New York Yankees baseball manager Casey Stengel was once asked about how he successfully managed his players so successfully. Casey answered, “It’s simple. I keep the players who hate me away from the players who like me.” Stengel’s witty quote underlies a truism about managing people. …

There are podcasts about depression, anxiety, anger management, emotional intelligence, and emotional attachment styles. Grief is no exception to the range of emotional states that podcasting covers. Grief is an all-too-common emotion that affects so many. About 2.5 million people die in the United States annually, each leaving an average…

In today’s workplace, employee complaints can act as the moral thermostat for companies or can be expensive lawsuits that drag on for years. It depends on how those concerns are handled by first-line managers and supervisors. Let’s tell it like it is: Few supervisors or managers want to hear from…

Like many, H. Rap Brown has a complicated legacy. He was a human rights activist, Muslim cleric, black separatist, a convicted robber, and convicted murderer who was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s. …

How can you be a Santa Claus for a podcaster — whether active or aspirational? Now, you can gift your podcast friend, family member or persistent high school friend who insists you two should start a podcast. RSS.com has just launched something: “Podcasting Gift Cards” for anyone to give the…

It’s a Wonderful life is a Christmas classic. However, when it was released in 1946, It’s a Wonderful Life was not an immediate hit with audiences. In fact, it put director Frank Capra $525,000 in the hole, which left him scrambling to finance his production company’s next picture, State of…

Latest episode of Underwater Fiction podcast released This week’s new episode of “Underwater,” starring Jason Derulo and Alexandra Shipp, from Warner Music Group’s (WMG) in-house podcast network Interval Presents, dropped today, on all major podcast platforms. Listen to the fifth episode HERE. This week’s new episode of “Underwater,” starring Jason Derulo and Alexandra Shipp, from Warner Music…

It’s Thanksgiving. What better day to discuss food podcasting? I do enjoy cooking / culinary / food podcasts. Why? First, I learn a lot about the food I eat regularly. Second, because cooking is one of those hybrid activities that blends science and creativity. I’m not sure if I want…

Confession time: adoptions and adopted children were not something I thought much about until…I read the 2014 book Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline. From the book, I learned that between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of…