The Common Good podcast, a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging. This week's episode is with Sam Pressler.

Sam is a community-builder, researcher, and writer focused on connecting people to the relationships and responsibilities that make life worth living. He was the founder and executive director of the Armed Services Arts Partnership (ASAP), the nation's largest community arts organization serving veterans and their families, and has a newsletter on Substack called Connective Tissue.

Check out Sam's new policy framework - Connective Tissues: Regenerating Connection within Communities, Reimagining the Role of Policy

People and Works Referenced in this podcast:

• When Death Comes by Mary Oliver
• The Tyranny of Merit by Michael Sandel
• World War II Veteran Joe Bruni reads his 'Ode to Joe' on CNN
• Survey Center on American Life
• Raj Chetty
• Richard Reeves
• Is the Cure to Male Loneliness out on the Pickleball Court?
• Pete Davis
• Join or Die
• Bowling Alone
• Robert Putnam

This episode was hosted and produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

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 Kay Lindahl about listening as a gift, art and choice before focusing on listening in groups and physical environments that make sacred listening possible.

Kay Lindahl has been described as an inspired presence with passionate energy. For the past twenty-seven years the daily practice of Centering Prayer has transforming her life. She founded The Listening Center with the mission of exploring the sacred nature of listening. Kay conducts workshops and retreats on listening as a spiritual practice. She is a Certified Listening Professional. Kay is the author for The Sacred Art of Listening, Practicing the Sacred Art of Listening and How Does God Listen?  

Quotes and works referenced in this episode:

• "To 'listen' another's soul into a condition of disclosure and discovery may be almost the greatest service that any human being ever performs for another." - Douglas Steere
• “When is the last time that you had a great conversation? A conversation which wasn’t just two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture. But when had you last a great conversation in which you overheard yourself saying things that you never knew you knew, that you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely found places within you that you thought you had lost and a sense of an event of a conversation that brought the two of you on to a different plain, and then fourthly, a conversation that continued to sing in your mind for weeks afterwards.” - John O'Donhue
• Our True Home by Thich Nhat Hanh 
• Spiritual Listening Practices

This episode was hosted and produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

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 a change management consultant and facilitator in education, government and the civic sector. He has significant senior leadership and ground-level knowledge and experience. As a collaborative consultant, implementing social technologies, coaching and developing leadership capacities are key offerings. Dan’s expertise includes: executive coaching, large group facilitation, narrative practices, participatory leadership, community restoration, classroom/lead teacher coaching, and experiential learning.

Works referenced in this episode

• Remember by Joy Harjo
• Six Conversations
• Possibility Conversation
• John McKnight on Hospitality
• Harrison Owen on Open Space
• Open Space Technology

This episode was hosted and produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.  Brad Wise is the host for this episode. He was a Common Good Collective Fellowship participant and he runs an organization called Wolf House Fables.

Today's episode is a live conversation, hosted by Bobby Slattery at Fifty West Brewing Company in Cincinnati, between Ari Weinzweig and Peter Block. They talked about Ari’s new pamphlet A Revolution of Dignity in the Twenty-First Century Workplace.

Ari is the CEO and co-founding partner of Zingerman’s Community of Businesses. Ari's unique leadership approach earned him the distinction as one of “The World's 10 Top CEOs (They Lead in a Totally Unique Way)”, and he has written numerous books, including A Lapsed Anarchist’s Approach to Building a Great Business and A Lapsed Anarchist's Approach to the Power of Beliefs in Business.

Six Elements of Dignity:

1. Honor the essential humanity of everyone we work with.
2. Be authentic in all our interactions (without acting out).
3. Make sure everyone has a meaningful say.
4. Begin every interaction with positive beliefs.
5. Commit to helping everyone get to greatness.
6. Create an effective application of equity.

More information on the self-fulfilling belief cycle can be found here.

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.

On this episode, author Greg Jarrell joins host, Courtney Napier and a handful of friends from around the country to conclude the discussion about Greg's new book, Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods.

The songs were performed by Dawn Anthony and Troy Conn. Other contributors to this conversation were Daniel Hughes, Dwight Friesen, Rachel VerWys, John Stiefel and Darin Petersen.

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging. 

On this episode, author Greg Jarrell joins host, Courtney Napier and a handful of friends from around the country to discuss Greg's new book, Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods.

