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For future episodes of Lizness School in 2025, please follow the dedicated Lizness School feed on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or any podcast app you prefer. Feed also available on the Lizness School Show Page on Megaphone. To send Liz your learning goals for the new year, email liznessschool@gmail.com. We want to hear them for our first show of 2025. It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute. Start at Episode 1 if you are new to Lizness School. Thank you to our sponsors and to listeners for using these special urls and codes to support the show. OSEA, clean beauty products OSEAMalibu.com, use code satsisters for 10 % off Earth Breeze, dissolvable laundry detergent sheets at earthbreeze.com/sisters Navage, daily nasal therapy Navage.com/SISTERS and use our promo code SISTERS For more on Liz Dolan, go to LinkedIn For more on Liz's work in podcasting, go to Satellite Sisters Follow Lizness School on all podcasting platforms including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. On Instagram, follow the show at https://www.instagram.com/liznessschool/ and follow Liz at https://www.instagram.com/satellitesisterliz/ To email Lizness School with your own questions/thoughts/suggestions, use liznessschool@gmail.com. The Distinguished Careers Institute is a unique program for late career people. Fellows are graduate students at Stanford University, able to take classes in any area. Complete information here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Liz and Sarah sit down with friend of the pod, Satellite Sister Liz Dolan, to talk about her new podcast Lizness School, which chronicles her fascinating year as a Fellow at Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute. What compelled her to move to Palo Alto for nine months? Which of the institute's three pillars of purpose, wellness, and community is resonating most with her? This week's Hollywood Hack comes from a listener who doesn't like “to do” lists: Create a “want to do” list. Next, Liz had a Celebrity Sighting on her recent trip to New York — she saw Anthony Michael Hall. Finally Sarah has two recommendations: A Man on the Inside on Netflix and Bug MD Clothes Moth Boss Traps. Get in touch on Instagram: @Sfain & @LizCraft Get in touch on Threads: @Sfain & @LizCraft Visit our website: https://happierinhollywood.com Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/HappierinHollywood/ Happier in Hollywood is part of ‘The Onward Project,' a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Happier with Gretchen Rubin, and Side Hustle School . If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! Note: Go to the Happier In Hollywood Facebook Group for Liz and Sarah's extensive Teens/Tweens Gift Guide. Thanks to listeners for such great ideas! Link below. https://www.facebook.com/groups/903150719832696/permalink/3081705578643855/? LINKS: Lizness School Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lizness-school/id1775855173 The Marriage Sabbatical: A Novel by Lian Dolan https://amzn.to/3ZLX2V3 Anthony Michael Hall: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001309/ A Man on the Inside - Official Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhsVj_4ONoA BugMD Clothes Moth Boss Traps: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08R7B84Y8?ref=t_ac_view_request_product_image&campaignId=amzn1.campaign.35FEN7HXBIJO0&linkCode=tr1&tag=happierinh066-20&linkId=amzn1.campaign.35FEN7HXBIJO0_1733853982558 Photo: Ave Calvar For Unsplash+ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On Lizness School Episode 8, Liz has the scoop on the many de-stressing activities happening on the Stanford campus during exam period for the undergrads. Therapy bunnies, anyone? Plus, if listeners want to take the same art history class Liz took this fall, it's being offered on Stanford's Continuing Studies platform this winter. Here's a link to How To Look At Art and Why with Alex Nemerov and here's a link to the whole Winter Quarter offering on Stanford Continuing Studies. To send Liz your learning goals for the new year, email liznessschool@gmail.com. Any specific goals for Purpose, Community or Wellness? We want to hear them for our first show of 2025. Book Recommendations: Haruki Murakami's memoir What I Talk About When I Talk About Running More by Murakami here: https://harukimurakami.com/books/ Anne Lamott's Operating Instructions It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute. Start at Episode 1 if you are new to Lizness School. Liz's producer and millennial mentor Leah Sutherland gives her additional assignments about how to take it all in. Thank you to our sponsors and to listeners for using these special urls and codes to support the show. OSEA, clean beauty products OSEAMalibu.com, use code satsisters for 10 % off Earth Breeze, dissolvable laundry detergent sheets at earthbreeze.com/sisters Navage, daily nasal therapy Navage.com/SISTERS and use our promo code SISTERS It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute. Start at Episode 1 if you are new to Lizness School. For more on Liz Dolan, go to LinkedIn For more on Liz's work in podcasting, go to Satellite Sisters Follow Lizness School on all podcasting platforms including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. On Instagram, follow the show at https://www.instagram.com/liznessschool/ and follow Liz at https://www.instagram.com/satellitesisterliz/ To email Lizness School with your own questions/thoughts/suggestions for Liz, use liznessschool@gmail.com. The Distinguished Careers Institute is a unique program for late career people. Fellows are graduate students at Stanford University, able to take classes in any area. Complete information here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BONUS: To get the Lizness School podcast in its own feed, please FOLLOW the show in your podcast app of choice. In Lizness School Episode 7, Liz attends a Stanford vs Cal water polo game, collects her thoughts on Designing Her Life and hangs out with some students from Stanford GSB for conversation, Chipotle and a dark fantasy feminist retelling of the Mulan story The Night End With Fire by K X Song. Plus, Liz and Leah both take Gretchen Rubin's Four Tendencies Quiz and discuss the implications of being a rebel and a questioner. Special thanks to Gretchen for mentioning how much she is enjoying Lizness School on this episode of her podcast Happier. Other books mentioned in this episode: Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. Visual Intelligence by Amy E. Herman It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute. Start at Episode 1 if you are new to Lizness School. Liz's producer and millennial mentor Leah Sutherland gives her additional assignments about how to take it all in. Thank you to our sponsors and to listeners for using these special urls and codes. Navage, daily nasal therapy Navage.com/SISTERS and use our promo code SISTERS OSEA, clean beauty products OSEAMalibu.com, use code satsisters for 10 % off Earth Breeze, dissolvable laundry detergent sheets at earthbreeze.com/sisters For more on Liz Dolan, go to LinkedIn For more on Liz's work in podcasting, go to Satellite Sisters Follow Lizness School on all podcasting platforms including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. On Instagram, follow the show at https://www.instagram.com/liznessschool/ and follow Liz at https://www.instagram.com/satellitesisterliz/ To email Lizness School with your own questions/thoughts/suggestions for Liz, use liznessschool@gmail.com. The Distinguished Careers Institute is a unique program for late career people. Fellows are graduate students at Stanford University, able to take classes in any area. Complete information here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Satellite Sisters BONUS: In Lizness School Episode 6, Liz does her Life Transition Reflection and she likes it! Plus two death-defying wellness activities - pickleball and a hike in the redwood forest. In Liz's LTR, she explains her Cooking With Liz live Facebook show during the pandemic. Here she makes Ina Garten's Roast Chicken: https://youtu.be/Ghq-vZUM-4w?si=LWUy3T_V1xstCGoP It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute. Start at Episode 1 if you are new to Lizness School. Liz's producer and millennial mentor Leah Sutherland gives her additional assignments about how to take it all in. Meditation apps are involved. For more on Liz Dolan, go to LinkedIn For more on Liz's work in podcasting, go to Satellite Sisters Follow Lizness School on all podcasting platforms including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. On Instagram, follow the show at https://www.instagram.com/liznessschool/ and follow Liz at https://www.instagram.com/satellitesisterliz/ To email Lizness School with your own questions/thoughts/suggestions for Liz, use liznessschool@gmail.com. The Distinguished Careers Institute is a unique program for late career people. Fellows are graduate students at the University, able to take classes in any area. Complete information here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, powerhouse businesswoman Liz Dolan joins us to inspire you to find your purpose and take charge of your life. From working with industry leaders like Oprah Winfrey and Phil Knight to returning to Stanford as a student in her 60s, Liz highlights the importance of living fearlessly and embracing change. She encourages us to "stay noisy," take risks, and speak our truth while exploring what purpose really means and how to become who we want to be. Listen in for valuable insights on taking charge and being the boss of your own life! In this episode: Insights from working with Oprah Winfrey and Nike Why you need to "stay noisy" and speak your truth Why it's never too late for a fresh start Why you need to take risks to get ahead The future of technology and embracing change Understanding purpose and discovering your "why" How to be the boss of your own life Liz Dolan has served as Chief Marketing Officer for leading brands including Nike, Oprah, Fox Sports, and National Geographic. She is the founder of Mixed Zone Media, a company specializing in sports marketing, and she sits on the Board of Directors for the World Athletics Championships Oregon '22, marking its inaugural event in the US. Liz has been recognized on several prestigious lists, including the 100 Most Powerful People in Sports and the 100 Most Powerful Women in Cable, and she was named Marketer of the Year. Known for her humor, she is also the Satellite Sister least likely to host Thanksgiving dinner. Her new podcast is called Lizness School and chronicles her year attending Stanford University as part of the Distinguished Careers Institute. Here is my favorite quote from this episode: “It's not, ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?' It's who.” - Liz Dolan Do you want to hear your voice on the show? Call me and leave me a voicemail at 404-913-6460 and let me know why you love who you are! There is BONUS CONTENT in our free newsletter so make sure to subscribe at https://www.kimgravelshow.com