Best Rich Thinkers Podcasts (2025)

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Nordic Art & Contemporary Perspectives at the ARKEN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART - Highlights 12:25

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“This awe that I feel every time I meet an artist who has the courage to deal with what it means to be in the world as a human being and to tackle it from different ways and through different media. I always feel that through the collaborations I have with artists, I learn a little bit more about the world, myself, my feelings or emotions, and how …

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The Future of Museums with MARIE NIPPER, Director of ARKEN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 1:09:12

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“We don't need to find an end solution, but it's a space where we can speculate, imagine, and practice our foresight. We can be part of a bigger imagination together with an institutional framework, which is really what we try to motivate as well when we communicate these exhibitions to our audience and speak with our guests about these works. We c…

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Martha Stewart Unfiltered: Ageless Beauty, Confidence, and the Myth Behind the Mogul 48:37

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Martha. Freaking. Stewart. The icon, the legend, and in her words, the “OG trad wife” joins Molly and Emese for an unfiltered masterclass in work ethic, evolution, and how she is rewriting the rules for aging. What makes this conversation truly special is how it reveals Martha as a paradox: the homemaker and the mogul, the apron at the table and fi…

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How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave with Poet MAYA SALAMEH 38:26

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“Poetry is like one of the great loves of my life, and I think it's probably the longest relationship I'll ever have. I read a lot of poetry. I also wrote these short stories even when I was pretty young, like in second grade, and the stories kept getting shorter and shorter. My family used to go to Damascus in Syria and Lebanon every summer for th…

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Art is a Fundamental Element of Life - Gallerist HANNAH BARRY on a Life in Art 34:58

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“There's something fundamental about the value of art and culture. Not just being integrated for vocational reasons, but because the experience of art and having a cultural element in one's life brings enjoyment, learning, relief, or any of the many experiences and feelings that art provides. I think this is quite fundamental as an element of life.…

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The Truth About Ozempic Face, Filler Mistakes, and Fixing Your Skin 50:18

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If you’ve ever stared in the mirror and wondered if your skincare routine is helping or hurting, this one’s for you. From acne that won’t quit to the rise of “Ozempic face,” we’re cutting through the chaos to bring you the truth about what actually works.Molly and Emese sit down with one of NYC’s most in-demand dermatologists, Dr. Kiran Mian (yes, …

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The East India Company 30:42

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In this episode, we journey back to the 17th century to uncover the rise of one of history’s most powerful and controversial corporations. The East India Company began as a modest trading venture and evolved into a global force that shaped economies, toppled kingdoms, and laid the groundwork for modern capitalism. Discover how a royal charter turne…

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Built in Bentonville 14:34

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From a five-and-dime in Northwest Arkansas to a global retail empire—this is the story of Walmart. Built in Bentonville explores the origins, growth, and cultural impact of the world’s largest retailer. This episode dives into pivotal moments in Walmart’s history—from Sam Walton’s entrepreneurial spark to the innovations that reshaped supply chains…

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Why We Need Stories in Times of Crisis: ETGAR KERET on Healing, Connection & Creativity in the Age of AI - Highlights 19:13

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“I feel that when you don't tell your story, it's as if you have a limited existence. We can always have some kind of choice, but I'm saying that the story we choose may be the most crucial choice that we make, because this story will affect all the other choices.” Etgar Keret is one of the most inventive and celebrated short story writers of his g…

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Finding Humanity Through Storytelling with Author & Filmmaker ETGAR KERET 1:08:23

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“When I write my stories, I don't want to solve things in life. I just want to persuade myself that there is a way out. Maybe I am in a cell, maybe I'm trapped. Maybe I won't make it, but if I can imagine a plan for escape, then I'll be less trapped because at least in my mind, there is a way. I think that my parents are survivors. They always talk…

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The Cool-Girl’s Guide to Fall: Marci Hirshleifer on Blazers, Denim, Bags & Timeless Investments 38:02

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This week on Lipstick on the Rim we sit down with fashion insider Marci Hirshleifer, Global Personal Shopping Director and fifth generation force behind Hirschleifers, the legendary family-run boutique known as a true fashion destination. Marci shares her secrets for building the perfect fall wardrobe, the five pieces every woman needs, and the tre…

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Goodles Is Serving Nostalgia—with a Side of Nutrition 48:28

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We’re joined by Jennifer Zeszut, 4x CEO and founder of Goodles—the cult-favorite mac & cheese brand that’s making nostalgia nutritious. Jennifer shares how she spotted white space in the market and reimagined everyone’s favorite comfort food with protein, fiber, and real ingredients that fuel you (and your family). From tackling picky eaters at hom…

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Arabic Literature, Palestine & The Art of Translation with HUDA FAKHREDDINE

