In this episode, we take a break from the dizzying news cycle to refocus our energy on the human spirit and our well-being. The best-selling author and motivational speaker Agapi Stassinopoulos walks us through her journey finding gratitude and practicing mindfulness and compassion. We discuss her new book “Speaking with Spirit: 52 prayers to guide, inspire, and uplift you.”

It doesn’t matter what you believe in. Finding prayer can mean something different to everyone. Stassinopoulos says we all have the power to focus on the present, find our inner voice and lead with courage. To let go of the pressure and not hold ourselves to standards of perfection. 

Stassinopoulos is also the author of “Unbinding the Heart: A Dose of Greek Wisdom, Generosity, and Unconditional Love,” “Wake Up to the Joy of You: 52 Meditations and Practices for a Calmer, Happier Life,” “Conversations with the Goddesses” and “Gods and Goddesses in Love.” Today she leads workshops at Thrive Global, a technology company focused on ending the “burnout epidemic,” founded by her sister Arianna Huffington.

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Now, Yellin uses her voice to break down the news, calmly and clearly for you -- free of punditry, provocation, and yelling.

Anne Applebaum is a Pulitzer-prize winning historian who writes for The Atlantic, she is also a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the Agora Institute, where she co-directs a program on disinformation and 21st century propaganda.

From 1988-1991 she covered the collapse of communism as the Warsaw correspondent of the Economist magazine and the Independent newspaper.

Her resume is truly impressive and it is so extensive that I won’t even attempt to cover it all. She has written many books and taught all over the world.

Applebaum was a Washington Post columnist for fifteen years and a former member of the editorial board, she has also worked as the Foreign and Deputy Editor of the Spectator magazine in London, as the Political Editor of the Evening Standard, and as a columnist at Slate as well as the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs.

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Now, Yellin uses her voice to break down the news, calmly and clearly for you -- free of punditry, provocation, and yelling.

Alec Ross is a New York Times bestselling author whose latest book, The Raging 2020s, puts forth the idea that a new social contract could restore the balance of power between government, citizens, and business in modern America. In short, he spends a lot of time thinking about what’s next.

Before he was one of the world’s leading experts on innovation, Alec was a night-shift janitor and a Baltimore school teacher. Currently, he is a board partner at Amplo, a global VC firm and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at The University of Bologna Business School. He has served as a senior fellow at both Johns Hopkins and Columbia Universities.

Previously, he was Senior Advisor for Innovation to US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and also served Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team.

Alec is the author of the New York Times best-seller The Industries of the Future — which has been translated into 24 languages and was a best-seller on 5 continents.

Alex Ross
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Jessica is a veteran of network news, traveling the globe, covering conflict and crisis. A former Chief White House Correspondent for CNN, she reported from around the world and won awards.

Now, Yellin uses her voice to break down the news, calmly and clearly for you -- free of punditry, provocation, and yelling.

Millions of Americans have recovered from mild cases of Covid-19, only to later experience a range of debilitating, chronic symptoms of the virus. 

In this episode, we look beyond the daily pandemic headlines and turn our attention to one group suffering from a different kind of epidemic: people with long-haul Covid-19. 

What is it? What causes it? Who is susceptible and where does research into possible treatments stand? And what does recovery look like? 

Dr. Jason Maley provides answers. He is an attending physician in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. 

A lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Maley is also an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. He received his medical degree from the Tulane University School of Medicine, became a resident at the University of Pennsylvania hospital and earned a fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Now, Yellin uses her voice to break down the news, calmly and clearly for you -- free of punditry, provocation, and yelling.

In this episode, Jessica speaks with Ian Bremmer about the unfolding situation between Russia and Ukraine and where, right now, US intelligence officials estimate there are about 130,000 Russian troops amassed near the border. This comes as world leaders continue to apply diplomatic pressure on Russia in an effort to head off an invasion which some believe could be only days or weeks away. 

Ian Bremmer, is the president and founder of Eurasia Group and an expert in identifying and understanding global risk. He says that it’s unlikely Putin would invade ahead of the Winter Olympics and a planned trip to Beijing.
 
Ian explains what The Ukraine represents to Russia and the West and why it is essential to Vladimir Putin’s larger ambitions

Bremmer is the host of “GZERO World with Ian Bremmer,” a weekly public affairs program on PBS. He is the author of 10 books including the NYT bestseller “Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism” and teaches at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. 
He is the author of the GZero World newsletter on Bulletin.

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Jessica Yellin is the founder of News Not Noise, a channel dedicated to giving you news with real experts and providing information, not a panic attack.

Jessica is a veteran of network news, traveling the globe, covering conflict and crisis. A former Chief White House Correspondent for CNN, she reported from around the world and won awards.

Now, Yellin uses her voice to break down the news, calmly and clearly for you -- free of punditry, provocation, and yelling.

