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Re-blurring the lines between journalism and civic life
A Q&A with journalist, network-builder, and civic strategist, Darryl Holliday
 • Connective Tissue and Sam Pressler
"Once you recognize yourself as part of the river, you realize you're responsible for the river as a whole."
A Q&A with Ian Marcus Corbin, philosopher and author of “To Arrive Where We Started”
 • Connective Tissue, Sam Pressler, and Ian Marcus Corbin
Making the Invisible Visible
Soren and Sam discuss their Nobody to Call research on friendship, community, and purpose among men without degrees
 • Connective Tissue, Sam Pressler, and Soren Duggan
42:02
“The most morally consequential thing a democracy can do”
A Q&A with writer and USMC Veteran, Phil Klay
 • Connective Tissue and Sam Pressler
My conversation with Esther Perel
If you missed last week's Substack LIVE, you can watch the recording here.
 • Connective Tissue and Sam Pressler
33:29
“If I mess up my work, I can't live here anymore”
A Q&A with Richard Young, Founder and Executive Director of CivicLex
 • Connective Tissue and Sam Pressler
Achieving independence for the sake of mutual interdependence
A Q&A with L.M. Sacasas, author of "The Convivial Society" newsletter
 • Connective Tissue, Sam Pressler, and L. M. Sacasas
"No one owns the traditions. We are all here as stewards."
A Q&A with Heather Krantz and Dylan Locke, co-owners of The Floyd Country Store
 • Connective Tissue and Sam Pressler
"We are relational creatures trying to live as if we're not, and it's killing us"
A Q&A with writer and thinker Elizabeth Oldfield, author of "Fully Alive" and host of "The Sacred"
 • Connective Tissue, Sam Pressler, Sam Wolf, and Elizabeth Oldfield
Building tech that's relational, place-based, participatory, and ~weird~
A Q&A with Josh Nesbit and Deborah Tien, co-founders of the Relational Tech Project
 • Connective Tissue
"This isn’t theoretical: it’s practicing interdependence on an embodied level"
A Q&A with entrepreneur, writer, and network-builder, Jenn Brandel
 • Connective Tissue and Sam Pressler
Communal rituals, sacred hospitality, and building a world of joyful belonging
A Q&A with writer and community-builder, Casper ter Kuile
 • Connective Tissue, Casper ter Kuile, and Sam Pressler
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