67 episodes

What power lies in your story? How do you tell your story? As two young “adults” journey into the life of suit and tie, they begin discovering the impact of storytelling on their career, business, mental health, and life. One of them in a linen suit, the other a plastic tie.

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Linen Suit & Plastic Tie Gorav Menon & Kevin Liu

    • Society & Culture
    • 5.0 • 17 Ratings

What power lies in your story? How do you tell your story? As two young “adults” journey into the life of suit and tie, they begin discovering the impact of storytelling on their career, business, mental health, and life. One of them in a linen suit, the other a plastic tie.

Subscribe and Follow us on Insta/TikTok: @LSPTPod; LinkedIn: Linen Suit & Plastic Tie

    How Do You Love Your Mind? ft. Chief Content Officer @ Headspace (Morgan Selzer)

    How Do You Love Your Mind? ft. Chief Content Officer @ Headspace (Morgan Selzer)

    How do you bring a centuries-old tradition to a modern audience? How did Gorav keep up a 1800+ day (and counting) meditation streak? What do "unexpected" partners add to your brand story? Is there a simple way to cope with our ever-restless minds? For Season 3 Finale, we chat with Morgan Selzer, Chief Content Officer at Headspace, to understand the Headspace story.

    • 41 min
    How Did a TV Movie Save the World? ft. a Communications Professor (David Craig, Apocalypse Television)

    How Did a TV Movie Save the World? ft. a Communications Professor (David Craig, Apocalypse Television)

    How did a TV film save the world from nuclear destruction? What do we miss out on if we dismiss social media? Why do we have so many dystopian sci-fi stories but few in the opposite light? This week, we talk to David Craig, Clinical Professor of Communication at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

    An expert on Hollywood and social media entertainment, David's new book Apocalypse Television accounts an important period in TV and world history around The Day After: a film that contributed to what historians describe as "Reagan’s Reversal” in the 1980s, which led to the end of the Atomic Arms Race. As Disney CEO Bob Iger wrote in the book's foreword, "those who tell the stories may save the world."

    • 43 min
    Storytime - LSPTPod 3rd Year Anniversary Special (w/ Dr. Drea Letamendi, Craig Thompson, Mark Chavez)

    Storytime - LSPTPod 3rd Year Anniversary Special (w/ Dr. Drea Letamendi, Craig Thompson, Mark Chavez)

    Why is college NOT the best years of your life? Why do people like horror & crime stories? What goes into deciding what to omit from a half-memoir? What do sci-fi and rom-com have in common? What does it mean to "break the story"?
    For the 3-year anniversary of LSPTPod, we rewind the tape to bring you some bonus content: fun stories where we went off a tangent that didn't make it into our released episodes. We're diving back into some bonus content from our chat this season with Dr. Drea Letamendi, Craig Thompson, and Mark Chavez. We're glad and grateful that you've been with us on this journey of exploring storytelling for so long. Here's to many more!

    • 56 min
    Can AI Help Write A Novel? ft. an AI-Experimenting Novelist (Stephen Marche)

    Can AI Help Write A Novel? ft. an AI-Experimenting Novelist (Stephen Marche)

    At this point, you've probably heard so much about ChatGPT and language model AI, but can it actually help write a book? How is an AI-written novel really created? Amid all the craze and myths of the recent "AI boom", we chat with Stephen Marche, a novelist who was tasked to create an "AI-generated novel," Death of an Author, (with Pushkin) to really understand the capabilities and limits of language model AI / linguistic AI, and how we should treat this tool.


    Stephen Marche is a novelist and essayist. He has written features and essays for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and many others. He has collaborated with artificial intelligence on the first AI-generated novel reviewed in The New York Times, Death of an Author.

    • 43 min
    What is Your Golden Moment? ft. a fmr Director @ MasterClass (Davis Carter)

    What is Your Golden Moment? ft. a fmr Director @ MasterClass (Davis Carter)

    How do you create master classes with some of the most influential people in the world? How do "golden moments" shape our lives and stories? How do we decide what to leave out of a story vs. what to keep in? This week, we chat with Davis Carter, former Director of Content at MasterClass. Davis has worked as Director of Content at MasterClass, where he oversaw more than 20 projects including classes with President Bill Clinton, Metallica, Amy Tan, Neil Gaiman, and Chris Voss.

    • 41 min
    Where Are Your Roots? ft. a Non-Fiction Graphic Novelist (Craig Thompson)

    Where Are Your Roots? ft. a Non-Fiction Graphic Novelist (Craig Thompson)

    Why is the American agriculture story relevant to you (yes, you)? Is comic book a genre or a medium? Why should you care about where your food comes from? How does the story of an herbal root connect the United States and China?

    This week, we chat with graphic novelist Craig Thompson about his latest autobiographical comic book series Ginseng Roots. Kevin stumbled upon an issue in the series and got super curious - what could an American artist possibly say about Northeastern China and an herbal root best known in Chinese medicine? He ended up loving the entire series. Ginseng Roots explores class divide, agriculture, holistic healing, the 300-year-long trade relationship between China and North America, childhood labor, and the bond between two brothers.

    Craig Thompson is a cartoonist and the author of the award-winning books Blankets; Good-bye, Chunky Rice; and Habibi. He grew up in a rural farming community in Marathon, Wisconsin, world capital of ginseng.

    • 44 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
17 Ratings

17 Ratings

Nila Mak ,

Great Podcast

I really enjoyed listening to the episodes of this podcast. It’s truly very interesting and insightful learning about the significance of storytelling and how it impacts our lives. I definitely recommend everyone to check it out :)

20reuben03 ,

Amazing Podcast!

The variety of guests that are on this podcast really help viewers understand so many parts of the tech world in greater detail. Gorav and Kevin enable each guest to share a unique point of view that makes this one of the most informative podcasts out there!

Afrrab_lee ,

Love the content!

Very informative content and great speakers!

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