🎙️ Rooting into Strategic Communications for Change with Taryn Talley

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Our latest podcast is out to keep us rooted! Listen to 🎙️ Rooting into Strategic Communications for Change with Taryn Talley. Listen on your favorite podcast app, YouTube, and PeerTube.

🎙️ Rooting into Strategic Communications for Change with Taryn Talley

In todays, tech & media landscape, it feels like we've fallen down Alice in Wonderland's Rabbit Hole. Two spirit advocate and marketing expert, Taryn Talley, joined us live to unpack how we navigate this mess, while staying sane.

"Don't go chasing algorithms!" 🎶

We got into the importance of storytelling for social change, the need to leave behind legacy media and social platforms, and the challenges posed by big tech algorithms. We close with ideas for grounding and community in these uncertain times. Watch the pod on YouTube or PeerTube.

In the Episode

1. What We're Leaving Behind in 2025
2. Leaving Behind Legacy Media and Social Platforms for Niche social platforms, networks, and communities
3. Navigating the Challenges of Big Tech as a social change communicator
4. Tips for Intentional Engagement and Community Building
5. Transparency in Consumer Algorithms
6. Tech's Need for Regulation and Accountability
7. AI's Historical Context and Ethical Concerns
8. The Role of Community and Storytelling in Change

References / Resources

1. 🗞️ What Happens When AI Eats its Own Slop? It’s Called Model Collapse. by Taryn Talley
2. 📲 Famm Connect - for LGBTQ+ professionals
3. 📚 Reaganland: America's Right Turn by Rick Perlstein
4. 🎙️ TikTok Ban: a Harbinger for the Social Future
5. 🎙️ Big Tech’s Big Brother Government Takeover | New Private Episode
6. 🎙️ Organizing Against the Global Right with Sam & Joe

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About the roots of change podcast:

🧑‍🌾 Cultivating Connection, Empowering Change We talk about navigating heart-first activism & storytelling. Host Sam Chavez connects with organizations, campaigns, and social change communicators who are boldly creating change in today's social, political, tech & media landscape.

On the Private Podcast

How are you caring for yourself in this moment of right-wing extremism and political upheaval? Today, I let you into my morning ritual and how I care for myself as an organizer and heart-first human when it's so easy to doom scroll and catch up on the recent MAGA shenanigans.

I hope you enjoy and that it sparks ideas for your care practices!

🎙️ Care Practices & Grounded Energy Amidst Fascism

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