Podcasts by ZigZag
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S6 EP6 STEP 6: THE TIMELINE from 2021-06-03T09:55:56
On the final episode of The ZigZag Project, activist Stacey Abrams explains her short-term strategies for sticking to her long-term goals and Manoush shares data from surveying thousand...
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S6 EP5 STEP 5: THE PATHS from 2021-05-20T04:00:05
Today is Step 5 of The ZigZag Project, our six-step process to get you from wanting to make ...
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S6 EP4 STEP 4: THE MATCH from 2021-05-06T04:05
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 sacrifice, in order to align your values with you...
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S6 EP3 STEP 3: THE WEIRD IDEAS from 2021-04-22T04:00:05
The third step of The ZigZag Project requires getting weird. Because we're gonna need to dig...
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S6 EP2 STEP 2: THE VISION from 2021-04-08T04:00:05
Conflict resolution specialist Priya Parker joins Listen
S6 EP1 STEP 1: THE PULSE from 2021-03-25T04:00:05
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 personal values ...
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S5 EP6: The Case of the Lost American Dream from 2020-08-27T04:30
You may have heard Aarti Shahani’s voice on the radio when s...
S5 EP5: Changing Our Relationship to STUFF from 2020-08-20T04:30
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 for the economy?
On this episode, auth...
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S5 EP4: Carrie Goldberg is the Troll Slayer from 2020-08-13T04:30
Carrie Goldberg‘s legal career changed course the year her ex-boyfriend relentlessly cyber-haras...
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S5 EP3: Can Big Tech Be Healed? from 2020-08-06T04:30
S5 EP2: Why Arlan Hamilton Still Believes Capitalism is the Great Equalizer from 2020-07-30T04:30
In 2018, Backstage Capital's Arlan Hamilton was on the cover of Listen
S5 EP1: Eric Ries' Radical Stock Market Experiment from 2020-07-23T04:30
The zigs and zags just keep coming. Welcome to Season 5. from 2020-07-16T04:10:10
ZigZag, the business podcast about being human, returns as a member of the TED family of podcasts.
End of A Partnership from 2020-05-07T05:00
Two years ago, Jen and Manoush quit their jobs and became business partners. Today their adventure comes to an end. Hear how financial and parenting pressures in the age of COVID-19 forced them ...
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S4 EP22: Mailchimp’s CEO On Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Business Without Being an A$$hole from 2019-12-12T05:15
The newsletter company Mailchimp made an impressive $700 million dollars in revenue in 2019 and, after 20 years, it’s still ow...
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S4 EP21: Being Ethnically Ambiguous At Work from 2019-12-05T05:15
As co-host of NPR’s Code Switch, Listen
S4 EP20: How Valerie Jarrett Turned Her Misery Into Motivation from 2019-11-28T05:15
Valerie Jarrett‘s fascinating family defied racism to becom...
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S4 EP19: The Guy Who Quit Planes for Good from 2019-11-14T05:15
For millions of us, air travel comes with the job. NASA physicist Peter Kalmus was no different; he frequently flew to...
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S4 EP18: Don't Tie a Pink Ribbon for Kate Pickert from 2019-11-07T05:15
After an onerous cancer diagnosis, Kate Pickert nearly skipped an interview for a job she desperately wanted. Her hus...
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S4 EP17: Helping Your Relationship Survive Your Job from 2019-10-31T04:15
Double-career couples are the norm these days. But when organizational behaviorist
Bonus: “The Surveillance Economy” from IRL from 2019-10-28T07:05
This week, we’re featuring an episode from the IRL podcast called “The Surveillance Economy.” Learn about the rise of surveillance capitalism, and hear from guests like Harvard Business School’s...
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EP16: Ari Weinzweig is Prototyping a New Kind of Delicious Capitalism from 2019-10-24T04:05
If you live in Michigan or run your company with a bit of an anarchist bent, you've likely heard of the Zin...
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S4 EP15: The Secret Ex-Rock Star at The Ford Foundation from 2019-10-10T04:05
S4 EP14: When Women Don't Support Other Women at Work from 2019-09-26T04:15
In 2015, Katharine Zaleski wrote an op-ed for Fortune that went viral called Listen
Bonus: Manoush Guest Hosts the TED Radio Hour! from 2019-09-20T04:15
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 relationship to technology, and how it sometimes helps us t...
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S4 EP 13: The CEO Who Paid Everyone the $ame $alary. Including Himself. from 2019-09-19T04:15
Dan Price, the founder of Gravity Payments, became a media darling in 2015 after announcing that every employe...
