint. The journalists had lingered too long to complete their reporting on the front lines and were cornered and taken hostage by Col. Muammar Gaddafi's troops. They were repeatedly beaten, tied up, blindfolded and constantly threatened with execution before being released nearly a week later. It was hard enou...
2020-03-0348 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 34 — A Shanghai-based American journalist uncovers a Chinese spy caper that brings her full circle to her midwestern roots / Mara Hvistendahl, Author, The Scientist and the Spy.Ep. 34 — A Shanghai-based American journalist uncovers a Chinese spy caper that brings her full circle to her midwestern roots / Mara Hvistendahl, Author, The Scientist and the Spy. When journalist Mara Hvistendahl began looking into the FBI’s arrest of a lone Chinese man behaving suspiciously in an Iowa cornfield, she was blown away by what she uncovered. Hvistendahl’s two-year reporting journey led her into the heart of a massive FBI industrial espionage investigation into the theft of genetically modified corn seeds by Chinese agribusinesses, triggered by the arrest of that one individual, Robert Mo. What began as idle curiosity ended...
2020-02-2435 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 33 — A writer-turned-filmmaker takes a mentor’s blunt advice to heart and becomes a pioneer in the art of visual branded storytelling / Megan Cunningham, Founder and CEO, Magnet Media.Ep. 33 — A writer-turned-filmmaker takes a mentor’s blunt advice to heart and becomes a pioneer in the art of visual branded storytelling / Megan Cunningham, Founder and CEO, Magnet Media. Long before “narrative” and “storytelling” became buzzwords in the technology space, Megan Cunningham was pioneering the art of brand positioning. At a time when YouTube, broadband and mobile phones were in their infancy and influencer marketing was virtually non-existent, Cunningham's brand studio, Magnet Media was putting her on track to becoming a media magnate in content marketing and branded storytelling. But it wasn’t easy creating an entirely new media and marketing mode...
2020-02-1831 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 32 — An economics reporter is jolted by the 2016 Presidential race and rethinks all his assumptions about the American economy and electorate / Binyamin Appelbaum, Author, The Economist’s Hour.Ep. 32 — An economics reporter is jolted by the 2016 Presidential race and rethinks all his assumptions about the American economy and electorate / Binyamin Appelbaum, Author, The Economist’s Hour. Binyamin Appelbaum had been reporting and writing about economics for more than a decade when Donald Trump won the 2016 Presidential race. The shocking outcome led Appelbaum to realize that he must go back to the drawing board, to Macroeconomics 101, in order to understand what had just happened. What resulted is his terrific book, "The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society." The Economists' Hour refers to the 40-year peri...
2020-02-1045 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 31 — A single mother of two young sons takes lessons from her grandfather, a small-time hustler turned big-time property owner, about the value of homeownership / Katrina Jones, VP, Single Family Mortgage Business, Fannie Mae.Ep. 31 — A single mother of two young sons takes lessons from her grandfather, a small-time hustler turned big-time property owner, about the value of homeownership / Katrina Jones, VP, Single Family Mortgage Business, Fannie Mae. When her husband passed away at a young age, Katrina Jones was left to raise two kids, forcing her to drop out of college to confront her new responsibilities. It would prove to be the most challenging time of her life. What kept Jones going was not just the support she got from her extended family but lessons from her grandfather, a street-smart hustler named George Ca...
2020-02-0331 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 30 — An acting class convinces an engineering student to devote her career to building charismatic, performing, social robots / Heather Knight Associate Professor of Robotics, Oregon State University.Ep. 30 — An acting class convinces an engineering student to devote her career to building charismatic, performing, social robots / Heather Knight Associate Professor of Robotics, Oregon State University. When Heather Knight was working on her Ph.D. in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, a two-week class she took in the drama department, called Movement for Actors totally detoured her thesis plans. And it became the heart and soul of her life and work: Helping robots become more like humans. Little did she know how difficult it would be. “I literally spent the next three years trying to get a robot to comm...
