If hope is a muscle, then how do I build it?

Denée Benton (Eliza Hamilton in Hamilton! Cinderella in Into the Woods! Peggy Scott on The Gilded Age!) joins the sisters Brown to explore how creative work can serve social movements, the importance of community rituals, the evolving role of celebrity in activism, the strategic ...  Show more

adrienne and Autumn are thrilled to explore the intersection of spirit, ritual and movement organizing with dear friends of the show, Kaji Reyes and Sendolo Diaminah. The conversation touches on creativity and art in ritual and ceremony, the role of geography and land in spiritua ...  Show more

A night walk, listening to nightingales, and a memory of her late father lead Rebecca Stott to ponder Iris Murdoch's theory of 'unselfing'.The theory, writes Rebecca, was 'essentially about looking out and beyond ourselves and away from what Murdoch described as the 'fat, relentl ...  Show more

When was the last time you said, “Why bother?”

When overwhelm, exhaustion, burnout, and the weight of responsibility set in, it's easy to become cynical and ask, "What's the point?" 

Cynicism can be a defense mechanism, shielding us from diffi ...

Exhaustion. What a perfect and powerful word to describe our times. Exhausted bodies—over-worked, over-productive, over-stretched. Bodies pushed to their limits, treated like machines whose sole existence is to produce profit. Exhausted ecosystems—extracted, ruined, p ...

What happens when a woman at the top of corporate life walks away from a prestigious title, a comfortable paycheck, and a high-stakes role managing over 5,000 people—only to find her voice, her purpose, and her true power on the other side? In this deeply personal and emotionally ...  Show more