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How do you build an erotica company when the odds are systematically stacked against you? You get creative. That was the ethos for Caroline Spiegel, founder and CEO of the audio erotica app Quinn, when she started the company three years back. (Real ones remember Caroline from her appearances on the show way back when—I can't get enough what can I say.) Today, Caroline shares her story, lessons, challenges, and predictions for the future of...ahem...entertainment. 00:45 meet Caroline & Quinn 05:37 on expectations, both of purity & sexuality 09:47 preserving the fantasy 13:13 Quinn's business challenges 15:33 Quinn vs. the world (and p*rn industry) Follow Caroline here: https://twitter.com/CaroSpiegel And while you're at it... SUBSCRIBE TO MY NEWSLETTER: https://kinsey.beehiiv.com/subscribe FOLLOW ME ON TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@kinsey_grant FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/kinseyrgrant/ See you soon :)

Reminder as always that this aired first on YouTube! Watch the original video here: https://youtu.be/5Pkb3CtFucM -- Step 1: Recognize that we should have seen this coming. Step 2: Disrupt the monopolistic formula industry. Step 3: Give parents more options. At least according to Laura Katz, food scientist and founder and CEO of Helaina, the company using fermentation to create human milk proteins designed to provide the same health properties of breast milk. Laura's work has, as you might expect, gotten a lot more intense over the last several weeks as the U.S. grapples with a high-stakes formula shortage. So how did we get here? How do we make sure this never happens again? And what does the future look like for America's infants? Let's think about it with Laura Katz. 00:00 intro hi hi :) 00:39 meet Laura & Helaina 03:57 how has the formula shortage come to be? 06:28 we need to talk about formula, not fake meat 12:35 parents are terrified, and with good reason 15:56 the formula industry needs to change 18:44 anecdote break! in which I talk about breastfeeding anxiety 21:11 where we go from here Thanks for watching! Follow Laura here: https://twitter.com/LauraHelaina And while you're at it... SUBSCRIBE TO MY NEWSLETTER: https://kinsey.beehiiv.com/subscribe FOLLOW ME ON TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@kinsey_grant FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/kinseyrgrant/ See you soon :)

REMINDER: This episode is intended to be consumed in audio-visual format and was originally aired on my YouTube channel. If you'd like to see it as God intended (with funny edits & captions), please watch it here: https://youtu.be/NKX30Br9ZuI ----- What do your most recent ex and the current stock market conditions have in common? They both suck now, but eventually you'll get over it. That's the sitch, according to Kelsey Willock—cofounder and CEO of Aura, a mindful money management platform. I spoke with her to parse through what, exactly, is going on in the stock market. Because these days, it seems all we can count on is uncertainty. Listen for a full 411 on today's market conditions, plus some top-shelf analogies about what therapy and sh*tty relationships can teach us about investing. 00:00 intro! & say hi to Kelsey 01:10 putting your losses in context 05:34 investing is like a chaotic bachelorette trip 06:58 how bad could this get? 11:29 how to think for the long term & money stories 18:41 the bitcoin millionaire fallacy 21:38 Kelsey's recs & more about Aura Thank you for watching! Follow Kelsey here: https://twitter.com/kelsmels1 While you're at it... SUBSCRIBE TO MY NEWSLETTER: https://kinsey.beehiiv.com/subscribe FOLLOW ME ON TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@kinsey_grant FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/kinseyrgrant/ See you soon :)

How, exactly, is a social media platform designed to only be used twice per day planning to scale? With the backing of an army of ferocious Gen Z users, it seems. This is BeReal. And it might just be the future of the social web. 00:00 get ready for a killer interview with Casey Lewis of After School 01:07 meet Casey 03:03 what is BeReal and why do the youths love it? 05:47 Gen Z's relationship with social media 10:03 how will BeReal avoid becoming the next HQ Trivia? 17:21 the great copycats of Silicon Valley Subscribe to After School: https://afterschool.substack.com/ While you're here... SUBSCRIBE TO MY NEWSLETTER: https://kinsey.beehiiv.com/subscribe FOLLOW ME ON TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@kinsey_grant FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/kinseyrgrant/ See you soon :)

