Ep. 184: Susan Celia Swan on Using Art to Create Change
Unperform with Tiffany Han (formerly Raise Your Hand Say Yes)
Tiffany Han
4.7 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Can you use your art as resistance, as a form of activism, or as a catalyst for social change? Yes, you can, and this week, I'm talking with Susan Celia Swan about how to do just that.
Susan is the Executive Director of V-Day, a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls that raises funds and awareness through benefit productions of Playwright/Founder Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues and other artistic works, and we had such an amazing conversation about what creative women can do to activate change in their local communities and on a global scale.
We also talked about what to do if you want to serve but aren't sure how to get started, the big impact tiny moves can create, and how to deal with the imperfection that can rise up when YOU want to rise up.
This conversation is important and powerful. We've all got big work to do. No pressure, hand raisers! And let's go.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of Raise Your Hand Say Yes with Tiffany Hahn, a podcast all about the creative adventures of extraordinary people. |
| 0:10.9 | To get information on today's episode and past episodes, visit Tiffanyhan.com slash podcast. |
| 0:17.2 | Now on to the show. |
| 0:20.9 | Hey, hey, everyone. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Raise Your Hand Say Yes. |
| 0:24.4 | I'm so excited about this week's episode. |
| 0:27.1 | I am interviewing Susan Celia Swan, and Susan is the executive director of V-Day. |
| 0:33.2 | I'm going to tell you all about Susan and V-Day in just a moment. |
| 0:36.4 | But before I do, I have a quick housekeeping note. |
| 0:38.6 | I want to let you know that I am teaching a free webinar on March 22nd. |
| 0:43.6 | There is a link in the show notes if you want to RSVP and attend. |
| 0:47.8 | This is my pitch perfect webinar, and I am going to be teaching you all about how to master the art of making the ask. I'm going to let you in on |
| 0:55.8 | my pitch secrets, teach you how to write a pitch, teach you the things that your pitches must have |
| 1:02.1 | and the things that they definitely don't want to have. I'm also going to be giving you my |
| 1:07.2 | follow-up formula, how I pitch most of my guests for this podcast, and will be teaching |
| 1:14.1 | you all the things that you want to do before you hit send. My goal with this webinar is to actually |
| 1:19.8 | get you to be able to write a pitch either during or after it so that when we're done, |
| 1:25.6 | you can send an email, send the ask that you have |
| 1:29.1 | been waiting for forever. Yeah, I know. We all have them, right? We're all like, oh, right, |
| 1:34.4 | I've been thinking about pitching XYZ for like a year. Yeah, what if you just were able to hit |
| 1:41.3 | send? What if all you needed to do was take my webinar, learn what you |
| 1:44.7 | need to know, hit send. The spoiler alert is that it's way easier than you think. But I want to |
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