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Ben Napier is the co-host of HGTV’s Home Town, Home Town Takeover, and Home Town Kickstart along with his wife Erin. In his third appearance on this podcast, Ben discusses the work he and Erin are doing with Osprey, a group they co-founded in 2023 that helps connect parents who want to limit screen time and social media access for their kids.Ben and Heath discuss how their own at

Ashley Fairbanks is an Indigenous author, artist, and activist. Ashley is Anishinaabekwe from the White Earth Nation. She was raised in Minnesota and now lives in Texas.Her new children’s book This Land: The History of the Land We’re On serves as a great jumping off point for early readers, older kids, and even adults to begin to question who used to live on the land that today

Farah Assi was born in Southern Lebanon under Israeli occupation. Her family fled to Canada for some of her childhood, but returned to Lebanon during her teenage years.Farah’s father and extended family are still living in Southern Lebanon, often a few hundred yards from the sites of bombings. In this conversation, she shares about her childhood memories of Lebanon, her experienc

Audrea Lim is the author of Free the Land: How We Can Fight Poverty and Climate Chaos.The issues of climate change, gentrification, racial inequity, and corporate greed are often treated as unrelated issues, but Audrea argues that they all share a common root: the commodification of land. She not only looks at how the American system of private property ownership has been destructi

Akilah Hughes is a comedian, author, and podcast host, known for her book Obviously: Stories from My Timeline, her YouTube channel, her amazing Twitter/X and Instagram feeds, and her nearly two year run hosting the daily news podcast What a Day for Crooked Media from 2019-2021.Akilah's latest podcast Rebel Spirit, investigates the history of how her high school in Northern Kentucky

Author Austin Frerick's new book Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry looks at seven sectors of the American food system, profiling the company that dominates each of those markets. Some are familiar names like Cargill, Wal-Mart, and Driscoll’s. Others are foreign companies or giant conglomerates that are hardly household names but which still exert

J.B. MacKinnon is a Vancouver-based author, journalist, and professor.His book The Day the World Stops Shopping operates on a simple thesis: gaming out how society, economies, and our lives would change if consumer culture disappeared overnight. When the global pandemic shutdown happened in 2020, suddenly the thesis had a real world example.J.B. joins Heath to discuss intentional c

Amanda Gelender is an American Jewish writer and poet currently based in the Netherlands.Amanda was raised in a progressive Jewish community, yet she was still only taught some of the truth about Israel and Palestine. It wasn’t until college that Amanda began to deconstruct what she had been taught and question her Zionist education.Amanda joins Heath to discuss how Zionsim diffe

Tracie McMillan is a journalist and author of the new book The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America.In the book, Tracie charts her own family’s history, plus follows the stories of four other white American families, to see how explicit government policies and implicit biases have led to massive amounts of wealth for white Americans.Tracie joins Heat

Jenan Matari is a Palestinian-American content creator known for her popular Instagram page. She has amassed a large audience with her videos that explain the struggle of Palestinians before and since October 7.Jenan joins Heath to discuss the challenges of teaching children about a genocide, navigating capitalism, and what it means to have deep ties to the land. She also chats abo