
Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad
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Latest episodes

Jun 3, 2025 • 53min
"Career Hannah"
Social media phenom "Career Hannah" -- Hannah Zhang, 29 -- on the ambitious college grad's guide to the riveting / deflating / why-did-I-sign-up-for-this? world of twentysomething corporate life.

May 30, 2025 • 57min
Jenny Van Leeuwen Harrington
Jenny Van Leeuwen Harrington, CEO of Gilman Hill Asset Management, on the art of dividend investing -- the subject of her new book.

May 16, 2025 • 55min
Dan Colarusso
Dan Colarusso, CNBC's senior VP of news, on spinning off from Comcast; keeping talent after the cord is cut; making a living in digital; co-piloting with A.I....and much more.

May 9, 2025 • 1h 2min
William D. Cohan
Bestselling author Bill Cohan (House of Cards; Power Failure) on Elon Musk's Wall Street-to-Washington playbook; Big Media's last stand; nostalgia for the golden age of glossy magazines; and how A.I. will both help and threaten beleaguered junior bankers.

May 4, 2025 • 59min
Restaurateur Carena Ives
Jamaica House and Carena's Jamaican Grille founder Carena Ives on starting from scratch three decades ago, expanding, surviving disasters and snagging national renown with the help of Guy Fieri.

Apr 25, 2025 • 53min
Jeffrey Lacker
Former Richmond Fed president Jeffrey Lacker, a member of the Shadow Open Market Committee, on tariffs and the inflationary hangover; Pres. Trump vs. Fed Chair Powell; and the peculiarities of post-Covid economic life.

Apr 23, 2025 • 53min
ICYMI
In case you missed it: highlights from recent shows. Mudlarking on the River Thames; raising chickens in a Virginia backyard; and a Full Disclosure first -- a journo who I admire, Mo News's Mosheh Oinounou, interviews me about nervous markets and the economy.

Apr 11, 2025 • 54min
Mudlarking the River Thames
Gradually...bit by bit...shard by shred...coin by button....a storied river gives up thousands of years of history. London Mudlark and micro-paleontologist Alessio Checconi on his finger-wrinkling love-affair with the River Thames.

Apr 3, 2025 • 60min
Thomas Dolby
The professional journey of musician Thomas Dolby, the synth and MTV pioneer who hit it big with “She Blinded me with Science.” The British polymath has been a tech innovator, producer, author and professor at Johns Hopkins, among a thousand other things. Ian Stewart guest hosts ... with a fanboy chime-in by Roben Farzad.

Mar 26, 2025 • 52min
ICYMI
🎙️ Rick Stengel on TIME and the State Department
🎙️ Ray Suarez on the American immigrant experience
🎙️ Zoe Schiffer on Elon Musk