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Beyond the Business

Beyond the Business

By: Alex White
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Beyond the Business is a narrative podcast about the systems that quietly shape modern business — energy, infrastructure, sustainability, technology, and risk. Each episode deconstructs the economic logic behind today’s transitions, exposing hidden costs, legacy structures, and long-term consequences that rarely appear in boardrooms or reports. It’s about helping business see the system it operates in more clearly. My LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-byelyavtsev-a702a22a/Alex White Economics
Episodes
  • S6E12 Final Episode: The Missing Exit

    S6E12 Final Episode: The Missing Exit
    Aug 1 2026

    Every molecule of the modern world was designed to enter, almost none were designed to leave. In the final episode of the Chemistry season, we step back from the individual stories and name the pattern behind them all: we taught chemistry to perform, but never to depart. Why "just ban it" keeps failing, what the chemicals quietly leaving our blood prove about exits that actually work, and why chemistry still has no receipt the way carbon does.
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    19 mins
  • S6E11 One Barrel

    S6E11 One Barrel
    Jul 28 2026

    A barrel of oil is just 159 litres and a price until chemistry gets involved. Most of the barrel burns as fuel. A few litres become the materials modern life runs on: medicine, phones, packaging, even wind turbine blades. This episode is about that transformation and the bill that comes with it.
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    13 mins
  • S6E10 PFAS: The Chemistry That Refused to Break

    S6E10 PFAS: The Chemistry That Refused to Break
    Jul 27 2026

    Most chemicals eventually degrade. PFAS were designed not to. This episode starts with the carbon–fluorine bond, why chemists built molecules that nature can barely break, where that stability still looks essential, and what modern chemistry is learning from the trade-off.
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    18 mins
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