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What can we learn about Sustainable Ambition from amazing women who are changing the world?Today I'm talking with Lauren Schiller and Hadley Dynak about their new book, It's a Good Day to Change the World: Inspiration and Advice for a Feminist Future. The women in the book are taking on the seemingly intractable problems of our world and creating change one step at a time and there is so much we can learn from these stories and from the women who brought us the book.Learn more about Lauren Schiller: Inflection Point Instagram: @inflectionpointradio Facebook: @inflectionpointradio Learn more about Hadley Dynak:Peak86Thanks for Listening!If you liked this episode, please rate, review, and share the episode. Thank you so much!Get show notes for this episode at https://sustainableambition.com/podcastSend me a voice note, ideas for what you'd like to hear on the podcast, or a question that might be read and answered here on the show! Go to: https://bit.ly/sapodcast-askOr simply send an email here: podcast@SustainableAmbition.comSign up for my curated bi-weekly Sustainable Ambition Forum newsletter at: https://sustainableambition.com/subscribe
Lauren Schiller lives in the East Bay. You may know her as the host of KALW's Inflection Point. Her book, It's A Good Day to Change the World, is a guidebook for a feminist future. It was written with Hadley Dynak and it came out on February 28th, 2023.
Planting trees can do a lot more than just clean our air. Today, we go to San Francisco's Bayview to learn about its many benefits. Then, award-winning journalist Lauren Schiller's new book asks: Is feminism inclusive? Plus, one man's world came crashing down, and his wife and his faith helped him literally rise back up from the bed.
For more than thirty years, Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in our minds. His many acclaimed titles include How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and The Botany of Desire. In his recent essay collection, This is Your Mind on Plants, Pollan takes a deep dive into three psychoactive plants: opium, caffeine, and mescaline. Pollan co-founded the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics. The center combines research, training, and public education to explore the psychological and biological effects of psychedelics on cognition, perception and emotion. Pollan was interviewed on stage at the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco on July 26, 2022, by Lauren Schiller. She is the co-author of the forthcoming book It's a Good Day to Change the World, and the creator and host of Inflection Point, an award-winning podcast and public radio show about how women rise up, build power and lead change.
Great news! We have a new book coming out based on Inflection Point interviews, called It's a Good Day to Change the World! To give you a peek inside every Tuesday, throughout Women's History Month, we're bringing you a special short segment we produced with KALW San Francisco about how we can build a more feminist future–and take care of ourselves and each other along the way. You'll hear inspiring firsthand stories and get practical tools from trailblazers for how to create an equal, just and joyful world. First episode airs on February 28th. Lauren Schiller and co-author Hadley Dynak will be at bookstores around the Bay Area and in Park City, NYC and Milwaukee throughout March. Learn more, find an event near you, and get the book at itsagooddaybook.com. Thank you to our Bay Area launch sponsors: Donkey & Goat Winery - A woman made winery and Berkeley, CA's first natural winery Hello!Lucky Almanac Beer Slanted Door
As new information emerges about the impacts of social media and screens on young people, so do new strategies to guide and protect teens. Our guests, Harvard University researchers Emily Weinstein and Carrie James, set out to try and understand more about this complex and complicated issue. Their years of research included interviews with over 3500 teens. And much of what they found - from the teens' own fears and concerns, to the unique ways in which they use technology, is surprising. On October twelfth, 2022 Emily Weinstein and Carrie James talked to Lauren Schiller at KQED studios in San Francisco about their new book “Behind Their Screens: What Teens are Facing (and Adults are Missing).”
For more than thirty years, Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in our minds. His many acclaimed titles include How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and The Botany of Desire. In his recent essay collection, This is Your Mind on Plants, Pollan takes a deep dive into three psychoactive plants: opium, caffeine, and mescaline. Pollan co-founded the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics. The center combines research, training, and public education to explore the psychological and biological effects of psychedelics on cognition, perception and emotion. Pollan was interviewed on stage at the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco on July 26, 2022, by Lauren Schiller. She is the co-author of the forthcoming book It's a Good Day to Change the World, and the creator and host of Inflection Point, an award-winning podcast and public radio show about how women rise up, build power and lead change.
