Obviously, it was very-- LESLIE ODOM JR.: --important the album. Valerie asks, "what do you hope for us to feel when we listen to 'The Christmas Album'?" LESLIE ODOM JR.: Such a great question.First and foremost, joy.
And today, we're excited to welcome Valerie Gordon. Valerie is a self-taught baker.And she opened Valerie Confections in Los Angeles' Silver Lake District in 2004 to immediate acclaim.
Do you see what's happening there? Valerie , where are your three locations?
And I know she's been here before. That's Valerie Jarrett. And Valerie and I really ended up developing this working relationship during the campaign as two people who really have known them for a very long time.
And so when he asked Valerie to take on this really important senior advisor role, she asked me to be her chief of staff. And so I was Valerie Jarrett's chief of staff for four years, helped create the Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs and just kind of kept things moving on a day-to-day basis, sometimes serving as a fixer, sometimes serving as a heat shield--
And a couple of years ago, recorded a piece with my brother, the principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic, a piece for flute, clarinet, and piano by Valerie Coleman entitled "Portraits of Langston," taking inspiration from the life of Langston Hughes, the writer, poet. And I have to say that obviously this discussion is very personal to me because I believe
Valerie is a self-taught baker.And she opened Valerie Confections in Los Angeles' Silver Lake District in 2004 to immediate acclaim. Today, the company has expanded to include three locations, as well as a tremendous online retail business.
Do you see what's happening there? And I say "Valerie ." Just something about the word "chef." I don't wear a coat.
as a kind of status quo, but I don't buy that that's where things end. There are a lot of efforts such as what's happening at Dartmouth, such as what's happening. There's this other researcher at Cornell called Valerie Reyna and she's come up with this theory called The Fuzzy-trace Theory. The idea is that yes, when we give people just cold hard numbers and we ask them to just engage rationally, they tend to mess up. They tend to generally not understand the numbers, but when you give them a kind of fuzzy sense of what the numbers
And I had been working there, at that point, for about a decade. And so when he asked Valerie to take on this really important senior advisor role, she asked me to be her chief of staff. And so I was Valerie Jarrett's chief of staff for four years, helped create the Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs and just kind of kept things
And today, she's here to talk about her brand new dessert cookbook, "Sweet," and she's going to teach as one of the fabulous recipes from the book. So please join me in welcoming Valerie Gordon. I have a really quick favor to ask everybody.
for the movie you'll see a scene in the movie where we have lunch with Charlie Kaufman and he and uh I'm not in he wrote me out of the scene but Valerie Thomas who was uh my good friend and who was our development person developing scripts um uh was at the lunch and he said I don't want to movie do a movie about drugs or gun running or people
This is the-- I'm like, OK, I know the-- there come these people. Yeah. And Jasmine and Valerie Spencer, and all these women who had doctorates and degrees.
Although I don't know the handle. OK, it's @valerieconfctns. OK, and then I was told I'm supposed to do the geography thing so people know I'm at Google.
It's a quite different skill set. That makes sense. We have another question from Valerie .
Hi everybody. I'm Julie Wiskirchen from the Authors at Google team in Los Angeles. And today, we're excited to welcome Valerie Gordon. Valerie is a self-taught baker.
We believe, though, that there are structures that you can put in place to hold people accountable. So we love Campaign Zero, met with Obama about it-- and Valerie Jarrett, and Bernie, and Hillary, and Loretta Lynch-- to talk about how we actually
Logistics in secret or do a lot of different covert actions that sort of thing is it use front companies right a lot of us have heard about you know secret you know CIA front companies like dummy corporations Valerie PL the the CIA agent who was famously outed ostensibly worked for a company called Brewster Jennings right well she didn't work for Brewster Jennings she worked
late but he put He co-wrote it with who was Donald Kaufman we didn't pay Donald Kaufman why did he why is Donald Kaufman's name on it I couldn't read it then I had some meetings I gave it to Valerie to go read and Valerie came into my office 10 minutes later and she said I'm in the movie and I said what do you mean what do you mean you're in the
I had been of the mind that we should always try to reduce these. But I had a guest on my podcast, "Think Fast, Talk Smart." Her name is Valerie Fridland. She's a professor of neurolinguistics.
and you don't want to have the kind of collateral damage. Now, fast forward about 2010, about 2010, the FBI started to argue via their general counsel, a woman named Valerie Caproni, who