What If Respect Was The New Protest, meet National Unity Day

Send us Fan Mail Division sells, but it doesn’t have to run our lives. We sit down with Adam Mazell from Us United to talk about National Unity Day and the bigger question behind it: how do regular people rebuild trust when politics, media, and social media keep pulling us into smaller bubbles and harsher labels? Adam shares the origin story that starts in 2020 and turns into a cross-country road trip in a purple and white pickup truck, thousands of conversations, and a surprising lesson: most people define unity with the same core words like respect, compassion, patience, teamwork, and listening. We get specific about what Unity Day actually looks like on the ground, from the Holiday Giving Spectacular model to solving real “life-blocking” needs for families like fixing a roof, replacing tires, or installing a water heater. It’s civic engagement that feels human, local, and doable. We also dig into tools you can use immediately: “break the algorithm” by posting one kind, community-building thing each week, and the Pass The Purple campaign that makes unity shareable. Then we explore Unity Seats at sporting events and Friday night lights at high school football games as a way to bring strangers together around shared joy, not shared ideology. Want to get involved or partner with a club, team, or community group? Reach out at [email protected], follow Us United on social, and then subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review so more people find the work. Support the show Join me as I talk to those "amazing people turning their Actions 2 Impact all over the world. #BE THE CHANGE