Podcast appearances and mentions of clinton global initiative

Mickey Bergman is a two time nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, a fringe diplomat, CEO of Global Reach, a best selling Author, regular contributor to the NY Times, the Washington Post, Huff Post, The Boston Globe and numerous other well known publications. He is a gentleman, an outlier and an influencing force in some of the most well known hostage negotiations which you will hear about today. Mickey Bergman is the CEO of Global Reach, a non-governmental, non-profit organization that negotiates the release of political prisoners and hostages around the world. With over 18 years in various aspects of strategic diplomacy, Mickey coined the term Fringe Diplomacy to describe the new field he is forging, an innovative discipline exploring the space in international relations just beyond the boundaries of States and Governments' capacity and authority. He manages relationships and private diplomacy efforts in North Korea, Cuba, Myanmar, Russia, Iran, Gaza, Venezuela and Africa. Nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize (2019 & 2023) alongside former Governor Bill Richardson; Mickey has led his teams at Global Reach and the Richardson Center to facilitate the release of more political prisoners than any other organization. Prior to his work with Global Reach, Mickey was Vice President and Executive Director of the Richardson Center for Global Engagement; Executive Director of the Global Alliances Program at the Aspen Institute; is a professor at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, where he teaches about emotional intelligence in international relations, and was consultant to the Clinton Global Initiative. Mickey's book, IN THE SHADOWS; True Stories of High-Stakes Negotiations to Free Americans Captured Abroad, came out in June 2024. He has also published numerous articles and opinion pieces in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, Foreign Policy Online, and HuffPost.He was recently honored with the 2023 James W. Foley Legacy Foundation American Hostage Freedom Award and serves on the Center for Strategic and International Studies Commission on Hostage Taking and Wrongful Detention. Mickey is a native of Tel Aviv and former combat officer in the Israel Defense Forces. He holds a master's degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.To know more about Mickey visit his socials:Instagram: @Mickey.BergmanX: @mickeybergman

In the US, women control roughly 85% of the household purchases, which means shopping isn't just a necessity, it's a superpower we wield. Diane Osgood, author of the forthcoming book 'Your Shopping Superpower' and co-author of 'The Carbon Almanac.' Diane, a seasoned expert with over 30 years of experience in sustainable and ethical products and services, delves into the transformative power of women's consumer spending, supporting women-owned and minority-owned businesses, combating climate change, and more through reevaluating and changing how we spend our money. This week's episode 163 of How Women Inspire Podcast is about understanding your shopping superpower! In this episode of How Women Inspire Podcast, Diane Osgood is sharing the importance of understanding the implications of your spending habits and actionable steps you can take right now to research and shop in a sustainable way. Diane Osgood is an author and sustainability strategist with 30 years of experience. She helps businesses embed sustainability and ESG into their operations to increase profits, create sustainable products and services, and manage risks.  She works with brands, HR, business and product innovation, customer experience, environmental performance, reporting, and charitable activities. Osgood was a senior advisor to President Clinton for the Clinton Global Initiative and served on the Vatican Arts and Technology Council. As VP for Sustainability Strategy at BSR, she co-led BSR's transformation by growing revenue by 28% over three years. She specializes in sustainability strategy, climate change action, sustainable finance, innovation, social-enterprise, and impact assessment and reporting.Some of the talking points Julie and Diane go over in this episode include:The impact of consumer spending on the economy and how women control roughly 85% of household spending.Diane's journey to study and work in environmental economics, started by witnessing the impact of deforestation.Practical steps for sustainable, well-researched shopping.Supporting women and minority-owned businesses as a way to vote for a more equitable economy.Don't forget to hear over to https://www.dianeosgood.com/books to pre-order your copy of Your Shopping Superpower!Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag me!  And don't forget to follow, rate, and review the podcast and tell me your key takeaways!Learn more about How Women Inspire at https://www.howwomenlead.com/podcast CONNECT WITH DIANE OSGOOD:Osgood ConsultingWebsiteLinkedInCONNECT WITH JULIE CASTRO ABRAMS:LinkedIn - JulieHow Women LeadHow Women InvestHow Women GiveInstagram - HWLLinkedIn - HWLFacebook - HWL

It might be Liberation Day today, but according to Paul Rice, founder of US Fair Trade and author of Every Purchase Matters, Trump's tariffs are dumb. Rice firmly distances Fair Trade from Trump's controversial trade policies, calling them "backward" and "bad for American business." He explains how Fair Trade - which has expanded beyond coffee to include 40 products, from produce to furniture - certifies products through rigorous standards ensuring workers receive fair wages and environmental protections. Every purchase does indeed matter. And, in contrast with Trump's short sighted tariffs, Rice's Fair Trade movement is worth celebrating today. Five Key Takeaways * Fair Trade is fundamentally different from Trump's tariff policies - Rice strongly distinguishes between Trump's "big stick diplomacy" approach to trade and Fair Trade's focus on equitable market transactions that benefit workers and the environment.* Fair Trade certification involves rigorous standards - Products earn certification through a 200-point checklist covering social, labor, and environmental criteria, with independent annual audits ensuring compliance.* Sustainable products don't necessarily cost more - Rice challenges the "fallacy" that ethical products must be more expensive, citing companies like NatureSuite that have adopted Fair Trade standards without raising consumer prices.* The Fair Trade movement is expanding rapidly - What began with coffee has grown to encompass approximately 40 product categories including tea, produce, apparel, furniture, and even cosmetics, with fresh produce being the fastest-growing segment (32% growth last year).* Ethical consumption is a form of everyday activism - Rice promotes the idea that Every Purchase Matters, suggesting consumers can "vote for change" through their purchasing decisions rather than waiting for political elections.Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Paul Rice is a pioneer in the global Fair Trade and sustainability movements. Raised with a deep sense of compassion for the poor, Paul has spent 40 years fighting poverty and environmental destruction. The quintessential social entrepreneur, this passion led him to develop innovative models that harness the power of consumers and business to improve people's lives and protect the planet. Paul launched Fair Trade USA (formerly known as TransFair USA) in late 1998 in a one-room warehouse in downtown Oakland, California. Under his leadership, Fair Trade USA became the leading certifier of Fair Trade products in North America, enlisting the support of over 1,700 major brands and retailers who sell everything from coffee and chocolate to apparel and seafood. By 2024, the organization and its partners had generated over $1.2 billion in cumulative financial impact for over 1 million farmers, workers and their families in 70 countries worldwide. Before founding Fair Trade USA, Paul worked with family farmers for 11 years in the highlands of Nicaragua, where he founded and led the country's first Fair Trade organic coffee export cooperative. This deep, firsthand experience with the transformative impact of Fair Trade in the lives of farmers and their communities ultimately inspired him to return to the United States with the dream of mainstreaming the movement in this country. Paul has been named Ethical Corporation's 2019 Business Leader of the Year and has been recognized four times as Social Capitalist of the Year by Fast Company magazine, which dubbed him a “rebel in the boardroom.” He is also a recipient of the prestigious Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the World Economic Forum's Social Entrepreneur of the Year, and the Ashoka Fellowship. He has spoken at the World Economic Forum, Clinton Global Initiative, Skoll World Forum, Conscious Capitalism CEO Summit, TEDx, Consumer Goods Forum, and numerous universities and conferences around the world. Paul is regarded as one of today's leading visionaries and practitioners for sustainable sourcing and conscious capitalism.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting the daily KEEN ON show, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy interview series. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Thanks for reading Keen On America! This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

Kat Koppett is the Eponymous Founder of Koppett, a consultancy specializing in the use of improv and storytelling techniques to enhance individual and group performance. She has worked with diverse clients including Meta, Apple, Prezi, PwC, NASA, Havas Health, Mass General Hospital, the United Nations and the Clinton Global Initiative.Her book Training to Imagine: Practical Improvisational Theatre Techniques to Enhance Creativity, Teamwork, Leadership, and Learning , is considered a seminal work in the field of Applied Improv and is used by professionals around the world. She has given two TEDx talks on the use of improv to enhance non-theatrical performance.In 2019, Kat was the winner of the North American Simulation and Gaming Association (NASAGA)'s Ifill-Reynold's Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the co-director and a performing member of the Mopco Improv Theatre, a founding member and the current vice-president of the Applied Improvisation Network, and the co-host of the podcast, Performance Shift: The Art of Successfully Navigating Change.Give this a listen! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TrishRegan #news Full Episode 5-33 Lester Holt joins Joy Reid on the unemployed list. The longtime host of the NBC signature program “Nightly News” is leaving his post, as Joy Reid and others learn their fates. New video today of Joy Reid sobbing and claiming “my show had value”… I would dispute that. Meanwhile, my friend Dan Bongino is heading to the FBI! Trish says this means big trouble for the Clintons and Hunter… Kash plus Dan is quite a combo. From Russia, Russia, Russia to the Clinton Global Initiative - it's all on the table. And Dan, like Kash, knows his stuff. Dan Bongino, for what it's worth, also happens to have been Hillary Clinton's former Secret Service detail -- and he's not a fan. President Trump says the war in Ukraine is coming to and end - we have the latest from the White House and… The Philadelphia Eagles may still be heading to Washington DC to meet with the President and celebrate their win. (Could their mayor just learn to spell the team name first?) Those stories and more in today’s live edition of The Trish Regan Show.

Dia Bondi works with Senior Leaders, Founders and ambitious professionals to help them find their voice and lead with it securing hundreds of millions of dollars in decisions and resources and carving a path for the future of their teams and ventures. Dia has worked with world-class brands like Intel, Mozilla, Salesforce, Dropbox, and founders in portfolios of some of the most forward looking VC's. In global sport, she helped Rio de Janeiro win the right to host the 2016 Olympic Games, and in social impact has coached change-makers backstage at the Clinton Global Initiative.After training as an auctioneer, Dia translated the strategies she learned from the fundraising auctioneering stage into a program and book with a goal to help 1,000,000 women ask for more in their career and life. In Ask Like An Auctioneer: How To Ask For More and Get It, Dia outlines a six-step framework that will help you strategically and confidently ask for more, maximizing the potential of every ask, every time.Dia's approach is both practical and inspirational, rooted in real-world experience and a deep understanding of the power of asking as a success strategy.In everything Dia does, she is devoted to cultivating the courage and control you need to shine when stakes are high so you can move toward your goals with unshakable commitment on your own terms. 

Send us a text“The best 4-letter word in entrepreneurship is, “Next” ~ Mike HandcockGuest Bio: Meet Mike Handcock, a globally recognized Certified Speaking Professional, President of the Global Speakers Federation 2025/26, and accomplished author with 14 books, including 7 International Best Sellers and 6 Amazon #1 titles in business and personal development. As a musician, Mike boasts 13 albums and a No#1 on iTunes in 2013. Distinguished for his philanthropic endeavors, Mike serves on the boards of three charities and has received praise from President Clinton for his work with the SAGE Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative. As the Chairman & Founder of The Circle of Excellence, Mike, along with business partner Landi Jac, has successfully established five companies in Events, Business Intelligence, Licensing, Investments, and an Experts Institute, operating across more than 50 countries. Mike is a sought-after speaker, consistently flying 4.5 times around the world annually sharing the message of playing a bigger game and conscious leadership. SHOW NOTES: Website: http://www.circleofexcellence.bizLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikehandcock REMARKABLE LISTENER SPECIAL OFFER(S):REMARKABLE OFFER 1: Enjoy saving 30% to 80% on EVERYTHING you order at MyPillow.com with Free Promo Code, “REMARKABLE“. Yes, that's right! Use the best MyPillow promo code out there to save a ton of money on all 250+ quality, comfortable, cozy home goods at MyPillow.com/Remarkable. From sheets, to blankets, to pillows, to mattress toppers, be ready to sleep better and live more comfortably than you ever have before!REMARKABLE OFFER 2: Receive a free business assessment on Mike's website - http://www.circleofexcellence.biz For more Remarkable Episodes, Inspiration, and Motivation, please visit Support the showWant Even More?

