Pain Into Purpose: Making Change from our Challenges

Issue Space

For many social change professionals, the work comes on the heels of hardship. Exposure to society’s pain points can be a driving force for professional changemakers, who might opt to use their negative lived experiences as motivation to build a better world. How do these folks turn adversity into optimism and innovation? How do they find the fire to face what’s hurt them, every day – and with professional polish, no less? When do they foster their own healing and relief? In this episode of the Issue Space podcast, we talk with a professional advocate and storyteller about the beauty and complexity of serving society through personal perspective.

About

Working to make life better for humankind is both a privilege and a challenge, and no one knows this better than the folks who have made this work their day job. Issue Space is a podcast and community for professional changemakers of every kind. Through candid conversations about the lived experience of social change work, we hold space to process life in the unique — and uniquely needed — business of impact.

Host

Cat Addo

https://www.cataddo.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherineaddo/

Guest

Adrianne Wright https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianneandangwright/

Discussed references:

The Healing Power of Telling Your Trauma Story https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/think-act-be/201903/the-healing-power-telling-your-trauma-story#:~:text=Recounting%20the%20trauma%20begins%20to,time%20and%20in%20the%20aftermath.

Content warnings:

● 20:31 - 21:21 - Anecdote involving pregnancy trauma and birth trauma

● 21:22 - 22:29 - Anecdote involving sexual assault in the workplace

● 28:00 - 29:40 - Reference to sexual assault

● 32:08 - 35:01 - Anecdote involving sexual assault and abduction

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