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Episode 144 - How to Tackle Disagreement

SUMMARY Research shows disagreement has a negative impact on our brain function, so what can we do about that? TRANSCRIPT Welcome to episode 144 of the Leadership Today podcast where each week we bring research to life in your leadership. This week we explore the impact of disagreement on our b…

From Economics to Health Economics: Data At Its Core

New episode for the “Data+ Health” series- From Economics to Health Economics: Data at its core. Our final interviewee for this season is Xian Zhang, research fellow from DKU global health research center. In this episode, she will share how she utilizes economic methods and data analytics techniqu…

The best cadenza ever? Prokofiev and Ma Vlast

Have you ever “discovered” a major piece, live, in the concert hall? Nathan remembers sitting right next to a big star performing Prokofiev’s second Piano Concerto, with its massive and breathtaking first-movement cadenza. Then he and Akiko talk about sitting right next to another big star this w…

Episode 24 w/ Ying Li

Ying Li is the First Prize winner of the 2021 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions, as well as recipient of The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Prize and the Tri-I Noon Recitals Prize. She has received top awards in numerous national and international competitions incl…

Seattle Symphony's new music director loves Bach and Seattle audiences

The Seattle Symphony has a new music director… And she’s breaking new ground. Xian Zhang is the first woman and the first person of color to direct the Symphony in its more than 120-year history… And she’s here to talk about what brought her to Seattle after conducting orchestras around the world…

The Night Puppets: visiting Seattle's new waterfront park after dark

The City of Seattle has invested a massive effort in rebuilding the city’s central waterfront, after removing the Alaskan Way Viaduct. Part of the city’s investment in the waterfront has gone towards public art. We talk with Brangien Davis, arts editor at Cascade PBS, and the host of the Cascade P…

Never really whole: a different side of Simon Bridges

In this episode of The 3rd Space with Naisi Chen, we sit down with Simon Bridges, former leader of New Zealand’s National Party and author of National Identity: Confessions of an Outsider. This conversation goes beyond politics to interrogate what it means to belong in Aotearoa, personally and cult…

Seattle Symphony music director got her big break when her mentor called in sick

Xian Zhang says she never wanted to be a conductor. Instead, she says, “conducting chose me.”  Zhang is in her first season as Seattle Symphony’s music director. On this episode of “Meet Me Here,” she explains how her conducting teacher threw her into deep waters as a 20-year-old conservatory stud…