For episode 265, Sharon speaks with and activist and creator, Shanon Watts about her new ebook, Fired Up.
Shannon is the founding father of Mothers Demand Motion, the biggest grassroots group preventing gun violence within the U.S. Generally known as the ‘summoner of ladies’s audacity,’ she has been named one among TIME’s 100 Most Influential Folks, a Forbes 50 over 50 Changemaker, and a Glamour Lady of the 12 months. Shannon can be an lively board member of Emerge America, one of many nation’s main organizations for recruiting and coaching girls to run for workplace. Serving to to redefine what’s potential when audacious girls unite to drive change, she writes often about tradition, politics and ladies’s points for her Substack, Taking part in with Hearth, and shops like The Washington Put up, Elle, Time, The nineteenth. Her new ebook, Fired Up: The right way to Flip Your Spark Right into a Flame and Come Alive at Any Age, is popping out on June seventeenth, 2025. To be taught extra about Shannon’s work, or get a replica of Fired Up you’ll be able to go to her web site right here.
On this dialog, Shannon and Sharon talk about:
- The impetus for Shannon’s ebook
- The right way to stay a life on hearth
- Shannon’s private story
- Marrying our skills, values & needs
- Being burned up by our anger
- Survivors of gun violence
- What holds us again
- Sharon’s concern of public talking
- The firestarter triangle
- How we discover our needs & aspirations
- Sharon and Sharon’s high values
- Residing with a way of what you care about
- How will we maintain our hearth?
- Group Constructing
- Firestarter College
Shannon closes the dialog with a brief studying from her ebook, Fired Up.
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