Introducing the SHACK15 Conversations Podcast
Written by Kelly Costello
We’re incredibly excited to introduce the SHACK15 Conversations Podcast, where we invite founders, innovators, and changemakers to share ideas with our community, speak to the experience of building their businesses, and unlock some of their hard-earned wisdom collected along the way. Our goal is to create a space for discussion around the topics shaping our future and inspire our community to turn their big ideas into bold plans.
Pre-COVID, we hosted SHACK15 Conversations for a live audience of our friends and community in the beautiful SHACK15 space on the top floor of San Francisco’s Ferry Building. Now, as part of our ongoing virtual programming series, we are excited to bring these illuminating conversations to you in a podcast, so you can enjoy them, wherever you are in the world.
From authors to activists, artists, explorers and entrepreneurs, each guest lends their unique perspective to the conversation at hand, sharing inspiring stories, key insights and wisdom learned along the way.
10 episodes are now live for your listening pleasure on the SHACK15 website, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts, and new episodes will be released weekly.
Below are our top picks for what to listen to now!
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001 / David Sax on his book The Soul of an Entrepreneur
Award-winning writer and reporter David Sax discusses his new book The Soul of an Entrepreneur. In it, he explores the deeply personal questions of entrepreneurship, addressing the vast and colorful spectrum of small and family-owned businesses that make up a significant portion of the America’s culture and economy. In this conversation, David de-bunks the myths of entrepreneurship and explores how entrepreneurs of all ages, backgrounds and classes are making their dreams reality by risking it all.
002 / Bridget Watson Payne on her book How Time is on Your Side
How Time is on Your Side, from best-selling author and editor Bridget Watson Payne, is a primer on how to find the time to do it all—the passion projects, the to-do list, and simply making time for you. Bridget joins us to share practical productivity tools and inspiring stories of people who make time for the things that matter to them, with the hope of teaching us all how to reinvent our relationships with time. In conversation with arts curator and cultural historian Lucie Charkin, Bridget discusses how to nurture your inner creative, spiritual, emotional, and mental wellness by creating an open dialogue about your relationship with time.
003 / Manny Yekutiel on creating a space for civic discourse in San Francisco
Activist and small business owner Manny Yekutiel joins moderator Marcus Colombano for a conversation about the intersection of community and civic engagement. Manny shares his inspiring perspective, drawing on his experience in the Obama White House and as owner of Manny's, a social gathering and civic event space in the Mission which has become a vital center for civic conversation, recently hosting Kamala Harris and numerous other presidential candidates. In this conversation, Manny discusses his approach to fostering community, how to create space for different ideas and why there's hope for our civic future.
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004 / Markos Kounalakis on the media's role in finding truth in the COVID-19 crisis
Now, more than ever, people are turning to the news for trusted information on coronavirus and its effects on our world. Dr. Markos Kounalakis, award-winning journalist and foreign affairs columnist, and moderator Marcus Colombano discuss the media's role in spreading life-saving information about the COVID-19 pandemic.
005 / Fanny Singer on her new book Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories
Fanny Singer, the daughter of famed chef Alice Waters, writer, designer and author of culinary memoir Always Home, sits down with moderator Marcus Colombano to discuss her perspective on food, family, travel and finding a home wherever you are.
006 / Alissa Carpenter on her book How to Listen and How to Be Heard: Inclusive Conversations at Work
If only there was a guide on how to empower yourself to communicate with confidence and authenticity… Author Alissa Carpenter joins Jen Oleniczak Brown to discuss practical tools to find your authentic voice, foster inclusive conversations at work, and lead with empathy in times of uncertainty.
007 / Zack O’Malley Greenburg on the rise celebrity investors and their impact on today's top companies
Zack O’Malley Greenburg, senior editor of media and entertainment at Forbes, discusses the growing ties between Hollywood and Silicon Valley, based on his interviews with over 100 founders, funders, and stars—Shaq, Nas, Sophia Bush and more. Zack and moderator Chris Lyons, Director of Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund, give us their take on celebrity investors and how they are changing the face of Silicon Valley.
008 / Outlaw Ocean on bringing new methods of storytelling to life on the vast and lawless high seas
The Outlaw Ocean Music Project is a first-of-its-kind collaboration that combines music and journalism to tell the true stories of the world's oceans and the gritty characters that live and work on them. Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Ian Urbina and musician Christopher Willits join us to discuss the project and how they combined music and journalism to make these stories come alive.
009 / Ellie Pritts on creating magic through photography
Ellie Pritts is a photographer, art director and entrepreneur whose work has been featured in WIRED and TIME Magazine. Ellie sits down with moderator Marcus Colombano to discuss her art, philosophy and how she uses photography to capture a magical view of the real world.
010 / The Pink Triangle on illuminating The Pink Triangle
Patrick Carney, creator of Pride's iconic Pink Triangle, joins Ben Davis, founder and CEO of SF-based nonprofit Illuminate, to discuss their collaboration on The Pink Triangle, a public art piece and symbol of LGBT history, and their mission to bring people together through public art.
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