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“I'm Lebanese. I grew up in Lebanon during the Civil War, and I came to the United States as a graduate student with the intention of going back. I never wanted to stay here. I really thought that my life would happen in Beirut, in a city that I loved and hated in the healthiest of ways. My investments, both literary and intellectual, were rooted t…

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Building a Vital Earth for Everyone with President of Environmental Defense Fund’s EDF Action DAVID KIEVE 46:32

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“I think my role and where I'm most comfortable is focusing on the economic harms that the choices this administration is making will limit access to affordable, clean energy. Affordable energy overall, and that they will wind up harming the American people. EDF is standing up and fighting the Trump administration in court every single day. We beli…

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The Poetics & Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde &Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College w/ DANICA SAVONICK 42:56

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“As I was reading Hooks and Freire, a colleague recommended Adrian Rich's essay "Teaching Language in Open Admissions." It was in that essay that I first read about her experiences teaching at CUNY during open admissions, learning that she taught alongside June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Toni Cade Bambara. Eventually, that essay led me to their archi…

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Why You’re So Effing Tired: Fixing Fatigue, Balancing Hormones, and Beating Bloat for Good 49:22

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Fatigue, cravings, dull skin, bloating—it’s not just bad luck. It’s your body trying to tell you something. In this episode, Dr. Amy Shah, author of I’m So Effing Tired, reveals the science behind your low energy and skin struggles—and how to fix them. From hormone balancing and gut healing to fasting tips and smart supplementation, she shares the …

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Art Without Borders - RAJIV MENON'S Vision for South Asian Art 46:31

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“I want people to understand South Asian art as broader than a single gallery or a single artist, but as a larger cultural movement. I want people to encounter art in all parts of their lives, and I’m constantly thinking about new ways to achieve that. I was very aware, as someone launching a South Asia-focused gallery, that this was the cultural d…

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Dating Green Flags: How to Spot the Right Person (and Stop Settling) 51:29

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If dating feels like a minefield of mixed signals, this episode is your new playbook. We sit down with Case Kenny—mindfulness educator, viral author, and host of New Mindset, Who Dis?—to talk about what it really takes to stop settling in both love and life. From green flags that are just as important as red ones, to the difference between having h…

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Smith & Society 15:40

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Step into the world of Adam Smith, the 18th-century thinker whose ideas forever changed how we understand morality, society, and the economy. From The Theory of Moral Sentiments to The Wealth of Nations, this episode explores Smith’s life, his philosophy, and his lasting influence on everything from modern economics to everyday decision-making. Thi…

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Opalites - A Luminous Legacy 10:05

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From ancient amulets and Silk Road trade to modern jewelry and spiritual healing, opalites have carried a story as luminous as the stones themselves. In this episode, we explore the fascinating history of opalites - tracing their geological origins, cultural symbolism, and enduring allure across civilizations. Website Instagram Facebook LinkedIn Ap…

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What Do We Do with the One Life We’re Given? - Scientists, Writers, Philosophers & Changemakers Share their Stories 16:09

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In this time of rapid technological change, how do we hold onto our humanity? How do stories, traditions, and community help us find meaning in loss and face an uncertain future? How can science, art, and spirituality open new pathways to understanding ourselves and the human experience? PAUL SHRIVASTAVA (Co-President of The Club of Rome) discusses…

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From Myths to Machines 10:02

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Journey through the fascinating history of artificial intelligence, from ancient legends of mechanical beings to today’s powerful generative models. Explore the key breakthroughs, visionary thinkers, and pivotal moments that shaped AI, along with the challenges and ethical questions that define its future. Perfect for tech enthusiasts, history buff…

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The Hollywood Guide to Brows, Facelifts & Tweakments That Actually Work 46:34

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What do Chrissy Teigen, Meagan Good, and Jen Atkin have in common? The same secret weapon behind their envy-inducing brows and subtle, natural tweakments. In this episode, Molly sits down with one the Hollywood top aesthetic surgeon Dr. Jason Champagne — behind the iconic “champagne brows” — to break down everything you’ve ever wondered about facel…

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Every Monument Will Fall - DAN HICKS Explores Remembering & Forgetting 55:59

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“I work in between archeology and anthropology in this field called either historical archeology or contemporary archeology. At the heart of that is the relationship between objects and humans. How do we write about the past or the present in terms of listening to human voices or evidence from things where maybe human voices have been erased or hav…

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From 'Bee: Wild' to the 'Kiss the Ground' Regenerative Agriculture Documentary Trilogy - Highlights 15:03

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"For the last two decades, I've made over 20 films about the environment, starting with oil and carbon emissions. Those films, Kiss the Ground and now Common Ground, talk about how we can stabilize the climate, reverse climate change, grow nutrient-dense food, and help farmers make a profit through biodiversity and regenerative practices and princi…

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Episode 22: Care for Others: Charity or Commandment? (FULL EPISODE) 1:11:33

