Talks at Google

Paul Husbands is the CEO and Founder of Selecta Charts, a first of its kind music streaming platform for Caribbean artists. Since its launch, Selecta Charts has drawn thousands of listeners and propelled hundreds of Caribbean artists to new heights. This episode is part of a miniseries called PubCast that explores the stories of website creators and app developers who've turned their passions into digital businesses. Hear from founders about how they got started, their challenges growing, and their tips for entrepreneurs. To provide feedback about the PubCast series of podcast episodes, visit https://g.co/talksatgoogle/pubcast. Interested in learning how you can grow your digital business with Google? Learn more about AdSense, Ad Manager, and AdMob solutions.

Bestselling author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer Jeff Hawkins joins computational neuroscience researcher and software technologist Subutai Ahmad to discuss the recent book "A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence" and how those concepts are being applied to Machine Learning. For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence? Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses maplike structures to build a model of the world - not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know. This discovery allows Hawkins to answer important questions about how we perceive the world, why we have a sense of self, and the origin of high-level thought. "A Thousand Brains" heralds a revolution in the understanding of intelligence. It is a big-think book, in every sense of the word. Moderated by Peter Norvig. Get the book here: https://goo.gle/3vMY4Ok. Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video.

Christeen Skinner is the Director of City Scopes, an astrology focused company founded in 1998 in London. Since then, the company has grown to offer a variety of astrology sites, training courses, books and more. Christeen now focuses more of her time to expand into other areas where she uses astrology to predict financial markets. This episode is part of a miniseries called PubCast that explores the stories of website creators and app developers who've turned their passions into digital businesses. Hear from founders about how they got started, their challenges growing, and their tips for entrepreneurs. To provide feedback about the PubCast series of podcast episodes, visit https://g.co/talksatgoogle/pubcast. Interested in learning how you can grow your digital business with Google? Learn more about AdSense, Ad Manager, and AdMob solutions.

Todrick Hall visits Google to discuss his fourth studio album and most personal work to date, Femuline. Femuline finds Todrick sharing the spotlight with some of music's biggest names, including Nicole Scherzinger, Tyra Banks, longtime LGBTQ+ ally Chaka Khan, and R&B legend Brandy. Todrick Hall's resume reads like a Wikipedia entry for "Major Pop Culture Events Of The 21st Century." He's worked with everyone from Taylor Swift to Beyoncé to Pentatonix, going from national fame on American Idol to international fame via RuPaul's Drag Race, to even greater global fame through a cavalcade of viral videos that pushed him to over half a billion YouTube channel views. That's before you factor in his Broadway runs in Kinky Boots, Chicago and Waitress, or his role as dance captain on the BBC's Greatest Dancer, or the millions of streams across multiple visual albums and EPs, or his own MTV show, or his sixty-date solo tour spanning the US, Europe, Asia, New Zealand and Australia, or… Well, you get the idea. There are double threats, and there are triple threats, and then there's Todrick Hall: rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, dancer, director and choreographer. Moderated by Ricardo Horna. Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video.

Chef Dennis Littley got his start as a classically trained chef and kindled his passion for teaching by creating a Culinary Program at the high school he worked at. Now living in Florida, Chef Dennis works full time on his food and travel site, Ask Chef Dennis, helping millions of people create restaurant-quality meals at home. This episode is part of a miniseries called PubCast that explores the stories of website creators and app developers who've turned their passions into digital businesses. Hear from founders about how they got started, their challenges growing, and their tips for entrepreneurs. To provide feedback about the PubCast series of podcast episodes, visit https://g.co/talksatgoogle/pubcast. Interested in learning how you can grow your digital business with Google? Learn more about AdSense, Ad Manager, and AdMob solutions.

Author Jordan Shapiro discusses his book "Father Figure: How to be a Feminist Dad." Shapiro is a globally celebrated American thought leader, whose column in Forbes Magazine has been read by over 5 million people around the world. He writes about global education, learning through digital play, children, and culture. Additionally, he is an international speaker and consultant whose fresh perspective combines psychology, philosophy, and economics in unexpected ways. In his book, Shapiro offers a norm-shattering perspective on fatherhood, family, and gender essentialism. This thoughtful exploration of dad-psychology—presented from an archetypal perspective—challenges our familiar assumptions about the origins of so-called traditional parenting roles. There are hundreds of books on parenting, but when it comes to books about parenting identity, rather than the nuts and bolts of raising children, nearly all are about what it's like to be a mother. Father Figure fills that gap; it teaches dads how to embrace the joys of fathering while guiding toward a healthy image of masculinity for the modern world. Get the book here: https://goo.gle/2TQFCHf. Moderated by Rebekah Dopp. Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video.

Jessica Rovello is the CEO and Co-Founder of Arkadium, a game development company based in New York that has built hundreds of games enjoyed on over 800 million devices worldwide. Arkadium has been voted as one of Inc.'s best places to work and takes an employee-centric approach to growth. This episode is part of a miniseries called PubCast that explores the stories of website creators and app developers who've turned their passions into digital businesses. Hear from founders about how they got started, their challenges growing, and their tips for entrepreneurs. To provide feedback about the PubCast series of podcast episodes, visit https://g.co/talksatgoogle/pubcast. Interested in learning how you can grow your digital business with Google? Learn more about AdSense, Ad Manager, and AdMob solutions.

This week, actor Andrew Rannels discusses his directorial debut with an episode of Modern Love, a co-production of Amazon Studios and The New York Times. Each episode brings to life a different story that has been inspired by the newspaper's popular Modern Love column. This anthology series explores love in all of its complicated and beautiful forms, as well as its effects on the human connection, and the episode Rannells directed is based upon a personal essay that he penned for the New York Times column. Andrew Rannels is a Grammy Award-winning stage, film, and television actor who is well known for his roles in Netflix's The Prom, Showtime's Black Monday, and HBO's Girls. Andrew also originated the lead role of Elder Price in the award-winning musical The Book of Mormon, which earned him a Tony nomination for Best Lead Actor in a Musical. Moderated by Megan Green. Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video.

Samuel Brinton, the son of two Southern Baptist ministers, shares his experiences with years of so-called "conversion therapy" designed to "cure" him of his homosexuality. In this talk, Sam speaks about his experiences in the hopes that others who have endured similar struggles will find hope. Today, Samuel is the Vice President of Advocacy and Government Affairs at the Trevor Project, a leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ youth under 25. Originally published in July of 2014. Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video.

Humor is serious business. And that's a fact backed by cold, hard research. Humor builds bonds, defuses tension, boosts innovation, and bolsters resilience through hard times. That's why Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas teach a class called "Humor: Serious Business", at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, a course that has helped some of the world's most hard-driving, blazer-wearing business minds have more joy in their work and lives. In their book Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life, Jennifer and Naomi share advice from world-class comedians, findings from behavioral scientists, and stories from leaders around the world. They reveal how humor works — and how it not only changes the way you do business, but live life. Research tells us that humor can be one of the most powerful tools we have for accomplishing serious things. Studies show that humor makes us appear more competent and confident, strengthens relationships, unlocks creativity, and helps us get through tough times. Get the book here: https://goo.gle/2S9YGzP Moderated by Helen Riley. Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video.