Latest Share our strength Podcast Episodes
Jamila Robinson on Bon Appétit, Food Culture, and Sustainability
Add Passion and Stir - April 17, 2024 12:55 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsJamila Robinson, the new Editor-in-Chief of Bon Appétit, discusses her vision for the magazine and more broadly how food can be a powerful force for good in the world. “I'm very curious about how other people experience food and how food drives culture for other people, and that curio...
Stacy Dean and Zee Zaidoff on Fighting Summer Hunger
Add Passion and Stir - April 03, 2024 16:11 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWell before the school year ends for American children , advocates like USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services Stacy Dean and Hawaii-based consumer advocate and substance abuse counselor Zahava “Zee” Zaidoff are planning how to feed kids over the summer. ...
Alicia Kennedy and Katherine Miller Demand Food Justice
Add Passion and Stir - March 20, 2024 13:29 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsFood and culture writer Alicia Kennedy and chef advocacy trainer and Table81 founder Katherine Miller discuss food justice and how we can make important improvements in our food system. “We operate with this idea that we should be able to have any [food] we want whenever we want it, at ...
Daron Babcock on Redesigning Our Future for Social Equity REDUX
Add Passion and Stir - March 06, 2024 11:50 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsDaron Babcock, CEO of Bonton Farms located in a low-income neighborhood in South Dallas. Bonton Farms is one of the largest urban farms in the United States and its programs are addressing a variety of barriers residents face including housing, education, nutrition, and economic self-su...
Jimmy Chen and Ofek Lavian Leverage Tech to Feed Hungry People
Add Passion and Stir - February 20, 2024 22:38 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsJimmy Chen, founder/CEO of Propel and Ofek Lavian, founder/CEO of Forage, explain how they are harnessing the power of technology to ensure more people can easily access government food benefits. “We believe that well-fed people have many problems, but hungry people have only one,” says...
Thomas Kostigen on the Environmental Impacts of “Cool Food”
Add Passion and Stir - February 07, 2024 07:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsBestselling author Thomas Kostigen talks about climate change and specifically how we can all decrease our carbon footprints by making different food choices. “If we were to embrace more types of food rather than what is just basically pushed upon us by the food system, then we might ha...
Hungry Children in Our Midst
Add Passion and Stir - January 24, 2024 19:16 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThe pain and suffering children in poverty endure, is a choice. NOT their choice, not their parents’ choice, but a policy choice made by politicians in Washington DC. In this very special episode of Add Passion and Stir, we will examine the plight of the millions of American children...
The Fight for Equity
Add Passion and Stir - January 10, 2024 19:05 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIn this very special episode of Add Passion and Stir, we are going to talk about challenges and solutions in the fight for equity in America. We found three incredibly compelling stories that address the solvable problem of inequity in all its forms in the United States. We will hear fr...
S.E. Cupp on War, the Media, and Mental Health REDUX
Add Passion and Stir - December 20, 2023 12:40 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIn this special encore presentation, we re-visit our conversation with CNN political commentator S.E. Cupp, who shares her perspectives on the current events in the Middle East, her own mental health challenges, and ending child hunger. “Stand up for your friends, because they're hurti...
What Pediatricians Are Prescribing To End Childhood Hunger
Add Passion and Stir - November 29, 2023 16:03 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsEvery other Wednesday, “Add Passion and Stir” shares the inspirational stories of individuals who set their sights on a problem and use their strengths to create solutions. Hosted by Share Our Strength’s founder Billy Shore, a leading advocate in food justice for 40 years, we convene lead...
Jack Shonkoff on Trauma and Child Development
Add Passion and Stir - October 31, 2023 21:31 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsJack Shonkoff, director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, talks with us about the science around trauma and toxic stress in child development. “I never talk about toxic stress or excessive stress activation without also talking about adaptation and resilienc...
S.E. Cupp on War, the Media, and Mental Health
Add Passion and Stir - October 16, 2023 12:34 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsCNN political commentator S.E. Cupp shares her perspectives on the current events in the Middle East, her own mental health challenges, and ending child hunger. “Stand up for your friends, because they're hurting right now, and they need every voice they need, every hug they need, eve...
Dan Pallotta on Dreaming Big Dreams
Add Passion and Stir - October 03, 2023 19:17 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsDan Pallotta talks with us about the conversation he ignited with his 2013 TED Talk about the way nonprofit organizations are funded. “We want the nonprofit sector to solve huge problems. We want the nonprofit sector to be able to dream gigantic dreams,” he says. However, there are st...
Aldore Collier on Racism’s “Invisible Net”
Add Passion and Stir - September 19, 2023 21:45 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsAldore Collier, former editor at Ebony and Jet magazines, speaks with Billy and Debbie Shore about his recent expose article about the racist roots of health problems in Metcalfe Park, Milwaukee, WI. “Residents talk about being stifled by an “invisible net” that blocks advancement and m...
Daron Babcock on Redesigning Our Future for Social Equity
Add Passion and Stir - September 06, 2023 12:28 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsDaron Babcock, CEO of Bonton Farms located in a low-income neighborhood in South Dallas. Bonton Farms is one of the largest urban farms in the United States and its programs are addressing a variety of barriers residents face including housing, education, nutrition, and economic self-su...
