All Episodes

Ep. 148: Why Action is Overrated, Part 2: Expanding to True Agency & Capacity

Ep. 147: Action Is Overrated: Action Obsession vs Aligned & Agile Agency, Part 1 of 2

Ep. 146, Part 2 of 2: Why Massive Transformation Might Be More Within Reach Than You Think

Ep. 145, Part 1 of 2: Why Massive Transformation Might Be More Within Reach Than You Think

Ep. 144: Why I Created Joyous Justice — And Why Joy Is Not Frivolous

Ep. 143: Eclipse Vibes, Podcast Updates, and Reflections on Self-Love

Ep. 142: Black Women & Vashti Vindicated, Part 2, with jesi "rocki" taylor

Ep. 141: Black Women & Vashti Vindicated, Part 1: Acknowledging Pet to Threat & Countering Disposability

Ep 140: Embodying Peace in the Face of Trump's F*ckery

EP 139: A New Dawn, Not a Farewell: April's Solo-Hosting Journey & Tracie’s Evolving Role

Ep. 138 - Accessing Onramps, Playing w Pilots, and Allowing Shift

Ep. 137: Intentional, Visionary Leadership IS Pragmatic and Practical!

Ep 136: Trauma-informed vs Trauma-agile

Ep 135: Making Room for Our Whole Selves

Ep 134: Belonging To Myself First

Ep 133 (30 Reprise): Eight Passover Practices for Collective Liberation

Ep 132: Reflections on Becoming, Healing, & Taking the Plunge

Ep 131: What does resilience serve?

Ep 130: Healing your relationship with thriving for long-term sustainability and success

Ep. 129: Making Space for Unfurling

Ep. 128: A Season of Joyous Justice Transitions

Ep. 127: Shifting the focus to what we want

Honoring Nature & Navigating Networks: Understanding ChatGPT through the Lens of Trees & Tu B'Shevat

Ep. 125: Racial Justice IS a Jewish Issue (44 reprise)

Ep 124: Living in the Present with Blessings

Ep. 123: Religion is… Divisive?

Ep. 122: Silly Rabbit, Joy is for Grown-Ups! (Part 2)

Ep. 121: Silly Rabbit, Joy is for Grown-Ups!

Ep. 120: Key Insights for Overcoming Systemic Oppression - The Candle Effect

Episode 119: Rededication over Resolutions

Ep. 118: Attention as a Tool for a Racial and Social Justice Practice (Reprise 94)

Episode 117: The 5 Core Challenges We See in Justice Work

Ep. 116: Reflecting upon & Reimagining Thanksgiving

Ep. 115: Slow, Deep, and Irreversible

Ep 114: What is Joyous Justice really?

Ep 113: How to proceed in the overwhelm of it all

Ep 112: All vibes are welcome

Ep 111: There is no Jewish space laser. Period. (Reprise)

Ep 110: Simchat Torah, Essential Letters, and Why ALL of Our Life Curricula is Needed (Reprise)

Ep 109: Sukkot, Black Panther, and Gratitude in the Wilderness (Reprise)

Ep 108: A Full Accounting of the Soul

Ep 107: Forgiveness without Apology?

Ep 106: “Oh, the world (and Joyous Justice) is changing!”

Ep 105: How are you this Elul?

Ep 104: Elul, the Shofar, and Awakeness (Reprise)

Ep 103: We're renaming the podcast!

Ep 102: You Can’t Fight Oppression with Oppression

Ep 101: Love after Brokenness

Ep 100: Tish B’Av, Trauma, and Embodied Grief

Ep. 99: Meditation and Courage: Wholeness For the Win

Ep 98: Yes, and…it’s complicated: A TikTok Conversation Starter

Ep 97: Grounded & Growing: From our Joyous Justice Summer Series

Ep 96: Shift Your Life in 60 Days

Ep 95: Asking about Asking: Decentering Yourself for Accountability

Ep 94: Attention as a Tool for a Racial and Social Justice Practice

Ep 93: Lessons in Loosening: Juneteenth, Summer, and Shmita

Ep 92: Countering Injustice-fueled Loneliness

Ep 91: Honest Truth; Authentic Change

Ep 90: The Shmita Year, the Year of Release (MVP)

Ep 89: Proximity Alone is NOT Antiracism (MVP)

Ep. 88: Conditional Whiteness is Still Whiteness (MVP)

Ep 87: When You Overhear Microaggressions (MVP)

Ep 86: Facing the Unfaceable: Yom HaShoah, Reparations, and Trauma-healing

Ep 85: Cultural appropriation & should we let go of “Let My People Go”?

Ep 84: What if we’re the Egyptians?