Journalist Jacob Ward of NBC News talks about our growing reliance on artificial intelligence. His new book is “The Loop: How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices, and How to Fight Back”. He draws on interviews with over 100 scientists, as well as his own reporting on behavior shaping technology. It's both an investigation into the negative effects of artificial intelligence and a plan for combating them. On March 15, 2022, Jacob Ward talked with Lauren Schiller, host of the radio show and podcast “Inflection Point”.
Today, I'm joined by the duo behind OGBFF, Lauren Schiller & Angela Ruis. Lauren and Angela share how they launched their brand in 2020 and have grown exponentially since then. They share the stories behind some of their most iconic drops, how they've navigated the fashion industry, their nostalgia for the early 2000s, and what's next for OGBFF. Listen in to hear how these Instagram-turned-real-life BFFs turned a thrifted t-shirt with a custom graphic printed on it into a whole trend and where they're going from here. Today, Lauren, Angela and I talk about: How Lauren and Angela came together to start OGBFF Where the name OGBFF came from The office dynamics of a DIY fashion brand Plans for category expansion Lauren and Angela's advice for how to get your creative idea out there Where they draw inspiration from Tips for keeping marketing organic, but powerful “I think what's way more important than having consistent views is having consistent content that you want to be making.” #MAYFAIRWORLD **GIVEAWAY** You could win a Mayfair Set & OGBFF Baby Tee! Here's how: Follow @themayfairgroup and @ogbff on Instagram, Like and save the post (P.S. it's a reel!) Tag your BFF in the comments Leave a podcast review on Apple Podcasts for an extra entry The winner will be chosen on [3/14]! Get In Touch With Angela and Lauren Follow OGBFF on Instagram HERE Follow Angela on Instagram HERE Follow Lauren on Instagram HERE Shop OGBFF HERE MERCH: We are offering 20% off with the code MAYFAIRWORLD. Shop our latest drop HERE. Want More From Mayfair? Follow Sam on Instagram HERE Follow The Mayfair Group on Instagram HERE Shop The Mayfair Group HERE TEXT 81247 for exclusive updates! By signing up via text, you agree to receive recurring automated promotional and personalized marketing text messages (e.g. cart reminders) from Mayfair Merch at the cell number used when signing up. Consent is not a condition of any purchase. Reply HELP for help and STOP to cancel. Msg frequency varies. Msg & data rates may apply. View Terms {http://attn.tv/mayfairmerch/terms.html} & Privacy {https://attnl.tv/legal/p/Vii} This podcast is produced by Nikki Butler Media
Listen to a conversation between Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want to Talk About Race, and Lauren Schiller of Inflection Point on the dangers of white feminism and what actions we can take to dismantle systemic racism.
Brave, Not Perfect is sharing an episode from Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller this week highlighting a young climate activist fighting to save our planet. Isha Clarke is an activist with Youth vs Apocalypse. You may know her from a viral video where she asked Senator Dianne Feinstein to move the Green New Deal forward; she helped organize the youth Climate Strike in San Francisco that attracted 30,000 students, during the international "week of action" when Greta Thurnberg sailed to America. She is a high school student working every day to reverse the climate crisis because as she says..." we have this power and responsibility to make this radical change. And I hope that everyone listening will get involved and know that they have the power to do something." Listen and subscribe to Inflection Point: https://apple.co/38I6dK9 Follow Inflection Point on Twitter: https://bit.ly/2NZmArV Read the transcript for the interview: https://bit.ly/2Z1DEDW Learn more about Youth vs. Apocalypse: http://youthvsapocalypse.org/ Follow Youth vs Apocalypse on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3iDjk3u --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bravenotperfect/message
In this episode I hand over the reins to Lauren Schiller, host of Inflection Point. In this show she and writer Ruth Whippman (a fellow Brit) discuss the very American idea that if you just try hard enough, you can get pretty much anything you want - from a better figure to a better job. But Ruth says self-belief plus a few girl power T-shirts and social media slogans do not an equal society make. Tune in to hear Lauren and Ruth discuss what needs to change for 'empowerment' to lead to real power. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
