Let's Give A Damn

❤️ If you love the show and want to support us, ⁠⁠⁠⁠please consider joining our Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠. 🎉 It’s Pattie Gonia week on the podcast! 👉🏽 ⁠ Pattie is a critically acclaimed drag queen, environmentalist, and advocate for inclusivity and diversity in the outdoors. She is the co-founder of the Outdoorist Oath (a non-profit that gets BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and femmes into the outdoors through community and education) and the Founder of the Queer Outdoor and Environmental Job Board (a free tool queer individuals can use to get hired and therefore diversify the fields). Pattie has raised almost $5 million for LGBTQIA+, BIPOC and environmental non-profits. And if that isn’t enough, she has made films and has made music with other incredible artists like Yo-Yo Ma and Imogen Heap. 🌍 Also, Pattie is on tour right now. Go see them in a city near you! ✅ Follow Pattie on Instagram.✊🏽 Join the Let’s Give A Damn community on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠!👕 ⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy some of our merch⁠⁠⁠⁠!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠.✉️ Sign up for our weekly ⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠.📱 Reach out anytime: [email protected].❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

❤️ If you love the show and want to support us, ⁠⁠⁠please consider joining our Patreon⁠⁠⁠. 🎉 It’s Julian Brave Noisecat week on the podcast! 👉🏽 ⁠ NoiseCat is a writer, filmmaker, champion powwow dancer, and student of Salish art and history. He is the first Indigenous North American filmmaker ever nominated for an Academy Award and the first Indigenous North American author to ever write about healing from intergenerational trauma by getting stoned with his dad for The New York Times Magazine.During this conversation we talk at length about his first book, We Survived the Night, a portrait of Indigenous life beginning with the familial and expanding outwards from there through a contemporary retelling of the Coyote epic. When it released in 2025, it was an instant national bestseller in Canada and an indie bestseller in the United States. In addition to being a bestselling author, Julian's first documentary, Sugarcane, directed alongside Emily Kassie, follows an investigation into abuse and missing children at the Indian residential school NoiseCat’s family was sent to near Williams Lake, British Columbia. Sugarcane premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival where NoiseCat and Kassie won the Directing Award in the U.S. Documentary Competition. ✅ Follow Julian on Instagram.✅ Buy a copy (or two!) of We Survived The Night.✊🏽 Join the Let’s Give A Damn community on ⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠!👕 ⁠⁠⁠Buy some of our merch⁠⁠⁠!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠.✉️ Sign up for our weekly ⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠.📱 Reach out anytime: [email protected].​​❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

❤️ If you love the show and want to support us, ⁠⁠please consider joining our Patreon⁠⁠. 🎉 It’s Dr. Ibram X. Kendi week on the podcast! 👉🏽 ⁠ Dr. Kendi is one of the world’s foremost historians of racism and a leading antiracist scholar. He is the Carter G. Woodson Endowed Chair in History at Howard University, and the inaugural director of Howard’s Institute for Advanced Study. Kendi has published eighteen books for adults and children, including twelve New York Times Best Sellers. Today's conversation is all about his latest, Chain Of Ideas: The Origins Of Our Authoritarian Age. A fantastic and helpful book.✅ Follow Dr. Kendi on Instagram.✅ Buy a copy (or two!) of Chain of Ideas today.✊🏽 Support Let’s Give A Damn on ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠!👕 ⁠⁠Buy some of our merch⁠⁠!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠.✉️ Sign up for our weekly ⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠.📱 Reach out anytime: [email protected].​​❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

❤️ If you love the show and want to support us, ⁠please consider joining our Patreon⁠. 🎉 It’s Charithra Chandran week on the podcast! 👉🏽 ⁠ Charithra Chandran has quickly established herself as an internationallyrenowned actor, showcasing her range of disciplines both on-screen and theatrically. Charithra is currently starring in Season 2 of Netflix’s One Piece — a live-action adaptation of the best-selling manga series of the same name by Eiichiro Oda.Charithra has starred in several other films and shows — including Season 2 of Bridgerton, opposite Jonathan Bailey and Simone Ashley. — as the 'Diamond of the Season.' During this conversation, we talk about gratitude, her immense love for India, her incredible career, why she advocates for Palestinian liberation, how she has no patience for transphobic people, and so much more.✅ Follow Charithra on Instagram.✅ Watch Season 2 of One Piece on Netflix now! ✊🏽 Support Let’s Give A Damn on ⁠Patreon⁠!👕 ⁠Buy some of our merch⁠!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on ⁠Instagram⁠, ⁠Twitter⁠, and ⁠Youtube⁠.✉️ Sign up for our weekly ⁠Substack⁠.📱 Reach out anytime: [email protected].​​❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

It’s Kat Abughazaleh Day on the podcast! Kat is a 26-year-old, Palestinian American, grassroots congressional candidate running to represent Illinois’ Ninth District. She’s a renter, a formerly uninsured worker, and a union representative running to bring a new generation of leadership to Congress, defend democracy, fight for economic justice, and advance a humane foreign policy.Kat is a badass. Don’t believe me? Go on YouTube, type her name into the search bar, and see for yourself.Lastly, Kat is up against millions of dollars of attack ads by AIPAC and her opponents. Please donate, phone bank, or door knock if you can! ✅ Check out Kat’s website.✅ Follow Kat on Instagram and YouTube.✊🏽 Support Let’s Give A Damn on Patreon!👕 Buy some of our merch!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly Substack.📱 Reach out anytime: [email protected].​​❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

🎉 It’s Shabnam Mogharabi week on the podcast!❤️ Before I share more about our guest, ⁠consider supporting us on Patreon⁠! We need your help to make this podcast happen. Thanks, friends.👉🏽 Shabnam Mogharabi is an entertainment executive, producer, and New York Times bestselling author with 20 years of experience in mission-driven media. She currently runs The Joy Brigade, a boutique film and media production company. Prior to that, Shabnam was an EVP at film company Participant and also co-founded the uplifting content studio SoulPancake with actor Rainn Wilson, which she ran as CEO for nearly a decade, amassing 1B video views and dozens of awards. She and Rainn are still collaborating today on Rainn's Soul Boom platform, which seeks to unlock a modern spiritual revolution through playful, practical, and profound media. Shabnam is a Henry Crown Fellow, a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, and serves on a number of private and non-profit boards. She also got a certification in positive psychology in her spare time and is a frequent keynote speaker on the power of joy and storytelling. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and young children.✅ We spend quite a bit of time talking about the book she co-wrote with Rainn Wilson,  the Soul Boom Workbook. Get a copy today! ✅ Follow Shabnam on Instagram and LinkedIn. ✅ Follow Soul Boom on Instagram and YouTube.-------------✊🏽 ⁠Support Let’s Give A Damn on ⁠Patreon⁠⁠! 👕 ⁠⁠Buy some of our merch⁠⁠!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠UpScrolled⁠, and ⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠.✉️ ⁠Sign up for our weekly ⁠Substack newsl⁠etter⁠.📱 Reach out anytime: [email protected].❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

