A How to Citizen Huddle (Coach Steve Kerr & Friends)
How To Citizen with Baratunde
iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Whether you’re a sports fanatic, or you’ve never stepped foot on a court or field—there’s a lot we can learn about citizening from the lens of coaches and athletes. To show us how sports can help us with teamwork, discipline, and a sense of play in our citizening efforts— Baratunde is joined by Steve Kerr, head coach of the NBA championship-winning Golden State Warriors and relentless advocate for gun violence prevention, along with Dr. Kensa Gunter, a clinical and sports psychologist, and Jamie Zaninovich, the Deputy Commissioner & COO of the Pac-12 Conference.
SHOW ACTIONS
Internally Reflect - How it feels to work with others
For those of you that played team sports, how did teamwork make you feel? What about teamwork was easy for you? What parts were challenging? Or if you didn’t play team sports, picture any other team you’ve been a part of in school or work. What personal benefits did you receive by coming together with others to work on something?
Be Informed - Sites to help you get going
Find the issue you’re passionate about and start learning! Go to howtocitizen.com and click on Let’s Start to get personalized results that will help you learn about issues you care about. Let curiosity guide you. Once you get your quiz results, let us know what you start learning!
If you are an athlete or coach, check out All Vote, No Play to find civic drills you can do together as a team.
Publicly Participate - Your presence has power
Bear witness by lending your presence and listening as another way to publicly participate. Join Baratunde as he practices publicly participating in this way. Find and attend a gathering in your community (council meeting, non-profit assembly, school board meeting, church potluck or other community forum) and simply be present and LISTEN.
SHOW NOTES
Find How To Citizen on Instagram or visit howtocitizen.com to join our mailing list and find ways to citizen besides listening to this podcast!
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How To Citizen is hosted by Baratunde Thurston. He’s also host and executive producer of the PBS series, America Outdoors as well as a founding partner and writer at Puck. You can find him all over the internet.
CREDITS
How To Citizen with Baratunde is a production of iHeartRadio Podcasts and Rowhome Productions. Our Executive Producers are Baratunde Thurston and Elizabeth Stewart. Allie Graham is our Lead Producer and Danya AbdelHameid is our Associate Producer. Alex Lewis is our Managing Producer. John Myers is our Executive Editor and Mix Engineer. Original Music by Andrew Eapen and Blue Dot Sessions. Our Audience Engagement Fellows are Jasmine Lewis and Gabby Rodriguez. Special thanks to Joelle Smith from iHeartRadio and Layla Bina.
Special thanks to Lisa Kay Solomon, Coach Eric Reveno & D1 Ticker for inviting us to be part of this discussion and being great partners in citizening.
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| 0:00.0 | America loves its founding fathers, but that's a tough act to follow as a founding son. |
| 0:05.7 | I'm Bob Crawford. Join me, Patrick Warburton, and Nick Offerman, as we bring the sixth |
| 0:11.1 | president to life. Was there ever witnessed such a bare-faced corruption in any country before? |
| 0:16.8 | Let justice be done, though the heavens fall! |
| 0:21.2 | Listen to Founding Son, a curiosity podcast on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, |
| 0:27.9 | or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:57.9 | Join the journey soon. |
| 1:27.9 | Connection between people is really a powerful force, whether it's a force for winning basketball games, |
| 1:39.1 | or a force for changing society. |
| 1:46.6 | Welcome to How to Citizen with Baratunde, a podcast that reimagined citizen as a verb, |
| 1:52.1 | not a legal status. This season is all about how we practice democracy. |
| 1:57.1 | What can we get rid of, what can we invent, and how do we change the culture of democracy itself? |
| 2:02.4 | We're leaving the theoretical clouds and hitting the ground with inspiring examples of people |
| 2:07.4 | and institutions that are showing us new ways to govern ourselves. |
| 2:17.6 | You know, since high school, athletics have not been a driving force in my life. |
| 2:22.0 | Not nearly as much as technology or politics, but as a child, |
| 2:26.0 | your boy was pretty into sports. We're talking youth, soccer, single-season experiments in |
| 2:32.5 | cross-country, ouched in-last, swimming, even shorter, and wrestling. |
| 2:37.3 | Well, that's a funny story for another day. |
| 2:39.6 | But I spent years on the track and field team, very consistent shout out to Coach Gold. |
| 2:45.6 | Once I was out of school, though, I drifted from playing or even watching sports, |
| 2:50.4 | outside of championship games and major events like the World Cup. |
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