Books that Make the World Better

Linda Kaye-Moses on History, Culture & the Joy of Creative Pursuits

In this episode of Books That Make the World Better, host Jennifer Browdy talks with author and jeweler Linda Kaye-Moses about her new novel, The Argentera and the Takes of the Six Arabesques, a mystery that spans centuries, cultures, geographies as it weaves together the stories of generations of creative people from ancient India to Europe of the Middle Ages, to 20th century Venice and a cozy corner of New England. In this wide-ranging conversation, Linda shares her creative process and the dedication to beauty and craft that has kept her at her jeweler's workbench and her writing desk for many decades. More about Linda Kaye-Moses: https://www.lindakayemoses.com [https://www.lindakayemoses.com] More about Jennifer Browdy: https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com [https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com] More about Green Fire Press: https://greenfirepress.com [https://greenfirepress.com]

Maria Sirois: How Appreciation of Beauty, Goodness and Excellence Can Change the World

Green Fire Press publisher Jennifer Browdy, the host of Books That Make the World Better, talks with positive psychologist Maria Sirois about her award-winning book The Generous Exchange, a collection of essays about the individual and collective benefits of the appreciation of beauty, goodness and excellence in the world around us. More about the book: https://greenfirepress.com/books/the-generous-exchange/ [https://greenfirepress.com/books/the-generous-exchange/] More about Maria Sirois: https://www.mariasirois.com [https://www.mariasirois.com] More about Green Fire Press: https://greenfirepress.com [https://greenfirepress.com] More about Jennifer Browdy: https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com [https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com]

Calling the sacred mother, a conversation with poet Anne Yeomans

In this episode of Books That Make the World Better, Green Fire Press publisher Jennifer Browdy talks with poet Anne Yeomans, who has been a psychotherapist for over 50 years. She has facilitated dialogue groups and sacred women’s circles for decades in both the US and Russia. Anne is the co-founder of The Women's Well, an organization devoted to the healing and empowerment of women and girls and the reclaiming of the sacred feminine, which offered programs in the Boston area from 1994 to 2012, centered around essential questions in women’s spirituality: What do women experience as sacred? How do they know it and honor it? How do they bring it forth? The author of the bilingual Russian-English poetry collection We Used to Call Her Mother, Anne is the co-editor of the collection Willing to Love: Stories of the Couple's Journey as a Path of Transformation, for which she authored a chapter. A lifelong social activist, she is the mother of two children, with five grandchildren. Get a copy of We Used To Call Her Mother: https://bookshop.org/p/books/we-used-to-call-her-mother-anne-eastman-yeomans/9af50045ee2e1632/ [https://bookshop.org/p/books/we-used-to-call-her-mother-anne-eastman-yeomans/9af50045ee2e1632/] Learn more about Anne Yeomans and The Women’s Well: http://womenswell.org/origins.html [http://womenswell.org/origins.html] More about Green Fire Press: https://greenfirepress.com [https://greenfirepress.com] More about Jennifer Browdy: https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com [https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com]

Full-Spectrum Leadership with Nina Simons of Bioneers

In this episode of Books That Make the World Better, podcast host Jennifer Browdy PhD talks with Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers and the Everywomans Leadership Program, and the author of Nature, Culture & the Sacred, a Woman Listens for Leadership, a beautiful book about the wisdom and power of full-spectrum leadership. More about Nina Simons: https://ninasimons.com [https://ninasimons.com] More about Bioneers: https://bioneers.org [https://bioneers.org] More about Nature, Culture & the Sacred: https://greenfirepress.com/books/nature-culture-and-the-sacred-a-woman-listens-for-leadership/ [https://greenfirepress.com/books/nature-culture-and-the-sacred-a-woman-listens-for-leadership/] More about Jennifer Browdy: https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com [https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com] More about Green Fire Press: https://greenfirepress.com [https://greenfirepress.com]

Hilary Giovale: Becoming a Good Relative

In this inspiring conversation, Green Fire Press publisher Jennifer Browdy talks with Hilary Giovale, author of Becoming A Good Relative: Calling White Settlers Toward Truth, Healing and Repair. Going deep and ranging widely, Hilary talks with Jennifer about her identity as a ninth-generation American settler whose ancestors benefitted from grants of stolen land, the stolen lives and labor of enslaved peoples, and systemic racism. Becoming a Good Relative shares remedies for the debilitating shame that can overtake white Americans when we face our peoples’ colonial past and our current complicity with systemic white supremacy. It offers a unique methodology, supported by African American and Indigenous Elders, for entering into mutually beneficial reciprocal relationships with Native peoples, ancestors, and the spirits of the land. More about Hilary Giovale and Becoming a Good Relative: https://www.goodrelative.com [https://www.goodrelative.com] More about Jennifer Browdy: https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com [https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com] More about Green Fire Press: https://greenfirepress.com [https://greenfirepress.com]