Creating Change Through Conversation + Community (with Dr. Nilanjana Dasgupta)

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Feeling overwhelmed and hopeless about how to enact change right now? Christine talks with Dr. Nilanjana Dasgupta about focusing on the power of how we make change at a more immediate, community level, starting right in our neighborhoods. They talk about how to keep going during overwhelming times, how to connect within your neighborhood, the power of storytelling, dealing with performative diversity practices in the workplace, and more. For links and resources, visit the show notes. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your home, schedule, to-do list, relationships, and mental space. Connect with host Christine Koh at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus.
0:04.0	We're having a baby.
0:06.0	We're having a baby.
0:07.0	I've always wanted to be mom.
0:09.0	And we're bringing you on our journey through everything.
0:12.0	I have no idea what we're doing.
0:13.0	Thank you. I have more of an idea.
0:15.0	I think of it like a Tamagotchi.
0:17.0	At the end of all of this...
0:20.0	We're going to have a little baby.
0:21.6	Raising Chelsea, a Hulu original series streaming April 2nd exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:27.2	18 plus subscription required T's and T supply.
0:35.3	Welcome to Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.
0:42.4	Through episodes with me, Christine Coe, and a range of smart, compassionate guests, you will come away with insights and tactics to help you find the agency and space to simplify and declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.
0:57.0	Friends, well, I finally caught a good old-fashioned cold, and I'm on the tail end of it as I'm
1:04.5	recording this, so apologies for the slightly congested vibe. I'm really delighted to bring you today's conversation in which I
1:13.1	talk to social psychologist, Dr. Nalongina Dasgupta. Dr. Desgupta is the author of Change the
1:20.0	Wallpaper, transforming cultural patterns to build more just communities. This book disrupts the
1:26.3	conventional thinking that traditional diversity programs
1:29.2	can create lasting change. Instead, Dr. Discoopta focuses on the power of how we make change
1:35.9	at a more immediate community level, starting right in our neighborhoods. Local has very much
1:41.8	been on my mind. In a recent conversation with Dr. Kirk Gray, he emphasizes the
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