Teach For America founder and CEO Wendy Kopp visits Google for a conversation with former Google vice president Sheryl Sandberg. From her dorm room at Princeton University, twenty-one-year-old college senior Wendy Kopp decided to launch a movement to improve public education in America. In this Talk, she shares the remarkable story of Teach For America, a non-profit organization that sends outstanding college graduates to teach for two years in the most under-resourced urban and rural public sch...
Aug 16, 2024•52 min•Ep. 473
Emma Roberts and Liz Garcia visit Google to discuss Prime Video’s new film “Space Cadet,” premiering July 4th, 2024. Played by Emma Roberts, Tiffany “Rex” Simpson has always dreamed of going to space, but life isn’t going quite as planned. Determined to turn things around, she aims high and with the embellishing touch of her supportive best friend, her “doctored” application lands her in NASA’s ultra-competitive astronaut training program. In over her head, Rex relies on her quick wits, moxie an...
Aug 13, 2024•29 min•Ep. 472
Monique Maddy visits Google to discuss her memoir, "Learning to Love Africa." From the remote mountains of Liberia to the epicenter of New York City, Monique Maddy's life has been an extraordinary journey from an idyllic community to the chaos of city living. But Learning to Love Africa is far more than an exile's dream of return. Sent to the west at the age of six by her father, Maddy has spent her entire life struggling to reclaim her father's dream of progress in his beloved homeland. In haun...
Aug 09, 2024•50 min•Ep. 471
Levy Rozman aka GothamChess, the creator behind the most subscribed-to chess channel on YouTube, discusses his New York Times bestseller “How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond.” Filled with practical and easy-to-follow tips for improving your game, the book includes over 500 instructional gameplay illustrations to help you better visualize the board. Levy Rozman, more popularly known as GothamChess, is an online chess streamer who earned the title of International Mast...
Aug 06, 2024•59 min•Ep. 470
Ann Cooper visits Google to discuss her book "Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children". Remember how simple school lunches used to be? You'd have something from every major food group, run around the playground for a while, and you looked and felt fine. But today it's not so simple. Schools are actually feeding the American crisis of childhood obesity and malnutrition. Most cafeterias serve a veritable buffet of processed, fried, and sugary foods, and although many schools have atte...
Aug 02, 2024•48 min•Ep. 469
Annie Eaton, CEO of the extended-reality focused company Futurus, visits Google to discuss her book “The Extended Reality Blueprint,” The book dives into the discovery and product development process through an immersive technology lens. “The Extended Reality Blueprint” focuses on design for non-gaming or gaming adjacent applications in extended reality, or XR, including augmented and virtual reality. Annie Eaton is a leading producer of immersive content in the extended reality space. Many of A...
Jul 30, 2024•32 min•Ep. 468
Author Don Tapscott visits Google to discuss his book "Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything". In just the last few years, traditional collaboration in a meeting room, a conference call, even a convention center has been superseded by online collaborations on an astronomical scale. Today, apps, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other products are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. While some leaders fear the growth of these mass...
Jul 26, 2024•53 min•Ep. 467
Leading consultant and former Columbia University professor Eric Siegel visits Google to discuss his book “The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment.” The book explains how machine learning works and how to successfully operationalize it. The greatest tools are often the hardest to use. Machine learning is the world’s most important general-purpose technology – but it’s notoriously difficult to launch. Outside Big Tech and a handful of other leading companies, machin...
Jul 23, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 466
Lawrence Lessig visits Google's New York office to discuss his book “Free Culture.” Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America’s most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity, or how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that building with laws and technologies. In his two previous books, CODE and THE FUTURE OF IDEAS, Lessig concentrated on the destruction of much of the origi...
Jul 19, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 465
Everybody look around, there’s reason to rejoice! "The Wiz," the Tony Award®-winning Best Musical that took the world by storm in 1975 is back. Based on L. Frank Baum’s children’s book, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," "The Wiz" returns home to the stage with an all-new adaptation. This beloved Broadway musical sets Dorothy’s adventures in the Land of Oz to a dazzling, lively mixture of rock, gospel and soul music. Dorothy, a restless Kansas farm girl eager to see the world, is transported by a tor...
