152 episodes
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4.8 • 465 Ratings
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A series about what it's really like to start a business.
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Introducing How to Save a Planet
Does climate change freak you out? Want to know what we, collectively, can do about it? Us too. How to Save a Planet is a podcast that asks the big questions: what do we need to do to solve the climate crisis, and how do we get it done?
Join us, journalist Alex Blumberg and scientist and policy nerd Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, as we scour the Earth for solutions, talk to people who are making a difference, ask hard questions, crack dumb jokes and — episode by episode — figure out how to build the future we want.
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Introducing Motherhacker
We’re sharing the first episode of Motherhacker. It’s a fiction podcast about a mother who gets involved in an identity theft ring in order to support her family. The series stars Carrie Coon, Pedro Pascal, Alan Cumming, Lucas Hedges, Tavi Gevinson and Alex Goldman.
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Alex Talks to Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley
Normally, being the mayor of Dayton, Ohio, means paying attention to everyday issues, from garbage pickups to municipal budgets. But in the early morning hours of August 4, 2019, a gunman opened fire at a downtown bar in the city, and Nan Whaley’s role as mayor immediately shifted. She found herself thrust into the national spotlight as all eyes turned to Dayton. And it wasn't long before she was face-to-face with President Donald Trump.
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Alex Talks to Voting Rights Activist Desmond Meade
When Desmond Meade got out of prison after serving time for a nonviolent felony, he was homeless and wrestling with addiction. A decade later, he started a campaign that very few people thought was winnable: amending the Florida constitution to restore voting rights to people with felony convictions. His unusual path to success on this politicized issue? Avoid politics, and appeal to principles.
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Alex Talks to Cycling Whistleblower Jonathan Vaughters
Jonathan Vaughters was a member of the famed USPS pro cycling team when his teammate Lance Armstrong won the first of a record-breaking seven straight Tours de France. While fans were awed and inspired by the victories, Jonathan knew there was something else fueling those wins: performance enhancing drugs — something the entire team was using, including himself. The deception weighed heavy on his conscience, and Jonathan found himself at a crossroads: live with the lie or come clean and become a traitor to his friends, colleagues, and the most powerful man in cycling, Lance Armstrong.
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Alex Talks to Country Songwriter Shane McAnally
Ever since he was young, Shane McAnally knew he wanted to be a country music star. But as a gay man, he didn’t fit the Nashville mold, and so he hid his true identity for years as he struggled to break through. Little did he know that coming out would prove the key to his success.
We created a playlist of Shane McAnally hits, from artists like Kenny Chesney and Kacey Musgraves. You can find it at https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ixldv7V7QUegFLYo3k5RN?si=Slqyo5ypQO6LiRydT-PbTQ
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Customer Reviews
Time goes so fast listening to this!
I’m just an ordinary female student with an interest in business and I absolutely love this podcast! I can listen to it all day long and be like ‘oh no where did the time go!!
A fairy tale story in start up business
Thank you for sharing this journey and what an incredible path. It is difficult to face rejection and failure on an incredible lonely journey is building a business, and to be able to document it and edit the story in such an artistic way.
This podcast is engaging, interesting and relatable. It is a fairy tale story in start up business.
At last! A humble, engaging show about business!
I’ve just discovered this wonderful podcast from searching for a “business- related term.
This was a revelation. A business podcast host that is not full of himself and shouting “awesome” every three minutes.
Thank God for some humility and taste in the startup podcast space.
Rather than shouting at me how to follow a specific business model based on the host’s millions in successful revenue (aka the “look at the size of my...sales” humble brag fest), the host was engagingly humble, and is taking us along for the rise in a real fly-on-the-wall documentary style.
SO much more engaging than your average business podcast.
The host somehow persuaded his wife and a pretty major investor to allow what sounds like a pretty unstaged recordings of their actual conversations. (If they were staged I’m not complaining; it feels authentic and that’s what matters as a listener, at least to this listener).
Despite the host clearly having little to no business acumen, and it being from 2014, I’m absolutely sold on following this journey and immediately subscribed.
It probably helps that although clearly an amateur businessman (at least at the start of the journey in the first episode), he’s clearly a very fine podcast/radio producer. No surprise that he was a producer for “This American Life”.
This is how a business podcast should be done. A pleasure to listen to, a strangely gripping story and real business education. All at once.
Alex just so you know- I’d pay for content this good. The fact that it’s free is another bonus. (And no I’m not a friend of the host- he wouldn’t know me from Adam).
So impressed.