Art of Power Podcast
1) Special: Shoes Off
WBEZ Chicago has a new podcast that we think Art of Power fans will enjoy. It's called Shoes Off: A Sexy Asians Podcast! It's a show celebrating badass Asians who are making a mark on pop culture and ...Show More
2) Franklin Leonard finds the best scripts in Hollywood
His annual ‘Black List’ elevated films like ‘Juno,’ ‘Argo’ and ‘The King’s Speech.’ Now he wants to change how Hollywood finds its talent. Franklin Leonard tells Art of Power’s Aarti Shahani how...Show More
3) Former ‘Roe’ attorney Gloria Allred on NDAs, empowering victims and a world without legal abortion
Back in the 1960s – before Gloria Allred became one of America’s most prominent women’s rights attorneys – she says she was raped at gunpoint. She became pregnant and had a back-alley abortion that ne...Show More
4) Dolores Huerta on organizing, motherhood and ‘sexual coercion’ in her labor rights movement
She helped organize one of the largest labor movements in history, but her name is often left out of the narrative. As an organizer in the 1960s, Dolores Huerta says it was not always easy to assert h...Show More
5) ‘Hangover’ producer Scott Budnick cannot be pigeonholed
Scott Budnick might be best known for producing The Hangover trilogy, one of the most successful R-rated comedy franchises ever. But making frat-boy comedies and spending years among ladder-climbers a...Show More
6) How 'Queer Eye' Changed The Culture
'Queer Eye,' both the original version on Bravo and the newer Netflix reboot, is one of the most celebrated reality TV shows on the planet. But it was no sure thing. Creator David Collins tells Aa...Show More
7) Stacey Abrams does everything
Stacey Abrams is one of the highest profile democracy activists on the planet. She's also an entrepreneur, lawyer, novelist, and she nearly became the first Black woman to govern a state in the U.S. ...Show More
8) Sal Khan, Founder Of Khan Academy
First, a lovely update from Aarti. Then, Sal Khan, a man who challenged the education model we’ve been using for centuries. In so doing, he created the largest school in existence. Khan tells Art of ...Show More
9) From BLM activist to Congress: Rep. Cori Bush
In this week’s episode of Art of Power, host Aarti Shahani sits down with Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-Mo.), a former Black Lives Matter activist who lost two elections before finally winning Missouri’s...Show More
10) Indra Nooyi smiles through the BS
In this week’s episode of Art of Power, host Aarti Shahani sits down with Indra Nooyi, who became the first woman and immigrant to head a Fortune 50 company when she was named CEO of PepsiCo in 2006. ...Show More