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The latest interview is with Muffet McGraw, a Hall of Famer and one of the winningest coaches in college basketball history. Mrs. McGraw coached women's basketball for 38 seasons, with 33 of them at the University of Notre Dame. She is a two-time national champion head coach that amassed 936 career victories with a win percentage of 76 percent. Her teams made nine trips to the Final Four and she collected consensus National Coach of the Year honors three times throughout her legendary career.
McGrawâs Irish squads accumulated 14 regular-season conference titles, including eight straight from 2012-19, 11 conference tournament championships (including six in her final eight years at Notre Dame) and made seven trips to the NCAA Division I Womenâs National Championship game. Additionally, McGraw earned seven conference Coach of the Year honors across five leagues. McGraw coached 22 All-Americans and 20 future WNBA players, including No. 1 overall picks Jewell Loyd and Jackie Young.
McGraw was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017, following her induction in both the Womenâs Basketball Hall of Fame (2011) and the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame (2014). She is also a member of St. Josephâs University Womenâs Basketball and the Philadelphia Big Five Halls of Fame.
Eli and Katelyn had a great conversation with Coach McGraw, which we think you will enjoy!
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Happy Boston Marathon day! We are excited to share our interview with Kathrine Switzer, an iconic athlete, author, Emmy-award winning broadcaster and advocate for sports and social causes, Ms. Switzer was the first woman to officially register and run the Boston Marathon in 1967. She was attacked in the race by an angry official who tried to rip off her bib number (#261) and throw her out of the race because she was a woman. She finished the 26.2 mile distance anyway and went on win the 1974 New York City Marathon and to champion women in the sport globally, most notably leading the drive to make the women's marathon an official Olympic event in 1984. Now, 58% of all runners in the USA are women. To celebrate this social revolution, and to support another on active aging, Switzer ran the Boston Marathon again, at age 70, on the 50th anniversary of her iconic run, finishing only 24 minutes slower than she did when she was 20. This run launched her non-profit '261 Fearless' --named after that famous bib number--which empowers women globally though running. She has been honored widely for her achievements including being inducted into the USA National Womenâs Hall of Fame which recognized her for creating positive social change throughout her storied career.
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In today's episode, we are interviewing Gwen Young, the CEO of Women Business Collaborative (WBC). Ms. Young is also a Visiting Scholar at the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University. She has had an amazing career, formerly serving as the Director of the Global Women's Leadership Initiative at the Wilson Center. Prior to that she worked at some amazing international organizations including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Medecins Sans Frontieres, the International Rescue Committee, and the Harvard Institute for International Development. She is our first CEO guest and we were very excited to learn about her work at WBC and about her career. Please take a few minutes to listen to this episode, her stories and her words of wisdom make this a can't miss episode!
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For our latest episode, we are interviewing KatrĂn DavĂĂ°sdĂłttir, one of the worlds top CrossFit athletes and the overall female champion for both 2015 and 2016. It was a really fun interview for us, her message was both interesting and inspiring. It was great to hear about her accomplishments, but it was equally rewarding to learn about her challenges and setbacks and how she overcame them. We especially loved her quote of saying âFailing is only failing if you see it as a destinationâ, this is one of our favorite motivational phrases going forward! Please listen to this episode, we know you will enjoy it!
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In this episode, we interview Dr. Virginia Man-Yee Lee, an award-winning biochemist and neuropathologist who specializes in the research of Alzheimer's disease at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the John H. Ware 3rd Endowed Professor in Alzheimerâs Research, Director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, and the Marian S. Ware Center for Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Program. Dr. Leeâs h-index is 224 and she is listed among the 10 most highly cited AD researchers from 1985-2008 and among the top 400 most highly influential biomedical researchers from 1996-2011. ISI has recognized Dr. Lee as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher and places her in the top 10 most highly cited neuroscientists from 1997 to 2007. Dr. Lee has been ranked 2 among Top Female Scientists for 2022 by Research.com. She received the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. It was a fun interview for us, Dr. Lee had lots of great stories to share, which we think you will find quite interesting.
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We started 2024 by interviewing three time Olympic beach volleyball gold medalist, Misty May-Treanor. Mrs. May-Treanor is considered the greatest beach volleyball player in the history of the sport, thanks to her Olympic gold medals and her 109 career tournament victories. We really enjoyed our conversation with her, we found the story of her athletic career, her experiences outside of professional athletics and her insights as a mother to three girls both inspiring and fascinating. We hope you find this episode as interesting as we did!
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For this episode we interviewed five-time Olympian Lindsey Jacobellis is the most dominant SBX rider of all time. She is a 2x Olympic gold medalist, 1x Olympic silver medalist, 6-time world champion and 10-time X Games gold medalist. Her World Cup win in Germany marked 31 victories, making her the winningest snowboarder in history. She is a member of the U.S. Snowboardcross Team and is the inspirational leader and mentor for Super Girl Snow Pro.
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In this episode we interviewed Dr. Emily Carter, the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment (ACEE), and Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. She is also a member of the executive management team at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), serving as Senior Strategic Advisor and Associate Laboratory Director for Applied Materials and Sustainability Sciences.
