Fortune Favors the Bold - The Official Mastercard Podcast
Season 3 of Fortune Favors the Bold takes on real questions from real people — financial questions that everyone thinks about, but no one talks about. With host Ashley C. Ford, we'll be putting those questions out in the open, exploring how money is tangled up in everything and finding the answers through our own “Financial Identity”. New episodes premiere in January 2020. This is the official Mastercard podcast, produced in partnership with Pineapple Street Studios
Episodes
May 28, 2020 • 21 mins
This week, Fortune Favors the Bold brings you a bonus episode. Ashley sat down with Trevor Mundel, President of Global Health at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Mike Froman, the Vice Chairman and President of Strategic Growth at Mastercard to answer the question on all of our minds: How can we work together in a crisis?
Trevor, Mike, and Ashley talk about how the global health and economic crisis is impacting work of all...
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March 19, 2020 • 29 mins
This episode of Fortune Favors the Bold is coming to you LIVE from On Air Fest in Brooklyn.
Ashley sat down with comedian, writer, and activist Baratunde Thurston and CEO and founder
of The Helm, Lindsey Taylor-Wood to wrap up our season and answer one final question: what
does it mean to be BOLD? Baratunde, Lindsey and Ashley walk us through their own financial
journeys: how systemic, economic barriers have shaped their financial ...
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March 5, 2020 • 30 mins
As our lives move increasingly online, it can seem like everything is password-protected. How do we choose good passwords? And how do we keep track of those passwords? Most importantly, what can we do to really keep all our data safe?
On today’s episode of Fortune Favors the Bold, Host Ashley C. Ford sits down with Eric Mennell, a podcast producer who understands why we need passwords in today’s digital age but can’t ever seem to ...
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February 27, 2020 • 25 mins
This week, Ashley heads to Albuquerque, New Mexico to continue exploring the
question, “how can I make my work work for me?” To find answers, we’re doing
something a little different: we’ll meet two people who are already talking through big
questions– about work, life, and having an impact– together. Ashley sits down with Amy
Yeung, founder of Orenda Tribe vintage boutique, and Shondina Lee, a young Navajo
creative and one of Amy’...
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February 20, 2020 • 34 mins
We’ve been hearing so much about the changing nature of work recently– whether it’s the rise of the gig economy, or millennials rising in the workforce. And we know so many people’s money questions are work questions, so we decided to do a two part series on it!
In this first episode of the series, Ashley talks to Andrew, a plumber’s apprentice and part-time arborist, about how his financial identity has shaped his zig-zagging car...
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February 6, 2020 • 32 mins
Travel is often a transformative part of our personal and professional lives. But there’s a growing conversation around the ethics of traveling. From the carbon emissions involved in flying to the impact on local communities, there are a lot of factors to consider when it comes to deciding how, where and why to travel.
This week on Fortune Favors the Bold, Ashley C. Ford explores how to travel more intentionally. She speaks with ...
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January 30, 2020 • 32 mins
The number of people living in cities grows by about 6 million each year. And with all this growth, experts are looking for ways to make cities more comfortable, affordable, and accessible for everyone. Ashley sits down with Shayna Pollock, a self-proclaimed “transit nerd” who works for Central Atlanta Progress, a nonprofit focused on improving the livability of the city. Shayna has questions about how to ensure that everyone can r...
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January 23, 2020 • 32 mins
It’s hard to know what exactly you’re paying for when you pay college tuition. Is it a
chance at a better career? Some time on a lush green campus learning from worldly
professors? The risk of six-figure debt that never seems to shrink? And if students are
paying a fraction of that price or nothing at all in other countries, how do we rationalize
the cost here in the United States? Is college in the United States and abroad still w...
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January 16, 2020 • 32 mins
Welcome to Season 3 of Mastercard’s Fortune Favors the Bold! Ashley C. Ford is back, and she’s kicking off our season by diving into the financial question that underlies everything else we’re talking about this season: how do we define ourselves financially? For a lot of people, a surefire way to really feel your own financial identity is to start making financial decisions with someone else. In this episode, we’ll be talking to a...
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December 12, 2019 • 3 mins
Season 3 of Fortune Favors the Bold, available wherever you get your podcasts in January 2020
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October 21, 2019 • 1 min
Hey, Fortune Favors the Bold listeners— Ashley C. Ford here. I’m back and so is Fortune Favors the Bold Season 3.
We’ll have new episodes of the podcast in just a few months, but I’m popping into your feed now because we need your help. This season’s theme is “Question Everything.” We’re diving into real questions from real people— the financial questions that everyone thinks about, but no one talks about. So we’re doing somethin...
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April 3, 2019 • 39 mins
Season One host Ashley C. Ford is back for this live bonus episode! She spoke with Nichole Perkins, co-host of the podcast Thirst Aid Kit, and Stefanie O’Connell, who specializes in talking to women about how to take control of their money.
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January 9, 2019 • 24 mins
There’s a misconception that small businesses are overshadowed by big businesses when it comes to driving the economy. The truth? Small businesses punch way above their weight, creating positive ripple effects far beyond their local community. In this episode, we’ll follow a storefront bakery in Washington, D.C., focused on the betterment of military veterans, their spouses, and their caretakers. We also talk to a woman in the nor...
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January 2, 2019 • 29 mins
In 2012, for the first time in history, more people made their homes in cities than rural areas. But now, services designed for a few hundred thousand residents are straining under the pressure of meeting the traffic, housing and health demands of millions, and sometimes tens of millions of people. With limited space and resources, how can city officials make more services work for more people? “Smart city” proponents say new netwo...
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December 12, 2018 • 24 mins
What it means to be employed continues to shift. The old way of thinking? It’s up to employees to learn those new skills, or else companies will find someone else who has them. In this episode, we’ll hear from employers turning that way of thinking on its head — and seeing how their businesses are benefiting.
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December 5, 2018 • 22 mins
Long-established methods for determining who gets credit are leaving a lot of people behind. In this episode, we’re talking to the people finding new ways to establish creditworthiness and getting more people access to opportunity in the process.
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November 21, 2018 • 24 mins
As technology changes at an ever-faster pace, it’s more important than ever to talk to kids about money. But that’s hard to do if you, as a parent or teacher, never learned about money yourself. We’ll hear from the rule breakers who are making sure future generations don’t have the same blind spot.
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November 14, 2018 • 25 mins
Bootstraps, good attitudes and elbow grease? Sorry, that’s not enough to be upwardly mobile these days. See how individuals and countries can fight against the inertia that makes class transition so difficult, and look at some organizations who are tipping the scales.
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November 7, 2018 • 2 mins
This season, host Mona Chalabi will help us explore the assumptions that shape the way we think about things like upward mobility, creditworthiness, financial literacy, and more. And then she’s going to talk about who’s kicking those assumptions to the curb and forging new approaches that might just benefit all of society. She’ll also look at how organizations are protecting their own interests by reskilling the 21-Century workforc...
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March 13, 2018 • 28 mins
Imagine using your phone to give a subway busker a couple bucks. Or, walking into a store knowing you won’t have to wait in line to check-out. Imagine a world beyond cash. In some Scandinavian countries, this is already a reality—roughly 90-percent of all financial transactions are on debit cards. In this episode, taped in front of a live audience in Manhattan, an economist, a humanitarian and a businessman will discuss how cash is...
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