How To Harness Your Citizen Superpowers

How To!

Slate Magazine

Business, Education, How To, Self-improvement

4.4 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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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 [email protected] 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. Want more How To!? Subscribe to Slate Plus to unlock exclusive bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of the How To! show page. Or, visit slate.com/howtoplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.1	Hey folks, it's Courtney. Here at HowTo, our hearts go out to everyone who has been affected
1:06.0	by the wildfires in the Los Angeles area. We're working on an episode about how to rebuild your home
1:11.7	and your life after this tragedy. If you or someone you know is in this position, we want to
1:16.8	hear about the questions and challenges you're facing. How do you deal with insurance companies?
1:21.7	How much time do you take off work? How do you mourn your irreplaceable objects and rebuild
1:27.0	community? You can send your questions
1:29.2	via email or leave a voicemail. You don't need to appear on the show. We know this is a deeply
1:33.9	stressful time, but we're hoping to find some advice and ideas that could be useful for you right now.
1:39.5	Send us a note at how-to at slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001.
1:49.5	All of citizenship, all of what it's going to take to heal our country and our politics,
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