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America is crashing out, but we can still take the wheel. Each week, 4x TED Talker Sarah Jones sits with the country’s greatest changemakers to explore our collective trauma, how those wounds drive politics, and ways to move forward with empathy and community. Ben Stiller, Yvette Nicole Brown, Bryan Stevenson, Elizabeth Gilbert, and more join the conversation. Sarah’s Tony-winning characters also pop in, but that’s out of our control.
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This week, Sarah is joined by our ultimate #couplegoals, Severance director Ben Stiller and beloved actress and podcast host Christine Taylor. The trio discusses Ben’s latest film, the documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost, surprising ways the filming process strengthened Ben and Christine’s marriage, and how the vulnerable act of telling the truth could help make America a better democracy.
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Follow "America, Who Hurt You?" on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for more hope and encouragement throughout your week. This episode was executive-produced by Sarah Jones. Kennedy Hill is our producer and digital strategist. Our audio engineer is Peter Geiser. Thank you to Gina Delvac for production support.
This week, Sarah Jones is joined by Emmy-nominated host, writer, and thought leader Baratunde Thurston. The two discuss the indigenous roots of American democracy, why acknowledging our country’s history is true patriotism, and how reconnecting to the wisdom of our ancestors can pave a path to a better future.
Subscribe today and follow us on socials @americawhohurtyou and @yesimsarahjones to support our show. All episodes are also on YouTube.
Follow "America, Who Hurt You?" on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for more hope and encouragement throughout your week. This episode was executive-produced by Sarah Jones. Kennedy Hill is our producer and digital strategist. Our audio engineer is Peter Geiser. Thank you to Gina Delvac for production support.
If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe to support our work! Now back to what you were looking for: Sarah Jones and Community star Yvette Nicole Brown have a heart-to-heart about choosing love in dark times, building…well, community with our neighbors and even strangers, and how America's culture of racing to the top is sinking us to the bottom.
Subscribe today and follow us on socials @americawhohurtyou and @yesimsarahjones to support our show. All episodes are also on YouTube.
Follow "America, Who Hurt You?" on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for more hope and encouragement throughout your week. This episode was executive-produced by Sarah Jones. Kennedy Hill is our producer and digital strategist. Our audio engineer is Peter Geiser. Thank you to Gina Delvac for production support.
If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe to support our work. Now back to what you came for: Actress and ACLU ambassador Busy Philipps joins Sarah Jones to make sense of Trump 2.0, recount her run-ins with ICE, and unpack America's backslide into capital-M misogyny.
Subscribe today and follow us on socials @americawhohurtyou and @yesimsarahjones to support our show. All episodes are also on YouTube.
Follow "America, Who Hurt You?" on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for more hope and encouragement throughout your week. This episode was executive-produced by Sarah Jones. Kennedy Hill is our producer and digital strategist. Our audio engineer is Peter Geiser. Thank you to Gina Delvac for production support.
If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe to support our work! Now back to what you came for: Bryan Stevenson, the civil rights visionary and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, joins Sarah Jones to discuss America's unacknowledged history of racial trauma, how those untreated wounds have festered into our current political climate, and how he's harnessing hope through it all.
Subscribe today and follow us on socials @americawhohurtyou and @yesimsarahjones to support our show. All episodes are also on YouTube.
Follow "America, Who Hurt You?" on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for more hope and encouragement throughout your week. This episode was executive-produced by Sarah Jones. Kennedy Hill is our producer and digital strategist. Our audio engineer is Peter Geiser. Thank you to Gina Delvac for production support.
America is crashing out, but it’s not too late take the wheel. Coming in March, Sarah Jones is back to explore our collective trauma, how those wounds drive politics, and ways we can move forward with empathy and community. Ben Stiller, Yvette Nicole Brown, Bryan Stevenson, Elizabeth Gilbert, and more join the conversation.
Follow "America, Who Hurt You?" on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for more hope and encouragement throughout your week. This episode was executive-produced by Sarah Jones. Kennedy Hill is our producer and digital strategist. Our audio engineer is Peter Geiser. Thank you to Gina Delvac for production support.
On this season finale of “America, Who Hurt You?” Sarah Jones sits down with New York Times bestselling author and activist, Sonya Renee Taylor to discuss why radical self love IS the moment. Yes, even in the face of oppressive systems and the current American Bro-ligarchy. Sonya reminds us that, in order to build the world we want to live in, we must first unlearn all the myths telling us we are unworthy of it.
Follow "America, Who Hurt You?" on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for more hope and encouragement throughout your week. This episode was executive-produced by Sarah Jones. Kennedy Hill is our producer and digital strategist. Our audio engineer is Peter Geiser. Thank you to Gina Delvac for production support.
