Episodes

  • Visions for a Radically Different World 3: Creation & Rest

    Visions for a Radically Different World 3: Creation & Rest
    Mar 26 2026
    Join Kari, Shelby, and Sarah as they explore the ideas and definitions of creativity and rest and talk about why they are so important to our well-being. They also look at how these two things impact our ability to connect with each other and ourselves and how art and music and dance can be key components of both community and resistance. Check out Kari's Substack for written companion pieces and opportunities to connect with other listeners and share your ideas and thoughts. Find Kari's memoir-in-vignettes here. Shelby's design and branding work is here, and you can support her writing and photography here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • Visions for a Radically Different World: Belonging & Being Valued

    Visions for a Radically Different World: Belonging & Being Valued
    Mar 3 2026
    We all need to belong, if only for survival, but we also want to feel valued and important. Kari, Samandra, and Niki talk about the ways our current systems have commodified those needs without actually meeting them, and what it would be like if we created and nurtured ways of being that truly recognized each of us as individuals worthy of care and consideration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Visions for a Radically Different World 2: Basic Needs

    Visions for a Radically Different World 2: Basic Needs
    Feb 11 2026
    In the first full-length episode of Visions for a Radically Different World, Kari talks with two friends about what it might look like to create a world where everyone's needs for subsistence and physical safety are assured. They explore the things that help us feel safe, how we struggle as individuals to try and ensure our own basic needs are met in the face of capitalism, and how community acts as a powerful force for resourcing us when the systems around us don't or won't. Check out the companion piece Kari wrote to go with this episode here Kari's books Kari's workshops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • Visions for a Radically Different World

    Visions for a Radically Different World
    Jan 13 2026
    This is a short introduction to a new series where Kari and guests explore ideas for a world where our systems and structures actually serve us as human beings. We ask the question: how can we create systems and structures that are designed for care and support? The economy, our medical systems, justice systems, school systems - all of them are crumbling right now and failing to keep us well, healthy, and safe. So what would it look like if we began having deeper conversations about what it means to be well, healthy, and safe - together, in community? This series aims to explore those ideas and invite people - including listeners - in to a space where we can imagine a radically different world together. Kari's website https://www.connectivetissueconsulting.com/ Kari's memoir on BuyMeACoffee https://buymeacoffee.com/kario Vanessa Andreotti's book Hospicing Modernity https://decolonialfutures.net/hospicingmodernity/ Carol Flinders' book The Values of Belonging Contact me with your thoughts and ideas on this series! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    29 mins
  • Exploring the Relationship Between Work and Creativity

    Exploring the Relationship Between Work and Creativity
    Dec 5 2025
    Kari talks to Shelby Mathis about the importance of rest and play for folks whose work relies on creativity. Come listen as these two explore ideas of what it means to reimagine the way you talk about your work and their collaboration on Kari's new website, Connective Tissue Coaching & Consulting. If you've ever wondered what it might be like to build play and rest in to your plan for work, this is the episode for you. Kari's new website: www.connectivetissueconsulting.com Shelby's website: www.shelbymathis.comShelby's Substack: https://wanderinghome.substack.com/ Shelby's BuyMeACoffee site: https://buymeacoffee.com/shelbymathis Kari's BuyMeACoffee site: https://buymeacoffee.com/kario Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr
  • How Do We Lose Touch With Our Humanity with Vanessa Faloye

    How Do We Lose Touch With Our Humanity with Vanessa Faloye
    Aug 12 2025
    Check out the news on any given day and you'll see evidence of all the ways we "other" people, shame them, alienate them, and cause harm to them - passively and actively. In this conversation, Vanessa Faloye and I dig deep in to the things that separate us and cause us to lose touch with our humanity. We explore what it even means to be in touch with it, and why it's so easy sometimes to "other" people. We also talk about the important practice of continually bringing ourselves back to a place of reverence and care for each other and ourselves. You won't want to miss this one! Kari O'Driscoll Held Collective BuyMeACoffee Support my new memoir in serial vignettes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Our Relationship to Justice: Redux

    Our Relationship to Justice: Redux
    Jun 5 2025
    In this short episode, Kari revisits her conversation with Jason Sole, who has applied for a pardon for his crimes in the state of Minnesota and discovered just how opaque and unequal the system is. Georgia Fort's conversation with Jason Petition to Pardon Jason by Juneteenth Jason Sole's Linked In profile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    15 mins
  • Talking with Jess Graham about Our Relationship to Pain

    Talking with Jess Graham about Our Relationship to Pain
    May 1 2025
    Kari talks to Jess Graham about their new book, Being (Sick) Enough, and what it means to build a relationship to pain - both chronic illness and emotional trauma. The conversation touches on autism, addiction, chronic pain, trauma, healing, spirituality, and the power of keeping the spark of hope Websites: Jessica Graham You Wild Awakening Links to Buy Books: Being (Sick) Enough Link to Buy Good Sex Social Media: Instagram [YouTube] TikTok Substack Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 18 mins