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Welcome to the Rethink Community podcast, brought to you by ThinkTank. For over a decade, ThinkTank has been helping people and organizations step into the stories of those who face poverty every day. We believe that stories have the power to break through our opinions and positions, and bring us together. On this podcast, we bring you real stories from people who have grappled with poverty, faced obstacles, blazed new trails, and forged unlikely relationships.

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Best Of Rethink Community: Real Stories Behind COPE

Welcome to Season 11 of the Rethink Community Podcast: The Best Of! For the past five years, the Rethink Community Podcast has been a space to challenge how we understand and respond to poverty. We've shared stories that move beyond theory and spark those "aha moments" that can change perspectives, relationships, and actions. In this special season, we're bringing you the best of our past…

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Best Of Rethink Community: "Telling a Different Story About Community" Steve Gill

Welcome to Season 11 of the Rethink Community Podcast: The Best Of! For the past five years, the Rethink Community Podcast has been a space to challenge how we understand and respond to poverty. We've shared stories that move beyond theory and spark those "aha moments" that can change perspectives, relationships, and actions. In this special season, we're bringing you the best of our past…

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Best Of Rethink Community: "Bridge the Distance Across Walls" Jon Adrian Velazquez

Welcome to Season 11 of the Rethink Community Podcast: The Best Of! For the past five years, the Rethink Community Podcast has been a space to challenge how we understand and respond to poverty. We've shared stories that move beyond theory and spark those "aha moments" that can change perspectives, relationships, and actions. In this special season, we're bringing you the best of our past…

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Best Of Rethink Community: "When Poverty Becomes Personal" Andrea Carter

Welcome to Season 11 of the Rethink Community Podcast: The Best Of! For the past five years, the Rethink Community Podcast has been a space to challenge how we understand and respond to poverty. We've shared stories that move beyond theory and spark those "aha moments" that can change perspectives, relationships, and actions. In this special season, we're bringing you the best of our past…

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Best Of Rethink Community: "Telling a Different Story about Poverty" Mauricio Lim Miller

Welcome to Season 11 of the Rethink Community Podcast: The Best Of! For the past five years, the Rethink Community Podcast has been a space to challenge how we understand and respond to poverty. We've shared stories that move beyond theory and spark those "aha moments" that can change perspectives, relationships, and actions. In this special season, we're bringing you the best of our past…

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From Resignation to Renewal

In this episode, Brian Dobyns reflects on how living just above the poverty line shaped his sense of what was possible. He shares stories of being excluded from help and discouraged from pursuing opportunities, leading to a mindset of resignation. Together, we discuss the emotional impact of these experiences and how encouragement and small successes can help break fatalistic narratives,…

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When Poverty Becomes Personal

In this episode, John White welcomes Andrea Carter to unpack how personal experience can radically reshape our understanding of poverty. Andrea reflects on her early years as a teacher, when she held common misconceptions about families in poverty, and describes how her own journey through situational poverty challenged and transformed those beliefs. Andrea shares how repeated judgment can create…

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Rewriting the Poverty Narrative

In this episode, I speak with Aaron Earlywine and Maddie Mitchell to challenge narratives that assume "poverty is a personal failing" or "people in poverty are helpless." Aaron shares insights from his work as a pastor and counselor, stressing the value of kindness and community, while Maddie explains how her perspective shifted from making assumptions to recognizing the strengths and agency of…

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Leading With Lived Experience

What if the stories we believe about poverty are holding us back from real change? For generations, narratives of blame, pity, and resignation have shaped how we respond to poverty-often with harmful consequences. But what happens when we center the voices of those who live these realities every day? In this series, we unpack the unproductive narratives that keep communities stuck and discover how…

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Communicate with Dignity: Paul Hemminger

The divisions in our country are not just caused by disagreements; they're fueled by misunderstanding and even contempt, and they can be healed with dignity. Join us in a conversation with Paul Hemminger, a dignity builder and storyteller, and learn how each of us can be changemakers right where we are. https://www.dignityindex.us/resources

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