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Home Is Joy – Edafe Okporo

Edafe is getting married in July, finished his Masters Degree from NYU School of Business, and will launch his book, Asylum, published in June 2022 by Simon & Schuster. Edafe, a refugee himself, has been working with LGBTQ displaced people for several years and recent Afghan refugees and is an expert on the world wide refugee crisis and possible solutions.

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Leaving It All To Have It All – Atoosa Rubenstein

Leaving It All To Have It All – Atoosa Rubenstein

“Well, I mean, even just hearing you say it, and isn’t that what alpha girl would do, right? That in the midst of lean-in culture, you have to lean out. That’s what I needed to do. Although it felt very surprising to people, I do think that it was really necessary for me to have that. And it’s interesting to talk about rebirth, because I kind of feel like our talk at TED, that is my actual official rebirth. It’s going to be the first time I’m ever really, in a big way, talking about the 16-year hiatus that I took and I just had to.”

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100 Watts by Jim Watt

100 Watts by Jim Watt

“As an artist…I think that things like ambiguity, nuance and uncertainty are a wonderful antidote to some of this divisive, polarized, dualistic place that we live in.”

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Addiction Pandemic. Esther Dyson Audio Interview

“The fundamental pattern of addiction is that you get focused on this thing that is going to relieve your anxiety or your pain…the opposite of doing drugs or succumbing to any addiction is not not doing it. It’s doing something else with meaning and purpose.”

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How Audible is Helping Revive Newark

How Audible is Helping Revive Newark

Everyone knows Audible, the online audiobook and podcast service that dominates the audio space. But what people don’t know is that this media giant was started in founder Don Katz’s attic 25 years...

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Innovation Everywhere – Jay Bhatti

Innovation Everywhere – Jay Bhatti

Brian Smiga, TEDxAsburyPark Founder and Co-founder of Alpha Venture Partners, interviews Jay Bhatti, partner at Brand Project VC and TEDx speaker on “Innovation Everywhere” spreading outside Silicon Valley, New York City, Boston as a result of COVID-19.

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