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Food Secure Nation
by Dr. Phil Knight Gerry Brisson
Food Secure NationHosted by award-winning radio hosts, Dr. Phil Knight and Gerry Brisson, Food Secure Nation explores each piece of the food security puzzle, how they connect, and where leaders, organizations, and everyday people across the country can create the most impact.
Episodes
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Leading an organization that serves more than a million people a month requires keeping individual people in view. Michael Flood, President and CEO of the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, brings that perspective to Food Secure Nation: “I’m serving you today, but I could be in line, you know, next...
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Food Secure Nation Nate Springer, Service Never Stops
What happens when the uniform comes off—but the mission doesn’t stop? After 23 years in the U.S. Army, Nate Springer took just five days off before beginning a new chapter of service as President and CEO of Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado. Nate joins Dr. Phil Knight and Gerry…
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Food Secure Nation - Food for Thought - Understanding Older Adult Food Insecurity
What if the food is there—and food security still isn’t? We tend to think of “senior hunger” as a straightforward problem: someone needs food, we provide food. But aging can change the equation. Researchers Drs Colleen Heflin and Madonna Harrington Meyer have authored a book entitled, Food for...
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Food Secure Nation with Denis McDonough, CEO Feeding America Part 1
After a lifetime of public service, Denis McDonough had choices. He chose hunger. In this deeply personal conversation, Feeding America’s new CEO shares how family, faith, service and a belief in the dignity of every person led him to the fight for a food-secure nation. And I would not change the...
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The Other Side of the Aisle We hear a lot about crossing the aisle these days. But Heather Paquette crossed a different one — the grocery aisle. After 24 years in grocery retail, Heather became President of Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine, bringing lessons in operations, innovation and execution...
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Food Secure Nation with Crystal FitzSimons - CEO of FRAC
Hunger is actually a solvable problem.” After 27 years at the Food Research & Action Center, Crystal FitzSimons now leads FRAC into the next chapter of its more than 50-year story. She joins Dr. Phil Knight and Gerry Brisson to talk about the values that shaped her, the research and policies that...
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Food Secure Nation with Matt Habash - The Riptide of Innovation
Matt Habash has spent more than four decades challenging one of the biggest assumptions in hunger relief: that success is measured by how much food we distribute. Under his leadership, the Mid-Ohio Food Collective became one of the most innovative organizations in the Feeding America…
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Food Secure Nation with Cyndi Kirkhart - Country Roads Leads to Food Security
What if the real work of fighting hunger isn’t simply filling empty bellies — but helping people build a future? Cyndi Kirkhart, CEO of Facing Hunger Food Bank, takes us down the country roads of Appalachia, where resilience runs deep and every plate has a story. From a seven-year-old boy turning...
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Food Secure Nation with Lori Dysktra - Hunger in Rural America
In communities where everybody knows your name, asking for help can be one of the hardest things a person ever does. Lori Dykstra, CEO of Feeding South Dakota, shares how lived experience, rural leadership, and a deep commitment to dignity are shaping a new conversation about hunger, humility…
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Food Secure Nation with Dr. Christopher Harris - Person In Environment
What if we’ve been looking at food insecurity through only one lens? Dr. Christopher Harris joins Food Secure Nation to explore how Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and the Person-in-Environment framework complement one another. Rather than choosing between personal responsibility and systemic change,...
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Food Secure Nation with Guest Rebeckah Freeman Adcock
How does America really think about food security? Join Dr. Phil Knight and Gerry Brisson as they welcome Feeding America Chief Government Relations Officer Rebeckah Freeman Adcock for a candid conversation about leadership, public policy, and the partnerships required to build a food-secure...
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Food Secure Nation - Gerry Brisson and Dr. Phil Knight - Changing the Conversation
About This Episode After more than a decade of hosting Food for Thought and Food First Michigan, Dr. Phil Knight and Gerry Brisson reflect on why they joined with Ryan Hoyle to launch No Better Do Better (KBDB), LLC and expand the conversation nationally through Food Secure Nation. Drawing on…
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Food Secure Nation with Guest Dr. Dawn Opel - Better Together
As Dr. Dawn Opel begins a new chapter in her career, Food Secure Nation reflects on six and a half years of partnership, innovation, and leadership. Through the lens of Better Together, Dr. Phil Knight, Gerry Brisson, and Dr. Opel explore how influence, insight, innovation, and integrity create...
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Food Secure Nation with Kurt Reiber - Success and Significance
What happens when success is no longer enough? Retiring Freestore Foodbank CEO Kurt Reiber joins Dr. Phil Knight and Gerry Brisson to discuss leadership, legacy, and his journey from banking and law to nonprofit leadership. The episode also introduces Veera, Food Secure Nation's new AI Research...
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Food Secure Nation - Shaping Systems While Seeing People
Triada Stampas is a systems thinker who has high policy intelligence along with a strong desire to learn and that makes her a perfect candidate to help lead this work to the next threshold of food security.
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Food Secure Nation - Leading Beyond Success
Food Security, Leadership, Success, Significance, 2nd Career - Purpose
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Food Secure Nation_If We Are Serious About Outcomes, Partnership Isn't Optional
In this episode of Food Secure Nation, we sit down with Brian McGrain of Michigan Community Action to explore what it takes to move from disconnected efforts to coordinated solutions. Families don’t experience our systems—they experience whether life works. Real impact happens when organizations...