The songs performed by Dawn Anthony and Troy Conn were:

• Jesus Children of America
• Lonely House

Other contributors to this conversation along with a linked picture of their neighborhood:

• Rev. Lesley-Ann Hix Tommey lives in Clinton Hill Neighborhood (Brooklyn)
• Paul Sparks lives in Hilltop Neighborhood (Tacoma)
• Daniel Hughes lives in Northside (Cincinnati)

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.  For this episode, we're returning to the the Abundant Community Conversation from October 26 where Amy Howton speaks with Parker Palmer and Peter Block.

Checkout the first part of the conversation here.

This event was produced in partnership with Designed Learning, Abundant Community, Faith Matters Network and Common Change. These conversations happen on Zoom and they always contain poetry, small groups and an exploration of a particular theme.

The recited poem: Everything Falls Away by Parker Palmer

Credit to Portraits in Faith for picture of Parker

Resources Referenced:

• Stand in the Tragic Gap
• Pockets of Possibility in Thirteen Ways of Looking at Community
• Quotation from Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation - “Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them them than we are of breathing."

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

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 published on Abundant Community's website called The Five Valued Experiences.

Tim is Executive Director of Starfire, a Cincinnati, Ohio, organization which offers programs that address the needs of teens and adults with disabilities.

Other referenced works and resources:

• Judith Snow
• Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
• Starfire Youtube Channel
• The Careless Society: Community and its Counterfeits
• The Ones We Sent Away by Jennifer Senior (Atlantic Article)
• Corinthians Six Nineteen by Tim Vogt (Poem)

April Doner is a community connector, artist, and mother who is passionate about igniting the intersection between re-weaving neighbor relationships, strengthening local economies, and healing / reconciling inequities and injustices. She is a Steward at the ABCD Institute DePaul University and when not practicing neighboring in her own neighborhood, she trains, coaches, and consults in Asset Based Community Development. April also documents local resilience as well as group processes through various creative means including writing, photography, video, and graphic recording. Since 2020, she has curated content for Abundant Community.

Abundant Community is a place to visit. To read and hear stories of action. More valuable than your daily newspaper. A way to learn about citizen-led action that illuminates a new direction, away from the dominant consumerist and dependency-producing habits that we thought we had to purchase. Communities forever have known how to produce family and neighborhood functions such as raising children, building healthy local economies and caring for people on the margin. This website invites you into this possibility.

This episode was hosted and produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging.  In this episode, Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp and Reverend Ben McBride speak with john a. powell. Greg Jarrell also jumps in to ask a couple questions.

john a. powell is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, structural racialization, racial identity, fair housing, poverty, and democracy. He is also the founding director of the Othering & Belonging Institute, a UC Berkeley research institute that brings together scholars, community advocates, communicators, and policymakers to identify and eliminate the barriers to an inclusive, just, and sustainable society and to create transformative change toward a more equitable world. The unique spelling of his name is john’s way of signifying that we humans are part of the universe, not over it.

Excerpts and Works Referenced in the Conversation:

• The Nature of Prejudice by Gordon W. Allport
• Contact Hypothesis
• A Poem in Three Parts: Meet Me There
• The History of the Alinsky Organizing Model and Its Practice within Community and Organized Labor
• Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam
• Targeted Universalism
• The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by by Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson

Also, check out our previous episode with Ben about his new book, Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging.

You can also pre-order Greg's new book, Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods.

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging.  In this episode, Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp and Reverend Ben McBride speak with john a. powell.

john a. powell is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, structural racialization, racial identity, fair housing, poverty, and democracy. He is also the founding director of the Othering & Belonging Institute, a UC Berkeley research institute that brings together scholars, community advocates, communicators, and policymakers to identify and eliminate the barriers to an inclusive, just, and sustainable society and to create transformative change toward a more equitable world. The unique spelling of his name is john’s way of signifying that we humans are part of the universe, not over it.

Excerpts and Works Referenced in the Conversation:

• Story of Moses in the Study Hall of Rabbi Akiva
• Lessons from Suffering by john a. powell
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Hariri
• Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• Bob Marley - Running Away
• Jerry Butler - Need to Belong (to Someone)
• A Poem in Three Parts: A Story of We 

Also, check out our previous episode with Ben about his new book, Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging.

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.  For this week's episode, we conclude a live podcast series with The Hive about Collective Change.

The Hive  is a grassroots mindfulness community curating multi-week classes, workshops and a Membership community. It has been formed by facilitators asking the question, "What are the resources that lie within our vast lineages, traditions, and modalities of healing, and how can we place them in service of the common good?" In this series we’re talking to The Hive’s 6 core faculty members, all of whom have a unique perspective on navigating collective change.

