The CNBC Changemakers and Power Players podcast features conversations with leaders shaping the future of business, policy, and culture. In this episode, CNBC's Julia Boorstin sits down with Lindsay Jurist-Rosner, founder and CEO of Wellthy and a 2026 CNBC Changemaker.

Wellthy founder and CEO Lindsay Jurist-Rosner talks about how nearly 30 years of caring for her mother inspired her to rethink how families navigate care — whether it's for kids or aging parents. She explains what it's like building a company at the center of the growing care economy, the real challenges people face balancing work and caregiving, and why more employers are stepping up to help. Jurist-Rosner also shares lessons from scaling Wellthy, leading with purpose, and turning a deeply personal experience into something that's now helping millions of families.

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The CNBC Changemakers and Power Players podcast features conversations with leaders shaping the future of business, policy, and culture. In this episode, CNBC's Julia Boorstin sits down with Jenny Johnson, CEO of Franklin Templeton and a 2026 CNBC Changemaker.

Johnson reflects on growing up in a family business, building her career across nearly every part of Franklin Templeton, and stepping into the CEO role just before the pandemic. She shares the leadership principles that guide her — people, passion, purpose, and persistence — and explains how they've shaped her approach to crisis, culture, and long-term strategy. She also opens up about why she's so focused on AI, blockchain, and preparing the company for the next generation of finance.

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The CNBC Changemakers and Power Players podcast features conversations with leaders shaping the future of business, policy, and culture. In this episode, CNBC's Julia Boorstin sits down with Luana Lopes Lara, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Kalshi and a 2026 CNBC Changemaker.

Kalshi co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Luana Lopes Lara talks about how her path — from growing up in Brazil and training in ballet to studying at MIT and working on Wall Street — shaped her discipline and her comfort with high-stakes bets. She opens up about the years she spent pushing through regulatory roadblocks to legalize Kalshi in the U.S., and how she and her co-founder set out to build something fundamentally different: a platform where people trade on real-world outcomes, not stocks. She also explains why she believes prediction markets will be bigger than the stock market.

Disclosure: CNBC and Kalshi have a commercial relationship that includes a minority investment.

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The CNBC Changemakers and Power Players podcast features conversations with leaders shaping the future of business, policy, and culture. In this episode, CNBC’s Julia Boorstin sits down with Mary Powell, CEO of Sunrun and a 2026 CNBC Changemaker.

Powell shares her unconventional path to leading the nation's largest residential solar and battery storage company. She also opens up about leading with intuition, why culture "eats strategy for breakfast, lunch, and dinner," and how to help solve America's growing power demands.

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The CNBC Changemakers and Power Players podcast features conversations with leaders shaping the future of business, policy, and culture. In this episode, CNBC's Julia Boorstin sits down with Johanna Mercier, Chief Commercial & Corporate Affairs Officer at Gilead Sciences and a 2026 CNBC Changemaker.

Mercier discusses Gilead's groundbreaking HIV prevention innovation (a twice-yearly injection with 99.9% efficacy) and how her team moved within months of U.S. approval to expand access across Sub-Saharan Africa, where the need is greatest. She shares why impact (not title) drives her leadership, how personal loss reshaped her sense of purpose, and what it takes to lead through global health crises.

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The CNBC Changemakers and Power Players podcast features conversations with leaders shaping the future of business, policy, and culture. In this episode, CNBC's Julia Boorstin sits down with Sarah London, CEO of Centene Corporation — the youngest woman to lead a Fortune 500 company and now at the helm of a $100B+ healthcare giant. London shares how a competitive mindset shaped her leadership, why she believes a CEO should "get all of the blame and none of the credit," and what excites her most about AI in healthcare.

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The CNBC Changemakers and Power Players podcast features candid conversations with leaders shaping business and culture. In this episode, CNBC's Julia Boorstin sits down with Cassandra Morales Thurswell, founder and CEO Kitsch.

Thurswell shares how she turned $30,000 in life savings into a global beauty brand without venture capital or outside investors. She discusses trusting her gut instincts over data and market research, why she deliberately avoided seeking advice from mentors and advisors early on, how she learned business skills through unconventional jobs, and why being underestimated as a young female founder became her advantage.

She also opens up about the pressure and judgment that comes with being a woman building a business, how she's using AI to transform product development and customer engagement, her philosophy on staying true to your own vision rather than following conventional wisdom, and her advice for aspiring entrepreneurs who don't fit the traditional founder mold.

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The CNBC Changemakers and Power Players podcast features candid conversations with leaders shaping business and culture. In this episode, CNBC's Julia Boorstin sits down with Jenny Just, co-founder of Peak6 and one of America's self-made female billionaires.

Just started as one of the first women on the Chicago Options Exchange floor — where there wasn't even a women's restroom. In 1997, she co-founded Peak6 with $1.5 million. Today, her fintech empire powers the trading platforms millions use daily, including Robinhood, SoFi, and Betterment. Her firm also employs twice as many female fund managers as the industry benchmark.

Now, Just is on a new mission: teaching one million women the strategic skills of poker to help them succeed in business and life. She shares why getting comfortable with risk and "getting to the table" are essential for the next generation of female leaders — and why poker might be the most underrated tool for building confidence and courage.

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The CNBC Changemakers and Power Players podcast features conversations with leaders shaping the future of business, policy, and culture. In this episode, CNBC's Julia Boorstin speaks with Karen Knudsen--CEO of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and a 2024 CNBC Changemaker--about her professional journey from becoming the first female CEO of the American Cancer Society to leading the charge in turning all cancers into curable diseases. She discusses how the Parker Institute's unique model combines philanthropy with venture capital to accelerate breakthrough therapies and address critical funding gaps in cancer research.

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The CNBC Changemakers and Power Players podcast features conversations with leaders shaping the future of business, policy, and culture. In this episode, CNBC's Julia Boorstin talks with Jacqueline Reses, a 2024 CNBC Changemaker and the co-founder, chair & CEO of Lead Bank. Reses discusses her ambitions to transform fintech, managing decisively, creating critical lifelines for small businesses during the pandemic, the role of DEI, and invaluable business lessons from growing up on the Jersey Shore.

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