Art of the Hustle

Kathryn Minshew is the founder and CEO of The Muse, a career platform used by over 75 million people to research companies and careers. In 2018, The Muse was named one of Fast Company's 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World and #3 Most Innovative Company for Enterprise.

Kathryn has spoken at MIT and Harvard, contributed to the Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review, and appeared on TODAY and CNN, among others. Kathryn worked on HPV vaccine introduction in Rwanda with the Clinton Health Access Initiative before founding The Muse and previously worked at McKinsey & Company. Her first book, "The New Rules of Work: The Modern Playbook for Navigating Your Career," was a Wall Street Journal national bestseller.

She joins us to talk about what employees should be demanding from their employers, the future of the four-year university, and how contributing her writing without pay helped launch The Muse from it's "only eating ramen" phase to raising millions of dollars.

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Christina Sass is the co-founder and board member of Andela, a company that recruits the most talented software engineers on the African continent and pairs them with global tech companies as full-time, distributed team members.

In five years, Andela has hired almost 2,000 developers and become known as the "Best Place to Work in Africa," with tech campuses in Lagos, Nairobi, Kampala, and Kigali. Founded on the premise that brilliance is evenly distributed, but opportunity is not, Andela has built one of the world's most selective engineering institutions.

Christina has built education and employment programs in China, Gaza, the West Bank, Kenya, and Nigeria. Prior to co-founding Andela, she directed the Program department of the Clinton Global Initiative and advised the President and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation, a $9B global foundation working to advance education and financial inclusion for youth in Africa.

Christina serves on the Advisory Council of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights and on the board of the non-profit Global Give Back Circle. Christina's work has been mentioned by Forbes, CNN, The New Yorker, NBC, and WIRED.

She joins us to talk about how traveling and teaching around the world fostered her passion for youth employment, cracking jokes with Bill Gates, and how artificial intelligence will change the future of hiring.

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Kimbal Musk is a chef, restauranteur, and philanthropist. His mission is to pursue an America where everyone has access to real food. Named a Global Social Entrepreneur by the World Economic Forum, Kimbal is the co-founder and Chairman of three real-food companies that are rapidly scaling across the US.

The Kitchen Restaurant Group—including Next Door, Hedge Row, and The Kitchen, serve real-food at every price point. The restaurants source food from American farmers, stimulating the local farm economy to the tune of millions of dollars a year. His non-profit organization, Big Green, builds permanent, outdoor Learning Garden classrooms in hundreds of underserved schools across America. His tech-enabled, urban farming company, Square Roots, grows hyper-local, real food year-round while empowering the next generation of farmers.

Kimbal joins us to talk about how, in their early 20s, he and his brother Elon courageously built out their network through cold calling some of the most powerful people in the country, serving on the board for Tesla and SpaceX, and how he effectively scaled his non-profit, Big Green to reach over 350,000 students.

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Heather Hartnett is the founder and CEO of Human Ventures, an early-stage venture studio that backs and builds consumer technology companies. She was named one of the '50 Most Influential Women in America' by Marie Claire, The Information has referred to her as 'the new breed of VC,' and Business Insider has pointed to Human as the first female-led startup studio. 

Prior to Human Ventures, Heather incubated companies with City Light Capital, a venture capital fund that invests in companies seeking to generate measurable social and environmental impact. 

She serves on the leadership council for tech:nyc and is a mentor to the NYC MIT Startup Studio and 1776. She's also a contributor to Forbes and serves on the Board of Directors of the David Lynch Foundation.

Heather joins us to talk about the qualities that make a great entrepreneur, how from an early age, transcendental meditation has impacted her life, and how she and the team at Human Ventures foresee the future of work. 

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Chris Voss was the lead international kidnapping negotiator for the FBI and during his 24-year tenure in the Bureau, he was trained in the art of negotiation by the FBI, Scotland Yard, and Harvard Law School. Before then, he had served as the lead crisis negotiator for the New York City Division of the FBI and was a member of the NYC Joint Terrorist Task Force.

Chris has taught business negotiation as an adjunct professor at the USC's Marshall School of Business, Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, and Harvard University. 

He's the CEO & Founder of The Black Swan Group, which provides negotiation training for individuals, companies, and live events, and a recipient of the Attorney General's Award for Excellence in Law Enforcement and the FBI Agents Association Award for Distinguished and Exemplary Service.

Chris joins us to talk about the qualities that make a successful negotiator, how using empathy, rather than direct questions, can elicit more effective responses, and the groundbreaking tactics discussed in his book Never Split the Difference.