For this first conversation, Chris La Rue, the Director of The Hive, joins us in speaking with Adam Clark. He is Associate Professor of Theology at Xavier University and is committed to the idea that theological education in the twenty first century must function as a counter-story. One that equips us to read against the grain of the dominant culture and inspires one to live into the Ignatian dictum of going forth "to set the world on fire." To this end, Dr. Clark is intentional about pedagogical practices that raise critical consciousness by going beneath surface meanings, unmasking conventional wisdoms and reimagining the good. He currently serves as co-chair of Black Theology Group at the American Academy of Religion, actively publishes in the area of black theology and black religion and participates in social justice groups at Xavier and in the Cincinnati area. He earned his PhD at Union Theological Seminary in New York where he was mentored by James Cone.

Here's the poem shared by Troy Bronsink: The Inward Sea by Howard Thurman
There is in every person an inward sea
And in that sea, there is an island
And on that island is an altar
And standing guard before that altar
is the angel with the flaming sword.
Nothing can get by that angel to be placed upon that altar
unless it has the mark of your inner authority.
Nothing passes the angel with the flaming sword
to be placed upon your altar
unless it be a part of the fluid area of your consent.
This is your crucial link with the eternal.

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation.

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.  For this week's episode, Troy Bronsink and Joey Taylor speak with Amy Tuttle as a part of a live podcast series with The Hive about Collective Change.

Amy Tuttle has supported local and international efforts in the field of Creative Arts Programming for the past 10 years. She is the Executive Director of WordPlay Cincy. Tuttle has an MA in “Community Arts: Arts in Transformation” and her experiences range from leading professional trainings around the world to offering creative arts workshops/classes with local organizations. Tuttle loves engaging in community-building via expression/art-making and she especially loves supporting Teaching Artists as they share their gifts with the community. She has also served the community as an Arts & Healing practitioner, supporting individuals and communities with creative expression, story-based connection, and trauma-support. She believes that practices of re-connection and expression play an important role in personal growth, community-building, and cultural transformation. Locally, Tuttle has worked closely with Indigo Hippo, Price Hill Will, Baker Hunt, Imago Earth Center, Cincinnati Arts Association, Pones Inc., and Grailville.

Troy Bronsink founded the Hive in spring of 2016 with a desire to collaborate with facilitators from various traditions and backgrounds, making space for transformative individual and group encounters. He brings 25 years of experience in small group facilitation ranging from corporate consulting to community organizing, to spiritual formation. Through the Hive, Troy has developed the curriculum for The Common Good Fellowship, as well as hosting the weekly podcast, From the Hive, interviewing local and global contemplative leaders about their work and practice.  Troy is a member of the Living School, an ordained Presbyterian minister, retreat leader, author, spiritual director, entrepreneurship coach, author, speaker, and consultant. He and his family are residents in Northside.  

The Hive  is a grassroots mindfulness community curating multi-week classes, workshops and a Membership community. It has been formed by facilitators asking the question, "What are the resources that lie within our vast lineages, traditions, and modalities of healing, and how can we place them in service of the common good?" In this series we’re talking to The Hive’s 6 core faculty members, all of whom have a unique perspective on navigating collective change.

The shared poem was What to Remember When Waking by David Whyte.

The music excerpt was Navajo Prayer (When You Were Born) composed by Jody Healy.

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation.

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 Sierra Leonean-American writer, educator, professor and researcher from Oakland, California. She currently lives in Cincinnati and is the 2022-2023 Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate.

Her new book of poetry, Besaydoo, will be released on January 9th. Preorder now!

Yalie read the following poems from Besaydoo:

• Besaydoo
• Space
• American Beach

The musical excerpt was Ponta de Lança Africano by Jorge Ben.

Devin Bustin is a writer and teacher who lives in Loveland, Ohio. Growing up, Devin attended well over a dozen schools across Canada and the United States. This gave him a longing to know specific places, to connect with openness, and to create belonging. Raised Pentecostal, Devin wrestles with the faith he inherited, often through fiction, essays, and poetry. He is often working on a song, and his emergent work can be found at devinbustin.com.

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.  For this week's episode, La Shanda Sugg and Joey Taylor speak with Troy Bronsink as a part of a live podcast series with The Hive about Collective Change.

