Be The Connection

Dr. Tania Israel is a professor and associate dean at the University of California, Santa Barbara and has done extensive work on the divisions and disconnections that exist on a political level within our society. She joins us to talk about how we can bridge those divides, promote connection and tackle the mental health challenges that come with living in a divided society. Settle in for a different type of political conversation.

Dr. Tania Israel's website: https://taniaisrael.com/

Dr. Tania Israel on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TaniaIsraelPhD/

Dr. Tania Israel on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/TaniaIsraelPhd/

Travelling Kitchen Trust is a social enterprise nonprofit helping those dealing with food hardship and other challenges in New Zealand. Their mission is to connect these people - as well as busy families and extended communities - through the shared experience of making delicious food from healthy, local ingredients. Co-founder Alison Herft joins us to share the organization's story, the impact it's having and how food is breaking down barriers and creating meaningful connections.

Travelling Kitchen website: https://www.travellingkitchen.co.nz/

Travelling Kitchen on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Travelling-Kitchen-NZ/100087612375283/

Travelling Kitchen on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/travellingkitchennz/

Kemp Boyd is the leader of Love Akron, a community-focused nonprofit, as well as a head football coach, pastor and member of a city police advisory board and joins host Andy Harris to talk about how we can humanize ourselves and one another to create connections and relationships that have the potential to influence others and empower change and community in our lives.

Love Akron website: https://www.loveakron.org/

Love Akron Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/loveakron/

Love Akron Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loveakron/?hl=en

Special K Ranch is a Montana-based ranch that provides a chance for individuals with developmental disabilities to be a core part of a working, thriving farm community. Steve Aadland, the ranch's director of development, joins us to share the amazing, inspiring stories of the ranchers who make this special place go and connect you to the awesome, uplifting work that delivers so much more than fruits, vegetables and livestock to those it serves.

Special K website: https://specialkranch.org/https://specialkranch.org/

Special K on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/specialkranchmt/

Special K on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpecialKRanchInc

Markelle Taylor, a former San Quentin State Prison inmate and member of the prison's 1,000 Mile Club, shares his journey from serving a life sentence to being released and using what he learned inside the prison walls to build connections, develop community and share love with people who are still incarcerated as well as those he meets in his new roles as a running coach, speaker and public figure.

Follow Markelle on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markellethegazelle/?hl=en

San Quentin State Prison 1,000 Mile Club: https://www.1000mileclub.com/

Host Andy Harris is joined by Tim Fitzpatrick, Diana Fitzpatrick and Jim Maloney of the 1,000 Mile Club, a running club for inmates inside San Quentin State Prison in California. The club and its full marathon inside the prison walls are featured in the new documentary "26.2 to Life" and its three lead coaches sit down for a conversation about how the club creates connections and builds community for the inmates who participate not only inside the prison walls, but for those who are released and how their lives are changed by those bonds.

1,000 Mile Club website: https://www.1000mileclub.com/

26.2 to Life on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sqmarathon/?hl=en

Tamalpa Runners: https://www.tamalparunners.org/