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Meet the author of "Rad Women Worldwide," Kate Schatz. She tells us why she is vocal about being a feminist, and we discuss how her books are changing perceptions about who gets to go down in history as extraordinary. Listen to our conversation on iTunes or NPR One.
KATE SCHATZ
Liberal activist Joan Blades co-founded MoveOn.org, Moms Rising.org and Living Room Conversations.org, to provide a guide for meaningful conversations between people with different views. Now, she has teamed up with Republican John Gable on an initiative called AllSides for Schools to bring civilized conversations about controversial topics to the classroom. We talk about why students need these tools now and what these conversations were like in high school for Joan and John.
JOAN BLADES
JOHN GABLE
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How do we make space for innovation in our personal and professional lives? Move from a productivity-based metric to one that makes room for other measures of success. Amy Whitaker has written the book "Art Thinking. How to carve out creative space in a world of schedules, budgets and bosses." She tells us how a major shift in her personal life led her from business school to art school--and ultimately to write this book.
AMY WHITAKER
Photo by: Sheiva Rezvani
Meet one woman leading the charge to literally change the face of technology by bringing in more women and people of color to the industry--starting as early as elementary school. Roz Hudnell is VP of Corporate Affairs at Intel, and President of Intel Foundation. She is also one of the few senior African-American women at the company--and she is on a mission to change that too.
A clarification from the intro to this piece: Intel’s $300 million Diversity in Technology initiative aims to achieve full representation of women and underrepresented minorities in its U.S. workforce by 2020. In addition, Intel has the goal of achieving $1 billion in annual spending by 2020 with diverse suppliers.
Roz Hudnell
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Morgan Shanahan, a founding editor of BuzzFeed Parents makes visitors laugh daily about parenting challenges, yet she has suffered from maternal mental illness for most of her child's life. She tells us this is the "number one complication of pregnancy" and shares her story to help others who may be experiencing the same--as well as explains how this has helped her create some of the funniest content on the parenting internet.
MORGAN SHANAHAN
We've heard a lot about making things easier for families this election season, but the cost of childcare is still higher than college tuition in some states. Vivien Labaton has founded an advocacy organization called Make it Work to influence policies in support of paid family leave, equal pay and affordable childcare. She shares her personal story of growing up with a single dad, and what she experienced when her own child was born.
VIVIEN LABATON
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In the midst of the Ebola crisis in 2015, Archel Bernard moved to Monrovia, Liberia from Atlanta, Georgia and started a fashion company--that employs women who survived Ebola, are rape survivors or deaf. Her company is called The Bombchel Factory, and to top it all off, the product is, as she puts it, "dope." Listen to the conversation above, and read more about Archel in Lauren's post on Forbes.com.
ARCHEL BERNARD
More entrepreneurs are starting businesses with a social purpose--like addressing poverty or mitigating climate change. And a growing number of investors are supporting this shift in thinking--looking not just at returns but at impact, putting their money on companies that align with their values. In this episode, Lauren talks with Rosa Lee Harden, the co-founder of SOCAP--The Social Capital Markets conference--and curator, Lindsay Smalling. Listen to our conversation on iTunes or NPR One.
ROSA LEE HARDEN
LINDSAY SMALLING
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Energy Excelerator is a startup program for companies developing renewable energy solutions. Before she co-founded it, Dawn Lippert worked with Hawaii's state government to set a goal of 100% renewable energy by 2045--and now she is ensuring they can meet that goal. She tells me what they look for in an entrepreneur, and how they plan to meet Hawaii's goal.
DAWN LIPPERT
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Jen Glantz attended so many weddings, she went into debt, then wrote a book about it called 'All My Friends are Engaged.' On a whim, Jen thought she might make a little money out of attending weddings and posted an ad on craigslist offering her services as a bridesmaid. She tells me she got 100s of responses, leading her to turn it into a full-time business. I invited her to tell us about her experience starting a business from scratch with no business experience, what it takes to get a book published, and what she is observing about the modern relationship from inside the wedding planning process.
JEN GLANTZ