Season Two
Episode 4: In It For The Long Haul, Explorations on Emotional Resilience With Carolyn Baker
GGN cofounders, LaUra & Aimee, interview Carolyn Baker. Baker has written 13 books, most on them focusing on emotional resilience. The three chat about what collapse means: civilization, biosphere, and personal. They share tools they use to sustain themselves in this dark time and talk about Carolyn’s upcoming book with Andrew Harvey.
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Episode 3: Grief, Grit, and Grace – A Conversation With Mirabai Starr
Aimee & LaUra interview Aimee’s beloved mentor and friend Mirabai Starr. Mirabai is an award-winning author of creative non-fiction and contemporary translations of sacred literature. They discuss the divine feminine, COVID-19 & how we’re experiencing a collective dark night of the soul, finding joy after heartwrenching loss, and grief’s invitation to transform us.
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Episode 2: Facing The Climate Emergency with Margaret Klein Salamon
LaUra & Aimee interview Margaret Klein Salamon of The Climate Mobilization about her new book, Facing The Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth.
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Episode 1: A Field Guide to Climate (Coronavirus) Anxiety
Aimee & LaUra interview Dr. Sarah Jaquette Ray about her new book: A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety.
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Season One
Episode 14: Beyond Shame: Asking For Help
Aimee & LaUra offer an update on the Good Grief Network and two retreats they are raising funds for. It’s been more than a year since they moved from Salt Lake City, Utah to Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Hear about the growth they’ve experienced and what their next steps are.
Can you help support them in this cosmic experiment?
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Episode 13: Radical Joy For Hard Times with Trebbe Johnson
LaUra Schmidt & Aimee Lewis-Reau speak with Trebbe Johnson about her organization and book both named Radical Joy For Hard Times.
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Episode 12: Buddhist Economics with Dr. Clair Brown
Aimee Lewis-Reau and LaUra Schmidt interview Dr. Clair Brown, economics professor at Berkeley about a new economic paradigm.
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Episode 11: An Activist Journey
Aimee and LaUra interview Adair Kovac, the Good Grief Network’s Utah organizer. Tune in for a heartfelt conversation about their path to activism, their journey, and how each of us can get involved in our community.
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Episode 10: Boo! Leveraging Fear with Courage
Aimee and LaUra talk about what scares them, they share insights and tools for how to combat fear, shine light on our inner-shadows, and the importance of civil discourse.
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Episode 9: Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants
Aimee and LaUra chat about their second week on the road where they presented at the Uplift Climate Conference in Albuquerque, NM. They were joined by a reporter, Avi Scher from NYC, where they presented practices and tactics for build community and psychosocial resilience. They chat about entering the flow state, emergence, standing on the shoulders of giants, and how inspiration and truth act as guides.
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Episode 8: The Hard Stuff
LaUra and Aimee discuss Aimee’s recent vision fast and how we must train ourselves to do difficult things to make ourselves better people and our world a better place.
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Episode 7: Conflict as an Invitation to Go Deeper
LaUra and Aimee discuss Aimee’s recent vision fast and how we must train ourselves to do difficult things to make ourselves better people and our world a better place.
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Episode 6: Ten Steps to Resilience in a Chaotic Climate
LaUra and Aimee explain their 10 step program that leads to psychosocial resilience from systemic existential threats.
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Episode 5: Why Grieve?
Aimee and LaUra dive into their definition of grief and reflect on its importance for establishing individual resilience.
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Episode 4: How Personal Grief Shapes Activism
Aimee and LaUra share some tools they use to re-engage in activism when the despair seems suffocating.
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Episode 3: WHY Good Grief?
LaUra and Aimee explain the origins of Good Grief Network.
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Episode 2: Showing Up & The Shame Game
LaUra and Aimee discuss what it means to “show up” in our lives, as activists, and for others.
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Episode 1: Introduction
Welcome to Episode One of the WHY?!? A Good Grief Network Podcast. Each week, Aimee Lewis Reau and LaUra Schmidt answer questions about their progress on their book.
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