Dr. Katelyn Jetelina has taken her modest public health email for friends and family and fashioned it into a public health powerhouse of a newsletter influencing hundreds of millions of readers. How did she do it? This week she reminds us all to keep it simple.

The most compelling stories for social change break stereotypes and build new ways for us to understand issues and each other. Start by looking for stereotypes in your communications, and then practice some reframing. As we learn this week, the story will be even better as a result.

Earlier this month, I gathered with colleagues to review updates to a brand guide. We were deep in the language preferences section of the guide when the team came upon a point of tension. All agreed to capitalize racial, ethnic, and cultural identities such as Black, Asian, Latino, and Navajo. Still, there was disagreement among those who wished to capitalize White and those who wanted to lowercase white.

Last November, Apple released a short film titled "The Greatest," which follows seven people throughout what is considered an average day, with an all-disabled cast, representing the authentic experiences of each cast member as they engage in various daily tasks, showcasing how Apple's suite of accessibility tools enables them to, as Forbes writes, navigate a world that wasn't designed with their needs in mind. It gives us a lot to thinking about.

Bread for the City CEO George Jones sits down with Carrie to talk about making a difference at the intersection of race, racism, and poverty in Washington, DC.

Brandon Nightingale is a historian and the Black Press Archives digitization project manager at the Moorland Spingarn Research Center at Howard University. Brandon's project: to research and document the history of the Black press.

To many people, narrative change is just another jargon term that gets tossed around in politics and philanthropy. To us, it’s a powerful tool to shift how we interpret and understand the world around us, with the goal of making the spaces between us smaller.

Michael Gordon Voss is publisher at Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), and this week’s conversation is all about trust.

In 2020, the video game world learned something special about Marvel’s newest Spider-Man character, Miles Morales. Turns out, the signs were there all along.

Knowing how to talk about public health can have a direct impact on the health of a community, so understanding what works is essential. Public Health expert Mark Miller joins Carrie Fox to explain just how important this message is.

Two little words have the power to change HOW we communicate, and HOW we connect with and understand one another as a result. Those two words? What If?

Ashton Lattimore joins Carrie Fox to talk about her role as Editor-in-Chief at Prism, an independent nonprofit newsroom led by journalists of color.

Our guest this week is Mia Birdsong: pathfinder, community curator, and storyteller, who steadily engages the leadership and wisdom of people experiencing injustice to chart new visions of American life. She has an extraordinary gift for leveraging the brilliance of everyday people so that our collective gifts reach larger spheres of influence, cultural and political change, and create well-being for everyone.

Linda Villarosa is a brilliant storyteller, a journalist author, editor, and educator. She's a New York times magazine contributing writer where she covers race, inequality, and health. We’re bringing this episode back to the fore in our summer session and join Linda to talk about just how far our public health system has to go on issues of equity and inclusivity.

Our words and our actions matter. The effect they can have on others is enormous. This week, a reminder to come at your conversations — with your employees, your colleagues, your children, your neighbors — with love.

On this week’s show, we talk about inspiring people longing for change, and how to continue having authentic conversations with love with Edgar Villanueva in this rebroadcast episode from season one.

Jim Knight has led Jubilee Housing since 2002 and joins us this week to share their commitment to building compassionate communities for everyone to thrive.

Temi Bennett went to Washington to make big change. She ended up making even bigger change by acting locally. Learn more about the Director of Policy for IF: A foundation for radical possibility.

This week, Equity Through Action President C.Marie Taylor talks about the challenges of entrenched power in non-profit boards and offers solutions toward resolving conflict, overcoming obstacles, and generating action.

What does it mean to show love in the work of our agencies? What does it mean to nurture those who come after us in the communications field? May Medallada Robinson joins us to demonstrate how personal purpose can lead to professional progress.