Mark Bittman on Why Fixing Food Fixes Everything
Add Passion and Stir - August 23, 2023 15:57 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsJames Beard Award-winning food writer Mark Bittman talks about the relationship between food and critical issues like climate change, public health and social justice. “You can’t fix any justice issues, environmental issues, nutritional issues without fixing food. Food is at the center ...
From Kitchen to Courtroom Redux: Dealing With Race in America
Add Passion and Stir - August 09, 2023 11:57 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsChildren’s advocate and social justice icon Hubie Jones and Sweet Home Café (at the National Museum of African American History and Culture) executive chef Jerome Grant discuss their perspectives on race in America and commitment to living purpose-driven lives. “On to the stage came D...
Congressman Marc Molinaro on Compassionate Government
Add Passion and Stir - July 26, 2023 11:45 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsCongressman Marc Molinaro (NY-19) describes how he is helping to build an impactful, compassionate government that truly helps people. “There are too few [politicians] who care about the results; they care more about making a point than making a difference,” he laments. He is vehement...
Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti on Non-partisan Solutions
Add Passion and Stir - July 12, 2023 04:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsScranton Mayor Paige Cognetti talks about local government solutions to problems like hunger and poverty in President Biden’s hometown. “We're working really, really hard to improve quality of life and to prove the case to people, to families, whether they've been here for generations o...
Kathy Edin and Tom McDougall on Extreme Poverty in America
Add Passion and Stir - June 28, 2023 12:24 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWhile this conversation first aired in 2018, the issues it explores about food equity and access remain unsolved in America and in many ways were exacerbated by the pandemic. In this episode of Add Passion and Stir , poverty expert and author Kathy Edin ($2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothi...
Food is a Fundamental Human Right with Rep. Jim McGovern and Rhonda Chafin
Add Passion and Stir - June 14, 2023 12:10 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsAs school years end for America's children, hunger champions like Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) and food bank executive director Rhonda Chafin focus on providing summer meals. “There are some things you can live without. Food is not one of them,” McGovern says. He is working in ...
Nothing Is Impossible: Robert Irvine on Service Above Self
Add Passion and Stir - May 17, 2023 16:14 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsChef, entrepreneur, and Food Network host Robert Irvine was appalled at the rate of food insecurity among US military families. “It is incomprehensible… that any member of our military that serves this great country could be worried about being deployed and that their family can't be fe...
Saying I Love You Through Food: Chef Ann Kim & Joanne Lee Molinaro
Add Passion and Stir - May 03, 2023 12:53 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIn this reprise episode, we join James Beard-award winning Chef Ann Kim and James Beard-award winning chef and author Joanne Lee Molinaro, The Korean Vegan, for conversations about identity, connection, and growing up as the children of immigrants. Both Ann Kim and Joanne Lee Molinaro s...
Max Stier on Strengthening Democracy
Add Passion and Stir - April 19, 2023 04:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsFrom the Webb telescope to the COVID vaccine, every day the nearly 3 million civil servants in our federal government make our democracy work through their extraordinary--often unrecognized--work. Max Stier and the Partnership for Public Service are committed to changing that. Since 2...
From Homeless Child to Children's Champion
Add Passion and Stir - April 05, 2023 02:25 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsNational poverty, child welfare and queer rights advocate and best-selling author David Ambroz sits down with Billy Shore to talk about the importance of truly caring for all children. Ambroz’ memoir, “A Place Called Home,” details his experiences with poverty, hunger, and the foster ...
When Selling Cereal Is Not Enough: A Corporate Response to Hunger During The Pandemic
Add Passion and Stir - March 22, 2023 12:23 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIn this encore episode that originally aired in July, 2020. Kellogg's Ready To Eat Cereal General Manager, Doug VanDeVelde and Brown Sugar Kitchen Executive Chef Tanya Holland share their insights on food insecurity and the difficult early days of the pandemic. Both Kellogg's and Chef H...
A Historic Decline in Child Poverty and the Work Ahead
Add Passion and Stir - March 08, 2023 00:03 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsSince 1993, child poverty has fallen 60% – according to a landmark 2022 report from Child Trends. And while the magnitude of this decline in child poverty is unequaled in the history of poverty measurement in the U.S., as Jason DeParle who covers poverty for the New York Times reminds u...
Seaweed Will Save Us: Briana Warner and Debbie Gagnon
Add Passion and Stir - February 22, 2023 05:49 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsCould kelp be the new corn? In this Add Passion and Stir episode, Briana Warner, CEO of Atlantic Sea Farms, and Debbie Gagnon, President and Co-owner of Red's Eats (Wiscasett, ME), discuss the importance of seaweed to the future of our food system. “There are choices that we can be ma...
Michael McAfee on Thriving in a Multiracial Democracy
Add Passion and Stir - February 08, 2023 11:24 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsService is in Michael McAfee’s DNA. From an early career in the military to roles in the Federal Government and his current leadership at PolicyLink, McAfee has dedicated his life to realizing a just and fair society – a society designed for all. To achieve this, McAfee centers equity...
From The White House to Share Our Strength - Ending Childhood Hunger
Add Passion and Stir - January 24, 2023 23:37 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIn this special episode, Share Our Strength co-founder Billy Shore speaks with the organization’s brand-new CEO, Anne Filipic. She explains how her career led her to this position and the depth of her passion about solving childhood hunger. “What does it mean to end childhood hunger tod...
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