WORLD GONE GOOD

Dogs + Vodka = The best episode ever. Allison Lange & Julia Pennington started their relationship working together in animal rescue and they've evolved it into their award-winning business, Hera The Dog Vodka. We'll give you a moment to go back and reread that last sentence. We promise it'll make sense when you hear these two amazing women tell their story of friendship, their passion for animals, and their foray into the world of making cocktails that benefit shelters and rescues. 50% of the profit from every sale of their products do just that - they give back to help animals everywhere. But wait it gets better, they have special holiday gift boxes where 100% of the profits go to shelters and rescues proving these two aren't messing around, they are getting it done and doing it in a super fun way. Grab a cocktail and join us for this brand new episode that's sure to put a smile on your face.

Are you brave? Heather Vickery wants to know. She is all about taking chances and making changes especially if it means leveling-up your life. She did it. For real. Did it herself. And you can too. In this brave episode she shares the good of being true to yourself, listening to and honoring your inner voice, and the steps you can take right now - they are so simple - to living your life bravely. Come roar with us.

Heather is the host of The Brave Files podcast and co-host of the podcast Was It Chance? She's the creative force behind her own company Vickery and Co.

Let's Give Thanks: Over 25 guests reveal what they are thankful for on this special edition of World Gone Good. From lifelong friends of our host Steve's to former good guests to upcoming good guests to a few celebrities thrown in just to see if you are paying attention, this is the ultimate celebration of sharing the love. There is so much good out there, so much to be thankful for. Enjoy this one and ask yourself if you had the chance to give thanks of your own, what would you say? Who would you thank? Reminder: You have that opportunity each and every single day. Listen to our guests give their thanks, then go give your own. Shouldn't that be what this upcoming holiday called Thanksgiving be all about?

Random Acts of Kindness' Brooke Jones spreads kindness each and every day. She shares how you can make a difference too, whether it be at home, school or work. Our good chat includes us discussing how marrying someone with different political sensibilities changed her own idea of kindness, what a RAKtivist is and how to become one, and easy, simple ways we all can take action to make this world of ours a lot kinder. And the timing for this could be more perfect: Sunday, November 13th is World Kindness Day. For great, free resources, visit www.randomactsofkindness.org.

Cheryl L. Bedford is the driving force behind Women of Color Unite - WOCU - and there's something you need to know from the start: She is OK with being uncomfortable - in fact, she prefers it that way - because she believes that's where positive change happens. WOCU is the LA-based social action and non-profit organization focused on remedying the inequities that face Women of Color in today’s entertainment and media industries. This group stands for hiring parity, fair treatment, and providing resources to Women of Color content creators industry-wide. As a collective of over 5000 women and growing, they work to create opportunities for engagement between hiring agents and their active membership of experienced women to address the indefensible precept: “I don’t know any WOC that I can hire.” In this episode, Cheryl brings the conversation of race and inequality front and center, providing solutions that are action-oriented and achievable. This is one good - GREAT - conversation.

Charlie Zimbron is the co-founder of F*#k Up Nights, the international live series that celebrates our professional failures by putting them front and center to to celebrate them. This is the B side to all our stories, the parts we all try to hide, with the goal of improving the culture around failure, gender inequality in the workplace and building safe and diverse spaces. What's your most embarrassing moment? Your biggest public fail? That cringe moment you have kept tucked away and pretend like it happened to someone else? For every success story, there are a hundred plus fails. Let's find the good in F*#k Up Nights!

Please note: This episode contains the word F*#k in it, multiple times, and not with the * or the # replacing the missing letters. Consider yourself F*#king warned.

Jee-Hoon Krska is the founder of Keys 2 Success, the Newark, NJ based organization that brings free piano lessons for local kids to learn, create, and enjoy. Music is the great unifier and students who learn to play a musical instrument excel in other areas including math, science, and their own personal confidence and happiness. Jee-Hoon is a proud American immigrant and she herself played piano alongside her twin sister growing up. This is her good journey that takes her life-long passion of music and delivers it to families and helps build community, one note at a time.

Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins thrives by learning and listening. An actress who's gone from Jelly's Last Jam to Caroline or Change on Broadway to TV roles including her 20 year run as 'Livia' on All My Children, she's reached a place in her life where she's comfortable with who she is and yet she continues to still strive to evolve as an artist and as a person. She's the guiding force - literally she wrote, produced, directed, acted, and cooked too - for and behind her horror feature film, Red Pill. We talk the good of wearing multiple hats, spending time with people who don't share our political views, playing a love triangle where no one has sex with each other, and why everyone deserves one good scare just in time for Halloween.

It's our second year anniversary - time flies when you're spreading good. If you've listened before, you know we end every episode with our guests finishing this statement, 'Tell me something good.' So to mark this special day, we've decided to look back as we move forward and deliver you a gift: The complete 100 episode compilation of every single guest we've ever had, in order, telling us something good. Listen to it first thing to start your day or when you're winding down after a long one, bookmark and save it for the future, use it for when you need a lift, a blast of inspiration, a positive reminder that there is light out there in the darkness, there is good. Come on now, tell me something good...

Enjoy Emmy-winner Faith Salie in this bonus content from our 100th episode. Who says just because it lands on the cutting room floor it will never be heard from again? Not us! Be sure to listen to our full 100th show to really get the full good experience. We'll be back with Season 3 and brand new episodes the first Wednesday, October 5th.