Working to make life better for humankind is both a privilege and a challenge, and no one knows this better than the folks who have made this work their day job. Issue Space is a podcast and community for professional changemakers of every kind. Through candid conversations about the lived experience of social change work, we hold space to process life in the unique — and uniquely needed — business of impact. Our mission is to give ambitious social impact professionals a sustaining sense of connection to their sector. Our vision is an impact workforce that grows and thrives — so that we all can.
As a professional in social impact, it’s our job to lean into the heavy. But while the subject matter of this sector is often grim, does the work itself have to be? In the face of hardship, lightness – from joy, to humor, to childlike imagination – can be used to cultivate everything from social resistance to personal relief. In a time when society has never seemed to need levity more, could lightness be a secret weapon of the impact sector? In this episode of the Issue Space podcast, we speak with two professional social change dreamers about wielding joy and imagination as tools of progress.
About
Working to make life better for humankind is both a privilege and a challenge, and no one knows this better than the folks who have made this work their day job. Issue Space is a podcast and community for professional changemakers of every kind. Through candid conversations about the lived experience of social change work, we hold space to process life in the unique — and uniquely needed — business of impact. For more, visit: www.issuespacemedia.com
Host
Cat Addo
https://www.cataddo.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherineaddo/
Guests
Jess Weiner https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessweiner/
April Callen https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilcallen/
Discussed references:
Comedy Can Help Change the World, Rutgers Researcher Says
https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/news/comedy-can-help-change-world-rutgers-researcher-says
The Black radical imagination: a space of hope and possible futures
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10557459/
New Surgeon General Advisory Raises Alarm about the Devastating Impact of the Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation in the United States
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/05/03/new-surgeon-general-advisory-raises-alarm-about-devastating-impact-epidemic-loneliness-isolation-united-states.html
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