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Ric Speaks with the Iconic and Groundbreaking Supermodel Emme Emme is Featured in Straight/Curve, the EPIX Original Documentary Focusing on Society’s Unrealistic Beauty Standards and Their Damaging Effects on Women Premieres Wednesday June 21st at 8pm ET/7CT only on Epix

Ninety percent of young women and girls say they don’t feel represented in the fashion industry or media, and the imagery they consume each day makes them feel “disgusting” and “less than.” The new documentary Straight/Curve (June 21 on EPIX) examines the industries responsible for this body image crisis and showcases the dynamic leaders fighting […]

Outsmart Your Instincts: How the Behavioral Innovation Approach Drives Your Company Forward co-author Adam Hansen

Evolution is killing innovation! ”Just trust your gut” is great advice when your instincts tell you to run from a lion in the jungle. But when it comes to thinking innovatively about your business, those same instincts can be your own worst enemy. Cognitive biases—the instinctual mental shortcuts we all have in our brains that […]

The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty: The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of Actor M. B. Curtis by Richard Schwartz

As the Statue of Liberty stood unlit and unloved by American politicians in 1886, one of her saviors was creating a theatrical sensation at New York’s Fourteenth Street Theatre. Actor M.B. Curtis, who had achieved overnight success in Sam’l of Posen, a groundbreaking play that transcended the common stereotypes of Jewish characters current at the […]

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