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The Growing Edge

Carrie Newcomer & Parker J. Palmer

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The Growing Edge Podcast is hosted by Parker J. Palmer and Carrie Newcomer. In this podcast Carrie, Parker and exciting guests will explore new life on the growing edge - personally, vocationally and politically. What's your growing edge?
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Looking for new ideas and a fresh perspective? Get to know the innovators who are re-defining advertising. Join us for an inspiring new season of FIVE, the Innovation Podcast for Marketers, a podcast unlike any other. Some of the biggest names and thinkers in digital marketing join Jake Moskowitz, Head of The Emodo Institute and the host of FIVE. Our first two seasons focused on the industry’s biggest shifts: 5G and AI. Season three is all about the marketing of big ideas and the biggest ide ...
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This month Parker Palmer is taking a sabbatical. This is a re-broadcasting our June 1 2020 conversation with Author/Activist/Filmmaker Valarie Kaur. In this episode we discuss her book " See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love".Two months after the 2016 election, Valarie spoke words that went viral, offering millions of people…
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In this episode, Parker J. Palmer and Carrie Newcomer explore May Sarton’s poem, “An Observation.” Gardening is rich with metaphors for a well-lived life. Amend and prepare the soil. Plant the seeds, tend them, and weed out whatever impedes growth. Marvel at the process and share the harvest: we’re here to feed one another as well as ourselves. “An…
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In this episode, Parker J. Palmer and Carrie Newcomer have a conversation with author/pastor/theologian Philip Gulley. Gulley is a pastor, an author, a source of wisdom and hope, and a clear and prophetic voice in progressive theology & spiritual activism in these challenging times. He has written 22 books, including the Harmony series recounting l…
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In this episode Parker J. Palmer and Carrie Newcomer have a conversation with Buddy Huffaker,the Executive Director of the Aldo Leopold Foundation . We discuss the 75th anniversary of Aldos Leapold’s environmental classic A Sand County Almanac. the continuing work of the Leapold Foundation, the concept of Land Ethic, climate change and our individu…
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In this episode Parker J. Palmer and Carrie Newcomer revisit favorite episode with Author/poet Ross Gay, who has touched countless readers with his books A catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude, Beholding, The Book of Delights, Incitements to Joy, AND The book of (more) delights”. This episode was recorded in December of 2020, and in it we discuss findi…
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In this podcast Parker and Carrie wrestle with when and how we creatively hold the tension of our differences, and when differences are to grievous and do not yield to creative tension holding. We explore the meaning of “We Shall Over Come” and the power of prophetic voice in these challenging times for the democratic system. Carrie also sings the …
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In this podcast, Carrie and Parker speak with Indiana State Senator, Shelli Yoder. We explore together Shelli’s history and vocation in passionate public service, as well as reclaiming the word politics and politician, holding difference and finding common ground. In a time when the most extreme and strident voices are more likely to get media soun…
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In this podcast, Carrie and Parker talk about our individual and collective longing for safe and generative community. We’ve always been tugged between our western culture’s drive toward individuality and our desire for a meaningful life together. In this Post-covid time, people are a little rusty at being in community. We are also reassessing what…
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In this podcast, Carrie and Parker talk with author Scott Russell Sanders about his new book Small Marvels. Scott’s work often explores the spirit of place, our relationship with the natural world, and creating communities of care and generosity rather a culture of fear and division. In this episode we talk about what inspired the stories in this l…
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Parker and Carrie hope you'll join us as we explore the poem "Thanks, Robert Frost" by David Ray. Inspired by the poem, we revisit parts of our history and talk about reframing the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and what has shaped us. Staying true to the facts as best we can, we explore ways of holding our experiences with greater comp…
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Join Parker J Palmer and Carrie Newcomer in conversation with journalist/author/poet, Judith Valente and monk/poet/photographer Brother Paul Quenon. We explore their friendship and creative collaborations as well as what it means to be intentional about “being” in a hectic and often uncertain world.Brother Paul Quenon and Judith Valente are co-auth…
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In this conversation with Jerry Colonna—co-founder and CEO of Reboot, an international executive coaching and leadership development firm—we range from childhood wounds and the way they can distort our adult roles, to race in America and role leaders can play in helping to build the Beloved Community. Jerry’s new book “Reunion: Leadership and the J…
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Jake talks with Andrew Lazzaro, Campaign Architect for The Broadway League about “This is Broadway,” the ground-breaking campaign that brought theater lovers back to Broadway shows after being closed for eighteen months. Broadway shut down due to COVID on March 12, 2020… a shutdown that lasted over a year.  With Broadway contributing over $14 billi…
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Parker and Carrie talk about the challenges of staying in dialogue during divisive times, how to claim agency and the courage to stay engaged. Many of us were raised with a household rule to never talk about religion or politics in polite company. In this episode we unpack and reframe the true meaning of the words "religion" and "politics". We expl…
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This week’s episode looks a little different than usual. It’s a roundtable discussion about the metaverse from a recent thought-leadership event hosted by our friends at Zenith Media. The panel conversation is an insightful dive into the metaverse and how it will change the nature of brand-consumer engagement for marketers. The metaverse is conside…