🎉 It’s Saja Kilani week on the podcast!❤️ Before I share more about our guest, ⁠consider supporting us on Patreon⁠! We need your help to make this podcast happen. Thanks, friends.👉🏽 Saja Kilani is a Jordanian/Palestinian/Canadian actress and spoken word poet. Her first film performance, Simsim, earned her the Best First Time Lead Actress Award at the Amman International Film Festival. She starred in her debut international Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated film, The Voice of Hind Rajab, where she received the Best Actress Award at the 36th edition of the Carthage Film Festival. When she’s not acting, Saja shares her original spoken word poetry in live performances as part of her storytelling practice.🎥 The Voice of Hind Rajab is a must see January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 5-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab. Find this film in a theatre close to you and go see it as soon as you possibly can.-------------✊🏽 Support Let’s Give A Damn on ⁠Patreon⁠! 👕 ⁠Buy some of our merch⁠!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on ⁠Instagram⁠, UpScrolled, and ⁠Youtube⁠.✉️ Sign up for our weekly ⁠Substack newsl⁠etter.📱 Reach out anytime: [email protected].❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!-------------📷 photo used in artwork by Misan Harriman

🎉 It’s Noam Shuster-Eliassi & Amber Fares week on the podcast!❤️ Before I share more about my guest, ⁠consider supporting us on Patreon⁠! We need your help to make this podcast happen. Thanks, friends.👉🏽 Noam is an Israeli activist and comedian who writes and performs in Arabic, English, and Hebrew, frequently touching upon her experience growing up in “Oasis of Peace” (Neve Shalom / Wahat al-Salam), a mixed community where Palestinians and Jews live together by choice. 👉🏽 Amber is an award-winning documentary filmmaker best known for her directorial debut Speed Sisters, which aired internationally on Netflix, Al Jazeera and RAI. Her directing credits include We Are Agenda (Amazon, 2023), Gutsy Ep5 (Apple TV, 2022), Reckoning With Laughter (Al Jazeera’s “Witness" 2021), Convergence: Courage Under Crisis (Netflix, 2021). Amber also served as cinematographer and co-producer of the Peabody Award-winning The Judge (PBS, 2017), was the cinematographer on Life After (Sundance, 2025) and both produced and shot the short film The Devil Is Busy (HBO, 2025).Coexistence, My Ass! follows Noam as she creates a comedy show by the same name. Shot over five tumultuous years, the film traces Noam’s personal, professional, and political journey in tandem with the region’s steady deterioration. This is a film that began as something completely different. Because of Covid and escalated settler violence in the West Bank and ultimately because of the genocide which began several years into making this film. It’s stunning and I can’t wait for you to hear more about it in this conversation.   ✊🏽 Support Let’s Give A Damn on ⁠Patreon⁠!👕 ⁠Buy some of our merch⁠!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on ⁠Instagram⁠, ⁠Twitter⁠, and ⁠Youtube⁠.✉️ Sign up for our weekly ⁠Substack⁠.📱 Reach out anytime: [email protected].​​❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

🎉 It’s Brian Recker Week on the podcast! ❤️ Before I share more about my guest, consider supporting us on Patreon! We need your help to make this podcast happen. Thanks, friends.👉🏽 Brian Recker is a public theologian, speaker, and writer on Christian spirituality without exclusionary dogma. In October, Brian released his first book, Hell Bent. In this taboo-shattering book, Brian takes an honest look at the Bible and reveals what has been true all along: Hell isn’t a real place, and God’s universal love is radically inclusive, in this life and the next. By removing punishment from Christianity’s center, Recker boldly reimagines the core questions of faith, such as why Jesus lived and died, and what it means to be “saved.” In the conversation, we talk about who God is, radical inclusivity, why we’re still Christians, why getting people to not believe in hell is so important for them and for society as a whole, and so much more. _____________________✅ Follow Brian Recker on Instagram.✅ Subscribe to Brian’s Substack.✅ Order Hell Bent now!✊🏽 Support Let’s Give A Damn on Patreon!👕 Buy some of our merch!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly Substack.📱 Reach out anytime: [email protected].​​❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

It’s Mohsen Mahdawi Day on the podcast! Mohsen Mahdawi is a Palestinian organizer, human rights activist, co-founder of the Columbia Palestinian Student Union, and a damn good human.Mahdawi was a leading voice during the 2024 protests and the encampments at Columbia University. His leadership during those months and his support for a Free Palestine and an end to the Israeli occupation led to him being arrested in April of 2025 by ICE during a citizen interview in Vermont. Keep in mind that Mohsen is a lawful permanent U.S. resident and was arrested because he participated in peaceful protests. Thankfully, he was released two weeks later and gave a very clear statement as he walked out of jail: “I am saying it clear and loud to President Trump and his cabinet, I am not afraid of you.”Mahdawi’s fight for justice is not over. He could face arrest again in the future. Please follow him and support him in any way that you can. I know for a fact that Mohsen won’t stop—and we cannot stop—until Palestine is free.___________________✅ Follow Mohsen Mahdawi on Instagram.✊🏽 Support Let’s Give A Damn on Patreon!👕 Buy some of our merch!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly Substack.📱 Reach out anytime: [email protected].​​Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

🎉 It’s ‪Arian Moayed week on the podcast! 👉🏽 Ben Cohen is a philanthropist, an antiwar activist, the co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, and the founder of Up In Arms — a movement that is taking on war profiteers and weapons manufacturers and is demanding that the Pentagon slash out outrageous defense budget by...a lot.👉🏽 In this conversation, Arian and I talk about his immigrant story, moving to the US at a young age from Iran, how he became an artist, the importance of making art in the midst of all the fucked up things around us, and so much more.❤️ If you love this show and want to support us, ⁠⁠please consider joining our Patreon⁠⁠.🔔 And while you're at it, hit that subscribe button! NEXT STEPS:✅ Follow Arian on Instagram.✅ Check out Waterwell's important work.✅ Purchase "Shell" (starring Arian Moayed, Elisabeth Moss, Kate Hudson) on Digital Now!✅ Watch Arian in Season 2 of "Nobody Wants This" (starring Adam Brody, Kristen Bell) in a couple of weeks!CONNECT WITH LGAD:✅ ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠✅ ⁠⁠Website⁠⁠✅ ⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠✅ ⁠Buy some of our merch⁠CONNECT WITH NICK LAPARRA:✅ ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠

🎉 It’s ‪Ben Cohen week on the podcast! 👉🏽 Ben Cohen is a philanthropist, an antiwar activist, the co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, and the founder of Up In Arms — a movement that is taking on war profiteers and weapons manufacturers and is demanding that the Pentagon slash out outrageous defense budget by...a lot.👉🏽 In this conversation, Ben and I discuss his Zionist upbringing, his decades of service to so many people, how Ben & Jerry’s became the iconic brand that it is, how he is trying to #FreeBenAndJerrys, his newest initiative called Up In Arms, and so much more.❤️ If you love this show and want to support us, ⁠please consider joining our Patreon⁠.🔔 And while you're at it, hit that subscribe button! NEXT STEPS:✅ Follow Ben Cohen on Instagram.✅ Follow Ben Cohen on Twitter. Yes, Twitter.✅ Join the Up In Arms movement!CONNECT WITH LGAD:✅ ⁠Instagram⁠✅ ⁠Website⁠✅ ⁠Substack⁠✅ Buy some of our merchCONNECT WITH NICK LAPARRA:✅ ⁠Instagram⁠

🎉 It’s ‪Max La Manna week on the podcast! 👉🏽 Max La Manna is an award-winning author, low-waste chef, and campaigner whose casual approach to cooking has attracted over 2 million followers and more than a billion video views. Drawing from his own life, he shares simple, affordable recipes that make the most of every ingredient and inspire people to waste less. His debut cookbook More Plants Less Waste won “Most Sustainable Cookbook” at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, and his follow-up was named “World’s Best Vegan Cookbook” in 2023. Max has been featured in Vogue, Vice, and The Guardian, and hosted the BBC Earth series Regeneration Food as well as appearing on major TV shows including BBC Saturday Kitchen Live and Channel 4’s Steph’s Packed Lunch. Recognized as Digital Creator of the Year at the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards, he was also named one of top 30 chefs shaping the future of food.👉🏽 In this conversation, we discuss his rise to internet fame, how he is using his platform for good, why he doesn't use the term 'vegan' to describe himself, the genocide in Gaza, hunger strikes, and so much more. ❤️ If you love the show and want to support us, please consider joining our Patreon.🔔 And while you're at it, hit that subscribe button! NEXT STEPS:✅ Join Max's campaign to send aid to Gaza.✅ Cook with Max's recipes.✅ Order Max's cookbooks.✅ Follow Max on Instagram.CONNECT WITH LGAD:✅ Instagram✅ Website✅ SubstackCONNECT WITH NICK LAPARRA:✅ Instagram

🎉 It’s ‪David Gate Day on the podcast! 👉🏽 It is a joy to have David on the show this week. David is from London and now lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Asheville, NC. His work centers around care for the individual (heart, mind, body & soul) and the nurture of community (culture, the earth & environment, the dignity of others and spiritual communities). AND he has a new book of poems and essays out now — A Rebellion Of Care. It's so damn good. 👉🏽 In this conversation, we discuss poetry as a supreme art form, David’s spiritual journey, collective liberation, the genocide in Gaza, his new book, obviously, and so much more.❤️ If you love the show and want to support us, please consider joining our Patreon: https://patreon.com/letsgiveadamn🔔 And while you're at it, hit that subscribe button! NEXT STEPS:✅ Buy a copy of A Rebellion Of Care: https://lgad.co/4lPwavP✅ Buy David's stickers, prints, and more: https://www.davidgatepoet.com✅ Follow David on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidgatepoet/CONNECT WITH LGAD:✅ https://www.instagram.com/letsgiveadamn/✅ https://x.com/LetsGiveADamn✅ https://www.letsgiveadamn.comCONNECT WITH NICK LAPARRA:✅ https://www.instagram.com/nicklaparra/✅ https://x.com/NickLaparra

🎉 It’s ‪Dr. Ibram X. Kendi day on the podcast! 👉🏽 It is a joy to have Dr. Kendi on the show this week. Read his full bio here: https://www.ibramxkendi.com/bio👉🏽 In this conversation, we talk about his new book (Malcolm Lives!), collective liberation, the genocide in Gaza, the rise of fascism in the United States, and so much more. ❤️ If you love the show and want to support us, please consider joining our Patreon: http://lgad.co/patreon🔔 And while you're at it, hit that subscribe button! NEXT STEPS:✅ Buy a copy of Malcolm Lives!: https://lgad.co/4kTw7y5✅ Learn more about Dr. Kendi: https://www.ibramxkendi.com✅ Follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ibramxk/CONNECT WITH LGAD:✅ https://www.instagram.com/letsgiveadamn✅ https://x.com/LetsGiveADamn✅ https://www.letsgiveadamn.comCONNECT WITH NICK LAPARRA:✅ https://www.instagram.com/nicklaparra✅ https://x.com/NickLaparra

On May 5, Let's Give A Damn co-sponsored an event in NYC called Palestine: The Moral Issue Of Our Time with Gabor Maté and Chris Hedges. It was a sold-out event with 800 attending in persons and hundreds more attended online via our livestream.Most importantly we raised tens of thousands of dollars for Middle East Children's Alliance! MECA works to protect the rights and improve the lives of children in the Middle East through aid, empowerment and education. In the Middle East, MECA provides humanitarian aid, partners with community organizations to run projects for children, and supports income-generation projects. In the US and internationally, MECA raises awareness about the lives of children in the region and encourages meaningful action.This is a unique podcast episode where I'm not interviewing anyone. It's just Gabor and Chris. Oh, and the wonderful Aaron Maté introducing these legends. Listen! Be inspired! Take action! Give A Damn!✅ Donate to MECA! They're incredible.✅ Follow Gabor Maté on Instagram.✅ Purchase Gabor's book, The Myth of Normal.✅ Follow Chris Hedges on Instagram.✅ Purchase Chris's new book, A Genocide Foretold.--------------------✊🏽 Support Let’s Give A Damn on Patreon!👕 Buy some of our merch!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly Substack.📱 Reach out anytime: [email protected].​​❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

🎉 It’s Taylor Lorenz Day on the podcast! 👉🏽 It is a joy to have Taylor on the show this week. Read Taylor's full bio here: https://www.taylorlorenz.com👉🏽 In this conversation, we talk about the current state of independent journalism, why she constantly puts herself in the crosshairs of willfully ignorant idiots, the genocide in Gaza, Long Covid, and so much more. This conversation was a long time coming and I really really enjoyed it. ❤️ If you love the show and want to support us, please consider joining out Patreon.NEXT STEPS:✅ Buy a copy of Taylor's book.✅ Subscribe to Taylor's Substack.✅ Watch Taylor's Podcast.✅ Follow Taylor on Instagram.CONNECT WITH LGAD:✅ https://www.instagram.com/letsgiveadamn✅ https://x.com/LetsGiveADamn✅ https://www.letsgiveadamn.comCONNECT WITH NICK LAPARRA:✅ https://www.instagram.com/nicklaparra✅ https://x.com/NickLaparra

