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How do you know when it’s time to make your next big career move? With International Women’s Day around the corner, we are excited to feature Avni Patel Thompson, Founder and CEO of Milo. Avni is building technology that directly supports the often overlooked emotional and logistical labor that falls on parents—especially women. Milo is an AI assistant designed to help families manage that invisible load more efficiently. In this episode, Avni shares her journey from studying chemistry to holding leadership roles at global brands like Adidas and Starbucks, to launching her own ventures. She discusses how she approaches career transitions, the importance of unpleasant experiences, and why she’s focused on making everyday life easier for parents. [01:26] Avni's University Days and Early Career [04:36] Non-Linear Career Paths [05:16] Pursuing Steep Learning Curves [11:51] Entrepreneurship and Safety Nets [15:22] Lived Experiences and Milo [19:55] Avni’s In Her Ellement Moment [20:03] Reflections Links: Avni Patel Thompson on LinkedIn Suchi Srinivasan on LinkedIn Kamila Rakhimova on LinkedIn Ipsos report on the future of parenting About In Her Ellement: In Her Ellement highlights the women and allies leading the charge in digital, business, and technology innovation. Through engaging conversations, the podcast explores their journeys—celebrating successes and acknowledging the balance between work and family. Most importantly, it asks: when was the moment you realized you hadn’t just arrived—you were truly in your element? About The Hosts: Suchi Srinivasan is an expert in AI and digital transformation. Originally from India, her career includes roles at trailblazing organizations like Bell Labs and Microsoft. In 2011, she co-founded the Cleanweb Hackathon, a global initiative driving IT-powered climate solutions with over 10,000 members across 25+ countries. She also advises Women in Cloud, aiming to create $1B in economic opportunities for women entrepreneurs by 2030. Kamila Rakhimova is a fintech leader whose journey took her from Tajikistan to the U.S., where she built a career on her own terms. Leveraging her English proficiency and international relations expertise, she discovered the power of microfinance and moved to the U.S., eventually leading Amazon's Alexa Fund to support underrepresented founders. Subscribe to In Her Ellement on your podcast app of choice to hear meaningful conversations with women in digital, business, and technology.…

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TV CONFIDENTIAL: A radio talk show about television brings you lively conversations every week with the stars, writers, directors and other creative people behind the scenes of some of America's most popular shows. An engaging blend of talk and entertainment, TV Confidential often compares today’s programs with those of the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.

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Elva Green, author of The Jeffersons: A Fresh Look Back 26:39

4 дня назад26:39

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TVC 682.1: Ed welcomes Elva Green , author of The Jeffersons: A fresh look back at The Jeffersons (CBS, 1975-1985), Norman Lear’s longest-running sitcom, starring Isabel Sanford, Sherman Hemsley, an Marla Gibbs, and Eddie Green: The Rise of an Early 1900s Black American Entertainment Pioneer . Chuck Harter co-hosts. Topics this segment include how, while The Jeffersons was an immediate hit among viewers, reviews of the show during its first few years on the air were split—both among white critics and black critics—over whether the show was funny or not.…

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Why The Jeffersons Still Holds Up Today 21:52

4 дня назад21:52

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TVC 682.2: Elva Green , author of The Jeffersons: A fresh look back , talks to Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter about such notable episodes of The Jeffersons as “George’s First Dollar” and “And The Doorknobs Shone Like Diamonds,” plus she gives a preview of her upcoming book on Good Times . The Jeffersons: A fresh look back is available through Bear Manor Media.…

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Burt Kearns, author of SHEMP! 23:25

4 дня назад23:25

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TVC 682.3: Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter welcome award-winning producer, director, writer, journalist, and author Burt Kearns. Burt’s latest book, SHEMP! The Biography of The Three Stooges’ Shemp Howard: The Face of Film Comedy , not only takes a deep dive into the life and career of Shemp Howard—one of the original members of The Three Stooges and, in real life, the older brother of Moe Howard and Curly Howard—but debunks many myths both about Shemp’s career before and during The Three Stooges and about Shemp’s personal life, including some myths that were perpetuated by either Moe Howard or members of Moe’s family. SHEMP! is available through Applause Books.…

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Why Shemp Howard was a "Near Great" 18:54

4 дня назад18:54

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TVC 682.4: Burt Kearns, author of SHEMP! The Biography of The Three Stooges’ Shemp Howard: The Face of Film Comedy , talks to Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter about some of the more notable roles in Shemp Howard’s diverse career as a solo actor, including Private Buckaroo (1942), a musical comedy featuring Harry James, The Andrews Sisters, and Mary Wickes that Burt says is as close to a star vehicle that Shemp ever had; why Shemp rejoined The Stooges in 1946, after Curly’s debilitating stroke; and why rejoining the Stooges gave Shemp an immortality that he may not have achieved had he remained on his own. SHEMP! is available through Applause Books.…

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Why The Three Stooges are Still Popular Today 16:25

4 дня назад16:25

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TVC 682.5: Burt Kearns, author of SHEMP! The Biography of The Three Stooges’ Shemp Howard: The Face of Film Comedy , talks to Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter about how the repeated blows to the head that Shemp Howard, Curly Howard, and Larry Fine all took during the many live appearances that The Three Stooges made every year during their annual hiatus from Columbia Pictures resulted in cerebral hemorrhages that proved to be fatal for all three actors. SHEMP! is available through Applause Books.…

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The "Who Shot J.R.?" Phenomenon of 1980 11:03

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We'll be back with a brand new edition of TV Confidential later this week. In the meantime, please enjoy this clip from March 2012 in which Tony, Donna and Ed remember “A House Divided,” the famous episode of Dallas that launched the “Who Shot J.R.?” phenomenon of 1980. “A House Divided” originally aired Mar. 21, 1980.…

