Major General Tammy Smith discusses her background as a member of the LGBTQ+ community in the US military, her experience as the highest ranking and first out-and-proud Major General, and what her leadership means to the LGBTQ+ community at large. Tammy Smith is a recently retired Army Major General. At the conclusion of her 35 year career, she was serving at the Pentagon as the Military Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of the Army, the US military’s largest service branch with over one millio...
Apr 12, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 437
Professor of psychology and neuroscience Charan Ranganath visits Google to discuss his book "Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters." The book reveals the powerful role memory plays in nearly every aspect of our lives, from recalling faces and names, to learning, decision-making, trauma, and healing. A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. Memory is not quite the repository of the past that we can tap into as we wish. It is act...
Apr 09, 2024•39 min•Ep. 436
Mary Roach visits Google to discuss her book "Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law." What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology. Mary Roach is th...
Apr 05, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 435
Olympic gold medalist, activist, author, and podcast host Abby Wambach visits Google to discuss her journey, career and International Women's Day. Abby Wambach is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, FIFA World Cup Champion, and six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award. She was the United States’ leading scorer in the 2007 and 2011 Women’s World Cup tournaments and the 2004 and 2012 Olympics. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller "Wolfpack", and the forthcoming c...
Apr 02, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 434
Sarah Lux-Lee visits Google to discuss Mindr and strategies for building belonging in the workplace through impactful employee communities, a culture of mentorship, and meaningful virtual connections. Mindr is a workforce development organization that builds belonging in the world's leading workplaces. Their custom technology platform, events and strategic consulting services foster strong and impactful communities, including women’s initiatives, Black professional networks, working parent circl...
Mar 29, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 433
Chef, nutrition coach and former molecular biologist Kanchan Koya visits Google to discuss her cookbook “Spice Spice Baby” and her podcast “Radical Vitality”, where she uses science-backed evidence to encourage the use of food, spices and holistic lifestyle changes as our best preventative medicine. Kanchan Koya is a chef, author, podcast host and nutrition coach, specializing in championing the science-backed benefits of ancient spices to help people live a more vibrant, healthy and joyful life...
Mar 26, 2024•32 min•Ep. 432
Rudrani Chettri visits Google to discuss her journey as a champion for LGBTQ rights in India, and how her initiatives are helping shape a new generation. A transgender Delhi native, Rudrani Chettri has spent over 10 years spreading awareness and fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in India. She founded MITR Trust in 2005 with an aim to reduce the risks of HIV and other sexually-transmitted infections and in 2015, she founded BOLD, the first transgender modeling agency in India. Rudrani is a national cons...
Mar 22, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 431
Bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED for over twenty years, Chris Anderson visits Google to discuss his book "Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading." The book explores one of humankind’s defining but overlooked impulses, and how we can super-charge its potential to build a hopeful future. Let’s face it: Recent years have been tough on optimists. Hopes that the Internet might bring people together have been crushed by the ills of social media. Is there a way ba...
Mar 19, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 430
Julie Lythcott-Haims visits Google to discuss her book "Your Turn: How to Be an Adult". In the twentieth century, psychologists came up with five markers of adulthood: finish your education, get a job, leave home, marry, and have children. But early adulthood for members of the Millennial and Gen Z generations looks a lot different. Those old markers are valid choices, but any one person’s choices along those lines do not make them more or less an adult. In “Your Turn,” Julie exposes her own vei...
Mar 15, 2024•59 min•Ep. 429
Award-winning actress and singer Danielle Brooks visits Google to discuss her journey, career, and her Oscar nominated performance as Sofia in the highly acclaimed film “The Color Purple.” Danielle rose to prominence for her portrayal of “Taystee” on the popular Netflix series Orange Is The New Black, for which she was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. In 2019, Danielle released her four-track EP entitled Four. She co-wrote the four songs, including “Seasons,” which was featured in the series ...
Mar 12, 2024•49 min•Ep. 428
Dr. Shanna Swan visits Google to discuss her book "Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race". In 2017, Dr. Shanna Swan and her team of researchers completed a major study, finding that over the past four decades, sperm levels amongst men in Western countries have dropped by more than 50%. They came to this conclusion after examining 185 studies involving close to 45,000 healthy men...
