Young-ish

Tanvi Girotra and Rachel Stephenson Sheff

A project that explores the comings of age we don't see coming. By Rachel Stephenson Sheff and Tanvi Girotra.

  1. MAY 8

    Standing for Something (When It's Complicated) feat. Andrew Crespo

    Andrew Manuel Crespo is the Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches criminal law and procedure and serves as Executive Faculty Director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration. His writing on the American penal system has appeared in The New York Times, Harvard Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal. He clerked for Justices Kagan and Breyer at the Supreme Court, worked as a public defender in D.C., and served on Biden's Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court. You might know him from the news, as most recently, he served as general counsel to the Harvard AAUP faculty chapter in its lawsuit against the Trump administration's demands that Harvard restrict speech or face cancellation of $8.7 billion in federal funding — a fight that ended with a federal court ruling that the administration's attacks flagrantly violated the Constitution. This was one of those conversations that could have gone anywhere and, luckily, went everywhere. We covered the many hats Andrew wears as he describes his day-to-day as a densely packed atom, and his life as a braid of identities and experiences — a father, a brother, a son, an educator, a lawyer, an organizer. And then it went to one particular place: how might we unearth what we truly stand for — our ‘political values’ as Andrew puts it — and how might we put these values into action in our everyday lives? Sprinkled throughout the conversation are personal stories, nuggets of wisdom, music and psychedelics(!), not in the ways you might think.

    1h 4m
  2. 02/02/2025

    Designing a Big Life - Partnership (Feat. Alisha & Carlos Miranda)

    In the first instalment of this multi-part series, Rachel & Tanvi sit down with Carlos & Alisha Miranda to focus on one of the more fundamental conditions of a Big Life - you can’t do it alone. You need to be well resourced with the right people around you. Those who won’t bet against you and who will pull their weight so you can chase dreams even they don’t understand. If you’re really lucky, you’ll have a partner for life that can do all of the above, as is the case with Carlos and Alisha Miranda.  Rachel has been working with this iconic power couple for almost a decade (she’s Managing Director of their business, I.G. Advisors). Between the two of them, they wear a dizzying number of hats: entrepreneur, founder, CEO, board chair, writer, author, art dealer, salesperson, fundraiser, tap dancer, ramen chef, barista, mother and father to twins, Latin American immigrants, as ‘American as apple pie’ - oh and married. (This is just a running list. They’re actively building new identities as we speak.)  This episode is a real peek into some of these many identities and they were so generous with their story. Did they create a big masterplan early on? What did they need from each other? And how do they navigate a marriage partnership, a parent partnership, a creative partnership and a business partnership, all in one?  Listen to find out! Find us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fortheyoungish/ Hosted by Rachel Stephenson Sheff & Tanvi Girotra - hello@fortheyoungish.com

    56 min

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A project that explores the comings of age we don't see coming. By Rachel Stephenson Sheff and Tanvi Girotra.