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Listen in as Bob Bruttell hosts the InterFaith Leadership Council’s Faith & Works podcast. Episode 22, Care for Others: Charity or Commandment? Our newest series, “Care for Others", on what our faith traditions of caring for others and how we are to treat others. Join in with our experts as they discuss is it Charity or Commandment when we care for…

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All About Bees, Soil & Regeneration with Documentary Filmmaker REBECCA TICKELL 1:00:46

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“I didn't really appreciate bees until I became a farmer, and then I started to understand how essential bees are for our food. They pollinate 70% of our food, and that feeds 90% of the world. There's a whole world of insects that creates the color in our food; it's what creates the flavor in our food. It's part of our biodiversity, and it's essent…

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Hot Girls Have IBS: The Truth About Bloat, IBS & Gut Health 40:50

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Gut issues, bloat, brain fog, and mystery sensitivities are more common than ever and if you feel like nothing’s working, this episode is for you. This week, we’re joined by gut health guru Bethany Cameron (aka @lilsipper), the powerhouse behind the Digest This podcast and founder of Bethany’s Pantry. After nearly dying from severe digestive issues…

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AI, UFOs, Perception & Reality with Artist, Geographer, Author TREVOR PAGLEN - Highlights 14:14

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“If we look at the entire history of the human experience, if you saw some text or you heard some spoken language, you could 100 percent reliably infer that there was a human who created that. Our experience of having that text or that image generated for us is very akin to the experience of a magic trick, and we sort of pre-subconsciously want to …

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How AI is Shaping Perception, How Deception is Sculpting Our Reality with Artist TREVOR PAGLEN 55:26

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“There's a word for this brain rot, right? I think that's very real. There are studies coming out now that are showing that the more and more of our cognitive labor we offload to AI systems, the less creative we become, the less critical we become, and the less of our human faculties for reason we use. There's something sad about that, but there’s …

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Revolutionizing Investment Strategies with Carbon Tracker - MARK CAMPANALE - Highlights 11:11

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“We're living in a fascinating time, and unfortunately, to an extent, Europe and, very much so, North America are trying to hold onto the past while other parts of the world, like China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan, are looking to the future. As an Italian citizen and an English citizen, I feel that we’ve left ourselves behind and that others are taki…

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Can Finance Revolutionize Climate Action? with MARK CAMPANALE, Founder of Carbon Tracker 45:54

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“Carbon Tracker is a non-profit financial think tank focused on change and the energy transition. I set it up because I spent 20 years working in the financial world, and I noticed that a lot of coal, oil, and gas projects, even with all the evidence we know about climate change, were getting financed through banks and the stock market. It was almo…

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The Best (and Worst) Products from This Month’s Empties: Tanning Drops, Tubing Mascaras & TikTok Flops 29:24

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We’re calling this one our Monthly Empties—aka the products we’ve fully finished, squeezed, scooped, or scraped to the very last drop. From glow-boosting self-tanners and mascara that actually stays put to skincare splurges, beauty flops, and a few surprise steals—we’re sharing the honest truth on what’s worth the repurchase and what we’re official…

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Exploring Organic, Biodynamic & Regenerative Agriculture with LOUIS DE JAEGER - Highlights 11:50

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“We as humans can destroy things in a couple of years that have taken thousands or even millions of years to form. So in the snap of a finger, we can destroy so much work. That's an observation I’ve seen in all biomes, and it's pretty scary. On the other hand, nature regenerates pretty fast. It heals itself. If humans help this healing process, it …

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SOS: Save Our Soils: How regenerative food & farming will save your health & the planet w/ LOUIS DE JAEGER 1:02:35

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“The Earth started as one big rock, and soil did not exist. Without soil, you can't really grow trees or any crops whatsoever. We are depleting soils super fast, and it is predicted that in less than 25 years, 90% of our soils will be degraded. We as humans, we can destroy things in a couple of years that have taken thousands or even millions of ye…

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Abolish Silicon Valley—How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism 48:54

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“Abolishing Silicon Valley means freeing the development of technology from a system that will always relegate it to a subordinate role, that of entrenching existing power relations. It means designing a new system that isn't deluged in the logic of the bucket. It means liberating our worlds from the illegitimate ring of capital. Perhaps this sound…

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Life As No One Knows It - Exploring AIR Aspen with NICOLA LEES - Highlights 9:04

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“For us, I think it really is about trust and commitments, and I don't think that has necessarily changed over the years. As we work on that, obviously, we are very much invested in how we can engage an audience and spark the curiosity that people are looking for. The most important thing often is how we can spark that curiosity in ourselves. As a …

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To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other with Author VIET THANH NGUYEN - Highlights 15:29

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“As a writer, I do believe that art and literature in and of themselves are important. I'm going to keep on writing novels, and one of the most important reasons why is because, as you mentioned, language is crucial. Part of the way that states and authoritarian regimes exercise their power is not just through physical violence and intimidation, bu…