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Shelly Palmer, co-founder of Metacademy and professor of Advanced Media in Residence at the Newhouse School of Communications, joins the pod to talk with Jake about the potential impacts of Blockchain, NFTs and Smart Contracts in the field of Marketing. Generally, consumers may not like advertising, but they tend to like brands who care about the t…
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Jake talks with Jeremy Lockhorn, VP, Head of Global Innovation at Ericsson Emodo about privacy and the loss of device IDs in advertising – how it’s affecting brands, agencies, and the companies that provide audiences, inventory and the infrastructure that makes our ad ecosystem work. Jake shares the results of Emodo’s recent “Voice of the Marketer”…
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In this episode Parker & Carrie explore how to hold and acknowledge the presence of evil and great goodness in our world. In this honest and open hearted conversation they visit two poems that encourage reflection and insights on this topic, holding the tension of the heaviness we sometimes feel and what we can do in our daily lives to maintain per…
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Jake talks with Jessica Hogue, General Manager of Measurement and Industries at Innovid about CTV advertising. What it is today. Where it’s going. Where it can go. And, how advertising innovation can help CTV advertisers model, measure and achieve success in new, compelling ways. Pre-pandemic, CTV advertising was on the rise, but it really came int…
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This month on The Growing Edge podcast. Parker and Carrie talk with Ariel Burger, author, teacher, and artist whose work integrates spirituality, the arts and strategies for social change. An Orthodox-trained rabbi, Ariel received his Ph.D. in Jewish Studies and Conflict Resolution under Elie Wiesel. We explore topics from Ariel's book Witness: Les…
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Jake talks with Richie Taaffe, Business Marketing Manager at Three Ireland and Adrian Begley, Chair of the Arranmore Island Council. Ireland’s mobile service provider, Three, launched a marketing campaign called “The Connected Island” a couple of years ago. While the campaign was terrifically successful from a KPI standpoint, its impact on people i…
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This month on The Growing Edge Podcast we will be revisiting our Feb 2021 conversation with John Paul Lederach, Professor Emeritus of International Peace Building, and internationally respected expert in conflict transformation. John Paul describes the stages that lead to violence in a society, as well as the ways people heal and create communal ne…
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Jake talks with Tom Emrich, 8th Wall. We’re entering a creative renaissance in the advertising industry. An era in which experiential creative and attention metrics are playing an increasingly essential role and new, measurable, experiential ad formats, like Augmented Reality, are taking off. There are several key advances that will define this new…
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Jake discusses the innovative thinking behind some of the most recognizable, most iconic packaged food brands with Jay Picconatto, Global Media and Commerce Lead at General Mills and Michael Stich, General Partner and CEO of Services at Court Avenue. When you think of innovative companies, you’d probably reel off a long list of companies before you…
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Jake talks with Jason “Retail Geek” Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis about innovation in grocery retail. The retail sector, for the most part, has undergone a huge amount of change over the last decade. The big department stores, the big clothiers, electronics stores have had to make huge shifts to digital, go omnichannel or fa…
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In this episode Parker & Carrie discuss spirituality, justice and living authentically with author and theologian, Diana Butler Bass. Diana talks about her history as a person of faith, the challenges for woman in theological settings, her writing and work with "The Cottage" as an ongoing exploration what it means to live a life of revolutionary lo…
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Jake talks with Michael Stich, General Partner and CEO of the Services business at Court Avenue. There are periods in time when multiple forces converge in such a way that monumental change is bound to occur. This is one of those moments. Of course, we’ve seen huge changes over the last couple of years from the COVID pandemic – shifts in human beha…
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Season 3 of Emodo’s FIVE: Innovation for Marketers drops Wednesday, January 19th in this very feed. While you’re getting ready for an exciting new season packed with guests discussing the latest in adtech and innovations for marketers, why not catch up on our previous seasons: Season 1: 5G for Marketers Season 2: AI for Marketers The post Introduci…
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In this episode Carrie & Parker welcome Author/Poet Barbara Kingsolver. Together they discuss the natural world, mortality, the promise of ambiguity, making, the writer's life, knitting and her new book of luminous poetry How To Fly (in Ten Thousands Easy Lessons.By Carrie Newcomer & Parker J. Palmer
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This month on The Growing Edge podcast we revisit our December 2018 conversation with poet Naomi Shihab Nye. Naomi has received numerous honors for her work, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, and the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award. She is currently the Poetry Foundation’s Young People’s Poet Laureate. In t…
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This month on The Growing Edge podcast we revisit our December 2018 conversation with poet Naomi Shihab Nye. Naomi has received numerous honors for her work, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, and the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award. She is currently the Poetry Foundation’s Young People’s Poet Laureate. In t…
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In this episode Carrie and Parker discuss May Sarton's powerful poem, "The Angels & The Furies." In this conversation we talk about the angels and furies of our nature. In these times when many of us are wrestling with what to do with our furies in life giving ways, what does it mean to be "perfectly human but never perfect"? How do we also incline…
