American Dream Factory (ADF)
The American Dream isn’t dead—it’s being rebuilt.The American Dream Factory is a podcast about the people and ideas reshaping what it means to build a life of purpose in the modern world.
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- Aug 12, 2026
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Can We Still Talk to Each Other? A Conservative, a Progressive, and the Future of America (opens the original)
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What happens when a Republican entrepreneur, a Democratic political strategist, and a city manager sit down—not to win an argument, but to understand each other? In one of the most thoughtful conversations we've had on American Dream Factory , Nick Smoot and Joe Toney welcome Adama Iwu , one of America's leading political strategists and one of TIME's 2017 "Silence Breakers," collectively recognized as Person of the Year for helping expose sexual harassment in politics. The conversation begins w
The Robots Took My Job... So I Invented a New Economy (opens the original)
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What happens when AI can think faster than us and robots can work longer than us? In this episode, Nick Smoot explores the future of work and argues that the real crisis won't be unemployment—it will be a loss of human purpose. After more than 16 years researching, testing, and building community-based innovation systems, Nick introduces Project-Based Incentives (PBI) : a new economic model that rewards people for solving problems instead of simply holding jobs. Instead of asking, "How do we rep
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