4.8 • 900 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi, it's Elise Loonen, host of Pulling the Thread. Today I'm joined by the brilliant writer and |
0:05.6 | journalist Maddie Kahn, author of Young and Restless, The Girls Who Sparked America's |
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0:52.9 | Hi, it's Elise Loonan, host of Pulling the Thread. On this show, we pull apart the web in which we all live to understand who we are and why we're here. Pulling the thread is about big questions. Why we do what we do, how we can understand our own experiences within a larger spiritual and historical context, |
1:12.1 | the ways in which we might begin to understand ourselves and each other better, and what's |
1:16.4 | required to heal ourselves and our world. I'll be joined in conversation by luminaries and wise |
1:22.1 | elders, those who have laid tracks in their work and lives to help us bring meaning and understanding |
1:27.0 | to a world that often feels chaotic and overwhelming. |
1:30.3 | My hope is that these conversations spark moments of resonance and plant tiny seeds of awareness so that we might all collectively learn and grow. |
1:39.3 | I think historically we have always seen that intergenerational partnership is the way that movements grow and expand and the way people feel resilient about what they're trying to accomplish. |
1:51.0 | The first defeat as a young person when you feel your morals are on the line, your sense of justice is on the line, that is such a devastating blow. |
2:00.0 | And you really need people who've been |
2:01.8 | doing this work for a long time to say, yeah, you're right. That's how that feels. It sucks. It |
2:06.7 | hurts so bad. And this is how when it happened to me, I got up again and I kept fighting. |
2:11.6 | There is no future for progress without that kind of perspective. You need the fiery engagement of young people, |
2:18.4 | and you need the sense of history and the sense of perspective that older people can provide. |
2:24.0 | So says Maddie Kahn, a prolific writer whose work has appeared in the Atlantic, |
2:28.2 | The Washington Post, the New York Times, and more. Maddie was also the culture director |
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