Troy Bronsink founded the Hive in spring of 2016 with a desire to collaborate with facilitators from various traditions and backgrounds, making space for transformative individual and group encounters. He brings 25 years of experience in small group facilitation ranging from corporate consulting to community organizing, to spiritual formation. Through the Hive, Troy has developed the curriculum for The Common Good Fellowship, as well as hosting the weekly podcast, From the Hive, interviewing local and global contemplative leaders about their work and practice.  Troy is a member of the Living School, an ordained Presbyterian minister, retreat leader, author, spiritual director, entrepreneurship coach, author, speaker, and consultant. He and his family are residents in Northside.  

The Hive  is a grassroots mindfulness community curating multi-week classes, workshops and a Membership community. It has been formed by facilitators asking the question, "What are the resources that lie within our vast lineages, traditions, and modalities of healing, and how can we place them in service of the common good?" In this series we’re talking to The Hive’s 6 core faculty members, all of whom have a unique perspective on navigating collective change.

Here's the shared poem: The Inward Sea by Howard Thurman

There is in every person an inward sea

And in that sea, there is an island

And on that island is an altar

And standing guard before that altar

is the angel with the flaming sword.

Nothing can get by that angel to be placed upon that altar

unless it has the mark of your inner authority.

Nothing passes the angel with the flaming sword

to be placed upon your altar

unless it be a part of the fluid area of your consent.

This is your crucial link with the eternal.

The music excerpt was Woodstock by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation.

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.  For this week's episode, Daniel Hughes and Joey Taylor speak with La Shanda Sugg as a part of a live podcast series with The Hive about Collective Change. 

La Shanda says, "I am a translator and healer living in a fat, Black woman's body. My lived experiences in my numerous intersecting identities, along with my gifts and talents, have called me to create safe spaces for exploration, healing, and growth. A native of Detroit, Michigan (stolen land of the Meškwahki·aša·hina (Fox)), I now reside in the Cincinnati, Ohio (stolen land of the Kaskaskia, Shawnee, Myaamia, Adena, and Hopewell) area but work nationally to heal relationships - personal relationships, professional relationships, and communal relationships. I bring my full self to my healing work and am a combination of wise sage, standup comic, and passionate preacher. I am. "

The Hive  is a grassroots mindfulness community curating multi-week classes, workshops and a Membership community. It has been formed by facilitators asking the question, "What are the resources that lie within our vast lineages, traditions, and modalities of healing, and how can we place them in service of the common good?" In this series we’re talking to The Hive’s 6 core faculty members, all of whom have a unique perspective on navigating collective change.

The music excerpt was "My Little Light" by Beautiful Chorus.

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation.

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging.  Your host is Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp. In this episode, Joey Taylor and Miriam speak with Maggie Smith about her new book, You Could Make This Place Beautiful.

Maggie read the following poems or excerpts:

• Talisman
• Rose Has Hands
• Excerpt from Good Bones
• Excerpt from Keep Going: Notes on Loss, Creativity and Change

Musical Excerpt was Harness Your Hopes - B-side by Pavement

She also has a children's book you can preorder now called My Thoughts Have Wings.
This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

The recited poem was An Invitation to Brave Space by Beth Strano which was adapted by Mickey ScottBey Jones. The musical clips were "Eight" and "Nine" by Sleeping at Last.

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.  For this week's episode, we begin a live podcast series with The Hive about Collective Change.

Join us for any or all of these conversations, either in person at The Hive in Cincinnati or online via Zoom. This event will include music, poetry and small group discussion and while this event is free, attendees will be invited to be active participants in this emerging conversation.

The Hive  is a grassroots mindfulness community curating multi-week classes, workshops and a Membership community. It has been formed by facilitators asking the question, "What are the resources that lie within our vast lineages, traditions, and modalities of healing, and how can we place them in service of the common good?" In this series we’re talking to The Hive’s 6 core faculty members, all of whom have a unique perspective on navigating collective change.

For this first conversation, Chris Larue, the Director of The Hive, joins us in speaking with Leslie Hershberger, about collective change, three-centered awareness, hope and the importance of practice.

Introductory Resources for the 3 centered Enneagram and the centers.

The recited poems were For the Interim Time by John O'Donohue and Start Close In by David Whyte.

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation.

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.  This episode is a snapshot from the Abundant Community Conversation on October 26 where Amy Howton speaks with Parker Palmer and Peter Block. This event was produced in partnership with Designed Learning, Abundant Community, Faith Matters Network and Common Change. These conversations happen on Zoom and they always contain poetry, small groups and an exploration of a particular theme.

