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Ep441 - Sarah Miller Caldicott | Innovate Like Edison
Talks at Google - April 26, 2024 07:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 113 ratingsSarah Miller Caldicott, the great grand-niece of Thomas Edison, visits Google to discuss her book "Innovate Like Edison: The Five Step System for Breakthrough Business Success." Thomas Edison is counted among the greatest innovators in American history. Edison's focus on practical accomplishme...
Ep440 - Bob Sutton & Huggy Rao | The Friction Project
Talks at Google - April 23, 2024 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 113 ratingsProfessors Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao visit Google to discuss their book “The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder.” This book is a useful guide to eliminating the forces that make it harder, more complicated, or downright impossible to get t...
Ep439 - Sara Mednick | Take a Nap! Change Your Life.
Talks at Google - April 19, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 113 ratingsSara Mednick visits Google to discuss her book, "Take a Nap! Change Your Life." Imagine a product that increases alertness, boosts creativity, reduces stress, improves perception, stamina, motor skills, and accuracy, helps you make better decisions, keeps you looking younger, aids in weight lo...
Ep438 - Stefanie Faye | Neuro-Mechanics of Mindset: How our Past Affects the Present
Talks at Google - April 16, 2024 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 113 ratingsNeuroscience specialist Stefanie Faye visits Google to discuss neurophysiology and its connection to mental health, drawing from her book Biomechanics of Human Communication: Neurophysiology, Regulation, and Systems Thinking. Stefanie Faye is a neuroscience specialist with expertise in optimiz...
Ep437 - Tammy Smith | Leadership and Inclusiveness in the Military
Talks at Google - April 12, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 113 ratingsMajor General Tammy Smith discusses her background as a member of the LGBTQ+ community in the US military, her experience as the highest ranking and first out-and-proud Major General, and what her leadership means to the LGBTQ+ community at large. Tammy Smith is a recently retired Army Major ...
Ep436 - Charan Ranganath | Why We Remember
Talks at Google - April 09, 2024 07:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 113 ratingsProfessor of psychology and neuroscience Charan Ranganath visits Google to discuss his book "Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters." The book reveals the powerful role memory plays in nearly every aspect of our lives, from recalling faces and names, to learning, de...
Ep435 - Mary Roach | Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Talks at Google - April 05, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 113 ratingsMary Roach visits Google to discuss her book "Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law." What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These...
Ep434 - Abby Wambach | International Women's History Month
Talks at Google - April 02, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 113 ratingsOlympic gold medalist, activist, author, and podcast host Abby Wambach visits Google to discuss her journey, career and International Women's Day. Abby Wambach is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, FIFA World Cup Champion, and six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award. She wa...
Ep433 - Sarah Lux-Lee | Building Belonging for a More Diverse & Inclusive Workplace
Talks at Google - March 29, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 113 ratingsSarah Lux-Lee visits Google to discuss Mindr and strategies for building belonging in the workplace through impactful employee communities, a culture of mentorship, and meaningful virtual connections. Mindr is a workforce development organization that builds belonging in the world's leading wo...
Ep432 - Kanchan Koya | Food and Spices as Medicine
Talks at Google - March 26, 2024 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 113 ratingsChef, nutrition coach and former molecular biologist Kanchan Koya visits Google to discuss her cookbook “Spice Spice Baby” and her podcast “Radical Vitality”, where she uses science-backed evidence to encourage the use of food, spices and holistic lifestyle changes as our best preventative medic...
Ep431 - Rudrani Chettri | A World of Inclusion and Acceptance
Talks at Google - March 22, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 113 ratingsRudrani Chettri visits Google to discuss her journey as a champion for LGBTQ rights in India, and how her initiatives are helping shape a new generation. A transgender Delhi native, Rudrani Chettri has spent over 10 years spreading awareness and fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in India. She founded...
Ep430 - Chris Anderson | Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading
Talks at Google - March 19, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 113 ratingsBestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED for over twenty years, Chris Anderson visits Google to discuss his book "Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading." The book explores one of humankind’s defining but overlooked impulses, and how we can super-charge its potenti...
Ep429 - Julie Lythcott-Haims | Your Turn: How to Be an Adult
Talks at Google - March 15, 2024 07:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 113 ratingsJulie Lythcott-Haims visits Google to discuss her book "Your Turn: How to Be an Adult". In the twentieth century, psychologists came up with five markers of adulthood: finish your education, get a job, leave home, marry, and have children. But early adulthood for members of the Millennial and...
Ep428 - Danielle Brooks | The Color Purple
Talks at Google - March 12, 2024 07:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 113 ratingsAward-winning actress and singer Danielle Brooks visits Google to discuss her journey, career, and her Oscar nominated performance as Sofia in the highly acclaimed film “The Color Purple.” Danielle rose to prominence for her portrayal of “Taystee” on the popular Netflix series Orange Is The Ne...
Ep427 - Shanna Swan | Count Down: The Future of the Human Race
Talks at Google - March 08, 2024 08:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 113 ratingsDr. Shanna Swan visits Google to discuss her book "Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race". In 2017, Dr. Shanna Swan and her team of researchers completed a major study, findin...
