Why Am I Telling You This? with Bill Clinton
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Prime Minister Tony Blair: How to Define Our Interdependence
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Leadership matters. And while it’s easy to take a cynical view of government and politics in today’s world, it’s important to rememb...
President Bill Clinton: Reinstate the Assault Weapons Ban Now
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Last week was another week marked by multiple mass shootings in America, including attacks in Houston, Southern California, and a particularly heinous...
Dr. Jill Biden and Hillary Clinton: How Community Colleges Can Build A Modern Workforce
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Graduation season is here, and soon a new generation of leaders will take their energy, their ideas, and their desire to take action out into the worl...
How Parents Can Inspire Us: Stories of Moms and Dads
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A parent or caregiver’s unconditional love is one of the greatest gifts any of us can receive. With Mother’s Day around the corner a...
Melba Wilson: How Food Feeds Our Soul
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a reason a certain type of home-cooked cuisine is referred to as “soul food”—because it nurtures the spirit as well as...
Dolores Huerta: How to Lead a Movement
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout American history, progress has never come easily, as we’ve been reminded repeatedly over the last few years. It requires hard work, p...
Roman Mars: How Great Design Can Be 99% Invisible
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In an age that seems dominated by conflict, it’s important that we step back and remind ourselves of our amazing capacity to work together. ...
Secretary Donna E. Shalala, Dr. Harold Varmus, Dr. Francis Collins, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci & More: How to Invest in a Healthier Future
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In existence for over a century, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is arguably one of the most important agencies of the federal government. Its...
Matt Damon & Gary White: How to Measure the Worth of Water
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
More than 770 million people around the world are living without access to clean water—including in communities throughout the United States.&nb...
David Ortiz: How to Swing for the Fences
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A new baseball season is finally getting underway—bringing with it our enduring optimism. Baseball has helped see us through wars, depressions, ...
Bernard-Henri Lévy: How to Find the Will to See
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last three weeks, people around the world have watched in horror as the Russian invasion of Ukraine has claimed hundreds of innocent lives an...
Remembering Dr. Paul Farmer: How to Fight for Health Equity
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Paul Farmer, who passed away unexpectedly in Rwanda on February 21st, fundamentally changed the way healthcare is delivered in the most impoverish...
Michael Murphy: How Architecture Can Save Lives
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, so many of us found ourselves looking at the places we visit in our daily lives, weighing factors like ventilation a...
Apolo Ohno & Lisa Leslie: How to Be An Olympian
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At their best, the Olympics symbolize our world’s potential for cooperation, honoring the common humanity that unites us across old divisions of gen...
Jason Isbell: How to Find Something to Love
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Clinton has often said he wouldn’t have become President if he hadn’t been born in Arkansas into a family whose main form of entertainment wa...
Introducing: Season 2 of Why Am I Telling You This? with Bill Clinton
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
President Bill Clinton returns for a new season of his critically-acclaimed podcast, “Why Am I Telling You This?.” Listen each week for new and ti...
Introducing: You and Me Both with Hillary Clinton
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hillary is back, and fired up for more illuminating conversations on You and Me Both. This season, along with her guests, she’ll tackle big stuff, w...
Jimmy Smits: How To Hit New Heights
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The explosion in media platforms - from streaming services to podcasts - means more programming is being produced and consumed than ever before. But d...
José Andrés: How to Feed the World in Times of Crisis
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, the world has been hit by crises with immense human tolls—from larger and more frequent natural disasters and the devastating conse...
James Carville and Paul Begala: How to Keep Putting People First
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Successful political candidates—and more importantly, successful leaders—need to have a vision and a message that lets everyone see themselves as ...
Dr. Vivek Murthy: How We Can Overcome the Opioid Crisis
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we revisit an important episode of “Why Am I Telling You This?” on the escalating opioid crisis, which has been exacerbated by the COVI...
Roy Spence: How to Find A Common Purpose
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
America has always been at its best when we pull together in common cause. But rampant misinformation campaigns, media silos, and polarization have un...
Shonda Rhimes: How We See Each Other Through Characters We Love
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Television has always had the capacity to serve a greater purpose than just providing entertainment. It can introduce us to stories and characters we ...
Stacey Abrams: How to be a Changemaker
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On March 25, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed a 98-page bill creating several new voting restrictions in the state—one of the now 361 bills in 47 ...
Dr. Bernice A. King: How To Achieve Social Justice Through Non-Violence
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial and shared his dream that one day his “four little children w...
Dawn Staley: How To Have the Courage to Compete
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A year ago, under the leadership of head coach Dawn Staley, the University of South Carolina Gamecocks women’s basketball team entered the NCAA tour...
Rep. Grace Meng: How to Stop the Hate
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a dramatic rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders across the co...
The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg: How to Fight for Equality
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On September 18, 2020, America lost one of the greatest advocates for equality in the history of our country, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsbur...
Steven Garza: How to Represent
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1963, Bill Clinton had one of the most formative experiences of his life when he participated in the American Legion’s Boys State a...
Magic Johnson: How to Design the Next Act of Your Life
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Whether taking a leap of faith to pursue a new path or overcoming an unforeseen obstacle, we all reach crossroads in our lives where we have to figure...
How History Will View the 2020 Election
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Presidential elections have taken place in America every four years since 1788, but the 2020 election was unlike anything we had experienced before. A...
The Presidency and the People: How to Form a More Perfect Union
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In commemoration of Presidents Day, President Bill Clinton traces the evolution of the presidency from America’s founding through modern history and...
Dr. Sanjay Gupta: How Facts Can Fight A Pandemic
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From the time the first U.S. cases of the coronavirus began to be reported a year ago, America found itself in a battle against two interconnected dis...
Wynton Marsalis: How Jazz Explains Democracy
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After a year in which we were all forced to improvise, and some of the most fundamental ideas and foundations of our society have been challenged, the...
Introducing: Why Am I Telling You This?
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
President Bill Clinton is a master at using storytelling to explain complex issues and highlight our common humanity. To hear him tell it, this comes ...