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The Disruption Lab — 65 episodes

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The Quiet Revolution: Why Animal Health Is America's Overlooked Superpower

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The Growth That Counts

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They Were Wrong by 50% Every Time — Inside the Invisible Crisis Running America's Food Supply Chain

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From the Capitol to the Startup: Why a State Senator Quit Politics to Fund Founders

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The Mayor Who Refuses to Play Small: Rebuilding Trust in an Underestimated City

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Inside the Food Access Model Cities Are Getting Wrong: Corner Stores, Redlining, and Feeding a City

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Stop Calling It Charity. Affordable Housing Is Infrastructure.

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The Money Isn’t the Problem

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From Grammy Stages to Kansas City Creative Economy

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The Bottleneck Is Never What You Think It Is

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95% of It Goes Through China — And We Can't Do Anything About It

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The #1 Bottleneck in Drug Development Isn’t Science

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The Overlooked Mental Health Barrier No One Talks About: Pets, Trauma & A 100% Return-Home Solutionn

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Building in Public: How Radical Transparency Is Changing Real Estate, Cities, and Power

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What Happens to Work When AI Knows Almost Everything? (And What That Means for You)

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Building Autonomy and AI for National Security in Kansas City

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If Your Team Isn’t Listening, It’s Not Them—It’s This One Leadership Mistake

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The Truth About Gentrification: Can Development Help Without Displacement?

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From Grants to Growth: How KC GIFT Is Rewriting the Rules of Economic Development

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AI Isn’t Killing Us—We Are: How to Use Robots Without Losing Your Mind (or Your Community)

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The Power of People: How Benny Lee Built Global Companies—and a Legacy of Giving

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Smart Cities 101: How Tech, Safety & Equity Are Redefining Urban Life

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Inside the Nation’s First Wellness Court - From Punishment to Possibility

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The Viral Razor from Shark Tank: How Go Nuts Is Changing Men’s Grooming Forever

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Turning 381 Million Tons of Plastic Waste Into Fashion: The Salubata Story

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The Future of Voting: Can Civic Tech and AI Save Democracy?

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From Wall Street Dreams to Regenerating Cities: How Capital Can Heal Communities and the Planet

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The Startup Taking On the Autism Resource Crisis (And Winning)

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How a Streetcar, a Park, and a Crazy Idea Changed a Whole City

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The Startup Fix No One Talks About: Why Community Beats Capital

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Why These Founders Are Betting on Startups to Fix Their Countries (Inside the global shift toward entrepreneurship)

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Why the $1.8T Construction Industry Is Finally Ready for Disruption (and How AI Will Lead It)

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You’re Not Failing—You’re Just the First One to Try: What Founders Get Wrong About Doubt

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Why 76% of OTs Want to Be Entrepreneurs (And What’s Broken in Clinical Care That’s Pushing Them There)

35

She Turned Her Wedding Returns Into a High Growth Venture (And It’s Genius)

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Why Building Something That Last Feels So Messy (And What That Actually Means)

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Why Innovation in Government Feels Impossible — And What Actually Works

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How One Scientist Is Turning a $20B Pollution Problem Into a Climate Solution

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The Biggest Lie in Entrepreneurship—and The Brutal Truth About Starting a Business

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How a Small Bank is Quietly Disrupting Big Finance

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Businesses that heal: How Social Ventures Can Rebuild Divided Communities

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Solving Healthcare’s Billion-Dollar Problem: Meet the Founder Changing Medical Injections Forever

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$11 Million Mistake to Startup Success: How DevStride's Founder is Fixing Project Management

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Can Journalism Survive? Inside the Fight to Rebuild Trust & Save Local News

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This AI Skeptic Built One of America's Fastest-Growing Tech Communities: How to Use AI Without Losing Your Humanity

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"Why Traditional Crime Prevention Is Failing — And What Actually Works, According to People Who’ve Lived It"

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He Rode With Truckers to Fix a Broken $18B Industry—Here’s What He Learned

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Are We Failing the Future? What Students Really Need to Succeed Today

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He Built a $100M Business from ‘Lost’ Packages—Here’s How

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Why Building in Public is the Ultimate Growth Hack (Even If It’s Uncomfortable)

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Can Cities Build for Both Creatives and Communities? A look at Arts & Housing

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The Truth About Inclusive Innovation: Why Most Innovation Ecosystems Fail & How to Fix It

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The Future is on Us: AI, Jobs & The Choice to Build a Better World

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Why Most Buildings Are Built to Fail – The Code to Sustainable Housing

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From Paralyzed to POWERHOUSE: The Hidden Crisis No One Talks About

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Why You Don’t Really Own Your Medical Records (And How The Healthcare System Failed This Founder's Son)

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Can This Nonprofit Solve Tech’s Biggest Problem?

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The Untold Story of Google Voice: How Curiosity Fuels Disruptive Innovation

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How Filmmaking Can Reduce Gun Violence and Unite Communities

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Why Most Startups Fail—and How Cypher Beat the Odds to Scale Fast

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From Smart Roads to Smarter Startups: A Blueprint for Entrepreneurial Resilience

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Why This Founder Thinks Kansas City Needs to Step Up Its Game

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This Entrepreneur Took on the DMV… and Won: Lessons from a GovTech Founder

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How Music Education Transforms Communities, Brain Development, & The Economy

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Why Entrepreneurship is a Public Issue – The Economic Benefits Explained