The Greenroom learns from some of the world’s most transformational advocates about how they flipped the script. Host Courtney Martin gets into intimate, strategic conversation with the people who are changing the conversations we’re having about care, money, violence, and love.
Diving deep into longer half an hour episodes and getting straight to the heart of it in bite-sized minisodes, The Greenroom asks and answers big questions about how we co-create new stories and interrupt old ones.
Episode 14 :: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson Minisode - A Joyful Education
In this minisode, Courtney dives into what we can learn from community in building conversations with real staying power and how friendship is a love language all its own.
10 Feb 2025
Episode 13 :: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson - Quilting Community
This last episode of the Greenroom features not one but two brilliant humans: Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson, a dynamic duo of climate scientists who are the visionaries behind the best-sellingAll That We Can Save.
We talk about rage walks, asks that feel like invitations, and DMing celebrities on Insta. It’s a laughter-filled conversation that provides a deep celebration of the power of the collective alongside the nitty gritty of book publishing.
Courtney and Bridgit Antoinette Evans share a decolonial awakening, exploring how our gifts and superpowers can help make sense of past and present suffering to shape a better future.
9 Dec 2024
Episode 11 :: Bridgit Antoinette Evans - The stories that shape us
Narrative strategist Bridgit Antoinette Evans explores how stories shape us within families, media, and culture, revealing untold narratives that challenge our perspectives.
3 Dec 2024
Episode 10 :: Angela Patton - The power of taking your time
Courtney reflects on how Angela Patton's deliberate approach to making her documentary 'Daughters' yielded a truly phenomenal result, showcasing the value of taking time to align with one's vision and values.
25 Nov 2024
Episode 9 :: Angela Patton - Keeping the heart of the matter at the heart of it
Courtney and Angela Patton, industry expert and advocate for Black girls, discuss the power of taking risks, trusting your gut, and keeping the heart of the matter at the heart of it.
19 Nov 2024
Episode 8 :: Edgar Villanueva Minisode - Inside strategy, outside strategy, every kind of strategy
In this minisode recap, Courtney marvels at Edgar’s ability to see differing strategies as highly complementary in the long term work of making change. Oh and Edgar also compares himself to Paula Abdul on American Idol?!
19 Nov 2024
Episode 7 :: Edgar Villanueva - Saying the hard thing IS the kind thing
Edgar Villanueva is changing how money moves inside of philanthropy and doing it with so much heart (and style). Courtney and Edgar’s wide ranging conversation covers how waiting tables prepares you for almost anything, the power of attribution, and why we have to risk saying the hard thing and saying it with so much love.
14 Oct 2024
Episode 4: Shannon Watts Minisode - Knowing what you suck at
In this minisode recap, Courtney gets real about what is so striking about Shannon Watts’ authentic and audacious style of leadership. What might get unlocked if we all took a page out of Shannon’s playbook and said out loud: I’m really great at this! I’m total garbage at that! Imagine just how different our teams and organizations might look?
14 Oct 2024
Episode 2 :: Ai-jen Poo Minisode on Braided Strategy and Community Power
In this minisode recap, Courtney serves up some of the juiciest pearls from her conversation with Ai-jen Poo with a special focus on collaboration. Honestly, we’re still taking it in that 74 (!) organizations co-wrote the whitepaper on “care as infrastructure” which went on to become a real cultural and political touchstone during the COVID-19 pandemic.
14 Oct 2024
Episode 6 :: Aisha Nyandoro Minisode - Be the vessel
In this minisode recap, Courtney and Aisha make the case for ditching the term “thought leadership” for the maybe less catchy but all the more powerful “vessel.” We think there’s something to be said for how it captures the way being deeply rooted in who you serve and where you come from reorients how you walk and talk and make your way in the world.
Aisha Nyandoro is crafting new narratives around deservedness, wealth, and what we all need to thrive and we are here for it.. In her conversation with Courtney, these two get into why the term “thought leaders” is so cringe, what a difference it makes to have the folks living the problem crafting the solution, and how to tell if you’re going too far or not far enough in getting your message out in the world.
You can follow Aisha’s at AishaNyandoroSpeaks (https://www.aishanyandorospeaks.com/) or get familiar with her work Springboard to Opportunities (https://springboardto.org/) and Magnolia Mothers Trust (https://springboardto.org/socioeconomic-well-being/magnolia-mothers-trust/).
14 Oct 2024
Episode 3 :: Shannon Watts - How your ‘flaws’ can be your superpower
Shannon Watts is owning all of who she is: a pugnacious mama, a brilliant ADHD brain, and a tireless organizer for a world without gun violence. Shannon and Courtney talk about what it means to start an organization from nothing and eat your humble pie along the way, how neurodiversity can be a superpower, and how we all get by with a little help from our friends.
Follow Shannon’s work on her website (https://www.shannonwatts.org/) to order her book, track her newsletter, and just generally be awed.
14 Oct 2024
Episode 1 :: Ai-jen Poo - Why changing hearts is more important than changing minds
Courtney dives deep with care champion Ai-jen Poo on the power of a braided strategy, what it takes to change not just opinions but the deeper, emotional beliefs that shape them, and admits that despite being a total genius at it - she doesn’t actually like public speaking.
You can follow Ai-jen, track the release of her new book, and follow her vast roster of organizations at Ai-jenPoo.com (http://aijenpoo.com).
The Greenroom is an independent production of FRESH Speakers, produced by Courtney Martin, along with Vanessa Valenti, Casey Molina, and Allison Cook. Ali Baughman is our editor. Learn more about our work at FRESH Speakers (https://www.freshspeakers.com/).
Please give us a rating and a review, and tell a friend. If you learned something from listening to this episode, we want to hear about it! Send us an email at greenroom@freshspeakers.com (mailto:thegreenroom@freshspeakers.com).
The Greenroom is possible thanks to the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
10 Oct 2024
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The Greenroom learns from some of the world’s most transformational advocates about how they flipped the script. Host Courtney Martin gets into intimate, strategic conversation with the people who are changing the conversations we’re having about care, money, violence, and love.Diving deep into longer half an hour episodes and getting straight to the heart of it in bite-sized minisodes, The Greenroom asks and answers big questions about how we co-create new stories and interrupt old ones.
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