Calling In the Calling Out Culture with Professor Loretta J. Ross
An uplifting and empowering Wavemaker Conversation with Professor Loretta J. Ross, about her alternative to “cancel culture.” It begins with her assignment as the “handler” of an Aryan Nations defector.
Elie Wiesel: A Messenger to Mankind
My wide-ranging conversation with the Holocaust survivor, author, teacher, and Nobel Peace Prize Winner.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta Unplugged
A rare opportunity to learn from Sanjay – veteran neurosurgeon and CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent – when he’s removed from the rush of breaking news.
Michael Schulder: Creator & Host of Wavemaker Conversations
I’m a journalist. I spend much of my life in conversation with the most fascinating people imaginable. This is where those conversations live.
Live Events ›
In Conversation with Julia Ioffe @ The Dreamland Theater
A Russian refugee at the age of 7, Ioffe is now a go-to journalist for her singular insights on Vladimir Putin, the war in Ukraine, and U.S. national security, and more ...
In Conversation with Graeme Wood @ The Dreamland Theater
The Atlantic’s singularly intrepid correspondent will take us behind the scenes of his reporting from Saudi Arabia, the West Bank, Iran. Plus his encounters with ISIS and more ...
In Conversation with Imani Perry @ The Nantucket Book Festival
The National Book Award winner on dreams deferred, lessons from her Jewish father, her dangerously high threshold for pain, her reporting journey below the Mason-Dixon, and more ...
June 16, 2023
In Conversation with Sebastian Junger @ The Nantucket Book Festival
The former war correspondent and author of The Perfect Storm on escaping “the tyranny of self-interest,” reporting from Afghanistan, thriving on hardship, and parenting ...
June 15, 2023
Inside Sports ›
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s “Giant Steps”
One of basketball’s all-time greats on what made his sky-hook unstoppable, battling cancer, writing children’s books, John Coltrane, and his first love ...
The Late Bloomer Advantage In Sports
The Sports Gene” author, David Epstein, joined me for a conversation that will empower young athletes, their parents, and coaches ...
Coach Bill Curry: Inside The Huddle
Unforgettable stories about football – and America -- from one of the great head coaches in college football and a center in 3 of the first 5 Super Bowls ...
The Fay Vincent Sessions: The Accident
The 8th Commissioner of Major League Baseball discusses the pivotal event in his life: a 4-story fall from his college dorm room window – and his mother’s advice, which reframed his future ...
Inside Our Minds ›
Dr. Irvin Yalom: 50-Thousand Hours of Therapy
A legendary figure in modern psychoanalysis, and best-selling author, on coping with existential anxiety and using it to increase fulfillment in life ...
Daniel Pink On The Power Of Regret
The best-selling author’s investigation into the most common regrets shared by people around the world, and how “looking backward moves us forward." ...
Dr. Carol Dweck: The Woman Who Teaches Us To Struggle – And Love It
A conversation with the author of Mindset – a seminal book on motivation and overcoming the fear of failure ...
Deepak Chopra and His Brother, Sanjiv
This conversation with The Chopra Brothers, who took very different paths in medicine, begins with a physician in India who had amazing ears: Their father ...
Performing Arts & Entertainment ›
Lang Lang (& Mom)
Backstage with the pianist who has been called “the hottest classical artist on the planet” – Lang Lang. Featuring a rare appearance by his mom, speaking in Mandarin with such emotion that her son’s translations are barely necessary. ...
What Moves Clive Davis
He signed Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Whitney Houston, Barry Manilow, Alicia Keys, Patti Smith, to name a few. He tells me: “I didn’t specialize... I approached music just being open to what moved me.” ...
Wes Craven: The Man Who Makes Us Face Fear
As a child raised in a strict Baptist community, he was directed, with a red leather Bible in hand, to find lost souls and save them. Some upbringing for one of the great horror film directors ...
Tyrese and Rev Run – Together
Tyrese tells me how he “dreamed beyond the reality I was living in.” Rev Run, a founding father of Hip Hop, shares how his highest moment became his lowest. Both have something to teach us ...
Falling & Rising with Robert Battle
How a child with leg braces grew up to become a dancer, choreographer, and the Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater ...
Gripping Life Stories ›
Getting to Yes in Colombia – Featuring William Ury
Mediation master William Ury, of getting to yes fame, provides an inside account of the the peace deal that ended colombia’s civil war. The talks began with a high-risk secret move deep in the jungle ...
ISIS Briefing feat. Emma Sky
British Mideast expert Emma Sky went to Iraq in 2003 on a mission to help the Iraqi people. She was greeted by an assassination attempt. And then ...
Ishmael Beah: Former Child Soldier
Beah's best-selling memoir led a NY Times reviewer to wonder "how anyone comes through such unrelenting ghastliness and horror with his humanity and sanity intact." This conversation provides some answers ...
Rosalynn Carter: In Her Own Voice
The former First Lady and I discuss the roots of her fierce advocacy for mental health coverage, the opposition to women’s rights that she encountered on Capitol Hill, her full partnership with Jimmy, and more ...
Introducing Ted Turner
CNN’s founder reveals the backstory of how he became an Eco-Capitalist – redefining his bottom line. Plus, Turner the Classics lover recites a poem about a Roman soldier that inspires his approach to leadership ...
“Out of the hundreds of interviews I’ve had in the last six months, my conversation with Michael was unequivocally the very best one. While most of the folks who interviewed me trod upon the same ground, there’s stuff I said to Michael I haven’t said to anyone else before or since. He’d done his research. He made meaningful connections to other people’s work and pop culture topics related to mine. He had a logical structure yet the conversation was flexible and went into unanticipated places so we ended up with layers and nuance. It was intellectually rich but also very real, warm, and human. I could have talked with Michael for hours, and in the months to come often longed for a chance to have a Michael-like dialogue again.”
Julie Lythcott-Haims
Author of the NY Times Best Seller, “How to Raise an Adult” and “Real American: A Memoir“