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Ep. 67: Healing, with Children’s National Hospital’s Joelle Simpson

“I will be honest in saying that I never imagined the degree of exhaustion and the multitude of issues that have come about with this crisis: on a personal level, on an institutional level, on a community level, on a national level.” For...

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Healing, with Children’s National Hospital’s Joelle Simpson

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Ep. 66: Teachable Moment, with IAC’s Barry Diller

“Local travel, meaning travel 100 to 600 miles from where you live by car, is fairly robust and is almost back to pre‐COVID levels....We're not seeing and won't see air travel, certainly not international air travel....We’re not seeing it...

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Teachable Moment, with IAC’s Barry Diller

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Ep. 65: Across Sectors, with Mastercard Foundation’s Reeta Roy

“In Africa the economy is also a patient....We have a consortium in Ethiopia, for example—12 businesses run by women who are pivoting and using their skills to now manufacture PPE. We’re doing the same in Ghana, working through a coalition...

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Across Sectors, with Mastercard Foundation’s Reeta Roy

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Ep. 64: Struggle, with Ariel Investments’ Mellody Hobson

“I thought a lot about it from the perspective of being a person who walks around with brown skin, a woman, a mother, but also someone who runs a company....My mother used to tell me, ‘Mellody, you could be or do anything.’...There's going...

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Struggle, with Ariel Investments’ Mellody Hobson

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Ep. 63: Madame Chairwoman, with U.S. Representative Maxine Waters

“I negotiated directly with Mr. Mnuchin....He was fair. He was easy to communicate with....Working with him, I was able to carve out and direct to these minority institutions, a sum of money that would give them the liquidity that they...

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Madame Chairwoman, with U.S. Representative Maxine Waters

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Ep. 62: Sprinting, with the Carlyle Group’s David Rubenstein

“The COVID-19 crisis has made me realize that if there's anything I really want to get done in my life, I need to get it done sooner. I am ratcheting up my activity. I'm doing what I call sprinting to the finish line now because I realize...

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Sprinting, with the Carlyle Group’s David Rubenstein

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Ep. 61: Paying It Forward, with PayPal’s Daniel Schulman

“We immediately went from working 100 percent from the office to 100 percent work from home; we’ll remain working from home at least through October as we see how the virus progresses and how we protect the health and safety of our...

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Paying It Forward, with PayPal’s Daniel Schulman

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Ep. 60: Sea Change, with NASDAQ’S Adena Friedman

“It's really, to me, a trust factor....Companies at that moment had huge, huge needs for capital to manage through the beginning of what they were seeing was going to be a significant downturn in their business. If we had closed the markets...

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Sea Change, with NASDAQ’S Adena Friedman

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Ep. 59: Taking Flight, with Delta’s Ed Bastian

“We're working well as an industry, not just within the airline industry, but across the hospitality sector. We want customers to feel confident….People want to move; people want to get out. There's a cabin fever...and we want to make sure...

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Taking Flight, with Delta’s Ed Bastian

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Ep. 58: Care for the Caregivers, with Cleveland Clinic’s Tomislav Mihaljevic

“The unfortunate, almost tragic, paradox of this situation is that 1.2 million health-care professionals in the United States have lost their jobs because of the financial strains that the COVID pandemic put on health-care organizations.”...

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Care for the Caregivers, with Cleveland Clinic’s Tomislav Mihaljevic

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