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Join Fast Company Senior Editor Amy Farley to dive into how companies are pointing the way forward for both their industries—and society at large. We’ll talk to business leaders about using cutting-edge AI technology to measure how forests are capturing carbon; we’ll discover how blockchain technology is transforming the gaming industry; and explore how Gen Z is using social networking to shop online. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Subscribe now.

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The New Way We Work

Fast Company deputy editor Kate Davis takes listeners on a journey though the changing landscape of our work lives and explains what we need to build the future we want. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Subscribe now.

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Creative Control

Fast Company's Creative Control is taking a deep dive into the forces that are shaping the creator economy and what it means for its future. As the creator economy continues its rapid expansion, there are issues that deserve a closer look. Topics like who owns what online, where’s the middle class for creators, and what web3 technology will really mean for creators after the hype.

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World Changing Ideas

Join Fast Company’s Talib Visram as he investigates the innovations that are solving our biggest problems, from rethinking food production to developing a circular economy to taking on climate change. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Subscribe now.

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Hit the Ground Running

Join hosts Christina Royster and Yasmin Gagne as they figure out how to navigate the unwritten rules of work and life, exploring everything from what to wear on a zoom call to how to manage a side hustle. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Subscribe now.

This company crushes old roads—and rebuilds them to store carbon

For stabilizing roads, Carbon Crusher ditches bitumen, a byproduct of crude oil, for lignin, sourced from trees.

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This is how you are inadvertently being a bad boss

Most managers have no clue what their employees really think of them. So how do you find out if you are accidentally being a bad boss? And how can you improve? We find out on this week’s episode of ‘The New Way We Work.’

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The white noise machine gets a glorious redesign

You’re looking at 32 switches of bliss.

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No soil, no problem: Reshaping agriculture to be more carbon friendly

Companies are turning to regenerative farming, a growing movement rooted in Indigenous practices that encourages cultivating food in harmony with nature.

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What should the office of the future look like?

If the office is ever going to be a place worth leaving home for, it needs to change. On this episode of ‘The New Way We Work’ we find out how to redesign the workplace of the future.

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Does your company need a podcast?

Long form audio may be one of the biggest trends in content marketing, but if a tree falls in the forest…? Here’s what you need to know before launching a brand podcast.

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How a Netflix software engineer turned creator is pushing back against hustle culture

Mayuko Inoue left her career in Silicon Valley to focus on being a YouTuber full-time. Here’s how she’s handling jumping from one burnout to the next.

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This company helps small landowners get in on the carbon credit market

This week on the ‘World Changing Ideas’ podcast, we hear from a company helping small landowners learn how much they could earn to not cut down their trees, to sell ‘not-logs.’

Work Life

This is how managers should plan for the Great Reentry

Here’s what leaders can do to ease the transition back to the office. (Hint: It won’t look like it did in 2019.)

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Why Emma Chamberlain is taking a coffee break from YouTube

YouTube’s ‘it girl’ has put the platform on the back burner to build out her coffee empire.

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This company is cutting single-use plastics from cleaning products

Cleaning products are comprised of more than 90% water. So why are we buying new plastic hand soaps and cleaning sprays every time?

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The case for untangling benefits from employment

On the latest episode of the New Way We Work, Freelancers Union founder Sara Horowitz discusses how portable benefits could work.

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Your doctor has a side hustle on TikTok as an influencer

Doctors are becoming high-profile social media influencers. There are ethical side effects.

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Patreon CEO Jack Conte on his $4 billion company’s future and the creator economy

As the creator economy continues to grow, Jack Conte is figuring out how to keep Patreon relevant on its own terms.

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Why so many people are freelancing

Half of the U.S. workforce will be freelancing by 2027. On the newest episode of The New Way We Work, we find out why independent work is attractive to Gen Z and what needs to change.

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Why this company is investing $1 billion in your favorite YouTube creators like Mr Beast

Spotter buys YouTubers’s back catalogs in exchange for capital to grow their businesses. CEO Aaron DeBevoise explains how he’s spending that $1 billion.

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Will dancers in the digital age ever be able to protect their moves?

Historically, copyrighting choreography favors artists working in traditional forms like ballet or modern dance. But that leaves a huge blindspot.

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This company is producing essential chemicals using zero carbon

On this week’s episode of the ‘World Changing Ideas’ podcast, we talk to the founder of a company that’s revolutionizing a notoriously carbon-heavy industry.

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What would it look like if we started paying for unpaid labor?

It’s not a coincidence that women do, on average, double the amount of unpaid labor as men, and that millions of women have left to workforce in the last two years. So how can we solve the problem?

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