2020-01-2732 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 29 — A second generation holocaust survivor stops carrying the weight of her father’s suffering and starts living life to the fullest / Helene Johnson, President & CEO, Bid2Win.Ep. 29 — A second generation holocaust survivor stops carrying the weight of her father’s suffering and starts living life to the fullest / Helene Johnson, President & CEO, Bid2Win. When Helene Johnson was just six years old, she decided to get to the bottom of her beloved father’s bouts of anger and sadness. Johnson demanded a full account of what her dad had been through for five years in Nazi captivity. Obedient to her command, Johnson’s dad told her not only everything that had happened to him and his family but also what he’d seen happening to others in the Naz...
2020-01-2137 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 28 — A dermatologist from a pedigreed Los Alamos science family fights to break the mold in sports, medicine, and Silicon Valley / Dr. Michelle Longmire, CEO and Co-Founder, Medable.Ep. 28 — A dermatologist from a pedigreed Los Alamos science family fights to break the mold in sports, medicine, and Silicon Valley / Dr. Michelle Longmire, CEO and Co-Founder, Medable. Her grandfather worked with Robert Oppenheimer on the hydrogen bomb. Her mother is a radiochemist and plutonium expert, her father is an expert in recombinant - DNA technology. With that pedigree, there was little doubt that Michelle Longmire would embark on a career in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). Indeed, when she was young, one of Dr. Longmire’s annual science projects involved breeding multiple generations of hamsters to study Mendelian inhe...
2020-01-1430 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 27 — A young African American raised on an Arkansas farm overcomes poverty and racial discrimination and finds his voice fighting for the underprivileged / David Branch, Employment Attorney, David Branch Law Firm.Ep. 27 — A young African American raised on an Arkansas farm overcomes poverty and racial discrimination and finds his voice fighting for the underprivileged / David Branch, Employment Attorney, David Branch Law Firm. Dear Listeners, The New Year brings a new season of When It Mattered, my podcast examining how leaders and pioneers are forged from critical moments in their lives. I’m thrilled to launch Season Two with the inspiring story of Washington D.C. attorney, David Branch, a descendant of the extraordinary Branch family in Arkansas, with a lineage nearly 600-members strong. The great-great-grandson of a slave from Africa, Victoria Wake...
2020-01-0732 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 26 — A Christian Scientist forsakes her religion after taking meds for the stomach flu and takes a life detour to uncover the science of spiritual experiences / Barbara Bradley Hagerty, Contributing Writer, The Atlantic and Author, Fingerprints of GodEp. 26 — A Christian Scientist forsakes her religion after taking meds for the stomach flu and takes a life detour to uncover the science of spiritual experiences / Barbara Bradley Hagerty, Contributing Writer, The Atlantic and Author, Fingerprints of God. Barbara Bradley Hagerty found herself at a crossroads one day when she got the stomach flu and realized she could no longer abide by the rules of her religion, Christian Science, banning the use of any medications. “I just lay there and this flashing in my head went off, Tylenol, Tylenol, Tylenol, so I got out of bed and I practically crawled to t...
2019-12-3050 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 25 — A double-leg amputee with a love for running beats back a cocaine addiction and battles Olympic bureaucracy in his quest to become the fastest runner in the world / Blake Leeper, Eight-Time Paralympic Medalist. and 2020 Summer Olympics AspirantEp. 25 — A double-leg amputee with a love for running beats back a cocaine addiction and battles Olympic bureaucracy in his quest to become the fastest runner in the world / Blake Leeper, Eight-Time Paralympic Medalist. and 2020 Summer Olympics Aspirant Born without legs from a congenital birth defect, Blake Leeper discovered his mission and passion in life when he watched South African Paralympic champion sprinter Oscar Pistorius competing in the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing. It triggered in Leeper a deep desire to run, despite being a double-leg amputee. “They were saying, ‘Look how this man born without legs...’ I feel like they were talking...
2019-12-2440 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 24 — A bored and broke undergraduate has a terrible car crash and uses it as a turning point to pursue wealth and knowledge / Richard Wilson, CEO and founder of the Family Office Club.Ep. 24 — A bored and broke undergraduate has a terrible car crash and uses it as a turning point to pursue wealth and knowledge / Richard Wilson, CEO and founder of the Family Office Club. Richard Wilson was phoning it in like many undergraduate students, feeling unmotivated and unrewarded. Then, driving home one night from college to his parent's home, Wilson hydroplaned in the rain into a cement barricade. “The car just kind of crumpled in half and it was the middle of the night, pouring rain. I just kind of stumbled out of the car and several cars stopped because my head...
