The Power of Partnership

This special preview episode spotlights the Peace Begins at Home Summit (October 29, 2025), a global gathering inspired by Dr. Riane Eisler’s work showing how shifting from domination to partnership—beginning in our homes—builds a safer, more caring world. Host Cherri Jacobs Pruitt is joined by two featured summit speakers: Scarlett Lewis, founder of the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement, and Dr. S...

In our season finale, Dr. Riane Eisler and Eli Ingraham reflect on 42 episodes of the Power of Partnership Podcast and spotlight where partnership is thriving today. They highlight lessons from across the globe, showing how partnership values are reshaping families, education, economics, and community life. From rethinking early childhood and schooling, to advancing regenerative economics and bior...

In this special episode of the Power of Partnership Podcast , host Cherri Jacobs Pruitt speaks with Dr. Riane Eisler and summit director Gina Miltiadou about the upcoming Peace Begins at Home Summit (October 29, 2025). Together, they explore how peace must be redefined—not just as the absence of war, but as the presence of care, equity, and mutual respect, beginning in our homes. Drawing from neur...

In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast, host Cherri Jacobs Pruitt is joined by Tom Mansfield—regenerative thinker, innovator, and creator of Cards for Life.   Together, they explore how the principles of nature and the power of partnership can guide us through cycles of renewal, support cultural transformation, and spark innovation grounded in care and connection.   Tom shares his jou...

What happens when global development shifts from “doing for” communities to truly partnering with them? In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast , host Cherri Jacobs Pruitt is joined by Jill LaLonde and Sheku Mohamed Gassimu, Jr. of One Village Partners , an organization working alongside Sierra Leonean communities to challenge the legacy of top-down aid. Together, they explore what it...

What if care was recognized as the foundation of our economy—not an afterthought? In this episode of The Power of Partnership , Cherri Jacobs Pruitt speaks with Austrian consultant and activist Elisabeth Sechser, whose work boldly re-centers care at the heart of economics, leadership, and everyday life. As an expert in organizational development, Elisabeth shows ways to build partnership-based com...

What happens when a military engineer walks away from the defense industry to challenge the domination paradigm and choose a life rooted in peace, sustainability, and partnership? Filmmaker and author Jim Merkel shares how awakening to the human cost of war led him to embrace “radical simplicity,” create award-winning documentaries, and dedicate his life to building a more caring, equitable world....

Join globally recognized wisdom futurist Karen Sands as she shares her remarkable journey from growing up under domination to championing collaboration and intergenerational partnerships. Karen reveals how critical it is for today’s workforce to harness the wisdom of all generations during this time of societal transformation. The episode includes information about Karen’s "Leading Women to W...

Join scientist and interspiritual leader Dr. Kurt Johnson as he reveals how cutting-edge science confirms what history and human health have long shown: cooperation—not competition—has always been the key to our survival, thriving, and longevity. With a career spanning global diplomacy, scientific research, and interspiritual leadership—including work with the United Nations and the Evolutionary L...

In this episode, Rebecca Borland Reynolds , author of Thresholds of Change: The Way Through Transformational Times , explores how shifting from domination to partnership paradigms can transform our relationship with change. Drawing from decades of work across diverse settings, Rebecca shares her discovery of the universal four-threshold change process and how traditional power-over leadership mode...

In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast , Laura Hall—fashion industry executive, conscious capitalism leader, and author of The ABCs of Conscious Capitalism for Kids —draws from her global career and deep commitment to Riane Eisler’s partnership principles to explain why the future of capitalism must be caring, sustainable, and inclusive. She discusses the rise of public benefit corpor...

In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast , musician and artist EMA (Erika M. Anderson) shares her path from the punk and DIY scenes of South Dakota to opening for Depeche Mode. She reflects on how discovering Riane Eisler’s The Chalice and the Blade affirmed that domination isn’t inevitable and inspired her to see the potential for partnership in both art and society. EMA also speaks ca...

