
In today’s episode we take you back a year ago when we were living through the height of the pandemic with millions of people working from home and retail stores struggling to keep their doors open. As this was happening we watched a retail company with little promise take the market by surprise. In just a few days shares of the video game retailer, GameStop soared 1,700 percent. To help us understand how and why, we reached out to expert Kristin Myers the award winning journalist...
Jan 22, 2022
40 min

We are back again with Kristin Myers, an award winning journalist, Editor in Chief of the Balance and former Yahoo Finance Anchor. Kristin will lead our latest course HerWealth which launchs the first week of February. Last episode, she explained GameStop to us so that we understood who the players were, what actually happened, and how a similar debacle might be avoided in the future. The one question that we have left about Gamestop is: where were the women voices? In this episode we talk to...
Jan 22, 2022
43 min

In this episode, we reflect on all of our COVID conversations and what they have taught us about accessing science to become better agents of our own decisions. We reference our conversation with Dr. Janina Jeff, an amazing science communicator and geneticist from New Orleans, Louisiana, at the beginning of the pandemic where she shared with us how COVID changed the game for science research and access to the medical community. She also helps us better understand the genetic makeup of the COV...
Nov 17, 2021
33 min

In this episode, we want to get to the science of vaccine efficacy. Now that we know how the COVID virus works and spreads (thanks to Dr. Blazer), we seek to understand why the vaccines are effective and how they offer us protection even in the face of mutations. For help with these questions, we reached out to infectious disease expert Dr. Abir Hussein, a physician on the frontlines in Seattle, Washington.
Nov 11, 2021
35 min

In this episode, we take a step back from all of the information (and misinformation) on the COVID virus and related vaccines and try to understand the hard science behind this pandemic. mRNA is key to understanding the science behind COVID-19. We reach out to Dr. Ashira Blazer a rheumatologist on the frontlines in New York City. This episode covers two conversations that we had with Dr. Blazer in December 2020 and February 2021. We hope you learn as much as we did!
Oct 28, 2021
32 min
