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Dialogue Lab

Reva Patwardhan•www.dialoguelab.org
Society & Culture
News & Politics
Welcome to the Dialogue Lab Podcast, an interview show dedicated to helping you thrive as you make your impact. Every episode, I host conversations with social change leaders about how we can thrive in this work, so our movements thrive too. We talk about how burn-out culture shows up in social change spaces, and explore what it takes to stay engaged and effective over the long haul. I offer you these conversations as an antidote to burnout culture in the social change sector. Join me every other Tuesday as we celebrate what renews us as we make change: self-care, creativity, diversity, innovation, emotional intelligence, mindfulness, authentic leadership, collaboration, and more. Be sure to subscribe on iTunes (or your favorite podcasting app) so you never miss an episode.
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Episodes

EP015: Sameena Mustafa Helped Build the Blue Wave

-- DIALOGUE LAB PODCAST EPISODE 015 - Sameena Mustafa Helped Build the Blue Wave I talked to Sameena Mustafa -- former candidate for Congress -- a few weeks before the midterm elections. Sameena is a progressive who aimed to unseat centrist Democrat Mike Quigley in the Democratic primary back in March 2018. Her bid was impressive, if ultimately unsuccessful, and shone a light on how out of step Quigley’s voting record has been with his very progressive district. And in the context of the “Blue W...

Nov 14, 2018•58 min

EP014: Esther de Rothschild & Aicha Cherif are Getting Out the Love Vote

Every. Vote. Counts. And as it turns out, that is often felt most keenly from the perspective of people who are not allowed to vote. That what motivates Esther de Rothschild & Aicha Cherif in their work running the Love Vote, an organization that amplifies the voices of people who can’t vote -- either because of youth, citizenship, or disenfranchisement. And they are doing it to move people who can vote, to vote. Esther -- the Love Vote’s founder -- is a high school teacher and filmmaker. Ai...

Oct 16, 2018•52 min

EP013: Kat Calvin: Spread the Vote

-- DIALOGUE LAB PODCAST EPISODE 013 - Kat Calvin: Spread the Vote -- After the 2016 presidential election, Kat Calvin took a hard look at the state of voting rights in this country, and did not like what she saw. Like the fact that in 34 states, eligible voters are being turned away from polling stations because they don’t have a state-issued ID. So Kat founded Spread the Vote, which is working to get people their IDs, so they can vote. As well as find jobs, apply for housing -- all sorts of ess...

Oct 01, 2018•37 min

EP012: Kishshana Palmer is elevating the way we see people in the nonprofit sector

This week, I speak with Kishshana Palmer, a brilliant trainer, speaker, and thought leader when it comes to management and leadership in the nonprofit sector. I have spent 2 decades working in the nonprofit and social impact sectors, and I’m in love with these people. You work hard, you are smart, dedicated, and incredibly resourceful. And it drives me up the wall that the people in this sector are so often underpaid, and instead of being treated like the resourceful humans they are, they often ...

Sep 18, 2018•53 min

EP011: Melanie Dewberry: A Philosophy for Action Grounded in a Deeper Truth

This week, we go on a deep dive with the brilliant Melanie Dewberry, a coach, speaker, author, and indigenous ceremonialist. This was a very different kind of conversation for this podcast. Melanie gets real, and she gets deep down to the gritty, unpolished truth here. And honestly, this ended up being one of the most valuable conversations to me personally, that I’d had in a while. We talked about what it means to advocate for change, w/o being trapped inside the very system you are trying to c...

Aug 31, 2018•1 hr

EP010: Rebecca Aced-Molina on Leadership between a rock and a hard place

This week, a conversation with Rebecca Aced-Molina, an amazing coach and facilitator who is a faculty member with Leadership That Works, a school for coaches who want to be effective in social impact spaces. Rebecca shared her journey as someone making her way in the nonprofit space, from her early disillusionment in nonprofits, to finding her unique way of making an impact as a coach. We also talked about the double-bind -- that special way that women, people of color, and people with marginali...

Aug 20, 2018•1 hr 10 min

EP009: Sarai Johnson is Creating Belonging instead of Burnout in Nonprofits

This week, I speak with Sarai Johnson, a speaker, coach, author and founder of Lean Nonprofit. When I first encountered Sarai, it was through a blog post she’d written about how nonprofits and foundations often unwittingly use management and funding practices that perpetuate the very culture of poverty and oppression they are fighting against. Sounds like serious stuff, but what I so appreciate about Sarai is her ability to tell it like it is with humor and empathy. Empathy that comes from the f...

Aug 06, 2018•58 min

EP008: Daisy Ozim is Building Resilience and Decolonizing Public Health

This week, I speak with Daisy Ozim, founder of Resilient Wellness , a nonprofit that builds community-based solutions to address intergenerational trauma. We talked about how building resilience as a leader -- especially if you are a woman of color -- means learning not to internalize the negative messages we get when we don’t fit a traditionally white male template of leadership. I distill the top 3 lessons for social impact leadership from every interview I do in an email to my subscribers. Le...

Jul 17, 2018•41 min

EP007: Daphne Robinson is a prosecutor creating alternatives to criminal justice

How a concern for the emotional well-being of kids caught up in the criminal justice system led an Assistant District Attorney to seek out alternatives to prosecution and incarceration. You can find Daphne Robinson at http://daphnerobinson-jd.com/ I distill the top 3 lessons for social impact leadership from every interview I do in an email to my subscribers. Lessons from the Lab is filled with immediately applicable, imminently usable, highly relevant takeaways for your work on the front lines ...

Jul 03, 2018•1 hr 1 min
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