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Jun 10, 2024 • 52min
ICYMI
Highlights from recent episodes, including Slate's head of audio Alicia Montgomery; Chicken Fiesta founder Harold Vega; and Larry Ingrassia, author of A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

May 22, 2024 • 54min
Author Lawrence Ingrassia: A Fatal Inheritance
Lawrence Ingrassia on his book A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery. The veteran journalist, who lost his mother, two sisters, brother and nephew to cancer, discusses the painstaking detective work that has gone into understanding his family's Li-Fraumeni Syndrome.

May 19, 2024 • 54min
Filmmaker B.K. Fulton
Soulidifly Productions' founder and CEO B.K. Fulton on reinventing from the top executive ranks of Verizon into a career as a prolific filmmaker and Broadway producer.

May 12, 2024 • 52min
Chicken Fiesta
Restaurateur Harold Vega on leaving the violence of his native Colombia for the U.S. -- where he bussed tables and accumulated the ambition and capital to found Virginia rotisserie empire Chicken Fiesta.

Apr 30, 2024 • 56min
Alicia Montgomery
Alicia Montgomery, Slate's head of audio and a longtime NPR producer, on the converging and diverging words of public and for-profit media. Slate, a 28-year old digital media OG with a roster of hit podcasts, just had its most profitable year on record.

Apr 26, 2024 • 56min
Meb Faber
Cambria Investment Management's Meb Faber on staying ahead in the era of democratized markets -- with too many choices and maybe too much information. We discussed diversification, risk and the tech heavyweights dominating U.S. returns. And Faber's career journey.

Apr 23, 2024 • 52min
ICYMI
• NPR's Sarah McCammon on her bestseller The Exvangelicals
• MBA-ish feels your corporate pain
• New Martin Agency CEO Danny Robinson

Apr 14, 2024 • 57min
The Last Mutiny Girl
Dr. Vanessa Sinclair on her new novel Things Happen -- which recalls her days as a homeless grunge teen crashing at Miami's then-abandoned Hotel Mutiny after Hurricane Andrew broke her family apart. Today, Sinclair is a psychoanalyst based in Sweden.

Mar 31, 2024 • 58min
Truths in Advertising
Danny Robinson, The Martin Agency's new CEO, on staying competitive, omnivorous and funky amid the seemingly relentless disruption of advertising and media.

Mar 25, 2024 • 53min
The Exvangelicals
NPR's Sarah McCammon on her new book, The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living and Leaving the White Evangelical Church. Recorded before an audience for Fountain Bookstore and Sam Miller's Restaurant in Richmond, Virginia.
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