Event schedule
To begin with, we are scheduling weekly sessions that feature an expert in a topic on which they have a unique perspective. Sessions typically take place on Tuesday evenings at 8:00pm and are scheduled to be 45 minutes long, split evenly between an interview and Q&A. Occasionally we will hold a pop-up session during the week on a topic of special interest. Susie Rolander will be moderating the sessions.
Past events
Way of Living
Way of Living - Life
March 29: Where to Begin Conversations About Race
April 12: Race as a Social Construct
April 19: There's Nothing Micro About Microaggressions
April 26: Young People's Experiences With a Call to Action
29 MAR
With: Ashley Greene
Way of Living
Way of Living - Life
Can you talk a bit about intentions and impact?
How does one’s own lived experience and identity impact race relations and microaggressions?
When we are thinking about race, what are things that we need to consider?
14 DEC
With: Ashley Greene
Way of Living
Way of Living - Life
Tell us about your path to writing your book Brave Leadership and how your vision has changed since then.
What do you think it means to live a Thoughtful Life?
How can we unlock our own thoughtful lives?
7 DEC
With: Kimberly Davis
Wellness
Wellness - Holidays
How do we avoid throwing in the towel and just eat anything until Jan 1st?
How do we find time to eat well when there are so many demands on our time and we always feel like we can’t keep up?
If someone were to take away nothing else from this call, what would be just 3 straight forward tips to help us feel great on Jan 1st?
30 NOV
With: Lizzie Merritt
Wellness
Wellness - Pain Management
What is your story with chronic pain?
In your book Chronic Profit you talk about simplifying, systematizing and self-care. Can you speak to that a bit?
What first steps do you recommend for the person who has chronic pain?
9 NOV
With: Alison Tedford
Wellness
Wellness - Weight Loss
What are the 3 hidden reasons why we gain weight during the holidays?
What are ways we can be prepared for those hidden factors?
What are some specific tips you can share with us to help us be prepared for holiday eating?
2 NOV
With: Lizzie Merritt
Way of Living
Way of Living - Writing/Fiction
Can you discuss the creation of the Mae Fellowship?
Why is this work important to you and to the world?
What can I do tomorrow to elevate underrepresented stories?
26 OCT
With: Courtney Young
Way of Living
Way of Living - Branding
What is your life story?
Can you tell us about your time at Yelp?
What are things to bear in mind as one develops their personal brand?
19 OCT
With: Nish Nadaraja
Wealth
Wealth - Personal Finance
Why does this area of financial planning interest you? What is your background?
How can financial literacy help shift historical biases?
What are your top 5 suggestions for financial literacy?
12 OCT
With: Sara Rathner
Way of Living
Way of Living - Photography
What are some baseline concepts to get me started?
What systems can I put in place to keep my photos under control?
What can I do tomorrow to get me started?
5 OCT
With: Isabelle Dervaux
Way of Living
Way of Living - Stories
Why do you think you are called to a life of giving?
How did your world of cycling and Afghanistan come together?
What is your call to action?
28 SEP
With: Liên Johnson
Way of Living
Way of Living - Stories
As a white dean, why have you chosen to make racial literacy such an emphasis in a college of education and how have you gone about it ?
What do you hope to achieve? What is the larger purpose?
Where did we start? Where would you start?
21 SEP
With: Cecelia Traugh
Way of Living
Way of Living - Stories
You have seen so much change in your lifetime, can you describe some of the most significant from your perspective now?
What are some of the issues that most trouble you about the state of our world right now?
If you could go back and talk to your 20 year old self about the wisdom you have gained over the years, what would you tell that 20 year old Bob?
As a retired doctor, what is your perspective on how we should take care of our body in addition to nutrition?
14 SEP
With: Bob Thompson
Way of Living
Way of Living - Stories
Why did you write your books about 9/11?
How is it helpful to lean into story around traumatic events such as 9/11?
How do I dive in and write about my experience this last year as a step toward coping?
7 SEP
With: Nora Raleigh Baskin, Gae Polisner and Tom Rogers
Way of Living
Way of Living - Photography
What's the best camera/equipment?
How can I improve my photos immediately?
What steps can I take to make my photography interesting?
Wellness
Wellness - Weight Loss
Why we don’t do what we know we are supposed to do?
What do I do when the scale doesn’t change and I feel like quitting?
What are 3 habit hacks for getting started?
27 JUL
With: Lizzie Merritt
Way of Living
Way of Living - Living Spaces
What is Biophilia anyway?
If you had to choose, what are 3 of the most important changes we can make in our current spaces?
What steps can a family or community take to shift their thinking about the spaces they share?
20 JUL
With: Elizabeth MacPherson
Way of Living
Way of Living - News
What is your personal story leading up to when you took over Tribeca Citizen, a neighborhood e-newspaper?
How has it been to report during the past year, and what are some headline observations on people and businesses during the pandemic?
Looking back at your career, including at Tribeca Citizen, could you highlight a couple of interesting stories that you enjoyed covering?
13 JUL
With: Pam Frederick
Way of Living
Way of Living - Culture & Values
Why is worldview reflection important?
How is our original Indigenous worldview different than what guides most cultures today?
Is comparing worldviews a dangerous binary?
Wellness
Wellness - Breathing / Wellness
What does it mean to breathe correctly?
How can breathing correctly increase my lifespan?
How can the quality of my breath reduce the amount of stress that I feel?
29 JUN
With: Bryan Mirabella
Wellness
Wellness - Eating Habits
What prompted Jiying to startover? How does one make a dramatic career change?
