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Empowerment Starts Here

Dec 5, 2017

In this episode, the host brings closure to the season by sharing the different lessons offered on power.  There were 12 informants in Season 1 and as they are highlighted in this episode, listeners are able to learn more about them and the four levels of power that impacted their work with social change:  Structural,...


Nov 28, 2017

In today’s conversation, Imani Evans talks about how she took her experience with trauma and made it her life’s work. Specifically, she argues that the very thing that made her want to die is the thing that gave her a reason to live. She talks about her experience with sexual violence, with identity...


Nov 21, 2017

In this episode, Imani Evans, a therapist and activist for women and girls healing from sexual and domestic violence, presents Part 1 of The Case of Healing, Surviving and Thriving.  She talks about critical foundations to thriving, such as in joy, happiness, and peace.   And, she argues for a pursuit of wholeness,...


Nov 14, 2017

In this episode, C. Eric Ervin, a former emergency medical doctor, provides listeners with a compelling proposition about class, human behaviors and social well-being.


Nov 7, 2017

This week Empowerment Starts Here with informant Kaitlin Popielarz in the Case of Therapy and Well Being. In it she discusses working with a therapist as a form of self care, the stigma that can sometimes surround this form of healing and how her family dynamics helped make going to therapy possible. Kaitlin also delves...