The Importance of Hometown Change Makers with Michael Tubbs

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In this episode, Sharon sits down to speak with Michael Tubbs, who was the youngest mayor to serve in an American city at age 26. Tubbs served as the mayor of his hometown of Stockton, CA. On a fast-track from Stanford University to the White House, Tubbs decided instead to return home, walking from door-to-door to campaign for a seat on city council and, ultimately, mayor. Sharon and Michael talk about what learning outside the box looks like, and how local politics is an ideal vehicle for change. Change can often happen faster at the local level, but making strides at the requires an across the aisle collaboration and willingness to innovate. Above all, one must be dedicated to serving the people with the ultimate goal of seeing your neighbors thrive.

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0:00.0	Hello my friends so excited to have you here today I am chatting with Michael Tubs who
0:08.0	is the youngest mayor ever Stockton California has written a very interesting book and we immediately bonded over some of our own educational
0:17.0	experiences as children. Being the child that always annoyed their teachers.
0:23.0	But this is so much more than that.
0:26.0	Let's dive into my conversation with Michael Tubs.
0:29.0	I'm Sharon McMahon.
0:30.0	And welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.
0:34.0	Oh, thank you so much for joining me.
0:37.0	I'm excited to chat today and I'm excited to have everybody dive into your book
0:42.0	because I think they're really going to enjoy reading it so thank you.
0:45.4	Thank you so much for having me. I'm a total history government nerd that was always my favorite subject in class.
0:51.1	I would read the history books like before, like the whole book before this first quarter was over just for I know.
0:57.0	What's coming? What happens in 1850? I gotta know now.
1:12.3	Well tell everybody what you do. If they're not familiar with you yet, tell everybody, give us a little introduction into who you are and what you do and then we can talk more about your story. Yeah my name is Michael Tubs. I'm the former mayor of my hometown, Stockton, California. Before that, I was a teacher. So interesting. And your book is called The Deeper the Roots and the subtitle is a memoir of Hope and home. And I would love to know why you called it that.
1:33.4	For me it really signifies the idea,
1:35.6	and I think it's a motif in the book
1:37.6	about being grounded in a place and being rooted in a place
1:40.8	and being planted in a place and how that leads to all type of interesting
1:47.1	fruit and experiences.
1:48.7	I wanted folks to really understand it was a memoir focused on this idea of hope and home and really dealing with notions of what
1:56.1	home means and home as a sight of a lot of love but also a lot of pain and just the complexity of this notion of home.
2:04.0	I would love to hear from you more.
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