On this episode of The Talk of Fame Podcast, we're thrilled to chat with Nancy Bosnoian! Nancy Bosnoian is the founder and CEO of "End No Sleep," a nonprofit organization dedicated to delivering engaging sleep health education through digital e-learning. This initiative serves as a cornerstone of preventative mental health care, connecting youth worldwide to innovative digital health resources and empowering them to embrace sleep as a vital foundation for overall well-being. Nancy's journey began in Aleppo, Syria, where she survived the war before immigrating to Los Angeles with her family. This experience ignited a deep-rooted passion for helping others. Faced with her own medical challenges, Nancy recognized the critical importance of sleep and the scarcity of resources addressing this essential aspect of health, inspiring her to establish End No Sleep. Currently a student at Columbia University, Nancy continues to leverage her education and personal experiences to drive her mission forward. She has been selected as one of only 25 inaugural fellows of the Clinton Foundation's Clinton Global Initiative as a health equity fellow, a Z Zurich Foundation Scholar, a Western Union Foundation Fellow, a Vital Voices Grassroots Voices Leader, a One Young World Ambassador, and a Millennium Fellow as Campus Director. Nancy firmly believes in harnessing innovative technology to deliver health education, teaching youth about preventive care as crucial elements in preventing disorders and diseases from an early age.Listen in as we discuss Nancy's Journey & her story in Syria.You'll be inspired by her dedication to her craft and helping people with sleep health.Follow Me:Instagram:@Officialkyliemontigney@TalkoffamepodFacebook:OfficialkyliemontigneyTalkoffameTwitter:@Kyliemontigney4About Me:Hi, I'm Kylie! I'm passionate about sports, spending time with family, traveling, and connecting with people who inspire me. I love listening to people's stories and sharing their journeys with the world!

Ghislaine Maxwell founded the TerraMar Project in 2012, presenting it as a nonprofit dedicated to ocean conservation. The organization gained prominence through Maxwell's speeches at venues like the United Nations and TEDx, and it showcased its commitment to advancing Sustainable Development Goals at the Clinton Global Initiative. However, despite its high-profile endorsements, TerraMar's financial records reveal minimal charitable activity; between 2012 and 2017, the organization distributed no grant money and incurred unusually high accounting and legal fees for its size. These discrepancies have led to scrutiny over the organization's true purpose and its connections to influential figures, including the Clintons.The revelation that Ghislaine Maxwell's nephew, Alexander Djerassi, secured a job in Hillary Clinton's State Department reeks of the very elitist nepotism and corruption that has allowed figures like Maxwell and Epstein to thrive unchecked for decades. That someone so closely tied to an international sex-trafficking ring was quietly placed in a sensitive government position dealing with Middle East policy is not just a coincidence—it's a glaring indictment of the political class's willingness to reward the well-connected, regardless of their associations. How does a family so deeply entangled in one of the most egregious abuse scandals of modern history produce a government insider under a top U.S. official without raising alarms? The Clintons have long been suspected of running in the same circles as Epstein and Maxwell, and this revelation only fuels further doubt about their claims of distance from the scandal.The fact that Djerassi was given a role of influence in foreign policy—where intelligence connections, backdoor dealings, and covert operations are routine—should be more than enough reason for serious scrutiny. Yet, predictably, there has been no mainstream media uproar, no demands for an investigation, and no accountability. If the roles were reversed, and this was a Trump administration official linked to such a disgraceful network, the media would be in full meltdown mode. Instead, those in power simply act as if these connections are meaningless, hoping the public either forgets or never notices. But people are noticing, and the question remains—how many other well-connected figures with ties to Epstein and Maxwell have quietly infiltrated key institutions, protected by their elite status and their ability to keep secrets?to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

Ghislaine Maxwell founded the TerraMar Project in 2012, presenting it as a nonprofit dedicated to ocean conservation. The organization gained prominence through Maxwell's speeches at venues like the United Nations and TEDx, and it showcased its commitment to advancing Sustainable Development Goals at the Clinton Global Initiative. However, despite its high-profile endorsements, TerraMar's financial records reveal minimal charitable activity; between 2012 and 2017, the organization distributed no grant money and incurred unusually high accounting and legal fees for its size. These discrepancies have led to scrutiny over the organization's true purpose and its connections to influential figures, including the Clintons.The revelation that Ghislaine Maxwell's nephew, Alexander Djerassi, secured a job in Hillary Clinton's State Department reeks of the very elitist nepotism and corruption that has allowed figures like Maxwell and Epstein to thrive unchecked for decades. That someone so closely tied to an international sex-trafficking ring was quietly placed in a sensitive government position dealing with Middle East policy is not just a coincidence—it's a glaring indictment of the political class's willingness to reward the well-connected, regardless of their associations. How does a family so deeply entangled in one of the most egregious abuse scandals of modern history produce a government insider under a top U.S. official without raising alarms? The Clintons have long been suspected of running in the same circles as Epstein and Maxwell, and this revelation only fuels further doubt about their claims of distance from the scandal.The fact that Djerassi was given a role of influence in foreign policy—where intelligence connections, backdoor dealings, and covert operations are routine—should be more than enough reason for serious scrutiny. Yet, predictably, there has been no mainstream media uproar, no demands for an investigation, and no accountability. If the roles were reversed, and this was a Trump administration official linked to such a disgraceful network, the media would be in full meltdown mode. Instead, those in power simply act as if these connections are meaningless, hoping the public either forgets or never notices. But people are noticing, and the question remains—how many other well-connected figures with ties to Epstein and Maxwell have quietly infiltrated key institutions, protected by their elite status and their ability to keep secrets?to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.

Being a change-maker in the humanitarian space is universally understood to be driven by the desire to help others. Equally, a love of travel and being motivated by difficult and hard to manage problems can be a huge benefit to working in the sector. Thanks to parents who were avid travellers, and her childhood home in Massachusetts being filled with foreign exchange students, Jocelyn Wyatt grew up curious about the world. After completing a BA in Anthropology at Grinnell College and an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management, she was on her way to Washington DC where she got involved in global development work. Her dream career, travelling and doing good, was set. Wyatt is CEO of Alight, a humanitarian organisation where she leads a team of over 3,500 members globally as they work alongside displaced people to co-create high-quality services and programs that address their needs. She’s also the former CEO of IDEO.org, the nonprofit design organisation she co-founded in 2011 after leading IDEO’s social innovation practice, where she spoke widely about how Human Centred Design is changing the social sector. She’s also worked for humanitarian organisations in Kenya and India, is a program advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative, an advisory board member to Marketplace, a board member for Airbnb.org, Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative, and an Aspen Institute First Movers Fellow. Listen in as Vince and Jocelyn discuss being on the ground at IDEO at the birth of Design Thinking, how spending time in cultures very different to her own have shaped her, and how the Human Centred Design Toolkit democratised design. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

According to Alan Dershowitz AND Gerald Lefcourt Jeffrey Epstein was one of the first people to donate to the Clinton Global Initiative and was also very generous when donating his own money to the former president's project. Will Bill Clinton ever be pressured into answering for his obviously close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein?(commercial at 8:55)To contact me:bobbycapucci@protonamail.comsource:https://news.yahoo.com/epstein-lawyer-claimed-alleged-pedophile-223701676.htmlBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.

Dia Bondi works with Senior Leaders, Founders and ambitious professionals to help them find their voice and lead with it securing hundreds of millions of dollars in decisions and resources and carving a path for the future of their teams and ventures. Dia has worked with world-class brands like Intel, Mozilla, Salesforce, Dropbox, and founders in portfolios of some of the most forward looking VC's. In global sport, she helped Rio de Janeiro win the right to host the 2016 Olympic Games, and in social impact has coached change-makers backstage at the Clinton Global Initiative.After training as an auctioneer, Dia translated the strategies she learned from the fundraising auctioneering stage into a program and book with a goal to help 1,000,000 women ask for more in their career and life. In Ask Like An Auctioneer: How To Ask For More and Get It, Dia outlines a six-step framework that will help you strategically and confidently ask for more, maximizing the potential of every ask, every time.Dia's approach is both practical and inspirational, rooted in real-world experience and a deep understanding of the power of asking as a success strategy.In everything Dia does, she is devoted to cultivating the courage and control you need to shine when stakes are high so you can move toward your goals with unshakable commitment on your own terms. 

The Future of PR: Embracing Digital Innovations for GrowthIn the latest episode of our podcast, we had the pleasure of hosting Justin Goldstein, the founder of PR73, an integrated communications firm specializing in public relations and marketing. Justin shared his wealth of knowledge on how businesses can effectively leverage PR to enhance their visibility, credibility, and ultimately, their sales. This blog post will break down the key insights from the episode, providing actionable advice and thorough explanations to help you maximize the impact of your PR efforts.Justin Goldstein founded PR73, an integrated communications firm named after 73rd Street in Manhattan, where he started the company. PR73 focuses on creating synergies between public relations and marketing, offering a range of services from media relations to digital marketing. Justin's approach emphasizes the importance of integrating PR with business development goals to drive growth. One of the common misconceptions about PR is that it is solely about gaining visibility. While visibility is a crucial aspect, Justin argues that effective PR should be integrated with business development goals. Many businesses fail to understand how to leverage PR for their growth, leading to missed opportunities.In summary, this episode provides valuable insights into the role of public relations in business growth. Justin Goldstein's expertise highlights the importance of integrating PR with marketing strategies, leveraging media coverage effectively, and maintaining exceptional customer service. As the media landscape continues to evolve, businesses must adapt their approaches to PR and recognize the potential of both traditional and new media channels. By doing so, they can enhance their visibility, credibility, and ultimately drive sales growth. For more information about Justin Goldstein and PR 73, visit their website at pr73.com where you can explore the range of services offered and learn more about how PR can benefit your business.About Justin Goldstein:Justin is an award-winning public relations and marketing expert, and the Founder and Lead Strategist of PR73, an integrated communications agency that helps brands build trust and unlock growth opportunities. He has reshaped industry practices through his work with leading organizations like Uber, AARP, Clinton Global Initiative, General Motors, and many more. Justin's mission? To empower brands to develop trust at every touchpoint. Justin's journey is a testament to the power of resilience and resourcefulness. Born with a cyst on his kidney, he learned early on to recognize his limits and adapt strategically—a lesson he now applies to business. Just as he used a kidney protector belt as a child, Justin advocates for understanding your bandwidth and being resourceful to avoid overextending yourself and your clients.About PR73:PR73 is an NYC-based, integrated communications firm that specializes in developing insight, strategy, and content to build and strengthen trust across both internal and external audiences.Originally founded as Press Record Communications, PR73 expands upon its predecessor's vision by combining PR and marketing to deliver more holistic, innovative services that go beyond traditional communications. With an award-winning team of seasoned creative professionals and business-minded experts, PR73 has a proven track record of crafting consistent brand messaging across all platforms, driving visibility, and fostering growth for its clients.Apply to be a Guest on The Thoughtful Entrepreneur: https://go.upmyinfluence.com/podcast-guestLinks Mentioned in this Episode:Want to learn more? Check out PR73 website at

Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted for her role in Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking operations, sought to leverage her connections with influential figures, including former President Bill Clinton, to secure a more lenient sentence. Her defense highlighted her association with the Clinton Global Initiative, where her environmental advocacy organization, the TerraMar Project, was showcased. This connection was presented to portray Maxwell as a person dedicated to philanthropic causes, thereby suggesting she deserved a reduced sentence.Critics argue that such attempts to use high-profile associations as character references are superficial and divert attention from the gravity of the crimes committed. The court ultimately sentenced Maxwell to 20 years in prison, indicating that her social connections and philanthropic endeavors did not mitigate her culpability in the exploitation and abuse of minors. to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted for her role in Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking operations, sought to leverage her connections with influential figures, including former President Bill Clinton, to secure a more lenient sentence. Her defense highlighted her association with the Clinton Global Initiative, where her environmental advocacy organization, the TerraMar Project, was showcased. This connection was presented to portray Maxwell as a person dedicated to philanthropic causes, thereby suggesting she deserved a reduced sentence.Critics argue that such attempts to use high-profile associations as character references are superficial and divert attention from the gravity of the crimes committed. The court ultimately sentenced Maxwell to 20 years in prison, indicating that her social connections and philanthropic endeavors did not mitigate her culpability in the exploitation and abuse of minors. to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.

