Wider Roots

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How can our social movement spaces create more opportunities for our internal transformation while we work for external change? Hosted by leadership coach Jeremy Blanchard, Wider Roots brings together wisdom teachers, coaches, and leaders who are wrestling with questions about how to bridge personal and systemic transformation. This show is for coaches, facilitators, and healers who want to explore approaches to personal growth that focus more on the well-being of the collective, instead of just the individual. It’s also for movement leaders who want to infuse the power of inner work into their changemaking. Our work for climate justice, racial justice, equity, and collective liberation calls on us to bring our best qualities forward. Join us as we explore how we can embody a more compassionate, resilient, and spiritually grounded way of making change. For additional resources and to connect with like-minded changemakers, sign up for our newsletter at https://WiderRoots.com

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What’s the role of the coaching industry in collective liberation? (w/ Andréa Ranae)

May 21 2024 41 mins  
“My invitation is just to let ourselves feel the pain. That we don't have to have the shame on top of it. It’s painful to know that I have contributed to the harm of another person and that I had no idea. I don't have to hold shame about it. I can grieve that.”Check out the episode page for the transcript and the full list of the resources mentioned in this episode: https://w

The inseparable link between inner work and outer change (w/ Staci Haines)

May 07 2024 68 mins  
“There's no such thing as personal change outside of a social context. You actually can't separate a person from our social context. And that is just like, well, duh, how did they ever think we could do that?”Check out the episode page for the transcript and the full list of the resources mentioned in this episode: https://widerroots.com/8 In this conversation with Staci H

Heartbreak, Hope, & The Wisdom of Joanna Macy (w/ Jess Serrante)

Apr 23 2024 71 mins  
“Uncertainty inherently means that possibility exists. Possibility for all sorts of things. For the darkest fantasies and fears that I have and for the most beautiful. And my life is a vote in the direction of a possibility, and I'm going to give myself to the one I want.”Check out the episode page for the transcript and the full list of the resources mentioned in this episode:

Climate Change Coaching (w/ Charly Cox)

Apr 09 2024 42 mins  
“My starting point is less about agitating for change and more about empowering people to believe that they can be actors in their own lives. We fundamentally believe that everyone has a stake in climate change, that everyone can make, can affect change around it.”Check out the episode page for the transcript and a full list of the resources mentioned in this episode: https://w

Spiritually Grounded Activism (w/ Kazu Haga)

Mar 26 2024 62 mins  
“Can we actually lead with fierceness and the vulnerability of saying, I'm not here because I hate you. I'm actually here because I love you. I'm here because I love the sanctity of life and beauty, and those things are being destroyed all over our ecosystem.”Check out the episode page for the transcript and a full list of the resources mentioned in this episode: https://widerr

Bridging Healing and Activism (w/ Noëlle Janka)

Mar 12 2024 40 mins  
“Healing doesn't look like getting back to the way things were before, the way things were before made you sick.”Noëlle Janka is a politicized career and healing coach dedicated to supporting social change leaders. For the past decade, she has brought together her personal experience navigating chronic illness with her passion for social justice and transforming systems of opp

How to bring our politics into a session: Coaching on Gaza (w/ Dara Silverman)

Feb 27 2024 41 mins  
“I think if people don't change by shame or blame or forcing them into things, I think they change because they have a vision of the world they want.”In this episode, I get to talk with Dara Silverman, a white queer Jewish consultant, somatic coach, and trainer with over 20 years with organizations and movements for social, racial, economic, and gender justice. Dara was the fou

Making space for imperfection in activist spaces (w/ Mazin Jamal)

Feb 13 2024 51 mins  
“So how can we create such rich belonging, that there's room to challenge each other without fearing that we're going to be kicked out of the group?”In this episode, we’ll be exploring that question and many other questions about justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) with Mazin Jamal, co-founder of Holistic Underground. We dive into how we stay grounded as facilita

Why coaching + social change?

Feb 13 2024 40 mins  
Welcome to the podcast! This episode is going to be different than our usual format because I wanted to take some time to lay the foundation for the questions we’ll be exploring on this show. Questions like “How can our movement spaces actively create more opportunities for deep, internal transformation while we work for external change?”I invited my dear friend Jess Serrante

Introducing: Wider Roots

Jan 27 2024 1 mins  
In order to navigate the breakdowns we’re in, we need coaches and leaders who can help us bring out the best qualities of humanity and tap into our deepest longings for the future.This podcast is my attempt to do “research in public” and explore the questions that have been in my heart for over a decade:How can coaching skills and practices support changemakers and social mov