Podcasts about Anil

Músicas de tránsito atlántico y mestizaje global, tradiciones afrodescendientes, herencias ibéricas y lenguajes contemporáneos de la canción y el jazz. Clásicos de Músicas posibles en sus 30 años.Sou Eu — Virgínia Rodrigues con Tiganá Santana — Mama Kalunga Mama Kalunga — Tiganá Santana — Mama Kalunga Land of Love — Lokua Kanza — Lokua Chan Chan — Buena Vista Social Club — Buena Vista Social Club Cabo Verde Mandá Manténha — Cesária Évora — Café Atlântico World Citizen – I Won’t Be Disappointed/Looped Piano — Ryuichi Sakamoto — Chasm Balança Pema — Marisa Monte — Verde, Anil, Amarelo, Cor de Rosa e Carvão La Curva — Bill Frisell con Vinicius Cantuária — The Intercontinentals Debí Llorar — Javier Colina Trío y Sílvia Pérez Cruz — En la Imaginación Parte del aire — Fito Páez y Luis Alberto Spinetta — La La La My Heart, My Life — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan y Michael Brook — Night Song Plus rien ne m’étonne — Tiken Jah Fakoly — Coupe de Gueule Minha flor — Gilsons — Eu Vejo Luz Em Maior Proporção Do Que Eu Vejo A Escuridão Mati Mati — Mario Lucio — IndependanceEscuchar audio

Anil Gupta overcame suicide in 2008 and has since then formulated the Happiness Formula, The Happiness Test, the Relationship Score and the Relationship Ratio, spoken on Fox News, Harvard, Sky TV, Tedx, i Heart radio, written three international best sellers and founded The Happiness Score. He developed the Three Way Test to have immensely more success in relationships. He has spoken on many stages alongside Les Brown, Richard Branson, Marcus Lemonis, Daymond John, Sharon Lechter. Anil has spoken in 18 countries and had his work translated in 8 languages over 4 continents. He has spoken to crowds of over 10,000 people and has been invited by world leaders to meet them like the Dalai Lama, royalty, presidents and billionaires as well as general members of the public. Anil is on a mission to share his knowledge so that people can lead reacher fuller happier lives with  methodologies that are practical, powerful and with immediate results. As a world traveler, he has traveled to over 80 countries and experienced many cultures.

What if the fatigue you've learned to live with is the earliest warning sign of something building inside you for years? In this episode of the Medical Disruptor I sit down with Dr. Anil Bajnath, a board-certified physician and the founder of a precision medicine institute, to talk about why so many of us feel exhausted, foggy, and off, and what's actually driving it beneath the surface. We get into what's really fueling chronic fatigue at the cellular level, why our healthcare system is built to catch disease far too late, and what you can actually do to find the root cause instead of being told to just manage your stress.  Dr. B also shares how to take real agency over your own health, the one question more patients should be asking, and why the future of medicine is built around you instead of population averages. If you've ever felt unheard, or knew something was off even when you couldn't explain it, this conversation will help you understand your own body well enough to get ahead of disease instead of waiting for it. Want more practical health tips? Join my newsletter! https://freechapter.lpages.co/newsletter-opt-in/ Still second guessing yourself in the exam room? Click here! https://freechapter.lpages.co/self-gaslighting-habits-to-watch-for/ Check us out on social media: https://www.instagram.com/drefratlamandre https://www.facebook.com/drefratlamandre https://www.tiktok.com/@drefratlamandre #functionalmedicine #drefratlamandre #medicaldisruptor  #NPwithaPHD #nursepractitioner #medicalgaslighting Chapters: 00:00 From Whole Foods to Precision Medicine 05:43 Why the System Diagnoses Too Late 09:17 The Language of Multiomics 19:32 The Biological Audit 27:48 Patient Agency & Medical Gaslighting 34:22 The Future of Medicine is N of One Guest Links: FB: https://www.facebook.com/doctoranilbajnath/ IG: @DrAnilBajnath YT: https://www.youtube.com/@Pursuit.of.Precision Website: https://ifho.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of CFO at Home, Vince·s guest is Anil Gupta (AKA ·The Love Doctor·), an author, speaker, and relationship coach, who says many relationship breakdowns·especially around money·stem from lack of authentic communication and emotional safety. Anil shares the story of his 2008 financial collapse, and how his wife·s supportive response changed everything, leading him to build a speaking and media career. They discuss how financial conflict is often miscommunication, the importance of listening and responding (not reacting), and ensuring your partner has input on financial decisions, while also making them feel loved and respected. Anil then shares info on his books, virtual coaching, and resources at meetanil.com, to help develop and polish these skills 01:05 Meet the Love Doctor 02:29 Relationship Expert Mission 04:10 Money Fights and Safety 05:54 Rock Bottom to Breakthrough 09:28 Budget Talks Without Blame 13:55 Support Over Compromise 20:11 Money Stories and Paris 25:50 Build the Communication Muscle 31:22 Books Coaching and Programs 36:35 Final Kindness Challenge Key Links https://meetanil.com/ https://www.instagram.com/anilgupta_lovedoctor https://www.facebook.com/AnilLoveDoc https://www.youtube.com/@AnilLoveDoc https://www.linkedin.com/in/anilgupta-lovedoctor/ https://gitnux.org/marriage-happiness-statistics/ Contact the Host - vince@thecfoathome.com Want to be a guest on CFO at Home? Send Vince a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/1628643039567x840793309030672500  

In this episode of the Nation's Blind Podcast, Melissa and Anil are joined by Corbb O'Connor and Deja Powell to discuss their experiences as blind parents and share advice for new or future moms and dads.

Lancement de la série « Le Trésor de Michael Saylor » : lecture intégrale et commentée en français du livre d'Anil Patel, une excellente compilation des enseignements phares du bitcoiner le plus influent des 5 dernières années.Ancien étudiant en aéronautique du MIT, survivant miraculé de la bulle internet, Michael Saylor a transformé l'entreprise de logiciels MicroStrategy en Strategy, un véritable véhicule Bitcoin (près de 850 000 BTC détenus). Il voit en Bitcoin bien plus qu'un actif : une forme supérieure d'argent, une cristallisation de l'énergie, un protocole qui redéfinit la richesse, la propriété et le temps lui-même. Sa pédagogie du Bitcoin est unique ne laisse personne indifférent et Anil nous en livre ici une magnifique compilation. Au programme de cette introduction :• Qui est vraiment Michael Saylor et quel est son parcours ?• Comment il bascule en 2020 sur Bitcoin ? • En quoi consiste son plan « Cheval de Troie » pour infiltrer le système financier ?• Pourquoi l'évolution de sa trajectoire suscite de vigoureux débats au sein de la communauté.• Présentation détaillée de la structure de la série : lecture du livre + interviews exclusives avec les meilleurs experts francophonesLes invités confirmés pour la première partie « Energie » : Pierre Noizat (Paymium, auteur de « L'Energie, face cachée de la monnaie », Sébastien Gouspillou (Big Block Group), Sébastien Desteuque (INBi).Cette série est un excellent tremplin pour élever votre compréhension du Bitcoin à un niveau philosophique, énergétique, culturel et civilisationnel. Si vous voulez comprendre non seulement qui est Saylor et ce qu'il fait, mais surtout pourquoi sa vision pourrait marquer un tournant dans l'histoire monétaire de l'humanité… vous êtes au bon endroit.#Bitcoin #MichaelSaylor #MicroStrategy #BTCFrance #LeTrésorDeMichaelSaylor #PodcastBitcoin #MonnaieSaine #ÉnergieBitcoin #HODLSuivez BTC TouchPoint sur le web, Twitter, et YouTube

Hidden toxins stored in your fat cells could be the real reason you can't lose weight after 40—even when you're doing everything "right." In this episode of Functional Moms Podcast (#104), Dr. Anil Bajnath, founder of the American Board of Precision Medicine and author of The Longevity Equation, breaks down how precision medicine uncovers the hormonal imbalances, metabolic dysfunction, and stored environmental toxins that drive stubborn weight, fatigue, and perimenopause symptoms.If you're a woman 35–55 navigating perimenopause, menopause, or unexplained weight gain, this conversation is your roadmap to a personalized N-of-1 protocol — not another generic diet plan. We cover the hallmarks of aging, biological audits, the 3 detox pathways (pee, poop, sweat), lymphatic drainage, sauna therapy, and the biomarkers every woman should be testing.▶️ WHAT YOU'LL LEARNWhy "average" medicine fails women in perimenopause and menopauseHow toxins get stored in fat cells (and why dieting alone makes it worse)The biological audit Dr. Bajnath uses to find hidden root causesHormonal shifts in perimenopause that sabotage weight lossThe 3 detox routes — sweat, urine, and stool — and how to optimize eachWhy N-of-1 precision medicine is the future of women's healthcareTop biomarkers to ask your doctor for in 2026

Are you considering a non-surgical liquid rhinoplasty, or do you want to understand what it takes to completely rebuild the central feature of the human face? In this very special episode of Big Butts No Lies, Mavi sits down with her very first overseas guest from the UK, board-certified facial plastic surgeon Dr. Anil Joshi. Dr. Joshi details the intense clinical complexities behind nasal reconstruction caused by severe trauma, skin cancer, or extensive cocaine abuse. He explains the three-dimensional architecture of the nose and why it represents the highest stakes in facial plastic surgery. We also dive into an urgent safety warning regarding liquid rhinoplasty (nasal fillers)—explaining how a single incorrect injection can accidentally hit an artery, leading to immediate tissue necrosis, severe nose destruction, or even permanent blindness. Social Media Accounts

Voor aflevering 56 schoof schrijver én mede-eigenaar van Another Brewing Company Anil Wagemans aan. Samen met zijn goede vriend Lucas richtte hij in 2025 ABC op - een craftbiermerk met niet alleen opvallende smaken, maar ook een compleet eigen universum eromheen.

