Just Let Go, Ambitious Woman, Politics Went Tabloid

Just Let Go, Ambitious Woman, Politics Went Tabloid

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 4, Episode 212

  • Sep 24, 2015 1:00 pm
  • 2:16:48 mins

Just Let Go (11:50) Patrick Henry Parker and Christopher S. Clark are the filmmakers behind the movie Just Let Go. They discuss why they decided to make the movie, some of the decisions they made to bring the story of a Utah man who lost his wife and 3 kids in a car accident but found a way to forgive. The Ambitious Woman (56:58) Esther Spina, also known as “The Ambitious Woman” has become widely known for her amazing achievements made in the business world. Going from being a beginning employee to a National Consultant for Ambit Energy in just three years, Spina has mastered the art of goal setting. Recently, Spina published a book titled “The Ambitious Woman” and currently heads a mentoring club specifically geared toward helping women to set and achieve effective goals in their lives. A successful business woman and master of her art, Esther Spina joins us today to talk about how her vision of who she wanted to be became her reality. The Day Politics Went Tabloid (1:42:06) Matt Bai is the national political columnist at Yahoo News and has also been a fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government and at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. Mr. Bai is the author of NPR’s Best Book of the Year, “All the Truth is Out: the Week Politics Went Tabloid,” is here to discuss with us today how one event in history could have changed how we elect our presidents and how American values have shifted.