Episodes

  • Ellie 2.0 Radio – September 28, 2024

    Ellie 2.0 Radio – September 28, 2024
    Sep 30 2024
    We’ve got an Ellie’s Talking Head show this week, starting with highlighting idealistic NewGround, an LA-based group that seeks to help Jews and Muslims form friendships and have respectful conversations about their differing views on Palestine. I also share two wonderful stories of compassion—one about a UPS driver who helped a stranger with a life-threatening…
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    43 mins
  • Ellie 2.0 Radio – September 21, 2024

    Ellie 2.0 Radio – September 21, 2024
    Sep 23 2024
    This week’s featured idealist is Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia, the outdoor clothing and adventure store. Early on, Yvon made his mark as an idealist by devoting one percent of Patagonia’s revenue to protecting the environment and fighting climate change. In 2022, Yvon, by then a billionaire, donated his entire company’s stock to a…
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    44 mins
  • Ellie 2.0 Radio – September 7, 2024

    Ellie 2.0 Radio – September 7, 2024
    Sep 9 2024
    We start with our historical featured idealist, the founder of St. Mary’s Academy in New Orleans: Mother Josephine Charles battled racism and misogyny in the mid-19th century to create a religious school for girls of color. Nearly 160 years later, St. Mary’s had 100% graduation and college admission rates—unheard of in education! The Big Interview…
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    45 mins
  • Ellie 2.0 Radio – August 24, 2024

    Ellie 2.0 Radio – August 24, 2024
    Aug 25 2024
    With the DNC convention over, our featured idealist is Adam Kinzinger, the former Illinois congressman who denounced Trump way back in 2016, and later served on the bipartisan January 6th Committee. Kinzinger isn’t afraid to speak truth to power and was a speaker at the convention, exhorting Republicans to understand that “Democrats also love our…
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    45 mins
  • Ellie 2.0 Radio – August 17, 2024

    Ellie 2.0 Radio – August 17, 2024
    Aug 19 2024
    This week is an Ellie talking head show. We highlight our featured idealist, Lawrence O’Donnell from MSNBC. Plus we talk about legislation around birth certificates for transgender people, JK Rowling’s anti-trans social media posts, how charitable giving in America might change and more.
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    44 mins
  • Ellie 2.0 Radio – August 10, 2024

    Ellie 2.0 Radio – August 10, 2024
    Aug 12 2024
    This week’s featured idealist is retired federal circuit judge J. Michael Luttig, who began as a conservative but found his way to idealism in combatting Donald Trump’s attempts to subvert democracy. It was Luttig and a conservative scholar, Jon Yoo, who told VP Mike Pence that the Constitution didn’t permit him to decertify electors. Thankfully,…
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    44 mins
  • Ellie 2.0 Radio – August 3, 2024

    Ellie 2.0 Radio – August 3, 2024
    Aug 5 2024
    It’s another Ellie’s Talking Head show! Our featured idealist is the comedian, Trevor Noah, who set up the Trevor Noah Foundation to promote literacy a in his native South Africa. From there, I talk about Jessica Norton, a Broward County FL school district employee who was disciplined for letting her 16-year-old transgender daughter participate on…
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    44 mins
  • Ellie 2.0 Radio – July 27, 2024

    Ellie 2.0 Radio – July 27, 2024
    Jul 29 2024
    My, how the political landscape changed from the last show! That means this week’s featured idealist is none other than President Joe Biden for deciding to relinquish his presidential bid in favor of the country’s greater good. I’m positive that President Joe will go down as one of the greatest presidents of all time! The…
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    44 mins