#81 Helaine Olen: Insist On Your Dignity
05/30/22 • 43 min
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Helaine Olen is an award-winning opinion writer for the Washington Post Opinion section. An expert on money and society with a deep understanding of public policy, she writes, speaks and consults on issues including Social Security, retirement, healthcare, student loans and women’s financial issues. Helaine has appeared on The Daily Show, Frontline, C-Span, the BBC, MSNBC, All Things Considered, Marketplace and more to share her forward-thinking commentary on politics, economics and consumer and regulatory issues.
She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:
- The “Great Resignation” and Americans’ changing relationship with work
- The need to insist on dignity in our working lives
- The call “to not confuse your needs, with corporate needs or government needs”
- The benefits of building better social safety nets and increased government support
Complete show notes HERE
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Helaine Olen is an award-winning opinion writer for the Washington Post Opinion section. An expert on money and society with a deep understanding of public policy, she writes, speaks and consults on issues including Social Security, retirement, healthcare, student loans and women’s financial issues. Helaine has appeared on The Daily Show, Frontline, C-Span, the BBC, MSNBC, All Things Considered, Marketplace and more to share her forward-thinking commentary on politics, economics and consumer and regulatory issues.
She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:
- The “Great Resignation” and Americans’ changing relationship with work
- The need to insist on dignity in our working lives
- The call “to not confuse your needs, with corporate needs or government needs”
- The benefits of building better social safety nets and increased government support
Complete show notes HERE
Connect with Helaine Olen
Website: http://helaineolen.com
Twitter: twitter.com/helaineolen
Follow WCPGR/Resilience
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/buildresilience
Twitter: https://twitter.com/buildresilience
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/buildresilience
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Dr. Britt Wray is a Human and Planetary Health Fellow at Stanford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her research focuses on the mental health impacts of the ecological crisis. She is the creator of Gen Dread, the weekly newsletter about “staying sane in the climate crisis” and the author of Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis (2022). She has hosted several podcasts, radio & TV programs with the BBC and CBC, and is a TED speaker.
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- The importance of acceptance and “leaning into that vulnerability and lack of control” for outcomes, while still taking action
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Newsletter: gendread.substack.com
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She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:
- The increased resilience of healthy soil farms against climate change impacts
- The boost to food production and bio-diversity offered through regenerative agriculture practices. “It's phenomenal what the land will do if you just give it a break.”
- The value in shifting to bio-regional production and supply chains
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