Igniting Your Inner Spark: Finding Purpose and Community with Activist Shannon Watts

Raising Good Humans

Voicing Change Media

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In today's episode I speak with activist Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, about her new book 'Fired Up: How to Turn Your Spark Into a Flame and Come Alive at Any Age'. Shannon shares her journey from corporate PR to leading a grassroots movement against gun violence and discusses how women can discover their core values, ignite personal and professional transformations, and find a sense of belonging. We talk about the importance of taking small, consistent actions, identifying personal values and abilities, and building supportive communities. This episode serves as a reminder that purpose is always evolving and to live authentically and audaciously at every stage of life. I WROTE MY FIRST BOOK! Order your copy of The Five Principles of Parenting: Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans Here: https://bit.ly/3rMLMsL Subscribe to my free newsletter for parenting tips delivered straight to your inbox: draliza.substack.com Follow me on Instagram for more: @raisinggoodhumanspodcast Sponsors: Resortpass: Visit resortpass.com/humans and use code humans at checkout for $20 off your first purchase. Medtronic: For more information and to take the pledge to talk to your mother or a woman in your life about heart health, visit Alettertomymother.com Water Wipes: Visit WaterWipes.com to learn more about how Water Wipes effectively cleans with minimal ingredients that leave nothing behind KiwiCo: Get $15 off on your Summer Adventure Series at kiwico.com/RGH Royo: Go to- EATROYO.com -and use my promo code HUMANS for your20%OFF 1MD: Head to 1MD.org and use code [HUMANS] for 15% off Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode. Produced by Dear Media. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:10.0	Welcome to Raising Good Humans.
0:12.4	I'm Dr. Elisa Pressman, and today I'm talking with the most wonderful activist and fire starter, Shannon Watts, whose new book fired up,
0:24.9	How to Turn Your Spark Into a Flame and Come Alive at any age.
0:29.0	Shannon Watts, for those of you who don't know, is the founder of Mom's Demand Action,
0:33.6	the nation's largest grassroots group fighting against gun violence.
0:37.6	She's been on the podcast before talking about gun safety,
0:40.8	but now she's moving on to a whole other topic,
0:43.7	which is this incredible conversation about women and mothers
0:47.9	and how we can discover our core values,
0:51.6	how we can lead sort of fire-start starting lives, but not like we have to go
0:56.3	change the world or do something wild and enormous. This is about small, consistent actions
1:01.9	that can lead to big transformations personally, professionally, interpersonally. It's not like
1:09.4	this conversation is about everybody needs to light the world on fire.
1:13.8	It's just about staying connected to our own little fires and also how to stay connected with each other,
1:20.3	how to feel a sense of belonging.
1:22.6	And what I love about this conversation is that, yes, there are big ideas in here,
1:26.9	but actually she has really
1:28.0	practical wisdom and tools to figure out, are we living the life that we can look back on and
1:35.2	say, this is what I meant to do? Can you give us the story of you first kind of becoming this
1:43.7	pioneering activist and now living just like
1:48.1	purpose and inspiring ways for women. Well, thank you. You know, I get asked a question a lot
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