The Third Place

We launched a podcast!

Throughout this first year, we received a number of messages from listeners letting us know how different episodes had spoken to them.

As 2020 comes to a close, we take a moment to share these personal accounts with you. Our hope is that our episodes and interviews continue to challenge us to expand our perspectives, equip us with practical tools for better dialogue, and to teach us how to take care of ourselves.

Listen in as we share the best of this past season!

2020 has been such a hard year for everyone. But also, one thing we’ve learned through this series and what you’ll hear today is that in grief, there is hope.

Grief can bring us meaning.

Grief can help bring clarity.

And while grief is hard - so, so hard, it can also give us celebration.

We also finish with our last interview on grief with founder of moveTHRU, Emily Bingham. Emily is a fitness professional, mother of two, and widow as of March 2019, when her husband passed away from Uveal Melanoma.

A psychotherapist for over 16 years, Gina Moffa, LCSW, has an active private practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where she specializes in the many faces of grief and loss, trauma, as well as anxiety and depression that accompanies change. Gina also focuses on helping people to navigate uncertain, complicated life transitions, (even welcome changes come with their fair share of challenges!), and most recently, she is writing a book on healing grief- your way.

Join us as we welcome two powerful guests, Gabrielle Birkner and Marisa Renee Lee, in our first interview to unpack the heavy topic of grief. Both of them candidly share their stories of loss and how it has impacted the way they lead their lives and their work today. This episode is a breath of fresh air for those who have suffered deep loss this past year, or ever.

As 2020 comes to a close, we take a moment to pause and grieve. So many of us have lost loved ones, lost jobs, lost relationships, and lost basic human connections of hugs and simply hanging out with friends. How can we embrace our grief? Can it be a gift? What are the stages of grief and what does walking through the stages look like in this difficult year? 

We begin this conversation as one of four parts as we have four amazing grief experts joining us in the next three episodes.

Listen in as we interview Monica Scalf! She is the Creator of Crazy Grateful, an online gathering place for people who want to look on the bright side of life. You can learn more at crazygrateful.com, or on instagram @crazygrateful.

As we enter into Thanksgiving, how do we approach the feelings of Gratitude in what has been a very difficult year?

Listen in as we "feel all the feels" of our current moment in time. Whether your candidates won or lost, the reality is that it's been a heightened emotional time and only one thing is clear... there is a lot of work ahead to create the space for the hard conversations we need from one another. 

So, we give pause to feel... and as we do, we feel inspired to push deeper into the Third Place... to create those safe spaces and to keep "going there" into dialogue that is uncomfortable. And while we know it will be difficult, these are the conversations that also give us HOPE.

As we publish this episode on Election Day 2020, we recognize that there is a lot of tension for everyone - and pretty much about all things!! We wanted to acknowledge the tension, but also ground ourselves, and talk through life's greatest truth - LOVE. How can we view love as the basis for learning, growing, and really figuring out how to be in society with each other?

This is our corresponding interview following our episode, "Politics is a GOOD Word." Join us as we interview David Burstein, founder of Run for America and Generation18 - two organizations dedicated to improving American politics. We'll take a behind the scenes look at politics in America and in Washington today. We'll also talk through what gives us hope in this contentious moment in our politics today.