#216 - Shannon Watts

12/07/21 • 29 min

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One week ago, a 15-year-old domestic terrorist walked into Oxford High School murdering 4 students and injuring 7 more. Why does this keep happening? Why aren’t we doing more to stop these things from happening? Why are there more guns than people in this country? These and so many other questions have been rattling around in my brain over the past week. Shannon Watts joins helps us navigate these important questions today.

Shannon Watts is the founder of the nation’s largest grassroots group fighting against gun violence, Moms Demand Action, with chapters in every state effecting change at the local, state and national level. Her book, Fight Like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World, was released in May of 2019.

NEXT STEPS:

Follow Shannon on Twitter and Instagram.

Follow Moms Demand Action on Twitter and Instagram.

Buy Shannon’s book immediately!

Visit Moms Demand Action to see how you can get involved today!

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Edited and Sound Designed by Sound On Studios.

NEXT STEPS:

Follow Shannon on Twitter and Instagram.

Follow Moms Demand Action on Twitter and Instagram.

Buy Shannon’s book immediately!

Visit Moms Demand Action to see how you can get involved today!

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Edited and Sound Designed by Sound On Studios.

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#215 - Diego Saez Gil

Diego Saez-Gil is our guest this week! Diego is a climate entrepreneur from Argentina and based in San Fransisco, CA. He founded Pachama—an incredible company that focuses on leveraging data, artificial intelligence, and automation to protect ecosystems, restore forests, and improve carbon markets.

From Pachama’s website: “Our co-founder Diego grew up in northern Argentina, at the tip of the diverse rainforest covering most of South America. After a decade of building technology companies abroad, Diego returned to his roots and traveled to the Amazon rainforest. There he saw how much was cleared to deforestation. There he realized the potential of forests to solve climate change. Diego moved to California and joined forces with Tomas, a fellow Argentinian and a machine learning engineer, who was thinking deeply about the role technology could play in protecting and restoring Spaceship Earth. The two partnered to create a company to restore nature to solve climate change.”

NEXT STEPS:

Follow Diego on Twitter.

Follow Pachama on Twitter.

Visit Pachama’s website to see how you can get involved today!

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Edited and Sound Designed by Sound On Studios.

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#217 - Best Of 2021

This week, the best of 2021! We had dozens of incredible conversations last year but these are some of the moments that stuck out to our host, Nick Laparra.

In today’s episode, you’ll hear clips from our conversations with Reshma Saujani, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Jedidiah Jenkins, Justin Baldoni, Baratunde Thurston, Sharon McMahon, Taylor Schumann, Pedro Adrade, Rais Buiyan, Katharine Hayhoe, Kirsten Powers, and Shannon Watts. Enjoy!