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Zach & Spencer on Election 2020
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - October 21, 2020 17:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsZach Friend is an author and a public policy and communications expert who has worked for Barack Obama and John Kerry’s presidential campaigns, the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the Democratic National Committee. He’s been featured on an...
Mike Madrid of the Lincoln Project
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - October 01, 2020 21:38 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe Lincoln Project is made up of top Republican political consultants who are aiming attack ads at a Republican president. We find out why and how from the Lincoln Project's Mike Madrid. Mike is an expert on Latino voting trends, based on work starting with his master’s thesis at Georgetown Un...
Ryan Coonerty: Facing Historic Wildfires and a Pandemic—at the Same Time
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - September 16, 2020 17:07 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAs a county supervisor in Santa Cruz County, California, Ryan Coonerty is having to cope with two historic challenges: the national coronavirus pandemic and the catastrophic western wildfires. Both disasters have hit his community hard. In this episode, host Spencer Critchley talks with him abou...
How to Do Social Impact Marketing That Works
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - June 24, 2020 19:12 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsSocial marketing uses the persuasion techniques normally used to sell potato chips, fashion, detergent, cars, and endless other consumer products, but for social good campaigns. Knowing how to do social marketing right is important to nonprofits, socially responsible corporations, and all oth...
Patriots of Two Nations: Why Trump Was Inevitable & What Happens Next
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - April 28, 2020 18:49 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe election of Donald Trump shocked America and the world — and that included Dastardly Cleverness host Spencer Critchley. But Spencer believes now that we should have seen him coming, like we should have seen the approach of this hyper-partisan crisis of democracy we're going through. He's ...
How to Communicate in a Crisis, With Brent Colburn
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - March 30, 2020 15:40 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBrent Colburn’s experience goes back to the Al Gore presidential campaign in 2000, through Howard Dean’s campaign in 2004, both Obama campaigns, FEMA, Homeland Security, HUD, and to the Pentagon, where he was in charge of communications for the Defense Department. After that, he led communicatio...
How Republicans Are Beating Democrats Online, With Mark Barker & Jordan Ruden
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - February 03, 2020 23:42 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsA big reason why Donald Trump won in 2016 — and why he may win again in 2020 — is that Republicans now seem to get social media, email, and the rest of the online world better than Democrats do, even though Democrats like Howard Dean and Barack Obama were online pioneers. In this episode, Mar...
Tracy Palandjian: Changing How Change Happens, With Pay for Success
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - December 11, 2019 21:43 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsHost Spencer Critchley talks with Tracy Palandjian, the co-founder and CEO of Social Finance, a nonprofit dedicated to using capital to drive social progress. So far, it has helped direct more than $100 million toward challenges in criminal justice, early childhood education, workforce developme...
Jake Harriman: Fight Terrorism By Ending Extreme Poverty
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - November 12, 2019 18:51 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsFor more than seven years, Jake Harriman was a US Marine, serving as a platoon commander in the Infantry and in a Special Operations unit. He was deployed in Southwest and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, and served two combat tours in Iraq. During the second tour, he earned the Bro...
Jenn Park: What If Government Just Did What Works?
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - October 07, 2019 21:31 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWe hear so many stories about government spending big money without getting results — to the point that many Americans agree with Ronald Reagan's famous assertion that government isn't the solution, it's the problem. That claim was never accurate, as government successes like the Internet, hig...
Elin Kelsey: How Optimism Can Help Save the Oceans
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - August 14, 2019 16:40 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings“We recognise and respect the many challenges facing our oceans, yet too often 'doom and gloom' stories are the only kind of ocean news we hear. "The evidence suggests that if we do not balance the bad news with good, and the problems with solutions, we will not motivate people to act.” That...
Jacob Martinez: How Digital NEST Helps Youth Take Flight
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - July 16, 2019 18:44 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsJacob Martinez is the founder of Digital NEST, an incubator for young tech talent in the farming towns of Watsonville and Salinas, California. Its graduates make an average starting salary of more than $46,000. The average Watsonville resident makes about $17,000. NEST graduates have been hire...
Alex Gershenson: The Huge Potential of Making Corporate Buying More Sustainable
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - May 21, 2019 17:51 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBig corporations buy what they need from all over the world because they're looking for the best prices. But increasingly, they’re also looking for environmental and social sustainability. For example, McDonald’s has committed to serving only sustainably-sourced coffee at all of its location...
Patrice Maginnis: How Tech—High & Low—Is Changing the World of the Blind & Visually Impaired
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - April 23, 2019 18:53 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsPatrice Maginnis has experienced life as someone who can see, and as someone who can’t. She was born with retinitis pigmentosa and gradually went blind, losing all usable sight at age 60. Patrice has learned to adapt and to thrive. And she helps others do the same, through her work with the Vi...
Saving Democracy: The Way Forward
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - March 26, 2019 19:18 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsOur episode this time is a live recording of a terrific panel discussion featuring some very smart people from across the ideological spectrum who have national experience in politics and media. Amanda Renteria, Mike Madrid, Debbie Mesloh, Dan Schnur, Kristin Olsen, and Zach Friend joined host...
