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For 85 years, Consumer Reports has championed a fair, equitable, and safe marketplace. Today, its president and CEO is challenging consumers to harness their voices and power to demand a consumer-first economy in the 21st century.

The 9-time author and world-renowned organization and leadership expert tells us that societal collapse is coming… and what we can still do about it.

The author, speaker, facilitator, researcher, and former user experience (UX) designer joined us to discuss the importance of caring. She has been featured across TEDx, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Fast Company.

The author, speaker, facilitator, researcher, and former user experience (UX) designer joined us to discuss the importance of caring. She has been featured across TEDx, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Fast Company.

Specializing in liberation-oriented, anti-oppressive, and culturally-informed therapy, Dr. Ren calls for decolonized mental healthcare and increased access for all.

Using public relations, Cher Hale helps clients from historically-marginalized and overlooked identities get the media recognition they deserve along their journeys of visibility and belonging.

The CEO and founder of ReadySet, one of the country’s leading diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) consulting firms, joined us to discuss race, labor issues, and the Great Recession. She is a former international labor and human rights lawyer.

The Emmy award-winning journalist and TV news anchor is the founder of Shri Service Corps and Shri Studio, which fund and provide no-cost yoga classes to underrepresented and at-risk communities in Rhode Island

The international public speaking coach has spoken at HBO, Google, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Yale, The Juilliard School, the Wharton School of Business, the Muslim-Jewish Conference. He joined us to talk story and self-acceptance.

The 13-time author and former USA Today and  Publishers Weekly best-seller opens up about the healing power of stories. He has been featured on NBC’s Today Show, Chelsea Lately, People, and Writer’s Digest.

Amber Jackson is a food scientist, entrepreneur, and an online, loose-leaf tea company founder who uses tea to bring people together and create community, especially in support and celebration of Black culture.

The international best-selling novelist dicsusses the real-world inspiration for her novel and what most women know about what it means to be a woman in the workplace.

The London-based broadcaster and radio presenter behind the UK’s biggest independent football (soccer) podcast discusses issues in the world’s most popular sport.

The humorist, storyteller, and creator of The F*ck It Diet joined us to explain why she is tired as f*ck of the pressures of self-help, diet culture, and trying to fix her supposed imperfections.

The former best-selling author reveals how her failures in writing led to her latest projects on desire. A personal growth pioneer, she helped launch the concept of self-care with her first bestseller, The Woman’s Comfort Book, in 1992.

The psychologist, consultant, speaker, author tells us about how trauma informed her life, and how we can embrace the psychology of choice for ourselves.

The former electrical engineer turned personal development author, speaker, and facilitator shares how develop a service-based leadership mindset. She worked for 11 years at Fortune 100 IT company and was born in Tehran, Iran. 

The best-selling author, award-winning editor, and entrepreneur shares how checklists have helped her priortize joy in life. She has written six books including two novels.

Helping women in their 40s to reclaim sensuality, intimacy, pleasure, and desire, the author and coach finds herself counteracting repressive stigmas and internalized oppression.

The senior culture reporter and critic at Vox.com talks the importance of art, how algorithms affect culture today, and why philosopher Hannah Arendt believed that friendship fights authoritarianism.

The facilitator, public speaker, and touch specialist believes that intimacy, touch, and deep connection are powerful tools for dismantling racism in modern society.

The formerly incarcerated person turned fitness entrepreneur and prison reform activist told us about changing the prison industrial complex. He has been featured on NBC, CNN, The New York Times, TED Talks, and Men’s Fitness.