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May 27, 2021

Laura Barnard knows better than anyone that brands have to stand up to stand out. She is brilliant (Harvard, U Chicago). She is strong (NCAA athlete). She is courageous (married her love after a “civil union” and the marriage produced three daughters). We talk brands and values from Chik-Fil-A to Patagonia.


May 20, 2021

Jane Gould is writing a book called M F@#$%ing S. Only she spells it out. This is real. She’s dying of MS. And she is resigned to it. But guess what? She’s not going to kill herself. And she’s still on speaking terms with God. We start with stories of her growing up in the land of Shakespeare and her move to the...


May 13, 2021

Corlis Hayes had to kiss her professor - on stage! It was right there in the script. Evidently he did not like her performance. Calling her to his office he said simply, “You don’t know what the hell you’re doing.” Wait till you hear how he told her to prepare for the role! Corlis is just a delight and a...


May 6, 2021

Yvonne Simons reported on schools at places like WRAL-TV in Raleigh. But before that, she was a school teacher herself. Now she schools Stuart on what it’s like to be a black woman running a mostly white newsroom in a city that exploded last year - Portland, Oregon.