Let's Give A Damn

Detra Denise is a woman determined to tell her heartbreaking and hopeful story to as many people as possible in as many ways as possible. NEXT STEPS: — Follow Detra on Instagram and Facebook . — Follow Detra’s Story on Instagram . — Visit the brand new Detra’s Story website . — Buy her limited edition, 5-pack cigar sampler ! ___________________________________________ Reach out to us anytime and f...

Tom Fishman is the CEO of Starts With Us . Starts With Us is a movement to foster curiosity , compassion , and courage as daily habits to overcome the polarization, blind tribalism, and dehumanization threatening the social fabric of our communities. NEXT STEPS: — Follow Starts With Us on Twitter and Instagram . — Visit their website and join the Starts With Us movement today! ____________________...

Good+Foundation is a leading national nonprofit that works to dismantle multi-generational poverty by pairing tangible goods with innovative services for low-income fathers, mothers and caregivers, creating an upward trajectory for the whole family. NEXT STEPS: — Follow Good+ Foundation on Twitter , Instagram , and Facebook . — Visit Good+ Foundation’s website to learn more and to donate. — Follow...

Russell (aka Jolly Good Ginger ) was raised by racist and bigoted parents and now educates white people to eradicate bigotry in all of its ugly forms. He shares his message with almost 2,000,000 people on social media. Russell is a damn good human and I can’t wait for you to meet him and learn from him today! NEXT STEPS: — Follow Jolly Good Ginger on Tiktok , Twitter , Facebook , Instagram , and T...

Anand Giridharadas is a writer. He is the author of The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy (2022), Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (2018) , The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas (2014) , and India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking (2011) . A former foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Time...

Early on, Josh Tetrick worked with the United Nations, President Clinton, and the President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Throughout his career, he has always worked to help organizations to work in purposeful ways. In 2011, Josh Co-founded Eat Just, Inc., which makes JUST Egg and GOOD Meat . Since 2011, they have been working non-stop to change the way the world eats one cell and one bean at...

It’s an honor to have Mosheh Oinounou join us on the podcast this week to discuss and navigate all things news and media. Mosheh Oinounou (Wah-Noo-Noo) is an Emmy, Murrow and Webby Award-winning Executive Producer. Mosheh was the youngest-ever executive producer of the “CBS Evening News” in 2018 and 2019, where he led more than 150 personnel and coverage of everything from the war on ISIS to natur...

Buy Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World by Frederick Joseph and Porsche Joseph Buy Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by Ruha Benjamin Buy An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville by Reza Aslan Listen to or watch the sermon I gave at Middle Church on 10/2/22 on Youtube .  Reach out to us anytime and for any reason a...

Follow Chelsea Clinton on Twitter . Learn more about her work at the Clinton Foundation here . Follow Zainab Salbi on Twitter and Instagram . Follow Daughters For Earth on Twitter and learn more about Daughters For Earth on their website . Follow Alison Moore on Twitter. Follow Comic Relief US on Twitter and Instagram and learn more about Comic Relief US and Red Nose Day . Watch talks/panels from...

Shauna Siggelkow is a video producer working at the intersection of media production, research, and advocacy. Her credits include shows such as Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown , PBS’s Mind of a Chef , Nickelodeon’s Take Me to Your Mother , HGTV’s House Hunters , and MTV’s Emmy-Nominated White Peopl e. Her current role is Director of Digital Storytelling at Define American , a non-profit whose mis...

George McGraw is a leading expert on water and sanitation in the United States and around the world. He currently serves as the Founder & CEO of DigDeep , the only WaSH (water, sanitation and hygiene) organization solely focused on the USA. In 2019, he co-authored the ‘ Closing the Water Access Gap in the United States ’ Report, an explosive study that revealed over 2.2 million Americans curre...

My guest today, Pádraig Ó Tuama, is brilliant and has done so many beautiful things in his life. I decided to share the bio from his website rather than type up my version of it. It’s better this way, trust me. “Poet and theologian, Pádraig Ó Tuama’s work centres around themes of language, power, conflict and religion. For Ó Tuama, religion, conflict, power and poetry all circle around language, t...

Whitney Bauck is an incredible journalist. Here are just some of things the we found that she has done: She is a journalist using unique angles to bring new readers into the climate and environment conversation. She contributes to the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Grist, Atmos, New York Magazine, Vogue Business and more. She has covered a variety of beats, but the throu...