2019-12-1626 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp 23 — A political strategist loses his mojo and becomes one of the greatest comedy writers of our time / Jon Macks, Comedy Writer, Democratic Political Consultant, Author.Ep 23 — A political strategist loses his mojo and becomes one of the greatest comedy writers of our time / Jon Macks, Comedy Writer, Democratic Political Consultant, Author. Jon Macks thought he was in for a great ride to the top. Having quit law school for a career as a political strategist, Macks won two big state elections for his clients. But the euphoria quickly wore off and shock set in when Macks then lost 23 straight races in a row. “It's almost self-fulfilling. What happens is that when you are on a losing streak, no one good will hire you,” says Macks, “And so t...
2019-12-1043 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 22 — An Iowa musician battles a lifetime of blues and gets his groove back on the international blues stage / Kevin Burt, Singer, Songwriter, blues heritage educator.Ep. 22 — An Iowa musician battles a lifetime of blues and gets his groove back on the international blues stage / Kevin Burt, Singer, Songwriter, blues heritage educator. Raised by a single mom on $5,000 a year in food stamps, Kevin Burt spent most of his life in chronic “survival mode” in the school of hard knocks. That meant a chronically anxious and overworked state of mind and body:  “You're so worried about the basics of day to day that there's no way to think about tomorrow, there's no way to think about not a day from now, not a week from now, not a yea...
2019-12-0343 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 21 — A disenchanted doctor finds secret inspiration for his groundbreaking Parkinson’s research from a heroin addict / Dr. Andrews Lees, University College of London, Institute of Neurology.Ep. 21 — A disenchanted doctor finds secret inspiration for his groundbreaking Parkinson’s research from a heroin addict / Dr. Andrew Lees, University College of London, Institute of Neurology. Dr. Andrew Lees was a young medical student when he realized that his profession was not everything it was cut out to be. Feeling suffocated by the conservative and powerful British medical system, which gave little room for independent thought and experimentation, Lees was at risk for dropping out. Then one day, Lees, a Liverpool-born avid Beatles fan saw the cover of their new album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. When Lees s...
2019-11-2644 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 20 — A police officer is brought back to life after a near-fatal motorcycle crash and takes on a profound new mission / Frank Shankwitz, Creator and a Co-Founder, Make-A-Wish Foundation.Ep. 20 — A police officer is brought back to life after a near-fatal motorcycle crash and takes on a profound new mission / Frank Shankwitz, Creator and a Co-Founder, Make-A-Wish Foundation.  Arizona Highway Patrol Officer Frank Shankwitz  was chasing after a drunk driver one day at 85 miles an hour when his motorcycle broadsided a second drunk driver who cut in front of him. His partner could not revive Shankwitz who had suffered grievous injuries and reported him dead at the scene. But an off-duty emergency room nurse driving past the crash performed CPR for four minutes and literally brought Shankwitz back to life...
2019-11-1839 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 19 — An aspiring scientist rejects the impersonal sterility of the profession to become a science writer and stumbles upon a gripping emotional saga of courage, heroism, and sacrifice / Sam Kean, Author, The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the ReneEp. 19 — An aspiring scientist rejects the impersonal sterility of the profession to become a science writer and stumbles upon a gripping emotional saga of courage, heroism, and sacrifice / Sam Kean, Author, The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb. It wasn’t until the third year of college and endless science classes that Sam Kean realized he was temperamentally unsuited to becoming a scientist. Shaken by the realization that he had to reinvent his future, Kean took to science writing and found his niche as a best-selling author. But although he h...
2019-11-1138 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 18 — A young television news producer watches a colleague save a life by doing CPR and finds her true calling in medicine / Dr. Lisa Sanders, Yale School of Medicine and New York Times Columnist.Ep. 18 — A young television news producer watches a colleague save a life by doing CPR and finds her true calling in medicine / Dr. Lisa Sanders, Yale School of Medicine and New York Times Columnist. Early in her career, becoming a doctor was the last thing on Lisa Sanders’ mind. She loved the television news producing business and was happy with her life. Then one day, while shooting an episode on white water rafting, Sanders watched her doctor colleague save an elderly woman from drowning, through CPR. It wasn’t an overnight transformation. But it was an inevitable one, she says. Sander...
