Listen to the interview by clicking the arrow on the audio player below. Thanks to Facebook, I recently learned that a college classmate of mine started a program called the Doctors of Tomorrow. The program connects ninth graders from Cass Technical Hig

Listen to the interview by clicking the arrow on the audio player below. When I graduated from business school in 1998, the vast majority of my classmates went into banking or consulting. Some may well have had a passion for these paths, but many were si

Listen to the interview by clicking the arrow on the audio player below. In this episode, I speak with a former corrections officer, a woman who requested anonymity because correctional facilities are sensitive about granting interviews. And even though

Listen to the interview by clicking the arrow on the audio player below. In this episode, I speak with Liesl Clark (left) and Rebecca Rockefeller (right), co-founders of the Buy Nothing Project, a social movement focused on the development of hyper-loca

Listen to the interview by clicking the arrow on the audio player below. Described by its creators as "neither a pillow nor a cushion, nor a bed, nor a garment, but a bit of each at the same time," the OSTRICHPILLOW® is a "micro environment in which t

Listen to the interview by clicking the arrow on the audio player below. I wanted to interview Gordon Hempton because his job—recording the sounds of the natural world—struck me as highly unusual and fantastically interesting. What I did not expect w

Listen to the interview by clicking the arrow on the audio player below. Recently I spoke to a Seattle-area man who has been searching for a job for almost two years. Hearing about his struggle to find work in the environmental sector, I got to wonderin

Listen to the interview by clicking the arrow on the audio player below. In the wake of a national trauma—a terrorist attack, a school shooting, a natural disaster—many of us stop working, and the media vigil begins. Watching the coverage, I always f

Listen to the interview by clicking the arrow on the audio player below. Much has been written about the "long-term unemployed"—job seekers who have been out of work for at least 27 weeks. In this interview, I talk to Chris—a Seattle area resident w

Listen to the interview by clicking the arrow on the audio player below. Very few of us make a living doing something that we started at age four. That's when Jennifer DeVore began playing the cello. In the interview, I learned how her path has unfolded