How can I break bad pandemic eating habits and get back on track?
What should I do when I’m tired of cooking and out of fresh ideas?
22 JUN
With: Jiying Zhang
Way of Living
Way of Living - Home
How do I get rid of the “covid 15” (in terms of extra stuff in my apartment)?
How do I repurpose my house to be my home?
Guest re-entry...how do I invite guests over for the first time in 18 months?
15 JUN
With: Margarita Picone
Way of Living
Way of Living - Parenting
How can I find more joy in parenting?
How has the pandemic (and what is likely to follow) changed parenting?
If I can only remember five things about parenting, what should they be?
Way of Living
Way of Living - Literacy
Why does everyone need a notebook and what kind is best?
What type of notebooking and journaling might be right for me?
What are three powerful ways that I could use my notebook today?
1 JUN
With: Stephanie Affinito
Work
Work - Fintech
Can you recount your journey to becoming the youngest founder and CEO to take a company public?
How is fintech disrupting traditional banking and where are we headed now?
What is your advice for aspiring women entrepreneurs and leaders based on your experience?
25 MAY
With: Luvleen Sidhu
Wellness
Wellness - Awareness
What don’t I know (but should!) about dementia?
How can we let go of the stigmas attached to dementia and aging?
What preventative measures can I take to ward off dementia?
Way of Living
Way of Living - Tech
How can you harness the hidden power of search on your smartphone and computer?
How can you control your children's digital activity with some simple yet powerful parental control tips/tricks?
How can you prevent hacks and attacks? Three effortless solutions to stay safe online.
4 MAY
With: Christopher Hobbick
Way of Living
Way of Living - Literacy
Why is a strong reading life essential to our physical and mental well-being?
What is bibliotherapy and how can we use it to help us live curiously and grow through what we go through?
What are some simple, yet impactful, ways to cultivate your reading life and which books might we start with?
27 APR
With: Stephanie Affinito
Wellness
Wellness - Care
What has it been like to be in an inpatient service for COVID, and how has that changed over the course of the past 12 months?
Can you share some of your memories from that experience?
What learnings should we take from the pandemic that we can put into practice now and into the future?
20 APR
With: Mark Shapiro, MD
Work
Work - Integrated Self
Examining how and why we divide our selves: Are you living with integrity?
Why bring your whole-self to work?
What are some actions you can take to minimize power leakages from fragmenting the whole person?
13 APR
With: Atif Iqbal, MBA (Wharton), M. Phil, ACC
Way of Living
Way of Living - Literacy
How are picture books relevant beyond the age when a child can independently read? (NYT article: Our Kids Aren't Too Old for Picture Books, and Neither are You).
What does the rising popularity of images, a la Instagram, mean for the future of picture books?
In the spirit of starting over, what changes can we make as we recognize the power of picture books?
6 APR
With: Pernille Ripp
Wellness
Wellness - Fitness
Do I really need to exercise?
What are the best exercises for me to do if I’m sitting all day?
What if I only have 15 minutes to exercise--what are the best exercises for me to do?
30 MAR
With: Gene Schafer
Way of Living
Way of Living - Pop-up event
How can we better understand the Asian American experience?
Why are so many Americans and the media so reticent to call crimes against Asian Americans hate crimes?
What can we do to "start over" and be upstanders, not bystanders?
25 MAR
With: Soyoung Park
Work
Work - Career Guidance
How do I find out where I stand in my current organization--'My job is at risk (though I didn’t realize it)' or 'My job’s fairly secure, but I don’t have a lot of leverage as I’m seen as replaceable' or 'I’m highly valued, and my organization’s leaders would hate to lose me'
Depending on my status, what might I be able to negotiate?
How should I go about it?
23 MAR
With: Sarah Stamboulie
Work
Work - Humor
Humor seems inefficient, frivolous, potentially harmful in a work context - yet Jennifer’s book Humor, Seriously argues there is a significant “ROI on humor”. Why?
I don’t think of myself as being a funny person and trying to be funny feels scary to me. Any suggestions?
What are some concrete tips to cultivate humor at work and in our lives? How can we make sure these changes in habits last?
Why it is so important that we take humor seriously in our personal lives? At home, with kids?
16 MAR
With: Dr. Jennifer Aaker
Way of Living
Way of Living - Chocolate
What are the origins of chocolate?
How can I best appreciate the finer points of tasting chocolate?
Where and how can I buy good chocolate?
9 MAR
With: Peter Moustakerski
Work
Work - Executive Search
How has the pandemic affected which companies are hiring, who they are hiring, why and when?
What can I do to position myself well in today's job market?
How should I partner with recruiters?
Wellness
Wellness - Joint Health
Is sitting the new smoking?
How has work-from-home impacted joint health and mobility?
What changes can I make to improve joint health?
What are some ergonomic options in setting up my workspace?
23 FEB
With: Dylann Craig
Wellness
Wellness - Nutrition
Timing: is breakfast really the best meal of the day?
Carbs: love them or leave them?
Snacking and nighttime habits: intermittent fasting?
16 FEB
With: Sydney Greene
Wealth
Wealth - Financial Planning
What might a Biden administration mean for my investments and taxes?
What strategies could I use in this post-Trump environment?
What are the pros and cons of being self-directed versus working with an advisor?
9 FEB
With: Justin Charise, CFP®
Wellness
Wellness - Breathing / Wellness
What does it mean to breathe correctly?
How can breathing correctly increase my lifespan?
How can the quality of my breath reduce the amount of stress that I feel?
2 FEB
With: Bryan Mirabella