Gary Arndt is an award-winning blogger and travel photographer who has been traveling around the world since 2007. His travels have taken him to over 130 countries, over 400 UNESCO World Heritage sites, and all 50 US states...twice! Gary's blog Everything Everywhere is considered one of the best travel blogs in the world. It was named one of the Top 25 Blogs in the world by Time Magazine and it earned a Gold Medal in the Travel Blog category in the North American Travel Journalist Association (N...
Jul 06, 2021•58 min•Season 9Ep. 235
Born and educated in England, Geoffrey Weill has lived in the United States since 1973. His career began with Thomas Cook, first in London, then as Assistant Manager of the Thomas Cook office on New York's Fifth Avenue, then as Manager of the Thomas Cook office in Baltimore. His career has been entirely devoted to positions and fields related to travel. From 1976 until 1984, Geoffrey was Executive Director of Israel's Ministry of Tourism, in North America with primary responsibility for the Isra...
Jun 22, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 9Ep. 234
Andrea Meza was crowned Miss Universe 2020 at the 69th annual Miss Universe competition. She is from Chihuahua City, and represented her home country, Mexico, at the pageant. Andrea has a degree in software engineering, and is an activist, focused on women's rights and currently works closely with the Municipal Institute for Women, which aims to end gender-based violence. She is also a certified make-up artist and model, who is also passionate about being active and living a healthy lifestyle. S...
Jun 08, 2021•50 min•Season 9Ep. 233
David Nasaw is the author of The Patriarch , selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of the Year and a 2013 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography; Andrew Carnegie , a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, the recipient of the New York Historical Society’s American History Book Prize, and a 2007 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography; and The Chief , which was awarded the Bancroft Prize for History and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for Nonfiction. He is a past president of th...
May 25, 2021•56 min•Season 9Ep. 232
CNN Royal Contributor Victoria Arbiter brings to her role a wealth of insider knowledge and expert analysis on the British Royal Family gained from a career that spans both sides of the Atlantic. Having joined the network in 2013, she was an integral part of its royal wedding coverage, led by Anderson Cooper, when the world tuned in to watch Harry and Meghan's nuptials live from Windsor in May 2018. In 2012 she covered the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations live from London for ABC News and in...
May 11, 2021•57 min•Season 9Ep. 231
Rabbi Yonatan Neril founded and directs The Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development. Raised in California, Yonatan completed an M.A. and B.A. from Stanford University with a focus on global environmental issues, and received rabbinical ordination in Israel. Yonatan is co-author of the bestselling book Eco Bible, published by ICSD, which shines new light on how the Hebrew Bible and great religious thinkers have urged human care and stewardship of nature for thousands of years as a central m...
Apr 27, 2021•48 min•Season 9Ep. 230
Lou Cooperhouse is President & CEO of BlueNalu, with a mission to become the global leader in providing great tasting, cell-cultured seafood products that are healthy for people, humane for sea life, and sustainable for our planet. As a result, BlueNalu is able to support a more stable and secure global supply chain of seafood, and help to preserve the health, sustainability, and biodiversity of our oceans. Lou is recognized as a leading global authority in food business innovation and techn...
Apr 22, 2021•42 min•Season 9Ep. 229
In 2017, Sebastian Copeland was named one of 25 of the world’s top adventurers of the last 25 years. With approximately 5,000 miles under his skis in the polar regions, Sebastian has led numerous expeditions to document the endangered ice, reaching both the North and South Poles on foot. He was four times named Photographer of the Year and has addressed the U.N., governments, universities, and Fortune 500 companies to warn of the systemic transformations taking place in the polar regions and the...
Apr 13, 2021•58 min•Season 9Ep. 228
Marina Furman is a refusenik, activist, and distinguished speaker. Born in Kiev, Ukraine, Marina spent ten years fighting the Soviet government for the right to immigrate. Fast forward to today, where Marina is Jewish National Fund USA’s Executive Director of National Major Donor Advancement. On this episode, Marina shares her one way ticket to Ra’anana, Israel! She also recalls harrowing experiences of living as a refusnik, and the importance of fighting for freedom. Marina is just one of the d...
Mar 30, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 9Ep. 227
Loren Brill is the CEO & Founder of Sweet Loren's Inc., a clean food company that is redefining what it means to be delicious and convenient. Sweet Loren's is the maker of the #1 natural cookie dough brand in the United States. It offers irresistible cookie dough made from simple, non-GMO, gluten free, dairy free, plant-based ingredients, and nut free ingredients. After beating cancer in her early twenties, Loren made it her mission to eliminate processed foods from her diet. When she couldn...
