Amplify Voices
Amplify Voices: The People Channel is a collection of podcasts by leaders from various industries sharing a common vision for better humanity—equity, leadership performance, productivity, entrepreneurialism, activism, and more.
Episodes
May 27, 2021 • 3 mins
Welcome to Amplify Voices: Conversations from the Heart, a new podcast hosted by Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll and Chief Content Officer of Amplify Voices, Audrey Cavenecia. Each episode is a heartfelt conversation between Pete, Audrey and a special guest about leadership, caring, inclusivity and celebrating our shared humanity. There are meaningful, vulnerable exchanges that bring out the raw and real parts of each gue...
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June 9, 2021 • 54 mins
Neil deGrasse Tyson is a celebrated astrophysicist, planetary scientist, author, and science communicator. He’s been the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City since 1996. He’s the author of 16 books and dozens of essays about the universe and all it contains -- most recently, “Cosmic Queries: StarTalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going.” He’s hosted a number of TV shows over the years about ...
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June 16, 2021 • 67 mins
Abby Wambach is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, FIFA World Cup champion, retired soccer player, coach, author, and longtime advocate for equity and inclusion. Glennon Doyle is a best-selling author, activist, speaker, and podcast host. She has written three books, most recently, Untamed, a memoir about falling in love at first sight with soccer legend Abby Wambach and reinventing her life -- by moving out of an unhappy marriage a...
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June 23, 2021 • 52 mins
Van Jones is a TV host, author, attorney, and change maker known for his bridge-building approach to politics ... and his tireless fight for social justice. He’s the host of The Van Jones Show and The Redemption Project on CNN, as well as a frequent CNN political contributor. He’s been fighting for criminal and environmental justice for more than a quarter century. He’s launched or helped launch a huge number of nonprofits and init...
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June 23, 2021 • 63 mins
Greg Cunningham is Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer at U.S. Bank. He’s the first Black leader to serve on the company’s management committee and a dedicated advocate for equity and inclusion; he envisions a world where diversity officers will no longer be necessary. In the meantime, he brings his whole self to the job, and has helped dramatically increase U.S. Bank’s investments in opportunities for all -...
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June 30, 2021 • 72 mins
Angela Duckworth is a scholar, psychologist, and author best known for the groundbreaking book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, which digs into what really helps people succeed. She’s a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and faculty co-director of both the Penn-Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative and Wharton People Analytics. A former math and science teacher in low-income schools, she’s ...
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July 7, 2021 • 50 mins
Rachel Maddow is a television news host, author, and political commentator best known for her MSNBC primetime program, “The Rachel Maddow Show.” Within weeks of its debut in 2008, she’d more than doubled MSNBC’s audience for her time slot. After Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, her viewership doubled again, and then tripled. In early 2021, she was the most-watched host in cable news in the United States. A Stanford and O...
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July 8, 2021 • 60 mins
Jamie Hodari is CEO and co-founder of Industrious, a workspace company that reimagines the modern office by meeting people where they are. With over a hundred locations across the country, Industrious strives to create flexible, community-oriented spaces that allow people to focus, collaborate, and be their authentic selves. It has the highest satisfaction score in the co-working space industry and is growing fast -- in fact, in 20...
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July 14, 2021 • 50 mins
Anna Malaika Tubbs is an author, advocate, consultant and educator whose groundbreaking new book, "The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation," shows just what intersectionality really means. A longtime activist supporting the rights of women of color, she has a bachelor’s degree in Medical Anthropology from Stanford University and a master’s degree from the Universit...
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July 21, 2021 • 58 mins
Resmaa Menakem is a healer, author, master coach, and trauma specialist. He helps people, communities, and organizations heal from and build resilience around historical and racialized trauma through body-centered psychology. He is the best-selling author of several books, including “My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies,” a deep exploration of how trauma (and especially the trau...