It’s Maggie Smith Day on the podcast! Maggie Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful; My Thoughts Have Wings, a picture book illustrated by SCBWI Portfolio grand prize winner Leanne Hatch; the national bestsellers Goldenrod and Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change; as well as Good Bones, named one of the Best Five Poetry Books of 2017 by the Washington Post and winner of the 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal in Poetry; The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, winner of the 2012 Dorset Prize and the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal in Poetry; and Lamp of the Body, winner of the 2003 Benjamin Saltman Award.In 2016 Maggie Smith’s poem “Good Bones” went viral internationally, receiving coverage in the Washington Post, theGuardian, the Telegraph, Slate, Huffington Post Italia, and elsewhere. To date it has been translated into nearly a dozen languages; interpreted by a dance troupe in Chennai, India; and set to music by multiple composers. PRI (Public Radio International) called it “the official poem of 2016.” In 2017 the poem was featured on an episode of the CBS primetime drama Madam Secretary, also called “Good Bones,” and was read by Meryl Streep at Lincoln Center.In this conversation, we talk about how she became the incredible writer and poet that she is, why we must continue making art in the face of genocide, fascism, and climate change, and we talk about her brand new book, Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life. ✅ Buy a copy (or two) of her new book.✅ Subscribe to her Substack, For Dear Life. ✅ Follow Maggie on Instagram.✊🏽 Support Let’s Give A Damn on Patreon!👕 Buy some of our merch!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly Substack.📱 Reach out anytime: [email protected].​​❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

It’s Ed Begley Jr. Day on the podcast! Ed Begley, Jr. recently starred in Hallmark film, Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story, and was a fan favorite on the very popular series Young Sheldon and Better Call Saul and was recently a series regular on Netflix’s Future Man. On the environmental front, he is one of the foremost environmentalists in Hollywood, supporting and advocating for multiple eco-initiatives and charity organizations.  He is also the name and face behind the successful ⁠Begley’s Earth Responsible Products⁠, a line of plant-based eco-friendly cleaning and pet supplies.    Begley is a Golden Globe and seven-time Emmy nominated actor who for decades, has been a champion and educator for causes dedicated to protecting the earth.  In support of this work, he starred opposite his lovely wife and daughter on the hit eco-reality shows Living With Ed and On Begley Street.Begley has appeared in the Christopher Guest films A Mighty Wind, Best In Show, and For Your Consideration. Other feature film credits include Pineapple Express, Batman Forever, The Inlaws, and countless more.On television, Begley has recurred on Arrested Development, Portlandia, Better Call Saul, Modern Family, Veronica Mars, and many others.  He received his seventh Emmy nomination for the streaming series CTRL ALT DELETE.  On the stage, he led the West Coast Premiere of David Mamet’s Cryptogram at the Geffen Playhouse, in the role that he first performed in Boston and New York. He also starred in Mr. Mamet’s production of Romance at the Mark Taper Forum.  Ed Begley Jr. wrote and directed the musical Cesar And Ruben, a play that won him a Nos Otros Award and four Valley Theater League Awards.  _____✅ ⁠Check out and purchase Ed’s eco-friendly cleaning products⁠✅ Purchase Ed’s memoir, ⁠To The Temple of Tranquility…And Step On It!⁠✅ ⁠Watch this fascinating tour⁠ of Ed’s eco-friendly home✅ ⁠Follow Ed on Instagram⁠_____✊🏽 Support Let’s Give A Damn on ⁠Patreon⁠!👕 ⁠Buy some of our merch⁠!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on ⁠Instagram⁠, ⁠Twitter⁠, and ⁠Youtube⁠.✉️ Sign up for our weekly ⁠Substack⁠.📱 Reach out anytime: [email protected].❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

It’s Mara Kronenfeld Day on the podcast! As the Executive Director of UNRWA USA, Mara Kronenfeld leads the strategic vision, operations, and fundraising efforts of the nonprofit organization that supports the humanitarian and human development work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the Middle East. With over 20 years of experience in international development, Mara is a Fulbright Scholar and an expert in designing, implementing, and leading public private partnerships supporting youth development programming in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).UNRWA USA supports the humanitarian work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) through fundraising, advocacy, and community engagement in the United States. UNRWA USA lifts up the voices, experiences, and humanity of Palestine refugees to secure American support for resources essential to every human being, for the promise of a better life.✅ Download UNRWA USA’s digital advocacy toolkit✅ Write to your reps✅ Donate to UNRWA USA✅ Follow UNRWA USA on Instagram✅ Follow Mara Kronenfeld on Instagram --------✊🏽 Support Let’s Give A Damn on Patreon!👕 Buy some of our merch!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly Substack.📱 Reach out anytime: [email protected].❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

It’s Lauren Paul & Molly Thompson Day on the podcast! Lauren Paul is the co-founder of Kind Campaign and Director, Writer and Producer of Kind Campaign's award-winning documentary, Finding Kind. Finding a way to start a conversation about bullying has been on Lauren’s heart ever since her own life-altering experience in middle school. After studying film at Pepperdine University, Lauren joined forces with her friend and fellow filmmaker, Molly Thompson and founded Kind Campaign, a multi-platform movement that has changed and saved hundreds of thousands of lives, friendships, classrooms and communities around the world. Kind Campaign is the nation's premier anti-bullying movement for girls and has impacted millions through their school assemblies, documentary film, Kind Club Curriculum and global movement. Since 2009, Lauren and Molly have been on the forefront of this conversation, personally speaking in over 776 schools across 26 Founders Tours. Lauren has been awarded with the Public Education Award by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the Open Heart Award by the Open Hearts Foundation.Molly hails from Texas where she lived for all of her life before moving to California to attend Pepperdine University where she met her “partner in KIND,” Lauren. During her time at the university, Molly studied acting and film/television production, joined Delta Gamma Fraternity, and studied abroad in Florence and London. This combination of experiences led her to understand even more that as girls, we weren’t all that different from one another, and that bullying often comes from a place of self-doubt and insecurity. She has spent many years now working to change the status quo and encouraging girls to ban together rather than farther apart.Lauren Paul and Molly Thomson joined me to talk about how and why Kind Campaign started over 15 years ago, the thousands and thousands of lives that have been changed over the years because of their work, and so much more.✅ Follow Lauren on Instagram.✅ Follow Molly on Instagram.✅ Follow Kind Campaign on Instagram.✅ Visit Kind Campaign’s website to get involved today!________________________✊🏽 Support Let’s Give A Damn on Patreon!👕 Buy some of our merch!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly Substack.📱 Reach out anytime: [email protected].​​❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