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S4 EP12: We're Rethinking What Success Looks Like from 2019-09-12T04:15
ZigZag is back after a brief hiatus and kicking off a series of shows investigating how people are rethinking the notion of “success.”
On this episode, li...
S4 EP11: Pacing Yourself After Burnout from 2019-07-25T04:15
Two years ago, Helen Zaltzman and her husband, Listen
S4 EP10: This is What a Male Identity Crisis Sounds Like from 2019-07-18T11:59:33
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 at Blackrock Financials. His friends called him nuts. ...
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S4 EP09: Is Your Career Veering Off Course...Or Just Doing a Zigzag? from 2019-07-11T04:15
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 entrepreneurs whom they've reported on over the past five ...
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S4 EP08: The Weird Kids At The Big Tech Party from 2019-06-27T04:15:43
Before Silicon Valley was dominated by the B...
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S4 EP07: 46, Female, and Ambitious. Is that so wrong? from 2019-06-20T04:15
You've probably heard her hundreds of times. Mallory Kasdan is the voice of dozens of ads, from Crest White Strips to Ni...
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S4 EP06: Why Craiglist's Founder Just Wrote Consumer Reports a $6m Check from 2019-06-06T07:05
Consumer Reports, the
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S4 EP05: The Venture Capitalist Asking Existential Questions from 2019-05-30T04:05:34
We went looking for a venture capitalist who is investing in products or platforms that make money AND make our lives a bit saner: ...
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S4 EP04: When Your Gut Tells You It's Time to END Your Company from 2019-05-16T04:15:56
We hear a lot about how people start up companies but what about winding them down? After 15 years, media entrepreneur and "influencer" Listen
S4 EP03: Adam Grant Says Your Next Boss Might Want You to "Self Manage" from 2019-05-02T04:05:17
The workplace has become a place of sociological experimentation. But what are the pros and cons to “flattening” hierarchy or employees giving each other "radically transparent" feedback? Listen
Bonus: Our Old Podcast is Back! Here's a Taste. from 2019-04-25T21:30:15
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 on the battle between kids and parents over their scr...
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S4 EP02: An Alternative To Silicon Valley's "Unicorn" Bullsh*t from 2019-04-25T04:15:30
Founded by Jenn Brandel and Listen
S4 EP01: Manoush and Jen Became Entrepreneurs One Year Ago from 2019-04-11T04:30:54
On the launch episode of Season Four, Jen and Manoush celebrate the first anniversary of their company, Stable Genius Productions<...
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S3 EP06: The Plateau of Productivity from 2019-03-28T04:30
What IS that anti-climactic feeling we get after completing a big project? Shouldn’t we be patting ourselves on the back and mixing celebratory martinis? Perhaps you’ve simply entered the final ...
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S3 EP5: The Slope of Enlightenment from 2019-03-14T04:30
We're almost at the end of our deep-dive into the lifecycle of innovation, or the so-called Listen
S3 EP4: The Trough of Disillusionment from 2019-02-28T05:30
Our journey through the Hype Cycle takes a dark turn this week. Because every in...
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S3 EP3: The Peak of Expectations from 2019-02-14T09:00
As we continue through the Hype Cycle, we reach the fun, thrilling, titillating phase: the Peak of Expectati...
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S3 EP2: What Triggers Innovation from 2019-01-31T06:00
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 Listen
S3 EP1: The Lifecycle of an Idea from 2019-01-17T05:28:34
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 Hype Cycle. Tech analyst Listen
S2 EP12: Lessons Learned from a Risky Crypto Experiment from 2018-12-20T06:30
The co-founders of Stable Genius Productions have a candid conversation about their current financial situation (hint: their grant is running out soon), the highs/lows of making this season of t...
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S2 EP11: If Capitalism and Socialism Had a Baby from 2018-12-20T05:30
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 are growing louder. On this episode, the author of Listen
S2 EP10: An App for Information Overload? from 2018-12-13T06:00
Journalists-turned-entrepreneurs Mark Little and Listen
S2 BONUS: The Story of ZigZag Through Voice Memos from 2018-12-06T05:30
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 that documents their leap from public radio producers t...
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S2 EP9: Julia Angwin's Investigations Haunt Facebook from 2018-12-06T04:30
Julia Angwin, the award-winning reporter whose investigations Listen
S2 EP8: The Women Who Make CRIMINAL from 2018-11-28T05:00:04
CRIMINAL was a mega-hit long before the genre of true-crime took off in podcasting. On this episode, Manoush and Jen talk...
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S2 EP7: Forget Inbox Zero from 2018-11-22T05:30
This week, we explain how the ZigZag inbox works and Manoush answers two very special letters: one from a listener with an unusual financial frustration and another who has an existential entrep...
