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Ep 205. Katy Milkman: The Science of How to Change

Ep 205. Katy Milkman: The Science of How to Change

Katy Milkman is an award-winning behavioral scientist and the James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She hosts Charles Schwab’s popular behavioral economics podcast Choiceology and is the co-founder and co-director of The Behavior Change for Good Initiative, a research center at the University of Pennsylvania with the mission of advancing the science of lasting behavior change. This work is being chronicled by Freakonomics Radio. Stew talks with Katy about her new book, How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. Katy shares her very practical advice about how to craft a way to get things done that is tailored to your own particular stumbling blocks…[Click for more]

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Ep 186. Joan Williams: Healing the Rifts of Race, Gender, and Class

Ep 186. Joan Williams: Healing the Rifts of Race, Gender, and Class

Joan C. Williams is a Distinguished Professor of Law, Hastings Foundation Chair, and Founding Director of the Center for WorkLife Law. Joan is one of the 10 most cited scholars in her field and has written 11 books, including What Works for Women at Work and White Working Class. Her Harvard Business Review article, “What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class” has been read over 3.7 million times and is now the most read article in HBR’s 90-plus year history. Stew and Joan talk about how class, in addition to race and gender, produces dividing lines that result in polarization and alienation; evidence-based method for interrupting biases; and prospects for change in the upcoming Biden-Harris administration…[Click for more]

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Ep 179. Natalie Edwards: Changing the Conversation about Race and Work

Ep 179. Natalie Edwards: Changing the Conversation about Race and Work

Natalie Neilson Edwards is the Director of Inclusion & Diversity for The Estee Lauder Companies with an MBA from the Wharton School. While at Wharton, Natalie drafted the school’s official diversity plan and was instrumental in doubling the black student population in one year. She has a BA in finance from Howard University. Stew and Natalie discuss the challenges employees at all levels face discussing and grappling with race and how to help them do so more effectively…[Click for more]

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Ep 153. Due Quach: Portal to Peace

Ep 153. Due Quach: Portal to Peace

Due Quach (pronounced “Zway Kwok”), is the Founder and CEO of Calm Clarity and author of Calm Clarity: How to Use Science to Rewire Your Brain for Greater Wisdom, Fulfillment and Joy, one of Fast Company’s best business books of 2018. Stew and Due talk about her remarkable struggle for survival and how it led to her discovery of the mental and spiritual tools that saved her and her role in the documentary, The Portal, and about its aspirations to bring more healing to our world… [Click for more]

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Ep 136. Madonna Harrington Meyer: Intensive Grandparenting

Ep 136. Madonna Harrington Meyer: Intensive Grandparenting

Madonna Harrington Meyer is a professor of sociology and Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence at the Maxwell School of Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She is a senior research associate at the Center for Policy Research and faculty affiliate at the Aging Studies Institute at Syracuse University. Madonna is the author of Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs and co-editor of Grandparenting in the United States . Stew and Madonna discuss the indescribable joys of grandparenting as well as some of the new underbelly for grandparents who provide care for their grandchildren…[Cick for more]

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