Slate Careers
Getting past "and what is it you do?" to "how do you do it?" and "why?" These episodes, drawn from across the Slate network, dive into how to live while making a living.
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Working: A Classic Opera Gets an Overdue Update
Francesca Zambello, artistic director of the Washington National Opera, talks about a bold new staging of Puccini’s unfinished final opera, Turandot.
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Well, Now | “As Little Regulation as Guns”: How...
Minors are facing a mental health crisis, and data supports social media as a culprit. One city health commissioner is helping fight back in the courts.
37 min
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ICYMI: The Aftermath of a Layoff
Yowei Shaw’s new podcast Proxy investigates the psychological and emotional residue of a layoff — starting with her own
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Working: A Much-Needed History of Queer Women’s...
Writer June Thomas talks about bringing journalistic rigor to a subject that’s close to her heart.
42 min
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Well, Now: Is Biohacking a Scam?
Or is it only for the rich?
45 min
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How To!: Handle Feedback at Work
Alison Green on the pitfalls of constructive criticism.
40 min
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Working: The Evolution of One of Scotland’s Bes...
Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura talks about writing new music after the band's long hiatus.
48 min
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Working: Writer Anne Lamott’s Difficult Persona...
The Bird By Bird author discusses her new book about love, her proclivity for deeply honest memoir writing, and some of her go-to advice about writing and publishing.
49 min
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Well, Now: How a Former Surgeon General Took on...
Even surgeon generals get sticker shock. Here are Jerome Adams’s suggestions for how to fight back.
40 min
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Working: Interviews That Get to the Point
Death, Sex & Money host Anna Sale shares her strategies for conducting interviews about things that really matter.
45 min
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Death, Sex & Money: A Tarot Reader Explains Why...
North Carolina-based witch Rebecca Auman helps Anna through a rough patch. Then she explains why it’s so hard for some of us to make sense of our own inner voices.
39 min
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Working: How Fact-Checking Can Improve Your Fic...
Novelist Julia Hannafin and ecologist Adam Rosenblatt talk about Julia’s new novel Cascade and its commitment to scientific accuracy.
45 min
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Working: A Clarinetist Finds His Flow State
Anthony McGill, principal clarinetist for the New York Philharmonic, explains what it’s like to both perform and take in the beauty of the orchestra simultaneously.
45 min
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What Next: How Young Is Too Young to Work?
Child labor laws are changing—in different directions, in different states.
22 min
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Working: How to Be Both a Critic and a Creator
NPR host Linda Holmes explains how her work as a professional pop culture critic impacts her work as a novelist, and vice versa.
43 min
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Working: Creator Mode vs. Editor Mode
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Slate Money: How to Escape the Invisible Factory
Author Cal Newport explains how we ended up in Slack hell — and how to free ourselves.
36 min
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Working: How a Magician Designs Original, Mind-...
Award-winning performer Joshua Jay explains how he’s able to live up to his own very high standards.
42 min
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What Next TBD: The Psychological Toll of Mars
We know how to get to space. But what happens to our minds when we’re there?
21 min
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Working: How to Curate a Small Town Art Museum
Sun Valley Museum of Art curator Courtney Gilbert discusses the unique challenges and thrills of serving a small community.
43 min
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Death, Sex & Money: A Former Pro Climber On End...
After years of scaling cliffs for a living, Mason Earle was diagnosed with ME/CFS, commonly called chronic fatigue syndrome.
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Working: From Corporate Job to Broadway Playwright
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Decoder Ring: Why Stylists Rule the Red Carpet
Avery Trufelman and Melissa Rivers on what the fashion police hath wrought.
38 min
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Death, Sex & Money: Who’s Driving Your Uber?
Rideshare drivers in the Bay Area tell stories about their lives and their work.
29 min
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Working: An Acting Coach’s Tips for Beginners a...
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