REMINDER: THIS EPISODE IS THE AUDIO VERSION OF A YOUTUBE VIDEO—TO SEE THE VISUAL ELEMENTS, SUBSCRIBE TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqkJwR_JacmcQJUrtqv8apQ ----- I won’t sugarcoat it—if you’re an investor of any kind, it’s been a tough month. Things aren’t great. Red as far as the eye can see. Pandemic superstars imploding in historic fashion. Inflation at generational highs. The Fed doing…Fed things. That’s reality, and it’s a stark difference from the way things used to be (read: easy). So what might that mean for a generation that both 1) came of age and 2) began investing in record numbers during one of the easiest times to make money in human history? That’s what I’m talking about today—what’s going on in the economy, and how we’re going to live with it. Don’t panic! Everything’s chiller than you think. 00:19 economic vibe check 2:33 the bubble has burst 4:47 we’re all the stock market? 7:02 your vibes must be off 8:55 how to check yourself While you're here... SUBSCRIBE TO MY NEWSLETTER: https://kinsey.beehiiv.com/subscribe FOLLOW ME ON TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@kinsey_grant FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/kinseyrgrant/ See you soon :)

We are what we post, right? If so...what does it mean to be a feminist in the digital age—when Twitter is the town square and your Instagram feed is your personal credo? I interviewed Kate Lindsay, the writer and reporter behind the internet culture newsletter Embedded, to find out. 4:32 what is online feminism? 9:33 digital coalition building in the future 12:24 inserting nuance into the conversation 16:50 smaller digital villages and the alternative to mass-anything 25:59 Kate's recs While you're here... SUBSCRIBE TO MY NEWSLETTER: https://kinsey.beehiiv.com/subscribe FOLLOW ME ON TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@kinsey_grant FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/kinseyrgrant/ Subscribe to Embedded: https://embedded.substack.com/ Follow Kate: https://twitter.com/kathrynfiona

Everyone has a take on the potential overturn of Roe vs. Wade, as they should. Legal action this monumental deserves to be talked about & thought about, publicly and often. But you know who else feels notably missing from the conversation? The corporations that are so eagerly hiring people to be “a part of the family.” To quote my favorite poet, “I’ve never heard silence quite this loud.” So where are the capitalists now that the stakes are higher than ever? Let's think about it. From the labor force to equality commitments—today on Thinking Is Cool, the implications of the business world staying quiet on Roe vs. Wade. While you're here... SUBSCRIBE TO MY NEWSLETTER: https://kinsey.beehiiv.com/subscribe FOLLOW ME ON TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@kinsey_grant FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/kinseyrgrant/ See you soon ILY!!!!

Elon Musk is (still) (most likely) buying Twitter, and along with a change in leadership, many are anticipating changes to the platform that was once home to some of the best moments in pop culture history ("Delete your account," anything Nicki Minaj has ever posted, etc.). If some media prognosticators are to be believed, those revolutionary cultural moments are going to be replaced with more vitriol should Twitter take the shape of its new leader, a self-described "free speech absolutist." For the Twitter users who rely solely on the platform for work, connections, and more...that poses a problem. So what might Twitter look like, and what would be the potential breaking point for the platform's biggest power users to finally call it quits on the bird app? Journalist Fortesa Latifi weighs in, today on Thinking Is Cool. While you're here... SUBSCRIBE TO MY NEWSLETTER: https://kinsey.beehiiv.com/subscribe FOLLOW ME ON TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@kinsey_grant FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/kinseyrgrant/ Find more of Fortesa's work here: https://twitter.com/fortesalatifi And here: https://www.fortesalatifi.com/ SEE YOU SOON FOR MOREEEEE -Kins

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