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In The Power of Giving Away Power: How the Best Leaders Learn to Let Go, businessman and former U.S. Ambassador Matthew Barzun layers lessons from American history and business with insights from his career in tech, politics, and diplomacy to show how we can lead meaningful change in our companies, communities, and even our nation.

Barzun served as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom during the Obama administration and is the current owner/publisher of Louisville Magazine.



Recorded: 12-8-2022

Louisville native Anne McCarty Braden turned her back on a promising career as a newspaperwoman to dedicate herself to fierce advocacy for racial and social justice for almost half a century.

Charged twice with sedition and arrested multiple times, Braden remained an outspoken writer and organizer locally until her death in 2006.

Dr. Catherine Fosl, professor emerita at UofL and co-founder of the UofL Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research, will examine how Braden’s message has helped to shape our community, and why it still resonates today.



Recorded: 3-26-2024

Aging is a subject of concern to many that is often misunderstood. However, it presents a wonderful opportunity to make informed choices and live to our potential. Dr. Robert Friedland will help you learn the
steps to take in your activities, diet, and mental outlook, in order to grasp that opportunity.

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Recorded 11-7-2022
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The Craig Buthod Author Series presents NPR correspondent Stacey Vanek Smith

From the NPR host of The Indicator and correspondent for Planet Money, Stacey Vanek Smith, Machiavelli for Women is a modern guide to how women can apply the principles of 16th-century philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and Renaissance politics to their work lives to finally shatter the glass ceiling.

With charm and wit, Smith uses Machiavelli’s book The Prince as a guide to demonstrate how women can unapologetically take and maintain power in careers where they have long been cast as
second-best.


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Recorded 3-14-2024
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MARGO PRICE is a Nashville-based singer-songwriter. She has released three LPs, earned a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist, performed on Saturday Night Live, and is the first female musician to sit on the board of Farm Aid.

S.G. GOODMAN is a critically-acclaimed musician and Kentucky native. She was rightly coined an “untamed rock n roll truth-teller” by Rolling Stone.

Recorded 10-18-2022
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The Main Library welcomes four accomplished Louisville writers as they describe the thriving Louisville writing scene, share some of their triumphs, discuss navigating the challenges of publishing, and much more. Panelists will include:



Ashleé Clark: Journalist, author, and manager of the American Journalism Project

Kelly Hill: novelist

Michelle Tyrene Johnson: Playwright and Louisville Public Media Senior Producer

Erin Keane: Critic, poet, memoirist, and Chief Content Officer at Salon.com



Presented in partnership with Spalding University’s Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing



Recorded 3-5-2024