Latest The wall Podcast Episodes
Listen on Purpose: Choosing Kindness (with Kevin Martinez)
KindredCast - September 19, 2023 04:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsJoin Rachel Kraus and Caryl Stern as they "Play on Purpose" and examine the intersection of purpose and business in the sports industry. This episode, VP of Corporate Citizenship at ESPN Kevin Martinez takes us through his work building bridges between corporate growth and social respon...
Gus Kappler Is Still Angry
Echoes of the Vietnam War - September 15, 2023 15:04 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsGus Kappler laughs a lot. If you met him in line at the grocery store, you’d never guess that he spent a year in Vietnam as a real-life Hawkeye Pierce performing unimaginable surgeries on young men with unspeakable injuries. It made him angry, and that hasn’t changed. What has changed is the way ...
Angel Fire
Echoes of the Vietnam War - August 31, 2023 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsIn a remote mountain town, a father turns his devastating personal loss into a place for public healing and remembrance.
Listen on Purpose: Moving Forward Faster (with Adam Met)
KindredCast - August 28, 2023 04:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsJoin Rachel Kraus and Caryl Stern as they investigate the intersection of business and purpose. This episode, AJR band member and founder of Planet Reimagined Adam Met finds meaning in music, travel, and creating a better world for future generations. See Privacy Policy at https://art1...
CHOOK
Echoes of the Vietnam War - August 17, 2023 16:27 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsU.S. and Australian forces have fought side-by-side in every major conflict since World War I, and some 60,000 Australian service members served in the Vietnam War. August 18 is Vietnam Veterans Day in Australia, and in honor of that commemoration we bring you the personal story of an Australian ...
Listen on Purpose: “Philanthropy, Service, and Legacy” (with Todd Jacobson)
KindredCast - July 31, 2023 04:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsJoin Rachel Kraus and Caryl Stern as they “Play on Purpose” and examine the intersection of purpose and business in the sports industry. This episode, SVP of Social Responsibility for the NBA Todd Jacobson discusses the importance of community outreach through programs like NBA Cares an...
The Red Scarf
Echoes of the Vietnam War - July 25, 2023 15:30 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsWhile pursuing his lifelong ambition of becoming an infantry platoon leader, John Hedley overcame a lot of obstacles. His reward at the end of that long, difficult road was a tour in Vietnam starting in July of 1969, where he would lead the Army’s legendary red-scarved recon platoon known as Fox ...
Listen on Purpose: Diversity is a Good Investment (with Don Garber)
KindredCast - July 17, 2023 13:14 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsJoin Rachel Kraus and Caryl Stern as they "Play on Purpose" and examine the intersection of purpose and business in the sports industry. In this episode, Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber explains why investing in DEI not only improves the lives of players and fans alike, but ...
POSTSCRIPT: Denny and the Sculptor
Echoes of the Vietnam War - July 14, 2023 15:59 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsIn EP55 we shared the story of Dennis Lobbezoo, one of 142 service members whose names are on the wall and who were born on the fourth of July. In this postscript, his then-fiancée Joyce Washburn shares the story of Denny and the surgeon-turned-sculptor who was inspired to cast the young Marine’s...
Born on the Fourth of July
Echoes of the Vietnam War - July 04, 2023 14:03 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsJuly 4th is the birthday of the United States of America. It’s also the birthday of 142 service members whose names are on The Wall at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This is the story of one of them — Dennis Lobbezoo of Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is remembered by his then-fiancée, Joyce Washburn....
Filmmaker Chris Temple on the Memification of Investing
KindredCast - June 30, 2023 04:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsFresh off the sold-out debut of his new film, “This is Not Financial Advice,” at the Tribeca Film Festival, Filmmaker Chris Temple sits with Kindred Media’s Laura Clinton to dig into the wild dynamics of today’s investing trends. Inspired by his own feelings of FOMO during the 2021 cryp...
Tunnel Rats (Part 2)
Echoes of the Vietnam War - June 21, 2023 20:12 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsIn the wake of Operation Cedar Falls, tunnel-rat duties in the 1st Infantry Division were transferred to the 1st Engineer Battalion where men began to specialize in it. In this episode, we’ll hear personal stories from members of the Diehard Tunnel Rats. [WARNING: This episode contains vivid desc...
Tunnel Rats (Part 1)
Echoes of the Vietnam War - June 07, 2023 18:07 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsCommunist forces in South Vietnam used vast networks of subterranean tunnels as hiding places, bomb shelters, weapons factories, food stores, headquarters… even surgical hospitals. In this episode we’ll introduce you to the 1st Infantry Division’s dedicated team of Tunnel Rats — combat engineers ...
Unwavering
Echoes of the Vietnam War - May 10, 2023 15:17 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsThere are more than 72,000 U.S. service members still unaccounted for from World War II -- a war we fought in for four years. The number missing after 20 years of combat in Afghanistan? Zero. That’s no accident; it represents a dramatic shift in policy and priorities, another unheralded legacy of...
A Guided Tour of Diversified Korean Tech Powerhouse Naver with its CFO, Namsun Kim
KindredCast - May 01, 2023 04:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsGet an inside look into one of Korea's largest publicly listed technology companies, Naver Corporation, with their CFO, Namsun Kim, joining from Seoul. In this interview with LionTree Managing Director Antal Runneboom, the pair dive into Naver's distinct strategy at the intersection of ...
