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Breaking Precedent
Welcome to Breaking Precedent, the podcast that dives deep into the stories of trailblazers, innovators, and game-changers who are redefining societal precedents. Join us as we sit down with extraordinary individuals who are pushing the boundaries of social norms, challenging precedents, and setting new ones in their fields. Whether it’s in technology, art, social justice, or beyond, Breaking Precedent is your source of inspiration for understanding how precedents are broken and new paths are…
Episodes
Breaking PrecedentBreaking the Waiting Room: Heather Fernandez on Fixing How We Find Care
Why do we accept broken systems as normal? On Breaking Precedent, Leah Solivan talks with Heather Fernandez, co-founder of Solv, about a career spent…
Breaking PrecedentBreak the Backboard: Festus Ezeli on Championships, Reinvention, and Life After the NBA
What happens when the kid who scored his first basket on his own team becomes an NBA champion, and then has to start over again? On Breaking Precedent, Leah…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking Up the Boys' Club: Stephanie Cartin on Building the Entreprenista Movement
What does it take to quit your job, skip venture capital entirely, and build two seven-figure businesses on relationships alone? On Breaking Precedent, Leah…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking the Feed: Kass and Mike Lazerow on Building, Selling, and Betting Together
How do you keep going when your biggest success comes with losing almost everything along the way? On Breaking Precedent, Kass and Mike Lazerow discuss their…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking the Capital Ceiling: Erin Harkless Moore on Who Gets Funded and Why
What happens when a $648 billion market goes uncounted, and who decided it wasn't worth measuring in the first place? This episode follows Erin Harkless Moore…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking the 9-to-5: Gary Swart on the Future of Work, Freelance Nation, and Betting on Founders
What happens when you turn down an early job at Netflix, back when it was still just an idea about mailing DVDs, and then spend the next decade proving that…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking the Dress Code: Sali Christeson on Power, Workwear, and Dressing Women for the Room
What does it take to keep building a workwear brand for a decade after a top VC tells you, in writing, that utility doesn't belong in women's clothing? This…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking the Code: Anne Wojcicki on Genetics, Reinvention, and Rewriting Consumer Health
What did Anne Wojcicki see in healthcare that made her leave Wall Street and risk challenging an entire industry to put power back in patients’ hands? Welcome…
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Breaking the Script - Season 3
Season 3 of Breaking Precedent is here. This season, Leah sits down with founders, athletes, and builders who refused to accept the world as it was handed to…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking the Bank: Aaron Holiday on 645 ventures' data-driven approach to sourcing deals and bringing the invisible to life [Replay]
This summer, Breaking Precedent is revisiting conversations that feel just as resonant now as when they were first recorded. In this episode, Leah Solivan sits…
Breaking PrecedentSummer Break: How They Broke Precedent - The Origin Stories
This special compilation of Breaking Precedent brings together origin stories from people who have each broken precedent in a different way. Across leadership…
Breaking PrecedentBroken System: Halle Tecco on What it Takes to Build Massively Better Healthcare [Replay]
What happens when healthcare innovation stops chasing disruption and starts earning trust? This summer, Breaking Precedent is revisiting conversations that…
Breaking PrecedentSummer Break: Breaking New Ground - Fighting the Monopolies
This special summer compilation episode of Breaking Precedent asks a different David and Goliath question: what does it take to change an industry when Goliath…
Breaking PrecedentThe Breakdown: Andy Dunn on Building Bonobos, Battling Bipolar and Baking Pie [Replay]
What if the parts of us we try hardest to hide are actually where our strongest leadership begins? This summer, Breaking Precedent is revisiting conversations…
Breaking PrecedentSummer Break: Breaking the Scorecard - What Comes After Success
This special summer episode of Breaking Precedent asks the question success does not answer for you: now what? Across Olympic competition, company building…
Breaking PrecedentBoardroom Break-in: Stacy Brown-Philpot on Power, Leadership, and Playing the Long Game [Replay]
What happens when leadership becomes a way of creating opportunity for other people? This summer, Breaking Precedent is revisiting conversations that feel just…
Breaking PrecedentSummer Break: Breaking the Pipeline Myth - Who Really Gets Funded in Venture Capital
This special summer episode of Breaking Precedent brings together six investors who are each rewriting the assumptions behind who gets funded. Across venture…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking the Silence: Derrick “D-Nice” Jones on Music, Movement, and the Legacy of Club Quarantine [Replay]
What happens when culture becomes a form of leadership? This summer, Breaking Precedent is revisiting conversations that feel just as resonant now as when they…
Breaking PrecedentSummer Break: Breaking Culture - The Artists Who Move Us Forward.
