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  • From PCR to Portfolio: Christine Aylward is Funding Life Sciences

    From PCR to Portfolio: Christine Aylward is Funding Life Sciences
    2026/04/22
    Christine Aylward is the founder and managing partner of Magnetic Ventures, a VC built on a thesis: the future of life sciences will be technology-driven. Her bet, placed in 2018, is paying off. Her path to venture capital is unique. She started at Roche, working on PCR, arguably the most revolutionary technology at the intersection of tech and life sciences in the last century. Then she co-founded a media company with Natalie Portman. Then she launched Magnetic, raising money for companies using machine learning to transform drug discovery, clinical trials, and more. Jim and Christine get into what it really takes to spot transformative science before it's obvious, why machine learning matters more than the word AI, and why the translation from technology to product is so hard.
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    41 分
  • Barry Sanders Takes on Heart Disease with Amgen

    Barry Sanders Takes on Heart Disease with Amgen
    2026/04/15
    Barry Sanders knows what it means to perform at the highest level, but today his focus is on something far bigger than football. In this episode, the legendary NFL running back opens up about his partnership with Amgen and his mission to raise awareness around heart disease, one of the leading causes of death worldwide. His heart attack on Father’s Day in 2024 was a wake up call. Today he is working with Amgen to explain why prevention, early detection, and education are critical, especially in communities that are often overlooked. He also breaks down the realities of cardiovascular risk, the role of lifestyle and genetics, and what people can do right now to better protect their heart health. This conversation goes beyond the stats and science. It is about using influence for impact.
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    18 分
  • Reclaim Your Nature with Jamie Wheal

    Reclaim Your Nature with Jamie Wheal
    2026/04/08
    Peak performance expert Jamie Wheal explores why modern wellness culture may be overcomplicating what it means to feel whole, resilient, and alive. As the founder of Flow Genome Project and co-author of Stealing Fire and Recapture the Rapture, Wheal blends psychology, neuroscience, and ancient practices to explain how humans access peak states, meaning, and connection. He challenges the billion-dollar biohacking industry, arguing that many tools we seek externally already exist within our physiology and rituals practiced for millennia. From breath rhythms embedded in prayer to the transformative power of time in nature, Wheal explains why getting outside, stepping away from screens, and confronting mortality can reconnect us to ourselves. The conversation explores flow states, psychedelics and mental health, meaning in the age of AI, and why no algorithm can tell you what your soul actually needs. In a hyperconnected world, Wheal makes a compelling case for reclaiming direct experience, embodied practice, and the courage to live fully aware of life’s
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    37 分
  • Paul Kidwell on Grief, Caregiving & Moving Forward

    Paul Kidwell on Grief, Caregiving & Moving Forward
    2026/04/01
    Jim sits down with his friend Paul Kidwell, caregiver, advocate, and fellow widower, for a conversation about what it means to lose someone you love. In 2025, both Jim and Paul lost their wives. Jim to cancer. Paul to Parkinson's. They talk about the guilt, the grief, the impossible math of caregiving, and the moment Paul realized this had to become something bigger than just his and his late wife's story. This is a conversation about endurance. It's about the inevitable role we all take on: caregiver. It's also about what comes next, when the caregiving ends, and you're left figuring out who the new you has to become.
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    37 分
  • Feel Good with Peloton Instructor Aditi Shah

    Feel Good with Peloton Instructor Aditi Shah
    2026/03/25
    Aditi Shah is a yoga and meditation teacher, speaker, and wellness advocate, best known as one of Peloton's most beloved instructors. She was recruited in 2018 to help launch their yoga and meditation platform from the ground up. She studied math at Rutgers, moved to Mumbai, and found her calling on a yoga mat. That's a career pivot worth talking about. Jim sits down with Aditi to talk about how to stay well when your phone never stops buzzing. There's a pressure to perform wellness on social media, and it's costing us our health. Aditi is willing to address this head-on. She's brave. She's candid. She's the real deal. Tune in.
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    42 分
  • Your Cells Are Technology with Futurist Andrew Hessel

    Your Cells Are Technology with Futurist Andrew Hessel
    2026/03/24
    Andrew Hessel is a futurist, microbiologist, geneticist, entrepreneur, and synthetic biology pioneer known for co-founding the Genome Project-write and Humane Genomics, and co-authoring The Genesis Machine, a New Yorker Best Book of 2022. He believes cells are living computers, and DNA is a programming language. And his reasoning is solid! Andrew has spoken to the FBI, the United Nations, CERN, Stanford, and Jeff Bezos's exclusive MARS conference, to name a few. Jim sits down with Andrew to talk about the future of biology, the merging of AI and life science, and what it'll mean for humans when we really start writing, not just reading, DNA.Could we engineer cancer out of existence? Should we clone ourselves? Where does science end and playing God begin? Andrew will make you see that the most disruptive technology in human history is the data in your body. Your cells. You won't want to miss this one.
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    37 分
  • Brian Anderson and CHAI Are Making Sure AI Stays Honest

    Brian Anderson and CHAI Are Making Sure AI Stays Honest
    2026/03/24
    Brian Anderson, CEO of CHAI, the Coalition for Health AI, talks about who's making sure AI in medicine actually works, and works for everyone. Brian has spent his career at the crossroads of medicine, technology, and policy. He worked alongside the White House COVID Task Force before co-founding CHAI in 2021 to tackle a gap nobody else was filling: responsible, trustworthy AI in healthcare at a national scale. Today, CHAI has nearly 3,000 member organizations and is building the consensus-driven guidelines, certified assurance labs, and transparency tools that will define how AI gets used in hospitals, and clinical trials.
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    41 分
  • Our Super Bowl Week Finale with Champions, Executives & Changemakers

    Our Super Bowl Week Finale with Champions, Executives & Changemakers
    2026/03/04
    This is our third and final Super Bowl episode recorded at the Starter Activation House and Jim is chatting with compelling voices in sports, business, and biotech. TJ Ward, former NFL star and Super Bowl XLVIII winner, opens up about life after football. Carl Banks, President of G-III Sports and two-time Super Bowl champion and Shawn Costner, Sports Marketing Executive at CAA, talk about leading with integrity. Carmen Banks, Founder of Melanin Science, discusses representation in biotech and empowering the next generation of scientists. Real stories, real lessons, real talk.
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    40 分