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Welcome to Bay Area Innovators. I am your host Steve Ispas. We will be talking to some of the most influential people, the ones who had and have a part in shaping what the San Francisco Bay Area is today.
Some of them you may know, as they are well known celebrities, and some you may not know. Our conversations will help you to get to know them better as they share their views and insights as well as valuable life lessons. We also hope to get something they have not shared before, their secret of success, right here on this program.
Some of them you may know, as they are well known celebrities, and some you may not know. Our conversations will help you to get to know them better as they share their views and insights as well as valuable life lessons. We also hope to get something they have not shared before, their secret of success, right here on this program.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
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Average audio length:
41 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
51 episodes
since Oct. 10, 2025
episodic
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A teenager spent 26 hours straight on TikTok during summer break. Natalie Boll said that isn’t an accident. It’s the design.
In this episode of Bay Area Innovators, host Steve Ispas sits down with Boll, founder and CEO of Tribela, to unpack what’s really behind social media addiction in kids, and …
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Alan Dershowitz campaigned for John F. Kennedy in 1960. Sixty-five years later, he says the Democratic Party he supported no longer exists.
In this episode of Bay Area Innovators, host Steve Ispas sits down with Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law professor emeritus and author of 63 books, to discuss his…
He sat down in Tiananmen Square, took off his shoes, and meditated for 30 seconds. It cost him a beaten face, a dislocated jaw, and a lifetime ban from China.In this episode of Bay Area Innovators, host Steve Ispas sits down with Leeshai Lemish, the longtime emcee of Shen Yun Performing Arts, who h…
Every day, people type sensitive information into free artificial intelligence (AI) tools without thinking twice about where that data actually goes.
In this episode of “Bay Area Innovators,” host Steve Ispas sits down with Dustin Stout, founder and CEO of Magai, to unpack what really happens behi…
Why would the Chinese Communist Party bother trying to bribe an IRS agent over a dance company's nonprofit status?
In this episode of “Bay Area Innovators,” host Steve Ispas sits down with Steve Lance, NTD's Washington bureau chief and executive producer of the documentary “Unbroken: The Untold St…
They met as dancers sharing the same stage. Years later, they are still telling stories together—just from different sides of the curtain.
In this episode of Bay Area Innovators, host Steve Ispas sits down with Andrew Fung and Alison Chen, two classical Chinese dancers who came to the art form fro…
Escaping North Korea is not necessarily the hardest part. Many refugees must then escape China.In this episode of Bay Area Innovators, host Steve Ispas sits down with Dan Chung, cofounder of Crossing Borders and author of “Hard Freedom,” who has worked with North Korean refugees in China and South …
How much water does AI actually use, and what happens to it afterward? Data centers, water scarcity, and wastewater pollution are becoming one of the most urgent stories behind the AI boom.
In this episode of Bay Area Innovators, host Steve Ispas sits down with David Gory, founder and CEO of Airbu…
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the atomic bomb decision that ended World War II remain among the most debated choices in modern history. Was dropping the atomic bombs in August 1945 necessary, or a moral line the world should never have crossed?In this episode of Bay Area Innovators, host Steve Ispas sit…
What is homeopathy, does homeopathy work, and why is it still so controversial 200 years later? Is it an overlooked healing tradition, a misunderstood complement to modern medicine, or simply a placebo effect at work?
In this episode of Bay Area Innovators, host Steve Ispas sits down with Joette C…
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