Find Your Calling w/ Terry Ayzman

After 2 decades of catering the Oscars & running dozens of restaurants worldwide, Wolfgang Puck is known as the gold standard of the culinary world. This Sunday, he looks back at his illustrious career, dissects his accomplishments, and implores students to enlist a few strategies for success: find a mentor & fashion every circumstance into an opportunity — sound advice for a generation facing a challenge of unprecedented proportions.

From her days as a VJ to her nights as host of her primetime FOX Business program, "Kennedy," Lisa "Kennedy" Montgomery is a broadcasting trailblazer who's always reinventing the wheel. This Sunday, she sits down with "Find Your Calling" to reflect on her ideological awakening, the jacuzzi birth of her first FOX show "The Independents," and how censorship in her early days informs the way she crafts her program today.

Sketch artists immortalize the most pivotal moments happening inside America's courtrooms, but how much do we truly know about them? This week, Mona Shafer Edwards, an illustrator whose work has been featured in the LA Times & 20/20, divulges the most fascinating stand-offs she's experienced -- from the trial of OJ Simpson to her restroom rendezvous with Dolly Parton.

UCLA Anthropologist Daniel Fessler, Director of the world's first Institute for Kindness, sheds light on the groundswell of goodness supporting us through quarantine life & weighs in on the evolutionary "ins and outs" of those protesting Stay-at-Home orders.

With Fall quarter now upon us, "Find Your Calling" heads to the boss of LA County's Education team, Superintendent Debra Duardo. She's a three-time Bruin with a twist. Starting at the university as a so-called non-traditional student, she attended classes while caring for 4 children, including one with a severe disability. Nevertheless, she persisted and rose to the highest position at LA County's Department of Education, now leading the largest regional educational agency in America. In this episode, we discuss her fascinating life; CA's student performance metrics; the delicate balancing act of letting kids back into the classroom; and the surprising mental-health benefits that come with living in the ZOOM age. If you'd like to dig deeper into the student outcomes I cited, here are some trustworthy websites: 1) CA Educational Dashboard Info about LAUSD https://www.caschooldashboard.org/reports/19647330000000/2019 2) The Nation's Report Card https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/