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What Does It Profit Podcast
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Spoiler alert: Nothing. This bible verse has endured over the centuries as a reminder that we can't put our price tag on what matters most. Yet, time and again, businesses have put profits above all -- leading our world to th...
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Season 6 Trailer | Women Redefining The Workforce
This season on What Does It Profit, host Dr. Dawn Carpenter steps into the worlds where women are least expected—and often least welcomed. From fireho...
S5.E.5: Turbulent Thoughts | Flight Crew Safety
In this episode, we delve into the challenges faced by airline pilots and flight attendants, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. With a nationa...
S5.E4.: Health vs. Hustle | The Cost of Convenience at Amazon
In this episode, we delve into the harrowing experiences of Amazon warehouse worker Wendy Taylor, who suffered a serious injury while under immense pr...
S.5E.3: Coal Crisis | Silica and the Resurgence of Black Lung
This episode explores the resurgence of black lung disease among coal miners, particularly due to toxic silica dust exposure. We revisit the Season 3...
S5.E2: Locked Doors | The Legacy of Worker Safety Reforms
This episode we take listeners back to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911. This was one of the deadliest industrial tragedies in U.S. histor...
S5.E1: Safety First | The Dollar General Dilemma
In the Season 5 premiere of What Does It Profit, we explore the pressing issue of worker safety at Dollar General. Our journey begins with a bus trip...
Season 5 Trailer
To our long-time listeners... welcome back. To those who have just found us, we are the podcast that examines the social and moral value of business.<...
S4.E6: Beyond Belief |How AI is Reshaping Religion
In the final episode of the fourth season of the What Does It Profit? Podcast, Dr. Dawn explores the impacts of artificial intelligence on religion . ...
S4.E5: Express Lane | AI's Journey to Better Transportation?
On this episode of the What Does It Profit? podcast, hitch a ride along with Dr. Dawn as she explores the potential impacts of artificial intelligence...
Thanksgiving Blend: Brewing Change at Starbucks | BONUS
This Thanksgiving week on the What Does It Profit? podcast we’re taking a break from this season’s AI theme to extend some thank you-s. Listen in for...
S4.E4: POTUS IRL| Public Trust and AI Priorities
In this unexpected mini-episode, Dr. Dawn pivots from our regular programming to reflect on President Biden’s sweeping executive order on AI. The exec...
S4.E3: Hard Hats to Hard Drives | How AI is Revolutionizing Construction
In this episode, Dr. Dawn examines the newest addition to the construction industry’s toolbox: AI technology. In this episode, we learn that AI is lik...
S4.E2: Entertaining AI: Disrupting the Creative World
In this episode, Dr. Dawn heads straight into the scene of the action, Paramount Studios in Hollywood, where writers and actors are fighting an existe...
S4.E1: California Dreaming | AI in the Heart of San Francisco
Welcome to Season 4. In this kick-off episode, we travel with Dr. Dawn to the hometown of tech, San Francisco. We start the season this way because we...
S4 Trailer | AI and the World of Work and Wealth
Welcome to Season 4 of What Does It Profit. In this season, we're bringing you six stories about the hottest topic on the planet-- artificial intellig...
WDIP | Summer School: Benefit Corporations
We've reached WDIP Summer School 2023. Our final lesson might seem a bit technical, but attention to this detail can make all the difference to the su...
WDIP | Summer School: Circularity
Welcome to WDIP Summer School. It’s not summer school for those who have failed. It’s summer school for those who want to catch up, and for those who...
WDIP | Summer School: Child Labor
Welcome to WDIP Summer School. It’s not summer school for those who have failed. It’s summer school for those who want to catch up, and for those who...
WDIP | Summer School: Greenwashing & Social Washing
Welcome to WDIP Summer School. It’s not summer school for those who have failed. It’s summer school for those who want to catch up, and for those who...
WDIP | Summer School: ESOPs
Welcome to WDIP Summer School. It’s not summer school for those who have failed. It’s summer school for those who want to catch up, and for those who...
