HOW HUMANOIDS WILL SAVE HUMANITY Former top Apple executive SANDRA ŠOŠKIÇ is the founder of humanoid labs. Her personal motto “go bold or go home” has defined her life, loves, failures, and successes. Listen in for a great founder/entrepreneur story as we jump into what, exactly, humanoid is...and how Sandra and her team are working to create an entirely new and innovative segment, one that embraces a new generation’s evolution away from comfortable...

OUR KIDS DESERVE A TRUSTED SPACE LORI WOODLEY is the founder of ALL IT TAKES, a non-profit that equips youth and educators with essential emotional intelligence skills to successfully navigate their lives and support their communities. Working alongside JUSTINE FISCHER (Outreach & Engagement Manager) and the rest of her team, they teach young people at critical life stages to practice empathy, compassion, initiative, responsibility, and purpose in...

GOD'S FAVORITE COMIC BOOK CREATOR Mark Russell is an author, cartoonist, comic book writer and all-around hyper-intelligent human who gives a damn. He weaves his poignant social commentary not only into entirely new universes, but also into some of your favorite characters, from The Flintstone and Snagglepuss to Superman, Jesus Christ...and a bunch of others. But hey you can just read all about Mark on Wikipedia. You're here to listen, not read, so...

VIB3 MACHINE: UNITING HUMANITY THROUGH COMMUNITY INTELLIGENCE  Logan Grimé, creator of VIB3 Machine and cofounder of Midi Matilda, discusses his idea of using music to unify humanity. He believes that songs, and specifically melodies, connect people like nothing else in the universe. To create more timeless songs and build a community around people excited about the same idea, Grimé has been sharing the process of writing songs publicly and even plans...

TALK ABOUT A.I. BY TALKING TO A.I. (ABOUT BUILDING A NICER WORLD)  Here it is: The world's first podcast interview with Google's whip-smart BARD ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. Just like with any other guest on our show, we reached out to ask if the guest had interest in appearing on Nice Work! BARD got back to us immediately with a resounding YES! And so, with very little scheduling difficulties or pre-show banter, we had a great conversation with an...

BUILDING THE UNDER8TED MOVEMENT  We welcome the impossibly talented and magnetic Brandon M. Weber, founder of the Under8ted movement and the community program Mind of Creatives. Brandon is a theatre and film artist who is dedicated to making works that break down the stereotypes within the ethnic diaspora. Brandon is also a gem, a joy, and one of the very, very rare things  that our world needs most of all: A leader...and one with heart and with...

Mattie Conaghan Has Racked Up 112,000,000 Views Without Doing Cocaine Bear    Okay, we said we'd be done at 100 episodes. What we meant was that Season #1 would be done. Now it's Season #2 and this is the first episode. Things will be very different in Season 2, kind of like how in that one season of The Office they changed offices and stuff. Or did they? Dunno, as we haven't seen a single episode of that show. Or Seinfeld. Or Friends. Or Everybody...

THE UNKNOWN GUEST AKA SAVING THE BEST (& WORST) FOR LAST Yep, this is it. We planned for 100 episodes, we committed to 100 episodes, and we've cut 100 damned good episodes. Well, at least 8 of them were damned good....the rest ran the gamut from terrible to passably decent. But every single one featured a fantastic guest well worth your attention. So what's next? Dunno. SOMETHING, that's for sure. Probably salons. Time to get people connected in...

Amelia, Ryan & Tod Offend 96% of Humanity + a great meet cute story AMELIA BOONE. RYAN VAN DUZER. You know who they are. If you don't, you won't learn that much about them in this episode, because we don't really talk about the things that they've worked so darned hard to be known (at least partially) for. Instead, this episode is more about two super nice people who have come together in a great way (via this podcast...taking full credit here) to...

ON GROWING B/OLDER, WISER & MORE PASSIONATE THAN EVER CRAIG SWEENEY. He's done the corporate thing. He's built successful businesses. He grew up in an era where 50-year-olds were looked at like half-dead zombies whose greatest daily achievements were getting that much closer to a senior discount at the movie theater. But it's 2022 and 50-somethings are kicking ass in every facet of society, refusing to go quietly into the night. Craig realized...

WE DON'T MEAN IT WHEN WE CALL FOR PUTIn'S ASSASSINATION LOOSE BUTTONS. They're not only a guitar-driven indie-rock band (aren't you getting tired of the 'bands' out there that just 'play' music by touching buttons on a laptop? or am I the old man yelling at the future here?), but they're also give-a-f**k humans who are advocating for and raising money for the rights and safety of Ukrainian citizens. Some Things You WILL ABSOLUTELY Learn...

play THIS EPISODE loudLY at work Sophia is awesome, let’s just put that out there. She’s had bylines in The Guardian, Allure, Refinery29, Reductress, Mr. Porter and The Cut. She is also a regular sex & relationships columnist for Bustle and GQ.  She’s also the author of the new book,  “Well, This is Exhausting” a collection of extremely personal and absurdly funny essays about Sophia’s life. Her dating life, her sex life, her life as a writer,...

because they're awesome & eating them will make UR dick fall off "I work for sharks, they are everything to me, and my story is one of loss at the hands of environmental injustice, and I work to take back what I believe is mine, and that is a future in an ocean that has sharks. The most important career I can hope to be involved in, is the protection of this planet, and thus my own future. I want a future with sharks in it, this is the end I am fighting for. I have seen a change in...

