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On-location at One Heartland in Northern Minnesota for the 2018 Red Ribbon Ride.

On-location in Loring Park for the 2018 Twin Cities Pride Festival.

On-location at the 2018 Twin Cities Pride Parade Part 2.

On-location at the 2018 Twin Cities Pride Parade Part 1.

On-location in Loring Park for the 2018 Twin Cities Pride Festival Part 3.

On-location in Loring Park for the 2018 Twin Cities Pride Festival Part 2.

On-location in Loring Park for the 2018 Twin Cities Pride Festival Part 1.

On-location at the 2018 Pride Beer Dabbler.

On-location at the 3rd annual Golden Valley Pride Festival.

On-location at LUSH for reflections on the late 90’s and 2000’s of Twin Cities Pride with Bill Nienaber, David Hill, and Eric Zimmerman.

On-location at the Tretter History Pavilion with Jean Tretter. Also included is a chat with some of the student archivists we met at the pavilion this year, as well as quick introduction to the Tretter Collection's new Curator, Rachel Mattson.

On-location at LUSH for Lavender’s 2018 Score Thursday Pride Kickoff.

Conversations with the owner of the highly succesful Mediterranean Cruise Cafe, Jamal Ansari, and Aneta's longtime friend and mentor, Mario Pierzchalski. ©2019 NONPOD for Top Ventures, LLC.   Music: CØDE - We're Invincible (feat. Joseph Feinstein) [NCS Release], David Bulla - Unexpected [NCS Release], Jim Yosef - Firefly [NCS Release]. All music used by permission under attribution license courtesy of NoCopyrightSounds.

Happy Hanukkah! In this episode we sit down with Beth's longtime friend and colleague Susan Raffo to talk about Healing Justice. We talk about its history, how the concept itself is rooted in the ancient wisdom of cultures around the world, and how it's just recently begun to gain greater visibility in the broader Social Justice movement in the United States, thanks largely to the work of Queer Black women in the South combating the lasting effects of the legacy of slavery. We talk about how healing has traditionally been understood in Western and American society and offer some alternatives to the parts of this understanding that continue to contribute to the very things we aspire to heal - both on an individual level and collectively. We also discuss a few ways that practitioners of all kinds can integrate Healing Justice concepts into their work and how anyone can implement it in their daily lives. We also talk briefly about Beth's upcoming Facilitating Cultural Change workshop and her all new website!

On-location at the Minneapolis Convention Center for Clare Housing's A Place to Call Home Annual Luncheon.

In this episode, we talk about the state of our democracy, our world, the challenges our communities are facing from inside and out, and what we as individuals feeling lost in the middle of it all… can do about it. We also talk about how the lessons and traditions from the Jewish High Holidays (and really, most religious traditions) can help us find peace, community, forgiveness, our way back to those we’ve alienated and a calling to be our best selves. We talk about how even with the best intentions, we can often “miss our mark” - as individuals and as a community - and how that’s okay. We talk about how putting each other through ideological perfection tests is always a losing battle, as everyone of us, at some point, will fail. We also talk about how as bad as things might feel right now, and as much as it might look on cable news like our movements might be starting to fracture from within… things might not actually be as bad as they seem – and it might actually be nothing new. We also touch briefly on

In this episode, we talk Narrative Strategy with Beth's colleague Eleonore Wesserle, Communications Consultant and founder of the new Narrative Strategy Consulting firm Dreams To Power. We talk about Eleonore's "Now Wow How" issue framing system and how it can be used to maximize our Movement Building work. We also apply some basic Narrative Strategy concepts to some current events and suggest a few alternatives to some of the dominant Progressive narratives around them employing the "Now Wow How" system.

On-location at Turf Club with RECLAIM for Art Heals 2018.

On-location at Unity Church in St. Paul for the Kaleo Center's Night of a New Day event.

On-location at the 2018 Twin Cities Pride Festival with Theresa Holl of the Kelly Nicole Foundation. We talk about the music and legacy of Theresa's late wife, Kelly Nicole, and about how you can help support the important work being done by the foundation in her memory.