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1st Nationally Televised Oscarcast 4:42

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We'll be back with a brand new edition of TV Confidential later this week. In the meantime, please enjoy this clip from March 2013 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the first nationally televised broadcast of the Academy Awards ceremony, which took place on Mar. 19, 1953 during This Week in TV History.…

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Why Roberta Flack Was Indefinable as an Artist 23:31

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TVC 681.1: Music journalist A. Scott Galloway joins Ed as TV Confidential remembers the life and legacy of Grammy Award-winning recording artist Roberta Flack . Scott interviewed Flack in 1988 for her comeback album, Oasis , plus he wrote a very eloquent essay on his Facebook page that captures why the news of her death struck a chord with music lovers around the world, particularly those of us who grew up listening to her songs playing on the radio throughout the 1970s. Roberta Flack passed away Monday, Feb. 24 at the age of eighty-eight. Topics this segment include how Flack was a “full, 360-degree” artist; her tireless activism on behalf of gay rights, women’s rights, people’s rights, and liberty as an American human being; how Clint Eastwood changed the trajectory of Flack’s life and career by integrating “First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” in the pivotal love sequence between Eastwood and Donna Mills in Play Misty for Me ; and how the success of Oasis was a “buoyant, wonderful surprise.”…

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Roberta Flack, Charles Fox, and Killing Me Softly 10:22

18 дней назад10:22

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TVC 681.2: From October 2010: Charles Fox , the Grammy Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning composer who co-wrote “Killing Me Softly with His Song” along with Norman Gimbel, talks to Ed about the phone call he received from Roberta Flack in 1972, asking if she could perform “Killing Me Softly,” and how that call changed Charles’ life. Nearly forty years later, Flack wrote the foreword to Charles’ memoir, Killing Me Softly: My Life in Music (Scarecrow Press, 2010). Roberta Flack passed away Monday, Feb. 24 at the age of eighty-eight.…

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Behind the Scenes of Police Story 10:51

18 дней назад10:51

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TVC 681.2a: From January 2012: Television writer/producer Larry Brody takes Ed and his listeners behind the scenes of Police Story (NBC, 1973-1979), the Emmy Award-winning police anthology series created by Joseph Wambaugh and executive produced by David Gerber . Larry received one of his first breaks in television working with Gerber. Topics this segment include Gerber’s peculiar mandate that discouraged writers on his shows from ever allowing characters to show any positive emotion. Joseph Wambaugh passed away Friday, Feb. 28 at the age of eighty-eight. Also in this segment: A remembrance of Gene Hackman , the Academy Award-winning actor who was found dead in his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico , along with his wife Betsy Arakawa, on Wednesday, Feb. 26.…

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Linda Purl of Crazy Mama 26:25

18 дней назад26:25

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TVC 681.3: Ed welcomes back singer/actress Linda Purl ( Happy Days, Matlock, The Office ). Linda is about to star in Crazy Mama , a riveting one-woman play that not only sheds light on the issue of mental illness with Southern-style humor and directness, but will feature Linda playing sixteen different characters. Ed asks Linda what first attracted her to the play and how she approaches to taking on the various personalities she must assume over the course of the story, plus Linda shares a few memories about working with Garry Marshall , including the many ways that Marshall kept the cast of Happy Days grounded despite the show’s enormous success. Written by Sharon Scott Williams and directed by Linda's fellow Happy Days alumnus Anson Williams, Crazy Mama makes its world premiere at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura, California on Wednesday, Mar. 26 through Sunday, Apr. 6. For tickets and more information, call (805) 667-2900 or go to RubiconTheatre.org . Linda Purl will also perform at the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood, California for one night only, Sunday, Mar. 16 , beginning at 7:30pm. Click here for tickets and more information.…

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The Humanity of Rod Serling 18:24

18 дней назад18:24

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TVC 681.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Anne Serling and Jodi Serling, the daughters of Rod Serling, and Marc Scott Zicree , longtime television writer/producer and the author of The Twilight Zone Companion . Dec. 25, 2024 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rod Serling, while the 2024-2025 television season marks the 65th anniversary of the premiere of The Twilight Zone on CBS. In this segment, Anne and Jodi share a few examples of the “many moments of helpless hilarity” that they often experienced while growing up with their dad; Marc talks about how Serling, like many good writers, “listened more than he talked”; while Anne and Jodi both discuss Serling’s experience as a teacher at Ithaca College in New York, and how he often learned more from his students that they did from him. Both The Twilight Zone Companion and Anne’s book, As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling , are available wherever books are sold.…

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The Legacy of Rod Serling 12:38

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TVC 681.5: Anne Serling and Jodi Serling, the daughters of Rod Serling, and Marc Scott Zicree , author of The Twilight Zone Companion , share some final thoughts with Ed about the legacy of Rod Serling, including how Serling never “saw the signpost up ahead” with regard to the tremendous impact that his writing continues to have. Both The Twilight Zone Companion and Anne’s book, As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling , are available wherever books are sold.…

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Harrison Page, Russ Meyer, and The Difference Between Listening and Hearing 15:24

25 дней назад15:24

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TVC 680.3: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Harrison Page , the actor known around the world as Joshua in Lionheart , Captain Trunk on Sledge Hammer! , CPO Robinson on CPO Sharkey , and Niles in Russ Meyer’s Vixen! Topics this segment include how Harrison approached playing Niles when he first read the script for Vixen ; why it’s important for every actor to know the difference between listening and hearing every time they take the stage or work; and the success of Vixen at the box office led Meyer to cast Harrison in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls , after he had sent Harrison the script for Beyond in advance and asked for his input.…

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Harrison Page, Michael Landon, and Peter Falk 22:21

25 дней назад22:21