This week's show takes a look at the wide range of performance art in Boston, from street performers, painters, drag queens, to story tellers and beyond. 

Performance Art: Exclusive Interview with Artist Liz Lamanche

Although every company is becoming a fintech now, Wix didn’t set out to do so – the firm’s entry into financial services started from observing what millions of small business owners actually needed when building their online presence. 

For Amit Sagiv and Volodymyr Tsukur, co-heads of payments at Wix, the path to serving these SMB customers well was paved through financial products: Wix had to take the payment infrastructure it had built for itself and transform it into tools that could help merchants manage their businesses. 

The foundation was already there. Wix had developed sophisticated billing systems to support its freemium model, accumulating deep expertise in payment routing, risk management, and global processing. "We built tremendous payment capabilities," Sagiv explained. "The billing manager of Wix wanted to take that offering and build a service for our users."

What started as a small project evolved into a comprehensive financial platform serving businesses across the globe. The company now processes over $3 billion per quarter with a team of 160 people, covering payments, checking accounts, and capital lending. 
Listen to the podcast to hear how a chance collaboration between Wix's billing team and gateway developers turned into a fintech operation processing billions quarterly. 

Sagiv and Tsukur discuss why they deliberately avoided becoming a full-fledged bank, and how website data reveals creditworthiness before transaction history does. It’s a conversation that dives deep into what it means to be serving SMB customers digitally and how firms can do embedded finance right. 


How Wix built payments, checking, and capital for 293 million users

Democrats win hotly-contested races, California voters approve new US House map to boost Democrats in 2026, and the best places to retire.
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This Morning with Gordon Deal November 05, 2025

Ashleigh Fields from The Hill joined Gordon Deal this morning to recap Democrats' election day wins. 

Recapping Election Day 2025

The Supreme Court hears arguments on Trump's tariffs today. Trade Attorney Michelle Schulz gives us a look. 

SCOTUS hears what Trump calls "most important case ever"

In this episode, we discuss the powerful, magisterial closing pages of Annie Ernaux’s The Years (pp.182-225) alongside philosophical work in progress by Alice Harberd, one of our hosts. In this paper, Alice considers various ‘narrative’ theories of the self, and argues that, when it comes to the articulation of a sense of self, ‘narrativity is a choice’. We examine Ernaux’s intertwining of personal and sociological selves and ponder to what extent it embraces, or resists, narrative form. We are joined in the UCL Studio by Emmanuel Campion-Dye, a Philosophy PhD student and an ever spirited and probing member of our Philosophy and Literature Reading Group.
 
Hosts: 
Scarlett Baron, Associate Professor of English at University College London.
Alice Harberd, PhD student in the Philosophy Department at University College London.
 
Guest:
Emmanuel Campion-Dye, PhD student in the Philosophy Department at University College London.

Transcript Link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/e82414f3/transcript.txt

S2, Ep 5 The Narrative Self: Alice Harberd, with special guest Emmanuel Campion-Dye

Read by the author.

Begin your day in God's comforting presence and end your day in His calming embrace. This unique 30-day devotional reminds you that God is greater than your troubled heart and more present than your anxious thoughts.

Whether you are stressed in the morning about the day ahead or desperate to calm your mind in the evening before bed, peace often feels elusive—and sometimes God does too. But even in the midst of life's uncertainties, God is ever present and ready to offer His comfort, if only you seek Him.

In An Untroubled Heart, author Kara Stout offers 30 morning devotions to carry you through the day and 30 companion evening devotions to settle your heart at night. Let your soul breathe in peace as you…

Bookend your day with bite-sized reflections and prayers that meet you where you are.
Grow in your relationship with God and build a habit of coming to Him in prayer.
Realize you are not alone in your feelings of worry and overwhelm.
Strengthen your faith day by day as you immerse yourself in God's truth.
The deep peace you crave is available, no matter what your anxious thoughts are telling you. Come experience the truth of Scripture, the comfort of the Spirit, and the kind of rest that only a good and perfect Father can give.

Audible

AN UNTROUBLED HEART by Kara Stout | Chapter One

In this glittering and heartwarming collection, three of today's bestselling sweet romance novelists offer up the gift of cheer for the winter holiday season. On the Way to Christmas features a return to small town home, a Christmas cross-country train ride, and a Christmas bakery. Perfect for fans of Hallmark Christmas movies and Debbie Macomber.

A Christmas Do-Over by Sheila Roberts

Darby doesn't want to go home for the holidays, but a career fail sends her slinking back to the small town she always wanted to escape. No one there is especially glad to see the former mean girl--especially not her sister, Erica, or childhood best friend, Gregory. Darby is working hard to be a better person, but has she eaten enough humble pie to make amends?

Dashing Through the Snow by Melissa Ferguson

When Willow's boyfriend of seven years dumps her on the eve of a romantic getaway, she decides to take the two-week train trip on The Christmas Express alone. Hurt as she feels, she can't anticipate how the hilarious rebound ride with conductor Oliver, elf Ian, and aging world adventurer Clarence will heal her heart--and renew her sense of worth.

A Perfectly Splendid Christmas by Amy Clipston

Kacey adores the metropolitan life, but when she gets away to help her sister during a family crisis and run her bakery, she falls in love with former classmate Drew. The problem: he's a small-town man, and she's a big-city woman. Is their love big enough to overcome such a major difference?

Curl up with your favorite holiday drink and escape the hustle and bustle into three worlds where dreams once thought long-gone are still within reach.

"Filled with Christmas spirit, and a little chaos, too, all three stories left my heart filled with joy . . . Five stars overall!" --Nancy Naigle, bestselling author

ON THE WAY TO CHRISTMAS by Sheila Roberts, Melissa Ferguson, and Amy Clipston

Sanjit Biswas is the co-founder and CEO of Samsara, a global leader in allowing physical operations organizations to harness data, AI, and the Internet of Things. He started the company with the mission to increase the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of the operations that power the global economy. In this presentation, Biswas tells the story of how he co-founded his first company as a graduate student and pivoted to a new industry to found Samsara, sharing advice for aspiring entrepreneurs on finding meaningful problems to solve, building a team, and running feedback loops to understand what customers need.

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Sanjit Biswas (Samsara) - Making a Real-World Impact

U.S. to reduce flight traffic by 10% at 40 airports because of shutdown, conservative Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of Trump’s sweeping unilateral tariffs, and New York pizza maker sells his one millionth pie after 20 years.
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This Morning with Gordon Deal November 06, 2025

Banks dramatically underestimate how their customers share financial data, and most of it happens through insecure screen scraping that creates fraud vulnerabilities and slows performance. Shane McWilliams, Head of Retail Digital Banking at FIS, breaks down the three critical challenges separating thriving institutions from those being left behind: serving small and medium businesses as a central financial hub, enabling secure data sharing through APIs, and moving beyond product-centric thinking to build sticky customer relationships.

McWilliams reveals that when he asks bank executives to guess what percentage of their customers are sharing data with third parties, "they're not even close" to reality. He explains how modern SMBs expect their banks to integrate everything from cash flow monitoring to accounting systems, why personalization needs to go beyond UX optimization, and how banks that orient around customer needs rather than products will win in today's competitive environment.

FIS's McWilliams on SMBs, data sharing, and the strategy that wins in a competitive environment

AP-Award winning, public affairs program broadcasting from Emerson College in Boston, MA. Listen live every Sunday from 6-7 a.m.

Performance Art: Exclusive Interview with Artist Liz Lamanche

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