Mission Forward
Master Sergeant (Ret.) Erinn Watkins joins Carrie Fox for a conversation on owning our emotions and defining our space in the universe on the cusp of Erinn’s new book, “PathfYnder: How I Use Emotional Control to Build Success and Get What I Want.”
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John Trybus is a professor at Georgetown University and Director of the Center for Social Impact Communication. He sat down with Carrie Fox for a conversation on the role and power of social impact communications on the cusp of the release of her book, “More Than Words: Communications Practices for Courageous Leaders.” Our thanks to the University for offering the event to us to share with you.
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This week, we offer a preview of Carrie’s new book, an excerpt from chapter one, and an invitation to explore what it means to use communication to drive change in the world.
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Nicole Lynn Lewis joins Carrie this week to share her story, the story of a pregnant girl, and how that story went on to create a movement.
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Shilpi Chhotray is the co-founder and executive director of People over Plastic. This week, she joins Carrie to share a story of waste colonization, social divides, and the work her team is doing to lift the intersectional stories of environmental racism.
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Lisa Cron is a story coach, a teacher, a speaker, a former literary agent, and the author of many books, including “Wired for Story,” “Story Genius,” and most recently “Story or Die: how to use brain science to engage, persuade, and change minds in business and in life.” She joins Carrie this week to unpack the unparalleled power of story.
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Jennifer Brandel is a co-founder of Hearken, which she’ll talk about extensively today, but she’s also behind Zebra’s Unite, Civic Exchange Chicago, Democracy SOS and WBEZ Chicago’s Curious City. She joins Carrie Fox for a conversation on approaching the most challenging problems with an open and curious perspective.
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So much of the success of any of our DEI work is rooted in our ability to communicate vision through metaphor. It is, after all, a metaphor that connects to emotion, to our human ability to find empathy and build affinity between us. Vision, often, starts with a metaphor built with the heart in mind. …
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In flying, the takeoff and the landing are critical to success. Everything in between is coasting. It matters in the sky, and it matters in our speech. In this week’s Finding the Words, Carrie Fox explores how landing the plane helps her, and the Mission Partners team, when it counts. This is week 4, in…
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Tyler Meier is the director of the University of Arizona Poetry Center and the co-editor of Dear Vaccine: A Global Vaccine Poem, a project that invited anyone to share experiences of the pandemic and vaccination through poetry. What business poetry, you might ask? Because poetry, as Tyler says it, is marching away at the atomic…
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