Jul 16, 2024•58 min•Ep. 464
Fred Kofman visits Google to discuss his book “Conscious Business”. Consciousness is the main source of organizational greatness. Conscious business means finding your passion and expressing your essential values through your work. A conscious business seeks to promote the intelligent pursuit of happiness in all its stakeholders. It produces sustainable, exceptional performance through the solidarity of its community and the dignity of each member. It also fosters personal fulfillment in the ind...
Jul 12, 2024•47 min•Ep. 463
Andy Cohen visits Google to discuss his book “Design for a Radically Changing World.” The book brings to light the impact of design on our everyday lives and offers innovative ways that design can help address some of the world’s most pressing issues and urgent crises. From rethinking the future of work and the integration of live/work/play in our daily lives, to addressing climate change and revitalizing our urban cores, design can bring people together, elevate the human experience, and provid...
Jul 09, 2024•30 min•Ep. 462
Mindfulness-based psychotherapy is the most popular new treatment approach in the last decade—and for good reason. Studies demonstrate that mindfulness practices can be effective tools to help resolve anxiety, depression, addictive habits, stress-related medical disorders, and even interpersonal conflict. Mindfulness is not, however, a one-size-fits-all remedy. Practices must be tailored to particular problems. This talk will outline how mindfulness practices work to alleviate psychological dist...
Jul 05, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 461
New York Times Bestselling author Amanda Montell visits Google to discuss her book “The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality.” “Magical thinking” can be broadly defined as the belief that one’s internal thoughts can affect unrelated events in the external world - think of the conviction that one can manifest their way out of poverty, stave off cancer with positive vibes, or thwart the apocalypse by learning to can their own peaches. In all its forms, magical thinking works ...
Jul 02, 2024•33 min•Ep. 460
Chef Melissa King is one of the most exciting talents in America’s culinary scene — with a unique cooking style that combines the Bay Area’s best ingredients with modern techniques and Asian flavors. King visits Google to share her thoughts on current events, the importance of her visibility as a queer Asian woman in the culinary industry, and meals to make. Chef King recently won Bravo’s Top Chef All Stars: Los Angeles Season 17 and was also the winner of All Star’s Fan Favorite. She previously...
Jun 28, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 459
Triple board certified physician Dr. Romie Mushtaq visits Google to discuss her bestselling book, “The Busy Brain Cure: The Eight-Week Plan to Find Focus, Tame Anxiety, and Sleep Again.” The book sheds light on the science of chronic stress and neuroinflammation for high-performing individuals who need a lasting cure for their busy brain, and is a culmination of 20-plus years of clinical research as a brain doctor and experience in corporate wellness as a Chief Wellness Officer. Dr. Romie is a t...
Jun 25, 2024•57 min•Ep. 458
Taylor Conroy is a disruptive social entrepreneur. Taylor has been a professional firefighter, a real estate entrepreneur, and a bodybuilder. He has studied with Zen monks in Japan, run with the bulls in Spain, explored every continent on earth including Antarctica, and surfed the longest wave in the world in Peru. He has also filmed documentaries in the red light district of Cambodia to combat sex trafficking, the Ecuadorian Amazon to catalyze microfinance, and the jungles of Uganda as an activ...
Jun 21, 2024•30 min•Ep. 457
benny blanco visits Google to discuss his cookbook “Open Wide: A Cookbook for Friends,” where he teaches you everything you need to know about cooking, enjoying life, and throwing the greatest dinner party of all time. benny has contributed to the sale of hundreds of millions of albums worldwide through his work with artists including Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Katy Perry, The Weeknd, Maroon 5, Sia, and many more. As a solo artist, benny has released two platinum albums that have been s...
Jun 18, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 456
As part of our Pride at Google Speaker Series, actor and activist Wilson Cruz visits Google to discuss his involvement with LGBT advocacy throughout his career. It all began in 1995, when he starred in a groundbreaking drama, My So-Called Life. He also has appeared in Grey's Anatomy, He's Just Not That Into You, Noah's Arc, The West Wing, RENT, Party of Five and Ally McBeal. Wilson currently serves as a full-time GLAAD staff member and national spokesperson. Originally published in June of 2014....
Jun 14, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 455
World-renowned physicist Claudia de Rham visits Google to discuss her book “The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity.” Claudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, she experimented with her body’s buoyancy in the Indian Ocean. As a pilot, she soared over Canadian waterfalls before beginning her daily scientific research. As an astronaut candidate, she dreamt of the experience of flying free from the Earth’s pull. And as a physicist, she discovered new sid...