Bill and Hillary Clinton were once masters of the “dark arts” of politics – spinning history and enriching themselves while running a global charity that became famous as a grift machine. Their skill even had a name: “The Clinton Blur.” Though long out of office himself, former President Bill Clinton is at it again. “The news for GAI is that Bill Clinton is back,” says author Peter Schweizer, whose 2015 bestseller Clinton Cash exposed the financial shenanigans behind the Clinton Global Initiative. “Bill's back, he's mad, and he's mad at me!” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Justin Goldstein is the Founder and Lead Strategist of PR72, an integrated communications agency that helps organizations like Uber, AARP, and General Motors unlock growth and build their brands. We discussed all of this and more this week on the On Brand podcast. About Justin Goldstein Justin Goldstein is an award-winning public relations and marketing expert, and the Founder and Lead Strategist of PR73. This integrated communications agency helps brands build trust and unlock growth opportunities. He has reshaped industry practices through his work with leading organizations like Uber, AARP, Clinton Global Initiative, General Motors, and many more. Justin's mission? To empower brands to develop trust at every touchpoint. Justin's journey and personal story testify to the power of resilience and resourcefulness. Born with a cyst on his kidney, Justin learned early on to recognize his limits and adapt strategically—a lesson he now applies to business. Just as he used a kidney protector belt as a child, Justin advocates for understanding your bandwidth and being resourceful to avoid overextending yourself and your clients. From the Show What brand has made Justin smile recently? Justin shared the consistent smiles he gets from real estate brokerage SERHANT. Connect with Justin on LinkedIn and the PR73 website. As We Wrap … Listen and subscribe at  Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon/Audible, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn, iHeart, YouTube, and RSS. Rate and review the show—If you like what you're hearing, be sure to head over to Apple Podcasts and click the 5-star button to rate the show. And, if you have a few extra seconds, write a couple of sentences and submit a review to help others find the show. Did you hear something you liked on this episode or another? Do you have a question you'd like our guests to answer? Let me know on Twitter using the hashtag #OnBrandPodcast and you may just hear your thoughts here on the show. On Brand is a part of the Marketing Podcast Network. Until next week, I'll see you on the Internet! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Three journalists on the frontlines of the global fight for press freedom sit down with Margaret Hoover at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York to discuss threats to the media around the world and how free countries in the West can help protect the press abroad. Alsu Kurmasheva, a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist wrongfully detained in Russia for more than six months, reflects on her captivity, the global campaign for her release, and the dangers her colleagues still face. Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa, who faced prosecution for standing up to autocracy in the Philippines, assesses the role of social media and advanced technology in spreading misinformation and undermining democracy. BBC News Global Director Jonathan Munro, who oversees reporters working in conflict zones in Ukraine and the Middle East, explains what governments can do to defend the truth across the globe and hold tech platforms accountable. Support for “Firing Line for Margaret Hoover” is provided by Robert Granieri, Henry & Vanessa Cornell, The Fairweather Foundation, and Peter and Mary Kalikow. Corporate funding is provided by Stephens Inc. 

Send us a textSecrets Revealed: The Musician With The Business Tips#musician #businesstips #businessgrowth  #ancientwisdom #keynotespeaker #philanthropy #spirituality  #author Mike Handcock can be introduced in many different ways: One of only 40 speakers in over 55,000 globally to be recognised with the designation of Certified Speaking Professional Global. He is currently the Vice President of the Global Speakers Federation.Author of 14 books with 7 International Best Sellers and and 6 x Amazon #1 on business and personal development.As a musician with 13 albums to his name Mike had a No#1 on iTunes in 2013.On the board of three charities and social causes Mike was mentioned by President Clinton for his work alongside the SAGE Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative.As the Chairman & Founder of The Circle of Excellence, along with his business partner and wife, Landi Jac, Mike has built five companies in Events, Business Intelligence Licensing, Investments, Experts Institute which operate regularly in over 20 countries.Mike is the Producer & Director of the film Dreamcatchers (2010).Mike is the recipient of more than a dozen business awards including APAC Conscious Leadership Award, GSF Presidents Award, 4 X Speaker of the Year, and multiple awards for Business Person of the Year.Mike is the Publisher of Lead Magazine a magazine which promotes conscious leadership globally. He is the co founder of the Conscious Leadership MovementWebsite: https://www.circleofexcellence.biz/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mike.handcockInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/mike_handcock_author/X: https://twitter.com/mikehandcockLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikehandcock/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxjr6NFe_Ufg9tUdl5q8bxQThanks for tuning in, please be sure to click that subscribe button and give this a thumbs up!!Email: thevibesbroadcast@gmail.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/listen_to_the_vibes_/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thevibesbroadcastnetworkLinktree: https://linktr.ee/the_vibes_broadcastTikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeuTVRv2/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheVibesBrdcstTruth: https://truthsocial.com/@KoyoteFor all our social media and other links, go to: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/the_vibes_broadcastPlease subscribe, like, and share!

According to Alan Dershowitz AND Gerald Lefcourt Jeffrey Epstein was one of the first people to donate to the Clinton Global Initiative and was also very generous when donating his own money to the former president's project. Will Bill Clinton ever be pressured into answering for his obviously close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein? (commercial at 8:55)To contact me:bobbycapucci@protonamail.comsource:https://news.yahoo.com/epstein-lawyer-claimed-alleged-pedophile-223701676.htmlBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.

We had the pleasure of interviewing Lindsay Ell over Zoom video!Platinum-selling singer, songwriter and musician Lindsay Ell releases her most personal and inspired music to date with her eagerly awaited EP, love myself, out now via Universal Music Canada, the country's leading music company.  The first project that Lindsay Ell has co-produced, love myself marks an artistic evolution in her sound and an awakening in her songwriting. Recorded in Brooklyn with producer Doug Schadt (Maggie Rogers), love myself is a collection of emotive alt-pop songs that cut deep with their vulnerability.  “This project feels so liberating and so free, like I'm finally connecting head and heart," shared Ell in an exclusive interview with People ahead of the release. Lauded for her songwriting, Ell explores themes of the human condition throughout the EP such as self-doubt, negative self-talk, resilience, and healing. “I've finally reached the point where I have been able to turn my pain into power – not letting it define who I am, but letting it fuel what I want to do and inspire the mark I want to make on the world,” she shares. Through the lens of Lindsay Ell's personal experiences, love myself expresses universal emotions and creates a sense of connection.love myself is the newest chapter in Lindsay Ell's decade-long career that boasts three #1 hit songs, a Platinum-certified single, and over 400 million streams. Ell is a CCMA Award winner with nominations from the CMA Awards, ACM Awards, CMT Awards, JUNO Awards, and over 20 CCMA Award nominations. A generational talent, Ell has always felt at home on stage. Beginning her touring career at age 10, Lindsay Ell has brought her electric live performance style to audiences across the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK with both her headlining tours and alongside artists such as Keith Urban, OneRepublic, and Maren Morris. Over the past year, Lindsay Ell has proudly assumed the role of lead guitarist on her childhood hero Shania Twain's “Come on Over” international tour and Las Vegas residency which continues into 2025.  2025 will also see Lindsay Ell return for her fourth consecutive season as the exuberantly warm-hearted host of Canada's highest-rated reality program Canada's Got Talent, which has earned her two consecutive Canadian Screen Award nominations.  In addition to her multi-faceted talent, Lindsay Ell's philanthropy and advocacy have earned her prestigious recognition in both Canada and the US. Last month, she received the CCMA's Music Humanitarian Award in recognition of her work with her Make You Movement charitable fund, and was a guest speaker and panelist at the Clinton Global Initiative's 2024 Annual Meeting in New York City where she shared her story of recovery from an eating disorder. The Calgary-born, Nashville-based super talent has bravely brought her resilient outlook to the forefront with one mission: to empower and advocate for others. We want to hear from you! Please email Hello@BringinitBackwards.comwww.BringinitBackwards.com#podcast #interview #bringinbackpod #LindsayEll #NewMusic #ZoomListen & Subscribe to BiBhttps://www.bringinitbackwards.com/followFollow our podcast on Instagram and Twitter! https://www.facebook.com/groups/bringinbackpodBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/bringin-it-backwards--4972373/support.

Justin is an award-winning public relations and marketing expert, and the Founder and Lead Strategist of PR73, an integrated communications agency that helps brands build trust and unlock growth opportunities. He has reshaped industry practices through his work with leading organizations like Uber, AARP, Clinton Global Initiative, General Motors, and many more. Justin's mission? To empower brands to develop trust at every touchpoint.Justin's journey is a testament to the power of resilience and resourcefulness. Born with a cyst on his kidney, he learned early on to recognize his limits and adapt strategically—a lesson he now applies to business. Just as he used a kidney protector belt as a child, Justin advocates for understanding your bandwidth and being resourceful to avoid overextending yourself and your clients.http://pr73.com/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/justin-goldstein-lead-strategist-mark-stephen-pooler

In episode 16 of Mission + Markets, host Heather Shanahan welcomes Sonali Ratnasinghe, a junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the founder of Youth Ambassadors of Service (YAS). The organization teaches young people about the nonprofit sector, encouraging them to engage in community service. This passion project started during the COVID-19 pandemic and evolved into a 501(c)(3) organization. In the podcast, Sonali shares her recent experiences, including participating in the UN General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative, sharing valuable insights on youth involvement in nonprofit organizations.

I had the opportunity to speak with Bernice Romero, Executive Director of the Norwegian Refugee Council USA, at the Clinton Global Initiative about NRC's groundbreaking new capital fund. The fund is designed to solarize operations in over 40 countries, significantly improving cost-efficiency and security for displaced communities. Bernice highlighted lessons from a successful pilot project in Sudan and shared the broader sustainability objectives NRC plans to pursue through strategic partnerships and long-term initiatives.

According to Alan Dershowitz AND Gerald Lefcourt Jeffrey Epstein was one of the first people to donate to the Clinton Global Initiative and was also very generous when donating his own money to the former president's project. Will Bill Clinton ever be pressured into answering for his obviously close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein? (commercial at 8:55)To contact me:bobbycapucci@protonamail.comsource:https://news.yahoo.com/epstein-lawyer-claimed-alleged-pedophile-223701676.html

According to Alan Dershowitz AND Gerald Lefcourt Jeffrey Epstein was one of the first people to donate to the Clinton Global Initiative and was also very generous when donating his own money to the former president's project. Will Bill Clinton ever be pressured into answering for his obviously close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein? (commercial at 8:55)To contact me:bobbycapucci@protonamail.comsource:https://news.yahoo.com/epstein-lawyer-claimed-alleged-pedophile-223701676.htmlBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.

In this live recording from AFP-GPC's Leading Philanthropy conference, Monique and Valerie discuss how to shift power through collaboration. They also recount the 2024 Clinton Global Initiative and recap conversations they had with various commitment makers during the summit. View the episode transcript here.

Alex Wirth, Co-Founder and CEO of Quorum joins this episode of AI, Government, and the Future by Alan Pentz to discuss the impact of AI on public policy advocacy. They explore how Quorum uses AI to track and analyze political and regulatory processes, and the potential for AI to automate tasks and enhance decision-making. They also address concerns about the overwhelming volume of messages received by government officials and the responsible use of AI. Alex also delves into the challenges and opportunities presented by AI in business models and government processes.

Hillary Clinton sits down with Margaret Hoover to talk about threats to press freedom around the world, crises in the Middle East, and the stakes of the 2024 election. In a discussion at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York City, the former secretary of state assesses the dangers faced by journalists abroad and in the U.S. Clinton–who is out with a new book, “Something Lost, Something Gained”--reflects on her efforts to evacuate women and their families during the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and offers insight on campus protests against the war in Gaza. The 2016 Democratic presidential nominee also speaks extensively about the risks to democracy she sees in a second Donald Trump presidency, the Republican Party's softening stance on Russia, and the possibility of an October surprise upending the race for the White House. Support for “Firing Line for Margaret Hoover” is provided by Robert Granieri, Henry & Vanessa Cornell, The Fairweather Foundation, and Al & Kathy Hubbard. Corporate funding is provided by Stephens Inc. 