2019-11-0543 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 17 — A legendary CIA operative begins his career struggling with imposter syndrome / William Murray, Founder, Alphom Group and 38-year CIA Operations Officer.Ep. 17 — A legendary CIA operative begins his career struggling with imposter syndrome / William Murray, Founder, Alphom Group and 38-year CIA Operations Officer. When William Murray walked through the doors of the Central Intelligence Agency as a young recruit, he was instantly filled with trepidation. “Everybody that I met seemed to be better educated, better traveled, and have a better understanding of the world than me,” Murray remembers thinking. Murray fought his insecurities and over the next nearly 38 years, grew into a highly successful and impactful senior Operations Officer and a legendary figure in the CIA, serving in some of the most w...
2019-10-2945 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 16 —  A God-fearing trauma surgeon struggles to cope with human atrocity in the wake of a mass shooting / Dr. Alan Tyroch, Chief of Surgery and Trauma Medical Director, University Medical Center of El Paso.Ep. 16 —  A God-fearing trauma surgeon struggles to cope with human atrocity in the wake of a mass shooting / Dr. Alan Tyroch, Chief of Surgery and Trauma Medical Director, University Medical Center of El Paso. His grades were so poor that Dr. Alan Tyroch almost didn’t get into medical school. But the stubborn Texan was not about to let something as mundane as bad grades get in his way. Fueled with frequent, sometimes heated, conversations with God and blessed with sheer grit and perseverance, Dr. Tyroch not only fulfilled his dream to become a trauma surgeon, but also helped develop Unive...
2019-10-2249 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 15 — A big time political advisor returns to his small town roots and finds an urgent new cause / James Carville, Democratic political strategist, author, public speaker.Ep. 15 — A big time political advisor returns to his small town roots and finds an urgent new cause / James Carville, Democratic political strategist, author, public speaker. James Carville earned the privilege of breathing what he describes as the “most rarefied air on earth,” when, as Bill Clinton’s campaign manager, he helped Clinton win the Presidency. Knowing that the only direction from that pinnacle of success was down, Carville made two life-changing decisions: He walked away from working on domestic political campaigns, although he remains a prominent advisor to the Democratic Party. And, when Hurricane Katrina ravaged his home state of Louis...
2019-10-1542 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 14 — A federal prosecutor kidnapped at gunpoint fights for his survival and discovers what’s truly important in life / Stanley Alpert, Environmental Lawyer and Author.Ep. 14 — A federal prosecutor kidnapped at gunpoint fights for his survival and discovers what’s truly important in life / Stanley Alpert, Environmental Lawyer and Author. Federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert was enjoying the cold January New York air as he walked to his Greenwich Village home when he felt the gun pressing into his back and realized he was being held up for money. But what started out as an armed robbery quickly turned into a kidnapping when the thugs learned of Alpert’s significant bank balance. In an instant, the prosecutor’s plans to spend his 38th birthday the next day with...
2019-10-0844 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 13 — Uncovering a pre-Civil War era will takes an estate lawyer deep into his family’s history with slavery and helps him come to terms with his sexual identity / Terrence Franklin, Sacks, Glazier, Franklin & Lodise, LLP.Ep. 13 — Uncovering a pre-Civil War era will takes an estate lawyer deep into his family’s history with slavery and helps him come to terms with his sexual identity / Terrence Franklin, Sacks, Glazier, Franklin & Lodise, LLP. For nearly a quarter century, Terrence Franklin practiced trust and estate litigation, not knowing how his expertise would reshape his own life some day. Then, a family reunion took Franklin deep into his family history.  At that event, Franklin noticed snippets of names and words taken from what appeared to be the last will and testament of a slave owner named John Sutton, freeing Frank...
2019-10-0144 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 12 — A brain cancer diagnosis leads a 27-year old mental health worker to use photography to help parents of critically ill children reconcile with death and dying /  Caroline Catlin, writer, photographer.Ep. 12 — A brain cancer diagnosis leads a 27-year old mental health worker to use photography to help parents of critically ill children reconcile with death and dying /  Caroline Catlin, writer, photographer. Caroline Catlin knew something was really physically wrong with her after she graduated from college in 2015. But despite repeatedly reaching out to multiple doctors about her daily fevers, joint and muscle pain, fatigue, memory loss and cognitive issues, no one believed her. After numerous incorrect diagnoses and only because of her persistence, Catlin finally got an MRI and the bottom fell out of her life. She was told she had...
