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 Sam Pressler speak with Kate Hanisian.

Kate Hanisian is a strategist and social change advocate that is deeply driven by the question: How might we design a more connected, sustainable, and inclusive world? She co-founded Design Impact, a non-profit social innovation firm in 2009, building a small idea into a successful nonprofit that addresses complex social challenges through the lenses of innovation, equity, and leadership. She now serves as the Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer within the YMCA of Greater Cincinnati and is also the lead facilitator of the YMCA North American Network, where she works with the leaders of the largest YMCAs in the US, Mexico, and Canada.

Check out Connective Tissue Policy Framework

Works Referenced in this podcast:

• Sam’s piece about the YMCA on Connective Tissue
• The Membership: A Wendell Berry Podcast
• Enhancing Social Capital and Sense of Belonging; A Collaboration between the YMCA of Greater Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s Mayerson Child Well-Being Initiative (MCWI)
• Wellness Check by Andrea Gibson

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.

Joey Taylor & Sam Pressler speak with Pete Davis about Join or Die, which he directed with Rebecca Davis.

• The Lost Prophets Podcast
• Pete's Interview with Sam
• Dedicated by Pete Davis
• Bowling Alone by Putnam
• The Upswing by Putnam
• Sum of Us by McGhee
• Against Everyone with Conner Habib Podcast
• Weird Studies Podcast
• Lindy Effect - Nicholas Nassim Taleb
• The Maintainers
• Quest for Community by Nisbet
• February 2nd, 1968 by Wendell Berry
• Small is Beautiful by Schumacher
• The Creation of the American Republic by Wood
• Our Divided Political Heart by Dionne
• Triplets of Evil Speech by King
• Boy in the Bubble by Paul Simon
• Jane Macelevy, Eddie Glaude, Frederick Law Olmsted, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Jane Jacobs, Buckminster Fuller, Ralph Nader, Paul Goodman, Ella Baker, Ivan Illich, Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, Marshal McLuhan, Tony Judt, Thomas Merton, Michael Lind, Frank Capra, Elias Krim, Roberto Unger, Alexis De Tocqueville, Priya Parker

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 Sam Pressler speak with Dr. Ian Marcus Corbin about loneliness as a spiritual and material crisis, agency, world making, and Restoring the Common Good.

Ian Marcus Corbin is a philosopher in Cambridge, MA, serving on the faculties of Neurology and Bioethics at Harvard Medical School, where he co-directs the Human Network Initiative, and is a Senior Fellow at the think tank Capita. He has a book on belonging forthcoming.

Check out Sam's new policy framework.

Works Referenced in this podcast:

• Radical Hope by Jonathon Lear
• Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism boy Anne Case and Angus Deaton
• The Loneliest Crowd by Ian Marcus Corbin
• We Were Wrong About What Happened to America in 2020 by Eric Klinenberg
• Alienated America by Timothy Carney
• How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century by Hahrie Han
• George W Bush’s Ownership Society
• Why is it So Expensive to Build Stuff in America on Plain English Podcast with Derek Thompson
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
• The Left Needs a Spiritual Renaissance. So Does America. By Ian Marcus Corbin and Senator Chris Murphy
• REMARKS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MARCH 18, 1968 by Robert F. Kennedy
• Read about the Saguaro Seminars in this book by Robert Putnam - Better Together: Restoring the American Community
• Read about Rawlsian Bracketing here - Neutered by Neutrality: The Abiding Influence of John Rawls, Part Two by Randall Smith
• “A House Called Tomorrow” by Alberto Ríos

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.

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.