Nick Arons founded Islands First partially to protect his friends in the tiny island nation of Palau, but IF’s mission is much bigger than that. Listen to what Nick has to say about effecting global change in the courtroom, and what it’s like to start up your own nonprofit:
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Islands First Attacks Climate Change Where It Strikes First
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010Joel Hollander Created Sports Radio. What Will You Do?
Monday, April 12th, 2010Lifelong radio industry bigwig Joel Hollander agreed to sit down in front of TILE’s camera and talk with us about the future of radio – plus the hows and whys of working your way to the top.
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Ron Mitchell On Figuring Out Your Career
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Ron Mitchell is CEO and Co-Founder of CareerCore, a company that supports career development for individuals and organizations by hooking them up with helpful technology and advising services. After earning his MBA at Harvard and spending years in the financial industry, he began to focus on the need to prepare people (especially young people) for making the right career choices. Part of this is his website GottaMentor, where mentors and coaches provide real-world advice on a variety of career issues. Here’s some advice from Ron about preparing for your own career:
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Caio Fonseca On Painting, Collecting, And Going Your Own Way
Monday, March 29th, 2010Caio Fonseca is a painter and a New Yorker. For years he’s been traveling the world, learning and perfecting his art – you can see the results in the Metropolitan Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, MoMA, The Whitney, and the Smithsonian (to name a few). Caio was kind enough to make a TILEcast with us one afternoon. We think you’ll like it:
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Bryce Cullinane Is Supporting YOU For President!
Friday, October 23rd, 2009At 23 years old, Bryce Cullinane started PoliticsUnder30.org to help young people get involved in the politics. But it’s not about getting you to vote for someone or even just to vote – it’s about making you the candidate. Bryce took a few minutes with us to tell us what he’s up to and how you can become our next President.
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Heather Box Says There Are A Lot Of Ways To Give
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009Heather Box is the Deputy Director of The League of Young Voters. She says that she has always been involved with politics – she just didn’t know it was politics at the time. Here Heather tells us how she became a philanthropist with both money and time.
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Kenneth Polcari Describes What’s Changed On Wall Street
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009Kenneth Polcari is the Managing Director at ICAP and has a knack for storytelling. He agreed to take take some time with TILE to answer a few of our burning questions.
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Lerival’s James & Dominique Discuss Furniture By Architects
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Lerival.com co-founders, James Coombes (27) and Dominique Gonfard (28) are two people from very different backgrounds: finance and architecture. Their shared passion for contemporary architecture led them to imagine a company that would expose today’s leading architectural talent to a wider audience. Their philosophy: If you can’t live IN a great piece of architecture, you should live WITH a great piece of architecture.
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