Episodes

Listen to the episode below — or subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Stitcher, Google Play, TuneIn, and other podcast apps — just search within the app for "Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good." Find other recent episodes here. We need to talk about the state of democracy. It’s going through a crisis we thought we could never see in America. And yet serious … [Read more...] about Saving Democracy: Bipartisan Views from Presidential Campaigns, Congress, National Media & More

Listen to the episode below — or subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Stitcher, Google Play, TuneIn, and other podcast apps. Find other recent episodes here. Joe Sanberg grew up in poverty, raised for much of his childhood by a single mother who worked hard but still struggled to secure food and shelter. With scholarships and financial aid, he was able to get into … [Read more...] about Joe Sanberg: We Can — And Must — End Poverty in 30 Years

Listen to the episode below — or with Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Stitcher, Google Play, TuneIn, and other podcast apps. Find other recent episodes here. Drew Train was a rising star on Madison Avenue, working at the legendary J Walter Thompson agency for clients like HSBC, one of the biggest banks in the world. But at night, he was going to Occupy Wall Street … [Read more...] about Find a Purpose or Face the Pitchforks: This Ad Agency Bets on Doing What’s Right

Listen to the episode below — or with iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, TuneIn, and other podcast apps. Find other recent episodes here. Automation is taking over more and more jobs that used to be held by humans. Meanwhile for the jobs people still do, wages have been flat for decades, as productivity gains have been going to the top of the economy, not the bottom or … [Read more...] about What If Everyone Were Guaranteed a Paycheck?

Listen to the episode below — or with iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, TuneIn, and other podcast apps. Find other recent episodes here.   We’re used to thinking of words and images as the things we use to describe reality. But they make reality too. Nowhere is that more true than in America, which was literally created from ideas. And ever since, great … [Read more...] about How to Communicate for Impact: Lessons from Presidents, CEOs & the Grassroots