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This week we are working with the Astro charts of ChatGpt & Bard (later re-named Gemini) two language models and Anil Seth https://www.anilseth.com/ a British neurosceintist who talks about how Ai can't have conciouness ...so therefore (I think) it can't replace Astrologers. I talked about ChatGpt's creation in 2023 here https://astromary.libsyn.com/episode-325-chatgpt-ai-artificial-intelligence Here is Anil's latest TedX talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJV-vdbZ388 ChatGpt Libra Asc, Sun Gemini, Moon Pisces   Bard, later named Gemini Cancer Asc, Sun Aquarius, Moon Virgo   Anil Seth no birth time Sun, Moon, Mercury & Saturn in Gemini      

Dans une lettre adressée à la présidente de l'Assemblée nationale, Shirin Aumeeruddy-Cziffra, cinq des dix membres du Public Accounts Committee (PAC), notamment Kaviraj Rookny, Tony Apollon, Reza Saumtally, Ram Etwareea et Raveen Jagurnauth, dénoncent les prises de position publiques du président du comité, Adrien Duval. Les signataires estiment que le rapport spécial sur le stockage des fournitures médicales du ministère de la Santé a été utilisé à des fins politiques, tout en rappelant avoir activement participé à son élaboration. Dans une déclaration à Top FM, le député Kaviraj Rookny a affirmé que l'ensemble des membres du PAC soutient le contenu du rapport. Toutefois, il conteste la manière dont celui-ci a été présenté publiquement. Selon Kaviraj Rookny, certaines déclarations d'Adrien Duval donnent l'impression d'une tentative de récupération politique visant à faire porter la responsabilité de la situation au ministre de la Santé, Anil Bachoo. Le député Rookny a également indiqué que le ministre de la Santé et ses officiers ont dû faire face à une situation d'urgence dès leur arrivée au ministère, évoquant notamment des difficultés administratives et financières héritées du passé. Kaviraj Rookny soutient par ailleurs que, malgré les visites effectuées dans les entrepôts concernés, aucune présence de rats n'a été constatée.

Prior authorization is now a bot‑to‑bot conversation waiting to happen. The only thing missing is the interoperability standard.In this episode of Tech It to the Limit, former co-host Sarah Harper returns as the show's first guest in its bold new format, making the case for going analog in a hyper connected world. She explores how the constant presence of screens, notifications, and digital noise has quietly become a wellness problem, not just for patients, but for caregivers and designers alike. Drawing from her own life audit, her kids' tin can phone, and the growing cultural backlash against smartphones, she argues that the health tech industry must design for unplugging just as intentionally as it designs for engagement. The conversation challenges builders and clinicians to ask a harder question: is the technology we're adding actually improving lives, or just adding to the noise?Then, recorded live at HLTH in Los Angeles, Elliott sits down with Dr. Anil Jain, Chief Innovation Officer at Innovaccer, for a candid conversation on what autonomous healthcare actually looks like in practice. Drawing from his time at IBM Watson Health and years leading large scale health system transformation, Dr. Jain unpacks why AI for the sake of AI has never been the right message, how data quality remains the unglamorous prerequisite to everything, and why the EMR rollout is a cautionary tale worth revisiting. He also shares what Innovaccer is building right now, from AI powered heart failure management to prior authorization automation, and makes the case that AI orchestration is the next great interoperability challenge.Tune in to hear why the future of health technology may depend equally on knowing when to unplug and when to automate, and why both require the same thing: designing with real people at the center..In this episode:[00:00] Introduction[01:21] Welcoming back Sarah Harper[03:55] Going analog in a digital world[07:02] Analog trends in pop culture[20:00] Sponsored skit: Parent Trap AI[22:34] Introducing Dr. Anil Jain[27:57] The importance of data quality in AI[33:51] Designing empathy into AI[36:22] The vision for autonomous healthcare[43:45] Innovator's real-world solutions[47:03] The future of prior authorization[49:50] Advice for digital health founders[51:01] Episode wrap-up Resources:Tech It To The Limit PodcastWebsite Apple PodcastSarah HarperLinkedIn -https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahbethharperDr. Anil JainLinkedIn -https://www.linkedin.com/in/aniljainmd/Innovaccer: https://innovaccer.com/Elliott WilsonLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewelliottwilson

Traitement médical à l'étranger : Anil Bachoo accuse certaines entités d'exploiter la vulnérabilité des patients by TOPFM MAURITIUS

In this episode of the Nation's Blind Podcast, Melissa and Anil are joined by Gary Wunder. They dive into the story of Adelmo Vigil, president of the NFB of New Mexico. They discuss how he overcame obstacles such as being prevented from learning Braille, being told that he couldn't teach in a mainstream public school, and his advocacy in the organized blind movement.

Anil Keshary Shah, a banking professional with over 30 years of experience, currently serves as Director at Nabil Bank. He became the bank's first Nepali CEO in 2004 and has contributed to its growth over the years.

In this episode of the Nation's Blind Podcast, Anil is joined by blind comedians Yvonne Neubert and Shannon Cantan. Tune in for laughs, great storytelling, and their journey through comedy. Important Link Homepage | National Federation of the Blind of Performing Arts Division

Although Chris didn't join us this week (he had some behind-the-scenes undercover work to do with Anil), Darrell and repeat guest and frequent feedbacker ShelkyBean are here to share their thoughts on this episode of Fringe! Also sharing their thoughts on “The Recordist” are some phenomenal Fringe feedbackers like Rory, Anna (not Torv), Erin, and Geoff (xorce11)! The post S5E4 The Recordist appeared first on Golden Spiral Media- Entertainment Podcasts, Technology Podcasts & More.

Although Chris didn't join us this week (he had some behind-the-scenes undercover work to do with Anil), Darrell and repeat guest and frequent feedbacker ShelkyBean are here to share their thoughts on this episode of Fringe! Also sharing their thoughts on "The Recordist" are some phenomenal Fringe feedbackers like Rory, Anna (not Torv), Erin, and Geoff (xorce11)! Next up is the incredibly pivotal episode "The Bullet That Saved the World" when we will be joined by Erin! We only have ten episodes of Fringe left to cover, so if you would like to be featured in our feedback section, be sure to reach out with your thoughts via one of the contact methods listed below! Links Mentioned: The Fringe Podcast Episode 506 - "The Recordist" The Fringe Podcast Episode 507 - Feedback for "The Recordist" Stream Fringe Theme by LawlPie Fringe Connections - "The Recordist" Fringe Matters - "Fringe - 'The Recordist' (5.03)" The Fringemunks - "Epis. 5.03: The Recordist" Fringe Playlist by Chris Connect with Us: Golden Spiral Media Community Portal Golden Spiral Media's Twitter Page The Fringe Podcast Rewatch's Instagram Page Listener Feedback Webpage Join Our Live Show!  

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Most people gamble on love. We make big promises on small information, then wonder why chemistry fizzles into conflict. Today we pull the curtain back with Anil Gupta—TEDx speaker, triple best-selling author, and the “Love Doctor”—to share a clear framework for happiness and a practical method to choose partners who are truly safe for your heart.We start with G³, a simple formula that compounds well-being. From there, we connect happiness to attraction: when your inner state shifts, so does the quality of people you draw in.Then we dismantle the guesswork in dating. Anil introduces ABCD.The heart of the conversation is forgiveness. Letting go of resentment toward parents, exes, and yourself clears the residue that distorts attraction and reactions. Love stops being a slot machine and becomes a craft you can learn.If this conversation moves you, share it with a friend who needs clarity in love, hit follow, and leave a review with the one question you'll ask on your next date. Your story might help someone else find the courage to choose better.Send us Fan MailSupport the showThanks for listening!Check out this site for everthing to know about women's pleasure including video tutorials and great suggestions for bedroom time!!https://for-goodness-sake-omgyes.sjv.io/c/5059274/1463336/17315Take the happiness quiz from Oprah and Arthur Brooks here: https://arthurbrooks.com/buildNEW: Subscribe monthly: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1805181/support Email  questions/comments/feeback to tamara@straightfromthesourcesmouth.co Website: https://straightfromthesourcesmouthpod.net/Instagram: @fromthesourcesmouth_franktalkTwitter: @tamarapodcastYouTube and IG: Tamara_Schoon_comicWant to be a guest on Straight from the Source's Mouth: Frank Talk about Sex and Dating? Send Tamara Schoon a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/17508659438808322af9d2077

Join us in this enlightening episode as we sit down with Anil Gupta, the Love Doctor, to explore his incredible journey from optometrist to renowned relationship expert. Discover the transformative power of forgiveness, gratitude, and self-worth as Anil shares his personal insights and practical advice. Learn how these principles can heal and strengthen your relationships, leading to a more fulfilling life. Don't miss this inspiring conversation!

In this episode of the Nation's Blind Podcast, Melissa and Anil are joined by Denise Avant, Chairperson of our Membership Committee. They address misconceptions about the NFB and emphasize the importance of your voice within the organized blind movement.

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – Across the exchange, a shared premise emerges. Medicine requires structure, but it cannot rely on structure alone. It requires expertise, but it must remain open to challenge. It requires evidence, but it must preserve the process that produces it. The task, as Makam presents it, is not to eliminate disagreement but to manage it honestly...

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – Across the exchange, a shared premise emerges. Medicine requires structure, but it cannot rely on structure alone. It requires expertise, but it must remain open to challenge. It requires evidence, but it must preserve the process that produces it. The task, as Makam presents it, is not to eliminate disagreement but to manage it honestly...

