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Caption: HERO, Credit: Foreign Policy
In this episode, we learn about two efforts to increase the number of women politicians in Africa. We begin with a surprising reality TV show in Ke...

Bought by KJZZ, WABE, KUT, WHFR, WYPR and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 27
Caption: Sharon Melnick draws a sharp distinction between having power, and being in your power.
Pushy. Manipulative. Lofty. We have a lot of negative views for powerful leaders – but that’s not what real power is about. When a leader is in th...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 49:43
Caption: Valerie Biden Owens, author of "Growing Up Biden," says that leadership begins with the values we learn as children.
It’s said that leaders are made, not born. That’s certainly true of the Biden family. Although Joe Biden is in the spotlight as the 46th President ...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 25:22
Caption: Rod Lacey learned the best way to empower employees: listen to them! That's led to many innovative changes in how people work at Australian software company simPRO.
There’s a fierce competition going on out there: competition for talent. While pundits debate how real the Great Resignation is, HR departments fa...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 56:08
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In this episode, we travel to Kansas City and St. Louis to learn about the impact of urban farming in the Midwest. We speak with Semra Fetahovic, ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode, we meet refugee chefs who now call the United States their home. In Milwaukee, Tables Across Borders brings the community together...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KRPS, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 14, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Pauline Koelbl's life was upended when she became a refugee from the war in Rwanda -- but she found opportunity despite that refugee status, and is now the driving force behind ShEquity -- a firm investing in and providing resources for women-owned busine
Women mean business. And they could mean even bigger business: closing the workforce gender gap could add $28 trillion to the global GDP. Paulin...

Bought by WKSU


  • Added: Mar 07, 2022
  • Length: 52:28
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rebecca Loebe, Credit: Rebecca Loebe Facebook
Singer/songwriter Rebecca Loebe creates music with a message. Whether social commentary on a grand scale or writing empowerment songs she herself n...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Aug 21, 2021
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode, we meet refugee chefs who now call the United States their home. In Milwaukee, Tables Across Borders brings the community together...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 08, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
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This month, Israel signed deals with two Gulf States on the White House South Lawn. These are the first Arab-Israel agreements in 25 years, known a...

Bought by Classic107.3, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Happiness [is an inside job]...
Purpose-driven and consciously prepared brain food from the beaches of Malibu, California. Join us on this week’s show focusing on Navigating the H...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2020
  • Length: 55:07
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Dr. Melanie Katzman,  author of “Connect First: 52 Simple Ways To Ignite Success, Meaning, and Joy At Work,” dives into some of the simple things ...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2020
  • Length: 42:06
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Betty Ray walked to the top of Bernal Hill at the turn of the millennium. She brought three things with her: a candle, her checkbook, and a ring.

  • Added: Feb 15, 2020
  • Length: 20:29
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What do the legal sex trade, gambling, and horse trading all have in common? They’re some of the unlikely places economist Allison Schrager has spe...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 41:33
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In 19th Century San Francisco's Chinatown only 1 in 10 people were women, and most of them were forced into prostitution, trafficked by criminal to...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KKRN, Louisville Public Media, KCSB-FM, KWIT and more


  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Last season on Inflection Point, we explored the concept of empowerment for women. And one of the many things we learned is that we can’t move the ...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KWIT, KKRN, Louisville Public Media, KCSB-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 29, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
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This week on the show: Sometimes it gets dark before it gets light - Want to feel joy? Listen to death metal, says a surprising new study. Also o...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Mar 27, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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After being witness to The Women’s March, MeToo, the Kavanaugh hearings, and a historic midterm election in which more American women were elected ...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
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What’s going on with men? Why is it so hard to negotiate the gender power dynamic in everyday situations, like work meetings? Can masculinity exist...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KWIT, KKRN, KSJD, KWMR and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
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In Episode 104 we aired my conversation with Ruth Whippman, Author of "America the Anxious. Why our search for happiness is driving us crazy and ho...

Bought by KWIT, KCSB-FM, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWIT, KUT and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Ruth Whippman
Author Ruth Whippman has been studying the self-improvement industry for years. She’s come to the conclusion that empowerment feminism is, well, BS...

Bought by KWMR, KUT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCSB-FM, KWIT and more


  • Added: Nov 21, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Erin Maye Quade
At age 32, Minnesota State Representative Erin Maye Quade is positioned to be at the forefront of a wave of progressive political leaders represent...

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  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Dr. Barbara Adams, Credit: Blink Inc
Organizational psychologist Dr. Barbara Adams says there is transformational power for everyone in diversity and inclusivity, but initiatives like ...

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Ask any woman who’s sat through a long meeting surrounded by men, and she could tell you how exhausting it can be: we struggle to make ourselves he...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WNIN, KWIT, KUT, KSJD and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: At the Commonwealth Club of CA
After Brief But Spectacular creator Steve Goldbloom filmed 94-year-old retired English teacher Flossie Lewis and “Black Girl Magic” poet activist M...

Bought by KWIT, KWMR, KUT, KKRN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 11