Collecting Confidence, my best-selling book is now available in paperback with a brand new discussion guide! Click this link to buy it now. Join my Love Who You Are movement at https://lwya.com Connect with Me: YouTube Facebook Instagram TikTok Website Connect with Liz Dolan: YouTube Satellite Sisters Podcast Lizness School Podcast LinkedIn Instagram Website New episodes of The Kim Gravel Show drop every Wednesday at 6pm EST. Support our show by supporting our Sponsors: Factor Factor is America's #1 Ready-To-Eat Meal Kit. You'll save time, eat well, and tackle everything on your to-do list this summer. Head to https://www.factormeals.com/kim50 and use code kim50 to get 50% off your first box! Plus get 20% off your next month while your subscription is active! QVC The Age of Possibility QVC's Age of Possibility celebrates women 50 and over, making us feel seen and supported. I'm thrilled to be part of it! Join our Q50 community and embrace this new chapter. QVC offers curated products to meet our changing needs. Get involved by joining the Facebook group and tuning into the shows. Visit https://www.qvc.com/kimshow to discover how you can be supported and celebrated this holiday season and beyond! Air Doctor Breathe easier with AirDoctor! Save up to $300 on a new air purifier that filters 99.99% of dangerous contaminants, helping you live healthier with every breath. Don't miss out on cleaner, fresher air—head to https://airdoctorpro.com and use promo code KIM for your discount. Experience the difference in air quality today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's Democracy Day at Stanford and there's a lot going on. Liz has the day off from classes to attend special gatherings, seminars and maybe even parties. Link to Stanford Democracy Day activities. This is a special Satellite Sisters preview of Liz's new podcast Lizness School. This is Episode 5. Start from Episode 1 if you have not listened yet. It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute. Join her! To continue to get episodes, be sure to follow the show in the separate Lizness School feed. To continue to receive Lizness School, which will be in its own feed, follow Lizness School on all podcasting platforms including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Thank you to this week's Satellite Sisters sponsors. Please use these special urls and promo codes to support them and our show. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. betterhelp.com/satellite Navage, daily nasal therapy Navage.com/SISTERS and use our promo code SISTERS OSEA, clean beauty products OSEAMalibu.com, use code satsisters for 10 % off Earth Breeze, dissolvable laundry detergent sheets at earthbreeze.com/sisters For more on Liz Dolan, go to LinkedIn For more on Liz's work in podcasting, go to Satellite Sisters Follow Lizness School on all podcasting platforms including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. On Instagram, follow the show at https://www.instagram.com/liznessschool/ and follow Liz at https://www.instagram.com/satellitesisterliz/ To email Lizness School with your own questions/thoughts/suggestions for Liz use liznessschool@gmail.com. The Distinguished Careers Institute is a unique program for late career people. Fellows are graduate students at the University, able to take classes in any area. Complete information here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A special Satellite Sisters preview of Liz's new podcast Lizness School. This is Episode 4. Start from Episode 1 if you have not listened yet. It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute. Join her! To continue to get episodes, be sure to follow the show in the separate Lizness School feed. In this episode classes actually start! She explains what she's taking and why. Upcoming bi-weekly episodes will follow Liz through her entire year of exploration in Palo Alto. Her producer and millennial mentor Leah Sutherland will give her additional assignments all year so she is sure to get out of her boomer bubble. For more on Liz Dolan, go to LinkedIn For more on Liz's work in podcasting, go to Satellite Sisters Follow Lizness School on all podcasting platforms including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. On Instagram, follow the show at https://www.instagram.com/liznessschool/ and follow Liz at https://www.instagram.com/satellitesisterliz/ To email Lizness School with your own questions/thoughts/suggestions for Liz use liznessschool@gmail.com. The Distinguished Careers Institute is a unique program for late career people. Fellows are graduate students at the University, able to take classes in any area. Complete information here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's Lizness not Business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute. Join her! Follow Lizness School on its separate feed on any podcast app. In this episode she registers for her classes from a hotel bed in Brooklyn in the middle of the night. Upcoming bi-weekly episodes will follow Liz through her entire year of exploration in Palo Alto. Her producer and millennial mentor Leah Sutherland will give her additional assignments all year so she is sure to get out of her boomer bubble. For more in Liz Dolan, go to LinkedIn For more on Liz's work in podcasting, go to Satellite Sisters Follow Lizness School on all podcasting platforms including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. On Instagram, follow the show at https://www.instagram.com/liznessschool/ and follow Liz at https://www.instagram.com/satellitesisterliz/ To email Lizness School with your own questions/thoughts/suggestions for Liz, use liznessschool@gmail.com. The Distinguished Careers Institute is a unique program for late career people. Fellows are graduate students at the University, able to take classes in any area. Complete information here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's Lizness not Business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute. Join her! To get this podcast, search for Lizness School on any podcast app you use and FOLLOW. In this episode she explains her decision to spend this year at Stanford exploring her future and new ideas and provides her professional and personal backstory. Upcoming bi-weekly episodes will follow Liz through her entire year of exploration in Palo Alto. Her producer and millennial mentor Leah Sutherland will give her additional assignments all year so she is sure to get out of her boomer bubble. For more in Liz Dolan, go to LinkedIn For more on Liz's work in podcasting, go to Satellite Sisters Follow Lizness School on all podcasting platforms including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. On Instagram, follow the show at https://www.instagram.com/liznessschool/ and follow Liz at https://www.instagram.com/satellitesisterliz/ To email Lizness School with your own questions/thoughts/suggestions for Liz, use liznessschool@gmail.com. The Distinguished Careers Institute is a unique program for late career people. Fellows are graduate students at the University, able to take classes in any area. Complete information here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute. Join her! In this episode she makes her move to a new apartment in Palo Alto and settles in with her dog Hooper. Upcoming bi-weekly episodes will follow Liz through her entire year of exploration in Palo Alto. Her producer and millennial mentor Leah Sutherland will give her additional assignments all year so she is sure to get out of her boomer bubble. For more in Liz Dolan, go to LinkedIn For more on Liz's work in podcasting, go to Satellite Sisters Follow Lizness School on all podcasting platforms including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. On Instagram, follow the show at https://www.instagram.com/liznessschool/ and follow Liz at https://www.instagram.com/satellitesisterliz/ The Distinguished Careers Institute is a unique program for late career people. Fellows are graduate students at the University, able to take classes in any area. Complete information here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Liz tells Julie and Lian all about her first few weeks as a Fellow in Stanford's Distinguished Careers Institute. She's got a new place to live in Palo Alto, has started her new classes and is starting to experience life on a college campus is 2024. It's been a while! Later in October she'll drop the first few episodes of Lizness School, a podcast she'll continue to make throughout the year sharing all of her experiences. The new episodes of Lizness School will be in the Satellite Sisters feed and then be established on its own feed. Please follow that feed to follow the show. Coming info comingsoon! You can also follow Liz on her own Instagram feed @satellitesisterliz and on the new @liznessschool account on Instagram. Thank you to this week's Satellite Sisters sponsors. Please use these special urls and promo codes to support them and our show. Better Help , online therapy betterhelp.com/satellite Navage, daily nasal therapy Navage.com/SISTERS and use our promo code SISTERS OSEA, clean beauty products OSEAMalibu.com, use code satsisters for 10 % off Earth Breeze, dissolvable Landry detergent sheets earthbreeze.com/sisters Satellite Sisters links: All new Satellite Sisters Shop is open with all new merch. https://satellite-sisters-shop-5893.myshopify.com/ Go to the Satellite Sisters website here: https://satellitesisters.com On the website, subscribe to Pep Talk, the Satellite Sisters Newsletter. Subscribe to the Satellite Sisters YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVkl... JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: - Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/SatelliteSis... Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/satel... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/satsisters/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@satsisters Email: hello@satellitesisters.com Lian Dolan on Instagram @liandolan: https://www.instagram.com/liandolan/ Liz Dolan on Instagram @satellitesisterliz: https://www.instagram.com/satellitesi... Julie Dolan on @Instagram @julieoldesister https://www.instagram.com/julieoldestsister/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Liz announces her "Lizness Not Business" plan for 2024-25: She's been accepted as a Fellow in Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute. On this new episode, she answers Julie and Lian's questions about the program and why she decided to make a big move this fall. You can also check out the program here. https://dci.stanford.edu/. Liz's 2024-25 DIC cohort is listed here: https://www.linkedin.com/school/stanford-dci/ Lian added a couple of special Satellite Sisters Meet-Ups on her book tour. On June 3 in Portland, there will be a no-host meet-up at McMenamins Cedar Hills not far from Powells Cedar Hills from 5:30 to 6:30 before her appearance at 7. Monica and Liz will both attend the meet-up and Powells. Woo hoo! Then in Santa Fe on June 23, there will be a book discussion, wine and mingling at Chomp https://www.chompsantafe.com/ in the Community Loft. Complete details for all events on Lian's website. In other news on this podcast episode, Julie reviews the details of her Regional Family Meeting in Bend, Oregon and the difference one Carvel ice cream cake can make and has a special shout-out for the crew and passengers of American Airlines #530 - we love your new DFW - RDM service! Liz recommends not just season 3 of Hacks on Max but the official podcast about Season 3: https://youtu.be/KOFFlCL-hUY?si=V8SlLcydaXx_HsKN Plus Pole Pedal Paddle happens in Bend, Oregon this weekend, a quintessential Bend athletic event that combines Alpine skiing, Nordic Skiing, biking down the mountain, running through dirt trails, paddling along the Deschutes River and a final sprint to the finish. https://www.bendsource.com/outside/from-the-mountain-to-the-river-embracing-bends-iconic-pole-pedal-paddle-tradition-21120015 Thank you to our sponsors and to listeners for using these special urls and codes to support them: Prose https://prose.com/sisters Framebridge https://framebridge.com Butcher Box https://butcherbox.com/sisters Use code sisters at checkout Osea https://oseamalibu.com Use code satsisters at checkout New 2024 Satellite Sisters episodes to download: Fitness and Aging with guest Liz Neporent. 