What does it actually take to go from employee to founder — after 8 years inside one of India's greatest startups?In Episode 5 of Unstarted, Avnish Bajaj sits down with Anil Goteti, CEO of Scapia, to talk about the real founder journey — not the highlight reel. From leaving McKinsey after just one year, to carrying a US loan back to India, to building and shutting down his first startup before finding PMF with Scapia.This episode covers:- Why entrepreneurs are made, not born- The Monday Morning Test — knowing when to quit- What 8 years at Flipkart actually teaches you- Why competition never killed a company — customers did- How to know when your product is (and isn't) working- The failure before Scapia and what it taught himIn the end, the destination was always clear and the route was never going to be linear. Finally, the Monday morning test doesn't lie.Unstarted is a podcast by Z47 - by founders, for founders. Whether you've started or you're yet unstarted.YT Chapters0:00 - Introduction & What is Unstarted1:45 - Meet Anil Goteti — IIT, McKinsey, Flipkart & Scapia4:00 - Are Entrepreneurs Born or Made?7:30 - The Kid Who Wanted a Product in Every Indian's Hand11:00 - IIT Electrical vs Computer Science — The First Detour14:00 - Leaving McKinsey After 1 Year: "I Want to Be the King"18:30 - Joining Flipkart - Taking One Notch of Risk22:00 - 8 Years at Flipkart: The Best Projects & Lessons31:00 - The Monday Morning Test35:30 - Who Inspires Anil Goteti?39:00 - How Do You Know When Your Product Is Working?45:00 - Competition Never Killed Anyone - Customers Did49:00 - The Failed Startup Before Scapia54:00 - What's Next: Building Scapia

In traditional society, gender roles at home and work are often fixed, with women handling household duties and men earning. Anil Dubey from Bihar challenges this norm by becoming a house husband, leaving his job to manage the home while his wife works, reflecting a shift in social attitudes. - आज के पारंपरिक समाज में अब भी घर और बाहर की भूमिकाएँ अक्सर तय मानी जाती हैं—घर के काम महिलाएँ करेंगी, जबकि बाहर काम करना, कमाना और घर चलाना पुरुषों की ज़िम्मेदारी समझी जाती है। इसी सोच के कारण “हाउसवाइफ” शब्द आम हुआ होगा। लेकिन बिहार के रहने वाले अनिल दुबे की कहानी इस धारणा को चुनौती देती है। बिहार के अनिल दुबे ने ‘हाउस हसबंड' बनकर एक अलग और प्रेरक उदाहरण पेश किया है। यह सिर्फ एक व्यक्ति का फैसला नहीं, बल्कि बदलती सामाजिक सोच का संकेत भी है। अनिल ने अपनी नौकरी छोड़कर घर की जिम्मेदारी संभालने का निर्णय लिया, जबकि उनकी पत्नी पेशेवर रूप से काम कर रही हैं। हाउस हसबंड बनने के बाद अनिल दुबे ने अपने सभी दायित्वों को पूरे समर्पण और जिम्मेदारी के साथ निभाया है।

We're visiting with Anil Kujur from India. He shares his story of growing up in India, and making a physical and spiritual journey as he emigrated to the U.S.! 

In recognition of Women's History Month, we are honoring blind women who have made significant contributions to the organized blind movement. In this episode of the Nation's Blind Podcast, Melissa and Anil are joined by Joyce Brooks and Lois Staves, two women who have gone above and beyond to help blind people live the lives they want.

“The two most important things in life are your health and your relationships.”  Anil Gupta Top Five Tips For Creating  A World Class Relationship 1. Listen more, speak less2. Ask the question, “what can I do.” 3. Do things you love, separately. 4. Make your partner your number 1 priority5. It's a no before it becomes a yes TIME STAMP SUMMARY01:39 Listening is the first step06:56 Connecting with intentional actions13:10  Getting your priorities straight17:08  Doing your due diligence Where to find Anil?Website                            https://meetanil.com/ LinkedIn                           https://www.linkedin.com/in/anilgupta-lovedoctor/   Anil Gupta Bio Anil Gupta, internationally known as The Love Doctor.Anil helps singles, couples and families overcome their struggles and issues in relationships and communication in a rapid and powerful manner with proven results so they can live richer, fuller lives filled with love. Anil is a triple best-selling international author and TEDx Speaker, positively impacting very large audiences in over 18 countries. He has been featured in numerous publications and media outlets including i Heart radio, Fox News, Sky TV, Harvard, ABC, NBC and much more. Anil has coached celebrities including Mike Tyson, was a guest speaker with Richard Branson on Necker Island and has been invited by heads of state and spiritual leaders like the Dalai Lama to meet them.Anil overcame suicide in 2008 and has since then formulated the Happiness Formula, The Happiness Test, the Relationship Score and the Relationship Ratio.He has held relationship and mindset workshops in over 18 countries translated in 8 languages, with audiences of over 10,000 fans. Anil has a unique intuitive gift to remove the blockages that prevent people living fulfilled lives, using his intuitive and proven skill sets.Anil is on a mission to inspire 1 billion people and is always available to share his unique and powerful content.

In this episode of the Nation's Blind Podcast, Melissa and Anil are joined by Ashleigh Moon, our STEM2U Coordinator. They celebrate Pi Day and discuss accessible ways that blind students and blind adults can practice STEM.  

​​After a short break, Peak Human returns with a powerful conversation about one of the biggest problems in modern healthcare: the sick care system. For decades, the system has been structured around treating illness rather than maintaining health. Incentives are misaligned across the entire industry—from insurance companies and employers to doctors and digital health startups. Despite technological advances, healthcare costs continue rising while population health declines. In this episode, Anil, a scientist, investor, and systems thinker, introduces a bold alternative: the Lifespan Model. Drawing on experience in biotechnology, Silicon Valley startups, digital health investing, and incentive design, Anil explains how healthcare could be rebuilt around the simple idea that people should be rewarded for keeping others healthy. Instead of replacing the current system overnight, the Lifespan Model proposes a parallel structure—one that aligns financial incentives with longevity, prevention, and long-term wellbeing. If implemented, this model could transform healthcare from a trillion-dollar illness industry into a system that actually rewards health.   SHOW NOTES: 00:00 – Peak Human Returns & Show Updates 04:30 – Anil's Background in Science and Startups 08:30 – Systems Thinking and Incentive Design 10:30 – Why the Healthcare System Is Broken 14:30 – The Incentive Problem in Medicine 17:00 – Employer-Based Health Insurance Issues 19:00 – Why Digital Health Hasn't Fixed Healthcare 21:00 – The Technologist's Journey Through Healthcare 23:30 – How Incentives Shape Entire Systems 26:00 – Introducing the Lifespan Model 29:30 – Learning From the Life Insurance Industry 33:00 – Aligning Financial Incentives With Health 36:30 – The Role of Lifespan Agents 40:00 – Technology's Role in Preventive Health 43:00 – Building a Parallel Health System 47:00 – Challenges to Implementing the Model 51:00 – The Future of Healthcare Incentives   BEEF TALLOW PRODUCTS: NosetoTail.org Preorder the film here: http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post    Film site: http://FoodLies.org YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoodLies   Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg http://instagram.com/food.lies http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg

I know this episode may ruffle feathers. That's okay. If you've ever felt skeptical about sleep and airway, overwhelmed by the noise online, or frustrated by sensational claims from bad actors — this conversation is for you.In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Anil Rama — neurologist and Stanford-trained sleep medicine physician — to zoom out and look at the bigger picture. Not from an orthodontic silo. Not from a social media debate. But from a multidisciplinary, science-based lens.Quotes“Sleep apnea isn't the disease — it's often the symptom of something bigger.”— Dr. Anil Rama“If orthodontists don't step into this space responsibly, someone else will — and they may not understand craniofacial growth the way we do.”— Dr. Glenn KriegerKey TakeawaysWhy this conversation requires an open mindSleep apnea as a symptom — not just a diagnosis (07:01)The orthodontist's role: quarterback or team member? (09:26)Why expansion alone is never the whole answer (14:19)The danger of practicing in silos (24:35)How a WatchPAT test can transform your diagnostic awareness (41:19)Why many ENTs still miss airway-driven sleep issues (44:51)The brain impact of sleep-disordered breathing (34:03)Why humility — not ego — moves this field forward (59:14)Additional Resources

Fluent Fiction - Hindi: Harmony in Chaos: A Holi Family Reunion Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/hi/episode/2026-02-28-23-34-02-hi Story Transcript:Hi: राज की जिंदगी में सर्दियों का मौसम थोड़ी राहत ले आता था।En: Winter brought some relief into Raj's life.Hi: इस बार होली आने को थी, लेकिन उसके परिवार का दशक पुराना ड्रामा भी।En: This time, Holi was approaching, but so was his family's decade-old drama.Hi: राज अपनी पत्नी पूजा और उसके छोटे भाई अनिल के साथ रहता था।En: Raj lived with his wife Pooja and her younger brother Anil.Hi: यह परिवार थोड़ा विचित्र था और अक्सर उनमे बहस होती रहती।En: The family was somewhat peculiar and often ended up arguing.Hi: राज, परिवार में शांति बनाए रखने की कोशिश करता, लेकिन हर बार कुछ न कुछ गड़बड़ हो जाती।En: Raj tried to maintain peace in the family, but every time something or the other went wrong.Hi: राज का सपना था कि इस होली पर सब मिलजुल कर त्योहार मनाएं, बिना किसी झगड़े के।En: Raj had a dream that this Holi everyone would celebrate the festival together, without any quarrels.Hi: लेकिन, उनके घर का तोता, मिट्टू, यह योजना बिगाड़ सकता था।En: But their pet parrot, Mittu, might ruin this plan.Hi: मिट्टू की एक अनोखी आदत थी, वह हमेशा परिवार के झगड़ों की नकल करता था।En: Mittu had a peculiar habit of always mimicking the family's arguments.Hi: एक दिन राज ने सोचा वह अकेले में कुछ वक्त बिताएगा और अपने विचारों को संजोएगा।En: One day, Raj thought he would spend some time alone and collect his thoughts.Hi: राज ने फैसला किया कि वह अपने परिवार के अपार्टमेंट बिल्डिंग के छत पर जाएगा, एकांत की तलाश में।En: Raj decided he would go to the roof of their apartment building, seeking solitude.Hi: उसने अपनी कंपनी के लिए मिट्टू को भी साथ लिया।En: He took Mittu along for company.Hi: लेकिन उनकी किस्मत खराब थी।En: But their luck was bad.Hi: आधे रास्ते में ही लिफ्ट अटक गई।En: Halfway there, the elevator got stuck.Hi: लिफ्ट में केवल राज और मिट्टू थे।En: Only Raj and Mittu were in the elevator.Hi: पुराने अपार्टमेंट में लिफ्ट का अटकना आम बात थी, लेकिन इस बार यह अनुभव राज के लिए मजेदार से ज्यादा चिंताजनक था।En: In the old apartment, elevators getting stuck was a common thing, but this time the experience was more concerning than amusing for Raj.Hi: जैसे-जैसे समय बीत रहा था, मिट्टू ने राज का मनोरंजन करने के बजाय घर के झगड़ों की नकल शुरू कर दी।En: As time was passing, instead of entertaining Raj, Mittu started mimicking the household arguments.Hi: मिट्टू ने पूजा और अनिल की बहस की आवाज़ें निकालनी शुरू कर दीं।En: Mittu began imitating the voices of Pooja and Anil arguing.Hi: "अनिल, तू कभी नहीं सुधरेगा!En: "Anil, you will never change!"Hi: " मिट्टू चिल्लाया, फिर उसी के पीछे "पूजा, तू हमेशा ही सही रहती है!En: Mittu shouted, followed by "Pooja, you are always right!"Hi: " राज परेशान हो गया।En: Raj grew troubled.Hi: वह इसे सुन कर कैसे शांति से रह सकता था?En: How could he stay peaceful hearing this?Hi: नीचे अपार्टमेंट में पूजा और अनिल को पता चला कि लिफ्ट अटक गई है।En: Downstairs, Pooja and Anil found out the elevator was stuck.Hi: सब मिलकर लिफ्ट ठीक करने की कोशिश करने लगे।En: Everyone started trying to fix the elevator.Hi: यह देर रात का वक्त था और किसी को मदद के लिए बुलाना मुश्किल था।En: It was late at night, and it was difficult to call for help.Hi: फिर भी, परिवार के सभी सदस्य साथ मिलकर इस समस्या का समाधान निकालने में जुट गए।En: Nevertheless, all the family members worked together to solve the problem.Hi: कुछ घंटों की कोशिशों के बाद, परिवार ने मिलकर लिफ्ट को ठीक करवा ही लिया।En: After a few hours of effort, the family finally managed to get the elevator fixed.Hi: जैसे ही राज और मिट्टू बाहर आए, सभी ने राहत की सांस ली।En: As soon as Raj and Mittu came out, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.Hi: नाजुक समय में मिलजुल कर काम करने से सभी के चेहरे पर मुस्कान आ गई।En: Working together in that delicate moment brought smiles to everyone's faces.Hi: राज ने यह देखा और एक अनुभूति हुई कि संघर्षों के बावजूद यह परिवार के समय बिताने का अनोखा तरीका था।En: Raj saw this and had a realization that despite the struggles, this was a unique way of spending time with family.Hi: उस दिन के बाद, राज ने परिवार की चहल-पहल की अहमियत को समझा।En: From that day on, Raj realized the importance of family hustle and bustle.Hi: होली के दिन उन्होंने सबको एक साथ लाकर रंगों और खुशी की बारिश की।En: On the day of Holi, he brought everyone together for a shower of colors and happiness.Hi: मिट्टू भी शामिल हुआ, अब नए और खुशहाल स्वर में बुदबुदाते हुए।En: Mittu was also included, now chirping in a new and joyful tone.Hi: ऐसा लगा मानो उनके बीच का हर बंधन और मजबूत हो गया था।En: It felt as though every bond among them had become stronger.Hi: इस होली पर, रंग और हंसी के बीच, राज ने महसूस किया कि उसके परिवार की अराजकता में भी कहीं न कहीं एक खास किस्म की तालमेल थी।En: This Holi, amidst the colors and laughter, Raj felt that in his family's chaos, there was a special kind of harmony.Hi: ऐसा, जो हमेशा उन्हें साथ लाती थी।En: Something that always brought them together.Hi: अब वह इस बात को और ज्यादा अपनाने के लिए तैयार था, होली का त्योहार मनाने के लिए भी।En: Now he was ready to embrace this even more, to celebrate the festival of Holi. Vocabulary Words:relief: राहतapproaching: आने को थीpeculiar: विचित्रdrama: ड्रामाmaintain: बनाए रखनाquarrels: झगड़ेmimicking: नकलsolitude: एकांतconcerned: चिंताजनकentertaining: मनोरंजनimitating: आवाज़ें निकालनीtroubled: परेशानdelicate: नाजुकrealization: अनुभूतिhustle: चहल-पहलharmony: तालमेलembrace: अपनानेshower: बारिशchaos: अराजकताrelief: राहतelevator: लिफ्टfestival: त्योहारcommon: आमsmiles: मुस्कानhousehold: घरarguing: बहसstruggles: संघर्षोंhappiness: खुशीunique: अनोखाbond: बंधन

