Radio Recap: The Cost of Sustainability
A 2018 study estimated that 500 million straws are used every day in the US alone, equating to 1.6 straws per person a day. That’s 8.3 billion plastic straws in thealmost 250,000 metric tons of plastic in the world’s oceans—a number that’s set to double by 2025. This year the ban on plastic straws has taken [Read More]
Radio Recap: Growing Trends for Women
Between 2017 and 2018, women started an average of 1,821 new businesses a day. For those new female entrepreneurs, they need a place to launch and an office to launch from. But as more companies are moving from traditional office-type cubicles, and with more careers built out of media and production, professional women need to [Read More]
Radio Recap: Compatibility & Career
Knowing your personality typecan help with career planning at every stage from what to major in to pivoting careers. Over 2 million people are administered the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment—or MBTI—worldwide each year. MBTI was founded by mother/daughter team Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers. Based on Carl Jung’s renowned “16 Psychological Types”—Jung’s theory for [Read More]
Radio Recap: Luxury Verification
Counterfeit goods make up around 2.5% of all global imports to the US—which is somewhere in the ballpark of half a trillion dollars. In 2017, US Customs seized more than 34,000 shipments of counterfeit goods—an 8% increase from 2016—and yet in the US, the resale business is a $17 billion dollar industry and a $20 billion [Read More]
Radio Recap: The EdTech Industry
The education space is chockfull of products for parents, students and educators, quickly becoming one of the fastest growing and most profitable industries. According to Forbes, in 2017, 813 different EdTech companies received funding while in 2018 EdTech investments hit a historical record of $9.5 billion. These EdTech investments mark a historic gain up 30% [Read More]
Radio Recap: Ford at NAIAS 2019
Randi is broadcasting live from Detroit at the North American International Auto Show where, for over a century, this automotive event of the year has been held. Here is where the world’s top automotive and technology executives, designers, innovators and engineers appear on the global stage to debut brand-defining vehicles and industry-disrupting announcements. Since 1965 [Read More]
Radio Recap: How to Really Keep New Year’s Resolutions
Every New Year calls for resolutions—a tradition passed down from ancient Romans, Babylonians and Medieval knights. No one knows exactly how their success rates fared but if they’re anything like modern Westerners—where our gym membership dues are paid but we stop showing up— then we may simply be following the footsteps of failure OR, to look [Read More]
Radio Recap: Introducing Zuckerberg Institute!
2019 is the year of the network. Whether you’re networking to further your career or you want to meet new people to expand your horizons—we network because we need to get something done and we can’t do it alone. But don’t be fooled by the allure of open bar parties and hiking Meetups to get [Read More]