Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller

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Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller episodes

August 02, 2017 How Sabaah Folayan Is Changing The Narrative of Ferguson, Director of "Whose Streets"
When Michael Brown was shot by a police officer in Ferguson, MO in August, 2014 and the protests began, Sabaah Folayan felt the media’s coverage was overly focused on the looting, rioting and property damage, and not nearly enough on the stories of the people who rose up. So she dropped everything and went to Ferguson to see for herself what was happening on the ground and to talk with the people who live there. The result is her documentary film Whose Streets? She shares what it was like to be there and how she made her film in such extraordinary circumstances. Whose Streets comes out August 11th, 2017.
23 min
July 19, 2017 How To Negotiate Like a Woman-Leanne Meyer, Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business
“The biggest trick is how do we teach women at any stage to keep knowing what they want and asking for that,” says Leanne Meyer, Program Director of the Carnegie Mellon Leadership and Negotiation Academy for Women. Meyer’s work focuses on two main components that inhibit women’s progress in the workplace: the environments at work and school, and the habits of women themselves. Meyer educates women on the stereotypes and biases holding them back; teaches them to network; how to seek out and make use of the support of sponsors and mentors; and how to understand their environments and not sell themselves short in negotiation.
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26 min
July 05, 2017 How Femininity Can Save Humanity-Nina Simons, Co-Founder Bioneers
What if the root of all the world’s problems is the imbalance of masculinity and femininity in our leadership? Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers has spent over twenty years investigating the power of femininity to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges. We discuss how she discovered that leading with the feminine can help anyone–male or female–find their purpose and their passion.
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39 min
June 28, 2017 How To End Structural Racism In Tech-Laura Weidman Powers, Code2040
Laura Weidman Powers is co-founder and CEO of Code2040, an organization focused on ending structural racism in America by smoothing the pathways into tech for people of color. She shares her ‘aha’ moment, how she got involved in this work and why it’s critical for companies to rethink their current approach to diversity.
25 min
June 26, 2017 How To Beat Perfectionism-Patti Niemi, San Francisco Opera Orchestra
What if the thing you really love to do makes you so anxious it gets in the way of doing your job? For Patti Niemi, a percussionist, her first experience with anxiety cropped up while in her second year at at Juilliard, causing her hands to shake uncontrollably. Niemi wrote a memoir called “Sticking It Out. From Juilliard to the Orchestra Pit.” In this episode, hear how she rose to the top of the music world and above her anxiety.
28 min
June 14, 2017 How To Beat Perfectionism-Patti Niemi, San Francisco Opera Orchestra
What if the thing you really love to do makes you so anxious it gets in the way of doing your job? For Patti Niemi, a percussionist, her first experience with anxiety cropped up while in her second year at at Juilliard, causing her hands to shake uncontrollably. Niemi wrote a memoir called “Sticking It Out. From Juilliard to the Orchestra Pit.” In this episode, hear how she rose to the top of the music world and above her anxiety.
28 min
May 22, 2017 How Not To Be Average - Parisa Rouhani, Center for Individual Opportunity
Parisa Rouhani is the co-founder of the Center for Individual Opportunity and is studying the intersection of neuroscience, technology and design at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A great one, from the back catalogue!
27 min
May 15, 2017 How To Build An Inclusive Feminist Movement - Teresa Younger, Ms Foundation
Many groups still feel excluded from the feminist movement. Teresa shares how feminism can be a value everyone can share--across races, sexuality, economics.
26 min
May 08, 2017 How To Send Better Flowers - Christina Stembel, Farmgirl Flowers
Christina Stembel, the founder of Farmgirl Flowers shares why "it's the thought that counts" is a copout, why she turned down investors who asked her to compromise her ideals, and how she is growing her business in an industry had been limp for years. Lauren spoke with her in May, 2016 as her business was taking off--and it is still growing strong.
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27 min
May 01, 2017 How To Reverse Global Warming - Shana Rappaport & Amanda Ravenhill
What can we do right now to stop climate change? A new book out called "Drawdown" from Paul Hawken tells us what we the people can do to provide solutions to global warming. I spoke with two of the women who have been key advisors on Project Drawdown, and bring back our conversation from 2015-- as right and relevant as ever. Meet Shana Rappaport and Amanda Ravenhill.
27 min

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