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Big Questions with Cal Fussman

Feb 22, 2022

After tasting and loving an Olipop root beer, Cal tracks down the company’s co-founder and CEO to find out how it came about. Olipop beverages are made from ingredients like kudzu root, slippery elm bark and Jerusalem artichoke. You’re drinking plant fiber instead of high fructose corn syrup. There are few calories...


Feb 15, 2022

The United States is one million nurses short and you don’t want to begin appreciating nurses only when you don’t have one when you need one. Cal talks with Lori Armstrong, who runs Inspire Nurse Leaders, about the nursing shortage that’s been exacerbated by departures during two years of relentless pressure on...


Feb 8, 2022

The release of Carl’s memoir, Chasing History, seems like the ideal time to ask the renowned Washington Post reporter and now CNN commentator about the health of our democracy over the last 60 years. Bernstein’s book looks at the start of his career from 1960-1965, when he began as a freckled copy boy, before...


Feb 1, 2022

While speaking at a retreat for a group of investors, Cal asks about a basic educational guide to the stock market and saving money to make sure that any health care needs at the end of life can easily be met. He’s turned on to The Personal Finance Club course and Jeremy Schneider. Which leads to this...