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Creating the Future

Hildy Gottlieb

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Frequency: 1 episode/26d. Total Eps: 21

What does it take to create visionary social change? If we want to see a future that is more humane, more equitable, more healthy, more loving, more compassionate – what does it take to create that?

Welcome to Creating the Future’s podcast, where those are the questions our guests will explore. Those guests come from all walks of life - historians and community organizers, social scientists and movement leaders, people working inside the system and outside the system.

In each episode, host Hildy Gottlieb asks her guests one simple-but-not-so-simple question: What actually creates change?

Our goal for this podcast is the goal of changemakers around the world: To help you create a world that is equitable, kind, healthy, and joyful - a world that works for all of us.

This podcast is a program of Creating the Future, a global nonprofit where our tagline says it all: Change the Questions, Change the World. http://creatingthefuture.org

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Episode #2: Trista Harris - Creating Change by Envisioning What is Possible

Season 1 · Episode 2

Friday, October 25, 2024 • Duration 43:39

Episode #2, in which Trista Harris discusses the importance of having a clear vision of the future you want to create. Trista emphasizes the need to move away from a problem-focused approach and to instead focus on creating a positive future, shifting mindsets to embrace a future-oriented approach to all the work of social change.

Trista Harris is a philanthropic futurist who is nationally known as a passionate advocate for leaders in the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors. Trista’s work has been covered by the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Forbes, CNN, the New York Times, and numerous social sector blogs. She is also the author of How to Become a Nonprofit Rockstar and FutureGood. She is a President of FutureGood, a consultancy focused on helping visionaries build a better future.

To connect with Trista directly, head to https://www.wearefuturegood.com/about

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Unravelling the Story of Social Change

Season 1 · Episode 1

Thursday, October 24, 2024 • Duration 04:19

Episode #1, in which Creating the Future’s founder, Hildy Gottlieb, delves into the fundamental question, “What creates social change?” In this short introduction to the podcast, Hildy describes the need for a shift from incremental improvements to visionary, systemic transformations. She invites listeners to explore what it truly takes to create a more humane, equitable, and compassionate world.

Hildy Gottlieb is co-founder and Chief Boundary Pusher at Creating the Future, where she is leading the charge to rethink the systems that create change in the world. A social scientist, teacher, TEDx speaker and serial social entrepreneur, Hildy developed the question-based Catalytic Thinking framework, to ensure that everyone in the social change arena can root their work in possibility, connection, and enoughness. Follow Hildy's work at Creating the Future here https://creatingthefuture.org/

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Episode #4: Shiree Teng - Social Change and the Power of Love

Season 1 · Episode 4

Sunday, November 24, 2024 • Duration 37:58

Episode #4, in which Shiree Teng talks about the power of love in creating transformational change.

Shiree Teng has worked in the social sector for 35+ years as a social and racial justice champion. She's been a frontline organizer, advocate, capacity builder, grantmaker, (e)valuation partner, and leadership coach. Shiree ignites the path to justice with courageous strategy, boundless energy, and radical love.

Shiree's mission is to inspire us to prioritize love as the catalyst for our freedom. She believes that justice work starts with our own radical self-love – that without cultivating love for ourselves and each other, we risk only scratching the surface, endlessly circling around the work needed for our shared liberation.

To connect with Shiree, head to https://shireeteng.org/

Additional information can be found in Shiree’s two Brown Papers:

Healing Love into Balance https://latinocf.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Healing-Love-IntoBalance-Shiree-Teng-003-compressed.pdf

Measuring Love in the Journey for Justice https://static1.squarespace.com/static/558dac6fe4b0f42cdd435abd/t/634e1201ba433209dd70ceb3/1666060815439/MeasuringLove2019.pdf

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Episode #3: Josh Stearns - Creating Change by Building Local News Media

Season 1 · Episode 3

Monday, November 11, 2024 • Duration 34:32

Episode #3, in which Josh Stearns explores the role of journalism in fostering civic engagement. Josh and Hildy discuss the need for bottom-up approaches to change, the challenges facing local news, and the need to rethink journalism to build stronger communities.

