This interview was first recorded in February 2020. The world was a very different place then from the one we face in June 2020, at the time of its release. First coronavirus, then worldwide peaceful protests in response to the murder of George Floyd by an on-duty cop, have caused seismic global convulsions that are still reverberating. Because non…

Joan has been a fixture in the Chicago media landscape for more than 35 years. She first came to Chicago in 1981 as a 27-year-old reporter and weekend anchor at WGN-Channel 9, then became a Monday-Friday anchor star at both the local ABC and NBC affiliates. Since leaving NBC 5 in 1999, Esposito formed J2 Strategic Communications, a media training f…

Jennie Willoughby became a symbol of forgiveness and compassion in early 2018 when she wrote a blog post that became a viral sensation - and sparked the global hashtag #AndSoIStayed - detailing the abuse she suffered at the hands of her ex-husband, a top aide to President Donald Trump. Jennie is now a writer, speaker and singer whose message encour…

Alicia Garza is a civil rights activist and author with a lot of irons in the fire: she co-founded Black Lives Matter in 2013 she works with the National Domestic Workers Alliance she co-founded Supermajority in 2019 she's founded the Black Futures Lab her book, How to Turn a Hashtag into a Movement, will be out in 2020 We went deep fast in this co…

In this episode Julia interviews Daniel Epstein, a lawyer and former candidate for the Illinois Supreme Court. Daniel and Julia discussed a number of the shortcomings of our current criminal justice system - especially in Illinois, but also around the country - as well as specific recommendations for reforming them. They discussed everything from c…

Christian Picciolini is an award winning television producer, peace advocate, and a former violent extremist. After leaving the Neo Nazi skinhead movement that he helped to create in Chicago in the 1980s and 90s, he began the painstaking process of making amends and rebuilding his life. In 2016 he won an Emmy award for producing an anti hate advert…

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"I had to stop being sexist against myself before I could really impact the behavioral sexism I was seeing in the environment." -- That's from this week's guest, attorney turned conflict resolution coach, Meredith Holley. Meredith is an attorney in Oregon who was working in 2013 at a law firm representing victims of sexual harassment. Yet at her la…

In our mission to Solve #MeToo, we must be on the lookout for people who are deeply personally empowered - and Karine Jean-Pierre is one of these people. I knew it from the way she leapt up to protect Senator Kamala Harris when, onstage in the summer of 2019, a protester charged the stage at the MoveOn.org Big Ideas forum. And both her power and he…

Julia's guest on today's podcast is Ai-Jen Poo. She's an award winning organizer, social innovator, author, and a leading voice in the women's movement. She's the executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, co-director of Caring Across Generations, cofounder of Supermajority and trustee of the Ford Foundation. Ai-Jen is a national…

Today's podcast is a review of a the episode Counting Dead Women by After #MeToo. Hope you enjoy it!!

I’m telling a little bit about The Metoo movement. Enjoy.

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