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Join Kari, Shelby, and Sarah as they explore the ideas and definitions of creativity and rest and talk about why they are so important to our well-being. They also look at how these two things impact our ability to connect with each other and ourselves and how art and music and dance can be key components of both community and resistance. Check out Kari's Substack for written companion pieces and opportunities to connect with other listeners and share your ideas and thoughts. Find Kari's memoir-in-vignettes here. Shelby's design and branding work is here, and you can support her writing and photography here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We all need to belong, if only for survival, but we also want to feel valued and important. Kari, Samandra, and Niki talk about the ways our current systems have commodified those needs without actually meeting them, and what it would be like if we created and nurtured ways of being that truly recognized each of us as individuals worthy of care and consideration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the first full-length episode of Visions for a Radically Different World, Kari talks with two friends about what it might look like to create a world where everyone's needs for subsistence and physical safety are assured. They explore the things that help us feel safe, how we struggle as individuals to try and ensure our own basic needs are met in the face of capitalism, and how community acts as a powerful force for resourcing us when the systems around us don't or won't. Check out the companion piece Kari wrote to go with this episode here Kari's books Kari's workshops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a short introduction to a new series where Kari and guests explore ideas for a world where our systems and structures actually serve us as human beings. We ask the question: how can we create systems and structures that are designed for care and support? The economy, our medical systems, justice systems, school systems - all of them are crumbling right now and failing to keep us well, healthy, and safe. So what would it look like if we began having deeper conversations about what it means to be well, healthy, and safe - together, in community? This series aims to explore those ideas and invite people - including listeners - in to a space where we can imagine a radically different world together. Kari's website https://www.connectivetissueconsulting.com/ Kari's memoir on BuyMeACoffee https://buymeacoffee.com/kario Vanessa Andreotti's book Hospicing Modernity https://decolonialfutures.net/hospicingmodernity/ Carol Flinders' book The Values of Belonging Contact me with your thoughts and ideas on this series! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kari talks to Shelby Mathis about the importance of rest and play for folks whose work relies on creativity. Come listen as these two explore ideas of what it means to reimagine the way you talk about your work and their collaboration on Kari's new website, Connective Tissue Coaching & Consulting. If you've ever wondered what it might be like to build play and rest in to your plan for work, this is the episode for you. Kari's new website: www.connectivetissueconsulting.com Shelby's website: www.shelbymathis.comShelby's Substack: https://wanderinghome.substack.com/ Shelby's BuyMeACoffee site: https://buymeacoffee.com/shelbymathis Kari's BuyMeACoffee site: https://buymeacoffee.com/kario Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Check out the news on any given day and you'll see evidence of all the ways we "other" people, shame them, alienate them, and cause harm to them - passively and actively. In this conversation, Vanessa Faloye and I dig deep in to the things that separate us and cause us to lose touch with our humanity. We explore what it even means to be in touch with it, and why it's so easy sometimes to "other" people. We also talk about the important practice of continually bringing ourselves back to a place of reverence and care for each other and ourselves. You won't want to miss this one! Kari O'Driscoll Held Collective BuyMeACoffee Support my new memoir in serial vignettes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this short episode, Kari revisits her conversation with Jason Sole, who has applied for a pardon for his crimes in the state of Minnesota and discovered just how opaque and unequal the system is. Georgia Fort's conversation with Jason Petition to Pardon Jason by Juneteenth Jason Sole's Linked In profile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kari talks to Jess Graham about their new book, Being (Sick) Enough, and what it means to build a relationship to pain - both chronic illness and emotional trauma. The conversation touches on autism, addiction, chronic pain, trauma, healing, spirituality, and the power of keeping the spark of hope Websites: Jessica Graham You Wild Awakening Links to Buy Books: Being (Sick) Enough Link to Buy Good Sex Social Media: Instagram [YouTube] TikTok Substack Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kari talks with Faith Scott, a writer, therapist, TEDx speaker, and all-around amazing human about what "place" means to her. Drawing on inspiration from bell hooks and Nicholas Galanin, Kari and Faith explore ideas of generational migration, belovedness, and what it means to find "home." Faith's Substack: https://faithscott.substack.com/ Poetry Anthology, Shaking off the Ashes: https://inkedelephantpublishing.com/product/shaking-off-the-ashes/ bell hooks book, Belonging; a Culture of Place: https://www.routledge.com/Belonging-A-Culture-of-Place/hooks/p/book/9780415968164 Faith's TEDx Talk (coming