One Small Step across a Large Divide

Hold Me Back: Son and Father Change the Conversation

Aidan and Ash ElDifrawi

Parenting, Generationaldivide, Aidaneldifrawi, Asheldifrawi, Kids & Family, Holdmeback, Genxgenz, Education, Self-improvement

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

How do you change the world? One conversation at a time, according to the CEO of StoryCorps, Sandra Clark. Clark joins Aidan and Ash for an illuminating discussion on how StoryCorps' program, One Small Step (OSS), is trying to bridge the nation's growing divide in an effort to fend off a growing “culture of contempt” in the United States. Clark shares how the program works, the science behind it, whether it’s having the desired impact, and how we can all get involved. Aidan and Ash also discuss how OSS is influencing HMB’s similar mission to bridge the divide by changing the conversation, and how HMB will support OSS in the future. Who was more convincing: Aidan or Ash? Vote at HoldMeBack.com

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0:00.0	This podcast has been named a commonsense selection by commonsense media,
0:04.2	recognized for its outstanding content for kids and families.
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0:37.5	You know, under specific conditions and a meaningful person-to-person contact,
0:43.2	that can melt away divisions, right? And so that's what we work on is that you bring strangers
0:48.6	across divides. They have a conversation. It creates a space for empathy. And what we're
0:55.2	finding more often than not is that people, you know, who come from these different political
1:01.0	spaces come together and by the end of it, they're sharing email address and contact
1:06.4	information with each other, inviting each other to dinner. So it does work.
1:14.7	Welcome to Hold Me Back. What are you doing?
1:25.8	We don't play each other sentences. We don't do that.
1:30.2	Okay, why can't I do an intro every now and then?
1:32.8	Because it's not your podcast.
1:35.7	All right. All right. Anyway, sorry. Go ahead.
1:37.5	You're like, you're like, you're like, you're a constant guest. Anyway, today's episode,
1:41.6	I think, is based on one of the craziest coincidences we have seen thus far.
1:46.4	I would dare say fate.
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