Hey, it's Kelly, and at the end of every week, I like to share something true and useful,

something I stumbled over that gave me a burst of optimism, something you can share with

friends like an audio greeting card, something to help us all keep our eyes on what's working

and what could be.

So, I'll be right back with this week's For The Good of the Order.

This is Kelly Corgan Wonders.

Hi guys, so for this week's For The Good of the Order, I'm kind of going back to basics.

I have been feeling a total lack of control.

The headlines of late have just been so discouraging and frustrating.

So I wanted to go back to a podcast that had been really helpful to me.

We recorded in the fall of 2020, way back, at the very beginning, with this friend of mine

at Wanda, Holland, Green, and she runs the Hamlin School in San Francisco.

And I met her, it's got to be 15 years ago now.

I gave the graduation speech one year there, and it always pops up around this time, and

it reminded me of what a touchstone Wanda's thinking has been for me over the years.

And one of the conversations we had was about recognizing our agency.

And so I just thought I would share some of those takeaways and some thoughts about

how they relate to right now.

So the first takeaway is that agency involves belief and self-efficacy, which can be underwritten

by recognizing what you've already done and letting that prove that you can do more.

And the only addition I would make to that in the light of the last couple weeks' worth

of news, including the shooting in Texas, is that maybe what is so hard is when you look

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