Josh Stearns is the Senior Director of the Public Square Program at Democracy Fund. Josh leads the foundation’s efforts to support transformative leaders who are rebuilding local news, advancing more equitable journalism, defending civil rights online, and holding social media platforms accountable for their impact on our democracy and society. Josh joined the Democracy Fund from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, where he served as the Director of Journalism and Sustainability and worked to support and expand community engagement in local news and develop new business models for journalism.

Josh is a co-founder of the Local News Lab, First Draft News and the Freedom of the Press Foundation and currently on the board of the Democratizing Philanthropy Project and Honolulu Civil Beat. His articles have appeared in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Guardian, Columbia Journalism Review, Orion Magazine and more. When not at his desk he tries to keep his hands dirty at the pottery wheel or can be found taking pictures in the woods of Western Massachusetts.

To connect with Josh: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcstearns/

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Episode #5: Vu Le and Robert Egger - Creating Change within the Nonprofit Sector

Season 1 · Episode 5

Wednesday, December 4, 2024 • Duration 56:10

Episode #5, in which Vu Le and Robert Egger explore changes that need to happen within the nonprofit sector itself, so that organizations can create more visionary improvement in communities.

Vu Le is a writer and speaker who is best known for his blog, NonprofitAF.com, where his no-BS approach and irreverent sense of humor have gained him a fan base of over 50,000 loyal readers. Vu is the founder and former Executive Director of RVC, a Seattle nonprofit that promotes social justice by developing leaders of color, strengthening organizations led by communities of color, and fostering collaboration among diverse communities. Vu helped found the Community-Centric Fundraising movement, which aims to ground fundraising in equity and justice. He is also an active member of Creating the Future’s board of directors. You can find Vu at https://nonprofitaf.com/

Robert Egger is lifelong “power of food” champion, and the originator of the Community Kitchen movement. He launched the D.C. Central Kitchen, the Campus Kitchen Project, and the L.A. Kitchen, and is a Founding Board Member of The World Central Kitchen with Jose Andres, Collectively, these organizations have produced over 350 million meals and helped thousands of individuals attain self-sufficiency. Now a dedicated "elder ally", as well as a member of the recently launched State Department’s Culinary Corp, Robert makes himself available to entrepreneurs and leaders who long to make change in the boldest and most daring ways possible. You can connect with Robert here https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-egger-28392621/ and learn more about his work here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Egger

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Episode #6 Yodit Mesfin Johnson - Creating Change via Collective Care

Season 1 · Episode 6

Monday, January 13, 2025 • Duration 43:05

Episode #6 in which Yodit Mesfin Johnson talks about the power of reimagining everyday systems via collective care.

Yodit Mesfin Johnson is a Black momma, a visionary strategist and a social justice advocate based in Southeast Michigan. She serves as president and CEO of Nonprofit Enterprise at Work (NEW), a Michigan-based movement support organization that offers transformative consulting, back-office support and leadership development programs to nonprofits and social change leaders.

A serial social entrepreneur, Yodit co-founded FutureRoot, a woman owned and community-led planning & design collective working at the intersections of race, place, culture and histories. She is also the founder of Black Men Read, a storytelling program that centers the experiences and stories of the African Diaspora for elementary-aged students in her community.

With over 30 years working at the intersections of racial and economic justice for women/femme and BIPOC communities, Yodit thrives in building community around the questions that matter most: how can we unlock the potential and possibility needed to radically transform our communities, see the ecosystem and the whole, and design and act in ways that bend the long arc of history towards balance and harmony?

Yodit employs various media—including poetry, podcasting, writing, and storytelling—as tools in her organizing and activism. She dreams of a world where our children's grandchildren no longer live in constructed identities or borders.

You can contact Yodit directly at http://www.new.org/

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Episode #7: Meghan Cummings - Creating Change by Building on Our Collective Strength

Season 1 · Episode 7

Monday, January 27, 2025 • Duration 43:33

Episode #7 in which Meghan Cummings talks about what it takes to activate our collective power to make a difference.

Meghan Cummings is Senior Vice President for Strategy, Impact & Operations at CFLeads, a U.S. organization supporting community foundations to galvanize action on the critical issues of our time.

Before joining CFLeads, Meghan served as Vice President of Civic Advancement at the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, where she leveraged cross-sector partnerships, marshalled national resources and advocated for policy change to achieve progress on the community's most pressing issues. Prior to that, Meghan spent 11 years as Executive Director for the Women's Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, advocating for women’s self-sufficiency.

You can learn more about Meghan and the work being done at CFLeads at https://cfleads.org/

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Episode #8: Riane Eisler - Creating Change by shifting our work from Domination to Partnership

Season 1 · Episode 8

Friday, February 14, 2025 • Duration 34:51

Episode #8 in which Riane Eisler talks about shifting our mindsets from domination to partnership, both in the world outside and in the work of social change itself.

Riane Eisler is an Austrian-born American systems scientist, futurist, attorney, and author who writes about the effect of gender and family politics on societies. Riane’s whole-systems research offers practical tools for constructing a less violent, more egalitarian, gender-balanced, and sustainable future.

Riane has authored many books, including The Chalice and the Blade, that considers the roles of domination vs. partnership in both societal and interpersonal structures. Her book The Real Wealth of Nations was hailed by Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu as "a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking."

Riane founded the Center for Partnership Systems, which provides practical applications of her work, and she is editor in chief of the online Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies published at the University of Minnesota. She has taught at universities around the world, and has written hundreds of articles and contributions to both scholarly and popular books.

Among her many accomplishments, Riane has the addressed the UN General Assembly, and she has been awarded the Distinguished Peace Leadership Award – an award that was earlier awarded to the Dalai Lama.

We encourage you to visit her websites for more information about Riane’s work at www.rianeeisler.com and www.centerforpartnership.org. And we hope you will donate to help further her efforts to build a more just and humane world for all of us.

Episode #9: Steve Dubb - Stories of Organizing

Season 1 · Episode 9

Friday, March 7, 2025 • Duration 39:27

Episode #9 in which Steve Dubb shares stories of social movements and community organizing that have created social change.

Steve Dubb is senior editor of economic justice at NPQ, where he writes articles (including NPQ’s Economy Remix column), moderates Remaking the Economy webinars, and works to cultivate voices from the field and help them reach a broader audience. Prior to coming to NPQ in 2017, Steve worked with cooperatives and nonprofits for over two decades, including twelve years at The Democracy Collaborative and three years as executive director of NASCO (North American Students of Cooperation). In his work, Steve has authored, co-authored, and edited numerous articles, reports, and books; most recently, with Raymond Foxworth of the Henry Luce Foundation, Steve co-edited Invisible No More: Voices from Native America (Island Press, 2023). You can contact Steve at Nonprofit Quarterly or at LinkedIn at this link.

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Episode #10: Marcus Walton - Creating Change by focusing on both the individual AND the world

Season 1 · Episode 10

Monday, March 17, 2025 • Duration 48:07

Episode #10 in which Marcus Walton talks about the multiple levels of change – from the individual to the global - that are present when change happens.

Bio

Marcus F. Walton serves as the president & CEO of Grantmakers for Effective organizations where he supports communities of philanthropic leaders to realize their highest grantmaking aspirations. Throughout his 20-year career, he has specialized in operationalizing ideas, concepts, and frameworks; cultivating transformational leadership and relationships; racial equity facilitation & training; management strategy; program design; and constituent engagement.

Guided by a lifelong interest in human development, Marcus’s vocational pursuits include a decade-long career as a Newfield Network-trained ontological coach, with additional training in the Action Learning systems coaching model. He adopts a multi-disciplinary approach to cultivate conditions for individual & collective thriving by integrating the behavioral sciences with nonprofit management & organizing principles, racial equity practices, and ontological learning competencies. Marcus endeavors to leave a legacy characterized by personal mastery, systems change, and social sector excellence.

You can follow Marcus’s work on LinkedIn at this link, or via Grantmakers for Effective Organizations at this link.

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