Episodios

  • Rejecting Willie O'Ree, Pt. 2

    Rejecting Willie O'Ree, Pt. 2
    Dec 15 2025
    In Part Two of our Rejecting Willie O'Ree episode, another unexpected invitation lands on the pioneer's doorstep. History is made – then forgotten – and Willie welcomes a third act he never saw coming.

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    33 m
  • Rejecting Willie O'Ree (The First Black Player in the NHL)

    Rejecting Willie O'Ree (The First Black Player in the NHL)
    Dec 4 2025

    Willie O’Ree made history in 1958, when the Boston Bruin became the first Black player in the NHL. It is a heroic story of strength, courage and resilience. Hope you’ll join us.


    The major source for this episode is Willie: The Game-Changing Story of the NHL's First Black Player by Willie O’Ree and Michael McKinley.

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    29 m
  • Minisode: Be Afraid and Do It Anyway – SNL-Style

    Minisode: Be Afraid and Do It Anyway – SNL-Style
    Nov 26 2025
    Welcome to another Minisode. This week, we travel to 30 Rock and take a look at courage through the eyes of hopeful [comma] sweaty young comedians.

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    13 m
  • Rejecting Vera Wang

    Rejecting Vera Wang
    Nov 12 2025
    Vera Wang is synonymous with bridal. The designer's eponymous brand brings in a whopping $700M a year. But before launching her own company in 1990, Vera was rejected for editor-in-chief at Vogue. And before that, she didn’t make the cut for the U.S. Olympic figure skating team. Two major setbacks that left her thinking – now what? Then her dad proposed a crazy idea.

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    32 m
  • How Yoko Survived Rejection: The Beatlology Interviews

    How Yoko Survived Rejection: The Beatlology Interviews
    Nov 6 2025

    On “The Beatlology Interviews,” Biographer David Sheff talks to Terry about the rejection and resilience of Yoko Ono.


    Listen to more Beatlology Interviews in the Under the Influence feed.

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    52 m
  • Minisode: Bat Girl

    Minisode: Bat Girl
    Oct 22 2025
    Welcome to another “Minisode” – where we zoom in on individual moments or facets of rejection we’ve come across in our research. This week, let us introduce you to Yankees superfan Gwen Goldman, as we reopen a rejection letter dated June 23, 1961.

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    10 m
  • Rejecting Slow Horses

    Rejecting Slow Horses
    Oct 9 2025

    The novel Slow Horses by Mick Herron tells the story of a team of disgraced MI5 agents assigned to a bureaucratic dumping ground known as Slough House. They’re, by all accounts, failures – demoted from top tier intelligence to basement busy work. That is, until a kidnapping case lands squarely on their dusty desks – thrusting the slow horses into fast paced espionage.


    The irony? That book was rejected. For seven years. Then it was pitched as a television series – and rejected by multiple networks.


    To quote Slough House loser-in-chief Jackson Lamb: “They’re losers. But they’re my losers.”


    Hope you’ll join us.

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    30 m
  • Rejecting Dawn Staley, Part 2

    Rejecting Dawn Staley, Part 2
    Oct 1 2025
    In Part Two of our Rejecting Dawn Staley episode, Staley is informed of her shortcomings, it’s play abroad or die trying – and a dusty VCR tape changes her life.

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    35 m