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Chicago Ideas: Conversations That Shape Change
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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Links:
Chicago Ideas Website: http://www.chicagoideas.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ChicagoIdeasWeek
Twitter: https://twitter.com/chicagoideas
Instagram: http://instagram.com/chicagoideas
Blog: http://blog.chicagoideas.com
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user9374194
- 214 episodes
- daily
- Avg 18 min
- English
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Tuesday · 6 minVoices Against Gun Violence – Pamela Bosley’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 www.musicVSgunviolence.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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Tuesday · 21 minHow Our Brains Could Teach Us to Fly
In this mind-blowing Talk, neuroscientist and Northwestern University professor Moran Cerf explains how the brain works—including how easy it is for your brain to fool you. Moving on to what may be possible if the full potential of brains is released, Cerf expounds on new research and technologies you’ll be thinking (and talking) about for years to come—like how your brain could teach you how to fly. Uploaded 28-03-18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Tuesday · 23 minNatalie Coughlin: Swimming as a Job
There's a lot more to making a champion than training yourself physically. As the most decorated female swimmer in World Championship history, Natalie Coughlin explores the importance of including mindful practice and relaxation into the rigid, challenging and rewarding training regime of an iconic athlete. Uploaded 13-03-13 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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Tuesday · 16 minYael Cohen: How Gen Y Is Changing Cancer
F*ck Cancer founder Yael Cohen is at the forefront of a fresh news movement that has multiple generations working together to begin "looking for cancer instead of just finding it." 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
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Tuesday · 16 minMitch Albom: Making Each Moment Matter
How will we find happiness and meaning? Author Mitch Albom shares the invaluable life lessons his dying teacher taught him in this behind-the-scenes look at the inspiration behind Albom's best-selling book "Tuesdays with Morrie." Uploaded 16-04-13 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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Tuesday · 21 minJennifer Brokaw: How to Talk to Your Doctor About Death
To live your best life, you need to think--and talk--about death. Dr. Jennifer Brokaw opens up about the uncomfortable but vital conversations we should all have with our doctors, our families and ourselves well before we near the end of life. 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
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Tuesday · 20 minCarol Edgarian: The Intimacy of Stories
Are all works of fiction secretly autobiographical? Carol Edgarian, a New York Times best-selling author and co-founder of NarrativeMagazine.com, uncovers where stories come from. 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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Tuesday · 4 minThe 77 Project: A Look at Cara Chicago (Community Area #28)
Learn more about Cara and get involved: https://carachicago.org Uploaded 26-10-18 The 77 Project is a storytelling and media project presented by Xfinity with additional support from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help share the narrative of our neighborhoods from the inside out. Our hope is that this project will help inspire citizens to connect with solution-makers in the city of Chicago and beyond. If you didn't know, the city of Chicago recognizes 77 community areas within the city limits, and this year we're shining a light on organizations and individuals who are making a positive impact in each of those locations. More on Xfinity: Xfinity connects people in all 77 neighborhoods of Chicago each and every day. Xfinity is proud to sponsor the 77 Project to provide a platform for local residents to voice ideas that will shape our city's future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Tuesday · 14 minAdam Braun: The For-Purpose Path
One new school, every 90 hours - that's Adam Braun's goal for 2013. Adam founded Pencils for Promise with just $25, and has now led the organization to build more than 100 schools across four countries. See how a pencil, a small piece of potential, has been radically transformational for these children. 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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Tuesday · 17 minRafael Alvarez: Bringing True Relevance into Education
In communities where success means getting a minimum-wage job, Rafael Alvarez helps inner-city high school students secure meaningful internships in the corporate world. Hear how his organization, Genesys Works, is bridging the gap between education and business. 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
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Tuesday · 4 minVoices Against Gun Violence – Joy McCormack’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
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Tuesday · 20 minSebastian Junger: Why Soldiers Returning From War Have Trouble Adapting
Author of War Sebastian Junger has devoted a sizable chunk of his life and career to studying and writing about why veterans have trouble adapting when they return from war. Hear his findings, and unlock a set of issues that goes beyond our veterans and looks into our society as a whole. Uploaded 27-04-17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Tuesday · 18 minKrista Donaldson: Design for the $4-a-Day Market
As CEO of Design Revolution, or D-Rev, Krista Donaldson is dedicated to a thoughtful process of design that focuses on an object's social impact, rather than the object itself. Her latest product aims to cure 2 million under-served babies of jaundice. Here, she explains exactly how she creates such revolutionary work. 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
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Tuesday · 4 minPerformance by Matt Muse
Chicago rapper, producer and songwriter Matt Muse is also a teaching artist at Young Chicago Authors, which has incubated some of the freshest voices in Chicago hip-hop, including Chance the Rapper, Mick Jenkins, Noname, and fellow Chicago Ideas performer Jamila Woods. The Chicago Reader said Muse "makes music that might as well be designed to inspire his students." His most recent EP is called The Sikk Tape. To see this video in HD, visit: https://www.chicagoideas.com/videos/performance-by-matt-muse Uploaded 27-01-18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Tuesday · 15 minKirsten Lodal: Waging a New War on Poverty
There's a financial war on poverty, but what about a mental war? Kirsten Lodal has waged it, founding LIFT, a national organization that trains volunteers and staffs centers to help those in hard times. Talk a walk in their shoes and hear her story as she fights to kill the stigmas that come with being poor, homeless and unemployed. 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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Tuesday · 1 hr 10 minAn Inside Look at Impeachment with Joe Lockhart and Rahm Emanuel | Chicago Ideas
Right as congressional impeachment hearings began on Capitol Hill, we sat down with Joe Lockhart and Rahm Emanuel—two veterans who worked for the Clinton administration during an impeachment investigation—to talk about the historic proceedings and what they could mean for the future of the country. Uploaded 13-11-19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Tuesday · 22 minGreg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe: Rocking Out to Classical Music
Hear why pianists Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe think classical music can be just as exciting as contemporary music -- and watch as they give a powerful demo of just how vibrant it can be. 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
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Tuesday · 4 minThe 77 Project: A Look at Taste of India with Indo-American Heritage Museum (Community Area #2)
Learn more about the Indo-American Heritage Museum and get involved: https://iahmuseum.org/ Uploaded 26-10-18 The 77 Project is a storytelling and media project presented by Xfinity with additional support from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help share the narrative of our neighborhoods from the inside out. Our hope is that this project will help inspire citizens to connect with solution-makers in the city of Chicago and beyond. If you didn't know, the city of Chicago recognizes 77 community areas within the city limits, and this year we're shining a light on organizations and individuals who are making a positive impact in each of those locations. More on Xfinity: Xfinity connects people in all 77 neighborhoods of Chicago each and every day. Xfinity is proud to sponsor the 77 Project to provide a platform for local residents to voice ideas that will shape our city's future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Tuesday · 18 minDaniel "Rudy" Ruettiger: Heart of the Game
The ultimate underdog story, Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, in twenty-seven seconds, carved his name into history as perhaps the most famous graduate of the University of Notre Dame. From football champion to founder of the Rudy Foundation, Rudy explores the importance of passion, determination and heart when it comes to building your own personal dynasty. Uploaded 13-03-13 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