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In this episode we interviewd Dr. JoAnn Manson, the Professor of Medicine and the Michael and Lee Bell Professor of Womenâs Health at Harvard Medical School, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH). Dr. Manson is a physician epidemiologist, endocrinologist, and Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI of several research studies, including the Womenâs Health Initiative Clinical Center In Boston, the cardiovascular component of the Nursesâ Health Study, the Vitamin D and Omega-3 TriaL (VITAL); the COSMOS trial, and the Vitamin D for COVID-19 (VIVID) trial.
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For our latest episode we are talking with Dr. Aviv Regev. Dr. Regev is the head of Genentech Research and Early Development. Prior to Genentech, Regev served as Chair of the Faculty and Core Member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and as Professor of Biology at MIT and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is a founding co-chair of the Human Cell Atlas.
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This episode's guest is Professor Heidi J. Larson, the Director of The Vaccine Confidence Project. She is a professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, Seattle; and at the University of Antwerp and KU Leuven, Belgium. Her research focuses on managing risk and building trust in vaccines, vaccine trials and building cooperation in the context of disease outbreaks and pandemics.
Prof. Larson previously headed Global Immunization Communication at UNICEF, chaired
Gaviâs Advocacy Task Force, and served on the WHO SAGE Working Group on vaccine
hesitancy. She is the author of STUCK: How Vaccine Rumors Start â and Why They Donât Go Away (Oxford University Press, 2020). In 2021 she was named by BBC as one of the 100 most
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Dr. Zhenan Bao from Stanford University is our latest exciting guest. She is currently a K.K. Lee Professor in Chemical Engineering, and with courtesy appointments in Chemistry and Material Science and Engineering. She was the Department Chair of Chemical Engineering from 2018-2022. She currently has close to 700 referenced publications and more than 80 US patents with a Google Scholar H-index 198.
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In the latest episode, we interviewed Caroline Fox, MD, MPH, the Senior Vice President of Genetics and Target Discovery at a Flagship Pioneering start-up company. There, she leads a group applying a novel method of genomics to identify drug targets. Prior to that, she was Vice President and Head of Genome and Biomarker Sciences at Merck Research Labs (MRL), where she lead a group of nearly 150 scientists to leverage genetics and biomarker science to drive drug discovery and development across the R&D pipeline.
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In the latest episode, we interviewed Valerie Smith, the current president of Eli's college, Swarthmore College. She has a very impressive career in which she has served as a professor, academic administrator and a distinguished scholar of African American literature.
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For our latest episode, we interviewed Dr. Marilyn Waring, a prominent New Zealand economist and feminist, and a leading activist for womenâs human rights. Dr. Waring was one of the youngest New Zealanders ever elected to Parliament, serving as a National MP between 1975 and 1984. She was just 23 when she entered Parliament and from 1978 to 1981 she was the only woman in the National caucus. After leaving politics she wrote her famous book âIf Women Countedâ. Due to her writings and research she is known as being the principal founder of the discipline of feminist economics. Since 2006, Dr. Waring has been a Professor of Public Policy at the Institute of Public Policy at AUT in Auckland. During this time she has focused on public policy and governance, political economy, gender analysis, and human rights.
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Our latest guest is Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman, an urban anthropologist and lecturer from Philadelphia. She co-founded the “The Women Led Cities Initiative” which aims to bring women's voices to the forefront of urban planning and design. In 2019 she was named to the “BBC’s 100 Women of 2019”, an annual listing of the most inspiring and influential women from around the world. She has served as a lecturer at Drexel University and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. With this episode we tried something new, we conducted our interview on the streets of Philadelphia in Johnston-Zimmerman’s neighborhood, it was a great way to talk to her and learn more about urban anthropology. It was a really fun way to do the interview and we really enjoyed our conversation.
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Our guest for today is Christina Koch, a record setting astronaut who recently completed the longest mission in space for a woman. In addition she was part of the first ever all-female spacewalk. We were very excited to talk with Ms. Koch and her interview did not disappoint us, her stories were interesting, inspiring and entertaining. We hope you enjoy our conversation with her as much as we did.
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Our guest for today is Jennifer Doudna Ph.D, a world famous American biochemist. Her work and leadership with CRISPR genome editing technologies has helped launch the CRISPR revolution. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to interview Dr. Doudna, her work has the ability to change and improve our world. We greatly appreciate Dr. Doudna taking time to share her thoughts, insights, and experiences with us. We are sure you will enjoy learning more about Dr. Doudna!
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Todayâs guest is Lindsey Vonn, the most successful womenâs ski racer of all time. We were super excited to interview Lindsey, we both have grown up ski racing and Lindsey has been our hero since we first started skiing. We really appreciate Lindseyâs open and thoughtful answers to our questions. Lindsey talked about the challenges she has faced, advice she is willing to share with our listeners and insights into what the Lindsey Vonn Foundation is doing to help out young girls. We hope you enjoy the episode.
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Todayâs guest is Dr. Ellen Stofan, the Director of the National Air and Space Museum and former Chief Scientist of NASA. We loved talking with Dr. Stofan as she shared her stories, wisdom, and advice. Our conversation covered a lot of topics including the search for life in space, the challenges of getting humans to Mars, flying cars, and the recent success of the Event Horizon Telescope. We hope you enjoy our talk with Dr. Stofan as much as we did.
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