AY Young is a producer, singer, songwriter, entertainer, and entrepreneur AND one of 17 United Nations Global Youth Leaders. While touring the USA, AY learned that over 1 billion people lack access to electricity. So AY began powering concerts using renewable energy, raising awareness about sustainability, and helping fund efforts to bring people electricity. Thus, his Battery Tour was born, one that has helped plug in and activate hundreds of thousands of people, and inspire other...

HE'S PARTNERED WITH TITANS TO SAVE THE WHAL-- WORLD Just like the title of this podcast says, Richard's Ocean Agency is a very unique creative agency that is dedicated to just one client, a client that many argue is the most important in the world. Yes, even more important than Nike, Apple or Amazon. Indeed, the Oceans are #1 in the Future 500 listing, while the aforementioned corporate titans all languish at or near the bottom. Not to overly slag the companies who are literally...

On The Inauthenticity of Aging Gracefully Sometimes the most seemingly counterintuitive idea is actually extremely intuitive. Or maybe it’s just tuitive. Tim Parr had this type of idea when he started CADDIS Eye Appliances. He just didn’t know it right away. That moment came when he had literally five pairs of prototypes for the readers the company would eventually make. A potential investor loved the product, but her reaction to the (in Tim’s mind at the time) throwaway lines written...

Brooklyn indie-pop-slash-dance musician-slash-artist and performer Ariana and the Rose graces Nice Work! this week.  Billboard, Time Magazine, Vice, Nylon (who called her “the ultimate cool girl”), and a whole bunch of others have raved about her super nice high-energy dance music and her attitude and authenticity. We like all that and really appreciate her appreciation for grammar. Even on TikTok (where she’s a whole thing). Not kidding. She's amazing on there. Singing, playing piano,...

From the Hard KNock School of Rock to Dreadlocks and Birkenstocks Drummer Jay Lane has kept the beat for the likes of Dead & Company, Rat Dog, Wolf Bros, Furthur, The Uptones and a bunch of Les Claypool's projects like Primus, Sausage, and Frog Brigade. Is he the Pete Best of Primus? We’re going to find out. Jay joins the pantheon of Nice Work! podcast guests who are drummers, including Logan Grimes from Midi Matilda, Ilan Rubin of Nine Inch Nails, and Ronnie Vannucci Jr....

A skeptics’s guide to psychic healing Are you a curious person? Sure, most of us consider ourselves curious, but are you really? And if you do consider yourself a curious person, does that make you stop being as curious? These questions—how we view and relate to the world—are at the heart of this week’s episode with healer and clairvoyant Monica Canfield-Lenfest. Monica walks us through the steps, methodology, and six principles it takes to become an even more curious person....

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t Joey Santore calls himself, among other things, “a mildly irreverent botanist with no credentials and no filter” and that's a pretty apt description. Joey learned his crafts—equally botany and art with the odd Molotov cocktail of social criticism thrown in—by living them. His self-education, the same way that humans have been going about it for 99.99999% of our existence is a testament to the fact that if you want to know something, go out there and do...

Miles is Making Huge Happiness Bubbles More Popular Mile Francis, a hyper-talented Brooklyn-based singer, songwriter, activist, multi-instrumentalist, video collagist and flatbed-truck riding performance artist, sits down to talk about it all on the podcast this week. Their career is right at that commencing-countdown-engines-on phase. So buckle up for Nice Work! with Miles Francis. 5, 4, 3, 2... I realized the most direct way I could help was to get a drum and go out to marches...

No Late Fees at this Library RONNI ABERGEL is founder of the innovative Human Library organization. By turning people into books (not quite literally) all over the world, the project is tackling prejudice, stigmatization and discrimination in a powerfully earnest, intimate and successful fashion. This is where you can literally borrow a human book for a half-hour chat to challenge and dismantle your deepest prejudices.  With people as living “books” the big difference is the...

Turn on, tune in, and drop into... SHELBY HARTMAN is the founder and CEO of Double Blind magazine, a super nice publication that covers "timely, untold stories about the expansion of psychedelics around the globe." Shelby is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and has worked as a journalist for VICE Media, LA Weekly, Huffington Post and others. Listen in to learn about her journey, how DB came to be, her Super Nice challenge to YOU and, as almost always,...

You Can Call Him Sal From his early X Games notoriety to his beautiful and expansive new book AFRO SURF, Selema Masekela has always ridden the waves of his own passions. And those waves have taken him places. From being the authentic voice of grungy skate and snowboarders in the ’90s to providing sideline commentary on FIFA, the NBA, the World Surf League and the Olympics, as well as surfing all over the world himself and executive producing and hosting a series on sports for Viceland....