Tiny Desk Concert: World Renowned Yo-Yo Ma

Performances From Across the World: Listen to Tiny Desk (Home) Concerts by NPR

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Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It's the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space.

Settle in.  Kick back.  Relax.  Listen.  Enjoy.  Here's John Legend with his four-song performance.

Tracking the Global Pandemic

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According to National Public Radio (NPR), more than 3 million people in the United States have tested positive for the coronavirus and more than 130,000 have died. Though growth in new cases slowed in late spring, by mid-June new cases began to trend upward nationally.

Explore the trend in new cases in your state to see whether cases are rising, falling or staying level. You can view the data via a heat map, a curve chart and a table with details on each state's case trends over the last three weeks. Or to see states' total cases and deaths on a map, click here.

Sarah LaFleur's Clothing Line for Working Women: M.M.LaFleur (Podcast)

As Guy Ray says in his podcast, Sarah LaFleur hated getting dressed in the morning; the choices in her closet felt overwhelming, many items didn't fit right or wore out too quickly.

So in 2011 she launched a line of clothing for working women that would be simple, elegant, and well-tailored. She had no experience in fashion but partnered with a top-line designer, Miyako Nakamura, to create M.M.LaFleur.

Today it's a multi-million dollar company with loyal customers from Capitol Hill to Silicon Valley.

Listen to the 1-hour, 16-minute podcast with Guy Ray and Sarah LaFleur at NPR.

Life is Good (Podcast)

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Brothers Bert and John Jacobs in the late 80s were living as nomads, traveling from college to college selling t-shirts out of their van.

It wasn't a sustainable living – until one day, they created a new design. It was a simple sketch of a grinning face, with three words printed underneath: Life Is Good.

The rest is history and now Life is Good is more than $100 million in annual revenue.  Listen to the podcast here.

How She Built It: Aden + Anais's Raegan Moya-Jones (Podcast)

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Raegan Moya-Jones grew up in Australia where cotton muslin baby blankets are commonplace.  But when she started a new life and family in New York City, New York, she couldn't find them anywhere.

So in 2006, she started the baby blanket company Aden + Anais, which now makes more than $100 million in annual revenue. We [How I Built This with Guy Raz, from NPR] first ran this episode in 2017 – but about a year later, Raegan's role as leader and co-founder took a dramatic turn. She fills Guy in on what happened in this special updated episode. 

All businesses can take a turn for the best or the worst.  Listen in ... a fascinating and powerful learning experience for all business owners who aspire to build a great enduring global enterprise.

World, Are You Listening? Exporting Sound.

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An article from NPR talking about exporting sound to the world.

"I'm fortunate because I exported my business," says Carl Craig, one of techno's biggest ambassadors. "If I kept it in the U.S., we would have failed a long time ago."

 What are you doing right now locally that could be taken globally?