Today we are joined by Karla McLaren, M.Ed. Karla is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and empathy pioneer. Karla shares with us her experiences that led her to becoming an expert of emotions, and shared with us her Emotional Vocabulary List, which gives us insight to our 18 different emotions, how they show up in our lives, and what they are trying to tell us.

Today we welcome Chris and Kim Watson, two active members of Braver Angels who find themselves on different sides of the aisle, but within their marriage. One of the core functions of politics is to work towards figuring out our social contracts with each other… What are our rules as we work, play and all live together. Marriage is similar in that we’re constantly working on how we live together in our homes - so very political, just on a much smaller scale. Mary and I were both very curious to learn from Chris and Kim what they have learned from each other while being on opposite sides of politics.

We welcome back Sara Blanchard and Misasha Suzuki Graham of The Dear White Women podcast to tell us about their new book!

Sara and Misasha have become dear friends to The Third Place and they share with us why they wrote this book, and give their unique perspectives of race in America.

Money is emotional! Spenders, Savers, Planners... we each take a different approach to money. Money can define our self worth. If we're struggling financially, it can dominate our thoughts in other areas of life. Even when we have enough, it's easy to let our internal voices question "what is enough?"

Social Media has become an incredibly large part of our society in recent years, completely reshaping how we interact with one another. This week, Gabby Blitz Rosen, gives us great insight to social media, how it’s used in marketing, and helps us navigate both the good and the bad of this crazy digital world.

We had never met a billionaire before and were curious to know what a day in the life was like! While we certainly had a lot of fun asking this question, Jim ALSO gave such great insight about entrepreneurship as we asked many questions about his book, The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time.

One year ago, we began inviting listeners into the hard conversations that we tend to avoid.

We are all interconnected, and learning to lead one's self is the foundation to a leadership style that allows you to come from a place of calmness, confidence, creativity, centeredness and curiosity. When someone can be truly self led, whatever you are trying to bring to the world will be good, will have integrity and will lift others up.

The vitriol in American politics was a problem long before Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and the 2020 election. Affective political polarization (not only disagreement on issues but personal contempt and distrust) has been growing between us for at least 25 years, and today there is evidence to suggest that we are now as polarized as we have been since the Civil War.

Food is such a beautiful representation of cultures from around the world. It can provide that safe "Third Place" where we can all come to the table to learn about each other and see all of the things we have in common with one another.

For many students in college, skills learned are based in theory and can sometimes lack the practical application that real-world experiences can teach. Helping students find valuable internships is a great way to bridge the gap.

We are all heartbroken, angry, confused and left feeling helpless...

We need to continue to talk about racial healing and keep asking questions like, why we are here today, what we can be doing to move towards equality, and how do we heal the deep wounds and pain that we've caused one another?