Ep 83: Beyond the Brisket: Creating a Liberatory Passover Practice

Ep 82: Showing up for justice when life gets hard (Live)

Ep 81: Middle Agent Status, Alternatives to Whiteness, and Radical Imagination

Ep 80: Cookies, Impact, and False Competition

Ep 79: On Purim, Joy, and Liberation (25 Reprise)

Ep 78: Feeling Rage, Finding Joy (Reprise of Ep 10)

Ep 77: When you think you’re The Good Place 😇 but you’re really Schitt’s Creek 😮

Ep 76: Jewishness is a particle AND a wave

Ep 75: Whoopi Goldberg, the Oppression Scale, and the Emotional Thermometer

Ep 74: Intellectual intimacy and interdependent intellectual independence

Ep 73: Colleyville, Community Healing, and Showing Up

Ep 72: If Enoughness is a Carrot It Can Be an Obstacle

Ep 71: Tu B’Shvat and MLK Day: Deepening the Roots of Racial Justice

Ep 70: Why Do So Many Resolutions “Fail”?

Ep 69: Q&A Or Q&Stay?

Ep 68: Stay Humble and Keep Going

Ep 67: When “Helpful” Feedback is Hurtful

Ep 66: Shleimut - Wholeness and JOC’s Multi-dimensional Consciousness

Ep 65: Chanukah: Light and Darkness

Ep 64: Grateful Family Day

Ep 63: Proximity Alone is NOT Antiracism

Ep 62: Support People Support Peace

Ep 61: Does April hate America?

Ep 60: You Can’t Hire Your Way to Racial Justice

Ep 59: Jewface and Jewish Characters in Media

Ep 58: We are the Product of Our Ancestor’s Choices

Ep 57: The Shmita Year, the Year of Release

Ep 56: Simchat Torah, Essential Letters, and Why ALL of Our Life Curricula is Needed

Ep 55: Sukkot, Shelter, and Sacrifice

Ep 54: Yom Kippur and the Importance of Process

Ep 53: Yom Kippur, T’shuvah, and the Load-Bearing Beam

Ep 52: Rosh HaShanah 5782 and our 1st Anniversary

Ep 51: The Other 50%

Ep 50: It's In Our Bones: Liberation and Grief

Ep 49: Elul, the Shofar, and Awakeness

Ep 48: Thinking Outside of the Box, part 2

Ep 47: Thinking Outside of the Box, part 1

Ep 46: Racism in the US Medical System

Ep 45: Conditional Whiteness is Still Whiteness

Ep. 44: Racial Justice IS a Jewish Issue

Ep 43: The Importance of Affinity Spaces

Ep. 42: Juneteenth and the Importance of Rest

Ep. 41: When You Overhear Microaggressions, Pt 2: Responding to a Question

Ep 40: Examining Jewish Outsider Status through MaNishtana’s ELI Talk

Ep 39: When You Overhear Microaggressions

Ep 38 (14 Reprise): White Supremacy and the Power of Culture

Ep 37 (10 Reprise): Feeling Rage, Finding Joy: Managing Emotions in Justice Work

Ep 36 (8 Reprise): Oppression Olympics, Intergenerational Trauma, and Shared Liberation

Ep 35 (6 Reprise): White Fragility, DARVO, and Accepting Feedback

Ep 34: The quicksand of comparing pain

Ep 33: Recovering from mistakes and recovering trust

Ep 32: Interrogating the Antisemitism Litmus Test

Ep 31: Transition, Trajectory, and Trellises

Ep 30: Eight Passover Practices for Collective Liberation

Ep 29: The Sea Never Parted

Ep 28: BOTH a lot to learn AND something to contribute

Ep 27: Exhaustion

Ep 26: Getting Unstuck when Fear Has You Frozen

Ep 25: On Purim, Joy, and Liberation

Ep 24: Deepen the Learning on White Leadership

Ep 23: Flip the Script on Urgent Action

Ep 22: There is no Jewish space laser. Period.

Ep 21: Tu B'Shevat and the Wisdom of Trees

Ep 20: The Insurrection and the Delusion of White Supremacy

Ep 19: Jews Talk Black Lives Matter

Ep 18: Hamilton and White Comfort

Ep 17: BOTH Ownership AND Community

Ep 16: Ways of Knowing and Finding Ease

Ep 15: Oil, Co-Creation, and Having What We Need

Ep 14: White Supremacy and the Power of Culture

Ep 13: Jews Talk Thanksgiving, Part 2

Ep 12: Jews Talk Thanksgiving, Part I

Ep 11: Intentionally Infusing Joy into Justice Work

Ep 10: Feeling Rage, Finding Joy: Managing Emotions in Justice Work

Ep 9: Digital Skin Color, Either/Or Thinking, and Pizza in Dakar

Ep 8: Oppression Olympics, Intergenerational Trauma, and Shared Liberation

Ep 7: Everyone is Racist!

Ep 6: White Fragility, DARVO, and Accepting Feedback

Ep 5: April and Tracie Live: Intergroup Collaboration in Savannah and Beyond

Ep 4: Sukkot, Black Panther, and Gratitude in the Wilderness

Ep 3: Yom Kippur, Cows, and Collective Accountability

Ep 2: Rosh Hashanah, Prince, and Visions, Both Big & Small

Ep 1: Join the Conversation from the Beginning