ALL EPISODES
Some of the most well-known businesses you can think of started as partnerships between two men--Hewlett Packard, Ben & Jerry, Harley Davidson, even Batman and Robin. When I found the book "Power through Partnership." How Women Lead Better Together," co-authored by Maggie Chotas and Betsy Polk, I was intrigued--what does it take for two women to run a successful business together, and are two heads really better than one?
BETSY POLK & MAGGIE CHOTAS
Have you ever thought about climbing the Golden Gate Bridge untethered, for fun? Or getting into the Guinness Book of World Records for crawling? Or training for the Olympic luge team? Caroline Paul has done all of those things and more...plus she was one of the first female fire fighters in San Francisco. She now makes her living as a writer and in her new book, "The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure," she not only documents her adventures, but shares what she's learned from them to inspire more adventures for all.
CAROLINE PAUL
We have come to rely on our smartphones so much that we consider them an extension of ourselves. So it's no surprise that when a crisis happens, it's the first place we might turn to ask for help. This March, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study that found that when it comes to trauma, these systems responded “inconsistently and incompletely.” And while making a call to a crisis help line, or 911 are certainly options--there's one more possibility--texting.
Nancy Lublin founded Crisis Text Line to support people in crisis through texting the word "start" to 741 741. They've processed over 14 million messages to date. Lublin also founded Dress for Success, and was CEO of the teen volunteer organization Do Something.
Listen to the interview at the link above, or read the edited & condensed interview on Fortune.com
NANCY LUBLIN
The average school year in America lasts just over 1,000 hours, or 42 continuous days--longer than in most other developed countries. And yet when it comes to performance in math the National Report Card from 2013 shows that only 26% of 12th graders are proficient in math. How can it be that we are putting in so much time, and yet getting such poor results? Jo Boaler is a Professor of Mathematics Education at Stanford University and has written several books about revolutionizing the way math is taught. Her most recent book is "Mathematical Mindsets," and she recently founded a math resources website: youcubed.org.
JO BOALER
Annie Leibovitz is known around the world for her iconic portraits of celebrities. You may also know her for the book "Women" she created with Susan Sontag in 1999, featuring a series of photographs of women from an array of backgrounds. Now she is bringing some of that work back, along with many more new photos in an exhibition commissioned by UBS, called Women: New Portraits, conceived to reflect the changes in the roles of women today.
The exhibition is traveling to 10 cities around the world over the course of twelve months and has just arrived from London to San Francisco at the Presidio's Crissy Field. Tickets are free, but reservations are recommended. At the end of the tour, a set of the new photographs will enter the UBS Art Collection.
Lauren sat down with Annie Leibovitz at the opening of her show in San Francisco.
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ
Teens in the United States spend about nine hours per day online, according to a recent report by Common Sense Media. According to the "Being13" study from CNN, it's largely due to a "need to monitor their own popularity status, and defend themselves against those who challenge it on social media." Not surprisingly, this constant vigilance can lead to major stress and anxiety for teens. On the flip side, this same CNN study said teens use their phones to talk about schoolwork, plan social events and be kind to each other. So what's a parent to do? Lauren's guest Delaney Ruston is a primary care physician and filmmaker who explores these questions with her own daughter in the new film "Screenagers." The film is available for screenings in schools, community groups, offices, PTAs, girl scout troops and more.
DR. DELANEY RUSTON
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With the ability to order in almost anything these days--and technology enabling many of us to work from home, we might never need to leave the house, allowing us to live our lives...in sweatpants. But you do need to leave the house sometimes. Now, there's an app that serves both the desire to stay in, and the need to look like you don't. Diane Loviglio is the co-founder of Boon + Gable, and she is attempting to address the dressing challenge with a new business she describes as 'Style. Ordered in.'
Diane Loviglio
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In the trades, most workers--carpentry and otherwise, are still men. Maria Klemperer-Johnson thinks that this state of affairs can and should change--so she's opened a carpentry school for women called Hammerstone School in Trumansburg, NY. In this conversation, she shares how she shifted from computer programming, to geology, to building tiny houses--and the perfect way to sharpen a carpentry pencil.
MARIA KLEMPERER-JOHNSON
The total spending on healthcare in the US in 2014 was estimated to be over $3 trillion dollars, and according to the CDC, more than 75% of our health care spending is on people with chronic conditions. Stephanie's startup Vida says their vision is to use technology to connect people to provide "continuous, connected and collaborative healthcare that drives better outcomes at a lower cost." Stephanie led the development of google wallet and the growth of Paypal. I wanted to know... will she transform access to healthcare as much as she changed how we pay for things? Listen to the conversation, or read the edited and condensed Q&A in Fortune.com.
STEPHANIE TILENIUS
While the number of jobs in science, technology, engineering and math--also known as STEM--continue to grow, the number of students studying those fields at the college level continues to shrink. Yet in states like California and others across the nation, there is a STEM teacher shortage in K-12 schools--resulting in an education gap that may leave many students under-prepared for our increasingly tech focused economy. In President Obama’s 2011 State of the Union address, he acknowledged this challenge by calling for 100,000 excellent stem teachers in 10 years. My guest Talia Milgrom-Elcott took this challenge to heart--and has created a non-profit organization aptly called "100Kin10".
TALIA MILGROM-ELCOTT