3/12/24 Colon Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment and Lessons Learned. 3/19/24 Women's Wellness Through Transitions like Menopause with MEA 3/26/24 Information about MEA Workshop Lian is attending in June: A Lifetime of Women's Wellness: Thriving Through Transitions with Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz The Marriage Sabbatical Pub Day Book Talk by Lian Dolan. No spoilers on this episode! 4/2/24 Lian Dolan's books: For information on Lian's novels, including The Marriage Sabbatical, her latest book out now, please visit liandolan.com Join our community: Facebook Page, Facebook Group and on Instagram and Twitter @satsisters. Visit the Satellite Sisters website here: https://satellitesisters.com Visit + subscribe to the Satellite Sisters YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@satellitesisters7265 Shop the Satellite Sisters store here: https://satellite-sisters-shop-5893.myshopify.com/collections/all Email Satellite Sisters at hello@satellitesisters.com. Follow Lian Dolan on @instagram @liandolan Follow Liz Dolan on @instagram @satellitesisterliz Follow Julie Dolan on @instagram @julieoldestsister Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aisha is the founder of Bossy Cosmetics, a hyper-growth independent beauty company that inspires, empowers, and champions ambitious working women. Under her leadership, the company has grown from a purely digitally native footprint to retailing in over 600 retail doors across the country, including JCPenney and Nordstrom, as well as on Amazon.com. The brand was selected (numerous times) as one of the coveted “Oprah's Favorite Things”, and has won honorable mentions and awards from Fast Company in Innovation by Design and various product awards from Self and Ebony Magazines. In the 5 years since its founding, Aisha has redefined the way beauty companies “see” professional women and has been featured in NPR's How I Built Resilience,, Forbes, W Magazine, InStyle, Refinery29, amongst others.Prior to founding Bossy Cosmetics, Aisha led a different life - as a 20-year global finance executive having worked over the course of her career at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, Standard Chartered Bank, World Bank, and Rand Merchant Bank. Aishe has worked on over $130 billion in M&A, private equity financings, IPOs, and public capital market transactions. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University, an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and was a Fellow in the Distinguished Careers Institute at Stanford University. Perhaps even more impressive than all of this, Aisha is a wife and the mother of three sons! -----Past guests include Margaret Wishingrad, Kara Goldin, Brandi Chastain, Julie Foudy, Ann Miura Ko, Linda Avey, Sarah Leary, Becky Sauerbrunn, Miriam Haart and many more.Follow us on Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube-----Show Notes:1. Welcome to She Leads2. Aisha's Childhood and Values3. Emphasis and Importance of Education 4. Grappling with her Dual Identity as a Nigerian Growing Up in America5. The Value and Optimizing for Money and Finding Financial Security Growing Up6. Navigating Career Paths – Tackling Job Security Vs. Passion7. Optimizing for Wealth as a Woman8. Rising Up the Investment Banking and Finance Career Path Ladder 9. Choosing to go to Harvard Business School 10. Aisha's Mental Health During the Pinnacle of Her Banking Career11. Quitting her Banking Job (and the Health Scare that Led to this)12. Balancing Work and Family 13. Taking off to Palo Alto and the Distinguished Careers Institute Fellowship at Stanford 14. Founding Bossy Cosmetics + Early Days 15. Venture Capital Responses + Rejections of Bossy Cosmetics16. Aisha Defining Success - Then and Now If you're enjoying the show, please share it with a friend and leave a r
Key Points: Jake had a 30+ year career with the Wall Street Journal as a reporter and editor. His identity was very tied to his work. He attended the Distinguished Careers Institute at Stanford, a program for people seeking reinvention in their 50s and 60s. The program focuses on purpose, community, and wellness. Jake found the community aspect invaluable in supporting reinvention. He explored topics like spirituality, improv, memoir writing, and play. These opened him up to new ways of thinking and being. After the program, he serendipitously found a new role leading the United States-Japan Foundation. He feels more open-minded and less ego-driven in this next phase of life. United States-Japan Foundation: https://us-jf.org/ This podcast is sponsored by Good Morning Freedom, my retirement coaching firm. I help executives and professionals plan the non-financial part of their retirement, like how to discover new purpose and how you want to spend your time. I offer a 1:1 coaching retirement blueprint package where we work together to discover some new avenues of exploration for your Act Three. This coaching is completely custom and will provide you with a ton of resources and support as you transition to this new stage of life. For all the details, please go to goodmorningfreedom.com/services. Connect with Cara on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caraliveslife/ or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caraliveslife/ or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cara.a.gray/
By Jared Samuelson Ray Powell and Gaute Friis join the program to discuss the SeaLight initiative and some of the maritime gray zone tactics China is employing in the South China Sea. Ray is a fellow at Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute in Palo Alto, California. He recently concluded a 35-year career in the U.S. … Continue reading Sea Control 456 – China’s Maritime Gray Zone Tactics and SeaLight with Ray Powell and Gaute Friis →
Listen to ASCO's Journal of Clinical Oncology essay, “Mrs. Hattie Jones” by Dr. Eric Klein, fellow at Stanford's Distinguished Careers Institute. The essay is followed by an interview with Klein and host Dr. Lidia Schapira. Klein shares the mystery of why Mrs. Hattie Jones might have died when she did. TRANSCRIPT Narrator: Mrs. Hattie Jones, by Eric Klein, MD (10.1200/JCO.22.02405) That Hattie Jones died was not unexpected, but why she died when she did has been a mystery for more than 40 years. It was late summer and she'd been hospitalized for several weeks when I met her, as it were. In the era before a palliative care subspecialty was established, patients with incurable cancer like Mrs Jones were admitted for inevitably long hospital stays characterized by slow declines in form and function, managed by trainees like me, the least experienced and least expert on the team. The chief resident on the service, burly and gruff, brought us into her private room early on the first day of my rotation on the colorectal surgery service. Mrs Jones appeared malnourished and frail, with one intravenous (IV) bottle hanging and concentrated urine collecting in a bag at the bedside. She did not, in fact could not, acknowledge our presence or answer our queries as to her well-being or needs because of an induced somnolence by the morphine running continuously in the IV. She breathed regularly but slowly and did not seem to be in distress. The goal in caring for her, we were told, was simply to keep her comfortable until she died. She was the first terminally ill patient I'd cared for, and her isolation and unresponsiveness filled me with sadness and unease. Alone on afternoon rounds later that day, I was surprised to find someone sitting beside her bed holding her hand. The visitor was a sturdy woman a few years younger than Mrs Jones, dressed neatly and respectfully as though she were in church. She looked at me and said, “I'm Hattie's sister, and I'm here to be with her when she dies.” Her demeanor conveyed a sense of duty both to her sister and herself, and her solemnity evoked a divine presence. I introduced myself and answered her many questions about her sister's condition. “Was she in pain?” It did not seem so, I replied. “Would she ever wake up?” I explained we could wake her up by turning down the morphine but that she would likely be in pain if we did. She considered that silently for a few moments and said she did not want that, although she longed to hear her sister's voice again. “Was she getting enough nutrition?” The IV also contained sugar water with enough calories for her condition, I explained. She said she missed her sister's smile. “How long is she going to live?” I admitted that even experienced physicians could not predict that. She was silent after that and after a few minutes I excused myself to tend to other patients. The days turned into weeks, then months, as the daylight hours grew shorter and the weather cooler and the fall slowly turned into winter without much change in Mrs Jones' condition. I'd greet her on rounds each morning, never eliciting a response, briefly examine her, write new IV orders, and move onto the day's work—rounding on patients being prepped for or recovering from surgery, then outpatient clinic, the operating room, and new patient admissions. Each afternoon Mrs Jones' sister was there by her side for several hours, watching her intently, holding her hand, and sighing sadly. Each day she reminded the team “I just want to be with her,” she said, “so she will not be alone when she passes.” Days on call for me were generally stressful and lonely, testing my medical knowledge and incompletely developed sense of empathy. As interns and newlyweds, my wife and I had call schedules that did not match—she every third night and me every fourth, such that we only had one evening a week together that first year when neither of us was exhausted. I missed our days in medical school when we shared classes, had dinner together every night, and walked afterward to the local Baskin- Robbins; now we work in different