
Ryan Donovan
CEO of the Federal Home Loan Banks
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Aug 10, 2026
The First Federal Home Loan Bank Oversight Hearing in 15 Years with Ryan Donovan CEO of the Council of Federal Home Loan Banks
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Ryan DonovanGUEST
This work really comes out of the lessons learned from March 2023, right? Where we had the Silicon Bag- Silicon Valley bank failure, Signature Bank failure, and I think there were a number of lessons learned, but for the Fed and the home loan bank system, it was really a lesson of, hey, let's ...

Ryan DonovanGUEST
So for the home loan banks, what we've done- Is we've encouraged, each of the banks has encouraged their members to develop a relationship with the discount window and test those lines periodically.

Ryan DonovanGUEST
We've also had discussions with the Fed on a number of work streams, improving communication, making sure that the personnel in critical positions at the Home Loan Bank and at the Fed know how to get the- get ahold of each other at 6:00 on a Friday.
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S1E36 - A Better Way to Buy Benefits
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9:12Ryan DonovanGUEST
I would start off by saying that it's common across all sectors of our economy that employees don't really understand or know what benefits are available to them.
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9:29Ryan DonovanGUEST
Too much, too many options, don't know where to go, don't know where to start to have a lot of options, don't know what they are, or we don't have many options at all.
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9:39Ryan DonovanGUEST
But the, the most underutilized service that exists today is really grasping onto the technology.
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16:34Chris TubbsHOST
In your experience, what are some innovative approaches you're seeing departments use to support firefighter wellbeing, resilience, and retention?
Ryan Donovan, "Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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30:38Pete KunzeHOST
And in particular, how you link it to neoliberalism, which I think was an interesting theoretical move in your work.
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30:45Ryan DonovanGUEST
I'm defining the Broadway body as the, I should pull up the back of the book here to read what I wrote for that.
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30:52Ryan DonovanGUEST
The hyper fit, exceptionally able, triple threat performer who I think I kind of made a joke that this is the performer who does their workout with her trainer and then goes to do their matinee of Hamilton and then goes on for the lead that night.
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31:17Ryan DonovanGUEST
So it's this performer whose body can do anything and they're usually tall, they're conventionally attractive and it became the ideal body for Broadway musicals over the course of the last few decades.
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31:41Ryan DonovanGUEST
And in looking into it, I found all of these, examples where performers, I think, inadvertently contributed to this through associating themselves with exercise and fitness.
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32:00Ryan DonovanGUEST
And actually the first instance I found of the term Broadway body was from a workout tape that was put out by original West Side Story star, Carol Lawrence in the 1980s.
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