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Chicago Ideas

Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things.

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Sunday · 5 min
Voices Against Gun Violence – Cleopatra Cowley’s Story
Every 3 hours someone is shot in Chicago. It’s time to Put The Guns Down. Uploaded 12-10-15 Hear more stories at https://www.musicVSgunviolence.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sunday · 28 min
Panel: Lena Waithe, Elaine Welteroth and Bozoma St. John, interviewed by Robin Givhan
Writer, actress and producer Lena Waithe; Former Teen Vogue Editor in Chief Elaine Welteroth; and Uber Chief Brand Officer Bozoma St. John are interviewed by Robin Givhan in this panel discussion during Chicago Ideas' Talk "A Seat at the Table: Finding Equal Footing Through Storytelling." For more details and to see in full HD, visit: https://www.chicagoideas.com/videos/panel-discussion-lena-waithe-elaine-welteroth-and-bozoma-saint-john-on-the-power-of-storytelling Uploaded 08-03-18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sunday · 17 min
Scott Heimendinger: Creativity in the Rearview
If you could do anything in the world, what would it be? And more importantly, how would you get there? Scott Heimendinger, director of Applied Research at Modernist Cuisine and co-founder of Sansaire, shares the key moments of unique individual creativity and experimentation that led him to not just one, but two dream jobs. Uploaded 28-01-15 About Chicago Ideas Week Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sunday · 1 hr 18 min
How to Incorporate Food Sustainability Into Your Daily Life
Girl and the Goat Chef Stephanie Izard and the Obama Administration’s Nutrition Policy Advisor Sam Kass join “Hungry Hound” Steve Dolinsky for a Chicago Ideas Conversation that looks at sustainability, how the environment relates to healthy eating, and food as a natural resource. Uploaded 21-05-18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sunday · 4 min
Spoken Word by Patricia Frazier
Patricia Frazier is an award-winning poet, filmmaker, activist and youth mentor raised in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood who has shared the stage with such artists as Chance the Rapper, Macklemore and Ciara. Influenced by poets and songwriters like Mama Brenda, her writing highlights the multifaceted identities of black women. Uploaded 15-01-18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sunday · 20 min
Designing Your Best Life with Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
Bill Burnett and Dave Evans are designers who have managed to translate their skills into everyday life. In their book, "Designing Your Life," they break down the best practices for anyone to build a life that thrives. Uploaded 27-04-17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sunday · 4 min
The Power of Love to Make You Stronger
Today we don’t gather our own food, fight off wild animals, or live in caves. And yet, explains Dr. Rick Hanson, we’re equipped with stone-aged brains. With practice, however, and a focus on the good, we can make ourselves more resilient, while opening up new horizons of experience. Uploaded 03-04-20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sunday · 21 min
Lynne Cox: Exploring the Very Edge
How far can we push our bodies? Our minds? Our limits? Extreme open water swimmer Lynne Cox began training to swim across the English Channel at age 14. Hear how she found success in that goal and with many other dangerous challenges. Uploaded 14-03-13 About Chicago Ideas Week Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sunday · 17 min
Jena Friedman: Sugarcoating Dark Satire
This is the Jena Friedman way of comedy—it's dark, it's honest and it's rooted in real life experiences. Hear how this successful comedian and field producer at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart deliberately, shamelessly writes great jokes about edgy topics—whether you like it or not. Uploaded 14-03-13 About Chicago Ideas Week Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sunday · 14 min
Petra Bachmaier: Art as an Experience
Listen as Petra Bachmaier of Luftwerk takes you through her immersive video art and experiential design that plays with space and how places shape our interaction and become part of our identity. Uploaded 07-03-13 About Chicago Ideas Week Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sunday · 17 min
Justice Richard Bernstein on Relentlessly Pursuing His Passion
Justice Richard Bernstein talks about finding and pursuing his passion in spite of the barriers he had to overcome along the way. Uploaded 08-04-20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sunday · 12 min
Taryn Davis: Widow, Not Window
After losing her husband, Taryn Davis typed "Widow" into Google. Google's response: "Did you mean 'window?' " Hear how Taryn went on to create a place where widows of fallen service members come together for peer-to-peer support. Uploaded 18-03-13 About Chicago Ideas Week Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sunday · 29 min
Yusef Salaam on What He Learned From Adversity
Yusef Salaam, a member of the Exonerated Five, speaks about how he found purpose in his experience contending with the unfair forces of the American justice system. Uploaded 08-04-20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sunday · 24 min
Ezekiel Emanuel: Health Care Reform and the Future of American Medicine
Renowned bioethicist Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel spells out the current problems and solutions for the outrageous costs and relatively low performance of American health care, while providing an optimistic view of what's come before our current state of affairs and, most importantly, what the future holds. Uploaded 14-03-13 About Chicago Ideas Week Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sunday · 26 min
Wayne Kramer: Jail Guitar Doors USA
With about 95 percent of the 2.5 million U.S. inmates eventually returning to life behind bars, how can you make prison positive? Hear how rocker Wayne Kramer turned his stay in Club Fed for a 1970's drug conviction into a platform to launch Jail Guitar Doors USA, a nonprofit that teaches inmates both musical and life skills. Uploaded 14-03-13 About Chicago Ideas Week Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sunday · 14 min
Sandra Holl: The Floriole Café and Bakery
Hear why Sandra Holl, pastry chef and owner of Chicago's Floriole Café and Bakery, channels her grandma in the kitchen -- and what it means to the community. Uploaded 14-03-13 About Chicago Ideas Week Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sunday · 12 min
Raaja Nemani and Aaron Firestein: Connecting Artists Around the World, One Step at a Time
While traveling around the world, Raaja Nemani and Aaron Firestein realized that art has the power to connect people no matter who they are or where they live. They founded their artist-designed footwear company Bucketfeet to give people the opportunity to connect with a global community of artists. Hear how they turned their crazy idea into a network of over 10,000 artists around the world. Uploaded 28-01-15 About Chicago Ideas Week Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sunday · 5 min
Voices Against Gun Violence – Maria Pike Davis’ Story
Every 3 hours someone is shot in Chicago. It’s time to Put The Guns Down. Uploaded 12-10-15 Hear more stories at https://www.musicVSgunviolence.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sunday · 1 hr 7 min
In Conversation: Alec Baldwin Beyond the Screen
In this Conversation, Alec Baldwin explores the space between his personal life and his work life, using anecdotes and impressions to illuminate his point. Uploaded 01-05-17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sunday · 17 min
Susan Credle: Brands Have Stories to Tell
We've all seen commercials that are more snore-worthy than compelling. But does that mean authentic storytelling is dead in the advertising industry? Susan Credle, chief creative officer at Leo Burnett USA, believes character-driven stories are very much alive—and they can change the world. Uploaded 18-03-13 About Chicago Ideas Week Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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