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Feb. 2, 2022

Belonging: Andrena Sawyer on Black History Month, Entrepreneurship, Purpose, Sierra Leone's Civil...

The A World of Difference Podcast is brought to you in partnership with Missio Alliance (https://www.missioalliance.org/) . Stay In Touch: Connect on Facebook and Instagram with thoughts, questions, and feedback. Rate, review and share this podcast with anyone that would love to listen. Find Us Online: @aworldof.difference (https://www.instagram.com/aworldof.difference/) on Instagram…

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Jan. 26, 2022

Belonging: Diana Cutaia on the Importance of Play, Coaching for Peace, and Empathy in Sports, Bus...

Diana Cutaia (https://kitcaster.com/diana-cutaia/) founded Coaching Peace (https://coachingpeace.com/) in 2012, a company focused on using the power of play and connection to empower organizations and teams to create cultures of care, belonging, and peace. However, the work started for Diana 25 years earlier when she first began to explore the meaning…

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Jan. 19, 2022

Belonging: Shari Foos on the Narrative Method, Self Compassion, Relationships and Meaningful Conn...

Shari Foos is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles, and a Master of Science in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. As a sought-after expert on the subjects of relationships and meaningful connection, Shari’s writing and commentary…

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Jan. 16, 2022

Best of 2021: Sheila Wray Gregoire: The Lies You've Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended

Sheila Wray Gregoire is a popular speaker, marriage blogger, and the author of nine books, including The Good Girl’s Guide to Great Sex (https://www.amazon.com/Good-Girls-Guide-Great-Sex/dp/0310334098) . Her latest book is The Great Sex Rescue (https://www.amazon.com/Great-Sex-Rescue-Recover-Intended/dp/1540900827/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Great+Sex+Rescue&qid=1611364260&s=books&sr=1-1) that will be coming out in early March. It is based on the largest survey ever…

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Jan. 14, 2022

Best of 2021: Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez on Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted ...

Kristin Kobes Du Mez (https://kristindumez.com/) is Professor of History and Gender Studies at Calvin University. She holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and her research focuses on the intersection of gender, religion, and politics. She has written for the Washington Post, NBC News, Religion News Service, Christianity…

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Jan. 12, 2022

Best of 2021: Dr. Beth Allison Barr on the Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of W...

Dr. Beth Allison Barr (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is associate professor of history and associate dean of the Graduate School at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where she specializes in medieval history, women’s history, and church history. She is the president of the Conference on Faith…

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Jan. 10, 2022

Best of 2021: Dr. Scot McKnight & Laura Barringer on A Church Called TOV: Forming a Goodness Cult...

This episode is coming to you for such a time as this. With spiritual abuse, abuse of power, and sexual abuse becoming such common news in our time, we have to admit that there are many churches with cultures and systems that are unhealthy and even harmful. If you are…

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Jan. 7, 2022

Best of 2021: Dr. Diane Langberg on Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church

Dr. Diane Langberg (https://www.dianelangberg.com/) came on the podcast last year, and was one of our most listened to episodes. Dr. Langberg is globally recognized for her 47 years of clinical work with trauma victims. She has trained caregivers on six continents in responding to trauma and to the abuse of…

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Jan. 5, 2022

Change Makers EPS 66: Dr. Gautham Pallapa on Leading With Empathy, His Inspirational Mother, and ...

Dr. Gautham Pallapa (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gpallapa/) talks about his latest book Leading With Empathy: Understanding the Needs of Today's Workforce (https://amzn.to/3zr6yxT) . Dr. Pallapa is a business transformation leader and trusted advisor for Global 2000 organizations. Digital, Telecom, and Healthcare senior leader, executive advisor, keynote speaker, advisor, and board member. He is…

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Dec. 22, 2021

Change Makers EPS 65: Rob Dixon on Together in Ministry, Gender Partnership, and Men and Women Fl...

Rob Dixon (DIS, Fuller Theological Seminary) is an associate regional ministry director with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA and senior fellow for gender partnership with the InterVarsity Institute. He is an adjunct professor at Fresno Pacific University and Fuller Theological Seminary and provides training on flourishing mixed-gender ministry partnerships for numerous organizations…

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Dec. 15, 2021

Change Makers EPS 64: Jayne Nakata on Podcasting for Expat Women in Japan, Life in Fukushima Afte...

Jayne Nakata is the host of the Number 1 podcast for international women living in Japan: Transformations with Jayne (https://www.jaynenakata.com/podcast) . She is also the creator of PodLaunch (https://www.jaynenakata.com/podcastconsulting) , which helps podcasters in Japan to launch and run their own show. Jayne has lived in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan for…

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Dec. 8, 2021

Change Makers EPS 63: Christina Corpus on Running as the First Female Candidate for Sheriff in Sa...

Christina Corpus (https://christinacorpus.com/) , candidate for San Mateo County Sheriff 2022. Christina is the first female candidate to run for Sheriff in San Mateo County. Christina is currently the Chief of Police services for the City of Millbrae. If elected in June, 2022, she will be the first Latina Sheriff…

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Dec. 1, 2021

Change Makers EPS 62: Bindiya Schaefer on Sci-Fi Thriller Reimagining Race, Work as an Aerospace ...

