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Solvable showcases the world’s most innovative thinkers and their proposed solutions to the world’s most daunting problems. The interviews, hosted by Ronald Young Jr., will launch a dialogue that both acknowledges the complexity of the issues while inspiring hope that the problems are, in fact, solvable. iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.

Solvable

Former Solvable host Ronald Young Jr has a new podcast! “Weight For It unpacks the nuanced thoughts of fat folks, and of all folks who think about their weight all the time. Through narrative storytelling and some memoir, host Ronald Young Jr. hopes to have the conversations that we tend to avoid when it comes to our bodies.” Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts: https://apple.co/45kiRLG

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Introducing Weight For It from Ronald Young Jr.

Paul Rosolie is an Amazon Rainforest conservationist, author, and filmmaker. He is the co-founder of Tamandua Expeditions and Junglekeepers.

Here are links to those organizations he mentions in this episode:

Www.Junglekeepers.org 

Www.Tamanduajungle.com 

Www.PaulRosolie.com

Save the Sunlight, Brooklyn Botanical Gardens

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, editorial support for Keishel Williams. The Managing Producer is Sachar Mathias and the Executive Producer is Mia Lobel.

 
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Paul Rosolie, Protecting the Amazon Rainforest

Sterlin Harjo strives to tell the stories of Native and Indigenous people by positioning beauty and triumphs alongside honest frailty and shortcomings. Harjo is an award-winning film maker and he’s the creator and show runner of the TV show Reservations Dogs. 

Here are some links to organizations and works he recommends in this episode:

https://illuminatives.org/

Reservation Dogs

Four Sheets to the Wind

Barking Water

Mekko

This May Be the Last Time 

Love and Fury

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, editorial support for Keishel Williams. The Managing Producer is Sachar Mathias and the Executive Producer is Mia Lobel.

 
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Sterlin Harjo, Reservation Dogs

Laila Shabir is the co-founder and CEO of Girls Make Games. Here are some links to learn more about her game design studio, summer camp and quest to welcome more girls and women into the world of game design.

Girls Make Games

https://www.girlsmakegames.com/

What They Don’t Sea (2019) - Explore the underwater seas to collect special algae for an alternative energy project

Shredded Secrets (2022) - A game about bullying, that follows the bullied kid and the struggling bully as well. Nintendo Switch

Find Me (2021) - A beautiful and surreal 2D puzzle platformer about a lost shadow seeking to be reunited with her human girl, while searching for memories and avoiding the dangerous city lights. Steam, Playstation

Blubblub (2016) - Jennifer is out on a hunt to extract cuteness from anything and everything in sight to create the world's finest line of make up. It just so happens, BlubBlub is the cutest blub there ever was... Rescue your friends and thwart Jennifer's scheme for building a cosmetics empire. Down with the syringes! Steam, X-box

Interfectorem (2015) - A young sheriff-in-training who lives alone with her sister Sali in a small town next to the woods decides to go on a hike one day, but comes home to find her younger sister brutally murdered! Steam, Playstation

The Hole Story (2014) - When an unsuspecting young girl finds herself transported to a mystical world, she must rely on her trusty shovel and quick wits to find her way home. Steam

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, and editing support from Keishel Williams. The Managing Producer is Sachar Mathias and Executive Producer is Mia Lobel.

 
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Misogyny in Game Design is Solvable

Lizzy Pace and Chad Kultgen are the hosts of the podcast, Game of Roses and they have ideas about how to solve The Bachelor and reality TV more generally.

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, editing help from Keishel Williams. The managing producer is Sachar Mathias and the executive producer is Mia Lobel. 

Here are additional resources suggested by Lizzy and Chad, where you can learn more:

 

How To Win The Bachelor by Lizzy Pace and Chad Kultgen

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-to-Win-The-Bachelor/Chad-Kultgen/9781982172947

Bachelor Nation by Amy Kaufman

https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781101985915

TV Show: Unreal

https://www.hulu.com/series/unreal-dcd85133-0465-410f-8792-aeb94ebd5755

 
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Reality TV is Solvable

The staff of Solvable discuss the problems, big and small, that they'd like to see solved in 2022 and beyond.

Special thanks to Maggie Taylor and Pushkin podcast hosts Sam Fragoso (Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso), Tim Harford (Cautionary Tales), Michael Lewis (Against the Rules), Laurie Santos (The Happiness Lab) and Justin Richmond (Broken Record).

