Organizing the Way Forward: Season 4 Recap
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In the season finale of Margins, Mary Ellen and Elena reflect on the season’s theme: organization. As we organize ourselves in so many different areas of our lives, how do we make sure we’re always creating safe, inclusive and diverse spaces? Listen back to interviews from earlier this season to hear from the folks who dedicate themselves to creating these spaces.
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Bonus: Organizing a Book Proposal
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Vanessa Soto is a book coach who specializes in giving non-fiction authors all of the necessary guidance and feedback they need to make their dream a reality. Starting with the proposal.
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Organizing Information
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In this episode of Margins, ZeroBounce’s Brian Minick (6:14) shares his advice for ensuring security and privacy in your personal and professional digital interactions. Then, Southern University Law Center professor Marc Roark (9:53) explores the merits and potential pitfalls of information aggregation sites like Airbnb, and the University of Rochester’s Miranda Mims (15:15) explains how archivists’ “memory work” preserves institutional and cultural memory.
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Organizing Time
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In this episode of Margins, Dr. Sam Goldstein (4:49) tells Mary Ellen Slayter and Elena Valentine why everyone has a different internal clock. Then, Elena’s husband Emilio (9:21) drops by to tell us about how time affects his work as a trader, and Dr. Chris Mullen (15:21) breaks down why “work-Iife balance” is a bunch of BS.
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Organizing Society
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In this episode of Margins, Mary Ellen Slayter and Elena Valentine spoke with Stetson University professor Sven Smith (03:43), Fordham University professor Paul Levinson (10:44) and human rights activist Ben O’Keefe (15:06) on the forces that drive how we organize ourselves as societies and why they can be so difficult to change.
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Organizing Ideas
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Organizing our ideas is a deeply complicated task, and many of us struggle to distill our thoughts into words so they can be communicated to our peers, our community and the world. In this episode we talk to three masters of organizing big ideas, scientists Susan Jacobson and Elizabeth Marsh (05:21) and fiction writer Mackenzi Lee (14:18).
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Organizing Work
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Organizing work is complex. From organizational culture to societal values around how we value labor, creating the proper structure is essential. This week, Elena Valentine and Mary Ellen Slayter speak to three experts who think about organizing work in different ways: Henry Albrecht (04:08), Amy Dufrane (13:09) and Harish Patel (19:33).
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Organizing Space
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Space can impact our emotions, determine our path, and set us up for success or failure. This week Elena Valentine and Mary Ellen Slayter are speaking with two masters of maintaining and building productive spaces. We’ll be joined by chef Katie Juban (07:14) and architect Katherine Darnstadt (15:08) to hear how they organize space.
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Organizing Your Life
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Is it possible to “organize” your life? Jennifer Turliuk, author of “How to Figure Out What to Do with Your Life (Next),” discusses how you can apply design principles to find your ideal career (6:10). Then, Lara Corey and Luigi Aldon, co-founders of Smudge Wellness, share how they help people create order in their spiritual lives (14:16).
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Margins Season 4 Trailer
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What does it mean to be “organized”? In Season 4 of Margins from Managing Editor, we're digging into what that word means to all sorts of people and from all sorts of angles— none of which involve tidying your sock drawer. Our new season launches April 28. Make sure to subscribe, so you don’t miss a single episode!
info_outlineHere’s a brutal reality for marketers and creatives: sometimes, you hit a wall with a big project — and you have no choice but to strike a match and burn it all down. But sometimes burning it down is the best possible thing for your big idea. First, we discuss how burning down our agency blog led to Managing Editor and Margins from Managing Editor (:31). Then, we talk with marketer and writer Alison Pittaway about walking away from her novel (11:17), “The Disruption Mindset” author Charlene Li about preparing ourselves and our businesses for disruption (19:45) and SkillScout co-founder Elena Valentine about having to burn down a brand new business almost overnight (31:18). And stay tuned to the end for some special announcements (43:55) about Season 2 of Margins from Managing Editor!
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