Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller

Series produced by KALW

Caption: Lauren Schiller, Host, Credit: Frank King
Image by: Frank King 
Lauren Schiller, Host 

A weekly, one-hour show about how women rise up.

"Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller is a gem of a radio show...an hour of engaging and intelligent conversation with women who are making a difference. Do your listeners a favor and give them a chance to hear Inflection Point." --Hawk Mendenhall, KUT, Austin, TX

On Inflection Point, Lauren Schiller talks with women who have risen to a challenge, stepped up to create change and are ready to tell their stories. Every episode offers experiences and ideas our listeners can apply to their own lives. From KALW San Francisco and PRX.


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112 Pieces

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108: Khalida Brohi, Activist and Author of "I Should Have Honor"
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Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Khalida Brohi
This is a special episode featuring my live conversation with activist and author, Khalida Brohi. Khalida grew up in Pakistan and became an activis...

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
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107: How tyrants rise to power, "The Story of Roger Ailes" filmmaker Alexis Bloom
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Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Alexis Bloom
Fox News has paid out hundreds of millions of dollars to silence women who were sexually harassed and assaulted while working there. The story of f...

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  • Added: Dec 27, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
106: The reality of rising up: patriarchy is the problem, not men
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Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Lauren Schiller, Host, Credit: Frank King
After being witness to The Women’s March, MeToo, the Kavanaugh hearings, and a historic midterm election in which more American women were elected ...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
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59 (New Intro): America The Anxious; Cooperative Games; Negotiate in "Man Pants"
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Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Lauren Schiller, Host, Credit: Frank King
In Episode 104 we aired my conversation with Ruth Whippman, Author of "America the Anxious. Why our search for happiness is driving us crazy and ho...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
105: “Put down your male fragility”: Scene On Radio’s John Biewen & Celeste Headlee
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What’s going on with men? Why is it so hard to negotiate the gender power dynamic in everyday situations, like work meetings? Can masculinity exist...

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  • Added: Dec 08, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
104: More than power poses: why self-empowerment is a myth and what we can do instead - Ruth Whippman, author
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Caption: Ruth Whippman
Author Ruth Whippman has been studying the self-improvement industry for years. She’s come to the conclusion that empowerment feminism is, well, BS...

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  • Added: Nov 21, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
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103: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism & Sexism - Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble
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Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Dr. Safiya Noble
What we think of as “the great equalizer”-- the internet--and the algorithms behind it, created by humans, is serving up content that is sexist and...

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
102: “There is no peak fury”: Rebecca Traister, Author of Good And Mad: The Revolutionary Power Of Women’s Anger
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Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Rebecca Traister, Credit: One World Journalist
It’s safe to say that many American women are pretty angry these days. Since the founding of this country, women have been faced with men in power...

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
101: Running for Office In the Era of #MeToo: Minnesota State Representative Erin Maye Quade
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Caption: Erin Maye Quade
At age 32, Minnesota State Representative Erin Maye Quade is positioned to be at the forefront of a wave of progressive political leaders represent...

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  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
80: Mid-term election revisit - Kate Black, Chief of Staff for EMILY's List
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Caption: Kate Black
In 2017, 16,000 women had raised their hand to run for office. One year later, it's 42,000. But what does it actually take to to win? And what will...

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
100: Death by Diversity Initiative & The Myth of Meritocracy - Dr. Barbara Adams
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Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Dr. Barbara Adams, Credit: Blink Inc
Organizational psychologist Dr. Barbara Adams says there is transformational power for everyone in diversity and inclusivity, but initiatives like ...

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
98: A Boardroom Of Our Own - Julia Rhodes Davis, Vote.org and The Partnership on AI
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Ask any woman who’s sat through a long meeting surrounded by men, and she could tell you how exhausting it can be: we struggle to make ourselves he...

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 6
99: A Brief but Spectacular Conversation - Steve Goldbloom, Flossie Lewis and Mahogany L. Browne
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Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: At the Commonwealth Club of CA
After Brief But Spectacular creator Steve Goldbloom filmed 94-year-old retired English teacher Flossie Lewis and “Black Girl Magic” poet activist M...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 6
95: Stitch Fix Founder Katrina Lake Gives the C-Suite a Makeover
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Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Katrina Lake
At age 35, Stitch Fix founder Katrina Lake became the youngest female founder and CEO to take a company public in 2017. Stitch Fix is now worth ove...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
97 - When Teachers are Trusted to Teach - Gabrielle Howard, Saint Ann's School
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Caption: Gabrielle Howard
What happens when teachers are given the freedom to inspire a lifelong love of learning? In this episode, I talk with Gabrielle Howard, who recentl...

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 6
94: What Happens When Sexual Assault Goes Unpunished? - Sarah Delia, "She Says"
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Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Sarah Delia, Credit: Logan Cyrus
When radio journalist Sarah Delia heard a story about the sexual assault of one of her listeners, “Linda” (not her real name), she knew it was a st...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
93: How to age without apology - Nina Collins, author of "What Would Virginia Woolf Do?"
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Caption: Nina Collins
What's so monumental about turning 40 for women and why do we need our own Facebook group? Turns out--pretty much everything. Nina Collins has crea...

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  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
92: Do Haters Deserve Our Compassion? - Sally Kohn, author of "The Opposite of Hate"
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Caption: Sally Kohn, Credit: Paul Takeuchi
Can you find compassion in your heart for the haters in your life? CNN political commentator and first-time author Sally Kohn says if we keep on ha...

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  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
90: "I am powerful by just living" - Sarah McBride, author of "Tomorrow Will Be Different"
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Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Sarah McBride, Credit: B Proud
Sarah McBride made history in 2016 as the first transgender person to speak at a national political convention. As of 2018, more than half of LGBTQ...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
91: Are we teaching our girls too much empathy? - Emily Abad, The Mosaic Project
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Caption: Emily Abad
"A lot of young girls are often taught to sort of stay quiet or to put other people's needs before ourselves... And if we are to speak up or to sta...

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  • Added: Apr 27, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7

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