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July 28, 2021 • 37 mins
Cory Booker is a U.S. Senator from New Jersey, a former Democratic Presidential candidate, a former mayor of Newark, an attorney, and a lifelong fighter for civil rights. He began his political career in 1998 when he was elected to the Municipal Council of Newark, after launching a nonprofit organization to provide legal help to low-income families and tenants. In 2006, he was elected mayor of Newark, where he served until 2013, wh...
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August 4, 2021 • 47 mins
Adia Barnes is the award-winning head coach of the women’s basketball team at the University of Arizona and a former professional basketball player. In college, she played for the University of Arizona Wildcats, where she now coaches; she then went on to play seven seasons in the WNBA, for the Houston Comets, Seattle Storm, Minnesota Lynx, and Sacramento Monarchs. She began her coaching career as assistant coach for the University ...
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August 11, 2021 • 49 mins
Dr. Harry Edwards is a renowned sociologist and civil rights activist best known for his focus on the vital connections between race, society, and professional sports. Known as a “giant of sports activism,” and “the father of sports sociology,” Harry has spent the past half-century advocating for the rights of Black athletes and the need for Black leadership in sports, from the NFL to the Olympics. In 1967, he was a co-founder and ...
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August 18, 2021 • 22 mins
Alicia Garza is a civil rights activist, writer, political strategist, and organizer; she’s principal at Black Futures Lab, an organization that builds independent political power for Black communities; she’s Special Projects Director at National Domestic Workers Alliance, an organization that seeks equity for a profession made up primarily of immigrant women and women of color; and she’s a co-creator of #Black Lives Matter, a glob...
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August 24, 2021 • 54 secs
Resmaa Menakem, healer, author, master coach, and trauma specialist, is hosting a new podcast series that mixes humor with serious trending topics. It is a series of thought-provoking discussions with thought leaders in race and culture, artists, athletes, comedians on how our history has played a role in the current state of our world.Guerrilla Muse’s goal is to uncover, rediscover, and heal by helping listeners develop grit and t...
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August 25, 2021 • 2 mins
A renaissance is upon us, and it’s moving us into a modern era with a new definition of what it means to lead and how we can work together for a common good while still maintaining an abundance of opportunity and success. We no longer blindly follow and praise robotic leadership!This era demands competent, emotionally intelligent, human leaders who wear their hearts on their sleeves and engage in social issues that not only impact ...
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August 25, 2021 • 26 mins
Trymaine D. Lee is an award-winning journalist who has focused on racial justice and the Black American experience for most of his career. He shared a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and then moved on to report for the New York Times and the Huffington Post, always with a strong emphasis on powerful stories impacting the Black community. In 2012, he was one o...
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September 1, 2021 • 29 mins
Sir Mix-a-Lot is a rapper, songwriter, and record producer from Seattle, Washington, best known for his 1992 smash hit, “Baby Got Back.” He’s had two platinum records and a Grammy award, among other accolades, and he’s done a lot over the years to give back to his hometown community. This year, in particular, Mix has been a real lifesaver for Washington artists and venues struggling to survive the COVID-19 pandemic. He’s the co-cha...
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September 8, 2021 • 85 mins
Mitch Landrieu is a politician, attorney, author, nonprofit leader and staunch advocate for racial equity. He served as the 61st mayor of New Orleans from 2010 to 2018 and as Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 2004 to 2010. As mayor, he helped tackle some of the toughest problems his city faced; he developed lasting criminal justice reforms, created jobs, and awarded nearly half of all city contracts to firms owned by women and ...
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September 15, 2021 • 1 min
Possibilities Over Problems is the latest podcast from Amplify Voices and is leading the way in highlighting the unique perspectives and accomplishments of young personalities that aren’t typically amplified in the media. Sean Goode, the executive director of the transformative non-profit organization, ‘CHOOSE 180,’ facilitates intriguing discussions with these incredible young leaders from different walks of life who have used lif...
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