Artificial intelligence (AI) is exerting a profound influence on the domain of plastic surgery, shaping experiences for both patients and practitioners alike. It's now an omnipresent force across a multitude of sectors, so of course, plastic surgery, too!Carefully discerning when AI produces substantial benefits and when it may introduce unforeseen complexities is important. How, then, can we navigate these nuanced distinctions? In this episode of the podcast, facial plastic surgeon Dr. Anil Shah in Chicago/New York offers his informed perspective and firsthand observations on the evolving role of AI within the field of plastic surgery.Tune in!

Dr. Seth is a Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. The author of over 200 research papers, Anil integrates psychology, philosophy, computer science, and neuroscience to explore how our brains generate subjective experiences. Outside the laboratory, Anil has a knack for communication, too. His TED Talk has reached nearly 15 million viewers, and his bestselling book Being You: A New Science of Consciousness takes a baffling topic and makes it relatable and engaging for general readers. Anil joins the podcast to explain why animals may be conscious, but artificial intelligence is not, and why, despite the potential for technological dystopias, he is optimistic about the future. Are you curious about consciousness? Don't miss out on our intriguing story "Can Digital Computers Ever Achieve Consciousness?" by Marcus Arvan on Templeton Ideas. What did you think of this episode? Let us know with a rating and a review! Join the conversation on social media: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube. 

What happens when your lifelong dream slips through your fingers—and you believe the door has permanently closed?In this powerful episode of The Mark Divine Show, NASA astronaut Anil Menon shares the untold story behind his journey to space—from repeated rejection, self-doubt, and believing the odds were zero… to rebuilding belief, training his mind, and ultimately earning his place among the world's most elite explorers.This conversation goes far beyond spaceflight.You'll learn:- How to rebuild confidence after failure- Why mental training matters more than talent- How belief reshapes behavior—and outcomes- What elite teams (NASA, SpaceX, SEALs) do differently under pressure- Why it's never too late to reopen a door you thought was shutAnil's story is proof that resilience isn't about grinding harder—it's about aligning purpose, belief, and disciplined mental training.If you've ever felt behind, doubted yourself, or questioned whether you missed your moment—this episode is for you.Want to train your mind like elite performers, leaders, and astronauts?

Most people assume the internet is stable, durable, and ready for whatever comes next. The truth is a bit more complicated. Modern networks were never designed for today's scale, and for the first time we are seeing technology that can make them smarter, simpler, and far more reliable.In this episode of IT Visionaries, host Chris Brandt talks with Anil Varanasi, CEO and Co-Founder of Meter, about how the next era of networking is taking shape. Anil explains why traditional infrastructure struggles to keep up, how a unified approach can remove layers of complexity, and why the future of the internet is moving toward faster and more resilient systems.He also shares how natural language tools and purpose-built models are transforming the work of network engineers, and why autonomous networking may arrive sooner than most people expect. These advancements are creating a path to networks that can configure, maintain, and optimize themselves without increasing operational burden. Key Moments:00:00 – Why Modern Networks Are Broken02:50 – The Pain of Multi-Vendor Sprawl05:04 – Rebuilding the Entire Stack From Scratch08:31 – Why Meter Refused to Ship Until It Was Great11:39 – Hardware, Software, Delivery: A Single Platform13:34 – No CapEx and Automatic Hardware Refresh18:26 – How Meter Handles Growth, Migration & Space-Level Infrastructure20:32 – The Real Reason Networks Fail (Configuration + Compatibility)23:51 – GUI vs CLI: What Engineers Really Want25:56 – Introducing Command: Natural-Language Networking27:37 – Auto-Generated Dashboards and Custom Software30:38 – Why AI Shouldn't Be an Empty Buzzword32:51 – Toward Fully Autonomous Networks by 202736:46 – The Network Engineer Shortage & What Comes Next38:33 – What Autonomous Networking Actually Means41:38 – Why the Internet Will Keep Growing Faster43:02 – The Customers Who Need Meter Most45:39 – Factory Floors, Warehouses, Data Centers, and Edge48:32 – Nine New Hardware Platforms & Design Philosophy52:56 – How Meter Maintains Networks Without Downtime  -- This episode of IT Visionaries is brought to you by Meter - the company building better networks. Businesses today are frustrated with outdated providers, rigid pricing, and fragmented tools. Meter changes that with a single integrated solution that covers everything wired, wireless, and even cellular networking. They design the hardware, write the firmware, build the software, and manage it all so your team doesn't have to.That means you get fast, secure, and scalable connectivity without the complexity of juggling multiple providers. Thanks to meter for sponsoring. Go to meter.com/itv to book a demo.---IT Visionaries is made by the team at Mission.org. Learn more about our media studio and network of podcasts at mission.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

AI took center stage at NRF 2026, and few moments underscored its importance more than Google CEO Sundar Pichai's keynote, where he outlined how shopping is evolving in an increasingly agentic, AI-driven world.This episode of Retail Remix, recorded live from the show floor, features host Nicole Silberstein in conversation with Anil Jain, who leads Global Strategic Industries at Google Cloud. Anil shares how Google Cloud is working with retailers to reimagine everything from product discovery to post-purchase service and why agentic AI represents a fundamental shift in how consumers will interact with brands.Key TakeawaysWhy AI is becoming the great equalizer, helping smaller companies compete with limited resources;How AI experiences in general-use platforms like Google Search are upping the ante for everyone, and how to keep up;What multimodal search unlocks when consumers can shop using not just text, but also voice, images and video;Why hyper-personalization is finally within reach after decades of promise;The change management that will be required as AI shifts the way we all work; How Google and its Cloud division are building for this future.Related LinksRelated reading: Google Launches Direct Checkout in Search, GeminiLearn how Google Cloud is helping retailers adopt AI at scaleExplore more NRF26 coverage and retail insights from Retail TouchPointsSubscribe so you don't miss more episodes of Retail Remix from the show floor of NRF26

As part of our official DealFlow Discovery Conference Interview Series, produced by Mission Matters, along with our partner DealFlow Events, we're showcasing the innovative companies presenting at the upcoming DealFlow Discovery Conference (January 28-29, at the Borgata in Atlantic City) and the executives behind them. In this episode, Adam Torres interviews Anil Diwan, Founder of NanoViricides Inc., about the company's mission to develop revolutionary antiviral therapies. Anil explains the vision for empiric antiviral treatment, the challenges of viral mutation, and how NanoViricides is advancing its approach through the NV-387 program. This interview is part of our effort to help investors discover compelling companies ahead of the event — and to help CEOs introduce their story to the 1500+ conference attendees. Learn more about the event and presenting companies:https://dealflowdiscoveryconference.com/ About Anil Diwan Dr. Diwan has been President and Chairman of the Board of the Company since its founding in 2005 Dr. Diwan spearheaded the efforts for the Company's 2013 uplisting from the OTC Markets to NYSE-American. Dr. Diwan has led several of the Company's financing efforts since 2010. About NanoViricides Inc. NanoViricides, Inc. is a global leader in the development of nanomedicine drugs against viruses. Our unique nanoviricide® platform technology defines a novel mechanism enabling first-in class drugs against viruses. A nanoviricide is designed to specifically attack enveloped virus particles, on the same sites that they use to bind to cells, and dismantle them, blocking reinfection cycle, going beyond what antibodies and immunotherapeutics do. A nanoviricide can also be designed to deliver anti-viral payload into infected cells sparing uninfected cells to block replication cycle without toxicity. Our unique biomimetic approach enables creation of drugs that a virus would be highly unlikely to escape due to mutations. Follow Adam on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/askadamtorres/ for up to date information on book releases and tour schedule. Apply to be a guest on our podcast: https://missionmatters.lpages.co/podcastguest/ Visit our website: https://missionmatters.com/ More FREE content from Mission Matters here: https://linktr.ee/missionmattersmedia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dr. Badri Rijal and Dr. Anil Bikram Karki are leading figures in Nepal's medical leadership. Dr. Rijal, a trauma surgeon and NMA Senior Vice President, is known for strengthening trauma care and advocating doctors' safety and rights, while Dr. Karki, NMA President and Nepal's first DM Clinical Hematology graduate, leads national medical advocacy and advances specialized blood-care services.

