Joining the likes of Greta Thunberg in the top ranks, APB Speaker Nora McInerny’s, “We don’t ‘move on’ from grief. We move forward with it,” has been named the fourth most popular TED Talk of 2019. The list of 19 talks, ranked by number of watches, “reflect a year defined by fighting for what’s right, believing in the good despite all the bad, supporting others and yourself — and hoping for the best in the decade to come,” according to TED. Nora’s talk, with more than 3.7 million views and growing, recounts a six week period in her life when she miscarried her second baby, lost her Dad to cancer and became a widow at age 31 when her husband died of brain cancer. Described as “heartbreaking and hilarious,” Nora’s TED Talk champions her liberating approach to loss and grief. “A grieving person is going to laugh again and smile again,” she says. “They’re going to move forward. But that doesn’t mean that they’ve moved on.”
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Known as one of the most influential experts on the science of high performance, APB speaker David Epstein uses past journalism experiences as a senior writer at Sports Illustrated along with research from his New York Times best-selling novel The Sports Gene to analyze the performance of Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes II. In an article from The Washington Post, Epstein attributes Mahomes II’s success to his talents as a multi-sport athlete. Epstein said that several studies have shown athletes who play multiple sports require less time to become elite in the game they ultimately choose. “[This] seems particularly to be true for athletes who play multiple ‘attacking’ sports.”
NBA legend and APB speaker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is collaborating with the History channel to bring audiences the groundbreaking, one-hour documentary Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution, which premieres Wednesday, February 19th at 10pm ET/PT. Abdul-Jabbar has been heavily invested in bringing light to the untold stories of African-Americans throughout our nation’s history since he retired from his record-breaking NBA career.
Boston Marathon bombing survivor and healthcare speaker Heather Abbott recently had her philanthropic work highlighted by a WMUR segment on UMass Lowell lacrosse player Noelle Lambert. Lambert was a Division 1 athlete who lost her leg in a tragic moped accident, but remained determined to stay active and to continue with high-level athletics. Abbott, who lost a leg in the Boston Marathon bombings, quickly visited Lambert in the hospital, inspiring Lambert to say, “I kind of thought to myself, if [she] can get through that tragedy, and do so well with it, then I should be able to.”
The founder and CEO of Amesite Inc., an artificial intelligence-powered software company that delivers engaging and cost-effective online college and university courses, and former CEO of one of MIT’s 50 Smartest Companies, Sakti3, speaker Ann Marie Sastry recently explained the important role AI plays in our daily lives in interviews with Yahoo Finance and Squawk Box.
Known as The New York Times bestselling author of both Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World and The Sports Gene, APB speaker David Epstein is gaining major recognition from former NFL star and current Fox Sports analyst Tony Gonzalez.
Known as the Tony Award-winning producer behind American Idiot, Young Frankenstein and The Addams Family, APB speaker Vivek J. Tiwary talks about the success of his new Broadway project, Jagged Little Pill, in an interview with Forbes.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who garnered national attention for his role in uncovering the Watergate scandal, APB speaker Carl Bernstein has revealed the inner workings of government and politics for decades. Renowned worldwide for his unique commentary, reporting, and analysis for CNN, Bernstein recently caused a viral sensation when he called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell “Midnight Mitch.”
APB speakers Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's new book Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope is now #2 on the New York Times Bestseller List. Known for their international reporting, the investigative duo turned their focus domestically for the book, examining the epidemic of depression, unemployment, poverty and addiction that is plaguing the working class across America – an ...
February is Black History Month, and this year’s theme is “African Americans and the Vote” in honor of the centennial of the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote, and the sesquicentennial of the 15th amendment, which granted black men the right to vote. Voting is the foundational promise of true democracy and our APB speakers Ilyasah Shabazz, Melissa Harris-Perry, Andrew Gillum and Admiral Michelle Howard have all fought tirelessly to realize the vision of justice, equality and freedom for our country. During this Black History Month, they all provide perspective on how far we have come and how far we have left to go: