{"podcast":{"title":"Is This Working?!","slug":"is-this-working-7581836","podcast_index_feed_id":7581836,"rss_url":"https://rss2.flightcast.com/wbxvf8vgyotuwkiuw1711u1r.xml","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://files.flightcast.com/workspaces/tv31t1erpjv2lb9jp39i59ra/01KCWAXQJ3EJEHSVQ63PH27KW8/final_square_cover__1_.jpg","author":"Connor Diemand-Yauman","episode_count":19,"summary":"What if the most interesting thing about work isn’t what we do—but what it does to us? Is This Working?! dives into meaningful work and the messy humans who do it. As AI reshapes industries and upends old definitions of success, social entrepreneur and Stanford GSB lecturer Connor Diemand-Yauman talks with extraordinary people about both sides of the story: the outer work (what they built, how they pivoted, the tactics that actually worked) and the inner work(the therapy, the doubt, the failure) it took to get there. Because when the world is changing this fast, maybe these stories are the only way to know if any of this is actually working.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-24T12:18:39.044702+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/is-this-working-7581836"},"episode":{"title":"The Hardest Part Isn't Getting Sh*t Done. It's Knowing When to Stop — Dream.org CEO Nisha Anand","slug":"the-hardest-part-isn-t-getting-sh-t-done-it-s-knowing-when-to-stop-dream-org-ceo-nisha-anand","published_at":"2026-09-09T12:50:48+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/is-this-working-7581836/the-hardest-part-isn-t-getting-sh-t-done-it-s-knowing-when-to-stop-dream-org-ceo-nisha-anand","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/is-this-working-7581836","url":"https://episode.flightcast.com/01M209613MWPGM2GRW1C2Y97CY.mp3","audio_url":"https://episode.flightcast.com/01M209613MWPGM2GRW1C2Y97CY.mp3","summary":"Nisha Anand might be the only person alive who's thrown fake blood on the White House and worked alongside Jared Kushner, Newt Gingrich, the Koch network, and Kim Kardashian to build the coalition behind the First Step Act — the most substantial breakthrough in criminal justice in a generation, according to the New York Times. 53,000 people are home from federal prison because of that one bill. Near the end of this conversation, Connor asks her a simple question: after decades of this work, are you tired? \"Yes, I'm very tired, Connor. I'm very tired. And I never experienced burnout before in my life.\" We recorded this a few months ago. Since then, Nisha has announced she's stepping down from her nearly seven-year tenure as CEO of Dream.org. What you're hearing is a leader thinking out loud, before the decision, about what fighting to the best of her ability looks like at 50, compared to when she was 21 and chained by the neck to six other activists in the center ring of a circus. Along the way, she walks Connor through how she actually gets things done: how she names what she won't trade before anyone else at the table speaks, when working with an opponent is strategy and when it's selling out, and the question she asks her own staff when a deal starts to feel like a betrayal — who are we doing this for? If you've ever wondered whether the work is worth what it's costing you, this one is for you. Chapters 00:00:00 Fake blood, arrests, and the woman who gets sh*t done 00:01:08 Growing up rebellious 00:06:05 Punk rock and straight-edge hardcore 00:08:54 The circus arrest 00:14:11 Myanmar prison and five years of hard labor 00:23:25 The elevator with Marjorie Taylor Greene 00:26:18 Finding common ground without selling out 00:28:32 The First Step Act — 53,000 people home…","meta_description":"Nisha Anand might be the only person alive who's thrown fake blood on the White House and worked alongside Jared Kushner, Newt Gingrich, the Koch network,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4614,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/is-this-working-7581836/episodes/the-hardest-part-isn-t-getting-sh-t-done-it-s-knowing-when-to-stop-dream-org-ceo-nisha-anand/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/is-this-working-7581836/the-hardest-part-isn-t-getting-sh-t-done-it-s-knowing-when-to-stop-dream-org-ceo-nisha-anand.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}