Moms Changing the World turns 4 years this month! To celebrate, our episode today is with children's book author, among many other things, Monique Aiken. If you have been a long time listener, you know that I LOVE to highlight my favorite children's books and their authors.Monique Aiken is a first-generation Jamaican American and a strategy consultant, entrepreneur, and podcast host. She lives in a 100-plus year old house in New Jersey with her husband and son—the original "Cutie Patootie" who inspired the book. Her first children's book, a love letter to her son (and all children), was published in January 2024.She has a rich background in traditional finance, in New York, London and Houston and after that Monique has focused her energies on advancing the global impact economy with the Clinton Global Initiative, Mission Investors Exchange, where she led Programs focused on Foundations to begin or deepen their practice of impact investing and working with Tideline, a boutique strategy consultancy for Impact Investing. She's currently an Managing DIrector at the Investment Integration Project.She is also the creator and host of MJN's podcast “Into the Record”. She is co-founder of the ReStarter Fund, an economic and climate justice initiative aiming to be a small business lifeline in these challenging times of polycrisis.Monique holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business and a B.Sc. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, where she studied Spanish and Portuguese.If you were close to NYC during NYC Climate Week, on Sunday 9/22/24, Monique's nonprofit collective, Make Justice Normal hosted a family-friendly “streetfair for good” in Queens, NY which uses social practice art to inspire climate action. Interested folks can learn more about it here.Books mentioned:- Ron's Big Mission here- Mae Among the Stars here- Yes No here- Our Skin here- Always Anjali here- Just Ask here- Social Justice Investor here- Change the World Before Bedtime hereMonique's links:Into the Record podcast hereStreet Works Earth 9/22 hereIllustrator Amanda's links:- Khalida and the Beautiful song and other books here- Pet portrait work here Ekua Walker, NP- Host of Www.MomsChangingtheWorld.orgFacebook - Moms Changing The World

Join Owen Shroyer as he discusses the truth about what's happening with Infowars and if it's truly the end or not!    Join Filmmaker and Journalist Jonathan Otto as he joins Stew to discuss the frightening rise of early/onset Cancers and Turbo cancers, and the innovated Red Light Therapy he discovered to have profound results in healing cancers and many other diseases.   Go to: www.myredlight.com and use the promo code STEW10 for an additional 10% off your order!   Red light therapy is scientifically proven to prevent and beat cancer, autoimmune disease, thyroid disease, arthritis, dementia, and tinnitus while achieving great results with weight loss, wrinkles, acne, and stem cell regeneration. Watch medical journalist Jonathan Otto's free training and get the best at-home red light therapy devices at the lowest prices.   Join Alex Newman as he joins Stew from the ground in NYC covering what's really been happening behind the scenes at the United Nations Summit of the Future, Clinton Global Initiative meeting, and Club of Rome meetings this week!   Watch this new show NOW at https://StewPeters.com! The world needs to know the truth that fake history has concealed. WATCH Old World Order, and find out more at: https://stewpeters.com/owo/   Become a SPN member to gain access to exclusive content and unlock premiere benefits, including personal interactions with Stew, VIP event tickets, and live giveaways.  https://stewpeters.locals.com/support/promo/STEWCREW1   These loyal and courageous sponsors chose to stand with us despite cancel culture backlash. Support their bravery below:   Protect your retirement and wealth, get up to $10k in FREE SILVER using this link: http://stewlikesgold.com   Head to https://bioptimizers.com/stewpeters and use promo code stewpeters to get your Mushroom Breakthrough with 10% off. Your future self will thank you!   Check out the Stew Peters Store for all things Stew Crew merchandise and more! https://spnstore.com/   Energized Health's deep-cell hydration is the key to curing chronic pain, inflammation and weight gain. To find out more, visit: https://www.energizedhealth.com   Red light therapy is scientifically proven to prevent and beat cancer, autoimmune disease, thyroid disease, arthritis, dementia, and tinnitus while achieving great results with weight loss, wrinkles, acne, and stem cell regeneration. Watch medical journalist Jonathan Otto's free training and get the best at-home red light therapy devices at the lowest prices. Go to: www.myredlight.com and use the promo code STEW10 for an additional 10% off your order!   Cortez Wealth Management makes financial planning for you and your family. Find out how you how you can rely on this America First financial advisory and get your retirement plan today by calling 813-448-3446 or by visiting https://cortezwm.com   Don't miss your chance to own this one-of-a-kind Holocaust encyclopedia. You can get yours by visiting http://holocaustencyclopedia.com/ or at  https://armreg.co.uk/product/holocaust-encyclopedia/ using promo code “stewlikesbooks” for 15% off your order.   Visit www.fieldofgreens.com and use promo code "STEW" for 15% off and free shipping.   Please support your child's natural immunity as we send them back into the school year with Z-Spike Gummies and use code SPN for buy one get one 15% off at: www.zstacklife.com/spn   Preserve heart-health and be the best version of yourself with Cardio Miracle by checking out: http://HighPowerHeart.com   Stay up-to-date with Stew by following him on all socials! Twitter: https://twitter.com/realstewpeters Telegram: https://t.me/stewpeters Gab: https://gab.com/RealStewPeters Youtube: https://youtube.com/stewpeters   

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Welcome to another impactful episode of Mick Unplugged! Today, we have the honor of hosting Martha and Chris Thomas, founders of the nonprofit "The Defensive Line," which is dedicated to preventing youth suicide, particularly among young people of color. In this episode, we dive deep into the pressing issues of mental health stigma, the importance of community support, and actionable steps to recognize and address mental health struggles.   We discuss societal expectations around masculinity, the significance of showing vulnerability, and how local resources and crisis hotlines like 988 can make a life-saving difference. Martha and Chris also share their personal motivations, inspired by their late daughter Ella, to foster open conversations about mental health and collaborate with organizations like AFSP and Dak Prescott's Faith by Finish. Join us as we explore how comprehensive health encompasses physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being, and hear about their exciting plans to expand their training programs with the Clinton Global Initiative. Plus, learn about the unique impact their workshops and keynotes are having on schools, universities, and communities nationwide. Your unique purpose is your superpower, so tune in, push your limits, embrace your goals, and chase greatness with us today on Mick Unplugged!   Top 3 Questions answered in the episode: How can we recognize the signs of someone struggling with mental health issues and intervene? Discussion Points Notice behavioral changes, isolation, and giving away possessions. Improve awareness and confidence through workshops and panels. How can asking direct questions about suicide help prevent it rather than cause harm? Discussion Points Directly asking about suicidal thoughts can be helpful. Role plays are used to reduce discomfort and improve response readiness. What role do tailored strategies for people of color play in dealing with mental health crises? Discussion Points Suicide increasingly affects communities of color. Utilize community leaders and organizations to provide customized support.   Takeaways Mental health impacts not just individuals but entire communities. Open conversations about mental health can reduce stigma. Taking action after a tragedy can lead to meaningful change. Connection and listening are vital in supporting those in need. Recognizing signs of mental health struggles is crucial for intervention.   Connect and Discover: LinkedIn:  linkedin.com/in/the-defensive-line Instagram:  Instagram.com/thedefensiveline Facebook:  facebook.com/thedefensiveline Website:  thedefensiveline.org Podcast:  @thedefensiveline1238  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Introduction: Minutes 0 to 4:15 I watched Thunder Force on Netflix and loved it. Chandra had to subscribe to ESPN+ due to DirectTV's feud with Disney. She is watching In the Arena with Serena Williams. Royals: Minute 4:15 to 21:00 The last time we recorded the Sussexes had arrived in Colombia. They pulled off that trip like professionals and the optics were amazing. Colombia's Vice President Francia Marquez said that Harry and Meghan's visit really highlighted tourism. We heard that it only cost Colombia less than $60,000 to provide security for them. The Sussexes did a great job making photos available to agencies. Emily Andrews let it slip that Buckingham Palace had talking points about this trip. King Charles went to Southport last week to visit the families of children who were murdered in a knife attack. Charles has been staying in Scotland at his smaller home, Birkhall, while other members of the family stay at Balmoral. Kate was seen headed to church there on August 25th. There was a story in GB News that Zara and Mike Tindall were being asked to relieve Prince William and Princess Kate. There's an undercurrent that William and Kate are incapable of doing their jobs. Prince Harry made a secret visit to the UK last week to go to his uncle Robert Fellowes' funeral. Harry stayed at Althorp with the Earl Spencer. You could tell that the Windsors were super mad they didn't know about Harry's visit ahead of time. The Windsors are mad at how much the Spencers support Harry. There's been a narrative in the British press that Harry wants to come back to the UK to do royal work. It's clearly coming from William's side. This narrative has been pushed by William for years. Chandra thinks this storyline is an attempt to distract from what's going on with Kate. Toward the end of this month Prince Harry is going to be in New York solo for UN climate week. He's going to speak at the Clinton Global Initiative. Prince William will not be going to NY on behalf of Earthshot despite pathetically trying to copykeen Harry's trip last year. We wonder why William and Kate didn't do any events during the Sussexes' trip. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: Minutes 21:00 to 31:30 This week both Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt premiered their movies at the Venice Film Festival. Angelina is starring as opera star Maria Callas in the biopic Maria. She is getting Oscar buzz for that and it's coming out on Netflix. Braad is starring with George Clooney in the Apple streaming movie Wolfs. It was supposed to come out in theaters but that's not happening. Brad Pitt made his red carpet debut with Ines de Ramon. Brad and Angelina are covering People Magazine this week with the title “Brad and Angelina, their 8 year divorce, Can they Finally Move On,” as if Brad's legal battle against Angelina is mutual. The whole narrative comes from Brad and it's the same garbage we've seen from him for years as he uses legal means to continue to try and punish Angelina for leaving him after he abused her and their children. Brad Pitt looks pulled and puffy recently. There's been a shift in public perception about Brad Pitt, especially since Shiloh changed her last name. Comments of the week: Minutes 31:30 to end Chandra's comment of the week is from It Really Is You, Not Me on the post about Justin Theroux's engagement. My comments of the week are from HeatherC and Indica on Rosie's post about Oasis potentially adding US dates to their tour. Thanks for listening bitches!

Tanvi shares her pivotal moment of when she started her first organization in India at the age of 19. It is called Becoming I Foundation and began as a platform for young people to connect with community development. The inspiration to start it came from frustration with what was happening around her, and having gone through a breakup that made her feel very small, she needed something to uplift her from that.This shift was so meaningful and a turning point because other then the intellectual experience of starting something, the emotional experience of starting something at that age that eventually became a young people's movement, was a unique growing experience. It gave Tanvi the confidence to try something she had never done before, enter rooms and make important asks, and lead people to action on things they are about. That moment lead the path for her career today, who she is and how she sees the world.Tanvi Girotra is an advisor and coach to global purpose-driven organizations and leaders. She has worked with numerous social, business and political leaders, helping them reflect on both the head and the heart of their own leadership and solve adaptive challenges in order to lead better, more equitable organizations. Tanvi holds a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard University where she frequently returns to teach and coach student programs and fellowships on values-based leadership and storytelling. She calls New York and New Delhi home.Prior to starting her advisory practice 'Enable', Tanvi was an entrepreneur building new organizations, movements and campaigns in India to create solutions for systemic challenges in the education system. Through authentically moving and empowering people for large-scale change, she created a volunteer movement of young people that still continues to train young leaders for purposeful problem-solving. She is a National Advisor at GirlTrek - America's largest health movement focused on black women and their leadership. A Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award recipient, she is the Vice Chair, Board of Directors for Fora Network for Change that is a center for excellence for women's leadership. She has won various awards for Justice, Empowerment and Citizen Action and her work has been recognized at the UN. Tanvi is a public speaker and has been invited to speak at the World Economic Forum, UN ECOSOC, UN WOMEN, European Union Development Days, the Clinton Global Initiative and at various TEDx conferences, alongside heads of state, social and business leaders.Follow and learn more about my guest today:Instagram: Tanvi GirotraLinkedIN: Tanvi GirotraTo learn more about SHIFT HAPPENS, click here To learn more about Claudia's business Curated Conversations and her Salons in New York, Zurich and Berlin, click hereYou can also connect with Claudia on Instagram @shifthappens.podcast and LinkedIn at ClaudiaMahlerNYCThis podcast is created, produced and hosted by Claudia Mahler.Social Media support Magdalena Reckendrees 