How do we change our hearts and minds? What moves us to shift our political worldviews, transcend extremism, and make other kinds of transformative change? That's the $64 million dollar question that gave birth to Reckonings. And that's the question I explore with lessons learned *from* Reckonings -- in this bonus episode with Inflection Point's Lauren Schiller. Check out additional interviews featuring yours truly: reckonings.show/press.html Connect: • Inflection Point — a show about how women rise up: https://www.inflectionpointradio.org • Neighbors — a podcast showcasing our common humanity: https://bit.ly/neighpod • Infinite Lunchbox — Reckonings’ sister show: https://www.youtube.com/c/infinitelunchbox • Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephlepp • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/stephlepp
Spurred by and thanks to https://www.adamgrant.net/originals, I dive into strategic procrastination and stories, including methods, anecdotes, and moments about that. Workshops, YayStorms, #oratoricalfragments. And contrasting that with “first/most important things first.” Listen to the whole thing...why? Because toward the end I walk through an immersive strategic discovery understanding process co-created with Frances Hoover and Colm Lynch and how that grew and built for The Philadelphia School. #sharetheyay. If that's your jam! Extra #Shoutouts to Lauren Schiller and https://www.inflectionpointradio.org and https://barbarawaxman.com + https://abettermonday.co. https://www.storyandspirit.org, https://animas.org/books/nature-and-the-human-soul/, https://onbeing.org/programs/alison-gopnik-the-evolutionary-power-of-children-and-teenagers/ Alison Gopnik, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bechdel-cast/id1180733925?i=1000464111294. Plus https://www.abraham-hicks.com/book-excerpt-the-law-of-attraction/ + https://www.amycuddy.com and more friends and collabs mentioned on the show I'm in my life!! #NamasYay
Host Katherine Goldstein is joined live on stage at Betabrand in San Francisco by Inflection Point's Lauren Schiller and Hana Baba from The Stoop podcast. We discuss the mental load, cross cultural pressures on mothers, and of course saying “F*ck it” to mom guilt.
Host Katherine Goldstein is joined live on stage at Betabrand in San Francisco by Inflection Point’s Lauren Schiller and Hana Baba from The Stoop podcast. We discuss the mental load, cross cultural pressures on mothers, and of course saying “F*ck it” to mom guilt. Thanks: Thirdlove: Go to Thirdlove.com/doubleshift for 15% off your first order of your perfect-fitting bra. Don’t forget to become a member of The Double Shift! Go to www.thedoubleshift.com/join. You can now gift a membership, too.
New York Times Op-Ed columnist Gail Collins explores how attitudes toward older women have shifted in America over the centuries. Hear why women can, and should, expect the best of their golden years.
If you loved Ep. 10 on family leave, check out this episode of Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller, a show about how women rise up. She’s joined by Katie Bethell, founder of Paid Leave for the US, who shares stories and strategies for getting paid leave for all by 2022. Listen to Inflection Point for more great interviews. Katherine’s coming to the Bay area! Get tix to F*ck Mom Guilt Live! Oakland on Aug 14th, SF on Aug 15th.
If you loved Ep. 10 on family leave, check out this episode of Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller, a show about how women rise up. She's joined by Katie Bethell, founder of Paid Leave for the US. Katherine's coming to the Bay area! Get tix to F*ck Mom Guilt Live! Oakland Aug 14th https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fck-mom-guilt-world-tour-with-the-double-shift-in-oakland-tickets-65054768564, SF Aug 15th https://www.eventbrite.com/e/betabrand-podcast-theatre-fck-mom-guilt-tickets-64385208893?aff=erelexpm
'In writing this apology, I moved him from monster to apologist…and in doing that, he lost power over me.' That's Eve Ensler, talking about her recent *masterpiece* of a book, The Apology. In it, she imagines the apology her father never gave her for the abuse he inflicted on her as a child. It echoes the imaginary Pope in Reckonings episode #22 — except that Ensler did it for her own father. Ensler was recently interviewed about the book by Lauren Schiller on Inflection Point, and their conversation had SO MUCH resonance to Reckonings, that I'm bringing it to you right here, in the feed. Enjoy! And when you're done, please tell Eve that she'd enjoy Reckonings — on Instagram @TheApology :)
This season Lauren introduces you to the “radical” people who are reshaping the systems as we know them--to get us closer to an equal society. New episodes every other Wednesday. Support our production with a tax deductible contribution. Click here. You contribute. We produce more episodes. Change happens.
