Culture Shift Podcast

Dr. Baz Dreisinger, author, activist, professor at John Jay College, and founder of Incarceration Nations Network joins us to talk about the role of prison in serving justice and the greater society.

She says, our current system, based on punishment and revenge, serves neither those imprisoned nor society as a whole. An advocate of abolishing prison as we know it, Dr. Dreisinger holds out hope for a more just, humane approach that confronts systemic inequality, racism, and other underlying issues perpetuated in our capitalist system of mass incarceration. 

Sara Jolena Wolcott's quest to understand the deep roots of climate change led her on a global odyssey from sustainable international development to becoming a traveling musician in India where she recognized arts and spirituality as key forces in crafting regenerative cultures to originating the story of climate change within the historical context of colonization

Join host Martha Williams as she talks with Sara, a cultural innovator, healer, and teacher about the power of origin story and its role in finding lasting solutions to climate change.

Join host Martha Williams as she talks with Dr. Gail Christopher, the visionary for and architect of the Truth Racial Healing and Transformation effort for America, launched in 2017 by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and several other foundations. 

Racial Healing "is not anti-racism work. The focus of racial healing is really on eradicating the fallacy of a hierarchy of human value and replacing it with a deep sense of our inner connection as human beings." – Dr. Gail Christopher

Join host Martha Williams as she talks with author of The Fix and Director of Inclusion at Netflix, Michelle P. King, who, after sixteen years working with major Fortune 500 companies as a gender equality expert, she realized one simple truth — the tired advice of fixing women doesn’t fix anything because it's our workplace CULTURE that holds inequality in place.

Join host Martha Williams as she talks with Ava Pipitone, social entrepreneur (HostHome, Suyana) and futurist, about how Ava's journey to finding true embodiment has led them on a quest to re-think gender personally and societally.

Ava is an entrepreneur, futurist, and friend. They seek to embody peaceful evolution through completely hacking and redesigning their physical body, psychology, and ideology to integrate our new norm of constant adaptation. 

All genders all over the world have been wounded by gender imbalance. 

Join host Martha Williams as she talks with the founders of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI) about the importance of healing the gender divide and understanding the cultural context for why this work matters, men, women, and the entire gender spectrum.

Jennifer Brown, speaker and inclusion innovator, joins us as we discuss creating cultures of inclusion and belonging in the workplace so that all can thrive. 

Join host Martha Williams as she talks with Jennifer about diversity dimensions and how when they are understood, it can help to create cultures where people can bring their full selves to the workplace.

Neil Ramsay, Creative Economist, talks about how othering, uncertainty (risk aversion) and siloing keeps us locked in sameness and how creative shifts in thinking can help solve problems.

Sean Harvey, Chief Compassion Officer at Symponia, Inc., and former head of Personal Transformation and Wellbeing at EILEEN FISHER, shares his healing journey to become an integrated man through the power of feminine leadership and what he thinks will help heal the gender divide in corporate America.

Susan Coleman is a conflict resolution facilitator and the creator of the peacebuilding podcast. Susan considers herself a “process activist” and says if we want a more peaceful world, we need to learn new ways of relating and create better containers for communication.

Culture Shift Agency interviews thinkers, activists, innovators, and artists, who defy the status quo through bold, systems-oriented, creative work in all kinds of fields. We hope to inspire listeners to be critical, engaged and thoughtful in their own lives and to further the intellectual understanding of the culture we live in and ways we can wake up to and change the stagnate thinking that permeates our lives and wraps around us like an invisible cloak.