Best Adam Crosley Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 19: Giving Unconditionally to Grow Your Business – Featuring Michael Matejka 39:49

3d ago39:49

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Welcome to Episode 19 of The Growth Mindset Podcast with your hosts Adam Crosley and Rick Riddle! In this episode, we sit down with Michael Matejka, National Business Development Manager at Crown Home Mortgage, to dive into what it really means to build a business through giving. Mike is the driving force behind Crown’s expansion efforts—he’s the g…

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Episode 18: Re-inventing Yourself to Be a Whale with Bobby D. 44:04

10d ago44:04

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In this exciting Episode 18 of The Growth Mindset Podcast, hosts Rick Riddle and Adam Crosley welcome a powerhouse in the mortgage world—Bob Deiorio, Co-Founder and Mortgage Loan Originator at Crown Home Mortgage. Bobby D entered the mortgage game back in 1997, and he’s been swimming with the whales ever since. With over 24 years of experience, Bob…

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Episode 17: Hunt Like You Are Hungry ft. Paul Abraham 37:47

17d ago37:47

37:47

In this exciting new episode of The Growth Mindset Podcast, hosts Rick Riddle and Adam Crosley sit down with Paul Abraham, CEO & Owner of LocalLender, to dive deep into what it means to truly "hunt like you are hungry" in today’s mortgage industry. Paul shares his powerful philosophy on working with loan officers instead of against them—building a …

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Episode 16: How Tom Kalagher Uses Facebook to Create a Niche Market! 24:28

24d ago24:28

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In this episode of The Growth Mindset Podcast, hosts Rick Riddle and Adam Crosley sit down with Tom Kalagher, the dynamic Founder of Fairhope Mortgage LLC, to explore how Facebook can become a powerful platform for creating niche audiences and generating consistent business—without spending a dime on ads. Tom breaks down how he used targeted Facebo…

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Episode 15: Hiring AI to Be Your Assistant 29:13

1M ago29:13

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In this solo episode of The Growth Mindset Podcast, your dynamic duo Rick Riddle and Adam Crosley dive into the rapidly growing world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how mortgage and real estate professionals can leverage it to boost productivity, streamline tasks, and grow their business like never before. From writing emails and captions to c…

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Episode 14: Building Your Brand on Social Media 37:07

1M ago37:07

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In this empowering episode of The Growth Mindset Podcast, hosts Adam Crosley and Rick Riddle welcome a true visionary — Mark Wilson, President and CEO of The Black Brilliance Homeownership Team, LLC. Mark shares his mission to shift the financial trajectory of African Americans through the power of homeownership and wealth equity. With African Amer…

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Episode 13: Why Are Winners Always Lucky? 26:09

1M ago26:09

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Ever wonder why some people seem to have all the luck? In Episode 13 of The Growth Mindset Podcast, hosts Rick Riddle and Adam Crosley unpack the truth behind "lucky" winners — and how luck is often just preparation meeting opportunity. Rick and Adam break it down in a way that's real, relatable, and just a bit funny (because hey, why not laugh whi…

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Episode 12: Owning 50 Rental Units! How to Grow Your Net Worth While Running Your Mortgage Business 38:05

2M ago38:05

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In this solo power-packed episode of The Growth Mindset Podcast, your hosts Rick Riddle and Adam Crosley break down how to build real wealth through real estate investing—all while juggling the fast-paced demands of a thriving mortgage business. No guest this week—just straight talk, strategies, and stories from two pros who’ve done it all. With ov…

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Episode 11: Taking the Leap from Real Estate Assistant to Broker Owner 35:00

2M ago35:00

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Welcome back to The Growth Mindset Podcast with your hosts Adam Crosley and Rick Riddle! In this episode, we’re diving deep into the inspiring journey of Michelle C. Fowler, a powerhouse in the real estate world and Team Leader at The Adirondack Advantage Team at Real Broker, LLC. Michelle went from being a Real Estate Assistant to building her own…

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Episode 10: They Don’t Care How Much You Know, Until They Know How Much You Care 24:31

2M ago24:31

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By Adam Crosley and Rick Riddle

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Episode 9: Overcoming Hurdles: “It May Not Be My Problem, But It's My Problem to Fix” 22:37

2M ago22:37

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In this powerful episode of The Growth Mindset Podcast, hosts Rick Riddle and Adam Crosley sit down with seasoned mortgage pro Fred Sisbarro, Loan Officer at Union Home Mortgage. With nearly two decades in the mortgage industry, Fred brings a wealth of knowledge from sales to operations, and an approach that’s all about ownership—even when the prob…

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Episode 8: Dominating a Real Estate Market by Perfecting a System and Delegating to a Team 15:09