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In this episode Carrie and Parker continue their conversation about creativity and the undivided life, writing from the "margins", following a call to and beyond the growing edge, and the red threads that run through Parker's work over the past 50 years. This podcast also features one of Parker's poems, "The Poem I Would Have Writ."…
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In this episode Parker and Carrie take a moment to talk about Carrie's newest companion projects Until Now CD & Until Now: New Poems. They discuss the themes that run through these two companion pieces; resilience and uncertainty, loss, discover and being in process. They discuss how creativity can be expressed in a traditional art form, but also i…
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In this episode Parker and Carrie are in conversation with author, journalist, activist, Courtney Martin, about her new book, Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter's School. Courtney has a popular Substack newsletter, called Examined Family, and speaks widely at conferences and colleges through out the country.…
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This is not your typical bonus episode, it’s a crossover! Jake joined forces with host of another podcast, Floor 9’s very own Scott Elchison. We recently took the stage at the MMA Impact conference to discuss how 5G is enabling better results through immersive creative experiences. Scott and Jake discuss the latest in Augmented Reality [...] The po…
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A conversation with beloved meditation teacher and founder of The Insight Meditation Society. In this episode we explore the practice of mindfulness and meditation to deepen our own lives and sustain our capacity to stay engaged and serve others. We discuss Sharon's book "Real Change" and her work with diverse groups to process suffering and create…
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In this final episode of season two, Jake focuses on change and the role of AI in our transforming world. The title “The End of the Beginning” is a reference to the increasing application of AI within our industry. Over the last several years, AI, particularly machine learning has quietly become a component of growing [...] The post AI E9: The End …
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Because Carrie was in the studio this month working on a new album, we decided not to record a new podcast for June. Instead, we are revisiting our 2019 interview with our dear friend, Mark Nepo, poet and author. In this interview we explored what it means to show up as our authentic self and how when we are in touch with our deepest human experien…
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For our May, 2021 podcast, we welcome Dr. Luther E. Smith Jr., Professor Emeritus at Candler Seminary, author, educator, pastor, mystic, and elder. In this episode we talk about how identity is shaped and expanded and how conversations about race could be more authentic and powerful. We also explore what it meant for him to follow a spiritual calli…
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Marketers are currently evaluating how to effectively target and measure digital advertising at scale while adjusting for a whole bunch of ad industry shifts. And, how to do that with the same efficiency we’ve all gotten used to. In this episode, show host Jake Moskowitz talks with Todd Touesnard, EVP of Product and Data Science [...] The post AI E…
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Parker and Carrie welcome singer songwriter, activist John McCutcheon, musician, activist and spiritual seeker. He has 41 albums to his credit, has received six Grammy Award nominations and worked for 40 years bringing together intelligent thoughtful songs, fearless commentary and music for social change. In this episode we talk about the power of …
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For our March, 2021 podcast, we welcome John Paul Lederach, Professor Emeritus of International Peacebuilding, and internationally respected expert in conflict transformation. John Paul describes the stages that lead to violence in a society, as well as the ways people heal and create communal networks of change. Please join us for this insightful …
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Marketers are really good at detecting marketing BS. In the marketing field, AI is all the rage. There’s excitement around new AI capabilities. There’s heightened interest in AI-driven efficiency. And there’s an ongoing stream of new opportunities that are springing from AI innovation. That might lead even the best of us to get carried away [...] T…
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Change is one of the few constants we can count on in business. The question we all face is not, will change happen, but rather how can we adapt to the changes that are coming? Artificial Intelligence, as we all know, has accelerated the pace of change in many industries, and marketing is no exception. [...] The post AI E6: AI and the Future of Wor…
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In this episode, Carrie and Parker reflect upon the happenings of 2020. They discuss challenges we've faced in the past year as well as focus and evidence for hope in the new year. They explore the idea of living in the "Tragic Gap" and living into creative citizenry. They read Mary Oliver's lovely poem "Starlings in Winter" and discuss grief and g…
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Our listeners and clients work in the agency world and they are faced with challenges such as cookies going away, mobile ID’s going away and more. All of these changes lead to relevancy becoming even more elusive. Relevance depends on data. So it stands to reason that AI will fill the gap lost in the [...] The post AI E5: AI is for Agency Innovatio…
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In this episode, Carrie and Parker have a conversation with Poet, Ross Gay, author of The Book of Delights & Be Holding. We talk about Ross's books, his thoughts about finding delight in his daily life as a daily practice, joy as an act of resistance and the importance of creating a connection to one another and to the natural world. We hope you'll…
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AI has long been used as a tool to enhance and extend the in-store experience. But in the age of COVID, retailers have to find ways to keep store visits as short as possible, and in some cases eliminate them altogether. Fortunately, AI can help here, too. As retailers become more dependent on apps and [...] The post AI E4: Putting the AI in Retail …
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