Founder Amy-Willard Cross discusses the mission and operations of Gender Fair, the first consumer rating system for gender equality. Gender Fair aims to measure and promote gender equality within consumer-facing companies by utilizing data and the UN Women Empowerment Principles. Amy highlights the importance of transparency and data-driven insights to create social change, emphasizing that gender equality in corporate practices benefits not just women but overall fairness in the workplace. Gender Fair evaluates companies across five categories: women in leadership, employee policies, diversity reporting, supplier diversity, and philanthropy for women. Amy also shares how Gender Fair has incorporated technology to increase its impact, including an app and browser extension that allow consumers to easily access company ratings on gender equality. These tools enable users to make informed purchasing decisions based on a company's gender equality practices. The app features functionalities like barcode scanning and logo recognition to provide real-time information about products. Amy emphasizes the significance of making gender equality data accessible and actionable for consumers, believing that collective consumer power can drive corporate accountability and fairness. Throughout the conversation, Amy discusses the challenges and successes of building Gender Fair, the importance of leveraging economic power for social change, and the role of technology in facilitating gender fairness. She also touches on the broader impact of Gender Fair's work in promoting fair business practices and the potential for future expansions, such as a B2B database for procurement. Gender Fair (https://www.genderfair.com/) Follow Gender Fair on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/begenderfair/), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/GenderFair/), or Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/genderfair). Follow Amy-Willard Cross on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-willard-cross-genderfair/). Follow thoughtbot on X (https://twitter.com/thoughtbot) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/150727/). Transcript: CHAD: This is the Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots podcast, where we explore the design, development, and business of great products. I'm your host, Chad Pytel, and with me today is Amy-Willard Cross, the Founder of Gender Fair, the first consumer rating system for gender equality. Amy, thank you so much for joining me. AMY-WILLARD: Well, I'm very happy to be talking to robots, giant and small. CHAD: [laughs] We'll try not to smash into each other too much on this show. I think we probably have a lot to learn from each other rather than conflicting. AMY-WILLARD: I think so. CHAD: Let's just get started by digging in a little bit to what Gender Fair actually is in terms of what we mean when we say a consumer rating system for gender equality. AMY-WILLARD: It's about data. So, I was originally a journalist. I've written for a living my whole life: books, magazines, articles [laughs], you know, radio shows. I wanted to do something to promote equality in the world. And I realized that data is one way that you can want to have commercial value. Data has value that isn't, like, just blah, blah, blogging, and also, data can create social change. So, I decided to do something like, you know, we know fair trade has created great change as has, you know, marine stewards certified. And also, I was inspired by something that the Human Rights Campaign, the LGBTQ organization, does, which is called the Guide to Corporate Equality. So, our goal is to measure how companies do on gender and then share that with the public. And I didn't just make this up. We use a set of principles called the UN Women Empowerment Principles, which look at eight different sort of areas of an organization. And so, we created metrics that are based on these UN Women Empowerment Principles and also based on what is findable in the public record. We rate consumer-facing public companies, you know, like Unilever, Procter & Gamble, the shampoos that you use, the cars that you buy, the airplanes you ride on. And we look at five major categories, such as, like, women in leadership. We look at employee policies like parental leave, and flex time, part-time, summer Fridays. I'll be curious to know what you do at Giant Robot. I bet you have good ones. And then, we also look at diversity reporting. Our company is upfront with their attempt to bring more diversity into the workforce and also supplier diversity. I don't know, are you familiar with supplier diversity, Chad? CHAD: I am because we often are a supplier, so... AMY-WILLARD: You are. So, when they ask you if you're diverse...but one way companies, especially the big companies that we rate on this public database, they can make a big impact by trying to buy from women and minority-owned businesses, right? When procurement spending is huge. That's a metric that people may not know as well, but it's one that I would encourage every business to undertake because it's not that expensive. And you could just intentionally try to move capital into communities that are not typically the most rewarded. The last category that we measure is philanthropy for women, and that's important. People say, "Well, why do you measure philanthropy?" One, because the amount of philanthropy that goes to women and girls is 1.5% of all donations, and it used to be 1.8. So, pets get more money than women. I don't know how that makes you feel, Chad, but it doesn't make me feel very happy. I mean, I suppose if you're Monster Beverage and you don't have any women clientele, one, it's okay if you don't score well on your gender metrics; just meet the basic fairness. But maybe Monster Beverage doesn't have to donate to the community of women. But if you're making billions of dollars a year selling a shampoo, I would sort of think it's fair to ask that there's some capital that goes back the other way towards the community of women. So, that's the measurement. So, we could do it...and we do it for small companies like yours, too. I imagine your company would do well from the little bit I've talked to people on your staff. It sounds like you have a lot of women in leadership. And I don't know your policies yet, but I'm sure you...I bet in Massachusetts I know you have parental leave anyway in the state, but you're a more progressive state. But I think this is something that all of your listeners can benefit from is putting a gender lens on their operations because a gender lens is a fairness lens. And it includes usually, you know, this includes people who are not just all the same men, White men. So, it helps all businesses sort of operate in a more fair way to put a gender lens on their operations. And it's not hard to do. CHAD: So, one of the things that jumped out at me, in addition to just the Gender Fair mission, as I was learning about Gender Fair, is that you have an app and a browser extension. And so, that's part of why you're on the show, not only do we care about the impact you're having. AMY-WILLARD: That's right. Yeah [laughs]. CHAD: But you're a tech company. Did you always know as you got started that you were going to be making an app and a browser extension? AMY-WILLARD: Well, yes, that was the beginning because you have data. You have to make it used. You have to make it available, right? Personally, I like to see it on packages. But yes, we've had two iterations of the app, and I'm sure it could always get better and better. The current one has a barcode scanner and, also, it can look at a logo and tell you, "Oh, this soda pop is not gender fair. Try this soda pop, which is gender fair." And it can make you a shopping list and stuff like that. But, you know, tech is only good if people use it, so I hope they do. I mean, the idea is making it more accessible to people, right? I would like to have it as a filter, some easy tech. We've talked to big retailers before about having a filter put on online shopping sites, right? So, if I can choose fair-trade coffee, why can't I choose gender-fair shampoo? I like it when people can use technology to create more fairness, right? If this is a great benefit to us if technology can take this journalism we do and make it accessible and available and in your hand for someone, you can do it in the store, for Pete's sake. You could just go on the store shelf, and that's pretty liberating, isn't it? When you think of it. It should be easy to know how the companies from which you buy are doing on values that you care about. So, I never really thought of it as a tech. I wish it was better tech, but, you know, I'd need millions and millions of dollars to do that. CHAD: [laughs] Had you ever built in any of your prior companies, or had been directly responsible for the creation of an app? AMY-WILLARD: No, but I did actually once when I worked at the major women's magazine in Canada, I did hire the person who created the first online sort of magazine in Canada, and she made money, so I felt good about that. I plucked her from...she was working as sort of tech support at the major...what do you call those? Internet providers in Canada. But no, I had not, and so I relied on experts. I had a friend who was on the board of Southby, and he helped me find a tech team. I went through a few of them and, you know, it's hard to find. Like, where do you go and find people who will build something for you when you're a novice, right? As a journalist, I don't really know anything about building technology, and I certainly wasn't about to start at my age. It was definitely a voyage of discovery and learning, and I don't think I really learned much coding myself. CHAD: That's okay. AMY-WILLARD: That's okay [laughs]. CHAD: But was there something that sort of surprised you that you didn't anticipate in the process of creating a digital app? AMY-WILLARD: Oh gosh. Well, you know, of course, it's difficult, and there's lots of iterations, and there's lots of bugs. And in every business, mistakes are part of what people...in the construction industry, they'll tell you, "Mistakes are just going to happen every day. You just have to figure out how to fix each one." But, no, it's a difficult road. So yeah, I wish I could have coded it myself. I wish I could have done it myself, but I could not. But yeah, it's good learning. And, of course, you know, I think anyone who's going to start building a company with technology...if it were me now 10 years ago, I would have actually done some coding classes so I could just even communicate better to people who were building for me. But I did learn something, but not really enough. But it's a very interesting partnership, that's for sure. CHAD: And there is a lot of online classes now... AMY-WILLARD: Right [laughs]. CHAD: If someone is out there thinking, oh, you know, maybe that's good advice. And there's a lot of opportunities for sort of an on-ramp, and you don't need to become an expert. AMY-WILLARD: No. CHAD: But, like you said, even just knowing the vocabulary can be helpful. AMY-WILLARD: I think that would have been useful. Yeah, definitely useful. But I definitely, like, you learn a little bit as a text-based person. You learn the rigor of just sort of, like, you have to think in ones and zeros. It either is or isn't. That helps. I learned that a little bit in working with tech devs. The last version we did actually white labeled off of someone who had created a technology to do with...it was to do with building communities online. And their project failed, but it had enough backbone that we were able to efficiently build what we needed to on top of what they built. CHAD: Oh, that's really...was it someone you knew already, or how did you get connected? AMY-WILLARD: Yes, they knew one of our partners in New York. We tried it first as a community project. It didn't really work. And then, we realized it could actually hold our data at the same time. So, my first iteration of the app was different. But yeah, anyway, we've built it a couple of times, and I could build it even more times... CHAD: [laughs] AMY-WILLARD: And make it even better and better. CHAD: So, on the sort of company side of you've worked with companies like Procter & Gamble, MasterCard, Microsoft, do you find it difficult to convince companies to participate? AMY-WILLARD: What we do is data journalism. We don't contact the companies. We have researchers. We have journalists go and look through the SEC data and CSR reports and collect the data points on which we measure them. So, no one has to cooperate with us to get the data. It's journalism. It's not opt-in surveys, which is a very common...when I first started, no one was measuring women, and now there's lots of different measurements. And they're often pay-to-play surveys, so they're not really very valuable. Ours is objective and fully transparent journalism. But then afterwards, our business model how we typically used to pay for this is that companies that did well on our index were then invited to be quote, "certified." And this was a business model that was sort of suggested to us at the Clinton Global Initiative, to which I belonged in 2016. And they loved what we were doing, using the free market to drive gender equality. Because, you know, our whole point is that women and people who care about women and equality, we have a lot of power as consumers, or as taxpayers, or as tuition payers, or as donors to nonprofits. And whenever you give money to an organization or a company, you have the right to sort of ask questions about the fairness of that organization. Well, that's our whole ethic, really. I answered that question and came around to a different idea, but yes, no. So, the companies do participate to be certified, and some of them are interested and some of them are not, and that's fine. We do projects with them sort of like when we...we've talked about MasterCard, and we did a big conference with them in New York. This is pre-pandemic. And then, we did a big, global exhibit with P&G, and Eli Lilly, and Microsoft at TED Global, which was very fun. It was all about fairness. And it was great to talk to technologists such as yourself. And we made a booth about fairness in general, not just about women. And we had a fairness game, and it was very interesting to just discuss with people.  I think people like to think about fairness, right? I don't know if you have children, but little children get very interested in the idea of what's fair very early on. Yeah, so some companies participate...now we have companies...we do some work in B2B procurement which is something that your listeners might be interested in thinking about is that just, like, supplier diversity. If I were purchasing your services, your company services, I would ask about the gender metrics of your organization. I already learned they're quite good. So, big companies buying from other companies can put a gender lens on their B2B procurement. And so, that's a project we're doing with Salesforce, Logitech, Zoetis, Andela, which is another tech provider, and Quinnox, which is a similar sort of tech labor force, I believe. And so, we're going to be releasing a database about B2B suppliers. Actually, I should make sure that you get on it. That's a good idea. CHAD: Yes. AMY-WILLARD: That's a good idea because then it's going to be embedded in procurement platforms because this is a huge amount of money. It's even probably more...it could be more money than consumer spending, right? B2B spending. So, I'm excited about working with more companies on that to help promulgate this data and this idea because it's an easy way to drive fairness in a culture. When the government isn't requiring fairness, at least large companies can. And in some countries, actually, the government requires its vendors to do well on gender. Like, Italy now has a certification for gender, the government does, and companies that do well are privileged in RFPs and also get a tax deduction. CHAD: I don't want to say something incorrect, but I think the UK has, like, a rule around equity in pay... AMY-WILLARD: Yeah, absolutely. You're absolutely correct. CHAD: And yet they don't have equity in pay, the data shows. AMY-WILLARD: That's right. And we don't have that in the United States. It's voluntary in the U.S. We measure that, actually, too. That's seven points over a hundred points scale is whether they, one, publish the results of their pay study. In the U.S., though, we do it in a way that isn't rigorous as the way they do it in the UK. In the UK...you're great to remember that, Chad, in the UK, I mean, I wish my government did that. In the UK, companies report on the overall salaries paid to men and the overall salaries paid to women. So, that means if, you know, all the million-dollar jobs are held by men, it shows very clearly, and all the five-dollar jobs are held by women, it shows very clearly there's an imbalance. And in the United States, we just say, "Oh, well, is the male VP paid the same as a female VP?" That's sort of easier to do, right? CHAD: When we've talked with some larger companies about different products we're creating or those kinds of things, sometimes what I hear is they're looking for big wins, comprehensive things. And so, I was wondering whether you ever get pushback or feedback that's like, "Well, not that your issue is not important, but it's just focused on one aspect of what our goals are for this year." AMY-WILLARD: Right. Yeah, that's always a hard thing because when I think about fairness to half of the population, it's a hard thing for me to think that's not hugely important. CHAD: Yes. AMY-WILLARD: I have a really hard time, but yes, of course, we get that a lot. And, you know, quite frankly, when we did this B2B project with Logitech and Zoetis, they would ask their vendors, like, the major consulting companies and big companies, to take a SaaS assessment that we do. We have a SaaS product that private companies can take, or just instead of doing our journalism, they can just get their own assessment. And they were very, very reluctant to do this. That was just, you know, half an hour. It was a thousand-dollar assessment. And it took many months to convince these companies to do it. And that was their big customers. So, yes, it is very hard to have...what's the word? Coherence on what one company wants versus what a big company wants, and it's hard to know what they want. And it's, yeah, that's a difficult road for sure. And it changes [laughs]. CHAD: Part of the reason why I asked is because from a product perspective, from a business perspective, at thoughtbot, we're big fans of, like, what can be called, like, niching down or being super clear about who you are, and what you believe, and what you offer. And if you try to be everything to everybody, it's usually not a very good tactic in the market. AMY-WILLARD: That's right. That's right. CHAD: So, the fact that you focus on one particular thing like you said, it's very important, and it's 50% of the population. But I imagine that focus is really healthy for you from a clarity of