2M ago15:09

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In this episode of The Growth Mindset Podcast, hosts Rick Riddle and Adam Crosley sit down with Kira Witherwax, Associate Real Estate Broker at RE/MAX North Country. Kira has built a reputation for helping buyers and sellers create strong, thriving communities by finding homes that fit their lives—not just their budgets. Kira shares her expertise i…

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Episode 7: From Bridges to Borrowing – How Jeffrey Cheng Engineers Stress-Free Home Loans 20:58

2M ago20:58

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In this episode of The Growth Mindset Podcast, hosts Rick Riddle and Adam Crosley sit down with Jeffrey Cheng, a Mortgage Loan Originator at Crown Home Mortgage. Jeffrey’s journey from Structural Engineer to Mortgage Professional is an inspiring one, driven by his passion for helping people achieve the American Dream of homeownership. Jeffrey share…

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Episode 6: The Growth Mindset – Learning from Grampa Charlie 17:37

3M ago17:37

17:37

In this episode of The Growth Mindset Podcast, hosts Rick Riddle and Adam Crosley take a deep dive into the lessons we can learn from the wisdom of past generations. Inspired by the stories and experiences of Grampa Charlie, this episode unpacks the mindset, work ethic, and timeless advice that can help shape success in both life and business. Rick…

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Episode 5: Disrupting the Mortgage Industry: Tech, Compliance & Growth with Matthew VanFossen 25:42

3M ago25:42

25:42

On this episode of The Growth Mindset Podcast, hosts Rick Riddle and Adam Crosley sit down with Matthew VanFossen, CEO of Absolute Home Mortgage Corporation. With over a decade of experience in residential mortgage lending and more than $5 billion in retail originations, Matthew brings a unique blend of technology, compliance, and leadership expert…

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Episode 4: If You Help People Get What They Want, You Will Get What You Want 17:43

3M ago17:43

17:43

In this episode of The Growth Mindset Podcast, hosts Rick Riddle and Adam Crosley dive into the powerful principle of success—helping others to achieve their goals so that you can achieve yours. Whether you're in real estate, mortgages, or any other business, this mindset shift can take your career and personal growth to the next level. Tune in as …

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Episode 3: The Growth Mindset in Mortgages – Trust, Knowledge & Success with William Koedatich 32:03

3M ago32:03

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In this episode of The Growth Mindset Podcast, hosts Rick Riddle and Adam Crosley sit down with William Koedatich, Manager at Crown Home Mortgage, to dive deep into the power of trust, knowledge, and success in the mortgage industry. William brings a passion for helping others achieve their homeownership dreams by keeping clients and referral partn…

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Episode 2: A Good Plan Executed is Better Than a Great Plan Never Executed 27:27

3M ago27:27

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Welcome to another powerful episode of The Growth Mindset Podcast, hosted by Rick Riddle and Adam Crosley. In this episode, we dive into the concept of execution versus perfection. Too often, people get stuck in analysis paralysis, waiting for the "perfect" plan before taking action. But in reality, success favors those who take action, adapt, and …

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Episode 1: The Growth Mindset: Unlocking Your Full Potential 26:02

3M ago26:02

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Welcome to the very first episode of The Growth Mindset Podcast! Hosted by Rick Riddle and Adam Crosley, this show is dedicated to helping real estate and mortgage professionals elevate their careers, sharpen their entrepreneurial skills, and cultivate a mindset for success. In this episode, Rick and Adam dive deep into the concept of The Growth Mi…

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Coming soon! 0:16

4M ago0:16

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Coming Soon!By Adam Crosley and Rick Riddle

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Here it is! Evan’s new show, Shell Game 33:20

11M ago33:20

33:20

This is the story of what happens when Evan Ratliff, co-host of Longform and a longtime tech journalist, makes a digital copy of himself, powered by AI, in order to understand how amazing and scary and utterly ridiculous the world is about to get. In Episode 1, Evan clones his voice, hooks it up to ChatGPT and his phone line, and sends it off to ta…

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Coming Soon: Evan’s new show, “Shell Game” 3:26

11M ago3:26

3:26

What would happen if you created a digital copy of yourself, powered by AI, and set it loose in the world? Over the past six months, Evan Ratliff has been trying to find out. He combined a clone of his voice, an AI chatbot, and a phone line—many phone lines, actually—into what are called “voice agents.” Then he sent them out… as himself. They talke…

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Episode 585: John Jeremiah Sullivan 1:06:30

11M ago1:06:30

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John Jeremiah Sullivan is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and has written for Harper's, The New Yorker, and GQ. He is the author of Pulphead and the forthcoming The Prime Minister of Paradise: The True Story of a Lost American History. “I love making pieces of writing and trying to find the right language to say what I mean. It…

