The Hope Table

The Hope Table

By Erin BrinkerSociety & Culture
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The Hope Table episodes

  • Entrepreneurs David Friedman and Tansu Philip followed by a classic interview with David Stixrud

    David Friedman and Tansu Philip are working to transform San Bernardino through entrepreneurship, economic development, and community engagement. They join Erin to discuss their businesses, like Viva la Boba, and the changing economic and community landscape in the city of San Bernardino.

    The second interview is a classic with David Stixrud about his book, The Self-Driven Child. American kids are grappling with an epidemic of anxiety and depression. Chronic stress is taking a toll during the formative years when children are “sculpting” their developing brains.  What we are doing as parents and as a society isn’t working and something needs to change. THE SELF-DRIVEN CHILD offers a revolutionary new approach to parenting, based on decades of clinical experience and the latest developments in brain research. William Stixrud, a revered clinical neuropsychologist, and Ned Johnson, the founder of one of the most sought-after tutoring companies in the country, show how we are raising our kids in a brain-toxic environment. The result is a generation of highly scheduled, tightly wound teens who feel like imposters, lack direction, and often unravel in high school or their freshman year of college. American children are robbed of agency when countless studies reveal that a low sense of control is deeply damaging.

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    55 min
  • Entrepreneur Brian Navarro followed by classic interviews with Dr. Robin Cook and Alexander Klimburg

    Erin interviews Caravanserai SEED 2.0 graduate and entrepreneur, Brian Navarro, about his journey as a business owner followed by two classic interviews with:

    1) New York Times Bestselling author, Dr. Robin Cook about his book, Charlatans. To date Robin Cook has written a total of thirty-seven worldwide bestsellers, which have sold hundreds of millions of copies. Most all of Dr. Cook’s books have been written to elucidate various medical/biotech ethical and public policy issues, particularly about the problem of business interests and the maximization of profit taking over medicine. From his first novel on, this has been Dr. Cook’s intention by using entertainment in novels and movies as a method of raising the concern of the general public. The issues have included the supply of organs for transplantation (Coma), stem cells and egg donation (Shock), the collision of politics and bioscience regarding therapeutic cloning (Seizure), food poisoning (Toxin), bio-terrorism (Vector), xeno-transplantation (Chromosome 6), managed care (Fatal Cure), the impact of the decipherment of the human genome on the economics and sociology of medicine (Marker), medical nanotechnology (Nano), spread of disease (Outbreak, Contagion, Pandemic), Dr. Cook's most recent book is Genesis, which deals with using ancestral DNA to aid forensics.

    2) Data scientist, Alexander Klimburg, about his important book, The Darkening Web:The War for Cyberspace. Alexander Klimburg is a program director at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, and an associate and former fellow at the Belfer Center of the Harvard Kennedy School. He has acted as an advisor to a number of governments and international organizations on cybersecurity strategy and internet governance, and has participated in various national, international, NATO and EU policy groups. He splits his time between Boston, Vienna and The Hague.

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    53 min
  • How to Run for Office with Tobin Brinker

    What to uplift your community? Run for office. Erin sits down with former school board member and city councilman, Tobin Brinker, to give you the information you need to start your journey to become an elected official. 

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    57 min
  • Matthew Kugizaki and Tessie Solorzano from Inland Counties Legal Services and a classic interview with Dr. Robynne Chutkan about the importance of gut health.

    Matthew Kugizaki and Tessie Solorzano from the Inland Counties Legal Services discuss the important legal issues facing the LGBTQIA+ community in the Inland Empire and California followed by a classic interview with famed gastroenterologist Dr. Robynne Chutkan about the importance of gut health. 

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    57 min

About The Hope Table

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A weekly podcast where hope, healing, and humanity come together.

Each week, The Hope Table welcomes guests from all walks of life — from mental health and medical professionals to…