Bud Colligan: Social Entrepreneur
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - February 04, 2019 22:21 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBusiness drives our economy — but our guest this episode thinks it can also make society better. Bud Colligan has been part of some of the most successful businesses of our time, including Apple. He’s also a social entrepreneur: he invests in ventures that promise to achieve social good, such as...
The New Congress: Be Right or Do Right?
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - January 10, 2019 01:21 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsCan we look at the top priorities for the new Congress without talking about likability, who curses more, or a dancing video? Yes we can. On Dastardly Cleverness: Politics Edition it's not about the horse race, or the latest outrage, but how to make politics do what it’s supposed to do: make ...
Lenny Mendonca: Why Progressive Federalism May Be the Answer to America's Problems
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - December 16, 2018 21:36 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsLenny Mendonca, a former senior partner with McKinsey & Company and a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, is the co-founder of New America, a self-described “think and action tank." In this fascinating conversation with host Spencer Critchley, Lenny explains why he believes ...
Beyond the Horse Race: What the Election Can Teach Us About Making Change
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - November 14, 2018 21:02 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIt was called the most important election of our lifetimes, but so much of the coverage has been the same old horse race stuff. Not on Dastardly Cleverness, though: in this episode we dig deep with experts who have worked with Barack Obama, John McCain and the Democratic National Committee, amo...
Highlights From Our First Year
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - October 02, 2018 16:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWe’re celebrating our first season with highlights from the past year! It's an episode full of gifts of insight from leading social innovators, on the future of work, universal basic income, reforming the way we bank and invest, why we vote the way we do, saving the oceans, saving democracy, and...
Amanda Renteria: How to Create Impact in the Public & Private Sectors
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - September 04, 2018 16:20 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsRaised in a farmworking family, Amanda Renteria has worked for Goldman Sachs, the City of San Jose, and two senators; has been a teacher and coach at her old high school; has run for Congress; held a top position in Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign; directed operations for the California ...
Saving Democracy: National Perspectives From Left & Right
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - July 12, 2018 22:25 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsHow did the world's leading democracy get in so much trouble? To talk about that — and what we should do about it — "Saving Democracy" brought together a bipartisan panel with experience in Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns, the federal government, Congress, national media, the ...
Joe Sanberg: We Can - And Must - End Poverty in 30 Years
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - June 28, 2018 17:38 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsJoe Sanberg grew up in poverty, raised for much of his childhood by a single mother who worked hard but still struggled to secure food and shelter. With scholarships and financial aid, he was able to get into Harvard, and after he graduated magna cum laude, he sought out the highest paying job...
Find a Purpose or Face the Pitchforks: This Ad Agency Is Betting on Doing What's Right
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - May 29, 2018 17:49 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsDrew Train was a rising star on Madison Avenue, working at the legendary J Walter Thompson agency for clients like HSBC, one of the biggest banks in the world. But at night, he was going to Occupy Wall Street rallies. That's because he thought something had gone very wrong with business: it ...
What If Everyone Were Guaranteed a Paycheck?
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - May 02, 2018 18:51 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWhat if everyone got paid - even if they didn’t have a job? That’s the idea behind universal basic income, or UBI. Its advocates say we need it to protect humans who are losing their jobs to robots — and as one of the best ways to end poverty. In this episode, Spencer Critchley talks to Natali...
How to Communicate for Impact
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - April 11, 2018 14:38 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWe sometimes think that good communicators are just born talented, like a Jefferson or a Lincoln. And it’s probably true that the great ones have a special gift. But it’s also true that anyone can learn to communicate better. To explore how, Spencer talks to Sean Smith, who has worked on presi...
Can We Make Government Work?
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - March 21, 2018 12:59 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsDan Schnur is a professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communications and the University of California – Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies. He worked on four presidential and three gubernatorial campaigns as one of California’s leading Republican pol...
Why Do We Vote the Way We Do?
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - February 26, 2018 13:01 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWhen Santa Fe Institute Professor Mirta Galesic was a teenager, her country fell apart. She lived in what was then Yugoslavia. But after the death of president for life Josip Broz Tito, that country was riven by ethnic nationalism. Amidst all the competing claims and rumors spawned by the tu...
North Korea & WMD: How to Think About the Unthinkable
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - January 24, 2018 18:53 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsSpencer talks with David Schmerler, a researcher who keeps track of North Korea and its weapons of mass destruction. David says his work can be like a spy novel, or a video game — and in fact he even helped create a Minecraft simulation to help people understand what’s at stake. But knowing the ...
The Future of Work with Kristin Wolff
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - January 04, 2018 04:31 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsEverything about jobs is now open to question — including whether jobs will even exist. To sort it out, we talk this time about robots, the gig economy, income inequality, the disruption of education — even bitcoin. All that and more from someone whose job is to work on the future of work: socia...
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