For too many men, pain is buried behind silence, stoicism, or the belief they must “push through” alone. In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast, entrepreneur, musician, and spoken word artist DXTR Spits shares how the How Men Cry movement is creating safe spaces for men to tell their stories, embrace vulnerability, and begin healing. Drawing on his own journey, he explores how partnership values—connection, compassion, and shared humanity—can dismantle harmful narratives about masculinity and help us all build a more empathetic world. 

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How Men Cry (howmencry.com)

DXTR Spits YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@dxtr_spits)

Slave Name (https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=zVi_WW6dOmE)

Learned (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMJBFb_6Hyw)

Understand (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5CIILsM-og)

Center for Partnership Systems (centerforpartnership.org)

The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, Riane Eisler (https://centerforpartnership.org/resources/books/the-chalice-and-the-blade-our-history-our-future/)

The Power of Partnership: Seven Relationships that will Change Your Life, Riane Eisler (https://centerforpartnership.org/resources/books/the-power-of-partnership/)

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Resilience, Rising Appalachia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx17RvPMaQ8)

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What happens when a young human rights advocate discovers the power of economics to transform society? In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast, Robyn Baker shares her journey from studying political science to reimagining economic systems that value caregiving, nature, and equity. Inspired by Riane Eisler’s partnership framework, Robyn explores how tools like the Social Wealth Index and community currencies can help communities thrive beyond the limits of GDP. Drawing on her international experiences in South Africa, the U.S., France, and Sweden, she reflects on the lessons her generation can bring to building a future rooted in care, connection, and shared responsibility. 

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WECAN (Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network International) 

The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, Riane Eisler

The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, Riane Eisler

Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future, Riane Eisler

Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body, Riane Eisler

The Power of Partnership: Seven Relationships that will Change Your Life, Riane Eisler

Center for Partnership Systems

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Resilience, Rising Appalachia

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How can media—especially scholarly publishing—help shift our culture from domination to partnership? In this episode, Marty Lewis-Hunstiger and Liz Weinfurter share their experiences as editors of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, exploring how language, representation, and open access can challenge bias and amplify diverse voices.

From navigating cultural differences in translation, to pushing for equitable access to research, Marty and Liz discuss the complexities of applying partnership principles in systems built for domination. They offer concrete examples of small but powerful changes—such as multilingual publishing, inclusive editorial practices, and creating space for community voices—that move us toward media rooted in respect, equity, and connection.

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Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies

Creative Nursing Journal

The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, Riane Eisler

The Power of Partnership: Seven Relationships that will Change Your Life, Riane Eisler

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Resilience, Rising Appalachia

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In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast, host Cherri Jacobs Pruitt talks with Sara Saltee—Director of Education at the Center for Partnership Systems and founder of the Saltee Academy for Complex Creativity—about reclaiming creativity as an essential force for cultural transformation. Saltee challenges the dominance-driven “productivity ethos,” showing how it suppresses imagination, play, and diverse voices, and offers a “creativity ethos” rooted in reciprocity, joy, and relationality.

Through vivid metaphors, expanded ideas of time, and tools like her cyclical map of the creative process, Saltee invites us to honor the fertile pauses, embrace multiple truths, and see creativity as both personally life-giving and culturally essential. Her message is clear: we can’t produce our way into a better world—we must create it together.

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Center for Partnership Learning Center

Saltee Academy 

Sara Saltee Substack

Sara Saltee and Susan Carter IJPS article “Reimagining Creativity for a

Partnership World”

The Power of Partnership: Seven Relationships that will Change Your Life, Riane Eisler

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In this episode, host Cherri Jacobs Pruitt interviews John C Havens on the intersection between technology and culture; and how our orientation on the Domination - Partnership social lens continuum impacts this intersection. This thought provoking discussion touches on knowing your values, consent in data usage, combating isolation, and resources such as the Center for Partnership Systems’ Partnership Toolkit. John C. Havens is a writer, speaker, and activist, and Sustainability Practice Lead for the IEEE Standards Association, and Founding Executive Director of The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. 

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Center for Partnership Systems’ Partnership Toolkit

Center for Partnership Learning Center

Social Wealth Economic Indicators

Planet Positive 2030, Strong Sustainability by Design

The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, Riane Eisler

The Power of Partnership: Seven Relationships that will Change Your Life, Riane Eisler

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Resilience, Rising Appalachia

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 In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast, host Cherri Jacobs Pruitt talks with New York Assemblyman Ron Kim about transforming politics by putting care at its core. Drawing on Riane Eisler’s partnership–domination framework, Kim shares how he’s fought for truth during the long-term care crisis, exposed wage theft impacting immigrant home care workers, and built bipartisan coalitions to protect elders and strengthen caregiving systems. He calls for treating care as critical public infrastructure—valued and funded like roads and bridges—and envisions a political culture where dignity, safety, and human connection guide every decision. 

