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23 time Grand Slam winner and entrepreneur on adapting her life choices to coronavirus.

Tennis Champion, businesswoman and investor Serena Williams is not letting quarantine slow her down. In this KindredCast episode, she draws on the example of her father as she charges ahead with a variety of business endeavors and investment opportunities while plotting her first post-quarantine meal.

Life lessons and new routines with Serena Williams

The businesswoman and supermodel on embracing Nelson Mandela's guidance in all her ventures.

Supermodel, philanthropist and businesswoman Naomi Campbell joins in this episode to discuss the global and personal impact of the pandemic, and how the lessons she learned from Nelson Mandela are guiding her ongoing work.

Naomi Campbell: “Do it all now. Do it all.”

She is the first woman to lead the New York Stock Exchange in its 228-year history.

NYSE Group President Stacey Cunningham's path from intern to the first woman to lead the exchange in its 228-year history is but one aspect of her amazing career. In this episode of KindredCast, she sits down with LionTree CEO Aryeh Bourkoff to delve into her management style and discuss the rapid changes that are transforming trading as well as the state of the IPO market.

The fearless leadership of NYSE’s Stacey Cunningham

Listen to the 2020 business landscape with Kindredcast.

LionTree CEO Aryeh Bourkoff and Leslie Mallon, who heads the company’s Public Markets division, sit down to reflect on the lessons from 2019 as they look forward to how 2020 is shaping the business field.

The 2020 outlook

Aspirational stories: a high school dropout, child of Holocaust survivors, now, Vice Chairman of NBC. 

LionTree CEO Aryeh Bourkoff hosts a fascinating conversation with one of the lions of the industry, Ron Meyer. A high school drop-out and marine, Ron’s business savvy and people-centric style have made him one of the most successful and longest-serving studio heads in Hollywood. Here, he talks about his unlikely ascent to Hollywood success and the personal philosophy that has bolstered him at every step. 

Ron Meyer: Do what you say you’re going to do

The media group CEO on what's on the horizon for the Latin American powerhouse.

Adriana Cisneros the CEO of the media group that bears her family name, is taking the long view as she leads the Latin American powerhouse. As she tells LionTree CEO Aryeh Bourkoff in a Paley Dialogue Luncheon at the Paley Center for Media in New York, “we’re playing it 50 years forward; everything we do, that is our horizon.” Listen in as she discusses her company’s massive new satellite broadband partnership, as well as the general outlook for the media business across Latin America.

Adriana Cisneros: The present is female

Co-founder of Imagine Entertainment on the state of storytelling in present-day Hollywood.

Multi-award winning producer Brian Grazer, who along with co-Founder Ron Howard drives powerhouse Imagine Entertainment, is on a mission; not just to tell the most exciting stories in film and TV, but to challenge himself to remain curious and engaged with a broad spectrum of thinkers. Listen in as he regales REDEF CEO + Chief Curator Jason Hirschhorn with lessons from his life.

Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer on the power of curiosity

She took her Nasty Gal eBay store to a $350m valuation, then to bankruptcy and inspired a Netflix series.

Sophia Amoruso has had an eventful 13 years with the rise and fall of her Nasty Gal eBay store while also writing a New York Times bestseller and inspiring a Netflix series. But undeterred, she’s back for round two, embracing her #Girlboss persona with an ambitious media company and professional network. LionTree’s Alex Michael gets the unadulterated scoop for us.

Girlboss Sophia Amoruso on building an ecosystem for good

Meet the man behind blockbuster video games such as Grand Theft Auto and NBA2K.

Tune in for an inspired blend of business acumen and fitness advice with Take-Two Interactive CEO/ZMC Founder Strauss Zelnick, a media mogul whose new book, “Becoming Ageless: The Four Secrets To Looking and Feeling Younger Than Ever” is out this month. Find out how he revitalized the publisher behind such mega-hits as “Grand Theft Auto,” “Red Dead Redemption” and the “NBA2K” series.

Staying ageless with Take-Two Interactive kingpin Strauss Zelnick

'Equal parts outspoken and hilarious', the first COO of Hearst and co-creator of an addictive hit show.