WANTED: Developers and STEM experts! Get paid to create benchmarks and improve AI models. Sign up for Alignerr using our link: https://alignerr.com/?referral-source=briankeating One of the most powerful AI systems we've ever built is succeeding for reasons we still don't understand. And worse, they may succeed for reasons that might lock us into the wrong future for humanity. Today's guest is Anil Ananthaswamy, an award-winning science writer and one of the clearest thinkers on the mathematical foundations of machine learning. In this conversation, we're not just talking about new demos, incremental improvements, or updates on new models being released. We're asking even harder questions: Why does the mathematics of machine learning work at all? How do these models succeed when they suffer from problems like overparameterization and lack of training data? And are large language models revealing deep structure, or are they just producing very convincing illusions and causing us to face an increasingly AI-slop-driven future? KEY TAKEAWAYS 00:00 — Book explores why ML works through math 02:47 — Perceptron proof shows simple math guarantees learning 05:11 — Early AI failed due to single-layer limits 07:12 — Nonlinear limits caused the first AI winter 09:04 — Backpropagation revived neural networks 10:59 — GPUs + big data enabled deep learning 15:25 — AI success risks technological lock-in 17:30 — LLMs lack human-like learning and embodiment 22:57 — High-dimensional spaces power ML behavior 27:36 — Data saturation may slow future gains 31:11 — Continual learning is still missing in AI 33:46 — Neuromorphic chips promise energy efficiency 41:49 — Overparameterized models still generalize well 45:05 — SGD succeeds via randomness in complex landscapes 48:27 — Perceptrons remain the core of modern neural net - Additional resources: Anil's NEW Book "Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI": https://www.amazon.com/Why-Machines-Learn-Elegant-Behind/dp/0593185749 Get My NEW Book: Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN8DH6SX?ref_=pe_93986420_775043100 Please join my mailing list here

Do you think we love ourselves too much or not enough? Is it easier for you to give or receive? Tune in to my conversation with Anil Gupta and learn:How to understand self-love.Why forgiveness is essential for personal freedom.Why it's easier to give and sometimes so hard to receive.How to become a better receiver.How to overcome your limiting beliefs.How to recognize your worth and grow emotionally. How helping others can alleviate your own pain.How the decisions you make today shape your future.Anil Gupta, internationally known as The Love Doctor, helps successful individuals create extraordinary relationships—whether in love, business, or personal fulfillment. He spoke in 18 countries as well as Tedx, Sky TV, NBC, Fox news, BBC iHeartRadio, Harvard and crowds of over 10,000 people. He has helped thousands of people overcome life struggles through a powerful practical and proven methodology. Connect with Anil: www.meetanil.comLinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/anilgupta-lovedoctor/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/anilgupta_lovedoctor/FB - https://www.facebook.com/AnilLoveDoc/

How do you elevate your love life?Meet Anil Gupta - the Love Doctor!Anil is a world expert on relationships. He is the CEO of Love and the Breakthroughs that make it possible.He has helped singles and couples overcome the daily struggles and challenges to allow them to live very successful and fulfilled lives.He has performed his relationship and mindset workshops in over 18 countries and translated in 8 languages, with audiences of over 10,000. Anil "The Love Doctor" Gupta is a favorite speaker at every event he speaks at. He is the author of best selling book "Immediate Happiness". And is the Relationship Coach the Rich and Famous turn to for finding their true love, rebuilding parent child relationships, and transforming existing relationships to pure bliss.Listen as Anil shares:- how to achieve a richer, fuller, happier life- creating the love you desire in your life- recognising your worth- what behavioural patterns tell you- data collection during the dating stage- the 3 Gs of happiness- the requirements for a successful relationship- why so many do not succeed in relationships...and so much more!Connect with Anil:Website: https://meetanil.com/Additional Resources:FREE "Finding Love" e-book by Anil Gupta"Immediate Happiness" by Anil Gupta on Amazon"The Heart Map for Vitality" by Anil Gupta on AmazonListen to the Podcast, subscribe, leave a rating and a review:Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-have-a-successful-relationship-the/id1614151066?i=1000742600303Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7jTpIF9fP9FPeBOt5fYAdN?si=yeQ_FAUQRNiM-_QxX2L1wghttps://open.spotify.com/episode/7jTpIF9fP9FPeBOt5fYAdNYouTube: https://youtu.be/wUn8hDqt8bk

Anil Varanasi is the co-founder and CEO of Meter, which provides full-stack networking infrastructure as a service for businesses. Since founding Meter with his brother Sunil in 2015, Anil has been playing a distinctly long game in one of the most entrenched markets in technology, betting on vertical integration, business model innovation, and a multi-decade time horizon. In this conversation, he unpacks Meter's origin story, from four-plus years of heads-down R&D, and shares how his unconventional approach to planning, management, and pace keeps him excited to run the company for decades. In today's episode, we discuss: Why Anil thinks in 25-year horizons How operating in a monopolistic market shaped Meter's approach Why Meter scrapped a year of OS work during the R&D phase How Meter is rethinking networking's business model Surviving COVID, Apple's M1 transition, and “a thousand bad days” Anil's contrarian views on planning, OKRs, and management How founders can build companies they'll want to run for decades Where to find Anil: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anilcv/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/acv Where to find Brett: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brett-berson-9986094/ Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/brettberson Where to find First Round Capital: Website: https://firstround.com/ First Round Review: https://review.firstround.com/ Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/firstround YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FirstRoundCapital This podcast on all platforms: https://review.firstround.com/podcast References: ADT: ⁠https://www.adt.com⁠ Alex Honnold: ⁠https://www.alexhonnold.com⁠ Alex Tabarrok: ⁠https://x.com/ATabarrok⁠ ⁠alarm.com⁠: ⁠https://www.alarm.com⁠ Andreessen Horowitz (a16z): ⁠https://a16z.com⁠ Apple: ⁠https://www.apple.com⁠ Bloomberg: ⁠https://www.bloomberg.com⁠ Bryan Caplan: ⁠http://www.bcaplan.com/⁠ Cisco: ⁠https://www.cisco.com⁠ Coca-Cola: ⁠https://www.coca-colacompany.com⁠ George Mason University (GMU): ⁠https://www.gmu.edu⁠ Intel: ⁠https://www.intel.com⁠ Julia Galef: ⁠https://x.com/juliagalef⁠ Martin Casado: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/martincasado/⁠ Meraki: ⁠https://meraki.cisco.com⁠ Meter: ⁠https://www.meter.com⁠ Michela Giorcelli: ⁠https://x.com/M_Giorcelli⁠ Nicholas Bloom: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-bloom-stanford/⁠ Raffaella Sadun: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/raffaella-sadun-3a182225/⁠ Sanjit Biswas: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjitbiswas/⁠ Sunil Varanasi: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunil-varanasi-662a01253/⁠ Tyler Cowen: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-cowen-166718/⁠ Twitch: ⁠https://www.twitch.tv⁠ Timestamps: (01:27) Meter's unusual timeframes (04:06) “We don't do OKRs” (06:32) How to plan without planning (08:31) Track your unhappy customers (11:43) How Meter's journey began (15:02) Dissecting the 2010s SaaS boom (17:06) The networking industry trap (21:44) Meter's first roadblock (22:07) Why Shenzhen accelerated Meter's progress (26:29) The process to get a sales-ready product (31:02) Why you should own the full stack (32:45) The surprising thing you should innovate (35:03) Avoiding the one-trick pony trap (37:39) The secret to finding an excellent market (43:48) How COVID's constraints propelled growth (48:25) Why founders need to know their customers (49:34) Why Meter didn't sell via traditional channels (51:44) You need “seller-market fit” (54:51) The danger of meta-work (56:25) Decoupling management from authority (1:02:17) When the person is the problem (1:05:05) The inherent value of going slowly (1:09:41) Running a company for as long as possible

Send us a textIn this heartfelt episode of Living the Dream with Curveball, we sit down with Anil Gupta, affectionately known as the Love Doctor. Anil shares his inspiring journey from personal struggles to becoming a beacon of hope for individuals and couples seeking to enhance their relationships. With a wealth of experience spanning 18 countries, he offers practical tools and insights to help listeners navigate the complexities of love and connection. Anil delves into the reasons behind the high failure rates in relationships, emphasizing the importance of informed decision-making and mutual respect. He provides invaluable tips for couples looking to rekindle their romance and strengthen their bond, highlighting the significance of communication and understanding each other's needs. As a father, Anil also tackles the challenges of raising children in today's world, advocating for the necessity of teaching resilience through manageable adversity. Tune in for a rich conversation that promises to empower you to embrace love, cultivate gratitude, and pursue personal growth. Discover more about Anil and his work at meetanil.com and get ready to transform your relationships and life! https://meetanil.com/The CTA is fo 

