Ms. Zomorodi and Ms. Poyant, who worked together for almost three years before starting the new venture, described themselves as creative soul mates. “We can kind of read each other’s minds,” Ms. Poyant said. Ms. Poyant is a single mother with a 7-year-old son; Ms. Zomorodi has two children, 11 and 8, and is married to Josh Robin, a political reporter for NY1. “There’s a level of guilt that you feel when you’re sitting on a computer and the kids are like, ‘Mom, Mom, Mom,’ and you’re like, ‘I told you I had to work. Ms. Zomorodi got serious about explaining blockchain in the second episode of “ZigZag,” and she did it with the help of a “Schoolhouse Rock”-style jingle sung by the musician and podcaster Martin Zaltz Austwick.

Source: New York Times September 16, 2018 19:07 UTC