Mar 16, 2021•52 min•Season 8Ep. 226
Diane Kochilas, TV cooking show host, consulting chef, cookbook author, and cooking school owner, has been at the forefront of bringing healthy, delicious Greek cuisine to a wide international audience for many years. Diane is one of the leading experts on Greek and Mediterranean cooking, a passionate communicator who delves deeply into her subject matter and engages her audience with informative entertainment delivered with liveliness and characteristic immediacy. A born teacher, Diane runs the...
Mar 02, 2021•51 min•Season 8Ep. 225
Phil Rosenthal is the creator and host of “Somebody Feed Phil,” an unscripted documentary series on Netflix, which combines his love of food and travel with his unique brand of humor. Rosenthal was born in Queens, New York and moved with his parents and brother to New City, New York in Rockland County, where he was raised. After graduating from Hofstra University on Long Island, where he majored in theater, he embarked on a career as an actor, writer and director in New York City. In 1989, he re...
Feb 16, 2021•56 min•Season 8Ep. 224
José Koechlin von Stein established Inkaterra in 1975, pioneering ecotourism and sustainable development in Peru. Aiming to underscore natural and cultural values, Inkaterra works under a holistic approach. Scientific research is produced as a basis for conservation, education and the wellbeing of local communities. Major flora and fauna inventories have been sponsored by Mr. Koechlin since 1978, defining natural areas where Inkaterra hotels are located – the Amazon rainforest in Madre de Dios, ...
Feb 02, 2021•47 min•Season 8Ep. 223
Dana Cowin, best known for her two decades as the Editor-in-Chief of "Food & Wine", is a tastemaker, talent scout, consultant, author, lecturer and radio show host. During her tenure at the award-winning magazine (1995-2016), she oversaw every editorial aspect of the brand from print to web to books to social media. After "Food & Wine", Cowin founded DBC Creative, a brand consultancy and was Chief Brand Advisor for Dig Food Group from 2017-2020. She is host of “Speaking Broadly” on Herit...
Jan 19, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 8Ep. 222
Adam Lowry is a former climate scientist and the founder of several mission-driven businesses, including Method Products, Ripple Foods, and Sugarbreak, all public benefit corporations. Adam designs businesses with sustainability principles at their core, so that their growth produces positive social and environmental impacts. His businesses have eliminated more than a million tons of GHG emissions and a thousand tons of plastic waste, saved more than 100 billion gallons of water, and created hun...
Jan 05, 2021•50 min•Season 8Ep. 221
Jorge Lopez-Doriga is Chief Sustainability Officer for AMARUMAYU -- a movement born in the heart of the Amazon jungle, to protect its precious forest and empower its guardians through the commercialization of Amazonian super fruit juices. Jorge is also a Member of the America's Council of Conservation International, and Ambassador for the Gross National Happiness (GNH) of Bhutan. The Spanish native has lived on four continents and has worked in senior marketing positions for Buena Vista (Disney)...
Dec 22, 2020•41 min•Season 8Ep. 220
Bobbie Lloyd is Chief Baking Officer at Magnolia Bakery, where she has played an integral role in expanding the bakery from its original location in New York City's West Village to its multiple locations across cities around the world. She brings the handmade essence of Magnolia Bakery to customers through the creation and development of new recipes and the perfection of old favorites. Born in the Chicago area, Bobbie began her epicurean journey at eight with her first cooking class. She cultiva...
Dec 08, 2020•48 min•Season 8Ep. 219
Jonathan Medved is a serial entrepreneur and according to the Washington Post (2007) "one of Israel's leading high-tech venture capitalists". In the 2008 NY Times Supplement "Israel at 60" Medved was named one of the top 10 most influential Americans who have impacted Israel. Medved is the founder and CEO of Our Crowd, the leading global equity crowdfunding platform for accredited investors and angels. OurCrowd has $1.4B in commitments and has made investments in 200 companies and funds and 30 e...
Nov 24, 2020•43 min•Season 8Ep. 218
Tal Ben-Shahar is an author and lecturer. At Harvard, he taught Positive Psychology and The Psychology of Leadership -- two of the university's largest classes at the time. Today, Tal consults and lectures around the world to executives in multi-national corporations, the general public, and at-risk populations. The topics he lectures on include: Leadership, happiness, education, innovation, ethics, self-esteem, resilience, goal setting, and mindfulness. His books have been translated into more ...
Nov 10, 2020•45 min•Season 8Ep. 217
Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia is the Founder, President and Creative Director of the jewelry firm bearing his name. He was raised in Versailles, and attended boarding schools in France and Switzerland, before graduating from the University of Paris with a degree in Business Law. He then moved to New York City in 1983. Originally pursuing a career on Wall Street, he decided to move into the field of jewelry. He was offered a position in Sotheby’s jewelry depar...