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, Editing support from Keishel Williams. The managing producer is Sachar Mathias and executive producer is Mia Lobel.

 
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Solutions for 2022

Mike Gauyo is a TV writer in LA. Credits include Insecure (HBO) and Ginny & Georgia (Netflix) among other projects. He’s the founder of The Black Boy Writes Black Girl Writes Mentorship Initiative which is paving pathways for emerging Black writers in Hollywood. 

Here are some resources Gauyo recommends in this episode:

Black Boy Writes Black Girl Writes

Insecure

Fruit Podcast

The Writer's Room Podcast

The Screenwriters Rant Room Podcast

On Writing Podcast from WGA 

The Screenwriter's Bible, A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script by David Trottier

 
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Mike Gauyo: Insecure

Dr. Carmen Peralta is the Chief Medical Officer at Cricket Health. She co-founded the Kidney Health Research Collaborative at University of California San Francisco and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She works to provide support to patients, doctors and all the steps in between to improve kidney health outcomes. 

Dr. Peralta recommends these sites to learn more:

CDC Chronic Kidney Disease Initiative

https://www.cdc.gov/kidneydisease/index.html

UCSF Kidney Health Research Collaborative

https://khrc.ucsf.edu/

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, David Zha, Lisa Dunn and Keishel Wiliams. The managing producer is Sachar Mathias and our executive producer is Mia Lobel.

 
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Kidney Failure is Solvable

adrienne maree brown is the author of We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, Pleasure Activism and also several works of fiction. She is the co-host of the podcasts How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia’s Parables and Emergent Strategy.

Below are links to topics, resources and mentors mentioned in this episode:

Ashlee Marie Preston calls on Netflix

https://www.them.us/story/activists-celebrities-protest-netflix-chappelle-special

Grace Lee Boggs Activist and American Revolutionary Turns 100, Code Switch NPR, 2015 https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/06/27/417175523/grace-lee-boggs-activist-and-american-revolutionary-turns-100

Mariame Kaba

http://mariamekaba.com/

Ways to Implement Restorative Practices in the Classroom

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-ways-to-implement-restorative-practices-in-the-classroom/2020/01

Why American Prisons Owe Their Cruelty to Slavery

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/prison-industrial-complex-slavery-racism.html

The Center for Nonviolent Communication

https://www.cnvc.org/

Hollow Water First Nations Community Holistic Healing Circle

https://cncfr.jbsinternational.com/node/589

Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africa

https://www.usip.org/publications/1995/12/truth-commission-south-africa

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada 

https://nctr.ca/

12 Ways to Engage in Truth and Reconciliation at Western University Ontario, Canada

https://indigenous.uwo.ca/initiatives/learning/12-ways.html

 
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adrienne maree brown: Cancel Culture is Solvable

Mary Aiken is a Cyberpsychologist and Chair of the Department of Cyberpsychology Capitol Technology University in Laurel Maryland. She is a member of the Interpol Global Cybercrime Expert Group.

Want to learn more? Here are links to additional resources Dr. Aiken recommends:

The Cyber Blue Line (Aiken & Amann ) https://www.europol.europa.eu/europol-spotlight/europol-spotlight-cyber-blue-line

 The Cyber Effect - how human behavior changes online (Aiken, 2016) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyber-Effect-Pioneering-Cyberpsychologist-Explains/dp/0812997859

 Manipulating Fast and Slow (Aiken, 2018 ) https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/manipulating-fast-and-slow#:~:text=As%20a%20discipline%2C%20cyberpsychology%20focuses,emerging%20technologies%20on%20human%20behavior.&text=this%20article%2C%20Dr.-,Mary%20Aiken%20talks%20about%20how%20the%20discipline%20helps%20us%20better,the%20context%20of%20recent%20elections.

15 minutes of Shame, Documentary HBO Max https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhJrnNdH-aw

Master of Research (M.Res.) in Cyberpsychology https://www.captechu.edu/degrees-and-programs/masters-degrees/cyberpsychology-mres

Doctorate in Cyberpsychology https://www.captechu.edu/degrees-and-programs/doctoral-degrees/cyberpsychology-phd

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn. Sachar Mathias is the managing producer and Mia Lobel the executive producer.

 
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Mary Aiken: Cybercrime is Solvable

Pushkin Industries

Ahmed Ali Akbar talks to Sal Khan about bringing world class education to everyone, for free.

 
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Basic Education is Solvable

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