NASM certified Roz "The Diva" Mays has dedicated many late nights at the gym to becoming a stronger and healthier athlete. Pole dancing is her sport of choice, followed by TRX, strength & conditioning and flexibility. Among her finest contributions to the pole world has been creating Dangerous Curves: A Celebration of Plus Size Pole Dancers. The fitness industry's obsession with young, slender, and super strong athletes has alienated 99% of the general public, and pushed out the very people ...
Jun 16, 2020•59 min•Ep. 95
Tim Ferris is a world renowned podcaster and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek and his latest, Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice From The Best In The World. Some media outlets have called Tim “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, which has exceeded 300 million downloads and has been selected for “Best of iTunes” three years running. In this conversation moderated by Jordan Thibodeau, Tim ...
Jun 09, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 94
Everyone struggles with mental health issues from time to time. Knowing how to care for your wellbeing and when to seek professional help is as vital as caring for your physical health. From knowing when you need help and how to get it, to how to help a loved one who may be suffering, licensed therapist, author, and YouTube creator Kati Morton clarifies and de-stigmatizes the struggles so many of us go through. She will discuss the differences between mental health and mental illness, how to kno...
May 26, 2020•52 min•Ep. 93
Dr. Justyna Sanders talks about her journey to discovering a whole, plant-based lifestyle as the best way to prevent and reverse chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer. In this talk, Dr. Sanders discusses the evidence showing that the foods we eat on a mainstream diet contribute to inflammation and chronic disease, drawing on her personal journey. She lays out a roadmap for adopting a whole, plant-based lifestyle and staying truly healthy. Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to ...
May 19, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 92
Jordan Harbinger is the host of The Jordan Harbinger Show podcast. The podcast averages over 6 million downloads each month, making it one of the most downloaded podcasts in the world. It was awarded "Most Downloaded New Shows" and "Best of 2018" by Apple. In this talk he teaches us how to effectively create, maintain and leverage connections with people, in a way that feels good and natural (even if you're an introvert!), and is beneficial to everyone involved. He also talks about how to "gamif...
May 12, 2020•55 min•Ep. 91
John Campbell, Writer and Executive Producer of “The Infamous Future” documentary and David C. Banks, President & CEO, The Eagle Academy Foundation, came to Google NYC to talk about the documentary which has received accolades and awards from over 11 film festivals around the country and abroad. This Talk focuses on the documentary, the work the academy is doing with boys of color in NYC, and how positive impacts can have crossroads with topics of diversity, inclusion, race, community, cultu...
May 04, 2020•46 min•Ep. 90
Kanwer Singh, a.k.a. Humble The Poet, is a Toronto-born MC and spoken word artist. His new book, "Unlearn: 101 Simple Truths For A Better Life" instantly became a bestseller in Canada, and was recently published in the U.S. in April, 2019. In this talk, Humble the Poet explores how his colorful past, courageous spirit, celebrity pals, hip-hop, and life itself exposed him to his 101 Simple Truths. Moderated by Ty Ward. Get the book: https://goo.gle/2IPCEMw Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch...
Apr 28, 2020•55 min•Ep. 89
Ed Winters, also known as Earthling Ed, is a vegan educator, filmmaker, public speaker and entrepreneur based in London, England. His speech ""You Will Never Look at Your Life in the Same Way Again"", has been viewed over 33 million times across YouTube and Facebook. Winters is the co-founder and co-director of Surge, an animal rights organization, which in 2016 founded The Official Animal Rights March, which has grown from 2,500 participants in London in 2016 to 41,000 participants across the g...
Apr 21, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 88
Kari Byron (former star of Mythbusters) and Producer Jenny Buccos discuss their new show, ""Crash Test World"". In each episode, Kari explores how history, technology, culture and people come together to make their world - and ours - a better place. The series aims to answer the most compelling questions of our time while exploring some of the most incredible places on Earth. Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video.
Apr 14, 2020•39 min•Ep. 87
There are currently 70.8 million displaced people, a number larger than the entire population of Thailand. 1 in every 110 people globally is either an asylum-seeker, internally displaced, or a refugee. In 2018, 25 new people were forced to flee every minute. This talk aims to broaden our perspective of refugee camps and refugee experiences. This conversation between Côme Nzibarega, who spent 6 years as a refugee, and Augustine Wiah, who spent 13 years as a refugee, provides a glimpse of day-to-d...
