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Kari talks with Faith and Tanya about the care economy, why so much of our care is uncompensated, stigmatized, and doled out according to class, age, and the needs of the system. They also explore how our needs for care and affection are shaped over our lifetimes, thanks to family, culture, and society. What would it look like for us to all receive the care and affection we need to thrive without...

In this episode, Kari talks with Debra and Britt about learning, why we learn, how we learn, and how learning, growth, and development are changed by capitalism. Each of us deserves to have opportunities to explore new ideas and enhance our lives in ways that are meaningful to us, so we're taking a look at how capitalism sets up barriers to that and changes the nature of our growth and development...

Join Kari, Shelby, and Sarah as they explore the ideas and definitions of creativity and rest and talk about why they are so important to our well-being. They also look at how these two things impact our ability to connect with each other and ourselves and how art and music and dance can be key components of both community and resistance. Check out Kari's Substack for written companion pieces and...

We all need to belong, if only for survival, but we also want to feel valued and important. Kari, Samandra, and Niki talk about the ways our current systems have commodified those needs without actually meeting them, and what it would be like if we created and nurtured ways of being that truly recognized each of us as individuals worthy of care and consideration. Learn more about your ad choices....

In the first full-length episode of Visions for a Radically Different World, Kari talks with two friends about what it might look like to create a world where everyone's needs for subsistence and physical safety are assured. They explore the things that help us feel safe, how we struggle as individuals to try and ensure our own basic needs are met in the face of capitalism, and how community acts...

This is a short introduction to a new series where Kari and guests explore ideas for a world where our systems and structures actually serve us as human beings. We ask the question: how can we create systems and structures that are designed for care and support? The economy, our medical systems, justice systems, school systems - all of them are crumbling right now and failing to keep us well, heal...

Kari talks to Shelby Mathis about the importance of rest and play for folks whose work relies on creativity. Come listen as these two explore ideas of what it means to reimagine the way you talk about your work and their collaboration on Kari's new website, Connective Tissue Coaching & Consulting. If you've ever wondered what it might be like to build play and rest in to your plan for work, this i...

Check out the news on any given day and you'll see evidence of all the ways we "other" people, shame them, alienate them, and cause harm to them - passively and actively. In this conversation, Vanessa Faloye and I dig deep in to the things that separate us and cause us to lose touch with our humanity. We explore what it even means to be in touch with it, and why it's so easy sometimes to "other" p...

In this short episode, Kari revisits her conversation with Jason Sole, who has applied for a pardon for his crimes in the state of Minnesota and discovered just how opaque and unequal the system is. Georgia Fort's conversation with Jason Petition to Pardon Jason by Juneteenth Jason Sole's Linked In profile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kari talks to Jess Graham about their new book, Being (Sick) Enough, and what it means to build a relationship to pain - both chronic illness and emotional trauma. The conversation touches on autism, addiction, chronic pain, trauma, healing, spirituality, and the power of keeping the spark of hope Websites:  Jessica Graham You Wild Awakening Links to Buy Books: Being (Sick) Enough Link to Buy Good...

Kari talks with Faith Scott, a writer, therapist, TEDx speaker, and all-around amazing human about what "place" means to her. Drawing on inspiration from bell hooks and Nicholas Galanin, Kari and Faith explore ideas of generational migration, belovedness, and what it means to find "home." Faith's Substack: https://faithscott.substack.com/ Poetry Anthology, Shaking off the Ashes: https://inkedeleph...

This short episode features Kari thinking out loud about where we can find solace amidst chaos. She invites listeners to think about how to identify solid ground when everything feels scary and tenuous. It is so easy to get caught up in the overwhelm of the news cycle and lose sight of the things that are there for us when we need them. Connect with Kari O'Driscoll Learn more about your ad choices...

Eleanor Vincent is an author whose latest book is called Disconnected: Portrait of a Neurodiverse Marriage. In this memoir, she recounts her experience of courtship and marriage to a man on the autism spectrum and paints a picture of what it was like to build up hope, fall in love late in life, and fight to connect with her husband when their brains were wired in fundamentally different ways. Kari...