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Bonus: Mailbag 43:29

11M ago43:29

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The hosts answer a few listener questions. Evan’s picks for some podcasts to try: Creative Nonfiction Press Box The Stacks Podcast: Sunday Long Read True Stories Question Everything Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Longform

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Episode 584: Ta-Nehisi Coates 50:51

12M ago50:51

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Ta-Nehisi Coates is an author and journalist. His next book is The Message. “I don’t think we have the luxury as journalists of avoiding things because people might say bad things about us. I don’t even think we have the luxury of avoiding things because we might get fired. I don’t think we have the luxury of avoiding them because somebody might ca…

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Episode 583: Jay Caspian Kang 54:47

12M ago54:47

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Jay Caspian Kang is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a co-host of Time to Say Goodbye. “At some point, you have to kick it out the door, and it’s never finished to the degree that you would finish a magazine piece. But it, in some ways, is more interesting because it is produced in a short amount of time, and it’s read as something that is not…

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Episode 582: Joseph Cox 56:40

12M ago56:40

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Joseph Cox is a cybersecurity journalist and co-founder of 404 Media. His new book is Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever. “In the not too distant future, I will be a very old man, and maybe I won't be able to spend all day talking to drug traffickers. I will be mentally and physically exhausted. So I will dogge…

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Episode 581: Tavi Gevinson 1:15:39

1y ago1:15:39

1:15:39

Tavi Gevinson is a writer, actor, and the founder of Rookie. Her new zine is Fan Fiction. “Stories are unstable, and memory is unstable, and identity is unstable. All of these things that I've tried to make permanent in writing, they're actually unstable. So even though it's tempting to go, Oh, that was fake, it's more like, No, it was just tempora…

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Episode 580: Rachel Khong 1:00:50

1y ago1:00:50

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Rachel Khong is a journalist and author whose latest novel is Real Americans. “It's about the ways in which we miss each other as human beings and can't fully communicate what it is like to be ourselves. … And I think that's what makes it so interesting to me, to work on a novel and to spend so much time trying to get down on the page what it feels…

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Episode 579: Kelsey McKinney 1:08:21

1y ago1:08:21

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Kelsey McKinney is a features writer and co-owner at Defector.com. She hosts the podcast Normal Gossip and is the author of the upcoming book You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip. “I was always very interested in how you strategize a creative career. And I think that that is an unsexy thing to talk about, right? It's much sex…

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Episode 578: Lissa Soep 51:42

1y ago51:42

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Lissa Soep is an audio producer, editor and author whose latest book is Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End. “I am so keenly aware of how much my own voice is a product of editing relationships and co-producing relationships with other people's words. … I will forever feel indebted to those then young people…

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Episode 577: PJ Vogt 52:08

1y ago52:08

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PJ Vogt is the host of Search Engine. “One of our tests editorially is if we think we’ve got something good, but we haven’t started reporting or recording on it, I’ll just try asking the question at dinner and stuff. If it derails conversations, that’s a really good sign.” Show notes: @PJVogt Vogt’s Substack Vogt on Longform Podcast 03:00 “Why Are …

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Episode 576: Lindsay Peoples 54:32

1y ago54:32

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Lindsay Peoples is the editor-in-chief of The Cut. “You see so many incredible people make one mistake and lose their job or they speak out about something and then the next day something blows up. And so I do think that I often feel like I have to be so careful. And that's hard to do because I'm just naturally curious and I want to know and I want…

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Polk Award Winners: Jason Motlagh 40:50

1y ago40:50

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Jason Motlagh, a journalist and filmmaker, is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and the founder of Blackbeard Films. He won the Polk's Sydney Schanberg Prize for “This Will End in Blood and Ashes,” an account of the collapse of order in Haiti. “Once you've gotten used to this kind of metabolism, it can be hard to walk away from it. Ordinary li…

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Polk Award Winners: Brian Howey 29:22

1y ago29:22

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Brian Howey is a freelance journalist who won the Polk Award for Justice Reporting after exposing a deceptive police tactic widely used in California. He began the project, which was eventually published by the Los Angeles Times and Reveal, as a graduate student in the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. “It’s one thing to hear about this ta…

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Polk Award Winners: Meribah Knight 44:39

1y ago44:39

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Meribah Knight is a reporter with Nashville Public Radio. She won the Polk Award for Podcasting for “The Kids of Rutherford County,” produced with ProPublica and Serial, which revealed a shocking approach to juvenile discipline in one Tennessee county. “Where does it leave me? It leaves me with a searing anger that is going to propel me to the next…

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Polk Award Winners: Jesse Coburn 34:18