Apr 07, 2020•59 min•Ep. 86
Listen in for an exciting performance and discussion with the cast of Broadway's ""Hadestown"", nominated for 14 2019 Tony Awards, including Best Musical! Panelists include: Anais Mitchell (Book, lyrics, music), Andre De Shields (Hermes), Reeve Carney (Orpheus), Eva Noblezada (Eurydice), Amber Gray (Persephone), and Patrick Page (Hades). HADESTOWN intertwines two mythic tales — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone — as it invites you on a he...
Mar 31, 2020•57 min•Ep. 85
Ryan Holiday discusses how he draws on timeless stoic and buddhist philosophy to demonstrate why slowing down is the secret strategy for those charging ahead. Ryan Holiday is an American author, marketer, entrepreneur and founder of the creative advisory firm Brass Check. He is a media strategist, the former director of marketing for American Apparel and a media columnist and editor-at-large for the New York Observer. Get his book here: https://goo.gle/32fHERi . Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle t...
Mar 24, 2020•56 min•Ep. 84
As black holes spiral around each other in the distant universe, Einstein’s theory of general relativity predicts gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of space-time itself. We have now detected such ripples from stellar-mass black holes, as well as directly imaging a supermassive black hole. Shami Chatterjee, an astronomer at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science and a member of the NANOGrav collaboration, talks about ongoing efforts to build a Galaxy-scale detector to...
Mar 17, 2020•56 min•Ep. 83
Talks at Google is proud to welcome comedian, actor & writer, Tony Hale, who you may know from hit shows like Arrested Development, Veep, and most recently Toy Story 4! Tony shares his experience returning to live theater after 17 years for his lead role in the American Conservatory Theater's new play, ""Wakey, Wakey"", a story about a man with only a few more minutes to live. It's an intimate comedy about love, life and what it means to be human. He will also tell us about his amazing caree...
Mar 10, 2020•42 min•Ep. 82
Jeff Probst, executive producer and host of the Emmy Award-winning CBS show Survivor, visits Talks at Google to discuss the success of Survivor’s 20 year run in celebration of CBS Survivor’s 20th anniversary and its season 40 premiere. Jeff discusses everything from how he got his start with this “crazy social experiment” to what has made Survivor so successful, as well as what we should expect for Season 40. Jeff even shares publicly for the first time the moment he knew the show was something ...
Mar 03, 2020•54 min•Ep. 81
Jocelyn Bell Burnell talks through her professional history, from overcoming imposter syndrome as a graduate student in Cambridge to discovering pulsars, getting passed over for a Nobel Prize, inspiring Joy Division to make one of the most iconic album covers of all time, and doing her best to lift up women and people of color interested in graduate work in astronomy. Jocelyn Bell Burnell inadvertently discovered pulsars as a graduate student in radio astronomy in Cambridge, opening up a new bra...
Feb 28, 2020•23 min
Richard Miles, the Founder/Executive Director of Miles of Freedom and 2019 finalist for CNN’s Hero of the year, spent 15 years in prison for a Dallas, TX murder he did not commit. Kate Germond is the Senior Advocate and Investigator for Centurion, the Princeton, NJ-based non-profit organization that started the innocence movement. Centurion re-investigated Richard’s case and ultimately freed him from wrongful incarceration. In the 10+ years since his release, Richard has dedicated his life to he...
Feb 25, 2020•55 min•Ep. 80
This episode features Oscar-winning producer Brian Grazer and Chief Content Officer at Netflix, Ted Sarandos talk about the power of human connection in an industry where people must believe in ideas that don't exist yet. His book, Face to Face: The Art of Human Connection , is out now. Ted Sarandos is Chief Content Officer at Netflix, overseeing the teams responsible for the acquisition and creation of all Netflix content including original series from around the world such as Stranger Things, ...
Feb 21, 2020•22 min
Barbara Sahakian is Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at Cambridge, Past-President of the International Neuroethics Society, Past-President of the British Association for Psychopharmacology, and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. In this talk, she discusses her book "Sex, Lies, and Brain Scans: How fMRI Reveals What Really Goes on in Our Minds". With co-author Julia Gottwald, she takes readers beyond the media headlines, considering what the technique of fMRI entails, and what info...
Feb 18, 2020•58 min•Ep. 79
President and CEO of The New York Times Mark Thompson and Editor-in-Chief of HuffPost Lydia Polgreen take on today's headlines, the threat that disinformation presents to our existence, and how to survive as a news organization when journalism is both vital and undervalued. Mark Thompson became president and chief executive officer of The New York Times Company in November 2012. He has directed the Company's strategy and presided over an expansion of its digital and global operations. Under his ...
