Sounds Good Podcast

Danielle Coke uses art to educate and inspire millions online about anti-racism and allyship. In this episode, Dani shares five steps to allyship during a crisis and how we can maintain hope.

Katherine Gehl says reforming our voting system is the solution to political division and gridlock. Our current political system makes polarization and incivility commonplace and compromise nearly impossible, but ranked choice voting promises to make efficient cooperation possible.

Dr. Rick Hanson is a psychologist who creatively works at the intersection of three circles: psychology, neuroscience, and contemplative wisdom. In this conversation, he speaks to the empowerment that comes with using our inner resources for hardwiring happiness in relationship with pain.

Maggie Smith is an award-winning poet who shot to prominence in 2016 with her viral poem, Good Bones. In this episode, Maggie talks about being a recovering pessimist, raising her kids in times of injustice, and how poems — like people — evolve.‍

Stuart Perelmuter, the founder of OD Action and Atadvocacy, has worked for over a decade to keep hundreds and thousands of people informed and engaged in progressive politics. In this episode, Stuart shares how and why petitions — and the people who sign them — really do matter. 

As well as a celebration of Black joy and liberty, Juneteenth is an opportunity to reflect on the history of emancipation — and how we can continue to fight for civil rights the other days of the year too.

Hollaback co-founder and executive director Emily May shares the disturbing story of harassment that inspired her to start Hollaback, why bystander intervention is important, how anyone can learn to be an effective bystander through Hollaback’s five steps of bystander intervention, and why we can be hopeful about addressing harassment.