Podcast
Linen Suit & Plastic Tie
Hosted by Gorav Menon & Kevin Liu · EN
What power lies in your story? How do you tell your story? As two young “adults” journey into the life of suit and tie, they begin discovering the impact of storytelling on their career, business, mental health, and life. One of them in a linen suit, the other a plastic tie.
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What Should We TALK About? ft. a Harvard Business School Professor (Alison Wood Brooks)
Mar 6, 202501:03:52Tap to summarizeWhy and how should you prepare Topics for every conversation? When are you Asking the right questions? How do you bring Levity? Why does Kindness come from storytelling?Welcome back to your storytelling journey! To kick off Season Five, we're having a great talk with the author of TALK: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves , Alison Wood Brooks. At Harvard Business School, Alison teaches an award-winning course in the MBA curriculum called “TALK.”
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What Makes Animation So Magical? ft. a Psychologist (Dr. Drea Letamendi)
Dec 19, 202400:46:13Tap to summarizeWhat are some of our favorite lessons from this season? What is the unique storytelling power of animation? For our season finale, we welcome back our dear friend Dr. Drea Letamendi. Drea is a clinical psychologist at UCLA, a psychological consultant for film, TV, graphic novels, and books, and a unique storyteller who draws important connections between pop culture and the story we tell ourselves.
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Why Do We Love Bookstores? ft. a NYTimes Bestseller (Evan Friss)
Dec 5, 202400:46:04Tap to summarizeWhy do you love being in bookstores? What is the story of bookstores in American history? How did Barnes & Noble switch onto the underdog's team in the bookselling industry? What are the common traits of booksellers? This week, we chat with Evan Friss, author of New York Times Bestseller The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore, and Professor of Urban and Public History at James Madison University.
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How Can Stories Shape the Future of Education? ft. a Stanford Education Innovator (Isabelle Hau)
Nov 21, 202400:43:29Tap to summarizeWhat is the dangerous story about technology in education, and where does the opportunity really lie? How should we revamp our reigning education system's core story and design for the past 200 years? What is Relational Intelligence, and why should we develop it in children? We chatted with Isabelle Hau, the executive director of Stanford Accelerator for Learning, about her own childhood education story and her insights into education tech. Isabelle has dedicated her career to innovating and investing in early childhood education, leveraging the latest science, data, and technology for two decades.
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Storytime w/Gorav & Kevin - LSPTPod 4-Year Anniversary Special
Nov 7, 202400:41:44Tap to summarizeHas four years of exploring the power of storytelling ruined anything for ourselves? How have the lessons from our expert storytellers seeped into our day-to-day lives? What are our stories this year? Here's a special recap for LSPTPod's 4th anniversary. Thank you for joining, and we hope you're learning as much as we are.
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How To Build Your Own Sonic World? - Storytime ft. a Sound Aficionado (Dallas Taylor)
Oct 24, 202401:15:03Tap to summarizeHow do the sounds we hear affect the story we tell ourselves? Why and how should you curate the sounds in your life? Is silence a sound? In a conversation that felt much too short, we chat with Dallas Taylor - sound aficionado, host and creator of the amazing Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast, and Creative Director of Defacto Sound.
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Can Video Games Be Educational? ft. a Religious Theory Professor (ProfNoctis)
Jul 4, 202400:59:41Tap to summarizeWhat makes video game a promising educational medium? How does playing a game make you remember the story differently than watching it? What can you learn about religions through a video game? How did a video game teach Kevin about parenting? This week, we chat with Prof Wade Langer (ProfNoctis) at University of Alabama, who teaches Judeo-Christian Kingship using a popular video game Final Fantasy XV. ProfNoctis' dissertation was on Judeo-Christian Kingship through Final Fantasy XV, a video game.
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How Are Venture and Broadway Investing Alike? ft. a Harvard Business School Professor (Christina Wallace)
Jun 20, 202400:36:43Tap to summarizeWhat do Broadway and Silicon Valley have in common? Why is storytelling crucial to navigating an interdisciplinary life? Why should we "expire our stories"? Welcome back to part 2 of our chat with Christina Wallace, a "human Venn diagram". Christina Wallace has crafted a career at the intersection of business, technology, and the arts. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, where she teaches entrepreneurship and leads HBS Startup Bootcamp. She is author of The Portfolio Life, and a co-producer to multiple Tony-nominated musicals.
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What is A Human Venn Diagram? ft. a Harvard Business School Professor (Christina Wallace)
Jun 6, 202400:37:38Tap to summarizeWhat is a "portfolio life", and how does that help us tell the story about ourselves? How do we find our identity and sense of safety in an ever-shifting professional world? Listen to part 1 of 2 of our chat with Christina Wallace, a "human Venn diagram". Christina Wallace has crafted a career at the intersection of business, technology, and the arts. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, where she teaches entrepreneurship and leads HBS Startup Bootcamp. She is author of The Portfolio Life, and a co-producer to multiple Tony-nominated musicals.
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How Do You Write Your Own Story? ft. a Memoir Author (Carrie Sun)
May 23, 202400:50:55Tap to summarizeWhy should you read the author's bio of a book? Where do we find the most compelling and powerful story from our lived experiences? How do you protect your own memory when telling a story about your past? This week, we chat with Carrie Sun, author of Private Equity, a memoir from her unique experience working for a Wall Street hedge fund billionaire and her deeply personal self-discovery journey. Carrie Sun was born in China and raised in Michigan. She holds an MFA in creative writing from The New School. She graduated early from MIT, worked as a quant, dropped out of MBA, worked in one of the most prestigious hedge funds in the world, and left to become a writer.
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