In this Write Big session of the #amwriting podcast, host Jennie Nash welcomes Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jennifer Senior for a powerful conversation about finding, knowing, and claiming your voice.Jennifer shares how a medication once stripped away her ability to think in metaphor—the very heart of her writing—and what it was like to get that voice back. She and Jennie talk about how voice strengthens over time, why confidence and ruthless editing matter, and what it feels like when you're truly writing in flow.It's an inspiring reminder that your voice is your greatest strength—and worth honoring every time you sit down to write.TRANSCRIPT BELOW!THINGS MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:* Jennifer's Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross: Can't Sleep? You're Not Alone* Atlantic feature story: What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind* Atlantic feature story: The Ones We Sent Away* Atlantic feature story: It's Your Friends Who Break Your Heart* The New York Times article: Happiness Won't Save You* Heavyweight the podcastSPONSORSHIP MESSAGEHey, it's Jennie Nash. And at Author Accelerator, we believe that the skills required to become a great book coach and build a successful book coaching business can be taught to people who come from all kinds of backgrounds and who bring all kinds of experiences to the work. But we also know that there are certain core characteristics that our most successful book coaches share. If you've been curious about becoming a book coach, and 2026 might be the year for you, come take our quiz to see how many of those core characteristics you have. You can find it at bookcoaches.com/characteristics-quiz.EPISODE TRANSCRIPTJennie NashHi, I'm Jennie Nash, and you're listening to the Hashtag AmWriting Podcast. This is a Write Big Session, where I'm bringing you short episodes about the mindset shifts that help you stop playing small and write like it matters. This one might not actually be that short, because today I'm talking to journalist Jennifer Senior about the idea of finding and knowing and claiming your voice—a rather big part of writing big. Jennifer Senior is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2022 and was a finalist again in 2024. Before that, she spent five years at The New York Times as both a daily book critic and a columnist for the opinion page, and nearly two decades at New York Magazine. She's also the author of a bestselling parenting book, and frequently appears on NPR and other news shows. Welcome, Jennifer. Thanks for joining us.Jennifer SeniorThank you for having me. Hey, I got to clarify just one thing.Jennie NashOh, no.Jennifer SeniorAll Joy and No Fun is by no means a parenting book. I can't tell you the first thing about how to raise your kids. It is all about how kids change their parents. It's all like a sociological look at who we become and why we are—so our lives become so vexed. I like, I would do these book talks, and at the end, everybody would raise their hand and be like, “How do I get my kid into Harvard?” You know, like, the equivalent obviously—they wouldn't say it that way. I'd be like; I don't really have any idea, or how to get your kid to eat vegetables, or how to get your kid to, like, stop talking back. But anyway, I just have to clarify that, because every time...Jennie NashPlease, please—Jennifer SeniorSomeone says that, I'm like, “Noooo.” Anyway, it's a sociology book. Ah, it's an ethnography, you know. But anyway, it doesn't matter.Jennie NashAll right, like she said, you guys—not what I said.Jennifer SeniorI'm not correcting you. It came out 11 years ago. There were no iPads then, or social media. I mean, forget it. It's so dated anyway. But like, I just...Jennie NashThat's so funny. So the reason that we're speaking is that I heard you recently on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, where you were talking about an Atlantic feature story that you wrote called “Why Can't Americans Sleep?” And this was obviously a reported piece, but also a really personal piece and you're talking about your futile attempts to fall asleep and the latest research into insomnia and medication and therapy that you used to treat it, and we'll link to that article and interview in the show notes. But the reason that we're talking, and that in the middle of this conversation, which—which I'm listening to and I'm riveted by—you made this comment, and it was a little bit of a throwaway comment in the conversation, and, you know, then the conversation moved on. But you talked about how you were taking a particular antidepressant you'd been prescribed, and this was the quote you said: “It blew out all the circuitry that was responsible for generating metaphors, which is what I do as a writer. So it made my writing really flat.” And I was just like, hold up. What was that like? What happened? What—everything? So that's why we're talking. So… can we go back to the very beginning? If you can remember—Jess Lahey actually told me that when she was teaching fifth and sixth grade, that's around the time that kids begin to grasp this idea of figurative language and metaphor and such. Do you remember learning how to write like that, like write in metaphor and simile and all such things?Jennifer SeniorOh, that's funny. Do I remember it? I remember them starting to sort of come unbidden in my—like they would come unbidden in my head starting maybe in my—the minute I entered college, or maybe in my teens. Actually, I had that thing where some people have this—people who become writers have, like, a narrator's voice in their head where they're actually looking at things and describing them in the third person. They're writing them as they witness the world. That went away, that narrator's voice, which I also find sort of fascinating. But, like, I would say that it sort of emerged concurrently. I guess I was scribbling a little bit of, like, short story stuff, or I tried at least one when I was a senior in high school. So that was the first time maybe that, like, I started realizing that I had a flair for it. I also—once I noticed that, I know in college I would make, you know, when I started writing for the alternative weekly and I was reviewing things, particularly theater, I would make a conscientious effort to come up with good metaphors, and, like, 50% of them worked and 50% of them didn't, because if you ever labor over a metaphor, there's a much lower chance of it working. I mean, if you come—if you revisit it and go, oh, that's not—you know, that you can tell if it's too precious. But now if I labor over a metaphor, I don't bother. I stop. You know, it has to come instantaneously or...Jennie NashOr that reminds me of people who write with the thesaurus open, like that's going to be good, right? That's not going to work. So I want to stick with this, you know, so that they come into your head, you recognize that, and just this idea of knowing, back in the day, that you could write like that—you… this was a thing you had, like you used the word “flair,” like had a flair for this. Were there other signs or things that led you to the work, like knowing you were good, or knowing when something was on the page that it was right, like, what—what is that?Jennifer SeniorIt's that feeling of exhilaration, but it's also that feeling of total bewilderment, like you've been struck by something—something just blew through you and you had nothing to do with it. I mean, it's the cliché: here I am saying the metaphors are my superpower, which my editors were telling me, and I'm about to use a cliché, which is that you feel like you're a conduit for something and you have absolutely nothing to do with it. So I would have that sense that it had almost come without conscious thought. That was sort of when I knew it was working. It's also part of being in a flow state. It's when you're losing track of time and you're just in it. And the metaphors are—yeah, they're effortless. By the way, my brain is not entirely fogged in from long COVID, but I have noticed—and at first I didn't really notice any decrements in cognition—but recently, I have. So I'm wondering now if I'm having problems with spontaneous metaphor generation. It's a little bit disconcerting. And I do feel like all SSRIs—and I'm taking one now, just because, not just because long COVID is depressing, but because I have POTS, which is like a—it's Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, and that's a very common sequela from long COVID, and it wipes out your plasma serotonin. So we have to take one anyway, we POTS patients. So I found that nicotine often helped with my long COVID, which is a thing—like a nicotine patch—and that made up for it. It almost felt like I was doping [laughing]. It made my writing so much better. But it's been...Jennie NashWait, wait, wait, this is so interesting.Jennifer SeniorI know…it's really weird. I would never have guessed that so much of my writing would be dampened by Big Pharma. I mean—but now with the nicotine patches, I was like, oh, now I get why writers are smoking until into the night, writing. Like, I mean, and I always wished that I did, just because it looked cool, you know? I could have just been one of those people with their Gitanes, or however you pronounce it, but, yeah.Jennie NashWow. So I want to come—I want to circle back to this in a minute, but let's get to the first time—well, it sounds like the first time that happened where you were prescribed an antidepressant and—and you recognized that you lost the ability to write in metaphor. Can you talk about—well, first of all, can you tell us what the medication was?Jennifer SeniorYeah, it was Paxil, which is actually notorious for that. And at the top—which I only subsequently discovered—those were in the days where there were no such things as Reddit threads or anything like that. It was 1999… I guess, no, eight, but so really early. That was the bespoke antidepressant at the time, thought to be more nuanced. I think it's now fallen out of favor, because it's also a b***h to wean off of. But it was kind of awful, just—I would think, and nothing would come. It was the strangest thing. For—there's all this static electricity usually when you write, right? And there's a lot of free associating that goes on that, again, feels a little involuntary. You know, you start thinking—it's like you've pulled back the spring in the pinball machine, and suddenly the thing is just bouncing around everywhere, and the ball wasn't bouncing around. Nothing was lighting up. It was like a dis… it just was strange, to be able to summon nothing.Jennie NashWow. So you—you just used this killer metaphor to describe that.Jennifer SeniorYeah, that was spontaneous.Jennie NashRight? So—so you said first, you said static, static energy, which—which is interesting.Jennifer SeniorYeah, it's... [buzzing sound]Jennie NashYeah. Yeah. Because it's noisy. You're talking about...Jennie SeniorOh, but it's not disruptive noise. Sorry, that might seem like it's like unwanted crackling, like on your television. I didn't really—yeah, maybe that's the wrong metaphor, actually, maybe the pinball is sort of better, that all you need is to, you know, psych yourself up, sit down, have your caffeine, and then bam, you know? But I didn't mean static in that way.Jennie NashI understood what you meant. There's like a buzzy energy.Jennifer SeniorYeah, right. It's fizz.Jennie NashFizz... that's so good. So you—you recognized that this was gone.Jennifer SeniorSo gone! Like the TV was off, you know?Jennie NashAnd did you...?Jennifer SeniorOr the machine, you know, was unplugged? I mean, it's—Jennie NashYeah, and did you? I'm just so curious about the part of your brain that was watching another part of your brain.Jennifer Senior[Laughing] You know what? I think... oh, that's really interesting. But are you watching, or are you just despairing because there's nothing—I mean, I'm trying to think if that's the right...Jennie NashBut there's a part of your brain that's like, this part of my brain isn't working.Jennifer SeniorRight. I'm just thinking how much metacognition is involved in— I mean, if you forget a word, are you really, like, staring at that very hard, or are you just like, s**t, what's the word? If you're staring at Jack Nicholson on TV, and you're like, why can't I remember that dude's name?Multiple speakers[Both laughing]Jennifer SeniorWhich happens to me far more regularly now, [unintelligible]… than it used to, you know? I mean, I don't know. There is a part of you that's completely alarmed, but, like, I guess you're right. There did come a point where I—you're right, where I suddenly realized, oh, there's just been a total breakdown here. It's