Fair Ball: A Living Wage for Minor League Baseball
In this episode, Dr. Dawn wraps up Season 3 by sliding into home plate. She takes us on a journey inside professional baseball. We hear the incredible...
Industrial Roots: Designing a Circular Economy and Creating Homespun Wealth
In this episode, Dr. Dawn takes us on a trip to find her roots in rural North Carolina. She is the granddaughter of an orphan who worked in the NC tex...
Solar Holler: Mining the Sun in West Virginia
In this episode, we are headed to West Virginia to flip the script on what we know about the energy business in the heart of coal country. We introdu...
Dangerous Business: The Human Cost of the Meat We Eat
In this episode, we head to Crete, Nebraska, America's heartland, in our quest to gain insight into the human cost of the meat we eat. We tell the ext...
Brewing Change: Labor Organizing at Starbucks
In this episode, we tell an almost surreal story. It is the origin story of “union busting” at Starbucks, one of the country’s best-known progressive...
Recovery Hardware: Retooling the Human Spirit
In our Season 3 kickoff, we celebrate the resiliency of the human spirit. We step into the psyche of Gina Schaefer, the founder and CEO of A Few Cool...
Season 3 Trailer
To the loyal WDIP tribe, welcome back! We've missed you. Thanks for your patience as we re-vamped the show. We hope you like the changes. For those wh...
SPECIAL EDITION | Whistling At the Fake: The Value of Truth in Science
In this episode, Dr. Dawn is in conversation with Dr. Elisabeth Bik and Dr. Ivan Oransky. Dr. Elisabeth Bik is a microbiologist and scientific integr...
Off-Season | Meme Stocks vs. Short-Selling for Good-- Revisited
As we head into the 4th of July holiday weekend, we dig into the WDIP back catalog to revisit a conversation from October 2020 with The Assassin, fame...
Off-Season | Finance Justice: Promoting Lives of Greater Economic Success
In this off-season episode, we dig into the WDIP back catalog to revisit a conversation with Opportunity Finance Network (OFN) CEO, Lisa Mensah where...
Off-Season | About WDIP and Dr. Dawn w/Uncertain Things
This weekend is Memorial Day weekend-- the unofficial start of summer... at last! At What Does It Profit, we are officially in the "Off-Season" and b...
Capitalism In Service to Human Rights
We’ve reached the end of our second season. This is the time when we take a pause and look back. In today’s episode, it means looking back to our pil...
The Economic Value of Dignity
We’ve reached the last regular episode of Season 2. Hold on to your passport. We’re still travelling. We start in New York and then head to India wit...
A New Soul for the Global Economy - The Economy of Francesco
Despite being in the midst of a global pandemic, we’re going to take a trip around the world. We're talking about the Economy of Francesco (EoF) with...
Time: The Most Valuable Commodity (Roberta MacDonald)
This week we stay in the co-op space a little longer and get a two-for-one. As an homage to Women’s History Month, we talk with one of the most celebr...
Shared Economic Benefits: Intro to Co-ops (Casey Fannon)
This week, we’re going to switch things up a bit. We are going to talk about the idea of inclusion, but from a slightly different perspective. We ar...
Diversity as a Superpower in Business (Logan Scott)
This week, we talk with Logan Scott, Manager for Diversity and Inclusion at The Walt Disney Company. Logan's work during Black History Month on the Ne...
The Power of Superheroes (Gareb Shamus)
This week, we take storytelling to a whole new level. We learn that each of us is a “superhero” at something. We talk to the man whose Instagram feed...
Corporate Democracy from the Inside Out (James McRitchie)
The winds of change are blowing in corporate governance. Where will they take us? Time will tell. This week we have a shareholder perspective from a m...
Business Roundtable: Re-conceptualizing the Corporation? (Jessica DiNapoli)
In 2020, JP Morgan CEO, Jamie Dimon’s tenure at the helm of the Business Roundtable expired. But what about this whole new way of doing business? In 2...