Mar 08, 2024•59 min•Ep. 427
Vivian Tu visits Google to discuss her book "Rich AF: The Winning Money Mindset That Will Change Your Life." This book is a guide filled with the tools and knowledge to not only help you understand the financial landscape, but to build a financial strategy of your own. Vivian Tu is a former Wall Street trader-turned-educator, public speaker, host, entrepreneur, media powerhouse and the founder and CEO of the financial equity phenomenon, “Your Rich BFF.” In January 2021, she developed and launche...
Mar 05, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 426
Iza Calzado is an award-winning Filipina actress, television host, dancer and model best known for her role as Amihan in the fantasy drama television series Encantadia. She was a former homegrown artist of the GMA Network for ten years. Iza is also the co-founder of “She Talks Asia”, through which she has proven to be a powerful advocate for female empowerment, particularly in raising awareness of the importance of physical, emotional and mental well-being. Originally published in September of 2...
Mar 01, 2024•55 min•Ep. 425
Bestselling author Min Jin Lee visits Google to provide a masterclass on writing. In addition, she speaks about representation in media, fiction, non-fiction and her views on the evolving Asian-American identity. In 2019, Apple ordered a television adaptation of Min’s New York Times bestselling book Pachinko. President Barack Obama selected Pachinko for his recommended reading list, calling it “a powerful story about resilience and compassion.” Lee’s debut novel Free Food for Millionaires was li...
Feb 27, 2024•49 min•Ep. 424
Lang Lang visits Google to perform pieces from his new album, “The Chopin Album”. This album includes the second set of Chopin's Études, the Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise, and a selection of shorter works that he has long enjoyed performing, including three Nocturnes and the Waltz op. 64 no. 1, popularly known as the "Minute" Waltz. Chopin has accompanied Lang Lang throughout his career. One of the first pieces he learnt was the Grande Valse brillante in E-flat major, and it was Chopin...
Feb 23, 2024•56 min•Ep. 423
Global development leader, professor and author Edward ‘Ted’ Miguel visits Google to discuss how open science is transforming poverty reduction and global development. What really works in the fight to empower the world's poorest people? What's the science behind traditional development programs, cash grants, and tech transfer efforts? Ted shares his learnings from his years leading UC Berkeley's Center for Effective Global Action, or CEGA. Ted’s main research focus is African economic developme...
Feb 20, 2024•44 min•Ep. 422
Shelby Ivey Christie visits Google to discuss the history of how the music industry has influenced Black fashion, how Black artists and costume designers influenced style for musical artists worldwide, and how Black fashion became and continues to be mainstream culture today. An ardent Fashion & Costume historian, Shelby Ivey Christie has a passion for articulating how Black History intersects and affects the cultural climate, economics, and most importantly, fashion. Her expertise has frequ...
Feb 16, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 421
Mel B visits Google to discuss her career journey, her memoir “Brutally Honest”, and her experiences as a person of mixed heritage. Melanie Brown is one-fifth of the most successful girl band on Earth, the Spice Girls. As ‘Scary Spice’, she became one of the most recognisable women in the world. She went on to carve out a global career as a television entertainer, theater performer, and movie actress. Since the Spice Girls split in 2000, Melanie went on to carve a new career as a host of televis...
Feb 13, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 420
Nikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning investigative reporter covering racial injustice for the New York Time Magazine. Nikole has spent the last five years investigating how official policy creates and maintains racial segregation in American public schools. In 2016, Nikole helped found the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, a training and mentorship organization geared towards increasing the number of investigative reporters of color. She has also authored a book that discusses...
Feb 09, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 419
Michael Smith visits Google to discuss his book “The Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World.” For too long, our system of higher education has been defined by scarcity: scarcity in enrollment, scarcity in instruction, and scarcity in credentials. In addition to failing students professionally, this system has exacerbated social injustice and socioeconomic stratification across the globe. In “The Abundant University”, Smith argues that the only way to create a financia...
Feb 06, 2024•48 min•Ep. 418
Math is boring, says the mathematician and comedian Matt Parker. Part of the problem may be the way the subject is taught, but it's also true that we all, to a greater or lesser extent, find math difficult and counterintuitive. This counterintuitiveness is actually part of the point, argues Parker: the extraordinary thing about math is that it allows us to access logic and ideas beyond what our brains can instinctively do―through its logical tools, we are able to reach beyond our innate abilitie...
