This is 40‪!‬ This is 40!

"America's Government Teacher" to over 1 million fans and Jeffferson Award winner(#oprah is a past recipient), Sharon McMahon @sharonsayso has been on the#DailyShow with Trevor Noah, #goodmorningamerica, #cnn and, now, on my podcast, 'This is 40' in season 2.Yesterday (November 8), being the midterm elections it was the perfect opportunity to have Sharon's knowledgeable insights: Can America think critically again? In this highly polarized world Sharon is on a mission to combat political misi...

Jonas Unger is best known for his incredible portraits of Oscar winner Julianne Moore, Joaquin Phoenix, Susan Sarandon, Amy Adams and Paul Pogba among others. Coveted by the fashion and celebrity world alike Jonas has gathered fans in all domains. His work has been featured in the French and American Vogue, Le Monde and for campaigns including Hermes, Chanel, Tod's, Tom Ford, Chloé among others. He is also known for his quest for solitude amongst the noise and fanfare of celebrity photography...

Our guest today is Alice Steenland, a woman who gets stakeholders to make bold leadership moves by sharing her true passion for social good and for the sustainability space. Alice joined Dassault Systèmes in 2020 as the company’s first Chief Sustainability Officer. Previously, she was the founding Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer at AXA Group, where she pioneered a responsible investment strategy including the landmark decision to divest from coal and, later, tobacco. She began her...

There once was a guy who managed a cabaret in Paris, who then got on a sailboat and went on to be an advisor to the government, communications director and ‘spin doctor’. I think he might be a spy (wink wink). His life reads like a Bond movie, right? Stuck shivering with malaria in a dispensary in Equatorial Guinea he realized he needed to change the trajectory of his life to come back ‘home’. In his 40s while in the Middle East, his mom passed away back home in France – and ...

"Because I think it's very easy for people at the top to say, 'Hey, I made it. So come on, guys, try a little harder. You'll get there too. 'That's just not true. The outcome of where you end up is not just a function of how hard you try. That realization I would have never had as fully, if my sister was still here. "Sounds like someone who had an awakening right? Marc talks about the moment leading to him finding his voice for the causes he stands up for today; most recently the Black Lives ...

To Joanna Cohen, art is a way to see the world. Joanna speaks of turning 40 in the context of the art world, coming back to it after a very different time in her life. She talks of the challenges – sometimes life changes that ironically happen on your 40th birthday (talk about a sign!) and teach you to find humor and beauty in the darkest moment – that this is not just a skill, it’s an art and like anything you created that is incredibly individual, it's always yours to call ...