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The Someone To Tell It To Podcast

The Someone To Tell It To Podcast

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We started Someone To Tell It To in 2012, and all along, our philosophy has been to listen. Because our mission is to "cultivate meaningful connections through compassionate listening and training and educating others...

Episodes

I Am A Dreamer

Season #4 Episode #10

Designer, author, singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur Amma Johnson’s mission is to inspire the world.  Her passion, her creative gifts, and her desire to empower others shines through in this conversation.  Her...
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Making Others Feel Brilliant

Season #4 Episode #9

We reminisce with Vicki Halsey about a memorable evening we shared in her home outside San Diego, California, four years ago. That night we learned of her professional (and personal) mission as a vice president in the...
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Use Empathy-Based Listening In Intense Conversations

Season #4 Episode #8

Eric Maddox joins us in this episode of the podcast. He was a member of a Delta Force Special Operations team in Tikrit, Iraq that was part of the Command responsible for tracking down Saddam Hussein, who was found...
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S4 Ep7: Being Heard is So Close to Being Loved

Season #4 Episode #7

In a rebroadcast of a January 2019 episode with our dear friend Benjamin Mathes, founder of Los Angeles-based Urban Confessional, we have a conversation about how profound and innate to our human need is the act of...
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6: Craving Connection

Season #4 Episode #6

We play a game in this very special episode - during our conversation with Jed and Sophia Lazar, curators of the game COZY JUICY REAL. It was a lot of fun, but also serious and intimate, deep and vulnerable. That’s...
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5: I Am Because We Are

Season #4 Episode #5

One of the things that drew us to our guest, Shola Richards, is his level of vulnerability in his speaking and writing. He talks openly about his mental health challenges, his suicidal thoughts, his feelings of...
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S4 Ep4: Understanding is the Way Forward

Season #4 Episode #4

Professor, author, psychologist, and community collaborator, Dr. Tania Israel’s goal is to help promote understanding by developing greater connection to one another. Connection is the most important thing, she says....
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S4 Ep3: ...So We Can Hear Something New

Season #4 Episode #3

John Noltner set out on a road trip across the United States to rediscover the common humanity that connects us by asking people the simple question “What does peace mean to you?”  Traveling with the foundational...
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S4 Ep2: To Be Alive

Season #4 Episode #2

What makes Reza Marvasti come alive is being in service to others.  Reza founded a mission called The Power of Play - to support every child’s right to learn and develop through the power of play.  He has been to...
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S4 Ep1: Our Reflections

Season #4 Episode #1

We are kicking off Season Four with a conversation between our co-founders Michael Gingerich and Tom Kaden.  As Someone To Tell It To approaches it’s 10-year anniversary this coming January, Michael and Tom reflect...
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S3 Ep17: Nothing Equals Love

Season #3 Episode #17

Timothy Shriver, who leads the Special Olympics International Board of Directors, is the co-founder of UNITE, who co-founded and currently chairs the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning...
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S3 Ep16: Trust: An essential ingredient to building great relationships

Season #3 Episode #16

Back in June 2019, in our first season of the Someone To Tell It To Podcast, we interviewed best-selling author and leadership expert Jon Gordon.  In our conversation, we talked about trust, how it is one of the...
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