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How do you produce a children's TV show in post-Soviet Russia? What's the secret to Sesame Street's international success? This we, we chat with Natasha Lance Rogoff, producer of the Russian Sesame Street (Ulitsa Sezam), about her unexpected crazy true story detailed in her book Muppets in Moscow.
Natasha Lance Rogoff is an is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist and the TV producer/director who, with her team, brought Sesame Street to Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

How do you make a sci-fi or a rom-com? Why do genres and formulas of a story work? How do comedians tell a story? This week, we chat with Mark Chavez, a comedian who made a sci-fi and a rom-com with his co-hosts and made a podcast about the process. Mark Chavez is co-host of CBC's Let's Make a Sci-Fi (Let's Make a Rom-Com) podcast, and part of the comedy duo the Pajama Men.

"What if we did nothing and got nothing out of it?" For this Storytime, we welcome back productivity expert Dr. Sahar Yousef and talk about NOTHING - for all our obsession with productivity, achievements, and outcomes, what if "doing nothing" is exactly what's missing from our lives? This episode is about nothing, for nothing, celebrating nothing. It's re-shaping our perspectives on life (seriously), and you should really listen to it.

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Featured in Forbes, Business Insider, and the Headspace App, Dr. Sahar Yousef is a cognitive neuroscientist, a lecturer at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, and founder of Becoming Superhuman. Her 10-plus years of research on “making superhumans” sheds light on how to improve focus, memory, and overall human performance.

What stories is the city of Los Angeles brewing? Why do we need better friendship stories? We welcome back good friend of the show Kirthana Ramisetti and talk about the storytelling choices in her new novel, Advika and the Hollywood Wives. Kirthana Ramisetti is author of Dava Shastri’s Last Day, a novel selected a Good Morning America Book Club selection, and is currently in development as a television series for HBO Max. Her second novel, Advika and the Hollywood Wives, comes out in April 2023.

What's unique about game as a storytelling medium? How can games succeed/fail at film / TV adaptations? Is playing games storytelling? This week, we sit down with Joshua Lu to talk about one of the most interactive and immersive form of storytelling. From competitive gaming, to product management, and now as an Investing Partner at a16z Games (Andreessen Horowitz), Josh has journeyed across many roles and genres throughout his career in gaming.

How does storytelling affect the essence of products and brands? What does neuroscience have to do with Marketing? This week, we chat with Dr. Matt Johnson, a marketing professor, a neuroscientist, and author of Branding that Means Business: Building Enduring Bonds between Brands, Consumers & Markets. With a PhD in Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience from Princeton University, Matt's journey is full of interesting intersections: academia x corporate, the U.S. x China, and psychology x neuroscience x marketing.