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Episode 10: "Where No Common Memory Exists: Finding the Point of Entry for Common Ground," interview with Mark Charles, July 22, 2025.
🎙️ Episode 10 invites us not to return to the past, but to return to the truth—to find common ground by telling the whole story. What happens to a nation when its founding words—“We the People”—never meant...
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Episode 9: "Listening Through the Noise: What Extremists, Lawmakers, and Citizens Miss Most"
🎙️ Voices of Americans – Episode 9 Title:
"Listening Through the Noise: What Extremists, Lawmakers, and Citizens Miss Most"
🔑 Keywords:
political violence, empathy, extremism, terrorism, media, disinformation,...
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"Voices of Americans," Episode 8: "Politics, Protests, and the Power of Hope," taped June 14, 2025
In this powerful episode, Melissa Sexton welcomes Larry Wallace as the new co-host of Voices of Americans. Together, they dive into a timely and honest conversation about Larry’s political journey, the urgent state of...
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Voices of Americans, Episode 7: "Verity High Canceled / The Musical" Brings Courage and Grace to the Stage
Two childhood friends grow up to co-produce a musical, together with Composer, Ademir Zećo. The show is loosely based on experiences both Amanda Jaques and Brooke Stanton are currently having with parenting, but also...
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"Showing Up for Your Own Story"
Rev. Dr. Billie Boyd-Cox, Dr. Ngonzi Truth Crushshon, and Rev. Dr. Susan Martin Taylor meet for the first time to discuss the Hows and Whys for showing up in your own story. All three are grounded in the Divine, and...
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"Defiance til Death" Spoken Word Poet, Robert L. Arnold, taped May 8, 2025.
Robert Lloyd Arnold talks about his sudden emergence as a spoken word poet, giving voice to what it is like to be concerned about our democracy crumbling before our very eyes, yet hope resides in the hearts of...
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"Leadership in Urgent Times"
TJ Copeland, John Jackson, and Larry Wallace talk about the styles of leadership that truly motivate people and mold a nation that considers a moral compass for concerns that matter to the good of the whole. The times...
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Preaching Hope and Healing in Urgent Times
Episode 3 captures three people, all preachers, in a first time meeting where they discover common ground connections about their lives, missions, experiences, hopes, struggles, and deeply reflective insights. Rev. T...
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Storytelling Builds Community, Inviting People to Overhear
This is a 26 minute introduction into what I am up to with these Mental Wealth groups I seek to launch as trainings into workplace cultures. Where there are courageous leaders in place, you will resonate with the...
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Authenticity and Connection as Core Values
Lisa Henderson in Atlanta, GA and Lisa Blount in Houston, TX join Melissa in this first episode to discuss core values. Both, having never met before, named "Authenticity" as a value for different reasons, sharing...
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