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Category: Where Genius Grows

  • Creating a New Global Wine Route — Interview

    Peter Weltman is an activist sommelier with a vision for borderless wine. In pursuit of this vision, Peter challenges us to venture outside of traditional wine regions, discover less known viticultural gems, and spend our money on wines whose production makes the world a better place. Listen to the interview now: http://traffic.libsyn.com/wheregeniusgrows/Where_Genius_Grows._Peter_Weltman_Interview.mp3 Sign up to…

  • Taking Pride in Public Speaking — Interview

    Allison Shapira is the president and founder of Global Public Speaking. Most people are deathly afraid of speaking in public. In this episode, we discuss what gets in our way of public speaking and how we can remove these obstacles. The result is a clarity about who we are and a confidence in what we…

  • Building a Better World for Our Children — Interview

    John K. Glenn is the director of policy at the US Global Leadership Coalition. In this interview we discuss how the aims of US foreign policy have evolved from the Marshall Plan in the late 1940s, through the end of communism in the 1990s and the response to 9/11 throughout the 2000s, and the advent…

  • The Vision of a Thousand Coaches — Interview

    Christopher McAuliffe is the founder of Accomplishment Coaching. In this interview we discuss Christopher’s journey into coaching, his vision to train over a thousand coaches, and his quest to design a coach training program of unparalleled quality. As the world around us transforms and the only reliable constant is a breathtaking pace of change, what…

  • Breaking Your Tech Habit — Interview

    As we become increasingly enmeshed in the technology all around us — our phones, our tablets, human contact, dating, our hours of leisure — how do we break free? And while we drop the ball on facing this question, what kind of behavior are we modeling for our kids? Tech<br>eak founder Ali Maresh discusses what we…

  • Holding Every Generation’s Feet to the Fire — Interview

    Anka Lee is a senior director at the Albright Stonebridge Group. In this interview we discuss how pivotal events like the Great Depression, the Vietnam War and the September 11th attacks have the power to shape the mindset of an entire generation. Questions we cover: What are the long-term policy implications of these formative events? How…

  • The Challenge of Cutting Through — Interview

    Joshua Friedlander is the head of research at the Recording Industry Association of America. In this interview we discuss shifts that the music industry has undergone in recent decades, including how new talent is identified, how sales have evolved from a strict ownership model to a more flexible model with an emphasis on access, and…

  • Playing with the Enemy — Interview

    Today survival — peace, nonviolence — really depends not just on the internal communities you belong to but the communities we can form that are global communities. — Justin Hefter Ammoun Dissi and Justin Hefter discovered that people on opposite sides of the same conflict, in regional conflicts around the world, tend to play the same…

  • Finding New Choice in Virtual Currency — Interview

    I have come to think that the word “Blockchain technology” is just a really great way to part an investor from his money. There’s a lot of buzz these days about virtual currencies and Blockchain technology. How are we to approach this tide of monetary innovation? As the range of options we have to transmit…

  • Gamifying E-Learning — Interview

    When you look at using virtual reality as an immersive environment, you will retain up to 80 or 90 percent of what you do because you’re actually doing it. Whereas if you were just reading that on a PowerPoint, you’ll retain 10 to 20 percent. Garreth Fitzsimons manages American operations for e-learning company Olive Learning.…