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How to Make (and Keep) Real Friends as an Adult with Danielle Bayard Jackson - the Silent Struggles of Female Friendship, and Navigating FOMO 51:20

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Why are adult friendships so hard, and what can we actually do about it? In this episode, we’re joined by Danielle Bayard Jackson, a leading women’s relational health educator and author of Fighting for Our Friendships, to unpack the real (and often unspoken) dynamics of female friendships. From ghosting and group chat drama to making new friends a…

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The First Artist-Led Global Summit & The Future of Museums - NICOLA LEES, Director, Aspen Art Museum 46:04

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“It's a complicated time to think about how we can slow down, be still, and bring a brilliant group of people together to do something that feels purposeful and can be productive. It's a moment where things are moving so fast. When I brought up the idea of a hinge generation, I think it's impossible to know how we will look back and reflect on this…

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Ten Cases of Hope for Our Future w/ MONICA FERIA-TINTA - Highlights 15:10

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“I guess the book was about giving hope because I realized how much we could do together. I believe that ordinary people are the ones bringing changes here. I believe that the communities gathering together – for example, I am seeing that in this country around the protection of rivers – are the ones that will mark the change. It's not going to com…

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The Secret to Healthy Food That Actually Tastes Good: Samah Dada on Her Viral No-Bake Desserts, the Pantry Swaps That Will Change Your Cooking Forever and Making Comfort Food Clean 41:52

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You can have it all—healthy, delicious, and actually crave-worthy. This week, we’re joined by the brilliant and bubbly Samah Dada—cookbook author, wellness creator, and the force behind the cult-favorite blog Dada Eats. She’s here to prove that clean eating doesn’t have to mean boring, and that indulgent recipes can still be nourishing. From her vi…

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The Theory of Water with LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON 43:11

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“So I think that part of colonialism for Indigenous peoples has been this idea that Indigenous peoples aren't thinking peoples and that we don't have thought on a kind of systemic level. One of the things that I was interested in doing is intervening in that because I think Indigenous people have a lot of beautiful, very intellectual, theoretical c…

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Vivian Tu on the Money Habits Keeping You Broke, Building Wealth as a Woman, and Her No-BS Guide to Getting Rich AF 54:10

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What if getting rich didn’t mean cutting out your favorite latte or skipping that summer trip? In this refreshingly honest and helpful episode, we’re joined by Vivian Tu—former Wall Street trader, financial educator, NYT bestselling author of Rich AF, and the creator behind Your Rich BFF—to break down the money habits that are secretly keeping you …

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On Writing, America's Forever Wars & Challenging Power with Author VIET THANH NGUYEN 1:02:34

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“What I've discovered as a writer is that fear is a good indicator that there is a truth. To speak the truth in a society is oftentimes an act that requires some courage. Those processes of being an other for me in the United States were obviously very fundamental to shaping who I am as a person and as a writer. It was very difficult to undergo, bu…

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Writing, Imagination & Memory w/ Author & Filmmaker JAY PARINI 30:47

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“Poetry is the prince of the literary arts to me. It's at the very top because it's language refined to its apex of memorability. I am interested in poetry as memorability and poetry as something you live by. These are the words you live by. These words stay in your brain and guide your life. That's what I am interested in. My memoir slash autofict…

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Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 44:11

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In this episode on Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liu talks with M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi about their dazzling and challenging book, Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052 to 2072. They imagine a world haunted by genocide, ecocide, disease, fascism, and viral capitalism, but rather than…

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Is Ozempic Face Real? Dr. Alexandra Sowa Breaks Down Life On and Off GLP-1s, How to Avoid Regaining Weight, and the Biggest Myths Debunked 46:40

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Let’s be honest, everyone’s talking about GLP-1s (Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound), but no one’s telling the whole story. Until now.This week, we’re joined by the brilliant Dr. Alexandra Sowa—board-certified physician, NYU clinical instructor, founder of SoWell, and author of The Ozempic Revolution—for the ultimate deep dive into everything you actually …

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A Barrister for the Earth: Ten Cases of Hope for Our Future w/ MONICA FERIA-TINTA 58:34

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“I like young people to know that they're extremely powerful. So I'm one person, but I think I always had this positive idea about my role. You cannot let anyone tell you what limitations are there, so you shouldn't feel limited by anyone telling you this is as far as you can go, or this is what you can do. I think only you know about that, and I t…

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Constitutional Collapse & the Possibilities of a New Democracy w/ AZIZ RANA 42:32

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In this episode on Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liu talks with Aziz Rana about his brilliant and bracing article recently published in New Left Review, “Constitutional Collapse.” They talk about how the Trump administration and its enablers are shredding a liberal “compact” which was established in in the 1930s through the …