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Ron Kim - Assemblyman

Ain’t I A Woman Campaign

Flushing Workers Center

The Real Wealth of Nation, Riane Eisler

The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, Riane Eisler

The Power of Partnership: Seven Relationships that will Change Your Life, Riane Eisler

Center for Partnership Systems

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In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast, award-winning journalist Rickey Gard Diamond reveals how economic systems have been shaped to benefit a narrow few, often excluding women, people of color, and care for the planet. She challenges the myth that economics is fixed or purely technical, showing it as a human-made system we can redesign.

Rickey highlights partnership-based alternatives—like cooperative ownership, public banking, and values-aligned investing—and points to nations measuring social wealth alongside profit. Through her work with An Economy of Our Own, she calls for open conversations about money and bold action to create economies that “wage life, not war.”

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The Real Wealth of Nation, Riane Eisler

Screwnomics, Rickey Gard Diamond

An Economy of Our Own

Ms. Magazine’s Women Unscrewing Economics series with Rickey Gard Diamond

Riane Eisler’s Social Wealth Economic Indicators (Social Wealth Index)

Invest in Better (Values Aligned Investing)

If Women Counted, A New Feminist Economists, Marilyn Waring

International Association of Feminist Economists (IAFFE)

The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, Riane Eisler

The Power of Partnership: Seven Relationships that will Change Your Life, Riane Eisler

Center for Partnership Systems

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Resilience, Rising Appalachia

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What if schools were designed to honor every child’s unique potential, spark curiosity, and prepare them to live and lead with empathy? In this episode, Tim Seldin—President of the Montessori Foundation and Chair of the International Montessori Council—shares how Montessori education embodies the principles of partnership. From multi-age classrooms to individualized learning and a culture of respect, Tim reveals how this approach transforms not just academics, but the whole child. We explore how moving from domination-based to partnership-based models can foster mental health, creativity, and the skills needed to thrive in a rapidly changing world—and why these shifts are essential for the future of humanity. 

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International Montessori Foundation

Center for Partnership Systems

Tomorrow’s Children: A Blueprint for Partnership Education in the 21st Century, Riane Eisler

Nurturing our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future, Riane Eisler

Inside Montessori documentary

Center for Montessori Research, University of Kansas

City Montessori School, Lucknow, India 

Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, Riane Eisler

Raffi, Tomorrow’s Children (song)
Resilience, Rising Appalachia

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In "Healing Healthcare", Cherri Jacobs Pruitt interviews Teddie Potter, University of Minnesota’s School of Nursing’s Director of Planetary Health and Specialty Coordinator Doctor of Nursing Practice in Health Innovation and Leadership.  Dr. Potter and Dr. Riane Eisler co-authored Transforming Interprofessional Partnerships: A New Framework for Nursing and Partnership-Based Health Care  (published in 2014). This episode unwraps the insidious persistence of Domination-based values and illustrates how adopting Partnership-based practices are ushering in a healthcare revolution that is promoting health and wellbeing for all. 

Center for Partnership Systems

Transforming Interprofessional Partnerships: A New Framework for Nursing and Partnership-Based Health Care, Teddie Potter and Riane Eisler

The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, Riane Eisler

The Power of Partnership: Seven Relationships that will Change Your Life, Riane Eisler

Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies: https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/ijps/index

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Resilience, Rising Appalachia

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How can Indigenous wisdom guide us toward a more sustainable and caring future? In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast, Cherri Jacobs Pruitt welcomes Lyla June, an Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne), and European lineages.

Together, they explore how ancestral practices — from regenerative land stewardship to honoring sacredness in all life — offer solutions for today’s climate and cultural crises. Lyla’s insights connect environmental sustainability with how we treat each other in our homes, communities, and societies.

Her vision is clear: we can “turn deserts into gardens,” both literally and metaphorically, by embracing partnership instead of domination with the Earth and one another.

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Key Themes

• Indigenous practices as blueprints for ecological balance
• Sacredness of all life as the foundation of partnership
• How collapse and crisis can teach us to re-align with creation
• Love and allyship as strategies for cultural transformation

About the Guest
Lyla June — Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne), and European lineages. She blends performance, poetry, and activism to advance Indigenous knowledge, ecological sustainability, and cultural healing.

👉 LylaJune.com

👉 https://www.lylajune.com

Resources & Links

• The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future — Riane Eisler
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  👉 https://centerforpartnership.org/resources/books/the-chalice-and-the-blade-our-history-our-future/
  
  
• 3000-Year-Old Solutions to Modern Problems — Lyla June (TEDx Talk)
  👉 Link
  
  👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tPH7ipj69s
  
  
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies — Jared Diamond
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus — Charles Mann
• Center for Partnership Systems
  
  👉 https://centerforpartnership.org/
  
  

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Resilience by Rising Appalachia
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