institutions, with different hours, and rarely had enough energy in the evenings and on weekends to truly be present for the other. I drew the short straw on my team in late December and was on call on Christmas Day. Because the operating room and clinics were closed, I made rounds later than usual and Mrs Jones' sister was already at her bedside when I entered her room. She told me she came early because she was hosting her large family for an early afternoon Christmas dinner, a long family tradition. Over the months of Mrs Jones' hospitalization, we'd developed a sense of each other, she trusting an inexperienced, young, and tired doctor trying to keep her sister comfortable, me seeing a devout woman dedicated to her sister's soul. She asked, “Is it safe for me to leave Hattie alone for a few hours this afternoon so I can have Christmas dinner with my family?” and added that it would be the first without her sister's presence in many years. I replied assuredly that it was, that her sister's condition had been stable for many months and that I thought she was going to live for a least a few more weeks. She looked at her sister, then at me, gathered her coat and scarf, kissed Hattie goodbye, and headed home. The rest of the day was relatively quiet for a day on call but typical for a holiday. There were a few patient phone calls, one or two patients to be seen in the emergency room, and no emergency surgeries. The hospital provided a free meal of turkey and sides to all the staff that were on call, and those of us in the cafeteria shared a sense of holiday cheer, albeit muted by being away from our own families. Despite the happy spirit there, I was lonely, missing my wife, and sad to have to postpone my own Christmas Day birthday celebration. While thinking about that I got what I thought was a routine call from the colorectal surgery nursing unit—perhaps about a patient needing a medication reorder, or a need to restart an IV, or to talk with a family about a hospitalized relative. Instead, the nurse on the phone summoned me to the unit to pronounce Mrs Jones dead. I paused for a long moment before asking, dreading the response: Was Mrs Jones' sister back from Christmas dinner? “No”, came the answer. My tears flowed copiously and quickly; my heart hit the floor. I sobbed loudly for a few minutes, unable to explain to my colleagues what had transpired. The walk from the cafeteria to the nursing unit seemed much longer than usual. I examined Mrs Jones for the final time and confirmed her lack of heartbeat and breathing. I watched as the nursing staff disconnected the IV, a lifeline that was no longer needed. I sat at the nursing station and filled out the death certificate. Name: Hattie Jones. Age: 63. Date and Time of Death: 1:23 pm, December 25, 1981. Cause of death: Cardiopulmonary arrest secondary to metastatic colon cancer. I put down my pen and summoned the courage needed for my last task—telephoning Mrs Jones' sister to share the news. I do not recall what I said, but I have a vivid memory of the reaction—she was initially silent and then I heard her cry, others in the background joining in when she repeated the news; I remain unsure to this day which one of us was more despondent. Over the course of my career, I've pondered many times over the timing of Mrs Jones' death. Perhaps she wanted her sister to be surrounded by family when hearing the news so that the burden of her sister's grief would be lessened by sharing. Perhaps it was meant to serve as a poignant reminder about the need for and power of celebrating time with family. Perhaps it was for me to experience a sense of helplessness to deepen my empathy for those who were incurable. Perhaps it was all these reasons or perhaps none of them. No matter the reason, after a career caring for thousands of patients, seeing many suffer and die along the way, I have never experienced a sadder moment. Why Mrs Hattie Jones died when she did is an enduring mystery, but her memory, the profundity of the bond between these two sisters, and the empathy I learned from them have lived on and helped me navigate the emotional ups and downs intrinsic to the practice of oncology. Dr. Lidia Schapira: Hello and welcome to JCO's Cancer Stories: The Art of Oncology, which features essays and personal reflections from authors exploring their experience in the field of oncology. I am your host, Dr. Lidia Schapira, associate editor for Art of Oncology and a professor of medicine at Stanford University. Today we are joined by Dr. Eric Klein, a fellow at Stanford's Distinguished Careers Institute and Emeritus Professor and Chair of the Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute at Cleveland Clinic. In this episode, we will be discussing his Art of Oncology article, ‘Mrs. Hattie Jones'. Our guest's disclosures will be linked in the transcript. Eric, welcome to our podcast and thank you for joining us. Dr. Eric Klein: Thanks for having me. It's great to be here. Dr. Lidia Schapira: Let me start by asking you a little bit about your process for writing narratives. When do you write, and what kind of scenario triggers your desire to write? Dr. Eric Klein: I haven't written anything creative like this since college, so I don't really have a process. But I can tell you the process I used for this particular piece. I had the real pleasure of being in John Evans' class. He's a faculty member at Stanford in the English department who taught memoir writing. And so the class was to teach us how to write memoirs, and it was filled with prompts, which was a wonderful way to respond, and it tapped into some creativity that I didn't know I had. So the prompt for this particular piece was to write about a secret or a mystery. And I thought about it for a day or two, and I thought, I have lots of secrets in my life, but I don't really want to share them with anyone. And I struggled with it. So I was having dinner with one of my classmates, Thanya, and just discussing this because she had taken the class, and she said, "Well, why don't you make it a mystery?" And it clicked immediately, as I have written, is that this mystery about why Mrs. Jones died when she did has stuck with me for more than 40 years. So that night, I was lying in bed trying to figure out how I was going to write this because I'm not a creative writer--tossing and turning. And about 1:30, I got out of bed, and I sat in our dark living room, and I tapped the story out on my iPhone, and I emailed it to myself, and I edited it the next day. And that was the process. Dr. Lidia Schapira: Your essay has this very factual title, including the Missus, ‘Mrs. Hattie Jones'. And then it starts with this statement, "She died.” We know this, but her death is not unexpected. But the timing was. And that mystery has stayed with you for 40 years. It's a very impactful opening. I thought that was very creative, actually, on your part. Beautifully done. Tell us a little bit about why you have pondered for 40 years about the timing of Mrs. Jones' death. Dr. Eric Klein: It was a very emotional event for me, in part because I was so young in my career. I had never taken care of terminally ill patients before. Nothing in medical school prepared me for that. There was no palliative medicine service at the time. And I think, as many social scientists have observed, is that things that happen to us when we're young, like our first love, always stick with us more firmly and more deeply than things that come later in life. So that's why it was so emotional for me, and I think that's why it stuck with me for so long. I didn't know how to deal with it at the time. Dr. Lidia Schapira: Did you ever have a conversation with Mrs. Hattie Jones? Dr. Eric Klein: Well, I tried. I certainly spoke with her sister a great deal, but Mrs. Jones was unresponsive, and that was by design. The morphine in the drip, and the IV drip was meant to keep her comfortable. I mean, we have learned a lot about palliative care in the intervening decades, so we don't do that anymore. But that was the standard of care then. Someone was in pain, and so you gave them enough narcotic medication to keep them out of pain, and whatever else happened downstream didn't matter. I'd say one of the other powerful things about this and sort of the key event of learning that her sister was not at her side when she died was that the whole goal of care was all focused on making that happen and facilitating things for her sister and keeping her up to date. And the nursing team was on board with that and so forth. I felt like it was a big team letdown that we let this woman down and we let her sister down. Dr. Lidia Schapira: Let's talk a little bit about you at that very tender phase of your development. You're a young intern, and you've let your patient and the team down. How did you deal with that? And how have you since processed how you dealt with that? Dr. Eric Klein: This was the saddest thing that's ever happened to me. It was the saddest thing at the time. And I think in reflecting upon my career, seeing many sad things, this still resonates with me as the saddest thing ever because of the deep personal disappointment that went along. I don't have clear recollection of how I dealt with it at the time. Probably I just was sad for a few days and moved on. I mean, being a surgical intern in 1981 was very busy. We didn't have a lot of the ancillary services that we have now. The surgical service was busy, and so we moved on day to day. This memory just popped up to me every now and then in quiet times and in discussions, in group discussions with colleagues about challenges that we faced in our career, and sometimes in talking to young people about careers in medicine and what you might experience and so forth. And so I guess I dealt with it intermittently through the years and ended up scratching my head. And finally, this was a cathartic experience for me to be in memoir writing, to be able to put this down on paper and, I hope, deal with it finally. Dr. Lidia Schapira: You make a very powerful case for storytelling as part of a practice of dealing with situations that are so emotionally complex. Forty years later, what advice would you give a young intern who is also facing a moment of extreme personal sadness and grief, and disappointment? Dr. Eric Klein: Yeah, my advice would be don't be stoic about it. That was certainly the expectation in the era that I trained. It was certainly the expectation for men. There weren't many women surgeons then, but that was certainly the expectation for men. People died—surgical mistakes happen—and we were just told it's part of the game. And I recall my chief of service telling me it puts hair on your chest. It sort of makes you a man, and so you just deal with it. So there are so many resources that are available now and a very, very different attitude about the personal part of being a physician and dealing with disappointment and other struggles and the learning curve and all of that. So I would say to youngsters, seek out help—seek out your colleagues who might have been through it. Seek out more senior people and seek out non-physician support people who are