Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration

Episodios

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  Can Tenure Be More Humane? Ethics Of Care With Dr. Shawntal Brown 12.10.2026 1h 3m

  Dr. Shawntal Z. Brown, higher education scholar, incoming Program Manager for Freedom to Learn at PEN America, and President of the Texas Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, explores what it means to love an institution that cannot love you back, from tenure and academic freedom to the gap between symbolic gestures and structural change. She joins host Corinna Bellizzi to discuss ethics of care, power, and what universities must become to earn the commitment of the people inside them.
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  Is Eco-Capitalism an Oxymoron? A Report From the Field with Dr. Corinna Bellizzi 07.10.2026 37m

  Can markets and ecology genuinely coexist, or does profit logic always eat its host? Drawing on more than 25 years in the natural products industry, Dr. Corinna Bellizzi weighs the skeptic's and believer's cases for eco-capitalism, from the unraveling of Ben & Jerry's independence to algae-grown omega-3s, and argues that values endure only when they are built into a company's foundation.
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  Shame Is Not A Health Plan: Coach Bill Hogarty On Our Kids and Families 30.09.2026 56m

  William “Coach Bill” Hogarty, twelve-time bodybuilding champion and founder of the Kids Diabetes Foundation and the Coach Bill 1% Club, joins Care More Be Better to make the case that insulin resistance in children is preventable and that education, not shame, is how families turn it around. He and host Corinna Bellizzi talk honestly about metabolic markers, moderation over abstinence, leading by example at home, and what it takes to get 1% better every day.
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  Climate And Code: Bridging The Digital Divide In Disaster Recovery With Monica Sanders 23.09.2026 59m

  Monica Sanders, Georgetown Law professor, National Geographic Explorer, and founder of the Undivide Project, shares how Hurricane Katrina shaped her fight for climate resilience that includes everyone, and why digital access belongs at the center of disaster preparedness. Drawing on her new book Climate and Code, she joins host Corinna Bellizzi to explore community-led technology, the true cost of hyperscale data centers, responsible AI use, and simple actions anyone can take to strengthen their community.
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  Can AI Be Used Responsibly? The Ethics of Care in a Machine Age with Corinna Bellizzi, PhD, MBA 18.09.2026 22m

  Can artificial intelligence be used responsibly, and can it actually amplify care, or is it just another tool that erodes empathy? In this solo episode, host Corinna Bellizzi draws on care ethics scholarship from Carol Gilligan, Nel Noddings, and Virginia Held, plus her own doctoral research experience, to offer a framework for using AI with intention, transparency, and integrity.
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  Getting Unstuck: Facilitation, And The Work Of Values Alignment With Genevieve Smith 15.09.2026 57m

  Many social change organizations struggle to bridge the gap between the values displayed on their office walls and the actual practices in their daily operations. Achieving true values alignment requires navigating deep humanity, conflict, and the inevitable shame that arises during transitional periods. In this episode, host Corinna Bellizzi sits down with Genevieve Smith, an organizational effectiveness consultant and founder of GB Advisory. Genevieve shares her unique approach as a "professional bummer" who facilitates difficult but necessary conversations around power sharing, organizational grief, and leadership transitions. She explains how drawing inspiration from preschool classrooms and using tools like the community garden metaphor can help teams get unstuck, build trust, and move from panic to practical solutions.
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  Fit For Life At Any Age: Chef Babette Davis On Healing Addiction, Inflammation, And Poor Health 09.09.2026 53m

  In honor of her 50th birthday, Corinna Bellizzi shares an interview she conducted on the Nutrition Without Compromise podcast featuring Chef Babette Davis. In it, they discuss Chef Babette's journey of transformation from addiction and poor health to a fit-for-life vegan who lives her best life as a restaurant owner and influencer with a significant, dedicated following. This episode was originally released as episode 70 of Nutrition Without Compromise on November 23, 2023.
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  Inspired and Enraged: Wayne Pacelle on the War on Wildlife 02.09.2026 1h 7m

