Solvable
Solvable
Solvable showcases the world’s most innovative thinkers and their proposed solutions to the world’s most daunting problems. The interviews, hosted by Ronald Young Jr., will launch a dialogue that both acknowledges the complexity of the issues while inspiring hope that the problems are, in fact, solvable. iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.Social links:
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Introducing Weight For It from Ronald Young Jr.
Former Solvable host Ronald Young Jr has a new podcast! “Weight For It unpacks the nuanced thoughts of fat folks, and of all folks who think about their weight all the time. Through narrative storytelling and some memoir, host Ronald Young Jr. hopes to have the conversations that we tend to avoid w…
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Paul Rosolie, Protecting the Amazon Rainforest
Paul Rosolie is an Amazon Rainforest conservationist, author, and filmmaker. He is the co-founder of Tamandua Expeditions and Junglekeepers. Here are links to those organizations he mentions in this episode: Www.Junglekeepers.org Www.Tamanduajungle.com Www.PaulRosolie.com Save the Sunlight,…
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Sterlin Harjo, Reservation Dogs
Sterlin Harjo strives to tell the stories of Native and Indigenous people by positioning beauty and triumphs alongside honest frailty and shortcomings. Harjo is an award-winning film maker and he’s the creator and show runner of the TV show Reservations Dogs. Here are some links to organizatio…
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Misogyny in Game Design is Solvable
Laila Shabir is the co-founder and CEO of Girls Make Games. Here are some links to learn more about her game design studio, summer camp and quest to welcome more girls and women into the world of game design. Girls Make Games https://www.girlsmakegames.com/ What They Don’t Sea (2019) - Exp…
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Reality TV is Solvable
Lizzy Pace and Chad Kultgen are the hosts of the podcast, Game of Roses and they have ideas about how to solve The Bachelor and reality TV more generally. Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, editing help from Keishel Williams. The managing produce…
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Solutions for 2022
The staff of Solvable discuss the problems, big and small, that they'd like to see solved in 2022 and beyond. Special thanks to Maggie Taylor and Pushkin podcast hosts Sam Fragoso (Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso), Tim Harford (Cautionary Tales), Michael Lewis (Against the Rules), Laurie Santos (The Ha…
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Mike Gauyo: Insecure
Mike Gauyo is a TV writer in LA. Credits include Insecure (HBO) and Ginny & Georgia (Netflix) among other projects. He’s the founder of The Black Boy Writes Black Girl Writes Mentorship Initiative which is paving pathways for emerging Black writers in Hollywood. Here are some resources Gauyo r…
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Kidney Failure is Solvable
Dr. Carmen Peralta is the Chief Medical Officer at Cricket Health. She co-founded the Kidney Health Research Collaborative at University of California San Francisco and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She works to provide support to patients, doctors and all the steps in between …
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adrienne maree brown: Cancel Culture is Solvable
adrienne maree brown is the author of We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, Pleasure Activism and also several works of fiction. She is the co-host of the podcasts How to Survive the End of the Worl…
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Mary Aiken: Cybercrime is Solvable
Mary Aiken is a Cyberpsychologist and Chair of the Department of Cyberpsychology Capitol Technology University in Laurel Maryland. She is a member of the Interpol Global Cybercrime Expert Group. Want to learn more? Here are links to additional resources Dr. Aiken recommends: The Cyber Blue …
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