Ep. 1 - The part we keep quiet with Michelle Grant

After many years of hosting change-maker communities, Michelle Grant started to notice something. That there was plenty of space to talk about vision, strategy and impact. But no space to sit with the raw, contradictory, and often inconvenient emotions that come with trying to make a positive difference in the world. The actual experience of feeling, in real time, is still something we mostly do alone. We want to figure it all out first, go through the mess of it privately, and only share when we can neatly package our experience into learnings and wisdom. This brand new podcast series, Emotions of Change, is a public space to share different types of impact stories. Ones with real people and real feelings.

In this episode, Michelle shares her story behind creating this podcast and what it is we will do here together: sit with some of the hardest emotions in impact work. Not to solve them. Not to tidy them up into a neat takeaway and to do list. But to feel them. Together. To stay in that tender in-between, just a little longer. Each episode will explore one emotion through the raw story of a brave woman leading change, and then we will be joined by guides who help us navigate this emotion. So if you’re someone working toward change, and feeling more than you’re saying, this podcast is for you.