never happening. Like, what is going on? Also, you know what would happen? Every sentence was a grind, like...Jennie NashOkay, so—okay, so...Jennifer Senior[Unintelligible]... Why is this so effortful? When you can't hold the previous sentence in your head, suddenly there's been this lapse in voice, right? Because, like, if every sentence is an effort and you're starting from nothing again, there's no continuity in how you sound. So, I mean, it was really dreadful. And by the way, if I can just say one thing, sorry now that—Jennie NashNo, I love it!Jennifer SeniorYeah. Sorry. I'm just—now you really got me going. I'm just like, yeah, I know. I'm sort of on a tear and a partial rant, which is Prozac—there came a point where, like, every single SSRI was too activating for me to sleep. But it was, of course, a problem, because being sleepless makes you depressed, so you need something to get at your depression. And SNRIs, like the Effexor's and the Cymbalta's, are out of the question, because those are known to be activating. So I kept vainly searching for SSRIs, and Prozac was the only one that didn't—that wound up not being terribly activating, besides Paxil, but it, too, was somewhat deadening, and I wrote my whole book on it.Jennie NashWow!Jennifer SeniorIt's not all metaphor.Multiple Speakers[both laughing]Jennifer SeniorIt's not all me and no—nothing memorable, you know? I mean, it's—it's kind of a problem. It was—I can't really bear to go back and look at it.Jennie NashWow.Jennie NashSo—so the feeling...Jennifer SeniorI'm really giving my book the hard sell, like it's really a B plus in terms of its pro…—I mean, you know, it wasn't.Jennie NashSo you—you—you recognize its happening, and what you recognize is a lack of fizzy, buzzy energy and a lack of flow. So I just have to ask now, presumably—well, there's long COVID now, but when you don't have—when you're writing in your full powers, do you—is it always in a state of flow? Like, if you're not in a state of flow, do you get up and go do something else? Like, what—how does that function in the life of a writer on a deadline?Jennifer SeniorOK. Well, am I always in a state of flow? No! I mean, flow is not—I don't know anyone who's good at something who just immediately can be in flow every time.Jennie NashYeah.Jennifer SeniorIt's still magic when it happens. You know, when I was in flow almost out of the gate every day—the McIlvaine stories—like, I knew when I hit send, this thing is damn good. I knew when I hit send on a piece that was not as well read, but is like my second or third favorite story. I wrote something for The New York Times called “Happiness Wont Save You,” about a pioneer in—he wrote one of the foundational studies in positive psychology about lottery winners and paraplegics, and how lottery winners are pretty much no happier than random controls found in a phone book, and paraplegics are much less unhappy than you might think, compared to controls. It was really poorly designed. It would never withstand the scrutiny of peer review today. But anyway, this guy was, like, a very innovative thinker. His name was Philip Brickman, and in 1982 at 38 years old, he climbed—he got—went—he found his way to the roof of the tallest building in Ann Arbor and jumped, and took his own life. And I was in flow pretty much throughout writing that one too.Jennie NashWow. So the piece you're referring to, that you referred to previous to that, is What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind, which was a feature story in The Atlantic. It's the one you won the—Pul…Pulitzer for? It's now made into a book. It has, like...Jennifer SeniorAlthough all it is like, you know, the story between...Jennie NashCovers, right?Jennifer SeniorYeah. Yeah. Because—yeah, yeah.Jennie NashBut—Jennifer SeniorWhich is great, because then people can have it, rather than look at it online, which—and it goes on forever—so yeah.Jennie NashSo this is a piece—the subtitle is Grief, Conspiracy Theories, and One Family's Search for Meaning in the Two Decades Since 9/11—and I actually pulled a couple of metaphors from that piece, because I re-read it knowing I was going to speak to you… and I mean, it was just so beautifully written. It's—it's so beautifully structured, everything, everything. But here's a couple of examples for our listeners. You're describing Bobby, who was a 26-year-old who died in 9/11, who was your brother's college roommate.Jennifer SeniorAnd at that young adult—they—you can't afford New York. They were living together for eight years. It was four in college, and four—Jennie NashWow.Jennifer SeniorIn New York City. They had a two-bedroom... yeah, in a cheaper part... well, to the extent that there are cheaper parts in...Jennie NashYeah.Jennifer SeniorThe way over near York Avenue, east side, yeah.Jennie NashSo you write, “When he smiled, it looked for all the world like he'd swallowed the moon.” And you wrote, “But for all Bobby's hunger and swagger, what he mainly exuded, even during his college years, was warmth, decency, a corkscrew quirkiness.” So just that kind of language—a corkscrew quirkiness, like he'd swallowed the moon—that, it's that the piece is full of that. So that's interesting, that you felt in flow with this other piece you described and this one. So how would you describe—so you describe metaphors as things that just come—it just—it just happens. You're not forcing it—you can't force it. Do you think that's true of whatever this ineffable thing of voice—voices—as well?Jennifer SeniorOh, that's a good question. My voice got more distinct as I got older—it gets better. I think a lot of people's—writers'—powers wax. Philip Roth is a great example of that. Colette? I mean, there are people whose powers really get better and better, and I've gotten better with more experience. But do you start with the voice? I think you do. I don't know if you can teach someone a voice.Jennie NashSo when you say you've gotten better, what does that mean to you?Jennifer SeniorYeah. Um, I'm trying to think, like, do I write with more swing? Do I—just with more confidence because I'm older? Being a columnist…which is the least creative medium…Jennie NashYeah.Jennifer SeniorSeven hundred and fifty words to fit onto—I had a dedicated space in print. When David Leonhardt left, I took over the Monday spot, during COVID. So it's really, really—but what it forces you to do is to be very—your writing becomes lean, and it becomes—and structure is everything. So this does not relate to voice, but my—I was always pretty good at structure anyway. I think if you—I think movies and radio, podcasts, are, like, great for structure. Storytelling podcasts are the best thing to—I think I unconsciously emulate them. The McIlvaine story has a three-act structure. There's also—I think the podcast Heavyweight is sublime in that way.Jennie NashIs that Roxane Gay?Jennifer SeniorNo, no, no, no.Jennie NashOh, it's, um—Jennifer SeniorIt's Jonathan Goldstein.Jennie NashYes, got it. I'm going to write that down and link to that in our show notes.Jennifer SeniorIt's... I'm trying to think of—because, you know, his is, like, narratives, and it's—it's got a very unusual premise. But voice, voice, voice—well, I, you know, I worked on making my metaphors better in the beginning. I worked on noticing things, you know, and I worked on—I have the—I'm the least visual person alive. I mean, this is what's so interesting. Like, I failed to notice once that I had sat for an hour and a half with a woman who was missing an arm. I mean, I came back to the office and was talking—this is Barbara Epstein, who was a storied editor of The New York Review of Books, the story editor, along with Bob Silver. And I was talking to Mike Tomasky, who was our, like, city politic editor at the time. And I said to him, I just had this one—I knew she knew her. And he said, was it awkward? Was—you know, with her having one arm and everything? And I just stared at him and went one arm? I—I am really oblivious to stuff. And yet visual metaphors are no problem with me. Riddle me that, Batman. I don't know why that is. But I can, like, summon them in my head, and so I worked at it for a while, when my editors were responsive to it. Now they come more easily, so that seems to maybe just be a facility. I started noticing them in other people's writing. So Michael Ondaatje —in, I think it was In the Skin of a Lion, but maybe it was The English Patient. I've read, like, every book of his, like I've, you know— Running… was it Running in the Family? Running with the Family? I think it was Running in the—his memoir. And, I mean, doesn't—everything. Anil's Ghost—he— you know, that was it The Ballad of Billy the Kid? [The Collected Works of Billy the Kid] Anyway, I can go on and on. He had one metaphor talking about the evening being as serene as ink. And it was then that I realized that metaphors without effort often—and—or is that a simile? That's a simile.Jennie NashLike—or if it's “like” or “as,” it's a simile.Jennifer SeniorYeah. So I'm pretty good with similes, maybe more than metaphors. But... serene as ink. I realized that what made that work is that ink is one syllable. There is something about landing on a word with one syllable that sounds like you did not work particularly hard at it. You just look at it and keep going. And I know that I made a real effort to make my metaphors do that for a while, and I still do sometimes. Anything more than that can seem labored.Jennie NashOh, but that's so interesting. So you—you noticed in other people what worked and what you liked, and then tried to fold that into your own work.Jennifer SeniorYeah.Jennie NashSo does that mean you might noodle on—like, you have the structure of the metaphor or simile, but you might noodle on the word—Jennifer SeniorThe final word?Jennie NashThe final word.Jennifer SeniorYeah. Yeah, the actual simile, or whatever—yeah, I guess it's a simile—yeah, sometimes. Sometimes they—like I said, they come unbidden. I think I have enough experience now—which may make my voice better—to know what's crap. And I also, by the way, I'll tell you what makes your voice better: just being very willing to hit Select Alt, Delete. You know, there's more where that came from. I am a monster of self-editing. I just—I have no problem doing it. I like to do it. I like to be told when things are s**t. I think that improves your voice, because you can see it on the page.Jennie NashYeah.Jennifer SeniorAnd also, I think paying attention to other people's writing, you know, I did more and more of that, you know, reverse engineering stuff, looking at how they did stuff as I got older, so...Jennie NashSo I was going to ask a question, which now maybe you already answered, but the question was going to be… you said that you're—you feel like you're getting better as a writer as you got older. And you—you said that was due to experience. And I was going to ask, is it, or is it due to getting older? You know, is there something about literally living more years that makes you better, or, you know, like, is wisdom something that you just get, or is it something you work for? But I think what I'm hearing is you're saying you have worked to become the kind of writer who knows, you know, what you just said—you delete stuff, it comes again. But tell me if—you know, you welcome the kind of tough feedback, because you know that makes you better. You know, this sort of real effort to become better, it sounds like that's a practice you have. Is that—is that right?Jennifer SeniorOh yeah. I mean, well, let's do two things on that, please. I so easily lose my juju these days that, like, you've got to—if you can put a, you know, oh God, I'm going to use a cliché again—if you can put a pin in or bookmark that, the observation about, you know, harsh feedback. I want to come back to that. But yes, one of the things that I was going to keep—when I said that I have the confidence now, I also was going to say that I have the wisdom, but I had too many kind of competing—Jennie NashYeah. Yeah.Jennifer SeniorYou know, were running at once, and I, you know, many trains on many tracks—Jennie NashYeah, yeah.Jennifer Senior…about to leave, so…, Like, I had to sort of hop on one. But, like, the—the confidence and wisdom, yes, and also, like, I'll tell you something: in the McIlvaine piece, it may have been the first time I did, like, a narrative nonfiction. I told a story. There was a time when I would have hid behind research on that one.Jennie NashOoh, and did you tell a story. It was the—I remember reading that piece when it first came out, and there you're introducing, you know, this—the situation. And then there's a moment, and it comes very quickly at the top of the piece, where you explain your relationship