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Hi, I'm Shannon, and this is Running Through Rivers, technically Series 3 if
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you're counting, and I promise that number makes sense once I explain it.
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Actually, let's just start there.
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This podcast has had more names than I've had job titles, and that's saying something.
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It started as Powers Through, four episodes for incredible women.
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Beth Godbolt talked to me about activism through parenthood and the work she'd
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done organizing United Stand in Richmond.
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And Tiana Jarrett-Williams and I got into the differences between racism in
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the U.S. and the U.K., anti-Blackness within Black communities.
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We talked about photography and soul food.
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That one went everywhere in the best way.
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Cindy Montoto and I talked about running a business through COVID as the world
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caught up briefly with Blackout Tuesday and Black Lives Matter.
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And we rounded that out with Dr.
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Keisha from Dr. Keisha Cares, talking about child literacy, books as mirrors,
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windows, and sliding glass doors, which is still one of my favorite phrases anyone said on the show.
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Then it became running through rivers my name not a married one and series two
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was more solo more personal i opened with my own origin story and why storytelling matters at all,
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i brought my mom on twice to talk about race motherhood and what it's like raising
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children in a world that hasn't finished being racist yet.
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And I did an episode on inclusive language, one on cultural appropriation versus
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appreciation timed around Halloween,
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and closed with Nat Hellman talking to me about neurodivergence from the inside.
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And then, quiet.
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Life got loud in other ways. So why now?
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Here's what's true. Everything I was circling in those first two series,
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voice, identity, systems, the stories we're allowed to tell about ourselves,
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is the same thing I'm doing now, just with better language for it and a lot more scar tissue.
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I've spent the time since building out the actual practice behind this,
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consulting, speaking, writing, and somewhere in that, I noticed the podcast
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was the place where I first said a lot of this out loud, unpolished,
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before I knew it was a framework.
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So this is less a reboot and more picking back up a thread that never actually finished.
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I'm not doing this weekly. I want to be honest about why. Weekly is what killed
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this the first two times, not because I ran out of things to say. I never have.
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But because the moment it becomes a debt instead of a practice,
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I stop wanting to do it. And then it goes quiet for two years.
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Fortnightly is the version of this I can actually keep.
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So I hear you asking, what's coming? Well, no niche, that hasn't changed and won't.
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What's coming is a mix. Some of it will feel solo, where I'm talking through
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and thinking out loud and something I'm writing or that I'm actively working through.
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Some conversations, some revisits of the same questions, series one and two
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opened up, now with a bit more mileage on them.
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So if you were here for Powers Through, for my mom's episodes,
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or for Nat, welcome back.
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And if you're new, well, welcome in. No catching up required.
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So, what you can expect is a new episode every other week. You can find me writing
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the longer version of these thoughts on Substack, and I'll link that in the show notes below.
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Thanks for being here for series three of a show that's had more comebacks than a plot. Talk soon.