How to Organize a Meeting (And Stay Sane), Pt. 1
It Could Happen Here
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🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Mia talks with Margaret Killjoy about how to actually run a meeting and the role of proper meetings as the tools that build a democratic society.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:06.1 | CoolZone Media. |
| 0:09.7 | Welcome to It Could Happens here, a podcast that is, in many cases, about organizing. |
| 0:13.9 | I am your host, Mia Wong, and with me is one of the most experienced organizers I know, |
| 0:18.2 | Margaret Kiljoy. |
| 0:19.2 | Oh, no. |
| 0:20.0 | Hi. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm a little out of practice, but I have done it a lot. |
| 0:26.3 | You know, Margaret says this and also has been doing shit for like one bazillion years. |
| 0:32.1 | And this is, this is, and I will say this, the sign of you that you are running into a good organizer is when you talk to them |
| 0:38.1 | about their organizing and they immediately start downplaying it. That's when you know that you |
| 0:42.5 | have encountered a good organizer. If they start immediately going, I'm the best fucking organizer |
| 0:46.9 | in the world. Run like hell. This is an asshole who sucks. If you're at someone who's like, |
| 0:52.8 | ah, if I did this a billion years ago, |
| 0:54.4 | I'm not good at it, |
| 0:55.2 | I didn't matter, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. |
| 0:57.3 | Very good organizer. |
| 0:58.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:59.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.9 | I remember once I went to a thing, |
| 1:01.1 | wait, that was put on, |
| 1:02.2 | and there was this, |
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