In case the holiday season and heading into (project 🫠) 2025 is feeling like an emotional mixed bag, this week Sarah Jones sits down with actress, producer, and activist, Sophia Bush for her take on how to show up for change and healing both individually and collectively. After coming through a year of personal upheaval to find freedom on the other side, Sophia has plenty of wisdom to drop on how returning to our true selves and the support of community can give us the strength to face what might seem impossible.
Follow "America, Who Hurt You?" on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for more hope and encouragement throughout your week. This episode was executive-produced by Sarah Jones. Kennedy Hill is our producer and digital strategist. Our audio engineer is Peter Geiser. Thank you to Gina Delvac for production support.
Even with the most urgent issues facing the US as we head into (Project) 2025, our foreign policy on the Middle East and Islam are right at the top. And if you think it only affects people overseas, just ask Muslim Americans how the consequences play out stateside in their everyday lives. This week, host Sarah Jones talks to Kashif Shaikh, president and co-founder of Pillars Fund, an organization that raises money to support Muslim American artists and civics groups as they fight Islamophobia. Kashif reveals the long history of Muslims in the US dating back to slavery, and how US narratives about Muslims hide the complex diversity and joy he sees in his community.
Follow "America, Who Hurt You?" on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for more hope and encouragement throughout your week. This episode was executive-produced by Sarah Jones. Kennedy Hill is our producer and digital strategist. Our audio engineer is Peter Geiser. Thank you to Gina Delvac for production support.
If you need a pre-Thanksgiving pep talk, this is the episode for you. This week host Sarah Jones talks to Paul Scheer about his New York Times best seller Joyful Recollections of Trauma and how to both love your family AND still hold space for yourself. Whether you can’t swallow how your cousin voted or you’re stuffing (😬) down unacknowledged childhood trauma, you’re not alone. This episode just might help you decide whether keeping the peace is worth hiding your truth.
Follow "America, Who Hurt You?" on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for more hope and encouragement throughout your week. This episode was executive-produced by Sarah Jones. Kennedy Hill is our producer and digital strategist. Our audio engineer is Peter Geiser. Thank you to Gina Delvac for production support.
Politics got you rethinking your mental health? You’re not alone! In the aftermath of the election, some are considering therapy for the first time, while others may be wondering if their current therapeutic practices are really addressing the grief they’re experiencing. This week, Sarah Jones talks to psychologist and best-selling author of Decolonizing Therapy Dr. Jennifer Mullan about the importance of healing, and how the ‘mental health industrial complex’ replicates the same oppression that can drive both our politics and our personal trauma.
Follow "America, Who Hurt You?" on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for more hope and encouragement throughout your week. This episode was executive-produced by Sarah Jones. Kennedy Hill is our producer and digital strategist. Our audio engineer is Peter Geiser. Thank you to Gina Delvac for production support.
Well, we survived the election; now we just have to… keep going. This week, host Sarah Jones pushes through the exhaustion with CNN commentator Ashley Allison and national director of the Working Families Party Maurice Mitchell to break down what really happened. And more importantly what in the (literal?) hell is next, for all of us, but especially Black folks who understood the assignment while others barely showed up for class.
Follow "America, Who Hurt You?" on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for more hope and encouragement throughout your week. This episode was executive-produced by Sarah Jones. Kennedy Hill is our producer and digital strategist. Our audio engineer is Peter Geiser. Thank you to Gina Delvac for production support.
With the election a week away, polls show immigration is a top issue for voters even though most Americans have no idea how our immigration system actually works, or how much our society depends on the contributions of immigrants, both documented and not. This week, Sarah sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and founder of Define American, Jose Antonio Vargas to break down some of the legal and personal barriers facing undocumented Americans. From limits on sponsoring family’s visas to how racism informs our perception of immigration, Jose highlights just how much humanity is missing from this discourse.
Follow "America, Who Hurt You?" on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for more hope and encouragement throughout your week. This episode was executive-produced by Sarah Jones. Kennedy Hill is our producer and digital strategist. Our audio engineer is Peter Geiser. Thank you to Gina Delvac for production support.
Project 2025 may be the Heritage Foundation’s plan for next year, but its strategies are built to set equality back decades, especially for groups already dealing with America’s legacy of discrimination. This week, host Sarah Jones is joined by Janai Nelson, the President and Director Council of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, to break down Project 2025’s threat to Black communities. Whether you care about reproductive rights, justice reform, or equality in education, Janai explains how these policies will severely impact Black and brown Americans most of all.Find out if you're registered to vote here!
