The Lives and Labor Behind One Plate of Food

The Olympics are on! Have you been watching? We have. We can’t get enough. Which is why all this week we’ll be bringing you episodes that celebrate the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. We’ll be joined by athletes and experts who’ll share hard-won wisdom that we can apply in our ordinary, non-Olympic lives. Up first: Alexi Pappas. She ran the 10,000m at the 2016 games. She’s also a filmmaker and an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, and The Atlantic. Today, she shares a few key insights from her memoir, “Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas.” 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5 Aug 202411min

Trust is at the heart of all relationships, and when trust is broken, those relationships can be tremendously difficult to put back together. Peter H. Kim, who teaches at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, has written a book called "How Trust Works: The Science of How Relationships Are Built, Broken, and Repaired." Peter is a leading authority in the field of “trust repair,” and his research has been published in the world’s top scientific journals in management and psychology. 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2 Aug 20249min

We think that civil society is imposed by law. But what if that's not the case? What if it's something we create together? Guest: C. L. Skach (How to Be a Citizen: Learning to Be Civil Without the State) 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1 Aug 202413min

Today, Pulitzer Prize winner Emily Nussbaum shares five big ideas from her new book "Cue the Sun!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

31 Jul 202413min

Today, we hear from Elias Dakwar, a psychiatrist addiction specialist, about his new book "The Captive Imagination: Addiction, Reality, and Our Search for Meaning." 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

30 Jul 202412min

Change is universal. How we deal with it is not. Guest: April Rinne ("Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change") 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

29 Jul 202413min

We all want to be happy, but happiness always seems out of reach. Lucky for us, Stephanie Harrison ("New Happy") is here to change that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

26 Jul 202411min

Today: Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, on what we lose when we constrain free speech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

25 Jul 202415min