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by Landaverde

My Fave Podcasts

I am super late to the podcast craze, but I am now on-board and hooked! I love listening to podcast during walks, long drives, and especially during my flights home to Georgia.  I firmly believe that to be innovative we must first expose ourselves to new people and ideas. Podcasts are a great way to learn from people you would not usually meet and learn about complex subjects from experts.

Here is how to listen and a list of my favorite shows.

How to listen

Your iPhone has a pre-installed podcast app that allows you to listen and download podcasts which is super convenient for airplane mode. You can also listen to podcast using spotify, Pandora, and soundCloud.

Here are my favorite podcasts

To meet fascinating people: The Ezra Klein Show

Ezra Klein gives you a chance to get inside the heads of the newsmakers and power players in politics and media. These are extended conversations with policymakers, writers, technologists, and business leaders about what they believe in and why.

http://www.vox.com/2016/8/8/12345238/trevor-noah-ezra-klein

To hear cool stories: This American Life

Most of the stories are journalism, with an occasional comedy routine or essay.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/591/get-your-moneys-worth

To learn about yours 20s: Millennial

Documents what people never teach you – how to maneuver your 20s. Host and producer Megan Tan will document what it’s like to be a present-day millennial in real time.

http://www.millennialpodcast.org/season-ii-blog/29-you-cant-go-home-again

To learn about how the world works: Planet Money

highlights high rollers, brainy economists and financial experts http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/10/26/499490275/episode-387-the-no-brainer-economic-platform

To relax: Pop Culture Happy Hour

A roundup of their favorite movies, songs, TV shows, and writing of the year.

http://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2016/12/02/504018769/pop-culture-happy-hour-gilmore-girls-and-moana

To keep in touch with my community: Latino USA

Explores and gives a critical voice to the diversity of the American experience.

http://latinousa.org/episode/tech-industrys-leaky-pipeline/

Para escuchar en Español: Radio Ambulante

Latin American stories from anywhere Spanish is spoken, including the United States

** This was a great find! I am not exposed to Spanish in my day to day life in New Hapshite. Most of the media I listen to is in English. Radio Ambulante host stories straight from Latin America.

If you check out these podcasts, let me know what you think. If you have suggestions, please share!

P.S. I have added “Podcast Host” to my career bucket list next to “TED Talk Speaker” #whatAGirlWants

 

by Landaverde

I love EGGS!

I could survive off of tomatoes, beans and egg.

Eggs in particular hold a special place in my heart…. and my Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat posts. Eggs have been part of my diet since childhood. As I have grown up and learned about the world, my egg recipes have also matured.  

Which brings me to poached eggs. Aka the most intimidating of all egg possibilities. Let me show you how easy it is to poach an egg! (full video at the end)

  1. Fill a pot with water, about ¾ of the way.  

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  2. Bring the water to a gentle boil (this means you can see bubbles coming from the bottom of the pot at a medium rate).
  3. Now to the egg, crack an egg into a small bowl or cup. I prefer a coffee mug because the handle comes in very handy (see what I did there)? img_0175
  4. Back to the water. Use a spoon to stir the water until you create a vortex. Get a good speed going so the vortex will move on its own, BUT not so fast that the water will spill.
  5. Once the vortex is going, pull the spoon out and GENTLY drop the egg into the middle of the vortex.
  6. Since the water is still going in circle, it will prevent the egg from spreading and instead it will wrap around itself.
  7. Let the egg cook for a couple of minutes until the whites cook and you can no longer see yellow. So about 2 to 3 minutes.
  8. Once it’s done. Use a large spoon to take the egg out and place it on a paper towel so the excess water will be absorbed. Remove the paper towel… Add salt, pepper and hot sauce.. slowly break into the egg and watch the yoke slowly run off. It’s truly a magical sight. 

And that’s it! You my friend, are now an official egg poacher! Poached eggs are a great way to impress a boy or girl, parents, friends and any food lover! So use your new power wisely!

A note to non-egg lovers: you live a sad sad life.  

If you tried this, send me pictures! 

Here is a video of my friend poaching her first egg following my extremely precise directions.