The recited poem: Everything Falls Away by Parker Palmer

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

The next Abundant Community conversation is on October 26 with Parker Palmer, Peter Block and Sushama Austin-Connor. You can register here.

You can order Julia's new book, Habitats, here.

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.   For this episode, I speak with multidisciplinary artist and teacher Julia Orquera Bianco.

Julia Orquera Bianco was born in Argentina and lived in Mexico before moving to the United States. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Drawing and Painting from Universidad del Museo Social Argentino (Buenos Aires, Argentina) in 2012. In 2018 she graduated from the MFA program at Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. In 2020, Bianco earned a Certificate on Sustainability from University of California, Los Angeles.​ Bianco works through interrogating constructs resulting from Modern Western Culture, collective memory, and the experience of migration and gender. This allows her to speak about an identity constantly being renegotiated and in motion, in deep relation and conversation with the environment. Her explorations use her family legacy of labor as a strategy to connect with worlds that she is foreign to, experiencing them while remembering. She currently teaches at University of Cincinnati, Ohio. Her work has been showcased in Argentina, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, and the United States.

The recited poem was Shared Breath from Julia's new book, Habitats. Order it here.

I came out wandering, asking the trees and the singing birds for words to help me understand what it means to be present with others. 
Water fell from the gray sky in drops, 
sometimes thick and abundant, 
sometimes slim and sharp, 
sometimes tiny and gentle. 
Birds sang next to each other, 
asking and answering to their correspondence and inquiries as a whole. 
All different songs, 
overall a complex melody that I fail to understand, 
but that for me blends into a harmony of mystery that hides the clues to my predicament. 
We feel alone in a world full of others. 
Our souls touch even when our hands and feet remain distant. 
The forest is like a family where everyone is essential in its own uniqueness and individuality. 
There is nothing I have to do except to embrace this generosity. 
One thing I can offer is the presence of a shared breath for me to extend myself for others to expand for us to grow together. 

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

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 September 14 where Troy Bronsink speaks with David Brooks and Peter Block about David’s new book, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen. This event was produced in partnership with Designed Learning, Faith Matters Network, Abundant Community and Common Change. These conversations happen on Zoom and they always contain poetry, small groups and an exploration of a particular theme.

The next conversation is on October 26 with Parker Palmer. You can register here.

The recited excerpts came from Reverend Ben McBride's book, Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging. You can also check out our previous conversation with Ben here.

Peter also has a new book coming out in November that you can pre-order now. It's called Activating the Common Good: Reclaiming Control of Our Collective Well-Being.

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.   For this episode, I speak with Reverend Sushama Austin-Connor, DMin about Faith Matters Network, which envisions communities rooted in wisdom, spiritual practice, & healing. FMN is a womanist-led organization that equips justice leaders and heals the healers. Also, Sushama will be the host for the upcoming series of Abundant Community Conversations with Peter Block, David Brooks, Parker Palmer and many more.

The next Abundant Community conversation is on September 14 with David Brooks. You can register here.

The recited poem was "Poetry Should Ride the Bus" by Ruth Forman.

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.   For this episode, Devin Bustin and I speak with Mary Pierce Brosmer. Mary founded Women Writing for a Change and for over 30 years WWf(a)C has provided a safe and non-competitive environment for individuals to develop their writing skills, cultivate their creativity and strengthen their voices. We speak to Mary about her poetry, how she holds space, her life as a teacher and what led her to develop the organization.

You can find copies of Mary's recited poems here.

The next Abundant Community conversation is on September 14 with David Brooks. You can register here.

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

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 book, Who Do We Choose to Be? This event was produced in partnership with The Berkana Institute, Designed Learning, Abundant Community and Common Change. These conversations happen on Zoom and they always contain poetry, small groups and an exploration of a particular theme.

The next conversation is on September 14 with David Brooks. You can register here.

The recited poem: From the Elders of the Hopi Nation

To My Fellow Swimmers:

Here is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are
those who will be afraid, who will try to hold on to the shore. They are
being torn apart and will suffer greatly.

Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the
shore, push off into the middle of the river and keep our heads above water.

And I say see who is there with you and celebrate. At this time in history,
we are to take nothing personally, least of all ourselves. For the moment
that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.

The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves. Banish the word
struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary.

All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
For we are the ones we have been waiting for.

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

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 recited poem was New Day's Lyric by Amanda Gorman.

Excerpts:
Heed the Word of the Brother by X-Clan
World is MIND from KRS-One
Love Supreme by John Coltrane

This episode was hosted by Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp and produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation.