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The Beauty of Entrepreneurship: Sylwia Wiesenberg’s Success Story

The Beauty of Entrepreneurship: Sylwia Wiesenberg’s Success Story

About this Episode: In her conversation with Alya, Sylwia Weisenberg shares the business challenges she faced as an immigrant woman and how she overcame them to create new opportunities for herself. Drawing from her own experiences, Sylwia gives invaluable advice on...

Voice of America: Journalist Ksenia Turkova’s Journey from Kyiv

Voice of America: Journalist Ksenia Turkova’s Journey from Kyiv

Welcome to Beautiful Journey, an inspirational podcast series presented by FirstGen, a Michelson Philanthropies initiative dedicated to uplifting immigrant women’s stories. By sharing these unique female immigrant stories, host Alya Michelson hopes to inspire and...

Dr. Michelson: To Be a Successful Inventor, Deconstruct the Status Quo

Dr. Michelson: To Be a Successful Inventor, Deconstruct the Status Quo

The DaVinci Hour's Episode 32 podcast with Dr. Maxwell Cooper features Dr. Gary Michelson discussing his physician-inventor career, funding early-career scientific investigators, and a new center for immunology research in California. In this DaVinci Innovators+...

Making Life a Little Less Unfair

Making Life a Little Less Unfair

Jerry Sullivan, former LA Business Journal editor who now runs his own media outlet called SullivanSays SoCal, interviews Michelson Philanthropies founder and co-chair Dr. Gary K. Michelson about the work of each of the foundations he has established under the...

Phillip Kim Discusses Michelson Impact Ventures on SullivanSays

Phillip Kim Discusses Michelson Impact Ventures on SullivanSays

  By Justin Chapman Michelson Impact Ventures is a social change fund deploying impact investment capital into early-stage, purpose-driven, for-profit startups. Jerry Sullivan, former LA Business Journal editor who now runs his own media outlet called...

Phillip Kim Discusses Michelson Impact Ventures on SullivanSays

Phillip Kim Talks Impact Investing on SullivanSays Podcast

Jerry Sullivan, former LA Business Journal editor who now runs his own media outlet called SullivanSays SoCal, interviews Michelson Impact Ventures Managing Director Phillip Kim about Michelson’s 50-company portfolio and social impact investment philosophy—doing well...

Phillip Kim Discusses Textbook Affordability on SullivanSays Podcast

Phillip Kim Discusses Textbook Affordability on SullivanSays Podcast

By Justin Chapman California Governor Gavin Newsom recently called the college textbook industry a “racket” as the cost of textbooks has become a barrier to success and completion of degrees for California’s 2.1 million community college students. For ten years,...

Brett Yates Discusses the Pet Care Business on SullivanSays Podcast

Brett Yates Discusses the Pet Care Business on SullivanSays Podcast

On the podcast, Brett Yates highlighted Michelson Found Animals Foundation's focus on animal welfare as a source of social and economic benefit.   By Justin Chapman Brett Yates Shares Insights About Pet Care Entrepreneurship with Jerry Sullivan Michelson Found...

Uplifting the Voices of Immigrant Women

Uplifting the Voices of Immigrant Women

Jerry Sullivan, former LA Business Journal editor who now runs his own media outlet called SullivanSays SoCal, interviews Michelson Philanthropies co-chair Alya Michelson about the FirstGen Initiative’s efforts to reshape the narrative of immigrant women.   AUDIO...

Phillip Kim Discusses Michelson Impact Ventures on SullivanSays

Making Textbooks More Affordable

Jerry Sullivan, former LA Business Journal editor who now runs his own media outlet called SullivanSays SoCal, interviews Michelson 20MM Foundation CEO Phillip Kim about the campaign to make textbooks more affordable for community college students.   AUDIO   ...