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82: How To Welcome A Refugee - Christina Psarra, Doctors Without Borders
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Christina Psarra, Credit: Lauren Schiller
Refugees literally sacrifice everything to keep their families safe. Christina Psarra, head of mission for Doctors Without Borders, a humanitarian ...

Bought by KWIT, KWMR, WNIN, KUT, and KSJD


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
60 (new intro): Gun Control and Gender Bias - Jessica Jin, Activist & Joann Lublin, WSJ
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Jessica Jin
After the mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs TX and the over 300 other mass shootings this year, I thought maybe we’d be having a new ...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WLPR , WNIN, KUT, KSJD and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
80: How To Get More Women In Office - Kate Black, Chief of Staff for EMILY's List
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Kate Black
More women than ever are raising their hands to run for office. But what does it actually take to to win? And what will be different when they do? ...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KWIT, KWMR, KCMJ Community Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
11022017: Forget About What Your Mother Said: Why Talking to Strangers is Good for You with Amy Morin MA and Kio Stark, 11/2/2017
From: KBUU
Series: Harvesting Happiness Talk Radio
Caption: Happiness [is an inside job]...
Purpose-driven and consciously prepared brain food from the beaches of Malibu, California. Join us on this week’s show focusing on why talking to s...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2017
  • Length: 46:35
79: How To Hit Back At The "Harveys" - Carrie Goldberg, Sexual Consent and Internet Abuse Lawyer
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Carrie Goldberg, Esq., Credit: Maria Karas Photography
In Part 1 of the hour: With the Harvey Weinstein tsunami of sexual misconduct allegations, it has everyone asking, will this be the moment when eve...

Bought by KWIT, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWMR, KSJD, KUT and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
78: How To Change The Storyteller-Cristi Hegranes, Founder Global Press Institute
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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Cristi Hegranes wanted to be a foreign correspondent since the time she was 6 years old. Within days of achieving her dream job, after all the trad...

Bought by KWMR, KWIT, KUT, KCSB-FM, KWIT and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
76: How To Turn Your Dream Into A Reality - Bonny Simi, JetBlue Technology Ventures
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Bonny Simi
When Bonny Simi was 14 years old, she made a list of life goals--to be a pilot, go to college, be a TV broadcaster, be an Olympic athlete and to bu...

Bought by KCSB-FM, KWIT, WSGE, WNIN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
5 (Re-air with new intro): How To Break The Cycle of Poverty
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Leila Janah
New book, new intro! There are billions of people across the world who are living in poverty and 800 million people who are illiterate--two-thirds ...

Bought by KWIT and KSJD


  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Past American Voice of Judith Ortiz Cofer
From: New Letters on the Air
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We begin National Hispanic Heritage month with the Past American Voice of Judith Ortiz Cofer, who influenced and mentored Latina writers around the...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Sep 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
75: How To Redesign Your Life-Suz Somersall, founder of KiraKira
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Suz Somersall, founder KiraKira
Suz Somersall wanted to be an engineer when she grew up but was so uninspired by the classes, she turned to an art degree instead. It wasn’t until ...

Bought by KKRN, KCSB-FM, KWIT, KKRN, KUT and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
74: How To End Ageism - Ashton Applewhite, Activist & Author
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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Ashton Applewhite is on a mission as old as humanity itself -- to change our attitudes about age and aging. Her book is "This Chair Rocks. A Manife...

Bought by WNIN, KWIT, KWMR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUT and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
73: How Jeannette Walls Claimed Her Story, Author of "The Glass Castle"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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The Glass Castle is now a film. When she was young Jeannette Walls wanted nothing more than to escape her crazy, chaotic family. She grew up in pov...

Bought by KWIT, KKRN, KUT, WNIN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
08032017: What does it mean to be Muslim? Facts vs. Misconceptions About Islam with Haroon Moghul & Dalia Mogahed, 8/3/2017
From: KBUU
Series: Harvesting Happiness Talk Radio
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Purpose-driven and consciously prepared brain food from the beaches of Malibu, California. Join us on this week’s show focusing on what it means to...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2017
  • Length: 52:26
70: How A College Degree Won't Close The Gender Gap - Nancy Niemi, Yale
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Nancy Niemi
An academic at Yale says the value of a college education is changing for women--especially as men move on to professions that don't require a degree.

Bought by KWIT, KUT, KWMR, KKRN, WNIN and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
69: How To Get Through The Worst–Together - Kelsey Crowe, Author of "There Is No Good Card For This"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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Most of us don’t know what to say when we are grieving or how to reach out when the people we love go through something awful. Kelsey Crowe, co-aut...

Bought by KWIT, KWMR, WNIN, WCPN, KUT and more


  • Added: Jul 13, 2017
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 8
68: How To Negotiate Like A Woman-Leanne Meyer, Carnegie Mellon University
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Leanne Meyer
Most women would rather have a root canal than negotiate for themselves. Leanne Meyer is the Program Director of the Carnegie Mellon Leadership and...

Bought by WCPN, KSJD, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 52:59
  • Purchases: 3
A Cosmic Voyage with Astronomer Sandra Faber
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: • New Very Large Telescope image of galaxy Messier 77 , Credit: • European Southern Observatory
Veteran astronomer and cosmologist Sandra Faber has just been awarded the Gruber Prize for Cosmology, honoring more than forty years of pioneering ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WTJU, KWMR, WMUU-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
67: How Femininity Can Save Humanity-Nina Simons, Bioneers
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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What if the root of all the world’s problems is the imbalance of masculinity and femininity in our leadership? Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers ...

Bought by KWIT, KWMR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KWIT, KUT and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 13
Thomas Edison, Eclipse Chaser!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: "American Eclipse" by David Baron, Credit: Liveright/W.W. Norton
The great inventor was just one of many men and women who made their way across the American West to view and document the total solar eclipse of 1...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, WJSU, KISU, Kansas Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
65: How To Beat Perfectionism - Patti Niemi, SF Opera Orchestra
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Patti Niemi
What if the thing you really love to do makes you so anxious it gets in the way of doing your job? For Patti Niemi, a percussionist with the San Fr...

Bought by WCPN, KWMR, KSJD, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Musician's Spotlight - Gaelynn Lea - 652
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Violinist, composer and singer songwriter Gaelynn Lea produces 21st century music in a style rooted in classical, Celtic and traditional folk. The ...

Bought by KGLT and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Career Advice from Amy Odell, editor of Cosmopolitan.com
From: Coffee Break w/NYWICI
Series: Coffee Break w/NYWICI
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On this episode, Amy Odell, the editor of Cosmopolitan.com and director of Editorial Strategy for RedbookMag.com, chats with Julie about how to fin...

  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 29:36
Trudy James: Ahead of Her Time
From: The Art of Risk
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Spiritual, emotional, professional, financial—how many risks can you take in one lifetime? In seventy-eight years Trudy James has taken all of thes...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 36:36
Career Advice from Ann Shoket, former editor-in-chief of Seventeen
From: Coffee Break w/NYWICI
Series: Coffee Break w/NYWICI
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Career advice from Ann Shoket, author of The Big Life and former Editor-In-Chief, Seventeen

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 50:37
  • Purchases: 1
On Behalf of the President
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Lauren A. Wright
First ladies have been a vital part of American policy and politics since the election of George Washington.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1