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Caption: Excerpt from the book cover, reading "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" superimposed on top of orange and pink geological features, Credit: Penguin Random House
This week, we talk to Jenny Odell, about the ideas behind her book Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock and How to Do Nothing: Resistin...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Laura Flanders
In this episode on community wealth building, we look at how communities are working to transform their local economies by harnessing the assets th...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Host Martha Burk
It’s Women’s History month, and the feds are banning government agencies from using salary history to set the pay of new hires. Why? If you start ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Laura Flanders
In this special episode of the Bioneers, guest host Laura Flanders explores “Community Wealth Building,” a model that democratizes the economy, cre...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Minimum wages went up in a number of states on January 1. Pizza Hut is crying foul and punishing delivery drivers for the hike by firing them all. ...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
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One of the most common questions people ask about climate is: what can I do? Since time is one of our most valuable resources – and we spend so muc...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
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One of the most common questions people ask about climate is: what can I do? Since time is one of our most valuable resources – and we spend so muc...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
Caption: Saru Jayaraman, Credit: Alex Akamine
Labor organizer and Founder of One Fair Wage, Saru Jayaraman, takes us inside one of the fiercest labor struggles to challenge a mighty oligarchy: ...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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Local ice cream shop puts the focus on community with Food Truck Fridays.

  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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Americans are obsessed with work. American workers spend a lot more time at their jobs than other highly developed nations. Why?

Bought by KUHF, KSTK, RadioStPete Florida, RADIOLEX, KOWS and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
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A conversation with geographer Jen Watkins on her experience as a server and her research on the industry.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Neil Grunberg and Ira Chaleff say that the follower-leader relationship is very similar to a jazz ensemble's performance.
“He who cannot be a good follower, cannot be a good leader.” Aristotle shared that wisdom over 2,000 years ago, but today we chafe at being labele...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 43:44
Caption: The Emotion Roadmap to Inspired Performance
John Caparella led over 10,000 team members when he was President in Vegas of the Venetian and Palazzo Hotels, and the Sands Convention Center. In ...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2023
  • Length: 22:53
Caption: Prof. Phil Clampitt finds that today's effective leaders are moving beyond Servant Leadership into Caring Leadership.
One thing great leaders are sure of: embrace what you’re not sure of! Bob DeKoch and Phil Clampitt learned that most people want to work for a com...

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2022
  • Length: 56:38
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ed Cook (l) & Roxanne Brown (r) founded The Change Decision to help organizations excel at change leadership. There's no real reason change needs to be difficult or shocking to staff: hold no secrets and involve them from the get-go. The change process be
85% of employees worldwide are not engaged in their workplaces. That takes an obvious toll on morale…and productivity. What can you do? Roxanne Br...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Watercooler conversations are a thing of the past. The new chat happens online, in your company's social media: Slack, Teams, WebEx, and the like. Greg Moran says that company chat is the key for leaders becoming aware of the real issues the organization
"Good afternoon, staff. I'm listening." If only your boss truly listened, like Frasier Crane! The reality is most folks high up the chain have lit...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:31
Caption: Rod Lacey learned the best way to empower employees: listen to them! That's led to many innovative changes in how people work at Australian software company simPRO.
There’s a fierce competition going on out there: competition for talent. While pundits debate how real the Great Resignation is, HR departments fa...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 56:08
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Low wages, precarious jobs, shuttered Main Streets and bleak futures — do towns have a way out of poverty that doesn't involve begging and bribing ...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Work cannot return to "normal." Even before COVID, the workplace was changing.  Gary Bolles explores what the rules of the workplace are becoming in his new book, "The Next Rules of Work."
We’ve all seen seismic changes in the brave new world of work; that’s doubly so for leaders and their coaches. Leadership coaches must become stee...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2022
  • Length: 56:56
Caption: Heather Krentler found the secret to reducing staff turnover was simple: listen to them!
Employees want to be heard. They want to know their employer wants the best for them. Continental Services heard – and worked hard to innovate thei...

  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 54:14
Caption: Striking graduate worker Nathan Douglas quotes from Vice Provost Eliza Pavalko's 1987 dissertation.
Our three guests today are all PhD candidates in various departments at Indiana University. We discuss the graduate workers’ strike, the formation ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: "Good leaders and good organizations rally people around values...and they let everyone contribute to those.”  Nadia Younes of CERN discusses the value of inclusivity in the workplace -- including high-tech sites such as CERN.
Leaders have been molasses-slow in changing their mindsets and adapting to major shifts in workforce demographics, and the continuous need for tale...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 54:01
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Did you know that January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and in all likelihood, we consume the products of slavery every day? Join...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Author Anne Helen Petersen discusses her new book, "Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home," written with her partn...

Bought by WETS, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Kevin Cassidy of the International Labour Organization sees a very different environment for the workplace post-pandemic...including the fact that CEOs are among the most vulnerable to being replaced by artificial intelligence!
How has the pandemic changed the workforce, both regionally and globally? What can be done about this drastic change in demographics? Kevin Cassi...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2021
  • Length: 53:06