Whether you’re working to address climate change or public health, DEI, or AI, communications matters. Courage, care, and civility matter, too. How you practice those three C’s will directly affect your future, too. That and more, this season on Mission Forward.

Jennifer Brandel is a co-founder of Hearken, which she’ll talk about extensively today, but she’s also behind Zebra's Unite, Civic Exchange Chicago, Democracy SOS and WBEZ Chicago's Curious City. She joins Carrie Fox for a conversation on approaching the most challenging problems with an open and curious perspective in this rebroadcast from season 7.

In this rebroadcast from Season 7, 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.

In this rebroadcast from season 6, Schroeder Stribling, President and CEO of Mental Health America, joins Carrie Fox to talk about mental health, the narrative we've written around it as a society, and why it's time to get serious and teach one another to approach trauma with compassion.

We can’t turn back time, but we can progress forward. So, if there is a person you believe you’re done learning from, I invite you to reach out to them today. Tell them that you were thinking about them. And then listen closely to whatever they have to share. You may be surprised by how much there is left to learn.

This week, Carrie Fox sits down with Dr. Jean Accius, President and CEO of Creating Healthier Communities (CHC), to discuss just what it means to build healthier and more equitable communities.

We often talk about words on this show, but rarely do we talk about words in quite the way our guests this week have built their careers talking about words. Kathy and Ross Petras are the New York Times bestselling authors and hosts of the award-winning NPR.org podcast You’re Saying It Wrong. This week, we’re clearing the air on the words that trip us up the most!

How can leaders of social impact organizations build equitable pipelines of leadership to sustain their missions? That is our central question this week as Carrie Fox sits down with Christina Greenberg, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of diversity-focused talent management firm Edgility Consulting.

This week, the story of a quote. This quote is among the most well-known and widely shared of the words of a legend of peace. It’s been used by well-established thought leaders, in scholarly publications, books, and presentations, with thousands of references to this quote across social media. The problem is, the person never said it.

This week, Carrie Fox sits down with Jonathan Howard, Associate Partner at Edgility Consulting, about the importance of building equitable hiring practices to create a truly inclusive workplace.

Carrie Fox explores how we can build workplaces that work for all with her guest, George Rivera, Senior Vice President of SHRM Enterprise Solutions.

How should your organization thoughtfully adopt artificial intelligence (AI) in ways that enhance instead of displace the human workforce? Carrie sits down with SHRM’s George Rivera, a person uniquely qualified to take on these questions as we look out on the horizon toward the future of work.

This week, Carrie Fox sits down with Jennifer McCollum to talk about, well, a lot. In addition to her work as CEO of leadership development firm Linkage, Jennifer has become an inspiring voice in the realm of women's leadership.

AI is an important tool and an indelible part of our future. But we don't need to lose our humanity in the process of using it.

On this episode of Mission Forward, Reverend Ronnie Galvin discusses the importance of community and how it is not a physical place, but a set of practices. He shares his journey through social change and community building, and highlights the role of community in fostering justice, equity, and sustainability.

The memory we carry in our pockets directly affects the memory in our heads—and that impacts how we communicate. So, what are you doing to protect that precious time you have ... to think?

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.

This week, kicking off the eighth season of the Mission Forward podcast, Carrie sits down with Dr. John Izzo, author and advisor who has dedicated his mission to helping companies and individuals find theirs.

In the fast-paced nature of time, where it’s all too easy to get caught up in what’s coming next (vs. what’s happening now), where we want to be (vs. where we are), and how we get there (vs. what we’ve accomplished to date), it’s good to pause and remember that life is fast, and it’s short. Wherever you are, may you find something wonderful worth holding onto in this present moment.