Ep426 - Vivian Tu | Rich AF
Talks at Google - March 05, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 113 ratingsVivian Tu visits Google to discuss her book "Rich AF: The Winning Money Mindset That Will Change Your Life." This book is a guide filled with the tools and knowledge to not only help you understand the financial landscape, but to build a financial strategy of your own. Vivian Tu is a former Wa...
Ep425 - Iza Calzado | Recognizing the Hero in All of Us
Talks at Google - March 01, 2024 08:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 113 ratingsIza Calzado is an award-winning Filipina actress, television host, dancer and model best known for her role as Amihan in the fantasy drama television series Encantadia. She was a former homegrown artist of the GMA Network for ten years. Iza is also the co-founder of “She Talks Asia”, through whi...
Ep424 - Min Jin Lee | Musings and Writings
Talks at Google - February 27, 2024 08:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 113 ratingsBestselling author Min Jin Lee visits Google to provide a masterclass on writing. In addition, she speaks about representation in media, fiction, non-fiction and her views on the evolving Asian-American identity. In 2019, Apple ordered a television adaptation of Min’s New York Times bestsellin...
Ep423 - Lang Lang | The Chopin Album
Talks at Google - February 23, 2024 08:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 113 ratingsLang Lang visits Google to perform pieces from his new album, “The Chopin Album”. This album includes the second set of Chopin's Études, the Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise, and a selection of shorter works that he has long enjoyed performing, including three Nocturnes and the Waltz op. 64 n...
Ep422 - Edward 'Ted' Miguel | Open Science: Assessing How to Do Good Better
Talks at Google - February 20, 2024 08:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 113 ratingsGlobal development leader, professor and author Edward ‘Ted’ Miguel visits Google to discuss how open science is transforming poverty reduction and global development. What really works in the fight to empower the world's poorest people? What's the science behind traditional development progr...
Ep421 - Shelby Ivey Christie | A Legacy of Looks: The Role of Black Fashion in Music
Talks at Google - February 16, 2024 08:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 113 ratingsShelby Ivey Christie visits Google to discuss the history of how the music industry has influenced Black fashion, how Black artists and costume designers influenced style for musical artists worldwide, and how Black fashion became and continues to be mainstream culture today. An ardent Fashion...
Ep420 - Mel B | Exploring Diverse Identities
Talks at Google - February 13, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 113 ratingsMel B visits Google to discuss her career journey, her memoir “Brutally Honest”, and her experiences as a person of mixed heritage. Melanie Brown is one-fifth of the most successful girl band on Earth, the Spice Girls. As ‘Scary Spice’, she became one of the most recognisable women in the worl...
Ep419 - Nikole Hannah-Jones | Modern Day Segregation
Talks at Google - February 09, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 113 ratingsNikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning investigative reporter covering racial injustice for the New York Time Magazine. Nikole has spent the last five years investigating how official policy creates and maintains racial segregation in American public schools. In 2016, Nikole helped found the ...
Ep418 - Michael D. Smith | Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World
Talks at Google - February 06, 2024 08:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 113 ratingsMichael Smith visits Google to discuss his book “The Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World.” For too long, our system of higher education has been defined by scarcity: scarcity in enrollment, scarcity in instruction, and scarcity in credentials. In addition to fail...
Ep417 - Matt Parker | Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
Talks at Google - February 02, 2024 08:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 113 ratingsMath is boring, says the mathematician and comedian Matt Parker. Part of the problem may be the way the subject is taught, but it's also true that we all, to a greater or lesser extent, find math difficult and counterintuitive. This counterintuitiveness is actually part of the point, argues Pa...
Ep416 - Andrew Keen | The Cult of the Amateur
Talks at Google - January 30, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 113 ratingsAndrew Keen visits Google to discuss his book “The Cult of the Amateur.” The book discusses the grave consequences of today’s new participatory internet and reveals how it threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the very innovation and creativity that forms the fabric of our societies. A...
Ep415 - Ray Jackendoff | The Peculiar Logic of Value
Talks at Google - January 26, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 113 ratingsRay Jackendoff visits Google to discuss "The Peculiar Logic of Value", which centers on how humans conceptualize systems of value. Jackendoff hypothesizes that value is conceptualized as an abstract property attributed to objects, persons, and actions. There are several distinct types of valu...
Ep414 - Lily Gladstone | Elevating Inspired Natives
Talks at Google - January 23, 2024 08:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 113 ratingsLily Gladstone visits Google to discuss her journey, her career, and to celebrate Native American Heritage Month. Lily was raised on the Blackfeet Reservation in Northwestern Montana and is from the Blackfeet and Nez Perce Tribal Nations. Lily stars in Martin Scorsese’s critically acclaimed fi...
Ep413 - Sri M | Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master - A Yogi's Autobiography
Talks at Google - January 19, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 113 ratingsSri M is a spiritual guide, social reformer and educationist. His transformational journey – from a young boy to a living yogi – is a fascinating story. He recently completed a Walk of Hope – a 15 month long padayatra, or “walking on foot”, in 2016, from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, spanning 7500 kil...
Ep412 - Nick Lane | The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
Talks at Google - January 16, 2024 08:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 113 ratingsNick Lane visits Google to discuss his new book “Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death.” What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been dominated by the study of genetic information. Information is important, but it is only part of what ...
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