Employee of the Month
We spend most of our time working, so what does it take to (mainly) love what you do? How do even the most gifted, talented, intelligent, ambitious, disciplined, imaginative, inventive, and lucky people develop their point of view, find meaning, serve a greater good, deal with work place politics, rejection, finances, boredom, red tape, logistics, and creative roadblocks? What are the perks or enjoyable about forging your own path? Catie Lazarus and her guests delve into beauty, banality and absurdity of work, jobs, and labor.
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MakeLoveNotPorn.com's Founder Cindy Gallop on t...
After running iconic campaigns as an Ad Exec, Cindy Gallop decided to create a campaign for a subject dear to her heart. In 2009, she gave a now legendary Ted Talk and launched MakeLoveNotPorn.com.
21 min
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JOSH RADNOR discusses art, film, TV, happiness,...
JOSH RADNOR is currently appearing as a brilliant, but afflicted and drug addicted, doctor in PBS’s civil war drama MERCY STREET.
26 min
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INYANG BASSEY, a back up singer for MOBY, strik...
While at Columbia, Nigerian born and New York raised Inyang Bassey was giving her first concert. Well, she was singing in her shower and her roommate suggested, they get a bigger shower.
12 min
104
NATE SILVER on his own confirmation bias, Trump...
NATE SILVER may be best known as political pollster, but he describes himself as "well rounded" and talks about the perils of having, what I call, a halo effect.
31 min
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KATINA CORRAO on stand up, writing, and being t...
After appearing in TV shows like Broad City to VH1's Best Night Ever, writing for TV shows, like The Newly Wed Game, stand up comedian Katina Corrao just released her first stand up comedy album HOT DATE.
34 min
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NOTORIOUS R.B.G. author IRIN CARMON on Ginsburg...
A recent Law & Human Behavior study found that female lawyers are penalized for displaying anger. It may explain why Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg chose to picked her battles from the get go.
49 min
107
BARACK OBAMA's music pick WILL SHEFF talks abou...
It's not just Barack Obama who is drawn to Will Sheff's music, Lou Reed was a massive fan as well. Like his mentor Lou Reed, Sheff is a bit of a polymath, but best known for being the lead singer for the indie darling rock band Okkervil River.
20 min
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WNBA's CANDICE WIGGINS, basketball star and AID...
Candice Wiggins was a toddler when her father, Alan Wiggins, a professional baseball player died due to complications from AIDs. He passed away ten months before Magic Johnson boldly came forward about his own status.
24 min
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TARA BRACH talks about making a living and bein...
I became a fan of Brach's dharma talks, joining about 200,000 other folks from over 150 countries who download and listen to her regularly.
25 min
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New York Times Best Selling Author on sex with ...
When not nurturing other writers as a professor at NYU, Shapiro is a prolific writer. She regularly contributes to The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and every major publication in between, and her novels and memoirs are accessible, funny, pithy and fun rides.
36 min
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ALEX BLUMBERG talks about why he is excited to ...
But as digital media conglomerates and cable news networks and, more recently, podcasts changed the landscape, Blumberg decided to take what he’d learned about finance and journalism and launch his own podcast company.
55 min
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LISA KRON on writing Fun Home, performing Well,...
It's easy to mistake Lisa Kron for a comedian due to her wry wit, self effacing nature, and comic timing, but Kron is a rarity in the theater word as she doesn't take herself too seriously.
54 min
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LAILA ROBINS, star of Showtimes's Homeland & TN...
TNT’s MURDER in the FIRST garnered an Emmy nod, but The New York Times critic Mike Hale wanted to know how Hollywood forgot to nominate LAILA ROBINS for Best Supporting Actress.
21 min
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JOSH KATZ talks about why he joined the militar...
Former CIA agent Joshua Katz first signed up to the army when most of his peers were contemplating whether to they'd go to law or business school. His nice Jewish parents were baffled, but it didn't stop Katz.
29 min
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DAVID CRABB, on being a really bad kid and winn...
After winning The Moth, a mecca for those who love storytelling from the last bastion of true freaks and geeks, actor David Crabb spoke to me about transforming his coming-of-age stories as a gay, goth kid in Texas in the 1980's and 1990's into a live one man touring show and debut memoir.
16 min
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HARI KONDABOLU on making white audiences uncomf...
I got my start in life in stand-up, I mean not counting that time when I swam, some say was yanked, out of my mom's womb. Anyway, I miss being in stand up because I don't get to spend enough time with performers, like Hari Kondabolu.
20 min
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CORN MO talks about why he didn't become a prea...
To know Corn Mo is to love Corn Mo. The singer, composer, and musician Jon Cunningham, who goes by Corn Mo, spoke to me about why he decided not to be a preacher and, instead, joined a sideshow circus.
17 min
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ASTROLOGERS Starsky & Cox on readings the plane...
This summer I've walked by numerous psychics fanning themselves as they sit in various dilapidated New York storefronts, leading me to wonder why they don't use their psychic powers to manifest air conditioning.
17 min
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ELISA ZURITSKY & JULIE ROTTENBERG started on Se...
Comedy writers ELISA ZURISTKY and JULIE ROTTENBERG got a big break when they landed a job on the already successful HBO series SEX-And-The-CITY.
31 min
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DAVEED DIGGS is back for Part 2 of our interview
DAVEED DIGGS is back! We spoke at the WGA-East (Writers Guild) during his brief vacation between starring in Hamilton at The Public Theater and, now, on Broadway.
46 min
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DAVEED DIGGS, talks about why he hates Pier 1 a...
DAVEED DIGGS, a rapper, actor, and now Broadway star in Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton, stopped by Employee of the Month at Joe's Pub to reveal why Diggs hated working at Pier 1.
18 min
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ANNA CHLUMSKY, an Emmy nominee, rates Zagat and...
ANNA CHLUMSKY made a name for herself with a starring role in the cult classic film MY GIRL. She didn't need a psychic to know that challenging, complex roles were far less likely to land on a female actor's doorstep and Chlumsky left the biz...
23 min
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LEE FIELDS, soul singer, performs and speaks ab...
In the sixties, Southern soul singer Lee Fields hit the R&B scene, and due to an uncanny resemblance to James Brown, he had to figure out how to carve out his own niche.
22 min
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NICHOLAS KRISTOF on tech brands like Apple and ...
Nicholas Kristof was first featured in print at 14 months old, although he didn't get his first byline till years later. At age fifteen, he made the local news for his political activism and was named "Neighbor of the Week."
26 min
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JUSTIN SAYRE, a writer for 2 Broke Girls & The ...
There are those who add multi-hyphenates to their resume, hoping to throw their hands into any rings that might take them, and then there are polymaths, like Justin Sayre.
19 min