The SALA Series Podcast

SALA Series Podcast returns for Season 2, coming soon!

Tara August has the enviable role of partnering with the loquacious, outspoken - and outsized - personality of Charles Barkley on “Inside the NBA” on Turner Sports. With an initial two-year deal with TNT signed in 2000, Barkley has entertained hundreds of millions of sports fans since. August not only keeps things on track, but she and Barkley have a decades-long friendship and business partnership few know about and most would envy.

Best-selling author and Chairman of The HOW Institute for Society, Dov Seidman pairs with Gregg Berhalter, head coach of the United States men's national soccer team. Berhalter's intentional build of team culture can be seen through the lens of Seidman's best-selling book: How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything. Explains Seidman: “Self-governing cultures both inspire alignment and eject elements that don't fit in.”

Recently voted as president of the NBA Players Association, purchasing a 300+ acre vineyard and releasing the McCollum Heritage 91 wine label, CJ McCollum epitomizes the next-generation of professional athlete: an entrepreneur, investor, new father and shooting guard extraordinaire.

The CEO of the Toronto Blue Jays and the CEO of the national nonprofit MENTOR happen to be brothers and one another's biggest fans.

Dynamic mother-son combination, highlighting a renowned civil rights lawyer, author and professor and her son, an activist in his own right, who leads the San Francisco Foundation.

Featuring the most decorated woman in Olympic track and field history and her brother and manager who have teamed up to launch and develop Saysh, a high-growth women's footwear and lifestyle brand.

Fellow travelers, former colleagues and dear friends who are making a dramatic impact in their respective worlds – Golston as President of the US Program for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Gayle as CEO of The Chicago Community Trust.

Remarkable allies, Duncan, the former US Secretary of Education founded the nonprofit Chicago CRED and works closely with Toler, Director of Outreach and a former Chicago gang leader, in an attempt to rewrite the story of gun violence in Chicago.

Featuring Rose, the provocative on-air talent for ESPN and former NBA star, and Green, a former NBA player and current rookie head coach with the New Orleans Pelicans. With a decades-long friendship, Rose and Green are from Detroit and proud of it.

Featuring Knox, an exoneree, journalist and author alongside Howard, a professor of government and law at Georgetown University, who founded the Frederick Douglass Project for Justice; a multi-state Prison Visitation Program that facilitates prison visits and engenders meaningful personal and systemic change.

CEO of the Obama Foundation, as well as a best-selling author and renown businessperson who was widely recognized as the single most influential person in the Obama White House during her eight years as senior advisor.

Welcome to the SALA Series Podcast – bringing together purpose-driven leaders and ideas that matter. Hosted by Dalen Cuff and Monica McNutt, SALA celebrates diverse voices and highlights a commitment to community and individuals who are driving positive change across the interrelated worlds of sports, entertainment, corporate and nonprofit.