purpose perspective. AMY-WILLARD: That's right. But at the same time, now there's lots of...when I started in 2016, there weren't a lot of things in this space, and now there's many, many, many, many, many, many, so corporations that want to sort of connect to the community of women or do better for women. There's many different options. So, there's many flavors of this ice cream. Even though we're niche, the niche is very crowded, I would say, actually, and people are very confused. I mean, I think I remember hearing from Heineken that they're assaulted daily by things to, you know, ways to support women in different organizations and events. And they said they took our call because we were different. But yeah, there's many competitors. But, I mean, that's the main thing. In any business, in any endeavor in life, one has to show one's value to the people who may participate, and that's a challenge everywhere, isn't it? CHAD: Yeah. AMY-WILLARD: But the niching down thing is...and interesting we hear a lot these days is that women are done. We've moved on from that. Now we care about racial equality, and we say, "That's a yes, and… We can't move on." CHAD: Well, the data doesn't show that we've moved on. AMY-WILLARD: The data doesn't show that at all, and we're going way backwards, as you well know. So, I mean, actually, I don't know if you know, there's something called the named executive officers in public companies. Are you familiar with that? The top five paid people. CHAD: Yeah. AMY-WILLARD: They have to be registered with the government. Well, that number really hasn't changed in six years. That's where the big capital is, and the stock options, and the bonuses, and the big salaries. So, to me, that's very important that I would like, you know, rights and capital to be more...well, I want rights to be solid and capital to be flowing. And so, that's what we hope to do in our work. MID-ROLL AD: Now that you have funding, it's time to design, build, and ship the most impactful MVP that wows customers now and can scale in the future. thoughtbot Liftoff brings you the most reliable cross-functional team of product experts to mitigate risk and set you up for long-term success. As your trusted, experienced technical partner, we'll help launch your new product and guide you into a future-forward business that takes advantage of today's new technologies and agile best practices. Make the right decisions for tomorrow today. Get in touch at thoughtbot.com/liftoff. CHAD: So, going back to the founding of Gender Fair, when did you know that this was something you needed to do? AMY-WILLARD: I wanted to serve, you know, you want to be useful in life. And I wanted to do work in this field that I care so much about. As I said, I think I told you I started doing journalism before, and I realized anyone could take the journalism, and they could, you know, Upworthy would publish things we would create and then not pay us for it. And I thought that's crazy. But it's interesting talking to my husband. My husband's, like, a very privileged White guy. And I remember he said something to me very interesting. He said, "You either have power, or you take it." And he said, "Women have all this power." So, he helped me understand this. Like, you know, I think sometimes as women or communities that are underserved, you start thinking very oppositionally about what you don't have. But at the same time, you can realize that you do have this power. So, what we're trying to do with Gender Fair is remind people they have this economic power, and they can use it everywhere, you know, in addition to our consumer database. I told you that we're doing a B2B database this year. And we also...I think next week I'm going to release a database of 20,000 nonprofits looking at their gender ratings. That was done as a volunteer project by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology if you know them. So, yeah, this is an ethic that you can take everywhere in your life is you have this power, even as a consumer. Chad, even in your little town, you can ask your coffee shop if they pay fair wages. Like, this is just a way of looking at the world that I hope to encourage people to do. CHAD: Along the journey of getting started, I assume you ran into many roadblocks. AMY-WILLARD: Mm-hmm. CHAD: Did you ever think maybe this is too hard? AMY-WILLARD: Oh yes. Well, not in building. In building, you're very optimistic, you know, it's just like when you're writing your first book. You think it's going to be a bestseller. Like, you build something, and you think the whole world is going to use it right away, and you're going to...I did have a great...when I first launched, I had a wonderful, I had, you know, press in Fortune. I had Chelsea Clinton. I had big people writing about us. Melinda Gates has written about us many, many times. The fact that...well, I've always wanted to build, like, a consumer revolution of women, and I'm going to keep at it. But it's very daunting. It's very daunting when you're trying to move a boulder such as, you know, big institutions and companies that don't really want to change, and they're not motivated to do it. So, yes, those are my roadblocks. It's not creating the massive amount of change that I wanted to do. And I'm not going to give up, but, yes, it is very daunting, and it's very daunting to see how little people care. Some people don't care about it, but some people in power don't care about it. But I think if you asked, you know, regular women, they would say, "We would like fair pay. We would like equal opportunity. We would like paid parental leave." They would want all these things, and hopefully, together, we can fight for them. CHAD: Well, and, like you said, the premise of what you're doing is you're focused on the power that you do have, which is the dollars that you spend with these companies. I think that's such a smart angle on this because especially for...it seems like the core in terms of the consumer-facing companies. That's so inherent in what this is. AMY-WILLARD: That's right. CHAD: Yeah, the angle of empowering consumers, and giving them the information, and leveraging the power that consumers have with these companies seems really smart to me... AMY-WILLARD: That's right. If it works -- CHAD: As opposed to individually going to the companies and saying, you know -- AMY-WILLARD: "Please make it." Yeah. And some people would refute your use of the word empower because that implies that people don't have power. So, when I give speeches...I have a pair of beautiful gemstone red pumps, and I say it's the ruby slippers. We had this power all along. We just were not exercising it. But this power will only work, Chad, if it's done in the aggregate. So, our challenge is to reach the aggregate of American women. I have to, you know, I have to go reach 50 million women this year. That's my goal. Reach 50 million women with this message that we have the power in the aggregate to make change. And that's the only way this will work. If it's just one by one, it really doesn't. When I first launched, I found when I showed the app to people on the lower end of the economic scale, like, you know, people in the cash register; they understood this more than middle-class women. They understood the fact that if all women come together and, you know, buy from this company or don't buy from this company based on how they treat women, they understood that as a collective power. Whereas middle-class women who don't have as many struggles didn't really groove to that idea as quickly, which I thought was very...to me, it was very interesting, you know, individuals feel more powerful on the higher end of the social scale. They may or may not -- CHAD: That is interesting. AMY-WILLARD: Yeah. So, yeah, that's my goal. We'll see if I can do it. That's going to be my life's work, I think, Chad. CHAD: How do you reach 50 million people? AMY-WILLARD: I don't know. That's what I'm going to think about. You know, we're talking to different people about campaigns. We actually stopped the consumer work during the pandemic because it just, you know, everything changed. And so, now, this year, we're going back. I don't know; I mean, I guess if Ryan Reynolds tweeted about me, you know, that would help. If [laughs] anyone listening has any ideas how to reach 50 million women...no, maybe 3 million is what I need to create social change. CHAD: I imagine that it doesn't just come down to spending money on advertising. One, you might not have that money. AMY-WILLARD: No. And that would be, you know, that also would be not in the ethics of what Gender Fair is, for example, right? That means I would be paying money to Facebook and basically Facebook, I guess, and Google. If you look at the major spends of nonprofits, they're advertising with these big tech giants. And so, we have...actually, we have some partnerships with large women's organizations, and I think that's the way we hope to spread that. And if I had money for advertising, I would want to spend it with other women's organizations, or women's owned media, or women influencers. There's another idea I talk about in my work I call the female domestic product, and so talking about how much money women earn or capital we control. And the more we can grow that female domestic product, the more we can achieve equality actually. I always say, in America, you get as much equality as you can pay for sadly. CHAD: I was just about to say, "Sadly." AMY-WILLARD: Sadly, yeah. It's true. We still don't have the Equal Rights Amendment. A hundred years. CHAD: Well, 50% of the population would say, "Why do we need an Equal Rights Amendment [laughs]?" AMY-WILLARD: All men are created equal, but yeah, it's quite astonishing. I don't know. Do you have daughter, too, or just a son? CHAD: I have a son, and my younger one is non-binary. AMY-WILLARD: Well, I'm sorry to be so binary. Excuse me. CHAD: It's okay. AMY-WILLARD: Well, interesting. And that's great, too, isn't it? Because we see how fluid gender is and their rights are just as important as a woman's rights. And these are, you know, women and non-binary people are often excluded from things. And so, we are all working together just to create fairness. I'm sure that the same thing happens in your family, too. CHAD: Yeah. I think fairness is one of those things. Sometimes equality is not necessarily the same as fairness. AMY-WILLARD: Yes. CHAD: But I think, like you said at the top of the show, fairness is something that we seemingly learn very early on. But one of the ways that it comes across is I'm being. It is unfair to me, especially in little kids, at least with my kids [laughs]. AMY-WILLARD: Of course, yes. CHAD: That was the thing that they learned first and caused them the most pain. And it was very difficult for them to see that something was unfair for somebody else. So, I remember saying to my kids when they were little, "Fair doesn't mean you get your way." AMY-WILLARD: That's right. Not fair. CHAD: Right [laughs]. AMY-WILLARD: It's true. But then, you know, it's funny. When I talk about equal pay, I often say to people, "When I used to cut cakes for my children, I cut equal slices, and I didn't put them under the table," like, you know what I mean [laughter]? So, why are we so cagey about the slices of economic pie we give to one another? I mean, there's no reason why pay has to be secret, right? If it's fair. You could easily talk to people. Well, you know, Chad gets paid more money because he's the CEO, and he does the podcast, and he has to talk to the bank, you know what I mean? So, you could easily explain that to people. And I don't know why we have to keep salaries a secret from one another. It seems very irrational to me and not really a part of fairness. CHAD: Yeah. Yep. That's something...so, all of our salary bands at thoughtbot are public on the internet. AMY-WILLARD: Cool. On the internet. Oh, I'm very impressed. CHAD: Yeah. So, you can go to thoughtbot and use our compensation calculator. You enter in your location, what role you have. AMY-WILLARD: Oh. So, you do it for other people. Oh, that's cool. That's a great service. And that was just some sort of tech that was sort of pro bono tech that you all built for the world. CHAD: Yeah, we created it for ourselves. AMY-WILLARD: And then you shared it. CHAD: Mm-hmm. AMY-WILLARD: Then you open-sourced it. Great. Well, I bet you have a lot of happy employees. CHAD: I like to think so [laughs]. I do think that there is an inherent understanding of fairness. And when people ask how we do things at thoughtbot or how we should do things, I say, "How do you want it to be?" I think that guides a lot of how we do things and why a lot of stuff we do is just common sense. And it's not until ulterior motives or maintaining power comes into play where the people in power don't want to give it up. Because, like you said, people don't understand that by giving someone else a bigger piece, they think that that means their piece is smaller. AMY-WILLARD: Right. Or they just think they deserve it. I was reading last night about succession planning and CEOs. And apparently, a lot of them just stay...oh, sorry, in big public companies, not in their own companies, they stay on way too long. And all these consultants are saying it's the four Ps, you know, position, privilege, pay, and then...I forget the other one. But one of them was jets. They don't want to give up their jets. So yeah, I think when you have things, it seems fair, and sharing them seems...giving up some of what you have seems unfair. But I do think humans can see fairness. But sometimes, when you have a lot, it's hard to see it. You're able to justify why it may be not unfair to people who don't have as much as you do. But anyway, I can't change human nature, but most people do understand fairness. I think you're right about that. CHAD: Well, one thing...I noticed...so, you're a Public Benefit Corporation. AMY-WILLARD: Yes. CHAD: Did you set out to be a Public Benefit Corporation from day one? AMY-WILLARD: Yes, you know, originally, when it came to how was I going to pay for this, the first part I paid myself with my own money. I hired MBAs. I hired researchers. I built the tech. And then, I wasn't sure how I was going to pay for it going forward. But I knew I didn't want to become a nonprofit because, in my mind, there are so many things that...there are so many problems that women have that need to be solved by nonprofit organizations, planned parenthood first among them. Like, I don't want to take money away from women's organizations that help women fleeing abusive homes. So, I wanted to see if I could pay for this in the private sphere, which we've been able to do, and not have to seek donations because, really, I felt very strongly about not taking money out of that. That's part of the FDP, the part of the female domestic product, but the part that's contributed by people philanthropically. And there isn't a lot of philanthropic dollars going to women, as I mentioned before. So, yes, I knew definitely I wanted to be a Public Benefit Corporation. And there's no tax benefits to that, you know, I don't know if you are yet, but... CHAD: No, it's something that we've looked at, but it's very attractive to me. AMY-WILLARD: Right. And there's also the private version of it being a B Corp, which is also very useful. It's an onerous process. Public Benefit Corporation isn't quite as onerous, I don't believe. I mean, we're in Delaware and New York, but it just says that you're, I mean, we exist for the public good. I'm not existing to make millions of dollars. I'm existing to create social change. And some organizations don't want...are leery of working with us because we're not a nonprofit so that's to assuage them. Well, it's not really about...we're not about enriching shareholders. It's just a different way to pay for it. But yeah, I would encourage all companies to look into being a Public Benefit Corporation or do a B Corp assessment or a Gender Fair assessment. It helps them, you know, operate in a world that is increasingly more values concerned. Maybe 20 or 30 years ago, it wasn't so on the top of mind of many people. We were coming out of, you know, warring '80s capitalism. But nowadays, the younger people, especially, are very focused on issues of fairness and equality. So, I think those tools making business better that way are very useful. CHAD: Well, I would encourage, you know, everyone listening to go check out the app, if you're at a company, to look at doing the assessment. Where can people do those things? AMY-WILLARD: Ah, well, yeah, I would encourage them to do all those things. You're right, Chad. I would encourage you to download the app and check some of your favorite brands. It's very simple. Do the paid subscription. And then, if you're a company, you can do an online assessment. You just go Gender Fair assessment, and you'll find it. If you're a business and would like to participate in our B2B database, you can also do the assessment, or there's a coalition for Gender Fair procurement, where you can get information. We had the prime minister of Australia speak at our launch. It was quite excellent. We'll be launching our nonprofit. Actually, I think it's already online. It's called genderfair-nonprofits.org, if you want to see how your favorite nonprofits do. But, basically, we're here to help any business or organization do better on gender. And you can email me amy.cross@genderfair.com. And I would love to help anyone in their journey for fairness of any kind. Yeah, many ways to participate. Just go to genderfair.com or genderfairprocurement.com. CHAD: Awesome. Amy, thank you so much for sharing with us. I really appreciate it. And thank you for all the good that you're doing in the world with Gender Fair. AMY-WILLARD: Well, I appreciate the way you're running your company in a very new, interesting, and apparently ethical way. Privately, I could look at your website and your career page and figure out how you're doing. But it sounds, to me, when I've talked to people, that you're doing very well. And I honor your curiosity about learning from others. CHAD: Awesome. 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REMIX: Album 5 Track 28 - Live from CGI: World Central Kitchen's Lisa AbregoWe are back at you with a special LIVE edition of Brands, Beats, & Bytes from the stage at the Clinton Global Initiative. We are graced with the incredibly generous, successful, and thought-provoking Lisa Abrego, who serves as the Director of Communication Strategy for World Central Kitchen. Her generous heart has led her to many places in her career prior to WCK, and her stories will inspire you to lean back into your community (and world). Here are a few key takeaways from the episode:Sometimes the first step is just showing upThe importance of the brand experienceLeading with authenticity is important in your marketing effortsYou have the power to do anything, to meet the moment.NOTES:Connect with Lisa:Lisa Abreego | LinkedInShow Partner: SpecificityLearn More About Specificity Stay Up-To-Date on All Things Brands, Beats, & Bytes on SocialInstagram | Twitter