On this week’s 51%, we’ll listen to a conversation with the youngest female founder and CEO to take a company public. At age 35, Stitch Fix founder Katrina Lake became the youngest female founder and CEO to take a company public, and it happened in 2017. Online personal styling company Stitch Fix is now worth […]
It’s 2018 and women are more empowered than ever. But how do we turn that into actual power? We’re living in the era of the Women’s March, #MeToo, the surge of women in politics and t-shirts proclaiming “the future is female.” Then again, Roe vs Wade is under threat of being overturned, confessed sexual harassers get standing ovations at comedy clubs, and female political candidates of all parties are threatened and harassed on a daily basis. This season, the podcast Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller is taking a journey into the whole “empowerment” thing and how that turns into actual power. Lauren will go way past the buzzwords, asking questions like: How did we get to the double standards women live with today? Are women-only spaces preparing women for leadership... or are they keeping women cloistered? Is there a place in the world where women, especially women of color, genuinely have power without living on the margins? And explore what’s possible when women are really in charge… And what can go wrong… Check out the new season of *Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller *from KALW and PRX. And subscribe! inflectionpointradio.org
Talking with Fay Zenoff was so much fun and time flew by. She's grounded and very spiritual person. It's clear her recovery has settled into every cell of her body and her soul radiates this peace that is contagious. I look forward to meeting her IRL when I finally make my way to NorCal. Fay Zenoff is the driving spirit behind the emergence of the Center for Open Recovery (COR). Since being hired as the Executive Director for The National Council on Alcoholism and other Drug Addictions-Bay Area, in 2014, she has led the evolution of the 60-year old, San Francisco-based, non-profit – from that of a local direct-service provider to become a nationally recognized recovery advocacy organization focused on ending the stigma of addiction and championing life in recovery. Fay's work, views, and personal experiences have been the subject of articles and interviews in the New York Times, Bloomberg Business Week, The California Report, KQED's Perspectives, Lauren Schiller's Inflection Point, The Fix, Facing Addiction's docu-series Out of the Shadows/Addiction Across America, Marin Magazine and others. She has been a speaker for private and public organizations, and an interviewed guest on radio shows and podcasts. She is the 2016 recipient of Constellation Behavioral Health's Courage Award for her work in the addiction and mental health fields. Fay earned an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. Fay lives in Marin, has two daughters, a dog named Nilla and loves to hike, bike, xc-ski and SUP. Fay has been sober and in recovery since 2007. To connect with Fay: * Website: www.openrecoverysf.org * Facebook: Open Recovery San Francisco * Twitter: @openrecovery * Instagram: @openrecoverysf * LinkedIn: Fay Zenoff * Email: fay@openrecoverysf.org
Conversations with women rising up and making history—and how you can too. It’s time for some tough conversations about what women are up against right now and what to do about it. So how can everyday women and men rise up and make true equality happen? On Inflection Point I’m joined by experts and policy makers; authors and activists who are pounding on doors and breaking them down...And calling it out when something’s not right. These are the tough conversations women are having, but everyone needs to hear. On Inflection Point you’ll hear honest, powerful stories that will help you see the world with a little more promise. And you’ll come away with ideas you can apply to your own life. Hit that Subscribe button and don’t miss a single episode of Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller.
