Road to Repair

Reflections from this first season open up dialogue on the connections between themes of repair from the personal to the systemic. Your co-hosts Nikishka Iyengar, Jessica Norwood, and Andrew X share their reflections and lay bare some of the learnings from the show and this time of transformation. Highlights: • Jessica, Andrew, and Nikishka gather around the mic once more to share reflections and close out this first season • Your co-hosts summarize key lessons and insights from the journey of producing this show inside of a pandemic and the lessons they are carrying • Exploration of how humility, vulnerability, courageous conversations, and economic solidarity can support our work of repair Full episode details and transcript available here: www.theroadtorepair.com/season1/ep8-together-rooting-into-the-soil-of-right-relationship

An exploration of how repair can happen through intentional design of the structure of our organizations and serve as a foundation for greater systemic impact. Featured in this episode is an organization founded by formerly-incarcerated Black men which holds great promise for scaling economic democracy. Highlights: • The story behind how the world's first worker-owned cooperative conglomerate came to be • Unpacking the key design considerations in Obran's structure and the values and intentions which underly them • Joseph and Andrew explore how seeing through the lens of "economic biomimicry" can support this structural work of repair Full episode details and transcript available here: https://www.theroadtorepair.com/season1/ep7-scaling-economic-democracy-with-joseph-cureton

Co-founders of Chordata Capital: Investment with a Backbone, Tiffany Brown and Kate Poole share their spiritually-informed commitment to sharing power equitably across race and class in their work of reparative finance as well as within their own personal and business relationship. Highlights: • A window into the world of anti-capitalist reparative finance • The story and symbolism of a very real crisis in Tiffany's life that led to her Sankofa tattoo split down the middle and gave birth to Chordata Capital. • The genuine love and alignment that lives between Tiffany and Kate as they face this road to repair together Full episode details and transcript available here: https://www.theroadtorepair.com/season1/ep6-reparative-finance-with-kate-poole-tiffany-brown

In this episode, your co-host Nikishka Iyengar talks to tech entrepreneur and ecosystem builder, Aniyia Williams about a framework they call ‘systems entrepreneurship'. Systems entrepreneurship directly addresses systemic inequities while building ecosystems and movements (rather than just companies or industries). Highlights: • The journey to becoming a systems entrepreneur and what it entails • The tech industry's broken-ness as it relates to venture capital, and alternative financing tools • Building ecosystems of support for tech entrepreneurs of color • The importance of conflict resolution skills as a tool for a more liberated economy • Mutualism and re-building the social safety net Full episode details and transcript available here: https://www.theroadtorepair.com/season1/ep5-systems-entrepreneurship-and-mutualism-with-aniyia-williams

From the personal to the systemic, this episode explores how the foundation of our economy and our ecology, the soil under our feet, serves as a powerful reference point for repair and transformation and how institutions serving BIPOC communities are leveraging this “grounded” approach. Highlights: • Celebrating the rapid progress that has been achieved this past decade through the collaboration of organizations young and old serving BIPOC food and farming ecosystems and seeking to end racism in the food system. • Leah unpacks the concept of “ecological humility” and how we might apply and learn from it • An exploration of how we might look to the principles and practices of regenerative agriculture to glean insights and strategies for the work of repair Full episode details and transcript available here: https://www.theroadtorepair.com/season1/ep4-heal-the-soil-heal-our-economy-with-leah-penniman

In this episode, adrienne maree brown discusses how Black Imagination and Love is so critical to this work of repair. Highlights: •What we might envision for ourselves once unshackled from an imagination that doesn't assume white supremacy •Reflections on what might emerge when we let go of an economic model rooted in slavery •How opening up to give and receive love in our personal lives can inform how we engage in the work of repair Full episode details and transcript available here: https://www.theroadtorepair.com/season1/ep3-black-love-and-imagination-with-adrienne-maree-brown

Your co-host Nikishka Iyengar talks with Nwamaka Agbo about her framework: Restorative Economics. They discuss how our modern capitalist economy has its roots in slavery, and how the debate between reform vs. abolition that relates to the prison industrial complex also applies to capitalism as a whole.  Highlights • Nwamaka shares her journey into this work of repair • Lessons and insights for the field of social impact and impact investing • Ways listeners might be able to begin to engage with deeper questions around the work of repair Show notes and transcript for this episode can be found at: https://www.theroadtorepair.com/season1/ep2-restorative-economics-with-nwamaka-agbo

This first episode of the Road to Repair podcast kicks off with your cohosts sharing how the three of them came together to birth this show. They each share a bit about their own personal backgrounds and how this work has taken shape in their lives.  Highlights: • Context setting and a round-robin get-to-know-you session with your three cohosts  • Milestones marking your cohost's individual journeys into this work of repair: Jessica's formative experience with "The Wiz," Nikishka's father's informative rants, and Andrew's diverse backgrounds across race, class, and culture • How this show came together, through a pandemic and major life transitions, along with a teaser of what lies ahead Show notes and transcript for this episode can be found at: https://www.theroadtorepair.com/season1/ep1-how-we-got-here

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