Rethink Community: The Podcast

Weavers "Weaving Connection: How Relationships Build Stronger Communities"

Welcome to this season of Rethink Community: The Podcast. Through conversations with leaders from Settled, The Weavers Project, and Samaritan app, we explore how meaningf

Settled "The Power of Neighboring with Dr. Gabrielle Clowdus"

Welcome to this season of Rethink Community: The Podcast. Through conversations with leaders from Settled, The Weavers Project, and Samaritan app, we explore how meaningf

Best Of Rethink Community: Real Stories Behind COPE

Welcome to Season 11 of the Rethink Community Podcast: The Best Of! For the past five years, the Rethink Community Podcast has been a space to challenge how we understa

Best Of Rethink Community: "Telling a Different Story About Community" Steve Gill

Welcome to Season 11 of the Rethink Community Podcast: The Best Of! For the past five years, the Rethink Community Podcast has been a space to challenge how we understa

Best Of Rethink Community: "Bridge the Distance Across Walls" Jon Adrian Velazquez

Welcome to Season 11 of the Rethink Community Podcast: The Best Of! For the past five years, the Rethink Community Podcast has been a space to challenge how we understa

Best Of Rethink Community: "When Poverty Becomes Personal" Andrea Carter

Welcome to Season 11 of the Rethink Community Podcast: The Best Of! For the past five years, the Rethink Community Podcast has been a space to challenge how we understa

Best Of Rethink Community: "Telling a Different Story about Poverty" Mauricio Lim Miller

Welcome to Season 11 of the Rethink Community Podcast: The Best Of! For the past five years, the Rethink Community Podcast has been a space to challenge how we understa

From Resignation to Renewal

In this episode, Brian Dobyns reflects on how living just above the poverty line shaped his sense of what was possible. He shares stories of being excluded from help and

When Poverty Becomes Personal

In this episode, John White welcomes Andrea Carter to unpack how personal experience can radically reshape our understanding of poverty. Andrea reflects on her early year

Rewriting the Poverty Narrative

In this episode, I speak with Aaron Earlywine and Maddie Mitchell to challenge narratives that assume "poverty is a personal failing" or "people in poverty are helpless."

Leading With Lived Experience

What if the stories we believe about poverty are holding us back from real change? For generations, narratives of blame, pity, and resignation have shaped how we respond

Communicate with Dignity: Paul Hemminger

The divisions in our country are not just caused by disagreements; they're fueled by misunderstanding and even contempt, and they can be healed with dignity.  Join us in

Unlock Wisdom from Within: Shandell Jamal

Have you ever encountered a moment when a member of your team shared a personal experience or an insight that facilitated connection or unlocked a solution to a challenge

Cultivate Hope and Empowerment: Michael Cafasso

How is hope linked to trust? And what is empowerment really?  Words often fall short when describing these two realities but most of us know when we experience them.  Hop

Poverty, Health + Healing: Tracey Stute

Over the past two decades, all facets of the American health system have come to understand the deep connection between social and environmental factors and health outcom

Finding Joy & Creating Wellbeing: Andrea Carter

In this episode, we are joined by our very own Andrea Carter, with Think Tank.  Andrea invites us beyond the scarcity and pain of poverty to the hidden abundance found in

Entrepreneurship and the Gig Economy: Thomas White

In this episode, our guest is Thomas White, a seasoned entrepreneur in the Gig Economy.  Thomas speaks from his own lived experience on the benefits of gig work, the pitf

Amy Reigel A Housing Crisis, Universal Challenges & Creative Living

In today's episode, I am joined by Amy Riegel, a leader on housing in the state of Ohio.  Amy shares with us stories of what led her to dedicate her life to helping Ohioa

Real Stories Behind COPE: Carlos Guajardo

"If you take a chance on us, we'll take a chance on you." Those were the words that first led Carlos Guajardo to join forces with Think Tank over a decade ago, and ultima

Real Stories Behind COPE: Ken Moss

Decades ago when Pastor Ken Moss' prison term ended and he became a returning citizen, conversations were just getting started about the challenging realities of life wit