Season 3, Episode 8 (Epilogue) | The Final Episode!
Hosted By: Krystal Lee, J. Robin Moon, Cody Cotton, and Mandy LaBreche
In this reflective epilogue, the hosts look back on the final season of the podcast and their IRL experience, highlighting the transformative power of storytelling, vulnerability, and community. Through shared memories and insights, they emphasize how trust, authentic leadership, and collective narrative-building can foster deep connection, personal growth, and lasting impact.
Well, what can we say, 3 Seasons and 26 episodes later, we have come to the final 27th episode of our podcast series.
We have set out to create a dissemination product for our 10-year endeavor with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to share with our broader community in the most approachable, most versatile, and most popular form that we know - a podcast. It is our hope that the limited series of 3 Seasons will be out in the world to be available to anyone who needs it, whenever and wherever. We believe the content is timeless, and that the “right time” - in the sense of chronos and kairos - will find you.
The four co-hosts met in Downtown Chicago in freezing late January 2026 - hailing from New York City, Minneapolis, Baltimore, and Southside Chicago - with the sole purpose of reflecting and recording the epilogue together.
Take a listen and share your thoughts with us! And if you are new to our podcast, check out our Season 1 to learn about why we are creating this podcast!
Thank you for your time to listen to us, and your energy to cheer for us. We feel it.
Guests:
* Krystal Lee [https://irleaders.org/leadership/%20krystal%20lee/]
* J. Robin Moon [https://irleaders.org/leadership/%20robin%20moon/]
* Cody Cotton [https://irleaders.org/leadership/%20cody%20cotton/]
* Mandy LaBreche [https://irleaders.org/leadership/%20mandy%20labreche/]
Mentioned:
* IRL LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14587766/] Page
* IRL Promising Practices Podcast [https://irleaders.org/promising-practices-for-health-equity-podcast/] Page
Thoughts? Suggestions? Email us at researchleaders@umn.edu [researchleaders@umn.edu]
You can find show notes, transcripts, and more episodes of “Promising Practices for Health Equity” at Promising Practices for Health Equity Podcast: Introduction - Interdisciplinary Research Leaders [https://irleaders.org/promising-practices-for-health-equity-podcast/].
This episode of “Promising Practices for Health Equity” was produced by Studio Americana [https://www.studioamericana.com/], and prepared by Cody Cotton, Mandy LaBreche, Krystal Lee, and J. Robin Moon of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Interdisciplinary Research Leaders [https://irleaders.org/] Podcast Team.
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