Ep. 437 — Bud Selig
Growing up, former Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig was enamored with baseball, thanks primarily to his mother’s love of the game. After a brief stint selling cars, he jumped into the MLB,...
8 Apr 202153min
Ep. 436 — Rev. Dr. William Barber
Growing up as the son of an ordained minister, Rev. Dr. William Barber didn’t want to be a preacher. But during his senior year of college he reconsidered, and after a long talk with his father, he pr...
1 Apr 20211h 6min
Ep. 435 — Kara Swisher
While using an early iteration of email in the 1990s, tech journalist Kara Swisher, host of the podcasts “Sway” and “Pivot,” had a feeling the internet was about to become a giant story. She jumped on...
25 Mar 20211h 10min
Ep. 434 — Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms
For Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, the last year was full of unexpected challenges and opportunities. She has led her city through the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, and when summer social justice pr...
18 Mar 20211h 3min
Ep. 433 — Tim Alberta
Journalist Tim Alberta got his first taste of Washington, DC straight out of undergrad as an intern for The Wall Street Journal. Since then, he has become a plugged-in political reporter, with a parti...
11 Mar 20211h 11min
Ep. 432 — Rep. Joe Neguse
Rep. Joe Neguse first became interested in politics at a young age, inspired by his immigrant parents’ lesson to give back to the country that had welcomed them from Eritrea. He joined student governm...
4 Mar 202158min
Ep. 431 — Fareed Zakaria
As the Covid-19 pandemic spread across the US and much of the country hunkered down under stay-at-home orders, journalist, author and CNN host Fareed Zakaria was already thinking about the future. He ...
26 Feb 20211h 3min
Ep. 430 — Heidi Heitkamp
While former US Senator Heidi Heitkamp was growing up in Mantador, North Dakota, her family made up one tenth of the town’s population. She took the lessons she learned from her small-town upbringing ...
18 Feb 20211h 8min
