On this special episode, Sonari Glinton sits down with 33-year Wall Street veteran and fellow Morgan Stanley podcast host Carla Harris to discuss their careers, the roles they play in fostering opportunity and their experiences around equity in the economic landscape.  The guest speakers are neither employees nor affiliated with Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC. (“Morgan Stanley”). The views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of Morgan Stanley. The information and...

How will climate change impact farmers, shippers, distributors, roasters and ultimately the price we pay for a cup of joe?

Changes in our eating habits and a surge in pet ownership are making it more difficult and expensive to feed our animals.

There’s a serious shortage of truck drivers just when we need them most. Recruitment efforts and technology could change the face of the job for good.

When overseas manufacturing contributed to a kettlebell shortage, onshoring and diversification helped meet demand, but are far from simple solutions.

How shipping chaos is wreaking havoc on the busiest buying season, and what some toymakers and toy stores are doing to save the holidays.

How the just-in-time supply chain model left healthcare workers scrambling for PPE, and how supplier relationships and innovations filled the gaps.

Sonari Glinton begins a season-long series on the supply chain by exploring how different people were impacted by the cargo ship that clogged up the Suez Canal for six days.

The pandemic pushed working mothers to a breaking point. As the U.S. recovers from a “she-cession,” we look at the past and future of childcare.

The pandemic has taken a terrible toll on elderly people and their caregivers. Host Sonari Glinton talks to families and caregivers finding new ways to take better care of the elderly. Willie Wright is 63 and lives alone in Cleveland, Ohio while his daughter Lauren lives over 500 miles away in North Carolina. We listen as they talk about the future and how they’ll manage as Willie gets older. Then we meet Iris Yafuso Toguchi, who relies on Kupuna Care, a Hawaiian state program for caregivers,...

Industrialists like Henry Ford made the 40-hour work week popular in the 1920s: a hundred years later we look at how it’s working out for us. Host Sonari Glinton talks to Celeste Headlee, journalist and author of Do Nothing, about burnout, and how that led her to reorient her life and approach to work. Next, we meet Jomar Reyes, who worked at Danish digital marketing agency IIH Nordic as they transitioned to a 4-day work week. Finally, Jennifer Scott is a bike courier and labor activist in...

How is the pandemic changing higher education? We meet people rethinking online teaching, what students need to succeed and why a campus matters. Host Sonari Glinton checks in with college student Jacob Sarasohn. When his art school classes went virtual, Jacob decided to put college on hold and become an Emergency Medical Technician. We find out how that experience changed him and if he’ll go back to college. At Georgetown University, we meet Bushra Shaikh and her professor, Elizabeth...

Host Sonari Glinton meets people around the world who are reimagining shopping malls, what they mean to a community, and how to build them for a sustainable future. Malls were originally designed to be the centerpiece of a community. For a long time, they were. Between the boom in online shopping and over-retailing, many malls were struggling even before the pandemic. Now, experts predict every 1-of-4 malls in the U.S. may close over the next five years. For this episode, we travel around the...

Host Sonari Glinton explores how this past year changed the ways we watch movies, who gets to tell stories, and how box office and production power is shifting. In this first episode of our new season, we meet Shelli Taylor, who became the CEO of Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas just weeks after the pandemic temporarily closed all their locations. Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director and Co-Head of the Toronto International Film Festival, talks about diversity in Hollywood, and how the past year is...

After nearly two decades of reporting on culture and the economy, host Sonari Glinton meets people who are looking for solutions to the cracks exposed by the pandemic. From how we care for our children and elderly, to what to do with shopping malls... these are stories of everyday people trying to figure things out, and where they’re finding hope.

With the strain of the pandemic, many of us are admitting that we need help. It’s an opportunity to finally take mental health seriously.

Students and teachers were forced to adapt to online learning this past year. The pivot gave them a chance to rethink how we teach, and how we learn.

In the wake of the pandemic, hundreds of thousands of restaurants have gone bankrupt. For those holding on, radical new ideas are key to survival.

The pandemic splits the workforce into those who can and can’t work remotely. That trend may have a shelf life... and what do we mean by remote anyway?

The pandemic could deal a one trillion dollar blow to the tourism industry. How does that create opportunities to rethink how and why we travel?

Many forecast doom for the world's cities in the pandemic era, but could this instead be a moment of renewal for the world’s most populous places?

Making sense of life after the pandemic and the opportunity for change

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. In 1969, Neil Armstrong’s first steps inspired advancements that led to everything from modern kitchen appliances to the Internet. But 50 years later, space exploration isn’t limited to government-funded missions, launches, and astronauts. Now, private companies are leading today’s “space race” and will help us enter a new era of growth—with satellites. In our season finale, we look toward the stars to see how the satellites...

The summer bestseller you read on the way to work, a flower delivery for your sister’s birthday, dinner made fresh from your weekly meal kit— today you can have every part of your day ordered online and delivered to you without ever leaving your home. But what about your favorite shop around the corner or even the malls of your childhood? With the growing convenience and efficiency of online shopping come questions about the future of traditional retail. Are brick-and-mortar stores fated to...