Books that Make the World Better

Jennifer Browdy, PhD
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Inspiring conversations with authors whose writing makes the world better, hosted by Green Fire Press publisher Jennifer Browdy, PhD

  1. 18h ago

    The Solutionary Way with Zoe Weil

    In this episode, host Jennifer Browdy talks with Zoe Weil, co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education, and the author of eight books, including The World Becomes What We Teach, and her latest, The Solutionary Way. Zoe's life work has been to open up the new field of humane education, which links human rights, environmental sustainability and animal protection. She created the first graduate program in solutionary-focused humane education, and has trained thousands of teachers at all levels to open up solutionary pathways for their students. Her new book makes this work accessible for people of all ages. More about Zoe Weil: https://humaneeducation.org/about-ihe/meet-zoe-weil/ More about the Institute for Humane Education: https://humaneeducation.org More about Jennifer Browdy: https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com

    The Solutionary Way with Zoe Weil

  2. Oct 23

    Manda Scott: Finding Our Way Through to a Better World

    In this conversation, host Jennifer Browdy PhD talks with visionary Scottish author Manda Scott about her new Thrutopian novel, Any Human Power, which has been hailed as a ‘visionary and seismic’ mytho-political thriller. Best known as the author of the Boudica: Dreaming series of historical novels, Manda was once a veterinary surgeon and is now a contemporary shamanic trainer and host of the international chart-topping Accidental Gods podcast and well as the co-creator of the Thrutopia Masterclass. Her latest novel, Any Human Power, maps out routes across the ghost-lines of tomorrow, in the hope that humanity will walk them into paths of possibility. This conversation was recorded in December 2024 as part of the Humanity Rising Summit on Writing to Right the World, hosted by Jennifer Browdy. More about Manda Scott: https://mandascott.co.uk https://accidentalgods.life https://thrutopia.life https://dreamingawake.co.uk https://narrativeark.net More about Jennifer Browdy: https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com https://jenniferbrowdy.substack.com

    Manda Scott: Finding Our Way Through to a Better World

  3. Oct 12

    Margaret Randall: Lifelong Word Warrior for Good

    In this episode of Books That Make the World Better, host Jennifer Browdy talks with Margaret Randall, author of more than 200 books of poetry and essays in English and Spanish, focusing with unwavering intensity on social and environmental justice. Margaret turns 90 in December 2026, and she shares part of her remarkable life story here, as well as what she is doing now to continue to make the world better. More on Margaret Randall: https://margaretrandall.org More on Jennifer Browdy: https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com

    Margaret Randall: Lifelong Word Warrior for Good

  4. Jul 9

    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 More about Jennifer Browdy: https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com More about Green Fire Press: https://greenfirepress.com

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

  5. Jun 14

    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/ More about Maria Sirois: https://www.mariasirois.com More about Green Fire Press: https://greenfirepress.com More about Jennifer Browdy: https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com

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

  6. May 10

    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/ Learn more about Anne Yeomans and The Women’s Well: http://womenswell.org/origins.html More about Green Fire Press: https://greenfirepress.com More about Jennifer Browdy: https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com

    Calling the sacred mother, a conversation with poet Anne Yeomans

  7. Apr 24

    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 More about Bioneers: https://bioneers.org More about Nature, Culture & the Sacred: https://greenfirepress.com/books/nature-culture-and-the-sacred-a-woman-listens-for-leadership/ More about Jennifer Browdy: https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com More about Green Fire Press: https://greenfirepress.com

    Full-Spectrum Leadership with Nina Simons of Bioneers

  8. Apr 10

    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 More about Jennifer Browdy: https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com More about Green Fire Press: https://greenfirepress.com

    Hilary Giovale: Becoming a Good Relative
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