The Friday Podcast
A weekly podcast with well known subjects every week talking about what's behind the facts. Hosted by Iyas Lawrence.
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Pod. 339 Abigail Limuria TALKS ABOUT HAVING A THOUGHT FOR EVERYTHING BESIDES ALIENS (opens the original)
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Abigail Limuria has spent years facilitating people how to think about the country. So we opened with the question nobody asks her: who is she when nobody asks her opinion?Turns out the answer is the same person, just quieter. She doesn't stop having opinions when the mic goes off and after almost a year of protests, outrage, and demands for change, the one she keeps coming back to is that we are in a crisis of competence.We sit down with Abigail Limuria to unpack the 17+8 demands and what becam
Pod. 338 Hani Kusumowardhani TALKS ABOUT MONEY WHEN WE DON'T HAVE MONEY (opens the original)
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Everyone says 'in this economy' like there was ever a good one, this is a conversation on tweaking our financial/success mindset in these modern times. We sit down with Hani Kusumowardhani, she’s a Chief Compliance Officer at a leading financial services company, and we expected to be told to save more. That's not what happens. She grew up without much of it but she put the extra effort until she studied on a full Putera Sampoerna Foundation scholarship, earning her MBA in Sydney, and her insigh
Pod. 337 Cara Riantoputra TALKS ABOUT THE EDUCATION GAP IN INDONESIA (opens the original)
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Cara Riantoputra, CEO & Co-Founder of Teach First Indonesia, left a “great job” great pay, great culture, great trajectory because she realized none of it would matter if she disappeared tomorrow. So she built a movement instead: recruiting the country’s most competitive graduates to go teach in classrooms that don’t have any. Her argument is simple and uncomfortable: the best teachers rarely end up where they’re needed most. We centralize talent in cities and call the gap in the villages a “res
Pod. 336 Prof. Susanto Zuhdi TALKS ABOUT REWRITING INDONESIA'S HISTORY (opens the original)
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Indonesia is rewriting its own history for only the third time since independence and Prof. Susanto Zuhdi is the one holding it together. Now, at the center of a 10 volume, 123 writer rewrite of the nation's official history, he's fielding the hardest questions: what counts as fact, what gets left out, and questions about political interference conflict of interests. In this episode, he talks candidly about all of it, the process, the politics, and the parts that have already sparked national de
Pod. 335 Tiara Dianita TALKS ABOUT WHY IT'S MORE DIFFICULT TO ANSWER THAN TO ASK (opens the original)
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Today we have another podcast host as a guest, this time Tiara sits as the person who answers the question and not asking them. Tiara grew up asking the kind of questions most kids don't get real answers to. Almost a decade later, she's still asking just professionally now.In this episode we talked about what it's actually like to build a career around curiosity, the interviews that changed how she sees life, and we also got into what it takes to build a media outlet that deliberately chose dept
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