Kari and Aggeliki talk about writing, how it relates to life, and Aggeliki's new novel, Unlucky Mel. Exploring themes of caregiving, workplace politics, and humor, the book is tremendously entertaining and relatable. Aggeliki's work can be found here- LinkTree Preorder Unlucky Mel here www.cornellpress.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Kari and Nina McCollum talk about what it's like to be a caregiver to kids and parents simultaneously. In the last couple of decades, the emergence of the so-called Sandwich Generation has put an enormous strain on families (mostly women) to navigate the pressures of raising kids and caring for elders within systems that weren't designed to support them. Nina's website: www. NinaW...

Garrett Bucks is a writer and organizer dedicated to creating spaces where White folks can have conversations about what it means to really create communities where we all thrive and talk honestly about racism and the way it affects us. Come listen as he explains why the movie ET is a perfect metaphor for how he thinks about whiteness. Garrett Bucks' website https://www.garrettbucks.com/ Kari's m...

Dr. Paul Zeitz, a physician, activist, and author, joins Kari to talk about his new book, Revolutionary Optimism. They explore ideas of overwhelm and grief and share tips for how to stay focused on love in challenging times, and use that love to fuel our activism. Dr. Paul Zeitz website: https://drpaulzeitz.org/ Sign up sheet for the next Grief and Rage Workshop that begins June 24: Sign up here K...

Join Kari and Jason Sole to talk about what it means to be in community with each other in ways that heal and repair rifts, and why abolition is a key part of this. Jason's experiences as a Black man in the United States, holding healing circles, and his lived experience with violence and incarceration give him a strong perspective on what it means to find "justice," and where we can't find it. Th...

Kari talks with Judy Ryan Hall about how her tongue cancer and the subsequent treatment radically changed her relationship to her body and to food. The treatment not only resulted in serious complications that kept her hospitalized for an extended period of time, but it left her unable to taste most food. As someone who has always loved food and being in a human body, the last few years have been...

Kari and Rachael talk about how they came to their parenting philosophies, examine the complexities of parenting, and look at how their ideas changed over time. Exploring ideas of discipline and attachment and how we often parent as a reaction to the way we were parented, this conversation is full of insight and laughter. youthwell website: https://youthwell.org/ Happy, Healthy Teens book: https:...

Kari talks with Joe Loya, a man who was convicted of robbing 30 banks and wrote about his time in prison and his life in the memoir, The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell. Joe and Kari explore the intersections of language, religion, maleness and violence and talk about how our ideas of hierarchy and gender impact the way we use and justify violence. Joe's unique history and educational background m...

Come listen as Kari and Kute Blackson talk about what it means to surrender, how it changes our perspective when we find the courage to surrender, and how it's related to faith in something larger than us and experienced in our bodies. Whether you're facing a difficult decision or grieving a huge loss or just trying to bolster yourself to make a bold move in your life, how do you think about surre...

Kari talks to Kathy O'Driscoll, a human-resources professional who has worked in corporate and non-profit organizations, about what it means to work, how the nature of work is changing, and how we can adapt our ideas about labor, effort, and community to shift the way we work. They explore what it means to do uncompensated work like caregiving, the onset of artificial intelligence, the balance of...

Kari talks with Andrea Carlisle about her new book, There Was an Old Woman, and her thoughts about aging. Listen as they explore what it means to be "women of a certain age," talk about those obnoxious targeted social media advertisements for "belly fat" and what it might look like to age without shame, and see how Andrea compares aging to adolescence. Andrea's website: https://andreacarlisle.com...

Please join me for this short episode where I examine my own relationship to grief and invite you to think about the ways you have been taught to grieve, and how we can learn to hold each other when we're in this space. Learn more about Grief and Rage Rituals here: https://kariodriscollwriter.com/my-work/ Reach out to me at kari@kariodriscollwriter.com with questions Find Kari O'Driscoll in Instag...