Munther Isaac is a Palestinian Christian pastor and theologian. He now pastors the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem and the Lutheran Church in Beit Sahour. He is also the academic dean of Bethlehem Bible College, and is the director of the highly acclaimed and influential Christ at the Checkpoint conferences. He speaks locally and internationally and has published numerous articles on issues related to the theology of the land, Palestinian Christians and Palestinian theology, holistic mission and reconciliation. He is the author of The Other Side of the Wall: A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope and the forthcoming Christ in the Rubble: Faith, the Bible, and the Genocide in Gaza which will release in March of 2025.Munther originally studied civil engineering in Birzeit University in Palestine. He then obtained a Master in Biblical Studies from Westminster Theological Seminary and then a PhD from the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies.During our conversation, we discuss his childhood and family, why he chose pastoring over engineering, how they get through each and every horrific day in Palestine, what Americans should be doing right now to continue fighting for a Free Palestine, and so much more.✅ Follow Munther on Instagram and Twitter.✅ Preorder his new book coming out in March.---✊🏽 Support Let’s Give A Damn on Patreon!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly Substack.📱 Reach out anytime: [email protected].​​❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

Jess Natale is the creator of the Instagram account @so.informed. Her background is in marketing, journalism, political volunteering, and activism. She’s dedicated the So page to educating millions of people around the world on topics ranging from politics and reproductive rights to criminal justice reform and more.She is actively involved in political protests and organizing, focusing on efforts on the ground to effect change. She also works with nonprofits and groups focused on prison abolition and criminal justice reform.During our conversation, we discuss what it was like growing up on the poor side of a Connecticut town, why she dropped out of high school, how she got involved in politics, why she started @so.informed, the genocide in Gaza, and so much more.✅ Follow Jess on Instagram.✅ Follow @so.informed on Instagram.✅ Support her work by buying her a coffee (or two).---✊🏽 Support Let’s Give A Damn on Patreon!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly Substack.📱 Reach out anytime: [email protected].​​❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

It’s Daniel Maté & Aaron Maté day on the podcast! Let’s get this out of the way — yes, they are the sons of Dr. Gabor Maté. Daniel is a composer, lyricist, and playwright for musical theatre. He is also a mental chiropractor. And he is one of the hosts of Bad Hasbara - The World’s Most Moral Podcast. Lastly, he coauthored a book with his dad called The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture.Aaron is a terrific writer and journalist. He hosts the show Pushback with Aaron Maté on The Grayzone and is a cohost on the Useful Idiots Podcast. Watch Aaron in action on Piers Morgan Uncensored. During our conversation, we discuss what it was like growing up with Gabor Maté as a father, going to Jewish summer camp, the genocide in Gaza, the fascinating work they do, and so much more. Listen to their podcasts! Buy their books! Listen to their music! Read their newsletters! Support these incredible folks!✅ Follow Daniel on Instagram and Twitter.✅ Follow Aaron on Instagram and Twitter.✅ Donate to Qusi’s GoFundMe!---✊🏽 ⁠⁠Support Let’s Give A Damn on Patreon⁠⁠!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠.✉️ ⁠⁠Sign up⁠⁠ for our weekly email.📱 Reach out anytime: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠.❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

It’s Lily Greenberg Call day on the podcast! Remember a couple of months ago when we heard on social media that a Biden appointee had resigned over his atrocious handling of and his complicity in the genocide in Gaza? Lily is *that* staffer!Lily is a former Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff at the Department of Interior. She has nearly a decade of experience in politics, movement organizing, and domestic and international human rights work. She worked on President Biden's 2020 campaign and served in the administration until May 15, 2024, when she became the first Jewish political appointee to resign in protest of US policy in Gaza. Lily grew up doing pro-Israel advocacy with AIPAC and other organizations throughout high school and college, and later became invested in Palestinian rights and Jewish anti-occupation movements. She has appeared as a guest on MSNBC, CNN, NBC, and given commentary for the Washington Post, Politico, and the Associated Press. Lily holds a B.A. in Political Science and Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. During our conversation, we discuss her Jewish upbringing, her work as a young person doing pro-Israel work, changing her mind as a result of meeting Palestinians, working for Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, resigning on May 15, and so much more. ✅ Follow Lily on Instagram and Twitter.✅ Donate to Qusi’s GoFundMe!---✊🏽 ⁠Support Let’s Give A Damn on Patreon⁠!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on ⁠Instagram⁠, ⁠Twitter⁠, and ⁠YouTube⁠.✉️ ⁠Sign up⁠ for our weekly email.📱 Reach out anytime: ⁠[email protected]⁠.❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

Genesis Be, a dynamic artist and activist, harnesses the power of music to amplify marginalized voices and advocate for social change. Born in Biloxi, Mississippi, her music blends elements of hip-hop, soul, and spoken word, creating a powerful platform for storytelling and empowerment. With lyrics that confront systemic oppression and celebrate resilience, Be's artistry transcends entertainment, serving as a catalyst for dialogue and action. As an outspoken advocate for racial and gender equality, she was an outspoken creative who lobbied to have the Confederate flag removed from the design of the Mississippi state flag. Through her music and activism, Be continues to inspire and ignite conversations that resonate far beyond the stage.✅ Order Genesis Be’s latest book, People Not Things: Love Poems and Paintings for Humanity.✅ Read more about The Philosophy and Practice of People Not Things.✅ Visit Genesis Be’s website to learn about all the things.✅ Support Genesis Be on Patreon.---✊🏽 Support Let’s Give A Damn on Patreon!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly email.📱 Reach out anytime: [email protected].❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

Born and raised in the Bronx, Joél Leon is a performer, author, storyteller, and damn-giver extraordinaire. “Joél’s words are where I go when I need some inspiration. And he never lets me down.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda“In each generation, there are only a few authors who are gifted with the ability to fully capture the best parts of the human condition. Joél is one of those authors.” — Frederick JosephI’m so glad we get to be alive at the same time as Joél Leon.Preorder his brand new book—Everything and Nothing At Once: A Black Man’s Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future—right now from bookshop.org or buy it from your local bookstore. And make sure to ask your local library to buy a few copies, as well! Subscribe to Joél’s Subtack, The Politics of Love.And visit Joél’s Linktree for links to all the rest of the good stuff!---✊🏽 Support Let’s Give A Damn on Patreon!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly email.📱 Reach out anytime: [email protected].❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