to the protagonist of the story. And there's a—there's just a moment of like, oh, we're—we're really in something different here. There's really—is that feel of, this is not a reported story, this is a lived story, and that there's so many layers of power, I mean, to the story itself, but obviously the way that you—you present it, so I know exactly what you're talking about.Jennifer SeniorYeah, and by the way, I think writing in the first person, which I've been doing a lot of lately, is not something I would have done until now. Probably because I am older and I feel like I've earned it. I have more to say. I've been through more stuff. It's not, like, with the same kind of narcissism or adolescent—like, I want to get this out, you know. It's more searching, I think, and because I've seen more, and also because I've had these pent up stories that I've wanted to tell for a long time. And also I just don't think I would have had the balls, you know.Jennie NashRight.Jennifer SeniorSo some of it is—and I think that that's part of—you can write better in your own voice. If it's you writing about you, you're—there's no better authority, you know? So your voice comes out.Jennie NashRight.Jennifer SeniorBut I'm trying to think of also—I would have hid behind research and talked about theories of grief. And when I wrote, “It's the damnedest thing, the dead abandon you, and then you abandon the dead,” I had blurted that out loud when I was talking to, actually, not Bobby's brother, which is the context in which I wrote it, but to Bobby's—I said that, it's, like, right there on the tape—to his former almost fiancée. And I was thinking about that line, that I let it stand. I didn't actually then rush off and see if there was a body of literature that talked about the guilt that the living feel about letting go of their memories. But I would have done that at one point. I would have turned it into this... because I was too afraid to just let my own observations stand. But you get older and you're like, you know what? I'm smart enough to just let that be mine. Like, assume...Jennie NashRight.Jennifer SeniorIt's got to be right. But can we go back, also, before I forget?Jennie NashYeah, we're going to go back to harsh, but—but I would just want to use your cliché, put a pin in what you said, because you've said so many important things— that there's actual practice of getting better, and then there's also wisdom of—of just owning, growing into, embracing, which are two different things, both so important. So I just wanted to highlight that you've gone through those two things. So yes, let's go back to—I said harsh, and maybe I miss—can...misrepresenting what you meant.Jennifer SeniorYou may not have said that. I don't know what you said.Jennie NashNo, I did, I did.Jennifer SeniorYou did, okay, yeah, because I just know that it was processed as a harsh—oh no, totally. Like, I was going to say to you that—so there was a part of my book, my book, eventually, I just gave one chapter to each person in my life whom I thought could, like, assess it best, and one of them, so this friend—I did it on paper. He circled three paragraphs, and he wrote, and I quote, “Is this just a shitty way of saying...?” And then I was like, thank God someone caught it, if it was shitty. Oh my God. And then—and I was totally old enough to handle it, you know, I was like 44, whatever, 43. And then, who was it? Someone else—oh, I think I gave my husband the intro, and he wrote—he circled a paragraph and just wrote, “Ugh.” Okay, Select Alt, Delete, redo. You know, like, what are you going to do with that? That's so unambiguous. It's like, you know—and also, I mean, when you're younger, you argue. When you're older, you never quarrel with Ugh. Or Is this...Jennie NashRight, you're just like, okay, yep.Jennifer SeniorYeah. And again, you—you've done it enough that, you know, there's so much more where that came from.Jennie NashYeah.Jennifer SeniorWhy cling to anything that someone just, I don't know, had this totally allergic reaction to? Like, you know, if my husband broke out in a hive.Jennie NashYeah. So, circling back to the—the storyline of—you took this medication, you lost your ability to write in this way, you changed medications, presumably, you got it back. What did it feel like to get it back? Did you—do you remember that?Jennifer SeniorOh God, yes, it was glorious.Jennie NashReally?!Jennifer SeniorOh, you don't feel like yourself. I think that—I mean, I think there are many professions that are intertwined with identity. They may be the more professional—I'm sorry, the more creative professions. But not always, you know. And so if your writing voice is gone, and it's—I mean, so much of writing is an expression of your interior, if not life, then, I don't know some kind of thought process and something that you're working out. To have that drained out of you, for someone to just decant all the life out of your—or something to decant all the life out of your writing, it's—it's, I wouldn't say it's traumatic, that's totally overstating it, but it's—it's a huge bummer. It's, you know, it's depressing.Jennie NashWell, the word glorious, that's so cool. So to feel that you got back your—the you-ness of your voice was—was glorious. I mean, that's—that's amazing.Jennifer SeniorWhat—if I can just say, I wrote a feature, right, that then, like, I remember coming off of it, and then I wrote a feature that won the News Women's Club of New York story for best feature that year. Like, I didn't realize that those are kind of hard to win, and not like I won... I think I've won one since. But, like, that was in, like, 99 or something. I mean, like, you know, I don't write a whole lot of things that win stuff, until recently, you know. There was, like, a real kind of blackout period where, you know, I mean, but like—which I think, it probably didn't have to do with the quality of my writing. I mean, there was—but, I mean, you know, I wasn't writing any of the stuff that floated to the tippy top, and, like, I think that there was some kind of explosion thereof, like, all the, again, stuff that was just desperate to come out. I think there was just this volcanic outpouring.Jennie NashSo you're saying now you are winning things, which is indeed true. I mean, Pulitzer Prizes among them. Do you think that that has to do with this getting better? The wisdom, the practice, the glorious having of your abilities? Or, I guess what I'm asking is, like, is luck a part of—a part of all that? Is it just, it just happens? Or do you think there's some reason that it's happening? You feel that your writing is that powerful now?Jennifer SeniorWell, luck is definitely a part of it, because The Atlantic is the greatest place to showcase your feature writing. It gets so much attention, even though I think fewer people probably read that piece about Bobby McIlvaine than would have read any of my columns on any given day. The kind of attention was just so different. And it makes sense in a funny way, because it was 13,600 words or something. I mean, it was so long, and columns are 750 words. But, like, I think that I just lucked out in terms of the showcase. So that's definitely a part of it. And The Atlantic has the machinery to, you know, and all these dedicated, wonderful publicity people who will make it possible for people to read it, blah, blah, blah. So there's that. If you're older, you know everyone in the business, so you have people amplifying your work, they're suddenly reading it and saying, hey, everybody read it. It was before Twitter turned to garbage. Media was still a way to amplify it. It's much harder now, so passing things along through social media has become a real problem. But at that moment, it was not—Jennie NashYeah.Jennifer SeniorSo that was totally luck. Also, I wonder if it was because I was suddenly writing something from in the first person, and my voice was just better that way. And I wouldn't have had, like, the courage, you know?Jennie NashYeah.Jennifer SeniorAnd also, you're a book critic, which is what I was at The Times. And you certainly are not writing from the first person. And as a columnist, you're not either.Jennie NashYeah.Jennifer SeniorSo, you know, those are very kind of constricted forms, and they're also not—there are certainly critics who win Pulitzers. I don't think I was good enough at it. I was good, but it was not good enough. I could name off the top of my head, like, so many critics who were—who are—who haven't even won anything yet. Like Dwight Garner really deserves one. Why has he not won a Pulitzer? He's, I think, the best writer—him and Sophie Gilbert, who keeps coming close. I don't get it, like, what the hell?Jennie NashDo you—as a—as a reader of other people's work, I know you—you mentioned Michael Ondaatje that you'd studied—study him. But do you just recognize when somebody else is on their game? Like, do you recognize the voice or the gloriousness of somebody else's work? Can you just be like, yeah, that...?Jennifer SeniorWell, Philip Roth, sentence for sentence. Martin Amis, even more so—I cannot get over the originality of each of his sentences and the wide vocabulary from which he recruits his words, and, like, maybe some of that is just being English. I think they just get better, kind of more comprehensive. They read more comprehensively. And I always tell people, if they want to improve their voice, they should read the Victorians, like that [unintelligible]. His also facility with metaphor, I don't think, is without equal. The thing is, I can't stand his fiction. I just find it repellent. But his criticism is bangers and his memoirs are great, so I love them.Jennie NashYeah.Jennifer SeniorSo I really—I read him very attentively, trying to think of, like, other people whose kind of...Jennie NashI guess I was—I was getting at more... like, genius recognizes genius, that con... that concept, like, when you know you can do this and write in this way from time to time anyway, you can pull it off.Jennifer SeniorYeah, genius as in—I wouldn't—we can't go there.Jennie NashWell, that's the—that's the cliché, right? But, like...Jennifer SeniorOh no, I know, I know. Game—game, game recognizes game.Jennie NashGame recognizes game is a better way of saying it. Like, do you see—that's actually what the phrase is. I don't know where I came up with genius, but...Jennifer SeniorNo, it's fine. You can stick anything in that template, you know—evil recognizes evil, I mean, you know, it's like a...Jennie NashYeah. Do you see it? Do you see it? Like, you can see it in other people?Jennifer SeniorSure. Oh yeah, I see it.Jennie NashYeah.Jennifer SeniorI mean, you're just talking about among my contemporaries, or just as it...Jennie NashJust like anything, like when you pick up a book or you read an article or even listen to a storytelling pack podcast, that sense of being in the hands of somebody who's on it.Jennifer SeniorYeah, I think that Jonathan Goldstein—I mean, I think that the—the Heavyweight Podcast, for sure, is something—and more than that, it's—it's storytelling structure, it's just that—I think that anybody who's a master at structure would just look at that show and be like, yeah, that show nails it each and every time.Jennie NashI've not listened, but I feel like I should end our time together. I would talk to you forever about this, but I always like to leave our listeners with something specific to reflect or practice or do. And is there anything related to metaphor or practicing, finding your voice, owning your voice, that you would suggest for—for folks? You've already suggested a lot.Jennifer SeniorRead the Victorians.Jennie NashAwesome. Any particular one that you would say start with?Jennifer SeniorYeah, you know what? I find Dickens rough sledding. I like his, you know, dear friend Wilkie Collins. I think No Name is one of the greatest books ever. I would read No Name.Jennie NashAmazing. And I will add, go read Jennifer's work. We'll link to a bunch of it in the show notes. Study her and—and watch what she does and learn what she does—that there it is, a master at work, and that's what I would suggest. So thank you for joining us and having this amazing discussion.Jennifer SeniorThis has been super fun.Jennie NashAnd for our listeners, until next time, stop playing small and write like it matters.NarratorThe Hashtag AmWriting Podcast is produced by Andrew Perrella. Our intro music, aptly titled Unemployed Monday, was written and played by Max Cohen. Andrew and Max were paid for their time and their creative output, because everyone deserves to be paid for their work. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit amwriting.substack.com/subscribe

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