generally available at most medical centers and medical schools to help people deal with this, talk about it, and come to terms with it sooner than 40 years. Dr. Lidia Schapira: I'm curious to know if you enjoy reading narratives written by other physicians that describe similar experiences of grief and loss. Dr. Eric Klein: I always have. So the Art of Oncology, A Piece of My Mind in JAMA, and I edit a journal called Urology, and we have a section on narrative medicine. And I think that enriches the experience for the entire medical community and helps keep us focused on our real goal, which is caring for patients. And I think that's increasingly hard in the reimbursement-driven productivity era that we live in now. And that's why I think it's important to do that. Dr. Lidia Schapira: How much have you shared about this creative, reflective side of yourself with your trainees over the years? Dr. Eric Klein: I hope it came through. I can't say that I know for sure that it did. I guess I was known during my career as a storyteller, and I would often share anecdotes usually related to more clinical which is facing this clinical problem and how do you deal with it surgically, how do you deal with it medically, that sort of thing. And maybe less about specific patients. So it's probably better to ask my trainees if I did a good job with that. Dr. Lidia Schapira: Let's go back to this idea that storytelling is very powerful to help us in communicating with each other and processing experiences. Do you use storytelling, or have you used storytelling with your patients in the clinic? Dr. Eric Klein: Yes, frequently. My career was mostly focused on prostate cancer, and so when I saw a new patient with prostate cancer, even if it was the most indolent kind, the very first question on their mind always is, "Am I going to die from my cancer?" And I would say I've seen lots of patients, and I'll tell you what the extremes are. I saw one patient with lymph node-positive cancer who's still alive 25 years after his initial treatment and living a normal life. And I saw one patient with really advanced cancer who died after 18 months. And I would say to them, "Your experience is going to be someplace in between those two stories." Or there might be a more specific situation of someone facing a particular treatment or surgery and they're concerned about that, and I would even hook them up with other patients who have been through it so that they could experience the story from the horse's mouth, so to speak. I think it's an important part of managing patients, I do. Dr. Lidia Schapira: So let's talk a little bit about the language and the plot in those stories. What kind of metaphors do you use, if any? Dr. Eric Klein: Well, I had one patient tell me that I spoiled his taste for oranges because when I described the prostate, I described it like an orange with a rind or a capsule on the outside, and the cancers in the fruit in the middle. So that was one that didn't resonate ultimately. Then I switched to lemons since no one seems to like lemons and so forth. I would say the stories generally had a good outcome. Patients want their physicians to be optimistic, and certainly, patients facing cancer want their physicians to be optimistic. And I'm sure I had a lot of other specific stories to tell about specific patient experiences that don't come to mind readily now. Dr. Lidia Schapira: What book have you read recently that you've enjoyed and would recommend to others? Dr. Eric Klein: I would say Evil Geniuses, which is not a medical story at all. It's a story about the conservative political movement and the Federalist Society, and big business that set an agenda back in the Reagan era to take all the negativity around capitalism and conservatism out and to relax restrictions on business. And to fill the Judiciary with conservative judges and so forth, and how they have succeeded over the course of those decades to where we are now. I have to say I don't read much fiction. I honestly, I don't find fiction does much for me. I read mostly nonfiction. Dr. Lidia Schapira: You come across as somebody who is very self-aware, and I assume it's taken a long time to be able to say things about your feelings and recognize the impact some of these patient experiences have had on you. And in the essay, you also mentioned that your wife is a physician and that you spent a lot of time together in medical school, but then the paths diverged. And I'm interested in knowing if these sorts of stories about patients came to your dinner table. Tell us a little bit about that. Dr. Eric Klein: Yeah, all the time. Actually, over the course of our careers, we would definitely share the highlights and the lowlights of our day and talk a lot about specific patients and the problems that they faced and what we learned from that. And I learned a lot from listening to my wife. She was a pediatric neurologist, so didn't deal much with cancer, but I learned a whole lot more about social determinants of health and how social circumstances really impact the patient's ability to cope with a serious diagnosis and recover from it and so forth. Because she dealt with children who came mostly from impoverished families and didn't have the same sort of family or social service support as the kind of patients that I saw, who were mostly Medicare or private insurance patients. Dr. Lidia Schapira: I must finish this interview by asking you why you think Mrs. Hattie Jones died when she did. Dr. Eric Klein: That's a great question. I think the most likely explanation, without really knowing her, but with knowing her sister and understanding the family dynamics, is that she really did not want her sister to hear the news when she was alone in the relatively impersonal environment of the hospital. Whether or not that's true, I don't know. But that's what I had chosen to believe, that she wanted her sister to hear the news when she was surrounded by her loved ones and her family. And I think that resonated nicely with the idea that I wrote about, which is being away from my family on Christmas Day and on my birthday and so forth, and being isolated and alone and how important family is to one's personal well-being and success. Dr. Lidia Schapira: I like your interpretation. I find it both wise and compassionate. And with that, I want to invite you to share with our readers why you decided to send this story out into the world. I understand the reason for writing it. What made you decide to share it and publish? Dr. Eric Klein: So let me start with a call out and a shout out to one of my other classmates, Julie, who convinced me to take memoir writing. My wife had taken it and had a good experience with it early in the DCI experience. And I was reluctant because I've only written clinical papers and scientific papers, and I just didn't sense that I had this creativity. So thank you, Julie, for convincing me. I shared it because of the reaction I got from my classmates. The dynamic in the class was to share it with a certain number of classmates, and then we were all asked to write a constructive critique of the stories that we've written so that we could get better in memoir writing. But the emotional reaction to this, to my non-physician classmates, was so powerful, and my own reaction to it in writing it. I just read over the proofs that came the other day, and I was crying again, even though I know the story well and have been over it many times, and I thought, "This is something that might resonate with other people. This might be a universal experience." And so it was more of a lark than anything else. But I just thought the world might get something useful out of this. Dr. Lidia Schapira: Well, it resonated with your editor. One of the tests that I usually use when I read the manuscript is whether or not I'm getting teary or whether I'm feeling anything, and it certainly evoked a lot of emotion. So. Thank you, Eric. Thank you for sending it to us. So until next time, thank you for listening to JCO's Cancer Stories: The Art of Oncology. Don't forget to give us a rating or review, and be sure to subscribe, so you never miss an episode. You can find all of ASCO's shows at asco.org/podcasts. The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. Guest statements on the podcast do not express the opinions of ASCO. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement. Like, share and subscribe so you never miss an episode and leave a rating or review. Guest Bio Dr. Eric Klein is a fellow at Stanford's Distinguished Careers Institute and Emeritus Professor and Chair of the Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute at Cleveland Clinic.
In today's conversation I talk with Frances Edmonds, Inspirational Speaker and author of “Repotting Your Life: Sense When You're Stuck. Explore What's Possible. Claim Room to Grow.” When I first read this book, my thoughts jumped to the colourful collection of red, purple and blue African Violets on my sun-drenched mantelpiece. I recalled how I transferred the tiny plants that grew from leaf cuttings, first to small individual containers, then to larger pots and ultimately, I repotted them in the large pots that will remain their permanent home.Frances conceived the idea of repotting, the ideal metaphor for self reinvention in deep middle age, when she uprooted herself, swapping the comfort and security of her London life for a year in California. As a fellow at Stanford's Distinguished Careers Institute, she researched longevity and related issues at the Center on Longevity.She suggests that when you find yourself stuck in life, whatever the cause, remember that what ails a root bound plant is not the plant, it's the pot. We discuss how to bring that same wisdom to any life changing decision, large or small, career or relationships, to reframe your thinking, reset your purpose and rejuvenate yourself.Following her degree in Modern Languages from Cambridge, Frances became an independent freelance interpreter, traveling all over the world, providing simultaneous interpreting for major institutions, organizations and summits. Great for the brain, she points out that it's a really tough skill because not only do you have to be great at languages, you also have to be able to listen through your headphones to a person speaking in one language, and simultaneously interpret in a second language. We discuss how, when she became “stuck”, she pivoted and “repotted her life.” Here are links to learn more about Frances Edmonds and Repotting Your Life https://www.francesedmonds.co.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/frances.edmonds.9 https://twitter.com/francesedmonds1 https://twitter.com/experimentbooks https://www.facebook.com/experimentbooks https://www.instagram.com/theexperiment/ Contact Dr. Gillian Lockitch to learn how to live younger as you grow older: Order a copy of Growing Older Living Younger: The Science of Aging Gracefully and The Art of Retiring Comfortably Schedule a Discovery Call with Dr. Lockitch Join the Growing Older Living Younger Community to exchange experiences, and engage with others on a similar journey to age well.
