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Friends & Neighbors

Amaha Sellassie: Beloved Community is a Present Possibility (a conversation)

Amaha Sellassie -
The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging.  For this week's episode Joey Taylor speaks with Amaha Sellassie about the Gem City Market, West Dayton Strong and his article, Beloved Community is a Present Possibility. The...
Friends & Neighbors

The Pain of Every Leader with Dan Joyner

Dan Joyner -
The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging. For this week's episode Joey Taylor speaks with Dan Joyner about participatory leadership, pain, fear and hospitality. Dan Joyner is...
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What is ‘Communal Living’ and is it Right for Me?

Gillian Morris -
While the US and many other countries experiencing impossibly rising house costs, loneliness has also been recently declared a public health crisis. Many of us are also seeking more sustainable ways to live to better support the health of...
Conversations

Tim Vogt: Placekeeping & Holding the Long Story

Tim Vogt -
The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging.  For this week's episode we partner with April Doner and the Abundant Community to speak with Tim Vogt about an article...
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Yalie Saweda Kamara: Besaydoo

Yalie Saweda Kamara -
The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging.  In this episode, Joey Taylor and Devin Bustin speak with Yalie Saweda Kamara about her new book, Besaydoo. Yalie Saweda Kamara, Ph.D. is a...
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A Winter Solstice Celebration for 2023 with Manda Scott and Nathalie Nahai

Della Z Duncan -
What is emerging in the collective heart of the world right now?  How are we stepping out of the old and into the new?  In what ways might despair and joy co-exist inside of us our current reality? In this...
Friends & Neighbors

The Response: Resist & Build with Emily Kawano, Matthew Slaats and Edget Betru

Emily Kawano -
The Response is a podcast produced by Shareable exploring how communities respond to disaster — from hurricanes to wildfires to reactionary politics and more. This episode features organizers stewarding the "Resist and Build" coalition and gatherings in the United...
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Ross Gay: Pedagogy of Love, Precarity & Survival

Ross Gay -
The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging. For this episode, Devin Bustin and Joey Taylor speak with Ross Gay about his books Inciting Joy, The Book...
Latest Thinking

What Thriving Communities Look Like With The Indigenous Environmental Network

Keenan Rhodes -
The perspectives of Indigenous people are rarely included in mainstream conversations about sustainability, climate change, or community health, Jennifer Falcon of the Indigenous Environmental Network (EIN) explains in this powerful interview with Keenan Rhodes in the Climate Justice Alliance's...
Conversations

Who Do We Choose To Be? Meg Wheatley and Peter Block

Meg Wheatley -
The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.  This episode is the Abundant Community Conversation from August 2 where Amy Howton speaks with Meg Wheatley and Peter Block about the new edition of Meg’s...
Conversations

Ritual and Possibility

Casper ter Kuile -
    The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging. This episode is the Abundant Community Conversation between Casper ter Kuile and Peter Block, which happened on June 22nd....
Friends & Neighbors

We Hold Medicine for Each Other – A Conversation about Race

Quanita Roberson -
What does it mean to heal racial wounds? This complex topic continues to bewilder us as a collective and individually. As we search for tools and tactics for solving the ongoing challenges surrounding race and its history, are we...
Peter Block

Find Your Freedom

Peter Block -
In this episode of the Messy Middle podcast hosted by consultant and author Andrew Horsfield, Peter Block draws on his broad experience to discuss the benefits of choosing service over self-interest, embracing our freedom, shifting from problem solving to...
Podcasts

Do You Want to Experience True Liberation?

Maegan Scott -
In this week’s feature, the Meagan Scott and Courtney Ng speak on the Common Good podcast about facilitating necessary conditions for liberation, community, and magic, and how to connect with the desires of others in the creation of containers...
Latest Thinking

Does Independence Exist? Exploring Scarcity, Abundance and Interdependence

Quanita Roberson -
Modern culture has instilled in most of us an unchecked reverence for the idea of independence. It is a celebrated sign of maturity and accomplishment. A promised path to freedom, and a signal that we have arrived. Soulful teachers,...
Friends & Neighbors

Dr. Olivia Saunders: Sovereignty and Abundance

Dr. Olivia Saunders -
Where lies the passage out of an economic and social system rooted in the illusion scarcity and competition, and into a system of living grounded in the reality of abundance and cooperation? Economist Dr. Olivia Saunders invites us to...
Podcasts

How to Find Personal Gifts without Buying New during the Holidays

April Doner -
As the holidays unfurl, bringing hopes and promises of special flavors, cozy traditions and connection, an urgency also begins to brew within our minds and homes: to buy. At our best, we buy out of our desire to concretely demonstrate...
Friends & Neighbors

Reimagining the Table, Justice, and our Relationship to Place

Darryl Answer -
What does it mean to be a neighbor? In what ways might it heal us to live in authentic, interconnected relationship with others who live and work just beyond our doorstep? How is the path to racial justice interwoven...
Friends & Neighbors

A Call to a Deeper Democracy

Cormac Russell -
We have two options, most of the time: to interpret the "worsening" of conditions around us as a call to despair while disparaging and demanding more of "those in charge," or to look closer at the power that we...
Latest Thinking

Clark Arrington, Pioneer for Cooperatives and Black Economic Power

Clark Arrington -
This two-part edition of The Next System Podcast features Clark Arrington, a pioneer in the cooperative movement, an innovative legal practitioner, and a leader in the movement for Black economic empowerment. He now works as general counsel for The Working...
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Corporate Capture: Can We Find a Way Out?

This article, published originally by Nonprofit Quarterly, from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” The aircraft manufacturer Boeing,...
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