It’s been a few weeks but we’re back! My guest this week is the brilliant Katie Bogen. In her own words, Katie is a clinical psychology PhD student, a trauma therapist, a sex researcher, a rad Jewess, a queer activist, and a cottagecore rabble-rouser.Katie is truly a wonderful soul. Over the past few months, ever since this horrific genocide began, she has been one of the most helpful voices on social media. She has made loads of content to share the truth about Zionism at its goals, to give a clear headed picture about what’s actually going on in Gaza, to debunk bullshit lies floating around on the internet, and so much more. And she does it with such clarity, intelligence, passion, and grace! If this is your first time encountering Katie and her work, I hope you’ll begin following her on Instagram and TikTok immediately.Also, if you want to read more about her professional work and to read her dozens of published papers, click here. Katie is a certified badass. ---🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly email.✊🏽 Support Let’s Give A Damn on Patreon!📱 Reach out anytime: [email protected].❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

I know it’s a bit late—hello 2024!—but I wanted you to experience some of my favorite moments and some of your favorite moments in 2023. I spoke with some incredible folks last year and I learned so much from them. Here’s to many more incredible conversations in 2024!If you want to skip around this episode, here are the timestamps for each highlight:Simran Jeet Singh - 8:07 Rachelle Lefevre - 16:54Megha Desai - 24:18Rainn Wilson - 31:16Patricia Velázquez - 38:09Noor Tagouri - 47:45Listen to my full conversations with Simran Jeet Singh, Rachelle Lefevre, Megha Desai, Rainn Wilson, Patricia Velásquez, and Noor Tagouri. And if you’ve already listened to all of these conversations, check out the more than 250 other conversations on the pod!---📱 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly email.✊🏽 Reach out anytime: [email protected].❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

Noor Tagouri’s name literally  means “Guiding Light.” And a guiding light she is! Noor is back for a second time. Her first appearance was for episode 19 of the podcast in the summer of 2017! At 29, Noor is an award-winning journalist and producer, a touring speaker for over 15 years, and has told stories in every medium from radio and print, to documentaries and brand campaigns.In 2019 Noor founded At Your Service Media, a consulting and production company telling representative stories as a form of service.In 2022 Noor launched her investigative series “REP”, in partnership with iHeartMedia. The series explores the concepts of representation and objectivity in media, and received a Webby Award Nomination: Best Limited Series.With a finger on the pulse of people’s concerns, Noor’s storytelling is recognized for her innovative approach to fostering relationships across lines of difference.Visit Noor’s website to learn more about her work. Listen to the REP investigative series. It’s so good!Follow Noor on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. ---📱 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly email.✊🏽 Reach out anytime: [email protected].❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

Meike Ziervogel is a German-British novelist with five novels to her name. She is the founder of an award-winning publishing company in the UK and a fluent Arabic speaker. Since 2018 she has lived in Lebanon. From 2018 to 2019 she transformed a failing needle art workshop in the Shatila refugee camp into a sustainable independent business, providing a monthly income to 100 refugee women. In January 2020 she set up Alsama Project with Kadria Hussien, a Syrian refugee living in Shatila. Meike is now the CEO of Alsama Project and has shaped it into one of the most innovative and successful NGOs serving Syrian refugees in the Middle East.Follow Meike on Twitter!Make a donation to Alsama Project!Follow Alsama on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook!---📱 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly email.✊🏽 Reach out anytime: [email protected].❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

My guest this week is my friend and incredible human, Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis. Jacqui is an author, activist, preacher, and public theologian toward creating an antiracist, just, gun violence free, fully welcoming, gender affirming society in which everyone has enough. Read the rest of her bio here. Watch or listen to Jacqui’s Listen, Learn, Lean Into Peace series.Learn more about Freedom Rising 2024!Follow Jacqui on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.---📱 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly email.✊🏽 Reach out anytime: [email protected].❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

My guest this week is the esteemed Tim Wise. Tim is among the most prominent anti-racist educators and authors in the United States. He has spoken to audiences in all 50 states and internationally about systemic racism, inequality, and methods for dismantling racism in institutions from workplaces to schools to law enforcement. He is the author of nine books including his most recent essay collection, Dispatches from the Race War, and his highly acclaimed memoir, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son. He tweets (or Xes, pardon how that sounds) here and posts regular commentary on Instagram here.During our chat, we talk about being a Jewish person raising in the South, how he got into anti-racist work, the horrific war happening in Palestine and Israel currently, Zionism, where we go from here, and so much more.---📱 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly email.✊🏽 Reach out anytime: [email protected].❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

My guests this week are two truly remarkable women. I met Sophia and Patricia at the Clinton Global Initiative 2023 meetings a few weeks ago. Read more about Sophia Kianni’s work here. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter. And make sure to check out Climate Cardinals! Follow Patricia Velásquez on Twitter and Instagram. Consider getting involved with the Wayuu Taya Foundation.---📱 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly email.✊🏽 Reach out anytime: [email protected].❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

“All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.” — John MuirBarbara Jo Jenkins co-authored The Walk West (William Morrow), which became an international bestseller and part of the permanent White House Library. A nonfiction blockbuster, it sold 15 million copies, became a Reader's Digest condensed book, and was chosen as one of the most influential bestsellers related to American culture in the last 100 years. Jenkins' three-year, 3,000-mile walk across America with her former husband became one of the most popular stories in the National Geographic Magazine, (Cover story, August, 1979).  She co-authored The Road Unseen, (Fawcett) a number one mass paperback bestseller and winner of The Gold Medallion Book Award. Jenkins wrote I Once Knew A Woman (Wolgemuth and Hyatt) and Wit and Wisdom for Women (Thomas Nelson).40 years later, Barbara is ready to tell her side of the story. And, believe me, it’s a damn good story. Her brand new book, So Long As It’s Wild, is out today and you need to purchase a copy as soon as you possibly can! Learn more about Barbara Jo (including upcoming book tour dates!) by visiting her website. Also, you should definitely follow her on Instagram. Lots and lots of wholesome words and photos.---📱 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly email.✊🏽 Reach out anytime: [email protected].❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

From their website: “Rise & Shine TN believes every Tennessean should enjoy a free, safe, and vibrant life. Rise & Shine was started as a home for those who want to harness their hope, anger, sadness and fear and use it to build change. This is more than meetings with legislators who won’t hear us. This is more than calls that won’t be answered. This is more than business-as-usual. We draw from our training and experiences as parents, organizers, entrepreneurs, educators, healthcare providers, artists, non-profit experts, small business owners, corporate managers, musicians, native Tennesseans and new transplants who all agree that more must be done to protect our communities.” Donate online and follow them on Instagram and Twitter/X.---📱 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.✉️ Sign up for our weekly email.✊🏽 Reach out anytime: [email protected]❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

