The podcasting boom has created more opportunities than ever for independent creators — and more competition. Getting a show off the ground is one thing; building an audience, landing sponsors, and sustaining a production is another. Greg Soros, a seasoned podcaster and founder of Podcraft Media Lab, designed his mentorship initiative around exactly that gap.Soros has been candid about what motivated the effort. "The podcasting industry has an...

Most affluent families assume that hiring the right specialists guarantees sound financial planning. Michael Gold Westport has spent 25 years proving that assumption wrong.Gold, the founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, argues that competence among individual advisors is necessary but not sufficient. What determines outcomes for complex families is whether those advisors are coordinating at all. In the majority of cases...

The goal of facial rejuvenation surgery has always been to make patients look younger, not different. Achieving that outcome consistently requires understanding what changes as the face ages a question that shaped Dr. Andrew Jacono's development of the Minimal Access Deep-Plane Extended facelift.Facial aging is driven primarily by two forces: volume loss and the downward migration of soft tissue. Skin laxity is a result of these changes, not...

Karl Studer on Corporate Responsibility: Doing Business the Right Way Corporate responsibility has become a crowded space — full of glossy reports, ambitious pledges, and, too often, a significant gap between what organizations say and what they actually do. Karl Studer takes a more grounded approach to the concept. For him, responsible business is not a communications strategy — it is a daily practice embedded in how decisions are made,...

Few philanthropic organizations take on the topic of human population as directly as Colcom Foundation. Founded in Pittsburgh in 1996 by Cordelia Scaife May, the Foundation was built on a premise that the broader conservation community has often sidestepped: that the total number of people on Earth, and how fast that number grows, has profound consequences for the natural world. Colcom Foundation has kept this idea at the center of its work for...

When Margarita Howard talks about hiring, the word "experienced" comes up often. HX5, the defense contractor she founded and leads, operates in technical domains where prior government program exposure isn't a nice-to-have — it's a functional requirement. Security clearances take a year or more to obtain. Procurement culture, agency-specific protocols, and the operational norms of DoD and NASA programs take longer still to internalize. A hire...

Michael Polk, the former chief executive of Newell Brands emerged from a high-profile corporate tenure to become a prominent advocate for a growth-oriented leadership mindset, reshaping how executives and boards approach long-term value creation. Michael Polk emerged from a first-generation American household to a position of national corporate leadership. The profile traces a career that moved from entry-level finance and operations posts into...