On this week's Inside Outside Innovation, we sit down with Susan Golden, Author of the new book Stage (Not Age). Susan and I talk about the $22 trillion market opportunity in the emerging longevity economy from education to workforce to healthcare and housing. Let's get started. Inside Outside Innovation is the podcast to help the new innovators navigate what's next. Each week, we'll give you a front row seat into what it takes to learn, grow, and thrive in today's world of accelerating change and uncertainty. Join us as we explore, engage, and experiment with the best and the brightest innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneering businesses. It's time to get started.Brian Ardinger: Welcome to another episode of Inside Outside Innovation. I'm your host, Brian Ardinger. And as always, we have another amazing guest. Today, we have Susan Golden, author of Stage (Not Age): How to Understand and Serve People Over 60, The Fastest Growing, Most Dynamic Market in the World. Welcome to the show, Susan. Susan Golden: Thank you so much for having me.Brian Ardinger: To give a little background. You've got a lot of experience in this particular space. You teach at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. You're a Mentor at Techstars Future of Longevity Accelerator. And a thought partner with Pivotal Ventures on their Caregiving Innovation Initiatives. I think the first question I'd like to ask is what drew you to this topic and exploring this $22 trillion market opportunity called the longevity economy.Susan Golden: Great question. I have a background in public health and then went into venture capital in life sciences and health services. And I actually took a career break, which is part of what the book is about. That many people are going be taking career breaks if they're living 100 year lives. And went back to school. And Stanford had just started a new program called the Distinguished Careers Institute, for people anywhere from their fifties to their eighties, come back and rethink what they want to do with the next chapters of their life. Because they're living much longer. And nobody should be thinking about retirement in their sixties because they have another 30 or 40 years to go.And I learned about longevity at Stanford. There's a wonderful center on longevity that is thinking about how do you plan for the 100 year life. And it's very dynamic and it's not just about the typical impression that most people have, that all older adults are elderly, declining, frail need a whole variety of services.Some will, and most of us will need something at some point in the end of our lives. But most people are going to be living very vibrant lives well into their eighties. And this has created a whole new economy that most people just don't know about. And particularly investors and innovators don't know about it.Traditionally, if I asked my venture capital friends, why aren't you investing in this? They would say, oh, this is about senior housing and fall prevention and medication management. And that's a piece of it, but there is now, as you said, a $22 trillion worldwide market right here in the United States.Right now, it's estimated to be about $8.6 trillion. As over 10,000 people are turning 65 every day and they're going to be living long lives. And over a third to a half of children being born today can expect to live to their 100s. And this longevity economy now includes all their spending, the stimulating new jobs that are being created for their products and services.And companies are beginning to rethink their longevity strategy. Not just for products and services, and how could they have a multi-generational. But also, how to have a workforce that's multi-generational. And how to take advantage of that. And most people don't realize that people over 50 have most of the wealth. They're responsible for 56% of consumer spending and 83% of wealth in the United States. So this is a gigantic market opportunity, gigantic innovation opportunity, and a great need to support healthy aging as our population is going to grow in this category. Brian Ardinger: So, with the fact that it is growing and there's this massive opportunity, what are the biggest misconceptions out there? Why do you think more people aren't exploring this at this point?Susan Golden: I don't think they fully understand the vibrancy that most older adults are in. And that they're in multiple stages. And they tend to lump all older adults in one category. All people 65 and older, or whatever demarcation one takes 70, 75 when there's great diversity in aging. And I think we should be thinking about ageless people. But more and what I argue for in the book about stage, some companies have done this well. They recognize what stage of life somebody is in. So, they may be in a re-purposing stage or transitioning out of one career to another. They may want continuous learning and educational opportunities as I, and all my colleagues who've done the DCI program at Stanford were in. To refocus what we want to do next and what are our life priorities. But there's other traditional consumer facing industries that people haven't thought how to reinvent them for people with longer lives and how to support their health span. And this includes housing alternatives and home modifications, fashion and accessories, education as we mentioned, entertainment, travel, you can think of that just virtually every consumer opportunity that is going to have a burgeoning longevity customer that needs to be understood. And so, understanding what stage somebody is in, will give you a much broader perspective about their needs. There may be a caregiving stage even. Brian Ardinger: In the book you talk about, you have five kinds of key stages. Can you walk through what those stages are? And what's important about them. Susan Golden: So, I came up with the concept of 18 life stages that could be divided into five quarters of life. And I know that's funky math. But people traditionally think about life in three stages, which is your education, your working stage, and then your retirement stage. And now I think we have to think much more broadly.So, I think about the first stage of life as sort of your growth stage. And when you're launching and you're first and beginning to experiment. And in your second quarter, you have different stages where you're doing continuous learning. You're developing some financial security. You might be caregiving, parenting, optimizing health. And then the third and fourth stages I think are what might be considered new. Which is, I call them the Renaissance Stage where you're reinventing what you're doing. You're repurposing, you're relaunching. You may be transitioning, may have a portfolio of things that you're doing as I do. You might be an entrepreneur or an “olderpreneur” as people often say. And then the later stages are maybe where some people think about more about their legacy planning for end of life. But people are living to 100. So, I put in a fifth quarter because we just don't know what that whole new paradigm is going to look like. And how people are going to be using those extra years. Brian Ardinger: Well, a lot of it has been driven by other parts of the economy as well, whether it's technology or healthcare and that that's literally changing the way we live. What are some of the trends or things that you've seen that are allowing folks to be more productive as they age? Susan Golden: Well, technology is certainly making a great change in the way we age and for the better. Technology services, anywhere from being able to access transportation more easily. It may not be wanting to drive yourself, but there's lots of transportation services and easy ways to get access to it. Uber, Lyft even have special programs to help you get to medical appointments and interface with medical system. We have delivery of virtually everything you can possibly think of. You can do online banking, but interestingly, not all older adults are digitally literate and that's another innovation opportunity. Other countries have national programs to make sure all older adults have active digital literacy training every single year, not just one, but multiple times. That's where we're seeing it. Tech in the home. We're going to see a lot of healthcare, not just during the pandemic, but continue to be telehealth services. People are thinking about remote health in the home going forward. And then working from home is creating all sorts of opportunities for older adults. Giving them enormous flexibility. We see tech really supporting caregivers. This is a whole new need because there are 48 million unpaid caregivers in the United States. And that's some of the work I do as a thought partner to Pivotal Ventures. They're actually supporting an entire accelerator through Techstars, just devoted for innovations to support unpaid caregivers in the United States. So, we're seeing an uptick and definitely more interest in this area. But most people, I would say most innovators and investors have not fully appreciated the enormous opportunities.Brian Ardinger: Well, and that's what I like about this book. It not only lays out in granular details, some of the opportunities that you're talking about, but it really is for entrepreneurs. It outlines a number of different market opportunities. It gives the lay of the land and a call to action for entrepreneurs to start tackling some of these types of problems and that, that are out there. Having said that, what are some of the opportunities that you're seeing startups get into and maybe what opportunities are being missed. Susan Golden: When people are coming into this industry, it's so big and so many different verticals you can focus on. It's better to focus on one and then expand. So sometimes I feel like companies are trying to solve every problem. And that can happen over time if you create a fabulous platform. But definitely focusing on a particular need, don't create a product that you think somebody will want to find out what the needs are.And I really advocate for multi-generational teams. I think as companies have a multi-generation workforce which is going to be inevitable as people are going to have 60-year career spans with caregiving breaks, optimally at different times of their lives. But learning what somebody needs, the mantra and the industry is designed with not for. So don't guess what an older adult will want, bring them into the conversation early on. And then companies that are, and entrepreneurs that have designed a product that's just for older adults and it calls out it's for you older person. And we could say that the stereotype there is big beige and boring is not the way to go. Is to create a product that might have still features that support an older adult's needs, but could potentially be a multi-generational product. And an example of that is OXO Kitchen Utensils. I don't know if you've ever purchased them, but they're very much designed to be easy on the hands. Great dexterity, compatibility. And they're good for young and old. And they're not sold at it's a multi-generational product. It's not sold just for older adults. It's not sold just for younger people. But too often marketers targeted the 18- to 34-year-old category. And if you broaden your perspective and think about older adults in a very vibrant, and different stages of their life, you will have a much larger market to address.Brian Ardinger: And I think you're seeing that in the marketing sense as well. Like you said, seems like most marketers always target that younger demographic. And some of the things that you're talking about, it's not even the age, it's a specific problem set. Which could, like you said, span different ages as the person grows and adapts. Talk a little bit about some of the products or services that you've seen or some of the trends that are most exciting to you. Susan Golden: The ones that are really catching my attention is new housing alternatives. Traditionally people thought everybody wanted to go to a senior retirement community, assisted living facility. And over 90% of adults want to age in what they call age in place. But their current home may not be ideal for them. It may have many steps. It may be too big. They may feel isolated. So, there are some new interesting housing companies, basically housing alternatives. And one is an example that came out of the Techstars Accelerator two years ago called Upside Home.And they rent apartments in buildings that are, multi-generational. Not just for old people. They fully furnish it so that it's compatible for an older adult. And this might be somebody who wants to spend three to