Hi all, it's TV's Gayle Porter here. I am so excited to tell you that I'm joining the

Paranormal Activity Family and will be hosting a number of live podcast recordings across

the UK. The first is on the 5th of October at London's Haunted Richmond Theatre. Expect

terrifying tales, audience interaction and hopefully, a spirit or two. If you want to join

me and share your own paranormal experiences, get tickets at www.paranormalpod.co.uk.

Hello, I'm Gemma and welcome to another episode of Good Influence. This is the podcast

where each week you and I meet a guest who helps us pay attention to something we should

know about as well as answer some of your questions. This week we're talking about echo

chambers, the downside of everyone being on the same page, avoiding harm but not always

avoiding discomfort and how differing opinions can strengthen our causes. So joining

me this week is Marie Beachham. Marie is a writer, public speaker and online educator

who advocates for racial equity and social unity. Using social platforms as well as Patreon

and other media, she works with individuals, businesses and general online audiences to

reduce divisions among us by using what she calls radical compassion.

Starting from the most kind of basic info when you go to look at your page in your Instagram

bio, you say you talk about racial equity and social unity. Could you tell us a bit about

your kind of journey to becoming an influence in this space, like how long, how have you,

how has this come to be your work? Yeah, so it kind of happened to me at a surprise

and it was summer of 2020. And I actually have a page about environmentalism because

that's a subset of passion of mine. And on this page about environmentalism, I posted

about racial equity and it went viral. And I gained so many followers in like 24 hours

and then I kind of stumbled into this career of posts that focus on racial equity, which

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