Feb 02, 2024•49 min•Ep. 417
Andrew Keen visits Google to discuss his book “The Cult of the Amateur.” The book discusses the grave consequences of today’s new participatory internet and reveals how it threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the very innovation and creativity that forms the fabric of our societies. According to Keen, our most valued cultural institutions are being overtaken by an avalanche of amateur, user-generated free content. Keen claims that “cut-and-paste” online culture, in which intellectual pr...
Jan 30, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 416
Ray Jackendoff visits Google to discuss "The Peculiar Logic of Value", which centers on how humans conceptualize systems of value. Jackendoff hypothesizes that value is conceptualized as an abstract property attributed to objects, persons, and actions. There are several distinct types of value - Affective value, or “does it feel good or bad?” Utility, or “is it good for me?”; Prowess, or “is someone good at doing something”; Normative value, or “is it good of someone to do something?”; Personal ...
Jan 26, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 415
Lily Gladstone visits Google to discuss her journey, her career, and to celebrate Native American Heritage Month. Lily was raised on the Blackfeet Reservation in Northwestern Montana and is from the Blackfeet and Nez Perce Tribal Nations. Lily stars in Martin Scorsese’s critically acclaimed film “Killers Of The Flower Moon”, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert DeNiro. Her breakout role in Kelly Reichardt's “Certain Women”, earned her multiple nominations, including Best Supporting Actress at t...
Jan 23, 2024•59 min•Ep. 414
Sri M is a spiritual guide, social reformer and educationist. His transformational journey – from a young boy to a living yogi – is a fascinating story. He recently completed a Walk of Hope – a 15 month long padayatra, or “walking on foot”, in 2016, from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, spanning 7500 kilometers across 11 states of India for peace, harmony and tolerance. In his Talk, he describes his journey, learnings and gives practical techniques for Mindfulness. Originally published in November of 201...
Jan 19, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 413
Nick Lane visits Google to discuss his new book “Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death.” What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been dominated by the study of genetic information. Information is important, but it is only part of what makes us alive. Our inheritance also includes our living metabolic network, a flame passed from generation to generation, right back to the origin of life. In Transformer, biochemist Nick Lane reveals a scien...
Jan 16, 2024•44 min•Ep. 412
Acclaimed author George Saunders visits Google to discuss his book “The Braindead Megaphone.” "The Braindead Megaphone", George Saunders's first foray into nonfiction, is comprised of essays on literature, travel, and politics. At the core of this unique collection are Saunders's travel stories, such as the mysteries of Nepal’s so-called "Buddha Boy", the extravagant pleasures of Dubai, and his attempts to join the minutemen at the Mexican border. Saunders expertly navigates the works of Mark Tw...
Jan 12, 2024•48 min•Ep. 411
Reba McEntire visits Google to discuss her memoir “Not That Fancy: Simple Lessons on Living, Loving, Eating, and Dusting Off Your Boots.” This new photo-driven book is filled with the stories, recipes, and Oklahoma-style truths that guide her life. Multimedia entertainment mogul Reba McEntire has become a household name through a successful career that includes music, television, film, theater, retail, and hospitality. This Country Music Hall of Famer and Hollywood Bowl member has more than 50 a...
Jan 09, 2024•31 min•Ep. 410
Julie Andrews visits Google with her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton to share reflections on her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and Victor/Victoria. In her first memoir “Home,” Julie Andrews recounted her difficult childhood and her emergence as an acclaimed singer and performer on the stage. With this second memoir, “Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years”, Andrews picks up the story with her arrival in Hollywood and her phenomenal rise to fame...
Jan 05, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 409
El futbolista argentino Ángel Di María se une a nosotros para hablar sobre su trayectoria, su carrera y cómo el tema de LHM “Estamos en camino” resuena con él. Originario de Rosario, Argentina, Ángel empezó su car rera como futbolista allá por 2005 con 17 años en el club Rosario Central. Dos años más tarde ya sería citado para el torneo Sudamericano con la selección sub-20. Mediocampista aguerrido y de presencias claves, su carrera se consolidó en grandes clubes como el Real Madrid, Manchester U...
Jan 02, 2024•23 min•Ep. 408