2019-09-2426 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 11 — A reluctant beauty pageant winner finds a unique path to a Harvard education and develops a passion for public service / Erin Walczewski, Attorney, Cooley, LLP.Ep. 11 — A reluctant beauty pageant winner finds a unique path to a Harvard education and develops a passion for public service / Erin Walczewski, Attorney, Cooley, LLP. When Erin Walczewski first entered the Miss Iowa beauty pageant, she never expected to win. Her goal was simply to win some scholarship money for college. To her surprise, the skeptical contestant won the Miss Iowa crown. Walczewski wouldn’t realize for a long time what the true prize was from that competition. Still a reluctant participant, Walczewski went on to the Miss America contest, which she lost. But it would prove to be the...
2019-09-1730 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 10 — A father’s death from a medical mistake propels his son to tackle the most serious problems in our healthcare system / Dr. Robert Pearl, former CEO, Kaiser Permanente Medical Group.Ep. 10 — A father’s death from a medical mistake propels his son to tackle the most serious problems in our healthcare system / Dr. Robert Pearl, former CEO, Kaiser Permanente Medical Group. Dr. Robert Pearl went to college to learn philosophy. But when his favorite professor was denied tenure, Dr. Pearl veered towards a career in cardiac surgery, naively believing it was devoid of politics. But his naivety was short-lived. Pearl says he quickly became disillusioned by the inequalities he discovered in his specialty and profession. He shifted course again and became a plastic surgeon, finding a renewed passion for medicine afte...
2019-09-1047 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 9 — A teenager suffers his small-town’s wrath and scorn when his house burns down. He grows up to become a privacy and cybersecurity lawyer with a passion to protect victims of bullying, both by countries and criminalsEp. 9 — A teenager suffers his small-town’s wrath and scorn when his house burns down. He grows up to become a privacy and cybersecurity lawyer with a passion to protect victims of bullying, both by countries and criminals Bryan Cunningham will never forget the day his Norman Rockwellian childhood in a small town in Ohio came to a cruel end. It was the day when the family’s small wooden rectory burned to the ground and he was falsely accused of causing the fire.  Cunningham shares the trauma of the ensuing bullying and excoriation by the town’s small-minded residents. A trauma tha...
2019-09-0340 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 8 — An award-winning reporter struggles with balancing a demanding job and managing a family crisis and learns the true meaning of duty and family / Nina Totenberg, Legal Affairs Correspondent, National Public Radio (NPR)Ep. 8 — An award-winning reporter struggles with balancing a demanding job and managing a family crisis and learns the true meaning of duty and family / Nina Totenberg, Legal Affairs Correspondent, National Public Radio (NPR) In this episode, NPR’s Nina Totenberg confesses that her youthful admiration for teen fictional detective Nancy Drew played a formative role in pursuing journalism as a career in an era when female reporters were a rarity. Totenberg reveals how she broke free from the confines of fashion and wedding news reporting via press releases and became one of the most acclaimed and celebrated legal reporters in the c...
2019-08-2736 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 7 — A pudgy British youth gives up a life of wealth and privilege to enlist for a punishing stint in the U.S. Special Forces / James Boyd, CEO and Co-Founder of AdytonEp. 7 — A pudgy British youth gives up a life of wealth and privilege to enlist for a punishing stint in the U.S. Special Forces / James Boyd, CEO and Co-Founder of Adyton In this episode, software entrepreneur James Boyd describes how he spent his childhood cocooned in wealth and privilege, frittering his time away in expensive schools and shuttling between homes in London and California. But the September 11, 2001 attacks happened on Boyd’s first week at Stanford University and shocked him out of his complacency. Boyd shares how he made the decision to give up his British citizenship and enlist in t...