  The federal government plans to kill 450,000 barred owls over 30 years to protect the northern spotted owl — while simultaneously narrowing the definition of harm under the Endangered Species Act to allow old-growth forest logging that will destroy the spotted owl's habitat. Wayne Pacelle, president of Animal Wellness Action and the Center for Humane Economy, joins Corinna Bellizzi to expose the timber industry logic behind both moves. Together, they explain what's happening to wild horses and wolves on America's public lands, and share what 35 years of animal protection work has taught Wayne about how a slippery slope can lead to environmental devastation. We must act to protect America's open spaces and wild habitats.
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  How Corporations Socialize Costs To Become Profiteers With Christopher Marquis 26.08.2026 1h 6m

  Seventy percent of global carbon emissions over the past thirty years came from one hundred companies — yet BP spent millions convincing individuals to calculate their personal carbon footprint, redirecting blame onto consumers rather than the corporations responsible. Cambridge Professor Christopher Marquis, author of The Profiteers: How Business Privatizes Profit and Socializes Cost, returns to Care More Be Better to explain how corporations systematically shift their true costs onto the public, why the solutions must be systemic rather than individual, and where genuine examples of responsible business are quietly showing the way.
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  "I've Never Had New Shoes Before." with Amy Fass, Shoes That Fit 19.08.2026 50m

  More than 1.3 million children in the United States are unsheltered — and for many of them, a pair of new athletic shoes is not a given but a barrier, to school attendance, to team participation, to the simple feeling of belonging. Amy Fass, Executive Director of Shoes That Fit, joins Care More Be Better to share what happens when a child who has never owned new shoes opens a brand new box for the first time, and how her organization has delivered more than one million pairs of sneakers to kids in need across all 50 states.
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  Stem Cells: Your Body's Own Repair System | Christian Drapeau, MSc 12.08.2026 52m

  Stem cell scientist Christian Drapeau was among the first researchers to propose that stem cells function as the body's innate repair system — a paradigm shift that now shapes regenerative medicine and longevity science. The founder of Stemregen and author of Cracking the Stem Cell Code joins Care More Be Better to explain how plant extracts discovered through decades of global research can support the daily release of the body's own stem cells, and why understanding your repair system may be the most important thing you can do for long-term health.
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  From Ideas to Income with AI | Zach And Jason Francis 05.08.2026 1h 1m

  Zach and Jason Francis have spent their careers proving that doing more with less is not a constraint — it's a philosophy — from a nine-month sailing trip from San Diego to Australia to building tiny homes on HGTV's Tiny Luxury to Willo, an AI platform that takes a business idea from concept to live website in under ten minutes. The brothers join Care More Be Better to share what sailing 21 days at sea taught them about complexity, why ideas die in spreadsheets, and how AI agents can finally give everyday people the infrastructure to bring their biggest ideas to life without a team, a big budget, or months of setup.
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  Season 1 Finale: Angela Glover Blackwell's Reimagining Democracy for a Good Life — Chapter 6: Hope is a Discipline 31.07.2026 27m

  To close Season 1 of Reimagining Democracy for a Good Life, Angela Glover Blackwell turns to Los Angeles for a meditation on art, resistance, and joy as fuel for the long fight, featuring choreographer Ana Maria Alvarez, economist Manuel Pastor, and the reminder that hope isn't a feeling, it's a discipline. This bonus episode follows Corinna Bellizzi's recent interview with Angela on Care More Be Better, and arrives just as Season 2, set in Georgia, becomes available to stream.
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  Why Recycling Isn't Enough (Tom Szaky Explains) 29.07.2026 1h 3m