1y ago34:18

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Jesse Coburn is an investigative reporter at Streetsblog. He won the Polk Award for Local Reporting for "Ghost Tags," his series on the black market for temporary license plates. “You can imagine this having never become a problem, because it’s so weird. What a weird scam. I’m going to print and sell tens of thousands of paper license plates. But s…

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Polk Award Winners: Amel Guettatfi and Julia Steers 42:48

1y ago42:48

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Amel Guettatfi and Julia Steers won this year's George Polk Award for Television Reporting for “Inside Wagner,” their Vice News investigation of Russian mercenaries on the Ukraine front and in the Central African Republic. “One of the best takeaways I got from seven or eight years at Vice is that it’s not enough for something to be important when y…

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Rerun: #429 Vinson Cunningham (Feb 2021) 53:20

1y ago53:20

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Vinson Cunningham is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His novel, published in March 2024, is Great Expectations. “I think the job is just paying a bunch of attention. If you're a person like me, where thoughts and worries are intruding on your consciousness all the time, it is a great relief to have something to just over-describe and over-pay-at…

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Episode 575: Megan Kimble 53:06

1y ago53:06

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Megan Kimble is the former executive editor of The Texas Observer and has written for The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and The Guardian. Her new book is City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways. “I have never lived in a city that was not wrapped in highways. It’s hard for me to imagine anything else. And I thi…

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Episode 574: Zach Harris 43:07

1y ago43:07

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Zach Harris is a journalist whose latest article for Rolling Stone is "Meet the Gen Z Hothead Burning Up Pro Bowling." “I'm not like a staff writer who has … status and access. But if I come up with something fun that you've never heard of that might connect to the larger culture, then it kind of hits a nerve and a sweet spot for me. Someone like a…

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Episode 573: Rozina Ali 1:11:01

1y ago1:11:01

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Rozina Ali is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the winner of the 2023 National Magazine Award for Reporting. Her latest article is “Raised in the West Bank, Shot in Vermont.” “I think it’s very, very important to speak to people as people. To speak to sources—even if you have the juiciest story—to really give them the grace…

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Episode 572: Derek Thompson 46:51

1y ago46:51

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Derek Thompson is a staff writer for The Atlantic and host of the podcast Plain English. “I am an inveterate dilettante. I lose interest in subjects all the time. Because what I find interesting about my job is the invitation to solve mysteries. And once you solve one, two, three mysteries in a space, then the meta-mystery of that space begins to d…

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Episode 571: Tessa Hulls 52:57

1y ago52:57

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Tessa Hulls is a writer and artist whose work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Washington Post, and The Capitol Hill Times. Her new book, a graphic memoir, is Feeding Ghosts. “This project is the thing I have spent my entire life running from. I was incredibly determined to never touch this, either personally or professionally. … It was more an even…

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Episode 570: Sloane Crosley 59:11

1y ago59:11

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Sloane Crosley is the author of I Was Told There’d Be Cake and several other books. Her new memoir is Grief Is for People. “You take a little sliver of yourself and you offer it up to be spun around in perpetuity in the public imagination. That is the sacrifice you make. And it makes everything just a little bit worse. So it's the opposite of catha…

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Episode 569: Lauren Markham 51:14

1+ y ago51:14

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Lauren Markham is the author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, and VQR. Her new book is A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging. “It took me a while to figure out that this is actually a book about storytelling, about journalistic st…

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Episode 568: Zoë Schiffer 53:29

1+ y ago53:29

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Zoë Schiffer is the managing editor for Platformer. Her new book is Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter. “Being the person where it's a fireable offense to leak to you … is kind of a badge of honor.” Show notes: zoeschiffer.com Schiffer's Platformer archive Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter (Portfolio • 2024) 03:00 Schiffer'…

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Episode 567: Chris Ryan 1:04:13

1+ y ago1:04:13

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Chris Ryan is the editorial director for The Ringer, where he co-hosts The Watch and The Rewatchables. “There is a point where there’s just too much stuff. I can’t read a 5,000-word feature, 10 blog posts, and listen to three podcasts, and then do it all again the next day. So that is the line you walk in digital publishing, whether it’s for editor…

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Episode 566: Patricia Evangelista 1:13:03

1+ y ago1:13:03

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Patricia Evangelista is a trauma journalist whose coverage of the drug war in the Philippines has appeared in Rappler, Esquire, and elsewhere. Her recent book is Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country. “It is hard to describe the beat I do without saying very often it involves people who have died. And it seemed like an unfair w…

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Episode 565: Susan B. Glasser 45:07

1+ y ago45:07

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Susan Glasser, the former editor of Politico and Foreign Policy, writes the "Letter from Washington" column for the The New Yorker. Her most recent book, written with Peter Baker, is The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021. “There’s a great benefit to leaving Washington and then coming back, or frankly leaving anywhere and then coming back…

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