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Integrate your Values into Your Job with Yesh Pavlik Slenk Feb 07, 2023

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On the podcast Degrees: Real Talk About Planet Saving Careers Yesh Pavlik Slenk talks with everyone from storytellers to songwriters, city leaders to sustainability gurus and former White House staffers about their paths to solving the world’s biggest problems. Our guests share how they got where they are, so others (like you) can follow in their footsteps and join their changemaker ranks.

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Excising Passion from Work with Jeannie Yandel

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You Don't Have to Forgive Them with Carmen Rita Wong Feb 02, 2023

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Carmen Rita Wong is the author of the memoir, Why Didn't You Tell Me? She was the co-creator and television host of On the Money on CNBC and was a national advice columnist for Glamour, Latina, Men’s Health, and Good Housekeeping. Wong is the author of a series of novels and two bestselling advice books. She is the founder and CEO of Malecon Productions, LLC, where she develops female-focused media and entertainment. She lives in Manhattan with her daughter.

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Establish Boundaries from the Beginning with Alexis Haselberger Jan 31, 2023

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Alexis Haselberger helps people do more and stress less! Learn more about her coaching practice here.

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An Achievable Dream with Rebecca Lehrer Jan 26, 2023

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Rebecca Lehrer is the co-founder and CEO of The Mash-Up Americans. She has spent 18+ years doing strategy, marketing, and audience development in media, arts, and culture (Director of BD at New York Public Radio, The Flea Theater, Headlands Center for the Arts, Righteous Persons Foundation) and has over 12 years experience in audio and podcasting. Her work focuses on the shared cultural experiences that bring people together and re-centering stories on voices you don’t usually hear. She earned an MBA at the Yale School of Management and a BA in English at Columbia University. You can find her in Los Angeles, where she’s never out of hummus, hot sauce, and olives.

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Splay Like a Starfish with Amy Choi Jan 24, 2023

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Amy Choi is co-founder and editorial director of The Mash-Up Americans. A Korean-American married to a Colombian-Mexican-American, she is mom to two feisty Korombexican-Americans: in other words, The Future of America.

LISTEN TO GRIEF, COLLECTED FROM THE MASH-UP AMERICANS!

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Move Through the Day Like an Octopus and Three Other Provocations with Shara Nova Jan 19, 2023

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Shara Nova, a classically trained vocalist and self-taught multi-instrumentalist who records dazzling, shapeshifting music as My Brightest Diamond, has always felt like an outsider. Over the course of many albums, she has resisted the conventions of genre, blending elements of rock, art pop, and chamber music into a sound totally her own.

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PAST ADVICE FROM BRILLIANT MUSICIANS

Slowing Down with Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee

Being Close with Michael Franti

Not Knowing with Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards

Planting Seeds with Matt Berninger of The National

Facing the Truth with Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station

Sharing from a Deep Well of Knowledge with Daniel Messé of Hem

Power Hour with Jon London

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How to Transmute Anger and Rage with jackie sumell Jan 17, 2023

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jackie sumell's work has been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe, including at the American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore; Brooklyn Library Main Branch; The Royal College of Art, London; Artist's Space, New York; Akademie Schloss-Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany; St. Etienne Biennial, France; Alternator Gallery, British Columbia; Prospect 1, New Orleans, and ZKM, Germany. Her residencies and awards include the Blade of Grass-David Rockefeller Fund Joint Fellow in Criminal Justice; the Robert Rauschenberg Artist-As-Activist Fellowship; Eyebeam Project Fellowship, and the Akademie Solitude Fellowship (2018). An ardent public speaker and prison abolitionist, sumell has lectured in colleges and universities around the U.S.

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The Angola 3

Solitary Gardens

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The Generative Benefits of Investivating Your Shame with Heather Radke Jan 12, 2023

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Heather Radke is the author of Butts: A Backstory. Part deep dive reportage, part personal journey, part cabinet of curiosities, Butts is an entertaining, illuminating, and thoughtful examination of why certain silhouettes come in and out of fashion—and how larger ideas about race, control, liberation, and power affect our most private feelings about ourselves and others.

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Measure Your Body with Scott Witthoft Jan 10, 2023

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Scott Witthoft is an educator, designer, and author of the book, This is a Prototype. With a background in forensic structural engineering, he incorporates that expertise with current pursuits in space, furniture, and product design—teaching and speaking widely.

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A Spiral Year: 23 voices on change, purpose and meaning Dec 29, 2022

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Today's episode featured Rabbi Yoni Dahlen, Dr. Erika Bocknek, Michael Franti, Jaye Johnson, Shari Colton, Eric Colton, Caveh Zahedi, Rob Walker, Jessi Hempel, Kevin Kelly, Dan Messé, Ned Specktor, Holly Wren Spaulding, Jo Strausz Rosen, Erica Heilman, Grace Bonney, Rikke Houde, Laura Hawley, Lucy Anderton

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