Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWangari Maathai: The Kenyan Biologist Who Planted Trees and Started a Revolution
Episode 7020
Wangari Maathai planted a tree and started a revolution. The Kenyan biologist founded the Green Belt Movement, organized rural women to plant over fi…
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Humphrey Bogart: The Upper-Class Prep School Kid Who Became Hollywood's Toughest Guy
Episode 7017
Humphrey Bogart was not born tough. He grew up on the Upper West Side, attended prep school, and was expelled from Andover. The lisp, the scar, the w…
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Jack Nicklaus: How the Golden Bear Outsmarted Golf With His Mind Instead of His Swing
Episode 7018
Jack Nicklaus won eighteen major championships — more than any golfer in history — and he did it not by overpowering courses but by outthinking them.…
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Arthur Ashe: How Tennis's Quiet Revolutionary Weaponized His Racket Against Apartheid and AIDS
Episode 7014
Arthur Ashe was the first Black man to win the US Open, the Australian Open, and Wimbledon — and he considered his tennis career the least important …
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Federico Fellini: The Director Who Stopped Filming Reality and Started Filming His Dreams
Episode 7015
Federico Fellini began as a neorealist filmmaker documenting postwar Italian poverty and ended as cinema's greatest dreamer — a director who abandone…
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Grace Kelly: The Calculated Path From Hollywood Royalty to Actual Royalty in Monaco
Episode 7012
Grace Kelly won an Academy Award, starred in three Hitchcock films, and then walked away from Hollywood at twenty-six to marry Prince Rainier III of …
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Cary Grant: How a Runaway Named Archie Leach Invented Hollywood's Most Perfect Man
Episode 7013
Cary Grant was not born — he was invented. The man the world knew as the most charming, elegant, and self-assured actor in Hollywood history was born…
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Hank Aaron: The Man Who Broke Babe Ruth's Record and Survived the Death Threats That Came With It
Episode 7016
Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's all-time home run record on April 8, 1974, and the achievement nearly killed him — not physically, but through the avala…
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: How Basketball Became the Trojan Horse for His Real Mission
Episode 7007
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the most dominant player in NBA history — six championships, six MVPs, the all-time scoring record that stood for nearly four…
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Helen Keller: From the Water Pump Miracle to the Radical Socialist History Forgot
Episode 7011
Everyone knows the story of Helen Keller at the water pump — the moment Anne Sullivan spelled "water" into her hand and the blind, deaf girl understo…
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