No Words Necessary
Echoes of the Vietnam War - April 26, 2023 18:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsFor the tens of thousands of families who received tragic news during the Vietnam War, their lives were profoundly changed at that moment and their reactions to the news covered the full range of human grief. Imagine being the person who rang doorbell after doorbell for months on end, triggering ...
Familiar Voices, Surprising Updates
Echoes of the Vietnam War - April 12, 2023 13:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsTo celebrate the fiftieth episode of our podcast, we reconnect with a few of the people who have shared their stories with us over the past two years. They talk about what they’ve been up to since, and we discover some surprising, real-life connections resulting from the podcast.
Operation Babylift
Echoes of the Vietnam War - March 30, 2023 17:11 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsThroughout the month of April 1975, in a mass evacuation known as Operation Babylift, around 2,000 infants and children were airlifted from orphanages in South Vietnam to the United States. In this episode, we bring you stories from the first and last flights of that operation — one ending in tra...
Football, Family and Finding New Paths with Hall of Famer Peyton Manning
KindredCast - March 27, 2023 04:01 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsIt’s KindredCast Meets ManningCast, as LionTree Managing Director Alex Michael sits down with NFL legend Peyton Manning. And, sure, they talk about football a bit - even Peyton’s foray into Flag Football (assistant) coaching - but this fascinating conversation explores Peyton’s post-pig...
Humping The Boonies
Echoes of the Vietnam War - March 15, 2023 17:30 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsOf the 58,281 names on the wall, two-thirds of them died in 1967, ‘68, and ‘69. Robin Bartlett landed in I Corps right smack in the middle of that period. His training sergeant at Camp Evans said to him, “your life expectancy is less than 90 days.” In this episode, Robin talks about the realities...
Bonus Episode: Aryeh Bourkoff Interviewed by Michael Eisenberg on the Debut Episode of "Invested by Aleph”
KindredCast - March 13, 2023 04:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsLionTree Founder, Chairman and CEO Aryeh B. Bourkoff recently appeared on the debut episode of "Invested by Aleph," interviewed by Michael Eisenberg. Michael is a Partner at Israel-based Venture Capital fund Aleph. Their expansive conversation covers everything from Aryeh's views on the...
Repo Depot
Echoes of the Vietnam War - March 02, 2023 05:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsFor soldiers joining the Vietnam War after the initial buildup, the first stop in Vietnam was usually at a replacement battalion — commonly referred to as a “repo depot” — where they would wait to be assigned to a unit. Those few hours or days unfolded in a strange kind of limbo where hot emotion...
Listen on Purpose with Rachel Kraus and Aaron Mitchell
KindredCast - February 27, 2023 05:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsRachel Kraus is the Managing Director/Partner at DoAble, a brand strategy and marketing collective and Executive-in-Residence at LionTree. In this episode of Listen on Purpose, UNICEF Board Member and former HR leader for Netflix Animation Studio Aaron Mitchell shows us how he’s used wh...
Donut Dollies
Echoes of the Vietnam War - February 16, 2023 14:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsAmerican Red Cross volunteers known as “Donut Dollies” were often called in to visit a unit after it had been experienced intense fighting and had suffered heavy casualties. Why would any twenty-something, college-educated woman volunteer to work in a war zone halfway around the world? In this ep...
How the Ukraine Conflict Began, and How It Might End with LionTree’s Yuri Brodsky
KindredCast - February 13, 2023 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsToday, on a special edition of Kinsights, we hear from LionTree Managing Director Yuri Brodsky in conversation with Kindred Media’s Laura Clinton, as we mark one year since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Yuri, who grew up in Ukraine prior to the fall of the Soviet Union, discusses the cu...
Joe Zengerle
Echoes of the Vietnam War - February 01, 2023 21:25 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsDecember of 1967 was a pivotal time to arrive in Vietnam. A month later, the Tet Offensive would alter the course of the war, public sentiment about its prosecution, and the direction of a presidency. From his unique vantage point as General William Westmoreland’s special assistant, Joe Zengerle ...
NTWRK CEO Aaron Levant: From High School Dropout to Industry Disrupter
KindredCast - January 30, 2023 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsToday, LionTree’s Ali Walton gets the download from serial entrepreneur Aaron Levant, CEO of NTWRK. Aaron’s path to leading the livestream e-commerce platform - described as “MTV meets QVC in a mobile video package” - was anything but straight. He takes us through his auspicious beginni...
Capt. Jack Ensch
Echoes of the Vietnam War - January 19, 2023 13:30 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 85 ratings*The pilot awarded the Navy Cross was Capt. Ronald E. “Mugs” McKeown. Commander Michael William Doyle was the pilot of the downed F-4 Phantom. CDR Michael W Doyle is honored on Panel 1W, Line 69 of The Wall: https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/13877/MICHAEL-W-DOYLE-2/
The 2023 Outlook
KindredCast - January 17, 2023 05:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsLionTree Founder and CEO Aryeh B. Bourkoff sits down with public markets lead Leslie Mallon to discuss his outlook and expectations for 2023. This annual conversation aims to provide forward-looking insight into topics that are top-of-mind heading into 2023, spanning everything from the...
The 2023 Sector Outlook: LionTree’s Alex Michael on Sports
KindredCast - January 15, 2023 05:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsLionTree Managing Director Alex Michael discusses what he sees in store for Sports in 2023 with Kindred Media's Laura Clinton. This episode is part of LionTree’s 2023 Sector Outlook series leading up to the release of LionTree CEO Aryeh Bourkoff's 2023 Outlook. Any reference to invest...
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