  Nature has no concept of waste — every output is someone else's input — and Tom Szaky has spent 25 years building the company that proves it. The founder and CEO of TerraCycle, the global leader in recycling the unrecyclable — from cigarette butts to diapers to chip bags — joins Care More Be Better to share why we will not recycle our way out of the waste crisis, how Loop is finally scaling in France after failing everywhere else, and what used diapers have to do with predicting children's brain development.
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  Hope Is a Discipline: Angela Glover Blackwell on Democracy, Equity, and Human Flourishing 22.07.2026 1h 6m

  Angela Glover Blackwell has spent more than 50 years working at the intersection of racial equity, housing, transportation, and civic life — and she has arrived at a definition of democracy that most politicians have never considered: a mutually accountable system of co-governance in service of human flourishing. The founder of PolicyLink and host of Reimagining Democracy for a Good Life joins Care More Be Better to share what she learned growing up in segregated St. Louis, why the curb cut effect proves that investing in those left behind benefits everyone, and why hope — as Mariame Kaba taught her — is not a feeling but a discipline.
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  Listening To Earth Wisdom With Leah Penniman, Soul Fire Farm 15.07.2026 59m

  George Washington Carver believed nature was God's unlimited broadcasting station — and that idea of the Earth as a living relative rather than a resource is at the heart of everything Leah Penniman does. The co-founder of Soul Fire Farm, author of Farming While Black and the new anthology Black Earth Wisdom, joins Care More Be Better to explore ecological humility, food apartheid, the returning of 258 acres to the Mohican Nation, and what happens when a city kid named Dijor takes his shoes off in the mud and feels his grandmother's spirit rise through his feet.
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  The Secret Language of Your Body: Energy Medicine, Ancestral Trauma, Healing from Within, Inna Segal 08.07.2026 1h 8m

  At twenty years old, Inna Segal was told by her chiropractor that there was nothing he could do to help her — and that moment sent her home to discover that her chronic back pain, psoriasis, and digestive issues were rooted in ancestral trauma her body had been holding for decades. The author of The Secret Language of Your Body, a book that has sold over a million copies in 27 languages, joins Care More Be Better to explore the body as teacher, the science of emotional storage in physical form, and the same quality of listening that heals our bodies — and may be what heals the planet, too.
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  Ride The Future: Design, Rebellion, And The Electric Revolution On Two Wheels With Timothy Seward Of ONYX Motors 01.07.2026 1h 5m

  What if your commute cost one cent a mile, came with CarPlay, and turned every stoplight into something you looked forward to? Tim Seward, founder and chief design officer of ONYX Motors, joins Care More Be Better to share how he went from converting gas mopeds in his garage to building the RCR 80V — an electric motorbike that tops 75 mph, runs 130 miles per charge, and is designed to last long enough to have multiple owners, like a well-loved Volkswagen Bug.
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  Deep Into the Vine: The Medicine Hunter on Ayahuasca, Shamans, and the Cosmic Experience | Chris Kilham 25.06.2026 54m

  Chris Kilham — the Medicine Hunter, author of fifteen books, and a man the New York Times once called "part David Attenborough, part Indiana Jones" — returns to Care More Be Better for a third time to go deep into the vine: 65 shamans, a twelve-year run of ceremonies across the Amazon, and the question of where authentic plant medicine ends and cultural appropriation begins. From shared visions and ego death to the practical realities of finding a trustworthy ayahuasca ceremony, this conversation is equal parts adventure story and field guide.
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  Juneteenth Feature: Angela Glover Blackwell's Reimagining Democracy For A Good Life - Episode 1: Los Angeles 19.06.2026 30m

  This Juneteenth, hear the opening chapter of Reimagining Democracy for a Good Life, in which civil rights icon Angela Glover Blackwell makes the case that Los Angeles, with all its contradictions, might hold the blueprint for a thriving multiracial democracy. Featuring LA Mayor Karen Bass, economist Manuel Pastor, and organizer Tiffany Benitez, this special feature arrives ahead of an exclusive Care More Be Better interview with Angela coming in July.