Ep 211. Latha Poonamallee: Mindfulness and Leadership in a Changing World

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Latha Poonamallee is an Associate Professor, Chair of Faculty of
Management, and University Fellow at the New School in New York City. She
and Stew discuss her new book, Expansive Leadership: Cultivating
Mindfulness to Lead Self and Others in a Changing World. Latha explains
that meditation and mindfulness are tools that can change how we do
business and are part of a new way to lead us to a better, more equitable
world and how technology can be harnessed for good…[Click for more]

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Ep 210. Jason Thacker: A Banking Executive on Paternity Leave

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Jason Thacker is a Senior Vice President of TD Bank Group and Head of
Credit Cards and Unsecured Lending. He started his career in brand
management at Procter & Gamble as the company’s youngest global expatriate,
leading priority brands in both the US and Canada. Jason holds an MBA from
The Wharton School and an HBA from the Ivey Business School. Jason has been
recognized as one of Canada’s Top 40 under 40, The Wharton School’s 40
under 40 and P&G’s Global Alumni under 40. Stew talks with Jason about his
career, his recent paternity leave, its impact on his work, and the impact
of fatherhood on his career…[Click for more]

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Ep 209. Lauren Smith Brody: The Fifth Trimester

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Lauren Smith Brody is the founder of The Fifth Trimester and author of the
bestselling book The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom’s Guide to Style,
Sanity, and Success After Baby. She was previously the executive editor of
Glamour magazine. Stew talks with Lauren about practical advice for working
mothers following their children’s arrival…[Click for more]

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Ep 208. Jason Harris: The Soulful Art of Persuasian

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Jason Harrisis is CEO of the creative agency Mekanism, which has been named
to Ad Age’s Agency A-list and twice to their Best Places to Work. He’s the
author of a recent book, The Soulful Art of Persuasion. Jason has been
named in the Top 10 Most Influential Social Impact Leaders, as well as the
4A’s list of “100 People Who Make Advertising Great.” His methods are
studied in cases at Harvard Business School. Stew talks with Jason about
building a trusting workplace culture and strengthening your reputation and
your market power through persuasion, though Jason’s take on persuasion is
not what most people think about when they picture what it means to be
persuasive..[Click for more]

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Ep 207. Liya Shuster-Bier: Alula is Making Cancer Less Lonely

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Liya Shuster-Bier is the founder and CEO of Alula, a radically honest
platform for cancer patients, caregivers, and survivors. She is a cancer
survivor herself. Prior to Alula, Liya built a career in community
development and impact investing, partnering with mayors and governors
across the country to create innovative financing solutions that improved
community outcomes. Stew talks with Liya about her inspiring leadership
story of transforming an excruciating pain in your life into something of
value to others…[Click for more]

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Ep 206. Erica Dhawan: Digital Body Language

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Erica Dhawan is author of Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and
Connection No Matter the Distance and co-author of Get Big Things Done. She
is also the Founder and CEO of Cotential. She was named by Thinkers50 as
“The Oprah of Management Ideas” and featured as one of the Top 20
Management Experts around the world by GlobalGurus. Stew talks with Erica
about her latest book and Erica shares lots of practical advice such as
when to write in all caps, with whom to use emojis, how to negotiate
ambiguous time-to-respond issues, how to respond to passive aggressive
emails…[Click for more]

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Ep 205. Katy Milkman: The Science of How to Change

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Katy Milkman is an award-winning behavioral scientist and the James G.
Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
She hosts Charles Schwab’s popular behavioral economics podcast Choiceology
and is the co-founder and co-director of The Behavior Change for Good
Initiative, a research center at the University of Pennsylvania with the
mission of advancing the science of lasting behavior change. This work is
being chronicled by Freakonomics Radio. Stew talks with Katy about her new
book, How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You
Want to Be. Katy shares her very practical advice about how to craft a way
to get things done that is tailored to your own particular stumbling
blocks…[Click for more]

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Ep 204. Jordan Shapiro: How to Be a Feminist Dad

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Jordan Shapiro is the author of Father Figure: How to Be a Feminist Dad.;
senior fellow for the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop;
Nonresident Fellow in the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings
Institution; and his previous book is The New Childhood: Raising Kids To
Thrive in a Connected World. Stew talks with Jordan about fatherhood in the
modern world, dilemmas, stigmas…[Click for more]

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Ep 203. Joann Lublin: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life

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Joann Lublin was management news editor for The Wall Street Journal until
she retired in April 2018, and she is still a regular Journal contributor.
She shared a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for stories about corporate scandals
and was awarded the 2018 Lifetime Achievement from the Loeb Awards, the
highest accolade in business journalism. Stew and Joann discuss her new
book — Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life — which
explores the emotional and professional challenges women face as they try
to move forward in their careers while raising a family…[Click for more]

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