Episodes

Today I catch up with my friend Kate Wallace. I met Kate 7 years ago, through the KP fellowship for ambitious, entrepreneurial students. Of our cohort of 100 people, I found Kate’s life story to be by...

Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August helped John F. Kennedy avoid nuclear war with the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The founder of Trader Joe's called it the best management b...

At the age of 25, Laufey has become the most listened-to jazz singer alive today -- mostly thanks to her millions of Gen Z fans. She has been winning their hearts systematically on TikTok, and steadil...

Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li has been nicknamed the "godmother of AI." She recently wrote a memoir about her childhood in China, struggles as an immigrant in New Jersey, and the curiosity a...

We unpack how Catherine, born a minor German princess, won the love of the Russian public and overthrew her husband to become Tsarina of Russia. We also examine how she became one of only 3 Russian ru...

In this episode, we do something different: we cover a woman whose power was entirely derived from her husband. We discuss how Lady Bird achieved her ambitions by fighting hard for her marriage to the...

Angela Merkel started her life as a research scientist in East Germany. At 35, within a year of entering politics, she was elected to Parliament, and went on to serve as Chancellor of Germany for 16 y...

We analyze the motivations and machinations of the media mogul and fashion icon who inspired The Devil Wears Prada . Sources: Anna: The Biography , by Amy Odell Front Row: Anna Wintour: The Cool...