Find more at blackswanltd.com

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Patrick Maloney is the founder and CEO of Inspire Clean Energy, where he leads the execution of its mission to transform the way consumers access clean energy and accelerate a net-zero carbon future. 

A lifelong entrepreneur in the energy and technology spaces, Patrick is dedicated to building world-positive businesses that align profitability with purpose. He founded Inspire with the vision to answer the call of millions of consumers demanding action on climate change by empowering them with the tools to make a sustainable impact. Patrick is a nationally recognized leader in the clean energy technology sector, having received numerous awards and recognition from the likes of Forbes, Fortune, FastCompany, and was selected as the 2018 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winner in the Cleantech and Renewables category for his outstanding vision and achievement. 

In addition to his work at Inspire, Patrick is a member of YPO, a premier global community of chief executives committed to leading the world's most impactful organizations, and is a frequent speaker and thought leader on impact and sustainability. Prior to Inspire, Patrick worked in venture capital and served on the founding teams of two of the fastest-growing and most successful ventures in the competitive energy landscape.

He joins us to talk about living in the age of "electrification," curating a consumer-led marketplace for clean energy, and the intersection of commerce and doing good for his company, our planet, and the future.

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Jessica Yellin is the founder of #NewsNotNoise, a fresh voice in media that provides daily news reports on Instagram. You can find the account @jessicayellin. 

She's the former chief White House correspondent for CNN and an Emmy and Gracie award-winning political journalist reporting for CNN, ABC News, and MSNBC. She has covered Capitol Hill, domestic politics, state and national elections, the culture wars, and issues facing women in the workplace. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Details, Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, and The Atlantic. A Harvard University graduate, Jessica released her first novel, Savage News, about reporting-while-female, in 2019.

On News Not Noise, she does the news via Instagram daily to an audience that includes Jennifer Aniston, Kerry Washington, Selena Gomez, Orlando Bloom, and Amy Schumer, nurses, teachers, and politicians. Jessica provides information that helps the people understand the issues and talk about them knowledgeably. The idea: she offers information, not a panic attack.

Jessica joins us to talk about how modern news sources compete for our anxiety, finding her voice, and the challenge of combating disinformation on the very social media platforms that espouse it.

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After graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill in the late 90s, Ravi Patel was an investment banker before a chance opportunity to do stand-up in Los Angeles left him fielding calls from agents. He went on to act in over 70 national commercials and land roles in films and TV, most notably Scrubs, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Master of None, before co-writing, directing, and starring in Meet the Patels, alongside his sister, Geeta.

In 2013 he helped to co-found This Saves Lives, a snack bar company whose mission is to end childhood malnutrition worldwide with fellow actors Kristen Bell, Todd Grinnell, and Ryan Devlin.

And most recently, his four-part original series, The Pursuit of Happiness, premiered on HBO Max.

Ravi joins us to talk about how his penchant for mischief has helped him succeed, why he had to travel around the world to discover values that Americans hold dear, and how creating safe spaces can help overcome our most deep-seated differences.

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Michael Acton Smith is the co-founder and co-CEO of Calm, the #1 app for sleep, meditation, and relaxation, with over 2 million subscribers and 85 million downloads. They were an Apple 'best of 2018' award winner, and in 2019, Calm became the World's First Mental Health 'Unicorn' – valued at more than a billion USD. 

In 1998, Michael co-founded the online gadget and gift retailer Firebox.com which became the UK's 13th fastest-growing private business and in 2004, he founded the entertainment company Mind Candy, which built Moshi Monsters into a global online brand with over 80m registered users, later expanding offline into books, magazines, toys, music albums, trading cards, and a movie. 

He joins us to talk about how meditation can strengthen your mind, how his team differentiated Calm in a field with thousands of competitors and his aspirations for turning Calm into the Nike of the mind.

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Dr. Harvey Karp is one of America's most-trusted pediatricians and child development experts. He is also the founder and CEO of Happiest Baby, a smart-tech and parenting solutions company. 

Having practiced pediatrics in Los Angeles for over 25 years, his landmark discoveries and unique ability to translate complex science into effective techniques have empowered parents and revolutionized our understanding of young children's needs.

Harvey's highly innovative and celebrated books and videos, The Happiest Baby on the Block and The Happiest Baby Guide to Great Sleep, have been translated into dozens of languages and made him one of the world's most renowned baby and sleep experts.

He joins us to talk about the fourth trimester, his vision for a world full of SNOO smart sleepers, well-rested parents, and the importance of your child's early relationships, especially in a post-pandemic world. 

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