Recently, we’ve had so many incredible conversations that have moved me in so many profound ways. Here are a few of the clips that have helped me as I continue to figure out how to give a damn well in a world gone mad. Enjoy! NEXT STEPS: Follow Jacqui Lewis on Instagram and Twitter Follow Jeffrey Marsh on Instagram and Twitter Follow Frederick Joseph on Instagram and Twitter Follow Hillary McBride...

ALOK (they/them) is an internationally acclaimed writer, performer, and public speaker. As a mixed-media artist their work explores themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition. They are the author of Femme in Public (2017), Beyond the Gender Binary (2020), and Your Wound/My Garden (2021). They are the creator of #DeGenderFashion: a movement to degender fashion and beauty industries and ha...

Frederick Joseph uses his writing and marketing skills to create change, help people grow, and foster learning and unlearning to lift marginalized people. Frederick is a two-time New York Times bestselling author of The Black Friend (2020) and Patriarchy Blues (2022), and the author of the upcoming book Better Than We Found It (2022). Frederick also writes about marketing, culture, and politics fo...

Naiara Tamminga is a 13-year-old damn-giver living in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A little context for why this conversation is taking place. On May 17, Naiara got up at her local city commission meeting and spoke for 3 minutes. She called out the leaders in front of her and other leaders in her community for their gross inaction regarding the brutal murder of 26-year-old refugee from the Democratic R...

Dr. Scott Ellsworth, who joined the DAAS faculty in 2007, teaches courses on African American history, Southern literature, race and sports, and crime and justice in contemporary U.S. society. Trained as a historian, he received his Ph. D from Duke University in 1982, where he was a member of the Duke Oral History Program. The author of Death in a Promised Land , the first-ever comprehensive histo...

We’re so grateful Janos Marton joined us on the podcast this week! “Janos Marton is a born and raised New Yorker. He has spent his career fighting for racial justice and taking on corruption – as a civil rights lawyer, special counsel to the Moreland Commission to Investigate Corruption, and as attorney investigating police misconduct for the City of New York. In 2016 he was named the first advoca...

Andy Grammer is an incredible artist and family man and an all-around damn good human. His team sent me his bio and I decided I couldn’t write a better bio than the one they sent because it’s fantastic so here you go: “Multiplatinum troubadour Andy Grammer continues to engage, energize, and empower audiences with stomping stadium-size pop anthems meant to be shared at full volume. His observations...

Dr. Hillary McBride a therapist, researcher, speaker and writer. She loves to help people grow, heal, change, and come into more fullness in themselves and their relationships. She is passionate about the well-being of all people, and want to make psychology and academic research accessible to a wide variety of people. Read the rest of Hillary’s bio here . “Only when we’re brave enough to explore...

Josiah Haken is the CEO of New York City Relief , a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting the homeless to resources that can change their lives. Josiah is widely recognized as the “go-to person” in New York City when it comes to teaching others how to engage with the homeless. He leads workshops with many of NYC’s major organizations that deal with homelessness, as well as with many fait...

Tyler Merritt is a Nashville-based actor, comedian, vocalist, and creator of The Tyler Merritt Project . His television credits include ABC's Kevin Probably Saves The World, Netflix's Messiah, Netflix's Outer Banks, Apple TV+'s series Swagger, Disney+/Marvel's series Falcon and the Winter Soldier, NBC’s Ordinary Joe, Lifetimes Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff, and A24’s upcoming feature film The Inspec...

From Jeffrey Marsh ’s website: "Jeffrey Marsh’s spiritual and inclusive messages have received over 1 billion views on social media. Jeffrey is a viral TikTok and Instagram star. Jeffrey is the first openly nonbinary public figure to be interviewed on national television, for Unfiltered. Jeffrey was also the first nonbinary author to be offered a book deal with any "Big 5" publisher, at Penguin Ra...

Brenda Davies is the creator of God is Grey and the host of YouTube and Podcast In The Grey . Brenda is a sex educator that champions curiosity, sex positivity, compassion & healthy debate. During this conversation, we talk about about purity culture, harmful theology, how to discuss massively important topics with people we don’t agree with, what’s next for Brenda, and so much more! A quick w...