soon): https://www.tedxojai.com/watch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This short episode features Kari thinking out loud about where we can find solace amidst chaos. She invites listeners to think about how to identify solid ground when everything feels scary and tenuous. It is so easy to get caught up in the overwhelm of the news cycle and lose sight of the things that are there for us when we need them. Connect with Kari O'Driscoll Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eleanor Vincent is an author whose latest book is called Disconnected: Portrait of a Neurodiverse Marriage. In this memoir, she recounts her experience of courtship and marriage to a man on the autism spectrum and paints a picture of what it was like to build up hope, fall in love late in life, and fight to connect with her husband when their brains were wired in fundamentally different ways. Kari and Eleanor talk about relationship dynamics that start in childhood, romantic love, and grief. Connect with Kari O'Driscoll Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kari and Aggeliki talk about writing, how it relates to life, and Aggeliki's new novel, Unlucky Mel. Exploring themes of caregiving, workplace politics, and humor, the book is tremendously entertaining and relatable. Aggeliki's work can be found here- LinkTree Preorder Unlucky Mel here www.cornellpress.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Kari and Nina McCollum talk about what it's like to be a caregiver to kids and parents simultaneously. In the last couple of decades, the emergence of the so-called Sandwich Generation has put an enormous strain on families (mostly women) to navigate the pressures of raising kids and caring for elders within systems that weren't designed to support them. Nina's website: www.NinaWriteNow.com Link to the private Facebook Group for The Sandwich Generation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Garrett Bucks is a writer and organizer dedicated to creating spaces where White folks can have conversations about what it means to really create communities where we all thrive and talk honestly about racism and the way it affects us. Come listen as he explains why the movie ET is a perfect metaphor for how he thinks about whiteness. Garrett Bucks' website https://www.garrettbucks.com/ Kari's memoir about growing up with a Filipino brother and a Vietnamese sister https://www.cavankerrypress.org/product/truth-has-a-different-shape/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Paul Zeitz, a physician, activist, and author, joins Kari to talk about his new book, Revolutionary Optimism. They explore ideas of overwhelm and grief and share tips for how to stay focused on love in challenging times, and use that love to fuel our activism. Dr. Paul Zeitz website: https://drpaulzeitz.org/ Sign up sheet for the next Grief and Rage Workshop that begins June 24: Sign up here Kari's website: www.kariodriscollwriter.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Kari and Jason Sole to talk about what it means to be in community with each other in ways that heal and repair rifts, and why abolition is a key part of this. Jason's experiences as a Black man in the United States, holding healing circles, and his lived experience with violence and incarceration give him a strong perspective on what it means to find "justice," and where we can't find it. This timely conversation can help us frame the police response to student encampments at colleges and universities all over the US and the world right now. www.kariodriscollwriter.com Jason Marque Sole on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-marque-sole-68340114/ Humanize My Hoodie: https://www.humanizemyhoodie.com/ A Case for Love documentary: https://www.fathomevents.com/news/documentary-inspired-by-presiding-bishops-teachings-on-love-due-for-nationwide-theatrical-premiere-jan-23/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kari talks with Judy Ryan Hall about how her tongue cancer and the subsequent treatment radically changed her relationship to her body and to food. The treatment not only resulted in serious complications that kept her hospitalized for an extended period of time, but it left her unable to taste most food. As someone who has always loved food and being in a human body, the last few years have been a practice of reinventing these connections. Meet the host Kari O'Driscoll Books by Kari O'Driscoll Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kari and Rachael talk about how they came to their parenting philosophies, examine the complexities of parenting, and look at how their ideas changed over time. Exploring ideas of discipline and attachment and how we often parent as a reaction to the way we were parented, this conversation is full of insight and laughter. youthwell website: https://youthwell.org/ Happy, Healthy Teens book: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781475863796/Happy-Healthy-Teens-Why-Focusing-on-Relationships-Works Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kari talks with Joe Loya, a man who was convicted of robbing 30 banks and wrote about his time in prison and his life in the memoir, The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell. Joe and Kari explore the intersections of language, religion, maleness and violence and talk about how our ideas of hierarchy and gender impact the way we use and justify violence. Joe's unique history and educational background make him a compelling storyteller. Come listen to this fascinating conversation. Order Joe's book here https://www.joeloya.ltd/ Joe's podcast, The Bank Robber Diaries, can be found here https://play.acast.com/s/thescore Kari's website www.kariodriscollwriter.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices