Smartest Person in the Room

Laura Tremaine
  • 4.7 (7)
  • SOCIETY & CULTURE
Smartest Person in the Room

Laura Tremaine is not the smartest person in the room, but she knows someone who is. Driven by her belief that we all learn, grow, and become better when we surround ourselves with people who are smarter than us, she'll take you along to meet people who are brilliant in their fields. With the casual tone of the best dinner party conversation you've ever had, Smartest Person in the Room offers fascinating, funny, and thought-provoking learning you won't want to miss!

  1. 31/12/2018

    Ep 38 Best Books of 2018

    It's finally here! Our best books of the year episode. Host Laura Tremaine and her real life book club friends Stephanie Newman-Smith and Yasmin Dunn discuss their favorite books of the year and some of the most buzzed about books of 2018.    Books mentioned on this episode: Becoming by Michelle Obama The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies by Ben Fritz You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld  Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Florida by Lauren Goff Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling) Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce Alone Together by Sherry Turkle The Yes Brain by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson Heavy by Kiese Laymon Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood by Karina Longworth (30:40) Circe by Madeline Miller  (34:50) 9 Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty (44:36) The Witch Elm by Tana French (54:55) An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (1:00:10) The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai  (1:04:04) Educated by Tara Westover (1:12:30) The Line That Held Us by David Joy   * Follow SPITR on Facebook Follow SPITR on Instagram Sign up to receive episode emails

    1h 19m

  2. 08/11/2018

    Ep 37 Princess and Pirate Rachael MacFarlane

    You've probably heard Rachael MacFarlane speak at some point in her 20 year acting career. She's given voice to characters from Johnny Bravo, Tom & Jerry, Fancy Nancy, Family Guy, and she has played Hayley on American Dad since 2005.  Now Rachael has written a children's book titled Eleanor Wyatt, Princess and Pirate. Laura talks with Rachael about her career, her new book, parenting in L.A., and why the message of Eleanor Wyatt is so important.  * Sign up for new episode emails here Follow SPITR on Facebook Follow SPITR on Instagram

    36 min

  3. 24/07/2018

    Ep 36 Laura's favorite books of 2018 (so far)

    On today's episode, Laura is the smartest person in the room because she is the ONLY person in the room. That's right, it's a first for this podcast: a solo show! Laura shares the best books she's read so far in 2018.  Click here for the full show notes. Follow Laura on Instagram where she shares what she's reading in real time, or sign up for her Secret Post emails here.  * Follow SPITR on facebook Follow SPITR on Instagram Sign up for episode emails here

    26 min

  4. 28/06/2018

    BIAS: A series wrap-up and Q&A

    This is the final episode in the BIAS series. We're sharing our thoughts on creating and releasing this series, and answering some of the questions we've received over the last few weeks. We're also making an announcement about the future of this conversation in this space, since of course this work doesn't stop here. Please check out our ever-evolving resource page here.  Thanks for joining us for the BIAS series of Smartest Person in the Room!  * Follow SPITR on facebook Follow SPITR on Instagram Don't miss an episode! Sign up here to be in the know.

    52 min

  5. 21/06/2018

    Ep 35 BIAS: Marriage burst the bubble

    Over the past several episodes, we’ve mentioned several times that my friend and co-host for this series Yasmin is married to a white man. Yasmin has talked about how being part of an interracial marriage has given her a unique perspective on the dynamics of race in our culture, and I couldn’t think of a better way to conclude our series on bias than by asking her husband Jason to sit down and talk with us about his perspectives on the reality of racial bias in our country. SPITR on Facebook SPITR on Instagram Sign up for episode emails here

    57 min

  6. 14/06/2018

    Ep 34 BIAS: Stop saying "down there"

    This episode is different from any episode of Smartest Person in the Room that I’ve ever recorded. Months ago, when Yasmin and I were planning this series, I mentioned that though I’ve lived in Los Angeles for 17 years now, I’ve hardly ever been to the historically black neighborhoods of South LA. And so, Yasmin decided to take me on a little field trip in our own city.   SPITR on Facebook SPITR on Instagram Sign up for episode emails here

    52 min

  7. 24/05/2018

    Ep 33 BIAS: Wow, there's a whole other side of you.

    This is an unplanned episode. Yasmin and Laura were talking off the record, but the mic was recording. With Yasmin's permission, we are sharing this story.  The blog post we reference from Luvvie Ajayi can be found here.  * Follow SPITR on Facebook Follow SPITR on Instagram Sign Up for our episode emails

    50 min

  8. 17/05/2018

    Ep 32 BIAS: Pop culture perspectives

    Early in our friendship, Yasmin and I realized that we had pretty different perspectives on most things pop culture. So many factors (and especially our racial makeup) affects how we see everything from music to movies to the Great American Novel. In this episode, we talk about Beyonce, Black Panther, Get Out, Michael Jackson, and more. And Yasmin has a SHOCKING (to me) opinion about one of America's most beloved novels.  * Follow SPITR on Facebook Follow SPITR on Instagram Sign up for our episode emails! www.smartestpersonintheroom.com

    1h 9m
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Laura Tremaine is not the smartest person in the room, but she knows someone who is. Driven by her belief that we all learn, grow, and become better when we surround ourselves with people who are smarter than us, she'll take you along to meet people who are brilliant in their fields. With the casual tone of the best dinner party conversation you've ever had, Smartest Person in the Room offers fascinating, funny, and thought-provoking learning you won't want to miss!

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