
What's Working in Washington
Hosted by Jonathan Aberman · Federal News Network | Hubbard Radio
4.2from 12 ratings
- 527
- Episodes
- 30
- Transcribed
- 12
- Ratings
- 2017
- First episode
- 771K
- YouTube views
About What's Working in Washington
A weekly podcast examining the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and policy in the Washington D.C. region. They are stories explaining why local innovation often influences the federal government and are told by a wide variety of voices across demographics and industries.
- Publisher
- Federal News Network | Hubbard Radio
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 Jan 2017
- Latest episode
- 18 Sept 2025
Latest episodes
30 of 527 episodes have a transcript.

18 Sept 2025TRANSCRIPT
What's Working in Washington - Ep 530 - Final Episode - Richard Powers, Ed Finn, Corey Doctorow, Christopher DiCarlo, Jennifer Ives

7 Aug 2025TRANSCRIPT
What's Working in Washington - Ep 529 - Why Collaboration is Key - Ed Finn, Victor Hoskins, and James Barlia

3 Jul 2025TRANSCRIPT
What's Working in Washington - Ep 528 - The Human Side of Progress - James Kaufman, Chloe Autio, and Cristobal Vasquez
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What's Working in Washington - Ep 530 - Final Episode - Richard Powers, Ed Finn, Corey Doctorow, Christopher DiCarlo, Jennifer Ives
Published 18 Sept 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] There is a character in the overstory who at one point ruminates that all the best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that will do that is a good story. And I think this is a, this is phenomenon is pretty well known to psychologists that although we are rational creatures and we do have the capacity to reason and to follow argument and to be systematic in our thinking, that does not in any way summarize the way that we actually move through the world or even the most salient or the strongest contributor to the things that we end up doing with our lives, that we are also deeply intuitive creatures, we are deeply emotional creatures, and that affect and the pains and pleasures of the body are constantly motivating us in ways much more primary and primal than this kind of late -comer called reasoning. […]
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- Richard Powers
- Ed Finn
- Corey Doctorow
- Christopher DiCarlo
- Jennifer Ives
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- YouTube views
- 770,866
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.2 / 5
- 12 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 81 / 100
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- Quality
- 94
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 84
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