We keep hearing work is changing for good. This is the era of the employee. And no one knows what the future looks like or what it’ll take to make workers happy.

Professor Tsedal Neeley says this is not actually a mystery.  She is a Senior Associate Dean and Professor at Harvard Business School.  She believes remote work -- in some form -- is here to stay. And she’s been studying best practices since well before the pandemic. She has advice for the best way to get the job you want, hire the employees who will really fit, and grow with the changing economy.

Here she gets into what’s behind ‘the great resignation’, labor shortages, zoom fatigue, tech exhaustion, and why young people may have a surprising advantage in the modern workplace. 

Professor Tsedal Neeley has worked in strategy and global customer experience roles at major companies, received academic awards from Harvard and Stanford, is fluent in four languages, and holds a patent for her software simulation on global collaboration. 

Neeley's latest book is “Remote Work Revolution”.


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Jessica is a veteran of network news, traveling the globe, covering conflict and crisis. A former Chief White House Correspondent for CNN, she reported from around the world and won awards.

Now, Yellin uses her voice to break down the news, calmly and clearly for you -- free of punditry, provocation, and yelling.

Eve Rodsky helped start a long overdue national conversation around equality of labor and time on the home front. Eventually, she realized that even when the domestic workload becomes more equitable, people still say something is missing in their lives and that something is personal creativity.  
 
Rodsky calls this missing piece “Unicorn Space” — and defines it as the active and open pursuit of creative self-expression in any form that is fulfilling. She helps readers embrace all the unlikely, surprising, and delightful places where their own Unicorn Space may be found and says creativity is not optional. It’s essential. 

She talks to us about manifesting our own Unicorn Space in a too-busy life.

Eve Rodsky received her B.A. from the University of Michigan, and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. She worked at J.P. Morgan and then created the Philanthropy Advisory Group to advise families and charitable foundations on best practices. Rodsky was raised by a single mom in New York City and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three children.

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Jessica is a veteran of network news, traveling the globe, covering conflict and crisis. A former Chief White House Correspondent for CNN, she reported from around the world and won awards.

Now, Yellin uses her voice to break down the news, calmly and clearly for you -- free of punditry, provocation, and yelling.

With Omicron infections and hospitalizations hitting record highs you have questions about kids, long covid, boosters, treatment and more. Here Jessica Yellin speaks to Dr. Darien Sutton, a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician, a medical contributor for ABC News and a self-proclaimed professor of TikTok MedSchool, about all things Covid.

He explains the CDC’s 5-day rule, how to think about whether you should send your kids to school, when to go to the hospital, and what might cause long COVID.


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Jessica is a veteran of network news, traveling the globe, covering conflict and crisis. A former Chief White House Correspondent for CNN, she reported from around the world and won awards.

Now, Yellin uses her voice to break down the news, calmly and clearly for you -- free of punditry, provocation, and yelling.

Did you know that some of the longest living, healthiest people on the planet have never been to the gym? They don’t go on special diets or attend retreats or travel to the most exotic places. The man I interview today says they stay healthier and happier for longer than most.

Dan Buettner has studied people who live in the Blue Zones – those are 5 regions of the world where an outsize number of people live past 100 and the’re vital for more of those years. Buettner analyzed what people in the Blue Zones have in common and distilled these learnings into strategies he summarized in his best selling books about the Blue Zones.

His latest, The Blue Zones Challenge: A 4-Week Plan for a Longer, Healthier Life is a step-by-step guide to adopting the habits of people living in the Blue Zones. It’s a strategy to help you transform how you eat, exercise, socialize, build your community, find your purpose and thrive. Buettner presents through provoking ideas about everything from how to choose friends to the value of having sex late in life.  Even if you don’t agree with everything here, the conversation is valuable.  Buettner says, even adopting some of these life shifts could change the quality of your every day. 

Dan Buettner
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Jessica is a veteran of network news, traveling the globe, covering conflict and crisis. A former Chief White House Correspondent for CNN, she reported from around the world and won awards.

Now, Yellin uses her voice to break down the news, calmly and clearly for you -- free of punditry, provocation, and yelling.

Gretchen Rubin is a writer whose books about habits and happiness are New York Times bestsellers that have sold millions of copies worldwide. 

Gretchen recommends setting manageable goals, and breaking up tasks into small steps.

She has a website offering tools, including The Happiness Project, courses, an app, a daily blog and more chronicling her own pursuit of happiness and recommendations for yours. She also has a weekly podcast, Happier with Gretchen Rubin.

Gretchen Rubin
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Website: gretchenrubin.com
Website: the-happiness-project.com

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Jessica is a veteran of network news, traveling the globe, covering conflict and crisis. A former Chief White House Correspondent for CNN, she reported from around the world and won awards.

Now, Yellin uses her voice to break down the news, calmly and clearly for you -- free of punditry, provocation, and yelling.