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Thrive Dispatches Season 2 Episode 5: Love As An Operational Strategy (with Shawn Hardnett)
Today, Dr. Matt Biel’s conversation with Shawn Hardness, Founder and CEO of Statesmen College Preparatory Academy for Boys in Washington, DC. Shawn built a school that…
November 12, 2025
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Thrive Dispatches Season 2 Episode 4: Building a State System for Early Childhood (with Secretary Elizabeth Groginsky)
In this episode, Dr. Matt Biel speaks with Secretary Elizabeth Groginsky, who leads New Mexico’s Early Childhood Education and Care Department, the first cabinet-level…
October 29, 2025
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Thrive Dispatches S2E3: Creating Communities of Mental Health (with Dr. Susan Swick)
In this episode, Dr. Matt Biel speaks with Dr. Susan Swick, Executive Director of the Ohana Center for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health on California’s Monterey…
October 16, 2025
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Thrive Dispatches Season 2 Episode 2: The Emotional Work of Caregiving (with Dr. Maya Coleman)
In this episode, Dr. Matt Biel speaks with Dr. Maya Coleman, Director of Hand in Hand Parenting and faculty member at the Thrive Center. Hand in Hand is an international…
October 1, 2025
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Thrive Dispatches Season 2 Episode 1: Gaming to Build Better Decision-Making (with Dr. Lynn Fiellin)
In the first episode of season 2 we’re talking about video games. More specifically we’re speaking with Dr. Lynn Fiellin Play2Prevent Lab about how their video games are used…
September 18, 2025
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Thrive Dispatches Episode 12: A Season Of Thriving
Thriving isn’t a solo act. In this closing conversation, host Matt Biel looks back on 11 episodes that help shape how Thrive Center pursues its mission. Anchored in Dr. Jack…
July 8, 2025
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Thrive Dispatches Episode 11: Centering Families in Mental Health Through Impact Investment (with Louise Langheier)
There’s no impact without funding. This week, Thrive Dispatches Podcast explores the family-centered approaches to mental health through the lens of impact investing. Our guest…
June 24, 2025
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Thrive Dispatches Episode 10: Building Community Through Culture with Jennifer Drake-Croft, Kimberly Kee, and Charnielle Desiderio
This week’s Thrive Dispatches Podcast is a two-part episode about the impact of authentic partnerships rooted in cultural wisdom and community values. In part one, Dr. Matt…
June 11, 2025
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Thrive Dispatches Episode 9: The Science of Thriving – What Children and Communities Need with Dr. Jack Shonkoff
Expanding the Early Childhood Ecosystem to Achieve Greater Impacts This week on the Thrive Dispatches Podcast features a wide ranging conversation between two of the most…
May 28, 2025
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Episode 8: Innovation Hub – The Innovation Hub – Where Ideas Become Solutions (with Jason Lehmbeck and Kinsley Cuen)
As they prepare for their first Solutions Fair on May 22nd, 2025, Dr. Matt Biel speaks with Jason Lehmbeck and Kinsley Cuen from the Thrive Center’s Innovation Hub,…
May 14, 2025