Hello, everyone. The Financial Confessions is taking a break this week. We'll be back with our regular episode a little bit later this week.

But in the meantime, I wanted to share something super special with you guys.

It's an episode of a podcast called Future Hindsight, which is an award-winning show that takes big ideas in civic life and democracy and turns them into action items for you and me.

We know that it's been a pretty hard slog heading into the midterms so far and TFD has had no

shortage of commentary on the political moment in which we find ourselves, but future hindsight has

your back. It always offers a boost of hope and inspiration. In each episode, host Mila Atmos interviews citizen

change makers about how they're building their civic action toolkits. And it offers perspectives

that can truly support your decision making beyond the horse race. They talk about everything

from tackling the climate crisis, to getting dark money out of politics, to everything in between.

In the episode that you're about to listen to, Mila and renowned communications researcher Anat Shankar Osorio

discuss how to empower voters and why it is so important to be clear about what candidates stand for.

For more info, check out their website at future hindsight.com, and now let's listen in.

Welcome to Th Hindsight, a podcast that takes big ideas about civic life and democracy

and turns them into action items for you and me. I'm Nila Atmos.

The really central idea of this podcast, the big idea, is civic engagement, those action items that we can get done that support a vibrant, inclusive democracy.

Civics is something that you do, rather than something you study

in ninth grade and leave at the classroom door. And so I'm really interested in thinking about

how we can be empowered to stay engaged and excited about civic life. And I'm really interested

in how we can do a better job of talking about that. How can we better communicate, how vital it is to participate?

And one of the main action items to support democracy is, of course, voting.

I'm not just talking about voting in general elections, but voting down ticket at school

board elections, county judge and town supervisor elections, and registering to vote, helping

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