Bindiya is the author of CORINTH 2642 AD (https://amzn.to/3lrfY6G) , a sci-fi thriller that tackles race as a construct. She is a former defense and aerospace journalist. Before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, she lived in Dubai, UAE and Bangalore, India. When she’s not writing, she’s camping in…

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Nov. 24, 2021

Change Makers EPS 61: Allan "Alonzo" Wind on Andean Adventures, USAID, the Peace Corps, and his w...

Allan J. "Alonzo" Wind is a retired Senior Foreign Service Officer from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID (https://www.usaid.gov/) ), having worked off and on with the Agency primarily overseas on diplomatic assignments from 1990 to 2019 in the Peru, Nicaragua, Angola, Nigeria, Iraq, Afghanistan and South Africa and…

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Nov. 17, 2021

Change Makers EPS 60: Dan Stringer on Struggling with Evangelicalism, Pastoring in Hawaii and TC...

Dan Stringer is a pastor, author, and campus minister in Honolulu, Hawai'i. His book Struggling with Evangelicalism: Why I Want to Leave and What it Takes to Stay (https://ivpress.com/struggling-with-evangelicalism) explores how to grapple with mixed feelings about evangelicalism in order to cultivate healthier, less toxic evangelical spaces. He is ordained…

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Nov. 10, 2021

Change Makers EPS 59: Sam Thiara on Lost and Found, discovering his roots in India, the ordinary,...

Sam Thiara (http://www.sam-thiara.com) is a professional who has created a personal journey as a speaker, storyteller, writer, educator, mentor, coach, entrepreneur, problem solver and community activator. Sam has authored two books, one on storytelling and his latest, Lost and Found: Seeking the Past and Finding Myself (https://amzn.to/3qvwFkS) is a travel…

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Oct. 20, 2021

Change Makers EPS 58: Nona Jones on Facebook, Faith-based Partnerships, Social Justice, Digital ...

Nona Jones is a rare combination of preacher, business executive, author, and entrepreneur. In her day job she serves as the Head of North America Community Partnerships and Global Faith-Based Partnerships at Facebook. She is the bestselling author of two books; Success from the Inside Out (https://amzn.to/2XrLzfR) , chronicling her…

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Oct. 13, 2021

Change Makers EPS 57: Frank Carbajal on Latinx Heritage Month, Indigenous Peoples' Day, Silicon V...

First generation, California-born Frank Carbajal’s parents were migrant farm workers in the early 70’s, and were offered jobs in canaries in the Silicon Valley. His parents did important work, feeding a nation with diligence and dedication. They wanted a better life for their son, and his dreams of being the…

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Oct. 7, 2021

Change Makers EPS 56: Dr. Amy Stumpf on Poverty, Relief & Development, Faith & Ethics, US Foreign...

Amy Stumpf, Ph.D. is a Professor of Society and Religion at California Baptist University. She grew up as a TCK in a family that worked in Relief and Development in the Philippines and Thailand. She went to International School Bangkok, and has a Ph.D. in Social Policy and Research from…

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Oct. 1, 2021

Why Inclusion?

Inclusion isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s also the smart thing to do. Inclusive teams that create belonging for diverse voices around the table make more informed decisions after considering multiple angles with various perspectives on how to solve a problem. Solutions from diverse and inclusive teams are…

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Sept. 29, 2021

Change Makers EPS 55 : Doni Aldine on TCKs, CULTURS magazine, Diversity & Inclusion in Media, Gro...

Doni Aldine (https://culturs.org/Doni/) is a globally mobile Afro-Latina and first-generation North American who, by age 19, lived in seven cultures on five continents. She is passionate about creating community for cross-cultural populations. She has presented around the globe as a Keynote, at conferences, universities & in media as a lifestyle…

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Sept. 22, 2021

Change Makers EPS 54: Bonnie Gray on Sweet Like Jasmine, Chinese-American Stories, Growing Up in ...

Bonnie Gray is an author and inspirational speaker based in Northern California. Bonnie has developed a global following of readers who come to her for inspiring Christian living content written in her authentic, unique voice. Bonnie’s moving, soulful stories challenge believers spiritually and connect deeply at a heart level. Raised…

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Sept. 15, 2021

Change Makers EPS 53: Dr. Grace Ji-Sun Kim on Invisible, Asian-American Women, Intersectional The...

Dr. Grace Ji-Sun Kim received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and is Professor of Theology at Earlham School of Religion (https://esr.earlham.edu/node/1624) . She is the author or editor of 20 books, most recently, Hope in Disarray; Keeping Hope Alive (https://amzn.to/3tIa1pe) ; Reimagining Spirit and Intersectional Theology (Reimagining%20Spirit%20and%20Intersectional%20Theology) ,…

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Sept. 8, 2021

Change Makers EPS 52: Dr. Angie Ward on Faith in Times of Crisis, Afghanistan, Covid, Women Leade...

Dr. Angie Ward (https://mediacenter.tyndale.com/authors/angie-ward/3931) brings over 30 years of ministry experience to her roles as leader, writer, and teacher. She currently serves as Assistant Director of the Doctor of Ministry program at Denver Seminary. Angie is the author of I Am a Leader: When Women Discover the Joy of Their…

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