Solvable

Host Ronald Young, Jr. presents a preview of Pushkin’s newest podcast, Some of My Best Friends Are… and talks with the hosts, Khalil Gibran Muhammad (Harvard professor) and Ben Austen (award-winning journalist) about some of their favorite moments together.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Ben Austen grew up together on the South Side of Chicago. The two offer an unfiltered take on growing up in a deeply-divided country and navigating that divide as it exists today.

The full season can be found at http://podcasts.pushkin.fm/solvablebestfriends

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Mike Gauyo is a TV writer in LA including work on Insecure (HBO) and Ginny & Georgia (Netflix). He’s the founder of The Black Boy Writes Black Girl Writes Mentorship Initiative that is paving pathways for emerging Black writers in Hollywood. 

Here are some resources Gauyo recommends in this episode:

Black Boy Writes Black Girl Writes

Insecure

Fruit Podcast

The Writer's Room Podcast

The Screenwriters Rant Room Podcast

On Writing Podcast from WGA 

The Screenwriter's Bible, A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script by David Trottier

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Stephanie Cunningham is the director of Museum Hue which supports people of color within the museum field and works to situate and promote culturally informed museum exhibitions and experiences across the nation. 

Here are some of the resources she mentions in this episode:

Museum Hue

Mounting Frustration: Art Museums in the Age of Black Power by Susan E. Cahan

EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art by Kellie Jones

Museums are Not Neutral

Museum Detox

MuseumNext

How to Be an Antiracist

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, David Zha and Sachar Mathias. Booking by Lisa Dunn.

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Dr. Joy Harden Bradford is a licensed psychologist, author, podcast host and the founder of Therapy For Black Girls – an online resource, and podcast, that supports the mental well-being of Black women and girls.

If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call the National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357)

https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline

Here are some of the resources that Dr. Harden Bradford mentions in this episode:

Therapy For Black Girls

The Loveland Foundation: financial assistance to Black women & girls seeking therapy

https://thelovelandfoundation.org/

Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen: The Emotional Lives Of Black Women, by Inger Burnett-Zeigler

Rwenshaun Miller

Therapy For Black Men

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn and our managing producer is Sachar Mathias.

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Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News correspondent. He is the author Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and he’s written four #1 New York Times bestsellers including How to Be an Antiracist.

Here are some resources for learning more about, and doing, antiracism work:

Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi

Books: 

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010) 

Carol Anderson, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America (2021) 

Erika Lee, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States (2019) 

Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (2021) 

Paul Ortiz, An African American and Latinx History of the United States (2018) 

David Treuer, The Heartbeat on Wounded Knee: Native Americans From 1890 to the Present by David Treuer (2019) 

Movies:  

13th  

John Lewis: Good Trouble 

Selma 

Just Mercy 

Hair Love 

The Hate U Give 

Organizations: 

Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research 

Black Lives Matter (US, Canada, United Kingdom) 

Stop AAPI Hate 

Jews for Racial and Economic Justice 

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee 

Hispanic Heritage Foundation 

National Congress of American Indians

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Bri Campos is a licensed mental health counselor and body image coach. She works with clients to improve their relationships with food and with their bodies and to approach health in a holistic way.

Here are links to resources recommended in this episode:

Body Image with Bri 

Food Addiction is Solvable with Michael Moss 

Hating Your Body is Solvable with Gabi Fresh

Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight By Lindo Bacon

The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women By Naomi Wolf

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia By Sabrina Strings, Allyson Johnson

Intuitive Eating, 4th Edition: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach By Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D., Elyse Resch, M.S., R.D., F.A.D.A. 

Johann Hari, Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong (TED talk)

The View from Rat Park, Bruce Alexander

Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight By Lindo Bacon, Lucy Aphramor

On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss By Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler 

Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating By Christy Harrison 

Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming It for the Better) By Lindo Bacon, Ijeoma Oluo

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Gabi Fresh is a body positive digital content creator. She was formerly an MTV Twitter Jockey and InStyle's first plus-size editor.

Gabi Fresh on Instagram

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn.

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Michael Moss is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and author of the books Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us and Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions. He explains that food addiction is not our fault but we can break out of it. 

Here are some links to additional reading Moss recommends:

The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease by Daniel Lieberman

Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters by Gordon Shepherd

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Molly Burhans is the founder and executive director of GoodLands an organization that works to map the land holdings of the Catholic Church to encourage socially and ecologically sound decisions to help the future health of the earth and its people.

GoodLands

Biodiversity Observation Tracking on Lands Owned by the Catholic Church (and other Catholic Organizations) using iNaturalist, Saint Kateri Conservation Center

About the Great Backyard Bird Count, Audubon Society

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, David Zha, and Sachar Mathias.

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We’re excited to share with you the new season of Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast that re-examines something from the past and asks whether we got it right the first time. We’ve got to warn you, the new season is completely unbound. Malcolm Gladwell is finally out of the house, and taking you into the streets, and even under the sea. All in the name of continuing his journey through the overlooked and misunderstood. He plays chicken with cars. An Oscar winner helps him remake fairy tale history. He dives into your dirty laundry. I haven’t quite decided who he riles up most. College elitists? Nine year old girls? You’ll have to hear it for yourself to find out. 

Find the new season of Revisionist History at http://podcasts.pushkin.fm/resolvable.

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