Feb 14, 2020•23 min
Gelong Thubten, a buddhist monk that left the glamorous world of acting to pursue the true meaning of happiness, visited Google Dublin campus to talk about what brings all humans together, the pursuit of happiness. Through meditation and finding inner peace and joy, we can choose to be happy, according to Thubten. This however is not an easy task and requires practice and discipline. In this talk, Thubten takes us on the journey that led him to happiness and invites us to choose happiness as wel...
Feb 11, 2020•55 min•Ep. 78
StoryCorps Founder Dave Isay talks through how the organization has cemented the voices of millions of people for generations and presents examples of some of the incredible stories that have been recorded over the years. Dave Isay is the founder of StoryCorps and the recipient of numerous broadcasting honors, including six Peabody Awards and a MacArthur "Genius” Fellowship. He is the author/editor of numerous books that grew out of his public radio documentary work. In 2015, Dave was recognized...
Feb 07, 2020•21 min
Discussing their sixth and final season, we are joined by Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy & Annie Murphy from the hit series Schitt's Creek. Schitt's Creek (stylized as Schitt$ Creek) is a Canadian television sitcom created by Dan and Eugene Levy that premiered on CBC Television on January 13, 2015. The series is produced by Not a Real Company Productions. The series is airing a sixth and final season consisting of 14 episodes which began on January 7, 2020. Watch online via https://...
Feb 04, 2020•44 min•Ep. 77
This episode is with neuroscientist and sleep diplomat Matthew Walker on how your brain, heart, immune system, and genetics can be negatively affected by even an hour less of sleep each night, and how to sleep better for a longer, healthier life. Dr. Matthew Walker is a former Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and currently is Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the UC Berkeley. He is also the director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the UC Berkeley. In his best-...
Jan 31, 2020•22 min
Andrew McAfee is the Co-Founder & Co-Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, & a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He studies how digital technologies are changing the world & how people & businesses will work, interact, & prosper in an era of profound digital transformation. Andrew's published book "More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources—and What Happens Next" tells the story of...
Jan 28, 2020•41 min•Ep. 76
In this episode, editor-in-Chief of HuffPost Lydia Polgreen interviews journalist and novelist Ta-Nehisi Coates on the enduring legacy of slavery in the US and the inspiration for his new book, The Water Dancer. One of America’s most prolific writers on race and culture, Ta-Nehisi Coates just debuted his first novel, The Water Dancer. Already #1 on the NYT Best-seller list, The Water Dancer follows the life of a young boy who was born into slavery. Earlier this year, Coates lobbied congress on t...
Jan 24, 2020•21 min
Justine Shanti Alexander is Regional Ecologist for the Snow Leopard Trust. She has spent the last eight years dedicated to snow leopard conservation from China to Mongolia, India, Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan. In this Talk at Google, Justine discusses her snow leopard research & her work with local communities that share the snow leopard's habitat. From tracking snow leopards to protecting livestock from predators, hear how the Snow Leopard Trust is saving snow leopards. About the Snow Leopard Tr...
Jan 21, 2020•35 min•Ep. 75
What are the real chances Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, or Donald Trump will win the 2020 US Presidential Election? This episode features expert statistician Nate Silver weighs the advantages and disadvantages each candidate brings to the race and gives his early prediction on who has the best chances of winning. Statistician, Founder & Editor-in-Chief of the FiveThirtyEight, Nate has established himself as the go-to election guy using numbers and data to analyze both election...
Jan 17, 2020•22 min
While on tour for their first album, The Gereg, Mongolian rock band The Hu stops by Google to play a short set and answer some questions. The band discusses the traditional instruments they play and incorporate into their music, their history and experiences touring the world, and the message they hope listeners take away from their music. Moderated by Ken Arthur. Check out their YouTube page: https://goo.gle/2N7YGtD
Jan 14, 2020•39 min•Ep. 74
This episode features Dr. Peggy Whitson speaking about how spending 665 days in space has changed her perspective of the world and her message to all women nerds. Given the nickname ‘space ninja’ Peggy is the current record holder for longest single spaceflight by a woman. With a total of 665 days in space, she holds the U.S. record and places eighth on the all-time space endurance list. She was also the first woman to hold NASA’s Chief Astronaut position. This event is moderated by Dr. Ellen St...
Jan 10, 2020•21 min
