The Moth: Storytelling Leads to Change

09/05/23 • 32 min

If we are to change systems, we must first start with changing our beliefs. And this requires us to learn to listen to one another. That is exactly what The Moth was created for. Through their live storytelling events, workshops and The Moth Radio Hour podcast, they are elevating stories that create empathy all around the world.

In this episode, we’ll be tackling one of the most powerful tools for systems change: storytelling.

Featuring Sarah Austin Jenness, Executive Producer of The Moth, and Brandon Grant-Walker, Director of Marketing at The Moth.

If you want to learn more about The Moth visit themoth.org.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

The Moth Radio Hour Episode: 25 Years of Stories: Critical Crash

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In this episode, we’ll be tackling one of the most powerful tools for systems change: storytelling.

Featuring Sarah Austin Jenness, Executive Producer of The Moth, and Brandon Grant-Walker, Director of Marketing at The Moth.

If you want to learn more about The Moth visit themoth.org.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

The Moth Radio Hour Episode: 25 Years of Stories: Critical Crash

If you aspire to be a System Catalyst and need resources to help you on your journey, subscribe to our newsletter.

Learn more about our mission and our partners, visit systemcatalysts.com.

This podcast is produced by Hueman Group Media.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Previous Episode

PushBlack: Looking Back to Move Forward

In 2015, Julian Walker set out to fix the low turnout rates of Black voters. By listening to the community, he learned that people were lacking stories of Black liberation. If people better understood their past, perhaps they would feel more inspired to vote for their future.

Today, PushBlack is the nation’s biggest nonprofit media organization for Black Americans, reaching over 9 million people. For the past three election cycles, they have run the largest voter turnout programs in the digital space.

In today's episode we’ll learn from PushBlack’s strategy: to listen, evaluate, and come up with community-based solutions.

Featuring Julian Walker, CEO, PushBlack and Yordanos Eyoel, Founder and CEO of Keseb & Board Chair, PushBlack.

If you want to learn more about Push Black visit pushblack.org.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Book: The Miseducation of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson

PushBlack’s podcast: Black History Year

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Next Episode

Expanding Opportunities for the Formerly Incarcerated with Mission: Launch

During the seven years Teresa Hodge spent incarcerated, she witnessed many women returning to prison. She realized that background checks were preventing them from getting a job after release, or even borrowing money to start their own business. As soon as Teresa came out of prison she started Mission Launch with her daughter Laurin Leonard. The organization developed R3 score, an alternative to background checks that increases the opportunities for people with criminal records.

Today, we’ll learn how Teresa is transforming our financial system, along with our beliefs about who deserves access to opportunity.

Featuring Teresa Y. Hodge, President & CEO, Mission: Launch and Ebony Thomas, President, Bank of America Foundation.

If you want to learn more about Mission: Launch and R3 Score visit mission-launch.org.

Listen to Forces for Good: https://link.chtbl.com/forces-for-good

If you aspire to be a System Catalyst and need resources to help you on your journey, subscribe to our newsletter.

Learn more about our mission and our partners, visit systemcatalysts.com.

This podcast is produced by Hueman Group Media.

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