200: What’s changed and what’s stayed the same

Welcome to the 200th episode of The Do Gooders Podcast.

It feels wild to say that.

Over some five years, I have interviewed hundreds of authors, academics, experts, people doing the work and people whose lives have been transformed by it.  

They’ve brought so many good ideas and new ways to think about this goal of ours to keep on doing good.  

I started this show with one child and now have three, and we even went through a pandemic together.

We’ve grown up together.

After a lot of fun, plus a few lessons learned along the way, I wanted this episode, number 200, to be a special one. To look around and reflect on where we’ve been and where we’re going.

So today, I want to invite you to reflect with me as we try something different. We are going to listen to the very first episode of The Do Gooders Podcast together. Think of it as a listening party, if you will.

I’m going to drop in throughout the episode and share what I’m thinking and feeling as I’m listening with you. And together, we’ll unpack what has changed and what has stayed the same through the years.

So to set the stage, I recorded this episode in mid-2019.  

I wanted a new way to connect with our Caring Magazine community and to bring you the voices of our guests directly. I’ve been able to sit down and interview so many incredible people in my near 20 years now with The Salvation Army, and there’s just something special in hearing it from them. And I wanted that for you, too.

And even though I had spent years interviewing people for written stories, I remember I was nervous going in to record this episode! Recording an interview for your own note taking and recording an interview for publication, are two different things.

Thankfully, I couldn’t have had a more perfect set of first episode guests—Commissioners Dave and Sharron Hudson. At the time, the pair were national leaders of The Salvation Army and they were also leaders I knew. Commissioner Dave was my boss’s boss for a number of years and I’d worked with him quite a bit.

This episode, number one, originally aired on June 10, 2019.  

And I hope you’ll enjoy this little walk down memory lane with me. So whether you are hearing episode number one for the first time ever, or this is the first time in a long time, just imagine me sitting next to you listening too. I’m actually a little nervous to listen back to it myself!

I’ll hit pause to give you my raw, real-time thoughts today.

So grab your popcorn. Let’s do it.

Find Episode 01 of The Do Gooders Podcast here, or tune in to this episode to listen along with me and hear my real-time reflections now after 200 episodes of this show.

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