2019-08-2032 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 6 —  A martial arts competition goes awry in Thailand and teaches this polymath a lesson for life  / Dr. Shawna Pandya, Physician, Citizen-Scientist Astronaut & Aquanaut, and Martial ArtistEp. 6 —  A martial arts competition goes awry in Thailand and teaches this polymath a lesson for life  / Dr. Shawna Pandya, Physician, Citizen-Scientist Astronaut & Aquanaut, and Martial Artist  In this episode, Canadian physician, Dr. Shawna Pandya, describes how she combined her childhood passion for space and medicine into a unique and rewarding career as a citizen-scientist astronaut and aquanaut. Dr. Pandya talks about what it takes to be a polymath and near-superhuman and excel in multiple fields. And she describes the rigor and rewards of becoming a Black Belt in Taekwondo and shares an invaluable lesson from competing in an amateur Thai...
2019-08-1330 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 5 — A Dangerous Biker Bar Encounter Teaches a Teenage Musician a Lesson for the Boardroom / Aaron Warner, Founder and CEO, ProCircularEp. 5 — A Dangerous Biker Bar Encounter Teaches a Teenage Musician a Lesson for the Boardroom / Aaron Warner, Founder and CEO, ProCircular In this episode, Aaron Warner, Founder and CEO of ProCircular describes how he and his teen metal band inadvertently provoked a bunch of drunk bikers to violence with an ill-chosen song.  Warner shares how the band defused the scary stand-off and how the decision they made in the face of danger taught them an invaluable lesson on what it takes to succeed in the corporate world and in life.  And he describes what that experience taught him about risk mana...
2019-08-0627 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 4 — A Single Dad’s Quest for Parenting Advice Positions him to Expose Russian Interference in U.S. Elections / Jonathon Morgan, CEO and Co-Founder, New KnowledgeEp. 4 — A Single Dad’s Quest for Parenting Advice Positions him to Expose Russian Interference in U.S. Elections / Jonathon Morgan, CEO and Co-Founder, New Knowledge In this episode, Jonathon Morgan, CEO and Co-Founder of New Knowledge describes how the social media skills he acquired as a young single dad on the quest for parenting advice and online community gave him the skills and tools 15 years later to uncover the Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections.  Morgan talks about the difficult period in his life when he and his cyber security company were accused — he says mischaracterized — of using soc...
2019-07-3040 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 3 — A Home Invasion Trauma Leads to a Law Enforcement Career / James Comey, Former Director, Federal Bureau of InvestigationEp. 3 — A Home Invasion Trauma Leads to a Law Enforcement Career / James Comey, Former Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation In this episode, James Comey describes how, as a high school senior, he and his brother were held at gunpoint in their New Jersey home by a serial rapist and robber and how that confrontation with death ultimately influenced his decision to go into law enforcement.  Comey talks about how attending a bail hearing in a Mafia case as a young law clerk in New York convinced him to become a federal prosecutor and help bring down some of the most pow...
2019-07-2340 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 2 - From an L.A. Art Benefit to a Refugee Camp in Sudan / Mick Ebeling, Founder and CEO of Not Impossible LabsEp. 2 - From an L.A. Art Benefit to a Refugee Camp in Sudan / Mick Ebeling, Founder and CEO of Not Impossible Labs In this episode, Mick Ebeling describes how a date night with his wife at a  Los Angeles gala for a graffiti artist with Lou Gehrig’s disease convinced him to coalesce technology warriors from around the world to help the artist, known as Tempt, draw again. He then shifts his focus from his thriving production company to start Not Impossible Labs and dedicate his life to building technology to help those with disabilities. Ebeling reveals how this shif...
2019-07-1422 minWhen it Mattered
When it MatteredEp. 1 - A Family Illness Shapes an Intelligence Officer’s Career / Michael Hurley, President, Team 3i and 25-year CIA operations officerEp. 1 - A Family Illness Shapes an Intelligence Officer’s Career / Michael Hurley, President, Team 3i and 25-year CIA operations officer In this episode, Michael Hurley describes how his mother’s battle with the autoimmune disease Lupus, which began when he was 11, shaped  his 25-year service in the United States Government as a CIA operations officer. Hurley traces those early life experiences in coping with his mother’s long and ultimately fatal illness to his spur-of-the-moment decision to volunteer to go to Afghanistan to combat al Qaeda after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Transcript Download the PDF Chitra:    Hello, and welcome to When it...
2019-07-1125 min