All Clips from When It Mattered
Curated byChitra Ragavan, Podcaster
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Nina Totenberg on Her Friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg
NPR’s legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg remembers how she first became friends with the late Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whom she knew for more than 50 years. From the podcast When It Mattered.Found By
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How Nina Totenberg Dealt with a Mental Health Crisis
A candid moment of reflection from NPR’s legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg on her greatest moment of adversity and the helpful advice she got both from her mom and from Ruth Bader Ginsburg. From the podcast When It Mattered.Found ByWhen it Mattered
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Nina Totenberg's Perspective On the #metoo Movement
NPR’s chief legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg compares what it was like for women to work back in the day when she was a pioneer in the journalism workforce to what it’s like today with the #MeToo movement. From the podcast, When it MatteredFound ByWhen it Mattered
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Sports Agent Leigh Steinberg on Educating Football Players on Brain Trauma
Here’s legendary sports agent Leigh Steinberg, describing the moment of clarity when he realized that he had to help his players understand football’s damaging effects on the brain. From the podcast When It MatteredFound ByWhen it Mattered
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Sports Agent Leigh Steinberg On the Ethics of Football and Brain Injury
If you know that football causes brain concussion, can you as a sports agent represent athletes in good conscience? I posed that question to legendary sports agent Leigh Steinberg. From the podcast When It Mattered.Found ByWhen it Mattered
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How Leigh Steinberg Helped Write "Jerry Maguire"
In 1993, Hollywood writer director Cameron Crowe used legendary sports agent Leigh Steinberg as his inspiration for the sports agent character Jerry Maguire, played by none other than Tom Cruise. From the podcast When it Mattered.Found ByWhen it Mattered
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COVID-19 Insights from Sports Agent Leigh Steinberg
I’ve asked recent guests to share their “viral insights” from the COVID-19 pandemic, that moment of clarity brought upon by a crisis. Here’s Leigh Steinberg, the legendary sports agent sharing his viral insights. From the podcast When It Mattered.Found ByWhen it Mattered
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Vaccine Expert Paul Offit On the Childhood Trauma that Inspired his Career
Here’s Dr. Paul Offit looking back on six terrible weeks of his childhood that set him on the path to becoming one of the most accomplished and recognized vaccine experts in the world. From the podcast When It Mattered.Found ByWhen it Mattered
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Vaccine Expert Dr. Paul Offit on Being Protested Against
Dr. Paul Offit is one of the world’s most authoritative and respected vaccine experts. But it has come at a steep price including death threats from anti-vaccers.Here he shares how difficult that experience has been. From When It Mattered. Found ByWhen it Mattered
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James Carville On How to Communicate the Dangers of Climate Change
Why are environmental activists failing to convince many in the public and in government about the growing crisis of global warming. Democratic political strategist James Carville says he knows exactly why. From the podcast When It Mattered.Found ByWhen it Mattered
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How the New York Mafia Convinced James Comey to Move to New York
Who were Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno, and Vincent The Fish Cafaro? And how did they convince former FBI Director James Comey as a 26 year old law clerk to become a federal prosecutor? From the podcast When It Mattered.Found ByWhen it Mattered
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How Fed Prosecutor Stanley Alpert Survived Being Kidnapped at Gunpoint
Here’s former federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert on the core values that helped him survive being kidnapped at gunpoint and how he talked his dangerous captors into letting him go. From the podcast When it Mattered.Found ByWhen it Mattered
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How Anne Speckhard Used Sexism in her Favor
Terrorism expert Anne Speckhard describes how she once leveraged sexism in her favor to prevent potentially being taken hostage and used as a trading card by terrorists -- to get their leader released from prison. From the podcast When it Mattered. Found ByWhen it Mattered
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Anne Speckhard's Viral Insights on COVID-19
Terrorism expert Anne Speckhard on the viral insights from COVID-19 and the tradeoffs in her life as she temporarily gives up traveling to the world’s most dangerous hotspots to talk to terrorists. From the podcast When it Mattered. Found ByWhen it Mattered
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Musician Kevin Burt On his Early Life
Here’s blues great Kevin Burt describing being raised by a single mom of limited means and how a village of older women, in his neighborhood, “grandmas” he called them, taught him resilience in the face of hardship. From the podcast When it Mattered.Found ByWhen it Mattered
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Kevin Burt on 2018 International Blues Challenge in Memphis
Here’s Blues great Kevin Burt describing how fatigue and self-doubt almost prevented him from competing in the 2018 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee — an event in which he ultimately swept the awards in all three top categories. Found ByWhen it Mattered
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Barbara Bradley Hagerty on Leaving NPR
Journalist and best-selling author Barbara Bradley Hagerty shares how a health crisis—losing her voice—signaled her to leave National Public Radio and what it taught her about her quest for identity and self worth. From the podcast When it Mattered. Found ByWhen it Mattered
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Don MacKinnon's on Making Mixtapes
Every big artist starts small and the same holds true for legendary music producer Don MacKinnon. Little did he know it, but the simple idea of creating mixtapes to share his passion for music would lead him to revolutionize the music industry.Found ByWhen it Mattered
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What Was on The Rollings Stones' Rider?
Do you know what were all the riders in the contracts of the Rolling Stones? Legendary producer Don MacKinnon found out first hand, when he got to interview every member of the band on his 35th birthday. From the Podcast When it Mattered.Found ByWhen it Mattered
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Don MacKinnon On Working with Bono on Project Red
Here’s Don MacKinnon describing his first meeting with Bono of U2, who stole MacKinnon away from Starbucks to spearhead Bono’s ground-breaking Product Red global corporate giving campaign to fight AIDS in Africa. Here’s what Bono said to MacKinnon.Found ByWhen it Mattered
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