Akash Krishnan and Matthew Fernandez are unique. They’re young innovators who created software to recognize emotion in human speech. For their efforts, they won the Siemens Foundation prize for Math, Science & Technology. Akash and Matthew join us along with the CEO of Siemens Foundation, Jeniffer Harper-Taylor, to discuss the importance of math, science & technology to keep the United States competitive in the business world.
Dave Bruno conducted an incredible experiment. He pared his life down to 100 Things and lived a streamlined life. He wrote about it in his latest book The 100 Thing Challenge: How I Got Rid of Almost Everything, Remade My Life, and Regained My Soul. We discuss living a simplified life.
Dr. Henry Cloud believes all things end. Some of them we must end sooner than others. We discuss the employees, businesses and relationships that we have to give up in order to move forward from his latest book Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, And Relationships That All Of Us Have To Give Up In Order To Move Forward.
Eugene Stovall is an author and educator who has made it part of his life’s work to gain recognition for the “forgotten” African American historical figures. Eugene tells stories of these forgotten African American historical figures.
Meredith Maran is delighted to realize that people will actually pay her to do what she does best. She’s a journalist, and author of 8 books, who focuses on the story of her own life in her latest book titled My Lie: A True Story of False Memory. We discuss child molestation, false accusation and redemption.
Barry Schwartz studies the link between economics and psychology, offering startling insights into modern life. He was among the first to write that infinite choice is paralyzing and exhausting to the human psyche. Now, he’s turned his attention to wisdom. We discuss his latest book titled, Practical Wisdom.