How To Harness Your Citizen Superpowers
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Connie is feeling compelled to get involved in her local community, but she's never even attended a PTA meeting. On this episode of How To!, Courtney Martin enlists Eric Liu of Citizen University to explain how busy parents, introverts, and first-timers like Connie can test the waters of civic engagement in the Trump 2.0 era—without getting sucked under.
Eric is the author of You're More Powerful Than You Think: A Citizen's Guide to Making Change Happen.
If you liked this episode, check out our companion episode, How To Become an Expat, or this recent conversation: How To Lead Your Local Nonprofit.
For an upcoming episode, we want to hear from listeners affected by the disastrous wildfires in the Los Angeles area. If you're able to do so during this stressful time, tell us about the questions and challenges you're facing as you rebuild your home and your life. Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001.
How To's executive producer is Derek John. Joel Meyer is our senior editor/producer. The show is produced by Rosemary Belson, with Kevin Bendis.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, I'm Susie Weiss, and I've noticed there's just simply not enough podcasts in the world. So I'm launching my own. Let's go. Let's go, baby. Second Thought is a weekly show about pop culture. The stuff everyone's been binging, arguing about, obsessing over. Here's the thing about heated rivalry. I mean, even the most devoted swifties, I think we can agree, not our best work. We'll be hosting thoughtful conversations with culture's most important figures. Talk about genius. |
| 0:22.6 | Talk about generational talent. |
| 0:23.7 | Coming to headphones near you on can agree not our best work. We'll be hosting thoughtful conversations with culture's most important |
| 0:21.1 | figures. Talk about genius. Talk about generational talent. Coming to headphones near you on April 17th, |
| 0:26.1 | with a first guest you won't want to miss. Available wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.2 | Hey folks, it's Courtney. Here at How To, our hearts go out to everyone who has been affected |
| 0:35.8 | by the wildfires in the Los Angeles area. |
| 0:38.3 | We're working on an episode about how to rebuild your home and your life after this tragedy. |
| 0:43.3 | If you or someone you know is in this position, we want to hear about the questions and challenges you're facing. |
| 0:49.3 | How do you deal with insurance companies? How much time do you take off work? |
| 0:53.3 | How do you mourn your |
| 0:54.8 | irreplaceable objects and rebuild community? You can send your questions via email or leave a voicemail. |
| 1:01.3 | You don't need to appear on the show. We know this is a deeply stressful time, but we're hoping |
| 1:05.3 | to find some advice and ideas that could be useful for you right now. Send us a note at how-to |
| 1:10.8 | at slate.com or leave us a |
| 1:12.7 | voicemail at 646-495-4001. All of citizenship, all of what it's going to take to heal our country |
| 1:24.5 | and our politics, is about relationship. |
| 1:33.3 | Presidents can break stuff from the top down, but only we can heal stuff from the bottom up. |
| 1:37.6 | And that is a slow piece of work that goes relationship by relationship. |
| 1:42.1 | This is how to. I'm Courtney Martin. |
| 2:02.9 | Recently, we put out a call to our how to listeners asking you to tell us about the changes, big or small, that you're planning to make in your lives in response to last November's elections and the next Trump administration. The majority of your replies were about leaving the country. A couple weeks ago, we talked to a lesbian couple that's planning to pick up and move to Portugal. |
| 2:04.1 | They don't feel like it will be safe for LGBTQ people to live in the United States. |
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