Jun 11, 2024•30 min•Ep. 454
Kevin Jennings visits Google to introduce listeners to the “queeroes” who led the fight for LGBTQ+ equality in America over the past century. Featuring both familiar stories as well as ones you may never have heard before, Kevin’s Talk will fill in the gaps in the history textbook you read in high school so that you leave with a fuller appreciation for the courage and determination of those who paved the way for the freedoms we all-too-often take for granted today. Visit http://youtube.com/Talks...
Jun 07, 2024•48 min•Ep. 453
Guy Kawasaki, Chief Evangelist of Canva and Host of the Remarkable People podcast, visits Google to discuss his book “Think Remarkable: 9 Paths to Transform Your Life and Make a Difference.” Ever wonder what sets people like Steve Wozniak, Mark Rober, and Jane Goodall apart? Why do some people seem to eat, sleep, and breathe “awesome?” In Think Remarkable, Guy Kawasaki shares invaluable knowledge from more than 40 years of working with game-changing organizations such as Apple, Canva, Google, Me...
Jun 04, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 452
Renowned long-distance backpacker Andrew Skurka visits Google to discuss the gear, supplies and skills necessary to make hiking fun instead of a chore. Described by National Geographic as “one of the best traveled and fastest hikers on the planet,” and named “Adventurer of the Year” by Outside and “Person of the Year” by Backpacker magazine, Skurka recounts what he’s learned from more than 30,000 miles of long-distance adventures, most recently a 4,700-mile 6-month loop around Alaska and Canada’...
May 31, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 451
Productivity expert, entrepreneur, creator, and bestselling author Ali Abdaal visits Google to discuss his book “Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You.” We often think that productivity is all about hard work, and that the road to success is lined with endless frustration and toil. But what if there’s another way? In this book, Ali reveals how the science of feel-good productivity can transform your life. He introduces the three hidden 'energizers' that underpin enjoyable...
May 28, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 450
Sarah Williams Goldhagen visits Google to discuss how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to the human experience. Taking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world’s best and worst landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Goldhagen draws from recent research in cognitive neuroscience and psychology to demonstrate how people’s experiences of the places they bu...
May 24, 2024•53 min•Ep. 449
Jessica Stone, Grant Gustin, Isabelle McCalla, Gregg Edelman & Paul Alexander Nolan visit Google to perform a song and discuss the Tony-nominated Broadway show “Water for Elephants”, which is based on the critically acclaimed bestselling novel that comes to vivid life on Broadway in a spectacle-filled new musical. After losing what matters most, a young veterinary student jumps off a moving train, unsure of where the road will take him. He then finds a new home with the remarkable crew of a ...
May 21, 2024•57 min•Ep. 448
Chase Iron Eyes visits Google to discuss ongoing efforts to prevent oil pipelines from being built at Standing Rock, recent revelations of corporate infiltration of anti-pipeline protests, and attempts to keep arrested water protectors free from prison. Chase has used his career as an attorney to advocate for Native American civil rights. He has served as a staff attorney for the Lakota People's Law Project, an initiative founded in 2005 with the purpose of ending the unlawful practice of removi...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 447
Writer, broadcaster, and researcher Dr. Aarathi Prasad visits Google to discuss her book “Silk: A World History.” In a tale that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics. Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of the animals from which it has been drawn, she explores the global, natural, and cultural history of a unique material that has fascinated the world for thousands of years. Some four thousand years ago, human...
May 14, 2024•36 min•Ep. 446
Gary Small, a leading medical expert on memory and brain fitness, visits Google to discuss his book iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind. Never before has one generation experienced such rapid change in the brain's underlying wiring system, and the full consequences of this evolution has yet to be fully explored until now. Gary explores the remarkable evolution of the human brain caused by today’s constant technological presence. The book separates the digital native...
May 10, 2024•41 min•Ep. 445
Samuel T. Wilkinson visits Google to discuss his book “Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply about the Meaning of Our Existence.” By using principles from a variety of scientific disciplines, Samuel provides a framework for human evolution that reveals an overarching purpose to our existence. Generations have been taught that evolution implies there is no overarching purpose to our existence, that life has no fundamental meaning. We are merely the accumulation of tens of thousands of in...
May 07, 2024•29 min•Ep. 444