This special summer compilation of Breaking Precedent brings together artists and culture makers who have each broken precedent in a different way. Across…
Breaking PrecedentEmergency Break: A Doctor's Case for Rebuilding the System, Not Just Treating the Symptoms [Replay]
What if the healthcare system is not simply broken, but producing exactly what it was designed to produce? This summer, Breaking Precedent is revisiting…
Breaking PrecedentSummer Break: Broken By Design - The People Inside Healthcare's Hardest Problem
During our summer break, we're revisiting a compilation of previously released episodes about a healthcare system that is at once the most advanced in the…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking the “Best Practice” Myth: Eric Ries on The Lean Startup to Incorruptible Companies
What if the real value in a startup is not the code you write, but the learning you earn? Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible, joins Leah…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking the Pattern: Paige Hendrix Buckner on Leadership, Access, and Building What’s Missing
What if talent was never the real differentiator, but access was? Paige Hendrix Buckner, CEO of All Raise, joins Leah Solivan on Breaking Precedent for a…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking Orbit: Eiman Jahangir - Fly Me To The Moon
What does it take to chase an impossible dream for sixteen years without becoming someone who cannot let it go? Dr. Eiman Jahangir has spent his adult life…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking Orbit: Newly minted Astronaut, Dr. Eiman Jahangir, on the future of space travel [Replay]
This is a replay of one of our most extraordinary conversations, recorded just before and immediately after Dr. Eiman Jahangir’s journey to space. What does it…
Breaking PrecedentBoardroom Break-in: Stacy Brown-Philpot on Power, Leadership, and Playing the Long Game
What does it take to build institutions that scale without flattening the people inside them? Stacy Brown-Philpot has spent her career inside systems that…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking and Enterprising: Austin Allison on Rebuilding Ownership from the Ground Up
What happens when the systems that define ownership are designed to exclude most people from participating? Austin Allison, founder of Pacaso and former…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking the Script: Tony Award-winning Rachel Sussman on Turning Art into Action
What does it take to build something meaningful when the system is designed for most efforts to fail? Rachel Sussman is a Broadway producer known for bringing…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking Formation: Ryan Nece on Reinventing Success On and Off the Field
What happens when the identity that defined your life suddenly ends? Ryan Nece grew up surrounded by greatness. As the son of NFL Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking News: Soledad O’Brien on Rewriting Who Gets to Tell the Story
How do you change the narrative when the system was never designed to include you? In this episode of Breaking Precedent, Soledad O'Brien joins the show to…
Breaking PrecedentBroken System: Halle Tecco on What it Takes to Build Massively Better Healthcare
What would it take to make healthcare massively better? In this episode of Breaking Precedent, Leah Solivan sits down with Halle Tecco, founder of Rock Health…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking the Bias: Samara Hernandez of Chingona Ventures on Capital, Culture, and the Future of Funding
What happens when difference becomes a competitive advantage? In this episode of Breaking Precedent, Leah Solivan sits down with Samara Hernandez, founder of…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking the Silence: Derrick “D-Nice” Jones on Music, Movement, and the Legacy of Club Quarantine
What happens when culture becomes a form of leadership? In this episode of Breaking Precedent, Leah Solivan sits down with Derrick T. Jones, better known as…
Breaking PrecedentShattering the Grid: Lynn Jurich on Electrifying Homes and Extending Women’s Lives
In this episode of Breaking Precedent, the host Leah Solivan is joined by Lynn Jurich, co-founder and former CEO of Sunrun, to discuss her journey from growing…
Breaking PrecedentEmergency Break: A Doctor’s Case for Rebuilding the System, Not Just Treating the Symptoms
In this episode of Breaking Precedent, the host, Leah Solivan interviews Dr. Thomas Fisher, an emergency medicine physician and political candidate. They…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking Gravity: Olympic Gymnast, Nastia Liukin, on Defying Limits, Labels & Expectations
In the second episode of the brand-new season of Breaking Precedent, Leah Solivan sits down once again with Olympic legend Nastia Liukin — and the conversation…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking Bread: How Christina Tosi Made Dessert a Movement
Kicking off a brand-new season and launching our first-ever video episode, Breaking Precedent returns with a powerful conversation between host Leah Solivan…
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Breaking Precedent – Season 2 Trailer | The Battles That Shape Us
Season 2 of Breaking Precedent premieres November 13. This season, Leah Solivan returns with deeper conversations that cut to the core of resilience…
Breaking PrecedentSummer Break: The Break Before the Leap - Finding Strength in Stillness
During our summer break, we revisit an episode about resilience, pivots, and transformation. Hear Pete Flint on startup survival, Aaron Holiday on breaking…
