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Meet Manoush and Jen, founders of Stable Genius Productions. They’re documenting the process of starting a media company while trying not to simultaneously become bad mothers, bankrupt thems...
On the final episode of The ZigZag Project, activist Stacey Abrams explains her short-term strategies for sticking to her long-term goals an...
Today is Step 5 of The ZigZag Project , our six-step process to get you from wanting to make a big change in your life and work...to actuall...
On this episode of The ZigZag Project , we move into a more practical phase and start asking hard questions like: What might you need to sac...
The third step of The ZigZag Project requires getting weird. Because we're gonna need to dig deep to find new ways to roll back climate chan...
Conflict resolution specialist Priya Parker joins Manoush to talk about visioning : Taking time out of our daily lives to clarify our profes...
We’re doing something different this season… The ZigZag Project is six steps (and episodes) to help you map out a path that aligns your pers...
You may have heard Aarti Shahani ’s voice on the radio when she was NPR’s Silicon Valley reporter . The techies she interviewed often assume...
We recycle. But does it make a difference? We donate our old t-shirts. But does anyone want them? We try to shop less. But isn't that bad fo...
Carrie Goldberg ‘s legal career changed course the year her ex-boyfriend relentlessly cyber-harassed her. At the time, the First Amendment p...
From his posts at Harvard and M.I.T. , Greg Epstein observed that the tech industry– with its hierarchies and sacred texts–looked a lot like...
In 2018, Backstage Capital's Arlan Hamilton was on the cover of Fast Company magazine. The headline was irresistible: homeless, gay, Black w...
When Eric Ries wrote The Lean StartUp he had no idea his book would inspire a new generation of entrepreneurs to ‘pivot’ and ‘iterate.’ Now...
ZigZag , the business podcast about being human, returns as a member of the TED family of podcasts. Join this zig-zagging quest with Manoush...
Two years ago, Jen and Manoush quit their jobs and became business partners. Today their adventure comes to an end. Hear how financial and p...
The newsletter company Mailchimp made an impressive $700 million dollars in revenue in 2019 and, after 20 years, it’s still owned and operat...
As co-host of NPR’s Code Switch , Shereen Marisol Meraji combines groundbreaking reporting on race and culture with her own personal experie...
Valerie Jarrett ‘s fascinating family defied racism to become some of the most influential African-Americans you’ve likely never heard of, i...
For millions of us, air travel comes with the job. NASA physicist Peter Kalmus was no different; he frequently flew to prestigious conferenc...
After an onerous cancer diagnosis, Kate Pickert nearly skipped an interview for a job she desperately wanted. Her husband encouraged her to...
Double-career couples are the norm these days. But when organizational behaviorist Jennifer Petriglieri looked for studies on how these coup...
This week, we’re featuring an episode from the IRL podcast called “The Surveillance Economy.” Learn about the rise of surveillance capitalis...
If you live in Michigan or run your company with a bit of an anarchist bent, you've likely heard of the Zingerman's Community of Businesses,...
With her band Tsunami and record label Simple Machines , Jenny Toomey was a fixture on the '90s Washington, D.C. indie music scene. On this...
In 2015, Katharine Zaleski wrote an op-ed for Fortune that went viral called I’m Sorry to All the Mothers I Worked With . In it, the former...
We're excited that Manoush is guest hosting the Ted Radio Hour! To celebrate, we're bringing you her 2017 TED Talk. It's all about our relat...
Dan Price, the founder of Gravity Payments , became a media darling in 2015 after announcing that every employee would be paid a minimum of...
ZigZag is back after a brief hiatus and kicking off a series of shows investigating how people are rethinking the notion of “success.” On th...
Two years ago, Helen Zaltzman and her husband, Martin Austwick , gave up their London apartment to travel the world. She paid the bills by c...
Eighteen months. That's how long Khe Hy (pronounced Kay Hee) gave himself to figure out his life after quitting his extremely well-paid job...
It can be hard to know if you're on the right track for building your career or business. Manoush and Jen consider crucial lessons from entr...
Before Silicon Valley was dominated by the Big Five tech companies, there was Mozilla , an organization founded by a motley crew of coders a...
You've probably heard her hundreds of times. Mallory Kasdan is the voice of dozens of ads, from Crest White Strips to Nickelodeon. For years...
Consumer Reports , the OG ‘s of product reviews, just got an upgrade: $6 million from Craigslist founder turned philanthropist, Craig Newmar...
We went looking for a venture capitalist who is investing in products or platforms that make money AND make our lives a bit saner: Caterina...
We hear a lot about how people start up companies but what about winding them down ? After 15 years, media entrepreneur and "influencer" Gra...
The workplace has become a place of sociological experimentation. But what are the pros and cons to “flattening” hierarchy or employees givi...
The tech show about being human returns with an all new season exclusively on the new Luminary app. Manoush kicks things off with the latest...
Founded by Jenn Brandel and Mara Zapeda , the growing Zebras Unite network is a backlash against Silicon Valley's so-called "unicorn" compan...
On the launch episode of Season Four, Jen and Manoush celebrate the first anniversary of their company, Stable Genius Productions , and shar...
What IS that anti-climactic feeling we get after completing a big project? Shouldn’t we be patting ourselves on the back and mixing celebrat...
We're almost at the end of our deep-dive into the lifecycle of innovation, or the so-called Hype Cycle . Phase Four, aka the Slope of Enligh...
Our journey through the Hype Cycle takes a dark turn this week. Because every innovative idea, sadly, must pass through the third (and most...
As we continue through the Hype Cycle , we reach the fun, thrilling, titillating phase: the Peak of Expectations. It generates the vital ins...
Question: what SPARKS us to *act *on an idea, rather than let it fade away? Answer: an "Innovation Trigger," also known as Phase 1 of the Hy...
You may *feel *like a special snowflake, but even our best ideas usually take a predictable path: they'll pass through the 5 Phases of the H...
The co-founders of Stable Genius Productions have a candid conversation about their current financial situation (hint: their grant is runnin...
The richest 1 percent of the world's population now owns more than half of the world's wealth. The calls for breaking up Big Tech companies...
Journalists-turned-entrepreneurs Mark Little and Áine Kerr believe the experience of getting news online is broken. (And they should know: M...
It's been an extraordinarily weird year. This mini episode compresses Manoush and Jen's story so far into a strange mash-up of voice memos t...
Julia Angwin , the award-winning reporter whose investigations make Facebook sweat , just got $20 million from Craig Newmark (yes, as in Cra...