Alec Ross is a New York Times bestselling author whose latest book, The Raging 2020s, puts forth the idea that a new social contract could restore the balance of power between government, citizens, and business in modern America. In short, he spends a lot of time thinking about what’s next. Before he was one of the world’s leading experts on innovation, Alec was a night-shift janitor and a Baltimore school teacher. Currently, he is a board partner at Amplo, a global VC firm and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at The University of Bologna Business School. He has served as a senior fellow at ..read more

We keep hearing work is changing for good. This is the era of the employee. And no one knows what the future looks like or what it’ll take to make workers happy. Professor Tsedal Neeley says this is not actually a mystery.  She is a Senior Associate Dean and Professor at Harvard Business School.  She believes remote work -- in some form -- is here to stay. And she’s been studying best practices since well before the pandemic. She has advice for the best way to get the job you want, hire the employees who will really fit, and grow with the changing economy. Here she gets into what’s ..read more

Did you know that some of the longest living, healthiest people on the planet have never been to the gym? They don’t go on special diets or attend retreats or travel to the most exotic places. The man I interview today says they stay healthier and happier for longer than most. Dan Buettner has studied people who live in the Blue Zones – those are 5 regions of the world where an outsize number of people live past 100 and the’re vital for more of those years. Buettner analyzed what people in the Blue Zones have in common and distilled these learnings into strategies he summarized in his best se ..read more

Former presidential candidate-turned-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has a pricey task before him: how to spend $600 billion over 5 years to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure. He sat down with News Not Noise to tell us about some of those projects and how he believes they’ll benefit citizens across the nation. We tackle some big issues: inflation, climate change, the DOT’s work to ease holiday travel challenges and the midterms: why democracy is on the ballot this year. He tells us why even in the face of political extremism, he's still optimistic about the country's future. You c ..read more

America is adrift due to polarization, inequality, greed, corruption, bad behavior. And one of the key solutions to this is to strengthen the middle class That’s what Scott Galloway argues in his new book, “Adrift: America in 100 Charts,” already on the New York Times Bestseller list. Scott Galloway is a Professor of Marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business and co-host of the Pivot podcast and host of the Prof G pod. In this interview Galloway explains why he believes building up the middle class will revitalize America and he proposes solutions to get us there.. He also takes on big tech ..read more

Ben Smith is one of the most influential media and politics reporters today. Smith was one of the first reporters at politico and went on to become the founding editor of Buzzfeed News. He was a must-read media columnist at the NY Times and is now co-founder of global media outlet, Semafor. Smith is out with a new book, Traffic – Genius, Rivalry and Delusion in the Billion Dollar Race to Go Viral. It chronicles the rise and decline of Buzzfeed and Gawker and the online ascent of right-wing populist figures like Andrew Breitbart and Ben Shapiro. In this conversation we talk about the ways the ..read more

Women's greatest strengths in the workplace are also their most underestimated. That’s what CNBC senior media & tech reporter Julia Boorstin explains in her new book, "When Women Lead." Boorstin sat with sixty powerhouse female CEOs and leaders. In the book, she weaves their stories together with research on the most effective strategies women CEOs deploy at work. She provides invaluable lessons for anyone in the workplace. In this conversation, Boorstin explains how women like Katrina Lake, Lena Waithe and Gwyneth Paltrow not only rose to success but empower — and listen — to the peopl ..read more

This is a wide-ranging and honest conversation about aging, honesty, grief, anxiety and finding joy in life with the remarkable Paulina Porizkova. She is a longtime supermodel, actress and author. We talk about the inspiration behind her debut book No Filter: The Good, The Bad, and The Beautiful. It's a stunning collection of essays and observations about life, and it's available today. We chat about everything from social expectations of women to fighting ageism, managing anxiety– the death of her husband and finding her voice. Her book is available today. Paulina Porizkova ➤Twitter: twitt ..read more

Jessica Seinfeld knows you don’t want to quit meat cold turkey this Thanksgiving, and she’s totally on board with that. Instead, the sometimes vegan wants you to try incorporating more plant-based foods onto your holiday table and into your diet, without any shaming or “shoulds.” She’s doing it with her own family four (or if you ask her husband Jerry, three) nights a week. Contrary to popular belief, she says, it’s not all or nothing. On this week’s episode of the News Not Noise Podcast, the other Jessica tells me all about her favorite vegan recipes in her new cookbook “Vegan, At Times,” wh ..read more

Republicans held the House. Democrats the Senate. But the margins couldn’t be slimmer. And the standoff ahead of 2024 is already taking shape. Can anything get done? Is a next generation of leadership ready to take the helm? And will the policies that you care about even make the agenda? We answer those questions with two experts: Jake Sherman, founder of Punchbowl News, a media company all about Capitol Hill. He's covered national politics for more than a decade. And Margaret Talev, the managing editor of politics for Axios and a CNN political analyst. She discusses Ron DeSantis, Donald Tr ..read more