Breaking PrecedentSummer Break: Beyond Barriers - Voices of Resilience and Transformation
During our summer break, we’re revisiting a powerful episode about inherited resilience and the courage to transform beyond expectations. Host Leah Solivan…
Breaking PrecedentSummer Break: Nuestra Voz - Breaking Barriers, Building Legacy
During our summer break, we're revisiting a moving episode that celebrates Latino and Spanish-speaking leaders who are redefining identity, power, and…
Breaking PrecedentSummer Break: Art That Breaks the Frame
During our summer break, we’re revisiting powerful conversations about breaking precedent. In this episode, we spotlight the work of three groundbreaking…
Breaking PrecedentSummer Break: First to Step Forward - Voices of Change
During our summer break, we’re revisiting powerful conversations about breaking precedent. In this episode, host Leah Solivan explores the courage, vision, and…
Breaking PrecedentSummer Break: Sunrises, Tides & Rainbows - How Precedents Really Break
During our summer break, we’re revisiting powerful conversations from Season One of Breaking Precedent. In this episode, host Leah Sullivan explores the many…
Breaking PrecedentSummer Break: Backing Disruption, Resisting Reform - Inside Venture Capital’s Paradox
During our summer break, we’re revisiting powerful conversations from Season One of Breaking Precedent. In this episode, host Leah Solivan explores the paradox…
Breaking PrecedentSummer Break: The Precedent Spectrum, From Law to Art and Everything in Between
The Precedent Spectrum: From Law to Art During our summer break, we’re revisiting powerful conversations from Season One of Breaking Precedent, in this episode…
Breaking PrecedentBreak A Sweat: Building Magic On and Off the Bike with Julie Rice of SoulCycle
In this episode of Breaking Precedent, host Leah Solivan sits down with Julie Rice, co-founder of SoulCycle and Peoplehood, to discuss how she helped redefine…
Breaking PrecedentWhen the Bough Breaks: Sarah Hoover with Her Literary Debut, The Motherload, and the Rage, Beauty, and Rebuilding After Birth
In this episode of Breaking Precedent, host Leah Solivan dives deep into the life-altering journey of Sarah Hoover, author of 'The Motherload.' Sarah discusses…
Breaking PrecedentPrison Break: The Last Mile's Chris and Beverly Share a Blueprint for Change, Born at San Quentin, Scaling Nationwide
In this episode of Breaking Precedent, host Leah Solivan sits down with Chris Redlitz and Beverly Parenti, co-founders of The Last Mile, a groundbreaking…
Breaking PrecedentTake a Break: Matteo Franceschetti on Breaking Sleep Cycles and Turning Rest into a Competitive Advantage with Eight Sleep
In this episode of Breaking Precedent, host Leah Solivan sits down with Matteo Franceschetti, the visionary founder and CEO of Eight Sleep, to explore how…
Breaking PrecedentHouse Broken: Pete Flint on Disrupting Real Estate and Building Trulia
In this episode of Breaking Precedent, host Leah Solivan dives deep with Founder of Trulia, Pete Flint. Pete opens up about his early days studying physics at…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking the Food Chain: Pat Brown's Mission to Transform the Meat Industry with Impossible Foods
In this episode of Breaking Precedent, host Leah Solivan dives deep with Dr. Patrick Brown, the founder of Impossible Foods, who left a celebrated career in…
Breaking PrecedentParty Crashers: How Selina Tobaccowala created Evite, scaled SurveyMonkey, and is transforming where you live with HomeBoost
In this episode of Breaking Precedent, host Leah Solivan is joined by Selina Tobaccowala, a pioneering tech entrepreneur whose journey began with co-founding…
Breaking PrecedentRompiendo Precedente: Bismarck Lepe on Breaking Barriers from the Fields to Google to Founding Mi Salud Health
In this episode of Breaking Precedent, host Leah Solivan is joined by Bismarck Lepe, a serial entrepreneur who has shattered conventions at every stage of his…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking the Spell: Jes Wolfe of Rebel Girls on Climbing Higher, One Step at a Time
In this episode of Breaking Precedent, host Leah Solivan sits down with Jes Wolfe, CEO of Rebel Girls, adventurer, and precedent-breaker. Jes shares her…
Breaking PrecedentA Water Break: The Undaunted Journey of Kara Goldin and Hint
In this episode of Breaking Precedent, host Leah Solivan talks with Kara Goldin, founder and CEO of Hint Water, to talk about her journey from AOL exec to…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking Pointe: San Francisco Ballet’s Tamara Rojo with Her Bold Vision for a Vibrant Future
In this episode of Breaking Precedent, host Leah Solivan talks with Tamara Rojo, a trailblazing ballerina, choreographer, and artistic director of the San…
Breaking PrecedentThe Breakdown: Andy Dunn on Building Bonobos, Battling Bipolar, and Baking Pie
In this episode of Breaking Precedent, host Leah Solivan talks with Andy Dunn, founder of Bonobos, author, and advocate for mental health. They discuss Andy's…
Breaking PrecedentBroken Records: Windy Chien on changing paths, tying stories into knots, and designing a new language of possibilities
In this episode of Breaking Precedent, host Leah Solivan talks to Windy Chien, a former tech professional turned celebrated artist renowned for her intricate…
Breaking PrecedentBreaking Bad: Kevin Caldwell and Ossium Health is banking on bone marrow for curing cancers and transforming regenerative care
In this episode of Breaking Precedent, host Leah Solivan sits down with Kevin Caldwell, founder and CEO of Ossium Health. From blending astrophysics…