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Ep. #288: Celebrating Curiosity & Civil Service, with Mikel Herrington

Ep. #288: Celebrating Curiosity & Civil Service, with Mikel Herrington

Update: 2025-07-16

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Mikel Herrington is a veteran of both AmeriCorps and the Peace Corps. We explore curiosity as the underpinning that brings people into civil service, reciprocal curiosity across cultural and experiential divides, humility, humor, how service allows room for listening, and why someone might carry a pecan for years...

Theme music by Sean Balick; "Home, Home at Last" by Warmbody, via Blue Dot Sessions.

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Ep. #288: Celebrating Curiosity & Civil Service, with Mikel Herrington

Ep. #288: Celebrating Curiosity & Civil Service, with Mikel Herrington

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