Follow "America, Who Hurt You?" on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for more hope and encouragement throughout your week. This episode was executive-produced by Sarah Jones. Kennedy Hill is our producer and digital strategist. Our audio engineer is Peter Geiser. Thank you to Gina Delvac for production support.
This week on #AmericaWhoHurtYou, author and climate policy expert Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (@ayanaeliza ) is ringing the alarm about the climate crisis, but in a way that offers real solutions, including how to do our small part in practical ways AND hold the biggest climate culprits (hiii fossil fuel execs and paid for politicians!) accountable. Spoiler alert: we have to VOTE both with our ballots and our dollars. Get Ayana's Book Here for 20% Off with Code AYANA20Fill out your Climate Action Venn Diagram here!And find out how to divest your retirement from fossil fuels here!Don’t miss this must-listen conversation that will give you a helpful to-do list and even an anti-apocalypse playlist! Tune in wherever you get your podcasts, and don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review!
Follow "America, Who Hurt You?" on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for more hope and encouragement throughout your week. This episode was executive-produced by Sarah Jones. Kennedy Hill is our producer and digital strategist. Our audio engineer is Peter Geiser. Thank you to Gina Delvac for production support.
Years of exit polls tell us that the outcome of this election may come down to white women who, at 40%, make up the majority of the entire electorate. But what can be done about the fact that white women have a track record of voting more conservatively in the majority of presidential elections since 1950, even when a fellow white woman was an option? This week, host Sarah Jones talks to activist and organizer Shannon Watts about the often overlooked power white women hold in politics and why it’s so consistently leveraged against their own interests.
Follow "America, Who Hurt You?" on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for more hope and encouragement throughout your week. This episode was executive-produced by Sarah Jones. Kennedy Hill is our producer and digital strategist. Our audio engineer is Peter Geiser. Thank you to Gina Delvac for production support.
Our second ever female candidate is running for the highest office in the land– and the gender divide among Americans is at an all time high. This week, host Sarah Jones talks with Liz Plank, (a.k.a. Feministabulous) about the murky waters dividing men and women, and how to bridge across them in time to save democracy. If you’re tired of running into the same road blocks every time you talk with a man about feminism, then Liz and Sarah are here to help!
Follow "America, Who Hurt You?" on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for more hope and encouragement throughout your week. This episode was executive-produced by Sarah Jones. Kennedy Hill is our producer and digital strategist. Our audio engineer is Peter Geiser. Thank you to Gina Delvac for production support.
“Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.” But how long after serving their prison sentence should we punish people? And in an economy fueled in large part by the prison industrial complex, what kind of crimes should warrant keeping a person unemployed, unhoused, and in a cycle of poverty? This week, host Sarah Jones talks to Sheena Meade, the director of the Clean Slate Initiative, about the barriers Americans face when they’re no longer behind bars.
Follow "America, Who Hurt You?" on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for more hope and encouragement throughout your week. This episode was executive-produced by Sarah Jones. Kennedy Hill is our producer and digital strategist. Our audio engineer is Peter Geiser. Thank you to Gina Delvac for production support.
Supplements, and Gut Health, and Ozempic , Oh My! The wellness industry has no shortage of solutions for what ails us. But in a saturated market it feels nearly impossible to tell the fish oil from the snake oil—and whether the problem is really our physical health, or something much bigger…and more political. On this episode, host Sarah Jones talks with actress and activist Jameela Jamil about true wellness, “It’s affection. It's time with loved ones…It is not waiting to rest when you are dead. Or when you're older. It is learning to be present. And none of that can be sold in a tincture bottle.”
Follow "America, Who Hurt You?" on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for more hope and encouragement throughout your week. This episode was executive-produced by Sarah Jones. Kennedy Hill is our producer and digital strategist. Our audio engineer is Peter Geiser. Thank you to Gina Delvac for production support.
With our planet (and therefore everyone on it) in crisis, how do we keep our heads above rising sea levels while demanding a sustainable future…not just for billionaires with bunkers? This week, Sarah Jones asks Academy Award winner and climate activist Jane Fonda how she keeps up the good fight after decades of activism filled with both successes and setbacks. From the moments that prepared her to speak out against the Vietnam War to the strategies that keep her advocating for (and learning from) intersecting social justice issues, Jane offers iconic inspiration to keep moving toward a better world. For more info about our prompt, check out this article on the calming power of humming here!
Follow "America, Who Hurt You?" on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for more hope and encouragement throughout your week. This episode was executive-produced by Sarah Jones. Kennedy Hill is our producer and digital strategist. Our audio engineer is Peter Geiser. Thank you to Gina Delvac for production support.
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