Joanna Coles launched her storied career as a tenacious UK journalist, scaling the media heights to become Hearst’s first-ever Chief Content Officer as well as the inspiration for and Executive Producer of the hit TV series “The Bold Type.” Listen as she and LionTree CEO Aryeh Bourkoff discuss her modest beginnings, print’s role in the current media landscape and how she became the only female board member of Snap. 

Hearst Chief Content Officer and “The Bold Type” co-creator Joanna Coles

From her family’s immigration to her surreal encounter with North Korea’s “Dear Leader.”

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, the first-ever woman to hold the position, joins LionTree CEO Aryeh Bourkoff for a fascinating discussion, touching on everything from her historic career to why she titled her upcoming book “Fascism: A Warning.”

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright

How his experience overcoming cancer led to a revelation in how we understand health.

The physician and co-founder Dr. Habib 'S' Sadeghi in conversation with Liontree's Aryeh Bourkoff, as the two discuss overcoming impossible obstacles and how busy leaders can benefit from a holistic approach to well-being.

The microeconomics of the soul with Dr. Habib Sadeghi

The Head of Content for Apple Music has got some advice for the industry.

He revolutionised the way we listen to music and is one of Silicon Valley's only black executives. In this interview, Larry Jackson has us all taking note.

Larry Jackson: Always bet on yourself

Writer and thinker David Brooks discusses his book on how to define a life of meaning and purpose.

Listen to this fireside chat with New York Times Op-Ed columnist and best-selling author David Brooks. On the eve of the release of his latest book, “The Second Mountain: The Quest For A Moral Life,” Brooks speaks with LionTree CEO Aryeh Bourkoff about the experiences and realizations that went into his latest work, how to discern “happiness” from “joy” and the best way for us to emerge from this particularly fraught moment in human history.

New York Times columnist and best-selling author David Brooks

How did this little pink card gain a cult-like following?

Now boasting a $2.5B valuation, the UK-based digital bank Monzo has amassed over two million customers in four years. Founder and CEO Tom Blomfield, a 33-year old serial entrepreneur, sits with LionTree Executive in Residence and Member of Parliament Ed Vaizey to share the story of Monzo’s meteoric rise, its crowd-funded and customer-centric core and its path to profitability as he sets his sights on the US market.

How UK digital bank Monzo went from crowd funding to unicorn in four years

He's guided the careers of Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, J. Balvin, Demi Lovato and more.

From his just-announced first-look deal with Amazon Studios to his company's acquisition of Taylor Swift's catalogue via the Big Machine Label Group, Scooter Braun - the entertainment impresario guiding the careers of Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, J. Balvin, Demi Lovato and more - continues to drive the entertainment industry. It's a good time to revisit LionTree CEO Aryeh Bourkoff's interview with him in which he lays out his business philosophy and speaks of his work with a bevy of superstars.

Scooter Braun is just getting started

She founded Huffington Post and now wants to solve the stress and burnout epidemic.

Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global and founder of the eponymous Huffington Post, sits down with LionTree CEO Aryeh Bourkoff in front of a live audience at the Nexus Israel Conference in New York City. The pair discuss Thrive’s mission to make employee well-being a pillar of every company’s success metrics and the tremendous strides some companies are taking along this path.

Arianna Huffington’s vision for a more humane workplace

Listen to the inner workings of the world’s most-referenced informational resource.

Tune in for a fascinating conversation between Jimmy Wales - who co-founded the crowd-sourced, non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia over 17 years ago - and Ed Vaizey, LionTree’s London-based Executive in Residence and Member of Parliament. Wales gives some insight into a new project, WikiTribune, a news website where volunteers fact-check the latest stories utilizing long-established outlets.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales lifts the veil

His overarching goal: using “space exploration as a way of improving things back here on the earth.”

Sir Richard Branson, whose Virgin Group controls over 400 companies, shares with LionTree CEO Aryeh Bourkoff the inspiration behind his ambitious and industry-leading space companies: Virgin Galactic, The Spaceship Company and Virgin Orbit. Tune in for a glimpse of the not-too-distant future.