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Veteran personal finance writer Lauren Young of Reuters has always been my workplace big sister. We spent years together at BusinessWeek and the now-departed SmartMoney. Now on my radio show, Lauren discusses shutdowns, savings, the markets and the giant impact left by our hero, investor-champion Jack Bogle (1929-2019).

Weijian Shan went from childhood hunger in Mao's famished China to running Asia's biggest private equity fund. China's economy has exploded in size in the 30 years since the Tiananmen Square crackdown, lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty. He discusses the opportunities and perils of the country's unprecedented trajectory.

The story of an immigrant who came to the U.S. from Lebanon with a young family and powerful drive to work and provide. He learned how to cook and acquired his own little nook ... 25 years later, Westwood Fountain diner is a Richmond institution.

The Economist's deputy editor Tom Standage discusses the world in 2019 -- from wobbly markets to China to Moscow to Facebook fatigue, rogue princes, spy craft, negative interest rates, the western hemisphere's populism and second and third thoughts on Brexit. Also: plastic straws, Joe Biden and cleaner, greener "meat."

New York Times best-selling author Dan Lyons on his latest book, Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us. Dan used to write for HBO's hit show "Silicon Valley" -- and was on staff at Forbes and Newsweek.

Legendary investor Tom Dorsey on the return of volatility to a market that he says flashes some similarities to 1987. In 2015, he sold his shop Dorsey, Wright & Associates to the Nasdaq for $225 million

Panera Bread founder and chairman Ron Shaich on the many ups and downs that went into growing the hit restaurant chain. He now manages Act III Holdings, a $300 million fund that invests in brands focused on long-term results.

Too big to boycott? Too developed to disrupt? Too sticky to uninstall? Facebook is that global social network that people both love to use and love to hate. Can Zuckerberg & Co just keep getting away with bad behavior?

How high school soccer coach Ian Kelley leveraged social media and all-around resourcefulness to turn an abandoned used-car dealership into the Sugar Shack Donuts empire.

10 years of the Reformed Broker: the financial crisis awakening and reinvention of Wall Street icon "Downtown" Josh Brown.

CBS chief Congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes, NBC White House correspondent Geoff Bennett and ABC political director Rick Klein on the many moving parts of the 2018 midterm election. Recorded for an audience at Virginia's Museum of History and Culture.

Longtime Cisco CEO John Chambers and co-author Diane Brady on the lessons learned from growing a once-sleepy Internet-equipment maker into a 75,000-employee multinational. Their book is Connecting the Dots: Lessons for Leadership in a Startup World. Chambers now runs venture capital firm JC2 Ventures.

Former Richmond Fed president Jeffrey Lacker on the lessons learned -- and morals hazarded -- in the wake of the Great Meltdown of 2008.

Just as teen smoking visited record lows, Juul (a startup that's now valued at $15 billion) came out of nowhere to offer adolescents flavored, concentrated vape hits of nicotine. The FDA calls it a public-health crisis. We talked to marketing veteran Robin Koval of Truth Initiative about the tricky new battle to save teens from themselves.

Kristen Cavallo, the first female CEO of the Martin Agency, on leading the 52-year old advertising shop out of its #MeToo crisis. We discussed the work-life juggle of single motherhood; the ad industry's nagging existential doubts; and -- swoosh! -- getting brands to actually stand for (or against) something.

Family-office investment managers Brian Broadway and W. "Biff" Pusey, Jr. on the difficulty of preaching and adhering to risk-avoidance amid the longest bull market in U.S. history.

When Sree Sreenivasan was laid off from NY's Metropolitan's Museum of Art, he famously broadcast his predicament over social media. After a tour as NYC's chief digital officer, the former journalism dean now travels the world to teach best practices for career mobility in the era of LinkedIn. Whether you love or hate your job -- or are somewhere in between -- you need to listen to this episode.

Berkshire Hathaway, the company run by one of the planet's richest men, ultimately didn't rescue the Richmond Times-Dispatch -- one of Berkshire's many newspaper acquisitions. Two veteran journalists recently left that daily for the Virginia Mercury, a philanthropically backed not-for-profit publication taking a crack at the age-old riddle: How do you sustainably invest in quality local journalism?

Adnan Sarwar, a former British Muslim soldier, reflects on enlisting in the army and fighting in Iraq. "I realized," he wrote, "I felt freer in the army than I ever would in my parents'..house with an Asian cash-and-carry at one end and a mosque at the other. My comrades didn't judge me. They just wanted me to live my life."

Amazon, founded as a puny online bookseller, is now eyeing a $1 trillion market valuation. Border's is gone. Barnes & Noble is teetering. But independent bookstores are having a renaissance. We talk to Fountain Bookstore owner Kelly Justice and David Shuman, who crowdfunded a rescue of the decidedly analog indie Book People.