“Hey.” “Going to the supermarket, want me to get you anything?” “Puppies or ice cream?” “What’s your glasses prescription?” “I wanna ***** your *********.” If you’ve used a dating app, maybe you’ve received one of the above messages from a stranger, or sent them. Striking up an interaction with someone is a tricky business. Why Oh Why and Longest Shortest Time host Andrea Silenzi opens up her phone to analyse the kinds of opening messages people send on dating apps, and how easily they can land badly. Find out more about this episode at http://theallusionist.org/hey, and hear Andrea hosting The Longest Shortest Time podcast on your podblasters of choice. Content note: this episode contains a couple of instances of Adult Language and references to Adult Behaviours. Today’s sponsors are Squarespace – try it out at http://squarespace.com, and when you sign up, use the offer code ALLUSION – and Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller which you can hear on all the podcatchers and at https://www.inflectionpointradio.org. The Allusionist is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX, a collective of the best podcasts on the interwaves. Hear them all at http://radiotopia.fm. The show’s online home is http://theallusionist.org. Stay in touch at http://twitter.com/allusionistshow and http://facebook.com/allusionistshow.
Merriam-Webster declared that the word for 2017 is 'feminism.' The term was the most-looked-up on their online dictionary, and there were 70% more searches for the word this year than in 2016. Trey feels this couldn’t be more timely because this year, he’s seen women effecting a change in the balance of power in ways that he’s never experienced before. In a way, he sees the whole thing like an earthquake that’s been a long time in coming. He’s trying to wrap his mind around what the New Year might hold for the sexual misconduct “tsunami” the earthquake has unleashed. To try to get a handle on all of this, Trey sits down with his friends Lauren Schiller of the *Inflection Point *podcast and Nancy Giles of the CBS Sunday Morning Show and The Giles Files podcast.
Two women who emigrated to the US from Asia and both became writers talk to guest presenter Lauren Schiller in San Francisco about their 'messy' relationship with language, their rejection of the American Dream, and how they're trying to break free from labels. Barbara Jane Reyes is a poet, whose work explores language, culture and identity. She was born in Manila in the Philippines, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She started writing seriously as a student - when there were very few writers who were voicing her own immigrant experience. She now teaches Philippine Studies at the University of San Francisco and is the author of four books of poetry. She is due to publish her fifth collection, Invocation to Daughters, later this year. Yiyun Li is an award-winning writer. She grew up in Beijing, and moved to the US when she was in her early 20s to study immunology. It was after she had arrived in Iowa and adopted English as her own language that she decided to make the leap from science to creative writing. She has published four works of fiction, and numerous essays. Her latest book is called 'Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life' and it was written while she grappled with depression and was finding solace in other writers. Yiyun teaches creative writing at UC Davis. Image: Barbara Jane Reyes (left) (credit: Oscar Bermeo) and Yiyun Li (right) (credit: Roger Turesson)
LGBT women from different generations in San Francisco talk to guest presenter Lauren Schiller about their sexuality, the city and the changes they've seen in society over the years. Kate Kendell has been described as America's 'Head Lesbian'. She is Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, which fights for the legal rights of LGBT people. She grew up in a Mormon family in Utah, and says that when she moved to San Francisco in 1994 her life went 'from monochrome to Kodachrome.' Kate was heavily involved for the fight for equal marriage in California, and married her own long-time partner Sandy in 2008. They have three children. Robyn Exton founded a dating app for lesbian, bisexual and queer women in London in 2013, but two years ago she relocated to San Francisco to be closer to her investors. She also relaunched the app under the name Her - and it's now available in 55 countries. For Robyn, San Francisco has much to offer as a tech hub, but less in terms of the nightlife and parties she enjoys. She says the city is no longer the gay mecca it once was - and she is sad about the demise of the lesbian bar. Image: (L) Robyn Exton. Credit: Helena Price. Image: (R) Kate Kendell. Credit: NCLR.
Ruth Whippman, the author of "America The Anxious: How our Pursuit of Happiness is Making us a Nation of Nervous Wrecks," talks with Lauren Schiller, host of the Inflection Point radio show and podcast, about America's happiness industry and why we're not getting our money's worth.
"Inflection Point" host Lauren Schiller talks with Alex Bernadotte, Founder of Beyond 12 who shares how she is helping underserved students succeed in college.
"Inflection Point" host Lauren Schiller talks with Revolution Foods co-Founders Kristin Richmond and Kirsten Tobey.