Mike Handcock can be introduced in many different ways: One of only 40 speakers in over 55,000 globally to be recognised with the designation of Certified Speaking Professional Global. He is currently the Vice President of the Global Speakers Federation. Author of 14 books with 7 International Best Sellers and and 6 x Amazon #1 on business and personal development. As a musician with 13 albums to his name Mike had a No#1 on iTunes in 2013. On the board of three charities and social causes Mike was mentioned by President Clinton for his work alongside the SAGE Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative. As the Chairman & Founder of The Circle of Excellence, along with his business partner and wife, Landi Jac, Mike has built five companies in Events, Business Intelligence Licensing, Investments, Experts Institute which operate regularly in over 20 countries. Mike is the Producer & Director of the film Dreamcatchers (2010). Mike is the recipient of more than a dozen business awards including APAC Conscious Leadership Award, GSF Presidents Award, 4 X Speaker of the Year, and multiple awards for Business Person of the Year. Mike is the Publisher of Lead Magazine a magazine which promotes conscious leadership globally. He is the co founder of the Conscious Leadership Movement

In Episode 72 of the Investing in Impact podcast, I speak with Alix Lebec, Founder & CEO of LEBEC, on helping visionary founders, funders, and investors maximize value creation and scale solutions that address the world's most pressing challenges.LEBEC is a pioneering women-owned and led firm that specializes in innovative finance and philanthropy. With a strong presence in both the U.S. and Europe, LEBEC is dedicated to helping visionary founders, funders, and investors maximize value creation and scale solutions that address the world's most pressing challenges.About AlixFor over 20 years, Alix Lebec has been advising and growing organizations across the philanthropy and sustainable finance ecosystem.As a member of the founding and executive leadership team at WaterEquity, alongside co-founders Gary White and Matt Damon, Alix spent the past decade building this high-performing global asset manager that invests in water, women, and sanitation in emerging markets.She has also worked at the World Bank in Paris and Southeast Asia, the Clinton Global Initiative, and Water.org, where she mobilized $260 million in capital and built winning teams.In 2020, Alix launched LEBEC to support philanthropists, investors, and entrepreneurs worldwide and to shape a paradigm shift in our global financial ecosystem. She is also a Limited Partner and impact advisor at Polymath Ventures, a member of 100 Women in Finance, and a co-founder of the World Climate Tech Summit in Miami.Alix serves on the Board of iDE Global and is a regular media contributor on philanthropy, innovative finance, and investing in women in emerging markets.Catalytic Philanthropy: Accelerating ImpactIn this interview, Alix emphasizes the concept of catalytic philanthropy—a method that accelerates impact by leveraging philanthropic funds in innovative ways.She identifies key strategies for philanthropists and investors to dramatically increase their impact beyond writing a check:Guarantee First Loss: Utilize philanthropic funds as a cushion for investors, encouraging them to engage in high-impact projects.Engage in Impact Investing: Direct capital towards ventures that not only promise financial returns but also generate social and environmental benefits.Foster Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships: Collaborate across sectors to pool resources, expertise, and networks, maximizing the scale and sustainability of interventions.Measure and Manage Impact: Employ robust impact measurement and management practices to ensure transparency and guide continuous improvement.Reimagining Global Capital Markets for GoodAt Lebec, the belief is that it's critical to think bigger and reimagine how global capital markets can be a force for good—with the goal of unleashing systems change.The opportunities to donate, invest, and do business in a sustainable manner are vast, ranging from achieving gender, racial, and income equality; addressing climate change; solving the global water crisis; elevating dance and the arts; to ensuring quality education and healthcare for all.

Mike Handcock: Chairman Circle of Excellence Group: One of only 40 speakers in over 55,000 globally to be recognized with the designation of Certified Speaking Professional Global. He is currently the Vice President of the Global Speakers Federation. Author of 14 books with 7 International Best Sellers and 6 x Amazon #1 on business and personal development. As a musician with 13 albums to his name, Mike had a No#1 on iTunes in 2013. On the board of three charities and social causes, Mike was mentioned by President Clinton for his work alongside the SAGE Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative. As the Chairman & Founder of The Circle of Excellence, along with his business partner and wife, Landi Jac, Mike has built five companies in Events, Business Intelligence Licensing, Investments, and Experts Institute which operate regularly in over 20 countries. Mike is the Producer & Director of the film Dreamcatchers (2010). Mike is the recipient of more than a dozen business awards including the APAC Conscious Leadership Award, the GSF Presidents Award, 4 X Speaker of the Year, and multiple awards for Businessperson of the Year. Mike is the Publisher of Lead Magazine a magazine that promotes conscious leadership globally. @https://www.circleofexcellence.biz/#AncientWisdom #ModernIssues #MikeHandcock #WisdomSolutions #SpiritualInsights #AncientKnowledge

SUB TO THE PPM PATREON TO ACCESS "NOID-MAXXING (#2)" IN ITS CRYPTO-BABYLON MAPPING ENTIRETY: patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping In which we cont eulogizing Max A z z a r e l l o, the parapol Icarus who flew too close to the noided sun & self-immolated in front of the Trump trial—celebrating his life & constructively critiquing his blog, for which Casolaro, McGowan, Ghost Stories, TrueAnon, etc were points of reference We discuss: The capitalist class's collective buy-in on crypto; Larry David—Bankman-Fried fam friend—hawking FTX; SBF's indictment & arrest in the Bahamas; Max excelling when covering crypto (other times not so much); SBF's tax code scholar daddy; Dem Party mixers @ Bankman household; parapolitical truisms; SBF as sacrificial scapegoat for the true crypto profiteers; SBF funneling defrauded customer fiat currency into Dem & GOP campaign coffers darkly to consolidate support for the imminent Zio genocide; the litany of SBF Congressional beneficiaries (Gillibrand, Booker, Murkowski, etc), Protect Our Future superpac, & Pres B i d e n (who got a cool $5.2 mil) The anemic quality of Max's parapol oeuvre when it comes to contending w/ Zio infiltration of American politics by way of sex + financial blackmail & HUMINT; Epstein network's lineage of M o s s a d honeypot ops (conducted in concert w/ the C I A? ); Robert & Ghislaine Maxwell; Clinton Global Initiative pushing crypto (formed w/ Epstein's aid, per Dersh's testimony); Agent Mega; SBF hobnobbing w/ Mayor Adams (Diddy), Gov Hochul (Larry Silverstein & other Zio donors like Blavatnik), & Bill Clinton in the months prior to his arrest; May 25, '22: SBF makes a $250k donation to Dem Majority for Israel, which, w/ AIPAC & Reid Hoffman, injected a huge infusion of funds to candidates opposing the nascent mini-faction of lukewarmly pro-Palestine, DSA-adjacent aspiring & incumbent electeds; SBF $s cratering relatively outspoken Nina Turner's polling via contributions to her opponent Shontel Brown in OH; the massive war chest AIPAC's collected since Oct 7, including from Fully-Automated Kompromat Kingpin Leonid Radvinsky (OnlyFans) & Epstein mentor Les Wexner (who started a Wall St Zio social club called Mega Group w/ Charles Bronfman of the sus Seagram's fam); speaking of which, Sam Bronfman running guns on behalf of Haganah & the I O F & Bronfman heiress Clare's recruitment for sex cult NXIVM, merging the 2 concerns of sex blackmail & sus Zio dealings; following his arrest, the possibility SBF's comments referring to his effective altruism & "woke" politics as a cover & use of the phrase "shibboleth" were an argot (to use one of Max's fav phrases) akin to Kevin Spacey's "Let Me Be Frank" vid in which he threatens the Royal Fam & other Epstein clients; SBF's investment in Silicon Wadi crypto Co StarkWare & Solidus; Thiel, Epstein, & Ehud Barak funded geolocation emergency services startup Carbyne (PROMIS, any one?), which features an absurd litany of US & Israeli military & intel figures among its board or stakeholders: Erik Prince (ex Blackwater), Gen Petraeus, Trae Stephens (Palantir), Lital Leshem (ex Black Cube), Amir Elichai (I O F intel corps, etc)...and which Robert Kraft also invested in, solidifying interlocks b/w the pervy oldster / Diddler Freak-Off attendee and Epstein... Material, structural, & economic dynamics b/w the US & Israel—hegemon & satellite metropole... Jessica Seinfeld & Epstein client Bill A c k man funding Zio counterprotests, frat chud shock troops, & atrocity porn big screen; the Zio injected lab rat attack @ UCLA encampment... Finally, having given the noided self-immolator some cred, we take him to task for his wretched piece of unconscious hasbara entitled "The Fake Israel-Hamas War Outrage Sweeping College Campuses" & his mishandling of Epstein's Israeli connections. Songs (some culled from Max's farewell Spotify playlist): | Takeoff, Rich the Kid - "Crypto" | | REM - "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" |