In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast , web designer and partnership advocate Kaia Tingley shares how discovering Riane Eisler’s work—and later becoming a mother—revealed the hidden dominance patterns shaping culture, caregiving, and power. She explains how the partnership–domination continuum offers a lens for creating more equitable systems at home, in business, and beyond. Kaia di...

 Gwynne Guzzeau, Executive Director of Helping Our Women, shares how her Outer Cape Cod nonprofit supports women with chronic health conditions through transportation, financial aid, and programs that foster social connection. Rooted in a history of community care, she explains how “leading from love” shapes her work, addresses the loneliness epidemic, and builds partnerships that strengthen both...

In this inspiring conversation, Gen Z advocate Nick Cholmsky shares his personal journey from teen mental health advocate to co-founder of the Youth Resiliency Project.   Nick discusses how outdated models of masculinity are impacting boys, young men, and masculine identifying persons—and how using a partnership-based lens, rooted in Riane Eisler’s cultural transformation framework,   can help ref...

In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast , therapist, author, and relationship expert Dr. Julie Hanks shares how she brings Riane Eisler’s cultural transformation theory into homes, workplaces, and faith communities. Drawing from her research on the creative productivity of mothers, Julie developed the Partnership Model of Family Organization , an eight-part framework for building equal...

I n this episode, the Center for Partnership Systems honors the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women with a discussion with Lynn Rosenthal, the Director of Sexual and Gender-based Violence at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and past White House Advisor on Violence Against Women and past President of the Center for Family Safety and Healing. This episode...

From climate anxiety to deep social divides, the future can feel daunting—but it doesn’t have to. In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast , creativity scholar Alfonso Montuori shares how partnership thinking can replace fear with possibility and guide us toward collaborative, life-centered solutions. As founder of the Center for Creative Futures, he explains how shifting our visions fr...

From economic instability to climate disasters, our current systems often fail to meet communities’ most basic needs—but it doesn’t have to be this way. In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast , regenerative economics expert Scott Morris shares how place-based, partnership-driven economic systems can help communities create safety nets, strengthen resilience, and thrive beyond crisis....

Coercive control often hides in plain sight—and our systems can unknowingly help it persist. In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast , Kate Amber, founder of End Coercive Control USA, shares how her “Quicksand Model” helps survivors, professionals, and communities recognize, prevent, and respond to this patterned abuse—especially in family courts. Drawing on her own lived experience an...

Abuse isn’t always physical—and it’s often hidden in plain sight. In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast , author and therapist Jennifer Parker exposes how coercive control operates as a patterned, domination-based abuse that erodes rights, freedom, and self-worth. Drawing on her book Coercive Relationships and decades of work with survivors, Jennifer explains the cultural roots of co...

 In a time when reproductive rights are being rolled back across the U.S., how can we move from fear, division, and control toward freedom, justice, and care for all? In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast , Vote Pro Choice co-founder Heidi Sieck shares how applying Riane Eisler’s partnership model can transform both the political and cultural landscape. She traces the systemic roots...

 This episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast features Caroline Dama, Country Coordinator for Green World Campaign Kenya. Caroline shares how her team is using community currencies, regenerative farming, and school-based education to tackle unemployment, food insecurity, and environmental degradation—while strengthening social bonds. Drawing on indigenous knowledge and Riane Eisler’s partnersh...

What if the roots of war were planted at home? In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast , host Cherri Jacobs Pruitt sits down with Dr. Riane Eisler and Dr. Gary Barker to uncover how violence inside families is directly connected to violence in our communities and across the globe. Together, they reveal how domination-based relationships in childhood normalize conflict, while care-based...

 What if the way we treat each other inside healthcare organizations directly determined the quality of care patients receive? In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast , Julie Kennedy Oehlert—author, nurse, and Chief Experience and Brand Officer at ECU Health—shares how she’s using Riane Eisler’s cultural transformation theory to move from domination-based hierarchies toward “power with...