Progress Reimagined
Progress Reimagined explores innovative ideas, technologies, and emerging economic models that put humanity and our planet first. The show challenges assumptions to reshape how we think about progress and prosperity, through conversations with people making a real impact. New episodes every other week.
Progress Reimagined
Your Empathy Is Not a Weakness, It's Where the Future Begins
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Anxious about the state of the world? You're not alone. Host Kathleen Chu makes the case that empathy isn't a weakness but a starting point. Drawing on Octavia Butler, adrienne maree brown, and Eckhart Tolle to explore how to stay hopeful and imagine a better future. Three practices that help: quieting the input, turning inward, and turning outward.
Books (affiliate links)
A New Earth — Eckhart Tolle
Emergent Strategy — adrienne maree brown
Parable of the Sower — Octavia E. Butler
Communities & organizations
School of Radical Imagination — live cohort classes on imagining liberatory futures
Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) — global network reimagining the economy around wellbeing
Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL) — Kate Raworth's framework for an economy within social & planetary limits
Practices mentioned
Tara Brach — talks & guided meditations
Boho Beautiful — guided meditations
Progress Reimagined Substack
A Book for Turbulent Times: Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth — the companion essay referenced in the episode
Research cited
APA 2024 mental health poll — 70% of U.S. adults anxious about current events (April 2024)
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Progress Reimagined explores innovative ideas, technologies and economic models that put humanity and our planet first. Each episode asks the questions that move us forward — not just can we, but should we.
Through solo reflections and conversations with thinkers, innovators and changemakers, we examine the ideas shaping our world and the ones that could reshape it for the better.
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