The true story of who we really are
How To Citizen with Baratunde
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🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
This is our wrap of our Week of Citizening that I've been doing with Jon Alexander. We found 8 stories from across the U.S. — across sectors, communities, and divides — where people are coming together to make life better, together. See them all here.
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The story is everywhere.
It’s happening in libraries, tech hubs, small towns, and fire-stricken neighborhoods.
It’s happening in real politics, real businesses, and real lives.
It’s what humans do — when given the chance.
🌎 We believe it’s time to tell a bigger, truer story about who we are.
💥 We’re just getting started — and we need you with us.
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Let’s tell this story. Let’s be this story.
Video Produced by: Chilli.app and Summer Solstice
Week of Citizening Collaborators: Baratunde Thurston, Jon Alexander, Shira Abramowitz, Elizabeth Stewart
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Sam Mullins, and I've got a new podcast coming out called Go Boy, the gritty true story of how one man fought his way out of some of the darkest places imaginable. |
| 0:10.2 | Roger Caron was 16 when first convicted. |
| 0:12.7 | Has spent 24 of those years in jail. |
| 0:15.3 | But when Roger Caron picked up a pen in paper, he went from an ex-con to a literary darling. |
| 0:20.8 | From Campside Media and IHeart |
| 0:22.1 | Podcasts, listen to Go Boy on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your |
| 0:28.8 | podcasts. Sometimes as dads, I think, we're too hard on ourselves. We get down on ourselves |
| 0:34.2 | on not being able to, you know, we're the providers, but we also have to |
| 0:38.4 | learn to take care of ourselves. A wrap away, you've got to pray for yourself as well as for |
| 0:43.7 | everybody else, but never forget yourself. Self-love made me a better dad because I realized my |
| 0:49.6 | worth. Never stop being a dad. That's that occasion. Find out more at fatherhood.gov. |
| 0:56.0 | Brought to you by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Ad Council. |
| 1:00.2 | Tickets are on sale now, y'all for our 2025 I-Hard Country Festival, presented by Capital One, happening Saturday, May 3rd at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas. |
| 1:09.4 | Go miss your chance to see Brooks and Dunn. |
| 1:12.8 | Thomas Redd. |
| 1:14.6 | Rascal Flats. |
| 1:17.3 | Coleswindale. |
| 1:19.5 | Sam Hutt. |
| 1:21.3 | Megan Maroney. |
| 1:23.1 | Bailey Zimmerman. |
| 1:25.1 | Nate Smith. |
| 1:27.0 | Tickets are on sale now at Ticketmaster.com. |
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