Hey guys, it's Liz Dye, and we've got some big, exciting changes coming your way next week. It's all still in process, but I can tell you now that we'll be shifting our podcast drops from Monday/Friday to Tuesday/Friday and ramping up the written content, as well. So, heads up, the next show will be in your feed Tuesday, not Monday.    But today, I'm so excited to talk to a personal hero of mine, Marcy Wheeler. This woman is relentless! If you want to understand what's going on with the Biden prosecution, you have got to read her site emptywheel.net. But before we get into the show I think we need to spend a bit of time discussing the cast of characters and timeline here, because if you're not up to your eyeballs in it all the time, the details can get a little fuzzy. And I'm going to put the text of this intro in the show notes with a million links, for you to follow along if you like. So, here goes.   President Biden's son Hunter has battled addiction for much of his adult life. He's also done some questionable things to earn money to support his family. Those things generally fall under the category of distasteful but legal, not to say quotidian. It's a dirty, little NOT AT ALL secret that DC runs on access, and family members routinely market themselves as conduits to their powerful relatives. E.g., Ginni Thomas, who is nutty as a fruitcake, and collects hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from people with a stake in shaping the Supreme Court.   In 2019, as Biden was emerging as a candidate to take on Trump, the Republican smear machine was looking for dirt. And so they turned to the same dirt merchants that managed to muddy up Hillary Clinton. Clinton was dogged for years with allegations that she'd “sold America's uranium stockpiles to Russia” to benefit a donor to the Clinton Global Initiative. That story was ridiculous — she was Secretary of State at a time when the State Dept was one of eight agencies that had to approve the sale of a mining company called Uranium One to a Russian conglomerate. And the supposed CGI donor who would have benefited, had sold his shares before the deal was approved. But that didn't matter to Peter Schweizer, a Breitbart editor and Steve Bannon ally who wrote a book called “Clinton Cash” and laundered this nonsense into the collective consciousness. And in 2018, he did the same thing with Joe Biden.    As VP, Biden had made a speech in 2015 pressing the Ukrainian government to fire a corrupt prosecutor named Viktor Shokin. It was the consensus of the entire US government, as well as the entire international establishment, that Shokin had to go if Ukraine was ever going to get its house in order. Nevertheless, Schweizer wrote a book called “Secret Empires” in which he alleged that Biden was unilaterally forcing out this prosecutor to protect a Ukrainian oil company called Burisma which employed his son as a board member. I wrote about it at the time as Ukranium One. And if you hear me shittalking NYT reporter Ken Vogel, that's why. Because when Rudy Giuliani started flogging this nonsense about Burisma, Vogel treated it as if it might be true. And it was very clearly NEVER true. It was Uranium One all over again, and it's been the same shit for five years now. And when Trump pressured Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to “do us a favor though,” this is what he wanted. He wanted the Ukrainian government to say it was investigating this bullshit as if it were real.   So in 2019 Rudy Giuliani waddled off to Ukraine in search of proof of this concocted story, where he got fed Russian propaganda by a Russian spy named Andrey Derkach, who was later sanctioned by Trump's own Treasury Department for using that Russian propaganda to influence the 2020 election. But Trump didn't give a shit about that, and neither did Bill Barr, they set up Scott Brady, the US Attorney in Pittsburgh, as Rudy's personal disinformation concierge to go chasing down his lies about Joe and Hunter Biden. Remember, Rudy was alleging that Joe and Hunter Biden had smuggled literally hundreds of millions of dollars out of the country. It was just utter nonsense. This investigation was tainted from the jump.   Brady was the one who kicked up Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant who suddenly remembered in 2020 that Burisma executives had bragged to him in 2017 about bribing Joe and Hunter Biden. This was an obvious lie, for a whole bunch of reasons, but in 2023, Republicans in Congress get wind of it, and they decide that they've finally found the one true witness who will make all of Rudy's lies about Joe Biden true. Instead Smirnov was indicted earlier this year for lying to the FBI.   Barr also tapped a second US Attorney, David Weiss, in Delaware, to investigate Hunter Biden with the unstated goal of trying to dirty up Joe Biden. Weiss was largely focused on Biden's failure to pay taxes in 2018 and 2019 when he was in the throes of addiction. He also investigated Biden for having lied on a gun application where he checked the box that said “I swear I'm not a drug addict.”   At the same time, there was a legally blind computer repair dude in Delaware named John Paul Mac Isaac who claimed to have Hunter Biden's laptop. He says that Biden abandoned three devices in his store and never came back for them, and so Mac Isaac had a right to open up them up and look at what was inside. And because Biden's phones were autosaving to his hard drive, it was basically his whole sad and sordid life. Pictures of his brother Beau dying of cancer. Pictures of Hunter descending into addiction. Pictures of Hunter doing drugs and having sex. Plus every text and email and bank statement he'd sent for years. And Mac Isaac turned the thing over to Rudy Giuliani and his lawyer Robert Costello, who tried to weaponize it somehow against Joe Biden.   I think we all know a fair bit about the laptop, to the extent that there's “one” laptop. But as Marcy has pointed out, the chain of custody on this stuff is totally murky, and it's basically useless as evidence.   So, during much of the first half of 2023, Hunter Biden's lawyers are negotiating with David Weiss to get a global deal to shut the investigation down. Hunter Biden had paid all his taxes, he was sober and in recovery and he just wanted to be done. But at the same time, political pressure was ratcheting up like crazy from Republicans in Congress, particularly after these two supposed IRS whistleblowers came forward claiming that the investigation had been slow walked. Those two guys are named Gary Shapley and Joseph Zeigler, and their testimony, like that of Scott Brady, who also testified before Congress, was highly problematic.    But at some point last summer, the pressure on Weiss seems to have overwhelmed him, and he backed away from the plea deal he'd already negotiated with Biden's lawyers. And in a dramatic hearing in July of 2023, the whole thing imploded.    Hunter Biden has now been indicted in California on tax charges, and in Delaware on the gun charges. He's claimed that he has a right to enforce the original plea deal which would shield him from prosecution. And he claims that the prosecution was tainted from the beginning by political bias, which … clearly it was. He's also filed lawsuits against the IRS and various figures in this case, including Giuliani and Costello, in an attempt to both stop them constantly slandering him and to shake loose information which would help his case.   Look, it's a whole lot. And I guess the most important thing to understand, even if you can't follow every strand of this story, is that the entire case had its genesis in Trump's efforts to stop Joe Biden from becoming president, and we're here now because Republicans in Congress wanted to impeach Biden, or at least make sure he didn't get a second term in office.    Show Links: https://www.lawandchaospod.com/ BlueSky: @LawAndChaosPod Threads: @LawAndChaosPod Twitter: @LawAndChaosPod Patreon: patreon.com/LawAndChaosPod  

On today's episode of the Entrepreneur Evolution Podcast, we are joined by Andrea Vieira, Owner of nailsaloon. Andréa Vieira is an entrepreneur. As owner and co-founder of the nailsaloon, Washington's premier luxury and toxin-free nail salon and cocktail parlor, she currently oversees all operations in two locations – Logan Circle and Capitol Hill – and is managing an expansion that will lead to the nailsaloon's five total DMV locations by 2024. Formerly a journalist and television producer, Andréa spent over 20 years creating long- and short-format documentaries for networks like the Discovery Channel, TruTV, HGTV, Animal Planet and Discovery Health Channel, and for organizations like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she was also a speechwriter. Whether it be directing documentaries, running multi-media events, or writing and producing programs or news stories, Andréa has created content in Europe, Asia, Africa, North, Central, and South America. As a reporter, she has covered stories of Latin American interest for Globo TV in New York; Telemundo in Washington, DC; and CNN in Atlanta. As a producer and writer, she has created content for organizations like the MacArthur Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative, the WHO, PSI, Project Hope, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. A naturalized U.S. citizen, Andréa was born in Brazil and has also lived in Spain and in the UK. She speaks fluent Portuguese, English, and Spanish and holds a Global Executive MBA from Georgetown University and ESADE, and a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Maryland. She currently serves on two Boards: Friends of the Art Museum of the Americas, and DC Coalition for the Homeless. To learn more about nailsaloon, visit https://www.thenailsaloon.com/     We would love to hear from you, and it would be awesome if you left us a 5-star review. Your feedback means the world to us, and we will be sure to send you a special thank you for your kind words. Don't forget to hit “subscribe” to automatically be notified when guest interviews and Express Tips drop every Tuesday and Friday. Interested in joining our monthly entrepreneur membership? Email Annette directly at yourock@ievolveconsulting.com to learn more.  Ready to invest in yourself? Book your free session with Annette HERE.  Keep evolving, entrepreneur. We are SO proud of you! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/annette-walter/support

Live from STUDIO G in the heart of AMERICA—I'm Steve Gruber—fighting for you from the Foxhole of Freedom—I am here to tell it to you straight, I am going to be brutally honest about everything—God Bless America, this is the Steve Gruber Show!   And here are 3 Big Things you need to know—to start this hour—   Number One— The United States is evacuating all key personnel from the embassy in Haiti—as that country is once again teetering on the edge of failure—how did that whole Clinton Global Initiative work out?    Number Two— The blowback from Joe Bidens screaming match with America, better known as the State of the Union address—is continuing—as Biden is scolded by all sides and the polls are terrible—worst in 25 years in fact from the speech—   Number Three— Old Yeller—better known as Joe Biden is back to acting the way he normally does—slurring—confused and seemingly unsure of what is going on a fair amount of time—

Nothing shows the phony illusion people believe about THEIR political hero, whether it be Clinton or Trump, than the debauchery surrounding EpsteinHow many people have to say Clinton & Trump are the same before people will wake up from the partisan trance and stop making excuses for their "Playboy" depravity?What REALLY caused the divorce in the bromance between Trump & Epstein?Seeing the Clinton Global Initiative and Clinton Foundation for what they REALLY areHow was Epstein connected to child sex trafficking and trafficking in human organs in Ukraine?Deeper than the allegations of Stephen Hawking at an orgy is the SATANIC PURPOSE of why Hawking and other scientists were at the island in the first placeThe election won't be televised as much as it will be Tik-Tok'd. Is it (and social media) more than just another form of media control and propaganda?Farmers in Germany shut down roads in massive pushback against the Green Agenda and the Green Party's push to drive farmers out of businessKeyword Search Warrants — like "Geofence Warrants" another step, deeper into the Surveillance StateAI, the coming Eye of SauronMeet the New Boss, Same as the Old Speaker of the House. Conservative Congress members got fooled again as Speaker Johnson reveals his budget agreement of $1.6 TRILLION with Chuck SchumerA fictional story about a coming reality — The Final Countdown to CBDC. Life under a global surveillance state empowered by CBDCA preview of David Webb's "Great Taking". The legal framework to seize everything that has ANY component of creditNow William Penn is Cancelled by Biden Feds What is it that Biden hates about William Penn that they would remove his statue from his home?INTERVIEW Comedian Alex Lasarev Using Humor to Wake People Up When the emperor has no clothes, shouldn't we laugh? "Ridicule is the most effective weapon" said Saul Alinsky. That easily applies to government's false narratives, especially when their purpose is to isolate us in fear. Alex Lasarev, AlexTheComic.com joins Million dollar fines and 10 years in jail for farmers who wish to fix their John Deere tractor? Welcome to 21st Century AmericaMexican billionaire, living in New York, starts a gun control movement in TennesseeWhy can't the US Navy stop the Red Sea attacks? Maybe Biden WANTS to increase the sale of American "fossil fuels"? Think outside the labels and the posturing partiesFind out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHT

Nothing shows the phony illusion people believe about THEIR political hero, whether it be Clinton or Trump, than the debauchery surrounding EpsteinHow many people have to say Clinton & Trump are the same before people will wake up from the partisan trance and stop making excuses for their "Playboy" depravity?What REALLY caused the divorce in the bromance between Trump & Epstein?Seeing the Clinton Global Initiative and Clinton Foundation for what they REALLY areHow was Epstein connected to child sex trafficking and trafficking in human organs in Ukraine?Deeper than the allegations of Stephen Hawking at an orgy is the SATANIC PURPOSE of why Hawking and other scientists were at the island in the first placeThe election won't be televised as much as it will be Tik-Tok'd. Is it (and social media) more than just another form of media control and propaganda?Farmers in Germany shut down roads in massive pushback against the Green Agenda and the Green Party's push to drive farmers out of businessKeyword Search Warrants — like "Geofence Warrants" another step, deeper into the Surveillance StateAI, the coming Eye of SauronMeet the New Boss, Same as the Old Speaker of the House. Conservative Congress members got fooled again as Speaker Johnson reveals his budget agreement of $1.6 TRILLION with Chuck SchumerA fictional story about a coming reality — The Final Countdown to CBDC. Life under a global surveillance state empowered by CBDCA preview of David Webb's "Great Taking". The legal framework to seize everything that has ANY component of creditNow William Penn is Cancelled by Biden Feds What is it that Biden hates about William Penn that they would remove his statue from his home?INTERVIEW Comedian Alex Lasarev Using Humor to Wake People Up When the emperor has no clothes, shouldn't we laugh? "Ridicule is the most effective weapon" said Saul Alinsky. That easily applies to government's false narratives, especially when their purpose is to isolate us in fear. Alex Lasarev, AlexTheComic.com joins Million dollar fines and 10 years in jail for farmers who wish to fix their John Deere tractor? Welcome to 21st Century AmericaMexican billionaire, living in New York, starts a gun control movement in TennesseeWhy can't the US Navy stop the Red Sea attacks? Maybe Biden WANTS to increase the sale of American "fossil fuels"? Think outside the labels and the posturing partiesFind out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHT

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Fox News anchor Dana Perino was spotted at the Clinton Global Initiative, not-so-secretly swooning over none other than crooked Hillary Clinton. Is this the smoking gun of Fox News' closet leftism? Liz makes the case that Fox News might be playing both sides. And amid the Biden impeachment spectacle, Congressman Jim Jordan delivers a punchline that's pure gold in a whirlwind of viral moments. And 18 so-called Republican House members voted against an amendment to defund drag shows and pride month events at the Defense Department. This is The Liz Wheeler Show. -- Take Spike Support daily. Use Code LIZ at checkout to save 15% at checkout. twc.health/LIZ. Get Up To $1,500 of Free Silver on Your First Order! Call 866-781-7499 or text “LIZ” to 6-5-5-3-2. Delta Rescue is the largest Care For Life animal sanctuary in the world. Visit http://deltarescue.org to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Secretary Clinton joins us this week to talk about the Clinton Global Initiative's wild afterparties and whether or not she's seen Pete Davidson's tattoo of her.