In our fortieth episode, Gary and Mike welcome Jacqueline Adams, co-author of A Blessing: Women of Color Teaming Up to Lead, Empower and Thrive. Jacqueline shares anecdotes from her career as an Emmy Award-winning CBS correspondent and explains the book's fresh, bold analysis of African American female leadership.

In our thirty-ninth episode, Marta Newhart, Chief Communications Officer at Westinghouse Electric Company, joins Gary and Mike. After sharing compelling experiences relating to her Mexican-American background, Marta discusses how we can build upon diversity to create inclusion, as well as how companies should best communicate nuclear energy, science, and technology in a world that often distrusts and doubts it.

In our thirty-eighth episode, Gary and Mike welcome the team that created the third annual PRWeek Bellwether Survey in partnership with Boston University. Steve Barrett, editor in chief at PRWeek, Arunima Krishna, assistant professor at Boston University, Ray Kotcher, professor of the practice at BU, and Don Wright, the Harold Burson professor of public relations and chair for the department of mass communication, advertising and PR at BU, discuss agility and its effects on organizational outcomes.

In our thirty-seventh episode, Gary and Mike are joined by Maya Malekian, a recent Boston University graduate, and Geneve Lau, a BU senior, to discuss their virtual pro bono public relations agency, Empath Worldwide. The two professionals share how and why they globally link young talent with nonprofits and small businesses to create purpose-driven work in a COVID-19 environment.

In our thirty-sixth episode, Oscar Suris, executive managing director of C-Suite Strategy and Crisis at Zeno Group, joins Gary and Mike to discuss diversity and inclusion, the convergence of societal issues with business operations, and the evolving nature of crisis management.

In our thirty-fifth episode, Gary and Mike speak with Dr. Matthew Fox and Dr. Don Thea from the Boston University School of Public Health. We discuss the challenges researchers and PR practitioners often face in communicating science, especially amid the ongoing pandemic, as well as best practices in sharing these topics more effectively.

In our thirty-fourth episode, Gary and Mike welcome Andy Pharoah, vice president of corporate affairs and sustainability at Mars. We discuss lessons learned from the pandemic and purpose-driven communications.

In our thirty-third episode of The Crux, Catherine Hernandez-Blades, senior vice president and chief ESG and communications officer at Aflac, joins Gary and Mike to weigh in on coronavirus-related challenges, values-based communications, and diversity and inclusion.

In our thirty-second episode of The Crux, Steve Schmidt, political strategist and principal at SES Strategies, join Gary and Mike. They discuss on the current state of the Republican Party, The Lincoln Project and the upcoming election.

In our thirty-first episode of The Crux, Dean Mariette DiChristina, the dean of the College of Communication at Boston University joins us to discuss virtual learning, the future of education and the impact of the coronavirus on the Boston University community.