Icons & Disruptors with Maurice DuBois
Icons & Disruptors with Maurice DuBois Podcast
Playlist by Icons & Disruptors with Maurice DuBoisMaurice loves getting inside people’s heads. Especially cutting edge people doing cutting edge things. Learn their game-changing secrets — and how their greatest life lessons can work for you!Follow the podcast:
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Yvette Noel-Schure, Publicist to the Stars
Beyoncé was only 14 when Yvette Noel-Schure walked into her life — and they’ve been a formidable team ever since. Noel-Schure is part PR guru, strategist and trusted friend to one of the biggest stars in the world. And — an inspiration to her own legions of fans and admirers.
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Carol’s Daughter Lisa Price, Founder
For a multi-million dollar businesses to start off at a kitchen table Brooklyn, with a young woman conducting experiments just for fun - well, that’s a great story right there. To hear Lisa Price tell it - is even better. Carol’s Daughter is her baby: all-natural hair, body and skin care for women…
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Legalizing Marijuana? Kevin Murphy, Acreage Holdings
Legalized weed in all of America is a sure thing, a virtual done deal — at least according to Kevin Murphy. After almost a decade in the marijuana business, the CEO of Acreage Holdings thinks the country is ready to join him. Murphy’s got heavyweight support: his team includes a former House Speake…
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Dapper Dan
Wanna know what it really means to be "fly?" Or how you get from hustling & gambling on the streets of Harlem - to the house of Gucci? Dapper Dan is living it. Thanks, he says, to the "transformative power" of fashion. And reading a lot. He's at the pinnacle of a career that fully changed not just …
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Wynton Marsalis
Maurice once asked Wynton how he chills. His answer: “I’m chilling right now.” They were actually onstage, in front of an audience! True to form, this giant of Jazz and American culture never stops working. He’s produced more than 80 records, won 9 Grammys, a Pulitzer Prize, and has been awar…
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Walt "Clyde" Frazier
Ever wonder why they call him “Clyde”? Or, what’s the story behind his signature Puma sneakers? Or why he uses all those big words on TV? Or — why he criticized LeBron James the other day; and by the way, who does he think is the greatest basketball player of all time? (Hint: it’s not Michael …
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Misty Copeland
Misty Copeland was born to be a ballerina. She just didn’t realize it, or even discover ballet until she was 13. And then she had to overcome intense family turmoil, racial barriers and self doubt - before soaring to the top. Now she’s the first African-American female Principal Dancer at the prest…
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D-Nice
If they ever build a Mt. Rushmore for DJs, D-Nice will be right in the middle of it. He is living music history. But not that long ago, he couldn’t even afford to get a haircut! What a journey it’s been for the kid born Derrick Jones: From the streets of the Bronx to Hollywood, the White House and …
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The @Overtime Guys
Overtime gets millions of views every day, billions every year and it’s growing like crazy. This media empire is at the leading edge of dramatic disruption in the way we watch sports. Maurice gets into all of it with the men calling the shots, Dan Porter and Zach Weiner.
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George Washington's Broken Heart
Did a broken heart motivate George Washington to ditch the Brits and lead the American Revolution? It sure looks that way, journalist Mary Calvi tells Maurice, after she logged several years of ground-breaking research. Dear George, Dear Mary is Calvi’s debut novel, a fictionalized account of Was…
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