Oct 27, 2020•46 min•Season 8Ep. 216
Clarissa Ward is CNN's Chief International Correspondent. In her fifteen-year career with Fox, CBS, and ABC, Ward has reported from front lines across the world. She has received five Emmy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, two Edward R. Murrow Awards for distinguished journalism, honors from the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association, the 2016 David Kaplan Award from the Overseas Press Club, and the Excellence in International Re...
Oct 13, 2020•54 min•Season 8Ep. 215
Charlie Clifford founded Tumi and served as CEO for many years before heading up the company’s international business. A true entrepreneur, Charlie launched Tumi with a partner in 1975 as an importer of leather bags from Colombia with a total investment of $10,000. Today, Tumi is widely considered to be the market leader in premium luggage, business cases, and related accessories. The brand is sold in over 70 countries and has a dedicated following among frequent travelers, including business ex...
Sep 29, 2020•44 min•Season 8Ep. 214
Now Senior Counsel at the law firm of Kasowitz, Benson, Torres LLP in New York, Joseph I. Lieberman was for 24 years a member of the U.S. Senate from Connecticut. At the end of his service in January 2013, he was Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and a senior member of the Armed Services Committee. Through both committee positions, he became a leader in protecting the security of the American people and supporting American international leadership. Senator Lie...
Sep 15, 2020•38 min•Season 8Ep. 213
Bruno del Granado is an Agent at leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA), and represents many of the most accomplished musicians working in Latin music, including Ricky Martin, Maluma, Gloria Estefan, and Luis Fonsi, among others. Del Granado works out of the Miami office, and also represents actors/music artists Danna Paola, Jen Carlos Canela, and Isabela Merced, and works across the agency helping to create opportunities in the multicultural marketplace. Del Grana...
Sep 01, 2020•48 min•Season 8Ep. 212
Ishmael Khaldi was born in Khawaled, a village near Haifa. He is the third of eleven children. He lived in a Bedouin tent until the age of eight. He walked four miles (6 km) round trip to attend school and tended flocks of sheep. He said his family's ties with its Jewish neighbors go back to the days of the early Zionist pioneers from Eastern Europe who settled in the Galilee region in the 1920s. Ishmael earned a Bachelors degree in political science from the University of Haifa and a Masters de...
Aug 18, 2020•39 min•Season 8Ep. 211
Sabato Russo was born and raised in the town of Foggia, in southern Italy's Puglia region. After studying architecture in Florence and Milan he started his career as an international fashion model. More than anywhere, Japan fascinated Sabato with its history, culture and sensibility. He soon realized there that fashion was his main passion and started a collaboration as the assistant designer to Issey Miyake. After gaining experience, he moved to New York where he began very prestigious collabor...
Aug 04, 2020•53 min•Season 8Ep. 210
John Dickerson is a 60 Minutes correspondent. Prior to that, he was a co-host of CBS This Morning , the anchor of Face the Nation , and CBS News’s chief Washington correspondent. Dickerson is also a contributing writer to The Atlantic , co-host of Slate ’s Political Gabfest podcast, and host of the Whistlestop podcast. John won the Gerald Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency as Slate ’s chief political correspondent. He is also the recipient of the David Broder Award from the...
Jul 21, 2020•57 min•Season 8Ep. 209
Matt Gutman is an ABC News Chief National Correspondent based in Los Angeles. He reports for all ABC News broadcasts and platforms, including "World News Tonight with David Muir," "20/20," "Good Morning America," and "Nightline." He has reported for ABC from 40 countries across the globe. Matt is also the Host of the Cutthroat Inc. Podcast. In 2018 Matt followed every step of the treacherous mission staged to save twelve boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in Thailand. He is the auth...
Jul 07, 2020•46 min•Season 8Ep. 208
Best known as the first (and so far only) woman to row solo across the world’s “Big Three” oceans - the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian - Rosalind Savage inspires us to think again about what is possible, and encourages us to step up fully into the potential of our highest selves. After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in law, Roz spent the first eleven years of her career working as a management consultant, braving nothing more intrepid than rush hour on the London Underground, bef...
Jun 23, 2020•36 min•Season 8Ep. 207
Designer, entrepreneur, best-selling author, and mother of five, India Hicks was born in London, England, and comes from both British and design royalty. Her father was famed interior decorator, David Hicks, and her mother is Lady Pamela Hicks, whose father was the last Viceroy of India, hence her name. India has always made bold life choices, which have led to a multi-faceted, unexpected life journey. She has authored four design books, modeled for Ralph Lauren, among others, and been an on-air...
Jun 09, 2020•53 min•Season 8Ep. 206
