
What Really Happens to Our Trash: Dr. Morton Barlaz on 40 Years of Studying Landfills
While in graduate school in the early 1980s, Dr. Morton Barlaz was offered a project studying how municipal waste decomposes. He wasn’t sure it was what he wanted to do, but it sounded interesting so...
2 Heinä 202535min

Running 7 Marathons on 7 Continents: Becca Pizzi on Grit, Endurance, and Making History
When Becca Pizzi got dozens of messages from friends about an extreme endurance race – seven marathons on seven continents in seven days – she knew she had to run it. In 2016, she became the first Ame...
25 Kesä 202535min

Saundra Pelletier: Bringing a New Birth Control to Market
Saundra Pelletier has spent her career focused on women’s health, from Big Pharma to nonprofit work around the globe. Then she got the opportunity to lead a startup bringing a new kind of birth contro...
18 Kesä 202544min

Inventing from Home: April Mitchell on Turning Everyday Problems into Products That Sell
April Mitchell realized one day that she actually knew the answer to the problem she was having when her kids left their towels on the floor ... she just had to invent it. Since then, she’s created do...
11 Kesä 202544min

Trash Wolf: Becoming Leader of the Anti-Litter Pack
If you want to bring attention to litter, what do you do? For one man in Florida, the answer was to ... put on a wolf suit. In 2022, Trash Wolf began prowling the streets picking up litter and quietly...
4 Kesä 202542min

Leigh Dzvonick: Living Through Guillain-Barré Syndrome
Military spouse and mom Leigh Dzvonick was busy raising young kids when she started to feel off. After three ER visits and a misdiagnosis of anxiety, she was finally told she had Guillain-Barré Syndro...
4 Kesä 202535min

Keri Nelson: Life and Work in Antarctica
After a career first as a journalist and then as a traveling nurse, Keri Nelson chased an even grander adventure and secured a job in Antarctica. Seventeen seasons later, she’s done a lot of different...
4 Kesä 202542min

Tell Me What It's Like trailer
What’s it like to set a world record? To invent a new product? To survive an extremely rare illness?Tell Me What It’s Like is a show about those experiences and the people who lived them. Host Stacy R...
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