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S2 EP6: A Secret #MeToo Weapon from 2018-11-15T05:30
Can you scrub the truth from the web? Or will people always find a workaround? An extraordinary tale this week about the intersection of new tech, personal stories, human rights, and repressive ...
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S2 EP5: Meat World Matters from 2018-11-08T04:30
Meat world, real life, 'social infrastucture'...whatever you want to call it, human contac...
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S2 EP4: What IS Fact-Checking? from 2018-11-01T04:30
This week's episode is focused on a very specialized job in journalism: the Fact-Checker. Our guide is journalism's Listen
S2 EP3: Trusting Yourself in Startup-Entrepreneurland from 2018-10-25T03:00
Hear from three entrepreneurs (Jen, Manoush, and Civil Media CEO Matthew Iles) on how each is coping with unc...
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S2 EP2: Why Civil's Token Sale Failed from 2018-10-18T04:30
Civil couldn't convince enough people that blockchain and crypto-economics were the answer to journalism’s problems. It didn't even come close to its $8m goal. But, #failure is common in the tec...
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S2 EP1: How Misinformation Spreads from 2018-10-11T04:30
Manoush and Jen kick off the season with surprising new research from the Listen
Announcing Season Two of ZigZag from 2018-10-04T04:30
ZigZag is BACK on October 11 for Season Two. The theme is Trust + Information. Listen to the trailer to hear what Jen and Manoush have planned...and Listen
The Civil Token Sale is Live from 2018-09-20T04:30
Manoush and Jen explain the latest news on Civil’s token sale. They also admit why they're a little uneasy about some recent press coverage of their endeavors, and try to make sense of one man’s...
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Update: It’s Hard Going Back to School, Work, and Saving Journalism from 2018-09-06T04:30
Never heard ZigZag? Start with Season One, Chapter One.
This is an update episode between Seasons 1 and 2 of ZigZag.
On Sept 20, we'll have a special report on the Listen
Chapter 12: Enter the Mesh from 2018-08-23T04:30
Manoush and Jen wrap up Season One* by interviewing Listen
Chapter 11: Ten Things You Should Know About Crypto from 2018-08-16T04:30
From Crypto Kitties to Listen
Chapter 10: Listening to Anthony Bourdain from 2018-08-09T04:30
Anthony Bourdain did a very unusual interview a few months before his death: he spent an afternoon with Listen
Chapter 9: Letter from Startup-Blockchain-Women-Entrepreneurland from 2018-08-02T04:30
Civil postpones its token sale until September and lowers expectations of how much the sale can generate. Meanwhile, Manoush and Jen are floored by emails from listeners about the changes they’v...
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Chapter 8: Putting Crypto Pioneers to the Test from 2018-07-26T04:29:21
It’s true. ZigZag listeners agree that registering to buy CVL tokens is a pain in the ass. And yet, many still Listen
Chapter 7: A New Frontier for Journalism? from 2018-07-19T04:30
The time has come. Civil, the blockchain startup for journalism, made its big anno...
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Chapter 6: What's a CVL Token? from 2018-07-12T04:30
A heady cocktail of cryptoeconomics and game theory is fueling Civil’s big plan to save journalism. Add a “token curated reg...
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Chapter 5: Men, Women and Vulnerability from 2018-07-05T04:30
With Civil’s token launch looming, Manoush and Jen go for one last gut check with the guys who helped inspire their meta journey: Listen
Chapter 4: Hedging Your Bets from 2018-06-28T04:30
Manoush and Jen give themselves 36 hours in San Francisco to come up with a financial backup plan, just in case this whole blockchain-token-thing doesn’t work out. Silicon Valley runs on VC mone...
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Chapter 3: Higher Than We Knew from 2018-06-21T05:00:43
In Chapters 1 and 2, Jen and Manoush decide to gamble their future on Listen
Chapter 2: Blockchain. Blockwhat?! from 2018-06-14T09:30
Manoush and Jen have a LOT of questions. Should they stake their careers on the blockchain? How can they explain it without sounding like techno-utopians who have bought into a pyramid scheme? A...
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Chapter 1: Meet the Stable Geniuses from 2018-06-14T09:00
Manoush and Jen just formed a new kind of media company. But is it possible for them to simultaneously be entrepreneurs, mission-driven journalists, and good mothers without falling off a financ...
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Introducing ZigZag! from 2018-05-29T19:00
A new podcast about women and tech. And the blockchain. And anxiety. First two episodes drop June 14th! But meanwhile come say hi at Listen