six months in Florida or may want to get rid of their larger home. And it's no longer appropriate and have all the concierge type of products and services that come with apartment living, but they also have all the features that an older adult might need, including having access to caregiving as needed, transportation, food delivery. So, it's a really exciting new model that includes a variety of products. So, they started sort of like in one area and expanded to create a platform that provides now health services to those who live in their apartment complexes as well, which is really exciting. Home modification itself is a whole burgeoning industry. If people want to stay in their home. And so that it enables them to live longer and better and in a healthy way. That's one whole industry. And we're also seeing this in clothing and fashion. Whereas people let's say are active bike riders, but their current configuration of pockets and their clothing might not be ideal for their range of motion or if they have a rotator cuff issue. But you know, you could redesign it so that it meets the needs of an older adult. And that's just some of the things we're beginning to see as people look at a whole range of things. But education would be another whole burgeoning industry. I see a lot of great companies starting up as a way to help people find productive ways of staying engaged from a learning, but also contributing their talents.So older adults, teaching older adults. Older adults teaching younger. These are some really vibrant ways of creating community while somebody is aging in place to support them and make them feel very purposeful and connected. Which we know that social isolation, is one of the greatest risks of aging in your own home. And you have to stay connected in a purposeful way. And then helping older adults find work. Most older adults do want to work longer. They may not want to work in the same position for as many hours. They might want flexibility, but so to younger adults we're finding. And so, as a need very much so to help older adults get matched, where they can contribute and benefit society with all their talent and expertise and wisdom.Brian Ardinger: That's a great point. And we briefly talked about the fact that the workforce itself is changing, whether it's remote work or that. How do you see the corporate environment changing because of workforce and an age group that will be in the workforce for much longer? Susan Golden: I think companies that will do well, having a multi-generational workforce, will do so because they will have continuous learning opportunities for their entire workforce. Upskilling will be critical because things are changing so rapidly. There's a lot of companies right now that are offering wonderful “returnship” programs for people who do take care of giving breaks in particular, both men and women who may have been out anywhere from two years and more.And give them an opportunity to come back to the company they worked with. Retool, upskill, and then they're offered an opportunity to decide if they want to take a permanent position. And these are 16-week paid returnships. And this is happening in a lot of progressive forward-thinking companies.Companies are also providing upskilling just in terms of being financially literate. You cannot have successful aging if you've not planned for a longer life. And the financial services companies have done a particularly great job in this area. Not only for their clientele, Merrill Lynch is one company that I've written about that hired a financial gerontologists to help redesign their wealth management products. But also, to support their own employee. And have them planning for a much longer life.So, companies that do it, not just for the customer, but do it for their employees are the ones that are really going to distinguish themselves and utilize their multi-generational workforce to continue to modify products and services going forward that can benefit all sectors of the economy. Brian Ardinger: Absolutely. So, if I'm an entrepreneur out here listening to this broadcast, what are some of the resources or places to get more up to speed on this topic and others?Susan Golden: I would say, look at the book. And the book and in the appendix has a long list of accelerators, incubators, articles to read, and to familiarize yourself with all the design challenges, the industry newsletters, podcasts. It's a nascent industry, but it's still, most people don't know about it. So, I put in a long appendix with different resources. And check out the different accelerators like Tech Stars. ARP has an innovation lab, so you can see some of the companies that have been developed through these accelerators and launched. And get a flavor of where some of the needs are. But we don't know all the needs yet. This is new, old age is new. We don't know what everybody is going to need because there's going to be such diversity in aging. But we do know there's just a paucity of products and services to support healthy aging. And so that all people can live long lives with dignity and purpose. Brian Ardinger: We talked a little bit about the U S market and that. But are there other markets, obviously you hear about Japan and their aging population. Are there any insights that we can gain from looking at other countries and what they're doing when it comes to the population? Susan Golden: Yeah, I mean, some of the societies that have aged faster have a delayed retirement ages from mandatory retirement to much later. And I think that's a good practice. There's a lot of up-skilling that's going on in other countries. And the one that I mentioned earlier, digital literacy. Denmark does that. Israel does that. It's part of the fabric of respecting and integrating older adults into society. So, we can learn a lot from other countries. Singapore has a whole incubator around how to develop products and services to support longevity. And we have some very excellent programs happening on a state level. But we do not yet have national policies that fully support healthy aging, including paid family care leave acts because we need that people will need to take breaks for caregiving.There are 48 million unpaid caregivers in the United States. And many of them are women. And many of them have to take time off from their careers and then retool. Integrating that into a national strategy will be key to support healthy aging. Brian Ardinger: Well, Susan, I appreciate you coming on Inside Outside Innovation to share this new opportunity. It's going to be exciting times for sure. A lot of challenges, a lot of opportunities out there for folks to take a stab at. If people want to find out more about yourself or about the book Stage, Not Age, what's the best way to do that?Susan Golden: The website for the book is StageNotage.com and I welcome speaking and learning about any new opportunities that people may have.Brian Ardinger: Well, Susan, thank you again for coming on the podcast here. Super excited to see where this goes and looking forward to continuing the conversation. Susan Golden: Yeah, my pleasure. Thank you for having me.Brian Ardinger: That's it for another episode of Inside Outside Innovation. If you want to learn more about our team, our content, our services, check out InsideOutside.io or follow us on Twitter @theIOpodcast or @Ardinger. Until next time, go out and innovate.FREE INNOVATION NEWSLETTER & TOOLSGet the latest episodes of the Inside Outside Innovation podcast, in addition to thought leadership in the form of blogs, innovation resources, videos, and invitations to exclusive events. 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A former dean of Stanford Medical School and past leader at the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Phil Pizzo is as renowned for his groundbreaking research on childhood cancers and immunodeficiency as he is for his promotion of medical education. He is also a tireless scholar who continues pursuing knowledge and purpose deep into what many would consider the retirement years. In this episode, Dr. Pizzo shares what caring for children with some of the most harrowing diseases has taught him about courage, and how his creation of Stanford's Distinguished Careers Institute epitomizes his vision for longevity and philosophy of lifelong learning.In this episode, you will hear about: How Dr. Pizzo's love of learning and objection to the Vietnam War led him to a career in medicine - 2:00Teddy, a “boy in the bubble” whom Dr. Pizzo cared for and who profoundly shaped Dr. Pizzo's career and life philosophy - 5:54Leaning into the work of treating severe diseases, despite the realities of the deep suffering involved - 14:46The guiding principles behind Dr. Pizzo's time in leadership at the National Institutes of Health, Harvard Medical School, and Stanford Medical School - 20:01How Dr. Pizzo manages to maintain tranquility of mind and buoyancy of spirit over his long career, and why he created the Distinguished Careers Institute - 22:51The surprising next step in Dr. Pizzo's scholarly journey - 30:42Dr. Pizzo's advice to young people about the value of a habit of lifelong learning - 34:40Read more about Teddy DeVita, the “boy in the bubble” whom Dr. Pizzo cared for, in this Washington Post article.Visit our website www.TheDoctorsArt.com where you can find transcripts of all episodes.If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, and review our show, available for free on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you know of a doctor, patient, or anyone working in health care who would love to explore meaning in medicine with us on the show, feel free to leave a suggestion in the comments or send an email to info@thedoctorsart.com.Copyright The Doctor's Art Podcast 2022
For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode179 Description Have you ever felt stuck, lost, uninspired, or simply bored? When we've left a houseplant too long in a pot that's too small, the plant will eventually stop growing and die. We humans are not much different. In her new book, Repotting Your Life: Sense When You're Stuck. Explore What's Possible. Claim Room to Grow, author Frances Edmonds explores how we can look at our lives and see when we've become pot bound, or said another way, in need of growth and change. We're designed to grow and flourish. Sometimes the answer is to repot. Guest Bio Frances Edmonds has worked all over the world as an international conference interpreter, writer, broadcaster, keynote speaker, building contractor, and business development networker. Frances holds a master's degree in modern languages from Cambridge University and a fellowship from Stanford's Distinguished Careers Institute. A founding member, fellow, and award-winning speaker of the UK's prestigious Professional Speaking Association, Frances has worked extensively for national and independent TV and radio in the UK and Australia and has written for a wide range of publications on politics, sports, cross-cultural communication, longevity, and personal development. She speaks four languages and is fond of inventing additional words of her own. She divides her time between London and the South of France. Host Bio Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She's a certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/. Mentioned in this Episode Guest's book: Repotting Your Life: Sense When You're Stuck. Explore What's Possible. Claim Room to Grow: https://www.amazon.com/Repotting-Your-Life-Explore-Possible/dp/1615198717 Guest's website: https://www.francesedmonds.co.uk/ Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast Web: https://kristenmanieri.com Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenmanieri_/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kristenmanieri/
Welcome to "How To Be...", guiding you through life's tricky topics and skills by reading through the best books out there. Deepak Chopra says starting over is the knowledge that there is something better out there for you—even if you don't know what it is yet. It's about learning from the past and using it to propel you forward in a way you had never considered before. So how do you transform and start over again? Hence, I spoke to Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute fellow and Repotting Your Life author Frances Edmonds on how to turn over a new leaf, as well as other experts' books to see if their advice can help all of us. I also heard from others who have gained some mastery over themselves. Please hit subscribe to hear the whole series on life skills! It should be short and sweet. I look forward to journeying with you through this maze of hacks.
