Series 3: Picking Up the Thread bölümünün tam dökümü

WEBVTT 00:00:00.335 --> 00:00:05.107 Hi, I'm Shannon, and this is Running Through Rivers, technically Series 3 if 00:00:05.107 --> 00:00:09.687 you're counting, and I promise that number makes sense once I explain it. 00:00:28.139 --> 00:00:30.432 Actually, let's just start there. 00:00:32.667 --> 00:00:40.152 This podcast has had more names than I've had job titles, and that's saying something. 00:00:41.144 --> 00:00:48.023 It started as Powers Through, four episodes for incredible women. 00:00:48.975 --> 00:00:53.840 Beth Godbolt talked to me about activism through parenthood and the work she'd 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:57.000 done organizing United Stand in Richmond. 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:03.070 And Tiana Jarrett-Williams and I got into the differences between racism in 00:01:03.070 --> 00:01:06.980 the U.S. and the U.K., anti-Blackness within Black communities. 00:01:06.980 --> 00:01:09.430 We talked about photography and soul food. 00:01:09.784 --> 00:01:12.211 That one went everywhere in the best way. 00:01:12.894 --> 00:01:17.780 Cindy Montoto and I talked about running a business through COVID as the world 00:01:17.780 --> 00:01:22.664 caught up briefly with Blackout Tuesday and Black Lives Matter. 00:01:22.832 --> 00:01:26.350 And we rounded that out with Dr. 00:01:26.350 --> 00:01:32.470 Keisha from Dr. Keisha Cares, talking about child literacy, books as mirrors, 00:01:32.470 --> 00:01:38.395 windows, and sliding glass doors, which is still one of my favorite phrases anyone said on the show. 00:01:39.882 --> 00:01:45.840 Then it became running through rivers my name not a married one and series two 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:53.193 was more solo more personal i opened with my own origin story and why storytelling matters at all, 00:01:53.657 --> 00:01:58.140 i brought my mom on twice to talk about race motherhood and what it's like raising 00:01:58.140 --> 00:02:01.802 children in a world that hasn't finished being racist yet. 00:02:03.113 --> 00:02:09.893 And I did an episode on inclusive language, one on cultural appropriation versus 00:02:09.893 --> 00:02:12.076 appreciation timed around Halloween, 00:02:12.685 --> 00:02:18.410 and closed with Nat Hellman talking to me about neurodivergence from the inside. 00:02:18.990 --> 00:02:20.558 And then, quiet. 00:02:21.335 --> 00:02:24.213 Life got loud in other ways. So why now? 00:02:24.673 --> 00:02:28.554 Here's what's true. Everything I was circling in those first two series, 00:02:28.821 --> 00:02:33.198 voice, identity, systems, the stories we're allowed to tell about ourselves, 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:37.882 is the same thing I'm doing now, just with better language for it and a lot more scar tissue. 00:02:38.852 --> 00:02:43.554 I've spent the time since building out the actual practice behind this, 00:02:43.931 --> 00:02:49.143 consulting, speaking, writing, and somewhere in that, I noticed the podcast 00:02:49.143 --> 00:02:53.301 was the place where I first said a lot of this out loud, unpolished, 00:02:53.701 --> 00:02:55.756 before I knew it was a framework. 00:02:56.469 --> 00:03:02.366 So this is less a reboot and more picking back up a thread that never actually finished. 00:03:03.266 --> 00:03:07.513 I'm not doing this weekly. I want to be honest about why. Weekly is what killed 00:03:07.513 --> 00:03:11.480 this the first two times, not because I ran out of things to say. I never have. 00:03:12.247 --> 00:03:16.273 But because the moment it becomes a debt instead of a practice, 00:03:16.273 --> 00:03:19.520 I stop wanting to do it. And then it goes quiet for two years. 00:03:20.165 --> 00:03:23.206 Fortnightly is the version of this I can actually keep. 00:03:23.974 --> 00:03:28.763 So I hear you asking, what's coming? Well, no niche, that hasn't changed and won't. 00:03:29.537 --> 00:03:34.993 What's coming is a mix. Some of it will feel solo, where I'm talking through 00:03:35.333 --> 00:03:40.969 and thinking out loud and something I'm writing or that I'm actively working through. 00:03:41.363 --> 00:03:47.053 Some conversations, some revisits of the same questions, series one and two 00:03:47.053 --> 00:03:49.717 opened up, now with a bit more mileage on them. 00:03:50.913 --> 00:03:55.123 So if you were here for Powers Through, for my mom's episodes, 00:03:55.123 --> 00:03:58.187 or for Nat, welcome back. 00:03:58.726 --> 00:04:04.712 And if you're new, well, welcome in. No catching up required. 00:04:06.493 --> 00:04:11.759 So, what you can expect is a new episode every other week. You can find me writing 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:17.064 the longer version of these thoughts on Substack, and I'll link that in the show notes below. 00:04:17.604 --> 00:04:24.018 Thanks for being here for series three of a show that's had more comebacks than a plot. Talk soon.