A Braver Way Monica Guzman

In this special guest episode, we’re going to pass the mic to a wonderful podcast, “Kelly Corrigan Wonders,” that recently invited our very own April Lawson to disagree openly and honestly with host Kelly Corrigan about one of the toughest issues out there — abortion.
Their conversation is in-depth, illuminating, and believe it or not — productive. Plus, it puts many of the tools we talk about on “A Braver Way” on full display. 
We’re back next week with a new Beat episode, and our first full-length episode of our new season will be up next!

Kelly Corrigan Wonders - https://www.kellycorrigan.com/podcast 

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We’re back! To kick off our second season, we’re bringing you a totally radical — and totally possible — vision of what election years could look like if we approached them a little differently. First we hear from Utah Gov. Spencer Cox about how election campaigns could leave our communities better off, regardless of the results. Then Mónica reflects on Return Day, a unique election tradition in Delaware that’s been putting these ideals into practice since 1812.
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Mónica is joined by four friends in bridge building to answer your toughest questions about our shared mission of connecting across the political divide. Angel Eduardo, April Lawson, Manu Meel and Wilk Wilkinson get real about the challenges, opportunities, and misconceptions about our movement - are we all just a bunch of squishy centrists that brush deep concerns under the rug? And how can we possibly be expected to talk to someone who doesn’t even think we have a right to exist? These are questions with no easy answers and we tackle them head on. Finally, find out what Superman, Taylor Swift and Kirk Cousins have in common as we cap off the first season of A Braver Way.
Derate the Hate Podcast 
The Hopeful Majority Podcast 
Coddling of the American Mind 
How to Star-Man - Article by Angel Eduardo
Nathan J. Robinson - Biden’s election is not a mandate for centrism 
Daryl Davis  
Jeff Schoep 
Kirk Cousins and the Minnesota Vikings
Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero”
Chloé Valdary’s “Theory of Enchantment”
Superman (1978) film rescue of Lois Lane
LA becomes a hub for clown schools
This is the Music America Needs - Gangstagrass in the New York Times
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In Part two of this two-part story, Dr. Francis Collins, former head of the National Institutes of Health during COVID, and Travis Tripodi, a strong conservative critic of the US COVID response Dr. Collins helped shape, attempt the impossible —  sparring on everything from vaccine mandates to natural immunity freely, fully, and without losing it.  What does their collision achieve? And what does it leave hanging? April Lawson joins Mónica to break down this extraordinary conversation and figure out what it takes for the rest of us to tackle the hardest political disagreements we face… without getting burned.   
 
Study: Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine (December 31, 2020) 
Study: Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity: reinfections versus breakthrough infections (August 25, 2021)
Rachel Maddow Vaccination Segment (April 9, 2021)
Additional Background: Derate the Hate Interview with Dr. Francis Collins
Additional Background: Derate the Hate Interview with Travis Tripodi
NIH: Vaccine Q&A with Dr Francis Collins (May 7, 2021) Braver Angels Debates: Learn more and register here: https://braverangels.org/what-we-do/debates/  Submit a question: If you’ve found yourself mulling on a concern or reflection as you’ve listened, turn it into a question and share it with us in a quick email to abraverway@braverangels.org. Mónica and friends will be answering questions on an upcoming episode.  Subscribe: If you like what you’ve heard, hit subscribe, and leave us a 5 star review!  Share this episode: https://braverangels.org/a-braver-way-episode-8/  Follow us: Instagram | X/ twitter | TikTok | Youtube

How do you talk about a monster of an issue when the two sides are so far apart? Mónica brings together two unlikely guests to find out: Dr. Francis Collins, a man who helped shape the U.S. COVID response (and was Dr. Fauci’s boss!), and Travis Tripodi, a New Hampshire resident who believes that response was deeply wrong and misguided. In Part one of this two part story, Francis and Travis describe how they weathered very different challenges during the pandemic, their radically different perspectives on what went wrong during the crisis, and the extraordinary way that their perspectives first collided last summer in Gettysburg. What makes COVID disagreements so painfully divisive in the first place? Mónica and April follow up to unpack the giant barriers that complicate these conversations, and how their experiences both during the pandemic and in its aftermath have shaped their own novel perceptions on power, truth and morality.
 
Additional Background: Derate the Hate Interview with Dr. Francis Collin Additional Background: Derate the Hate Interview with Travis Tripodi NIH: Vaccine Q&A with Dr Francis Collins (May 7, 2021) Braver Angels Convention Panel: A Deplorable and an Elitist Walk into a Bar Submit a question: If you’ve found yourself mulling on a concern or reflection as you’ve listened, turn it into a question and share it with us in a quick email to abraverway@braverangels.org. We love hearing what our episodes are bringing up for you!  Subscribe: If you like what you’ve heard, hit subscribe, and leave us a 5 star review!  Share this episode: https://braverangels.org/a-braver-way-episode-8/  Follow us: Instagram | X/ twitter | TikTok | Youtube  Become a member of Braver Angels at https://braverangels.org/support-us/#join

Mónica welcomes David Brooks, author and New York Times columnist, to break down an essential and endangered skill  for talking politics  - hearing deeply and being deeply heard. David shares a bounty of tips and stories from throughout his career, including a public discussion where he says he failed both at understanding another person and at making sure he could be understood. Then April joins Mónica to ask what it all means for liberals and conservatives, and we hear from a man who runs a Pennsylvania barbershop where debating diverse viewpoints is on the house.   
 
"How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen" by David Brooks
At this barbershop in Chambersburg, Pa., red, blue and other come together…

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