Ron Katz was a trial lawyer for over four decades. A Rhodes Scholar, in 2016 he was a Fellow at Stanford University‘s Distinguished Careers Institute. Barb and Bernie Silver, a/k/a the Sleuthing Silvers, are a Baby Boomer detective couple who specialize in cases where age is an edge. Imagine Nancy Drew married to one of the Hardy Boys 50 years later. In The Mystery of the Fatal Firing, they go undercover at a large high tech company to investigate the ultimate case of age discrimination: murder.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Ron Katz was a trial lawyer for over four decades. A Rhodes Scholar, in 2016 he was a Fellow at Stanford University‘s Distinguished Careers Institute. Barb and Bernie Silver, a/k/a the Sleuthing Silvers, are a Baby Boomer detective couple who specialize in cases where age is an edge. Imagine Nancy Drew married to one of the Hardy Boys 50 years later. In The Mystery of the Fatal Firing, they go undercover at a large high tech company to investigate the ultimate case of age discrimination: murder.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In this episode of Money Tales, our guest is Paula B. Pretlow. As she describes herself, Paula grew up poor and Black in Oklahoma. Her mom made a huge decision to place Paula and her siblings in a desegregated school with the edict that they will excel. And that is exactly what Paula did. She grew from a poor girl to a very financially successful woman. During the conversation, Paula shares what her relationship with money has been like over the course of her life, including her experience as the breadwinner of the family and ultimately, as a single mom. Among other things, during our conversation, Paula talks about her divorce. This inspired the financial insight at the end of the episode, where we explore an overview of the divorce process. Paula spent her entire career in finance and investment management. She retired from the field in 2011, following 11 years as a senior vice president with The Capital Group. While at Capital, she led the public fund team and managed her own client base, representing $700B+ in combined assets. Paula began her career at Wells Fargo Bank, before moving to GATX Capital, where she played a pioneering role in the creation of a secondary market in capital equipment leases and lease portfolios. She then transitioned to Wall Street, working on the bond desk at Credit Suisse and later moved into investment management with AXA Rosenberg and subsequently, BlackRock. She holds an MBA in finance and economics from Kellogg School of Management and a BA in political science from Northwestern University, and is a 2017 Fellow of Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute. Paula currently serves as a director and trustee on corporate and philanthropic boards, including Bitwise Industries, CION Ares Diversified Credit Fund, Northwestern University, The Kresge Foundation, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation and her synagogue, Congregation Emanu-El. She co-teaches design thinking at Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the “d.school”). Paula has been recognized with The Women's Legal Defense & Education Fund's Aiming High Award, the National Council of Jewish Women's Outstanding Humanitarian Award and The Foundation for Oklahoma City Public Schools' Wall of Fame Humanitarian Award. Her speaking appearances include Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences convocation and Groundbreakers: Women in Leadership Summit, where she shared the stage with Gloria Steinem and Ali Wentworth. Paula is currently writing stories about her life and has discovered a hidden talent: improv! See all episodes >
In this episode of Money Tales, our guest is Paula B. Pretlow. As she describes herself, Paula grew up poor and Black in Oklahoma. Her mom made a huge decision to place Paula and her siblings in a desegregated school with the edict that they will excel. And that is exactly what Paula did. She grew from a poor girl to a very financially successful woman. During the conversation, Paula shares what her relationship with money has been like over the course of her life, including her experience as the breadwinner of the family and ultimately, as a single mom. Among other things, during our conversation, Paula talks about her divorce. This inspired the financial insight at the end of the episode, where we explore an overview of the divorce process. Paula spent her entire career in finance and investment management. She retired from the field in 2011, following 11 years as a senior vice president with The Capital Group. While at Capital, she led the public fund team and managed her own client base, representing $700B+ in combined assets. Paula began her career at Wells Fargo Bank, before moving to GATX Capital, where she played a pioneering role in the creation of a secondary market in capital equipment leases and lease portfolios. She then transitioned to Wall Street, working on the bond desk at Credit Suisse and later moved into investment management with AXA Rosenberg and subsequently, BlackRock. She holds an MBA in finance and economics from Kellogg School of Management and a BA in political science from Northwestern University, and is a 2017 Fellow of Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute. Paula currently serves as a director and trustee on corporate and philanthropic boards, including Bitwise Industries, CION Ares Diversified Credit Fund, Northwestern University, The Kresge Foundation, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation and her synagogue, Congregation Emanu-El. She co-teaches design thinking at Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the “d.school”). Paula has been recognized with The Women's Legal Defense & Education Fund's Aiming High Award, the National Council of Jewish Women's Outstanding Humanitarian Award and The Foundation for Oklahoma City Public Schools' Wall of Fame Humanitarian Award. Her speaking appearances include Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences convocation and Groundbreakers: Women in Leadership Summit, where she shared the stage with Gloria Steinem and Ali Wentworth. Paula is currently writing stories about her life and has discovered a hidden talent: improv! Learn more about Money Tale$ > Subscribe to the podcast Recent episodes See all episodes > Form CRS Form ADV Terms of Use Privacy Rights and Policies
Kate Jerome is a seasoned publishing executive and award-winning children’s book author who has been positively influencing younger generations for decades. Kate’s vision for Little Bridges grew out of her experience at Stanford University’s Distinguished Careers Institute. During her year-long residency, Kate’s affiliation with Stanford’s Center on Longevity immersed her in the research which now informs her work. As an intergenerational product innovator, Kate turns theory into practice by developing books and activities that encourage connections and meaningful conversations between kids and their favorite adults.
Kate Jerome is a seasoned publishing executive and award-winning children’s book author who has been positively influencing younger generations for decades.Kate’s vision for Little Bridges grew out of her experience at Stanford University’s Distinguished Careers Institute. During her year-long residency, Kate’s affiliation with Stanford’s Center on Longevity immersed her in the research which now informs her work.As an intergenerational product innovator, Kate turns theory into practice by developing books and activities that encourage connections and meaningful conversations between kids and their favorite adults.
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With the pandemic raging and organizations in flux, is this any time to think about a vacation? In North America in particular, we have a mindset that taking vacations is a little bit lax and with the pandemic and its stresses that mindset is going into high gear. On top of that too, we can't really travel right now, so it seems like the right thing to do to put off vacations. But is it the right thing? We don't really need elaborate studies to tell us that working flat out is probably not the best way to get productivity higher. So what is the solution to that? That's the subject of our discussion today, with our guest coming down firmly on the side of taking time away from work, whatever the state of the world. Guest: Rebecca Zucker Partner, Next Step Partners As an expert in executive coaching and career development, Rebecca has coached leaders across the globe, from high-potential managers to C-level executives. Rebecca's clients include Amazon, Clorox, DocuSign, Dropbox, Expedia, First Republic Bank, Genentech, Google, The Irvine Foundation, Norwest Venture Partners, Nielsen, Morrison Foerster, The Skoll Foundation and Stanford's Distinguished Careers Institute, among other organizations. She is a...
Dr. Marsha Vande Berg, fellow with the Distinguished Careers Institute at Stanford University, talks about the significance and implication of the 2020 US presidential elections. We discuss the impact on domestic policy, ranging from the key outstanding issues in pandemic management, healthcare, inequality, climate change, infrastructure, and jobs. We talk about the persistent polarisation getting in the way of fundamental reforms time and again. We then shift to foreign and trade policy implications for China, North Asia, Asean, and India. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Lalita du Perron is joined virtually by theater personality Gauri Gupta, currently at Stanford through the Distinguished Careers Institute. They talk about virtual theater in the world of Covid, and the importance of language, poetry, and shared community. The Iqbal Bano ghazal which was meant to play at the end did not record, but you can access it here: https://youtu.be/xMHdvl7vGqs (https://youtu.be/xMHdvl7vGqs). Apologies for the technical glitches. Transcript available on request (email us at southasiainfo@stanford.edu). Please allow a week for transcript to become available.
In 2016, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, launched 100&Change—a new grant competition, that would award $100 million to an organization with the best proposal to help solve a critical social problem. The foundation awarded the grant to Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit that produces Sesame Street and other children’s educational programs, in partnership with the International Rescue Committee. The grant supports programming to educate young children displaced by conflict and persecution in the Middle East. MacArthur is now accepting applications for a second $100 million grant. In this episode, Priss Benbow, a fellow at Stanford’s Distinguished Careers Institute speaks with Cecilia Conrad, managing director at the MacArthur Foundation, who leads 100&Change. They cover the ins and outs of running a big bet competition, addressing the lack of diversity in philanthropic big bets, and a new spinoff organization working to match donors with promising proposals for social change. https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/macarthur_foundation_program_leader_reflects_on_lessons_from_100change_grant_competition
In 2016, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, launched 100&Change—a new grant competition, to award $100 million to an organization with the best proposal to help solve a critical social problem. In 2018, Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit that produces Sesame Street and other children’s educational programs, was named the winner in partnership with the International Rescue Committee. The grant supports programming to educate young children displaced by conflict and persecution in the Middle East. In this episode, Priss Benbow, a fellow at Stanford’s Distinguished Careers Institute, speaks with Sherrie Westin, president of Global Impact and Philanthropy at Sesame Workshop, about the process of applying to a “big bet” grant competition, developing new culturally appropriate Sesame Street characters, and how the two partner organizations will measure program impact. On our next episode, you’ll hear from Cecilia Conrad, who leads 100&Change, to get the grantmaker’s perspective. https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/sesame_workshop_winner_of_100change_grant_competition_discusses_whats_next
We too often set limiting beliefs that hold us back on our careers, teams, and business strategies. Executive coach Rebecca Zucker joins us to uncover the lifelong skill of personal development which leaders often neglect. In this episode we uncover how to set time and space to reflect, what happens in adult development, and the ‘Immunity To Change’ methodology. As co-founder of Next Step Partners, Rebecca has over 17 years experience in executive coaching, and leadership and career development. Coaching a range of leaders, from high-potential managers to C-level executives, Rebecca’s clients include Amazon, Dropbox, eBay, Expedia, First Republic Bank, Google, The Hewlett Foundation, Nielsen and Stanford’s Distinguished Careers Institute. She runs workshops on leadership and career development, and is a contributor to Harvard Business Review and Forbes.com. She is also the author of the Next Step Partners Career Handbook for Working Professionals – a resource that is used by schools like Stanford Business School, MIT, and Tuck. Links mentioned in this show: Next Step Partners Career Handbook for Working Professionals ‘Immunity to Change’ by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey https://NextStepPartners.com Hosted by Gillian Davis, co-author 'First Time Leader; Foundational Tools to Inspire and Enable Your New Team' this podcast is to inspire managers to step up and lead their teams. We talk to those on the front line and get managers to share what has worked, what hasn't and what resources they have tried and tested. This podcast is powered by OverTime an agency that helps new leaders build great teams, products and, companies. For more information, visit www.OverTimeLeader.com.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, more than 65 million people around the world have been forced from home—the highest levels of displacement on record. In her recent SSIR article, “Let Refugees Be Their Own Solution,” Emily Arnold-Fernandez, executive director of the nonprofit Asylum Access, and Brian Rawson, the organization’s associate director of advocacy and communication, make the case that better policies in host countries can enable refugees to rebuild their own lives and contribute to host economies. Priss Benbow, a fellow at Stanford’s Distinguished Careers Institute, interviews Arnold-Fernandez about what enabling environments look like in practice and how nonprofits and other social sector players can help create them. Additional resources:@EDAsylumAccess https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/creating_enabling_environments_for_refugees