Flamy Grant is a shame-slaying, hip-swaying, singing-songwriting drag queen from western North Carolina. Her 2022 debut record, Bible Belt Baby, was nominated for Best Pop Album at the San Diego Music Awards, and she is a winner of the 2023 Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk Competition. Both a powerhouse vocalist and an intrepid songwriter, Flamy blends the art of drag with her iconic folk/rock sound to create a memorable musical experience.Flamy has collaborated with Adeem the Artist, Jennifer Knapp, Semler, and Derek Webb. In addition to playing the New Folk winner's showcase at the 2023 Kerrville Folk Festival, she has played Wild Goose Festival in North Carolina, San Diego Pride's SheFest, and is headlining Blount County Pride in East Tennessee this September.Much of Flamy’s music centers on the queer spiritual journey, telling stories of resilience and recovery from religious trauma in a world where LGBTQ+ people are frequently ignored by, harmed in, or ejected from religious spaces.NEXT STEPS:- Check out Flamy’s website for tour dates and so much more!- Follow Flamy on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter.- Listen to Flamy’s music on Apple Music and Spotify.- Is Flamy doing a show near you? If so, go see her!___________________________________________Reach out to us anytime and for any reason at [email protected]. Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter to keep up with everything. We have so much planned for the coming months and we don’t want you to miss a thing! If you love what we’re doing, consider supporting us on Patreon! We can’t do this without you. Lastly, leave us a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

I met my Natalia Antelava about a month ago in Tbilisi, Georgia, at the storytelling festival she co-founded that I spoke at. At this festival, I spoke alongside Sean Penn, Armando Iannucci, Aaron Rasmussen, Joe Sabia, Sarah Natochenny, and 70 others. I was impressed by her then and I am much more impressed with her now! She’s an incredible human that has gone through so much, been to so many places, and continues to give a damn in very beautiful and meaningful ways. A co-founder of Coda, Natalia is an Emmy-nominee and award winning journalist. Originally from Tbilisi, Georgia she started her career freelancing in West Africa. Since then, she had been BBC’s resident correspondent in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Middle East, Washington DC and India. She has covered the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008, the war in Eastern Ukraine and reported undercover from Burma, Yemen and Uzbekistan. Her investigations into human rights abuses in Central Asia, Iraq and the United States have won her a number of awards. In addition to a career in broadcast journalism, Natalia has also written for the Guardian, Forbes magazine and the New Yorker among others. Over the past few years, Natalie co-founded two incredible organizations we talk about at length in today’s conversation—Coda Story and ZEG Storytelling Festival. NEXT STEPS:- Follow Natalia on Twitter.- Follow Coda Story on Instagram and Twitter and consider supporting them on a monthly basis.- Check out what happened at ZEG Storytelling Festival last month and consider joining us next year! You most definitely must add Tbilisi to your travel plans.___________________________________________Reach out to us anytime and for any reason at [email protected]. Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter to keep up with everything. We have so much planned for the coming months and we don’t want you to miss a thing! If you love what we’re doing, consider supporting us on Patreon! We can’t do this without you. Lastly, leave us a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

It's Megha Desai Day is on the podcast! Megha is a corporate advertising powerhouse turned President of The Desai Foundation. After years working at some of the top advertising agencies—like BBH, Anomaly, and Wieden & Kennedy—Megha decided to join her family's foundation to help them grow and increase their reach in meaningful ways. The Desai Foundation is an organization that empowers women and children through community programming to elevate health, livelihood and menstrual equity in rural India. They inspire women and children to dream beyond! NEXT STEPS:— Follow Megha on Instagram.— Follow The Desai Foundation on Instagram.— Learn more about The Desai Foundation on Youtube. — Watch the Heroes for Humanity Film.___________________________________________Reach out to us anytime and for any reason at [email protected]. Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter to keep up with everything. We have so much planned for the coming months and we don’t want you to miss a thing! If you love what we’re doing, consider supporting us on Patreon! We can’t do this without you. Lastly, leave us a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!1

If you don’t already know who Matt Bernstein is, where the hell have you been? Living under a rock somewhere? Matt is a content creator, a makeup artist, and a self-described “queer jew with very long nails.” Matt uses a simple and unique design style to create infographics and other images that are meant to raise awareness around LGTBQ+ issues, antisemitism, bigotry, and so much more. Matt is also incredibly gracious and puts up with a tremendous amount of shit from trolls. Matt doesn’t like being called an activist (you’ll hear more about this in our chat) but there is no doubt that Matt is an effective builder of community. We have so much to learn from Matt in this conversation and on social media. NEXT STEPS:— Follow Matt on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok.— Keep an eye out for Matt’s brand new podcast, A Bit Fruity, which will release soon on all podcast platforms.___________________________________________Reach out to us anytime and for any reason at [email protected]. Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter to keep up with everything. We have so much planned for the coming months and we don’t want you to miss a thing! If you love what we’re doing, consider supporting us on Patreon! We can’t do this without you. Lastly, leave us a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

I don’t need to tell you about Rainn Wilson. You know about Rainn Wilson. He’s one of the best fucking humans out there. I’m so glad he’s a friend of mine and a friend of the show. His words and wisdom are needed so badly right now and I’m pumped that we get to hear from him again right here on the podcast. Soul Boom! Spirituality! Happiness! And so much more!NEXT STEPS:— Follow Rainn on Instagram and Twitter.— Buy Soul Boom!— Watch The Geography of Bliss on Peacock!— Support Rainn and Holiday’s nonprofit, Lidé Haiti!___________________________________________Reach out to us anytime and for any reason at [email protected]. Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter to keep up with everything. We have so much planned for the coming months and we don’t want you to miss a thing! If you love what we’re doing, consider supporting us on Patreon! We can’t do this without you. Lastly, leave us a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

Benjamin Perry is a minister at Middle Church and an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in outlets like The Washington Post, Slate, Sojourners, and Bustle. With a degree in psychology from SUNY Geneseo and an MDiv from Union Theological Seminary, Perry has worked as an organizer with the New York chapter of the Poor People’s Campaign and as an editor at Time, Inc. Perry has appeared on MSNBC, Al Jazeera, and NY1, and is the editor of the Queer Faith photojournalism series. He and his spouse, Erin Mayer, live with his best friend and brother in Maine, nurturing a small apple orchard.NEXT STEPS:— Follow Benjamin on Twitter and Instagram.— Check out Benjamin’s website.— Order your copy of Cry Baby: Why Our Tears Matter today!___________________________________________Reach out to us anytime and for any reason at [email protected]. Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter to keep up with everything. We have so much planned for the coming months and we don’t want you to miss a thing! If you love what we’re doing, consider supporting us on Patreon! We can’t do this without you. Lastly, leave us a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

During this Black History Month, we’re bringing you some snippets from conversations we have had over the past few years with incredible Black writers, speakers, professors, preachers, actors, and artists.“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” — Barack ObamaAfter you listen to the incredible clips in this episode, make sure you listen to the full conversations:Episode 27 with Clint SmithEpisode 143 with Lisa Sharon HarperEpisode 163 with Eddie S. Glaude Jr.Episode 169 with Chloé ValdaryEpisode 182 with Colman Domingo Episode 210 with Joél Leon___________________________________________Reach out to us anytime and for any reason at [email protected]. Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter to keep up with everything. We have so much planned for the coming months and we don’t want you to miss a thing! Lastly, leave us a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