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Food Secure Nation with Jason Jakubowski - Competence Leads to Trust
In this episode of Food Secure Nation, Phil Knight and Gerry Brisson welcome Jason Jakubowski, president and CEO of Connecticut Foodshare, for a conversation about leadership, trust, and the power of doing hard things well. Jason shares the story behind merging two legacy food banks into one...
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Food Secure Nation: Leadership - Part Art, Part Science with guest Dan Flowers
Leadership isn’t just about getting it right—it’s about how you show up when it matters most. In this episode of Food Secure Nation, Dan Flowers—CEO of the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank and one of the most respected voices in the Feeding America network—joins Phil Knight and Gerry Brisson for a...
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FSN_Funding Fuels the Mission, Innovation and Sustainability
Behind every meal served is a system most people never see. In this episode, Liz Lowe shares her journey from growing up in a food-insecure household to helping organizations across the country build sustainable funding strategies. Alongside Phil and Gerry Brisson, she explores how funding,...
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FSN_Know Better Do Better, LLC - Creating Connections to Drive Progress
This episode goes beyond inspiration and gets to the real challenge at the heart of food security: not a lack of caring, not a lack of ideas, but a lack of connection. Dr. Phil Knight and Gerry Brisson reflect on decades of experience to unpack why so much good work struggles to scale, and why...
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FSN_A Statewide Lens on the 6 Dimensions of Food Security
About This Episode Food security gets real when you stop talking about programs and start looking at systems. In this episode, Joree Novotny and Mandy Pullaro break down the six dimensions of food security from a statewide lens—where every decision carries tradeoffs between resources, dignity…
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FSN_The Leadership You Never See - Partner State Associations and Their Influence
Everyone sees the front lines of hunger relief—but who’s aligning the system behind it? In this episode, Joree Novotny and Mandy Pullaro share how state associations in the Feeding America network quietly connect policy, partnerships, and people to move entire networks forward. If food insecurity...
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FSN_Creating Agency with Feeding America CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot
As she steps down as CEO of Feeding America, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot shares the leadership philosophy that helped reshape the national hunger conversation. At the heart of it: agency. What happens when people experiencing hunger are no longer on the margins—but at the center of decision-making?...
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FSN_A Conversation about "Access" with Stacy Dean
Stacy Dean is a nationally recognized leader in food policy and nutrition programs, currently serving as Director of the Global Food Institute at George Washington University. Over the course of her career, she has shaped and implemented some of the nation’s most critical food assistance…
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Food Secure Nation with Stacy Dean - "Access"
When Stacy Dean joined Food Secure Nation, the conversation centered on a single but complex word: access. Drawing on a career that spans shaping national nutrition policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, administering SNAP, WIC, school meals, and food bank funding at the U.S....
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FSN Three Chairs, UniquePerspectives with Virginia Witherspoon
Gerry and Phil sit down with Virginia Witherspoon, the Executive leading Channel One Food Bank in MN. She chairs the National Advisory Committee for Feeding America. Lawery, CEO and Chairperson - 3 Chairs, Unique Perspectives from Virginia Witherspoon.
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Food Secure Nation: Tory Martin Trends in Trust, Data and AI Across NonProfits
Our guest, Tory Martin, is a leader at the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy, where she helps study and interpret national trends shaping the nonprofit and philanthropic world. Her work looks beyond headlines to examine how trust, technology, and data are reshaping how nonprofits operate...
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FSN Melissa Cherney Public Engagement Advisory Committee Feeding America
Melissa Cherney speaks with both candor and inspiration. "We’re not here just to move food. We’re here to fix the system that determines who eats in America. When we design policy, we must remember: behind every application is a human being with dignity, resilience, and a future. Hunger does not...
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FSN Bridging Policy and Human Experience - Dr. Sheril Kirshenbaum
Food Secure Nation welcomes Dr. Sheril Krishenbaum, a renown writer and scientist who cares deeply about this stubborn challenge of food security. A positive solution oriented scholar who brings her unique insight to both policy and practices of addressing hunger and creating food security.
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The Six Dimensions of Food Security-FSN
The Six Dimensions of Food Security, first developed by the United Nations offers a framework whereby professionals, those interested in a healthy community and others who simply believe hunger should not exist in the US a launching pad to discuss ideas, chart solutions and implement those ideas…
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Food Secure Nation - Solving Hunger Starts in the Field - Stability in Availability Matters
Policies, programs and being people centric helps create a stable food supply chain. Scott Piggott, a farmer discusses with Gerry and Phil the realities of how programs designed to support agriculture need to be stable so our access to food is as well.
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Food Secure Nation KBDB's Influence
Know Better Do Better, LLC is designed to help us think better and do more in the challenge of creating a food secure nation.
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Food Secure Nation - Solving Hunger Starts in the Field - Stability in Availability
Policy, programs and people can create a stable food supply chain that works together to support both farmers and families cohesively.
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Food Secure Nation KBDB's Influence
Food Secure Nation KBDB's Influence by Dr. Phil Knight Gerry Brisson
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Why Food Insecurity Still Exists - Food Secure Nation
Why Food Insecurity Still Exists - Food Secure Nation by Dr. Phil Knight Gerry Brisson
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Food Secure NationHosted by award-winning radio hosts, Dr. Phil Knight and Gerry Brisson, Food Secure Nation explores each piece of the food security puzzle, how they connect, and where leaders, organizations, and everyday people across the country can create the most impact.
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