Simran Jeet Singh, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the Religion & Society Program at the Aspen Institute and the author of the national bestseller The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life.Simran's thought leadership on bias, empathy, and justice extends across corporate, university, and government settings. He is an Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity with Columbia University and the Nelson Mandela Foundation, a Soros Equality Fellow with the Open Society Foundations, a Visiting Lecturer at Union Seminary, and a Senior Advisor on Equity and Inclusion for YSC Consulting, part of Accenture.Simran is the author of an award-winning children's book titled Fauja Singh Keeps Going: The True Story of the Oldest Person to Ever Run a Marathon (Kokila, Penguin Random House). He earned graduate degrees from Harvard University and Columbia University. Simran is a recipient of the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Award from Harvard University and, in 2020, TIME Magazine recognized him as one of sixteen people fighting for a more equal America. He writes regularly for major outlets, including The Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, CNN and TIME Magazine, and he writes a monthly column for Religion News Service.Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, Simran now lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters, where he enjoys running, writing and chasing his kids.NEXT STEPS:— Follow Simran on Twitter, Facebook, and Instragram.— Check out Simran’s website.— Order your copy of The Light We Give today!___________________________________________Reach out to us anytime and for any reason at [email protected]. Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter to keep up with everything. We have so much planned for the coming months and we don’t want you to miss a thing! If you love what we’re doing, consider supporting us on Patreon! We can’t do this without you. Lastly, leave us a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

Welcome to the first episode of 2023! We have an incredible year ahead for you. We're just getting started!This week's guest is the incredible Nazazin Ash. Nazanin is the CEO of Welcome.US—a new national initiative built to inspire, mobilize, and empower Americans from all corners of the country to welcome and support those seeking refuge here. This organization is led by a truly incredible team and is co-chaired by President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush, President Clinton and First Lady and Secretary Hillary Clinton, and President Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter. Welcome.US is only 16 months old but they have already accomplished so much:— 800 organizations and 221 leaders make up the welcome coalition and council— The Welcome Fund, in partnership with GoFundMe.org, has raised more than $20M, supporting resettlement agencies and 180 frontline organizations, nearly 70% of which are refugee, diaspora, veteran, or faith-led.— Welcome.US CEO Council members contributed $179,074,000 in goods, services and funds to resettlement efforts in the U.S. over the past year.— More than 58,000 Afghans and Ukrainians Welcomed by American Sponsors. Over 130,000 Americans have signed up to sponsor, and Welcome.US is powering Americans’ desire to help.— 68,000 jobs posted by 224 companies on the Welcome.US Employment Exchange. Plus, nationwide hiring fairs for newcomers.— 29 organizations are on the Welcome Exchange, and $18.8M in-kind donations have been made to resettlement organizations.NEXT STEPS:— Follow Nazanin on Twitter.— Follow Welcome.US on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.— Become a sponsor! It's such an incredible opportunity. ___________________________________________Reach out to us anytime and for any reason at [email protected]. Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter to keep up with everything. We have so much planned for the coming months and we don’t want you to miss a thing! If you love what we’re doing, consider supporting us on Patreon! We can’t do this without you. Lastly, leave us a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

I can’t believe this is the last episode of the year! We hope you’ll stick around and get more involved in what we're doing and building here at Let’s Give A Damn in 2023. We have so much that we’re planning on rolling out next year. This Best of 2022 episode features clips from some of our favorite moments during our conversations with the following incredible guests in 2022: — Episode 219 with Jacqui Lewis — Episode 222 with Rachelle Lefevre — Episode 225 with Tyler Merritt — Episode 227 with Hillary McBride — Episode 228 with Andy Grammer — Episode 232 with Frederick Joseph — Episode 233 with Alok Vaid-Menon — Episode 236 with Pádraig Ó Tuama — Episode 243 with Anand Giridharadas  Reach out to us anytime and for any reason at [email protected]. Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter to keep up with everything. We have so much planned for the coming months and we don’t want you to miss a thing! If you love what we’re doing, consider supporting our nonprofit foundation! We can’t do this without you. Oh, and make sure to sign up for our weekly email. Lastly, leave us a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

Detra Denise is a woman determined to tell her heartbreaking and hopeful story to as many people as possible in as many ways as possible. NEXT STEPS: — Follow Detra on Instagram and Facebook. — Follow Detra’s Story on Instagram. — Visit the brand new Detra’s Story website. — Buy her limited edition, 5-pack cigar sampler! ___________________________________________ Reach out to us anytime and for any reason at [email protected]. Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter to keep up with everything. We have so much planned for the coming months and we don’t want you to miss a thing! If you love what we’re doing, consider supporting us on Patreon! We can’t do this without you. Lastly, leave us a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

Tom Fishman is the CEO of Starts With Us. Starts With Us is a movement to foster curiosity, compassion, and courage as daily habits to overcome the polarization, blind tribalism, and dehumanization threatening the social fabric of our communities. NEXT STEPS: — Follow Starts With Us on Twitter and Instagram. — Visit their website and join the Starts With Us movement today! ___________________________________________ Reach out to us anytime and for any reason at [email protected]. Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter to keep up with everything. We have so much planned for the coming months and we don’t want you to miss a thing! If you love what we’re doing, consider supporting us on Patreon! We can’t do this without you. Lastly, leave us a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

Good+Foundation is a leading national nonprofit that works to dismantle multi-generational poverty by pairing tangible goods with innovative services for low-income fathers, mothers and caregivers, creating an upward trajectory for the whole family. NEXT STEPS: — Follow Good+ Foundation on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. — Visit Good+ Foundation’s website to learn more and to donate. — Follow Jessica Seinfeld on Instagram. ___________________________________________ Reach out to us anytime and for any reason at [email protected]. Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter to keep up with everything. We have so much planned for the coming months and we don’t want you to miss a thing! If you love what we’re doing, consider supporting us on Patreon! We can’t do this without you. Lastly, leave us a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!

Russell (aka Jolly Good Ginger) was raised by racist and bigoted parents and now educates white people to eradicate bigotry in all of its ugly forms. He shares his message with almost 2,000,000 people on social media. Russell is a damn good human and I can’t wait for you to meet him and learn from him today! NEXT STEPS: — Follow Jolly Good Ginger on Tiktok, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitch. — Watch his TEDx talk on breaking the cycle of white supremacy. ___________________________________________ Reach out to us anytime and for any reason at [email protected]. Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter to keep up with everything. We have so much planned for the coming months and we don’t want you to miss a thing! If you love what we’re doing, consider supporting us on Patreon! We can’t do this without you. Lastly, leave us a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!