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In the midst of a pandemic that impacts just about every single one of us, Zappos decided to create a hotline for anyone looking for help with just about anything.
On this episode, we spoke with Chloe Groth, a violin teacher who is volunteering her time four days a week to perform for elderly individuals across New Orleans. She played for Sanity’s host, Audrey Scagnelli’s 93-year-old grandmother and the neighborhood listened in with awe. Also hear from Hadley Heath Manning from the Independent Women’s Forum about their In this Together campaign.
There are over 750 distilleries across all 50 states that are now producing hand sanitizer. On this episode, hear from one of them. Troy Downing is the co-owner of Wildrye Distilling in Bozeman, Montana.
On this episode, hear from Feed the Front Lines Nola founder Devin De Wulf. They are providing meals to healthcare workers in 12 New Orleans hospitals while keeping 25 New Orleans restaurants in business and hiring local musicians to make food deliveries. Be inspired!
On this episode, hear from Team Rubicon’s Mike Lee about Team Rubicon’s network of 110,000 veteran volunteers, their unique perspective from helping communities rebuild after crises around the world, and the work they are doing related to Covid-19. Also hear from Trader Joe’s employee Katie Scott.
On this episode, hear from the brainchild behind Masks for Heroes, a nationwide movement to donate personal protective equipment (PPE) and from a volunteer who helped construct a COVID-19 field hospital now operating in Central Park.
In Season Two's first episode, we hear from Helpers Tom Bober, a librarian at a Captain Elementary in St. Louis, Missouri and from Brannon Lewis, a commercial office designer in Mountain View, California.
Sanity Media is on a quest to help you stay sane – positive, even – by shining a light on some of the many helpers out there. We think that light is all the more important as we watch COVID-19 rock so much of our world.
Kyle Emile talks to strangers. A lot. In cities across the country, and now around the world. His group, Free Intelligent Conversations (FreeIC for short) is on a mission to bridge divides one conversation at a time. The approach is simple: hold a sign bearing “Free Intelligent Conversation” in a high foot traffic area. What happens next is unscripted and magical and gets people talking in ways we could all benefit from in 2019. Because talking to strangers not only offers a mood boost, but can change our world views.
Karith Foster is a stand-up comedian who uses humor and her own personal story to tackle sensitive subjects. In this episode, Karith speak about: 1. What it was like to transform a hostile audience in a jam-packed hall at Oberlin into one welcoming of different perspectives; 2. Her work as an on-air radio personality on the controversial Don Imus In the Morning show following his comments about the women’s basketball team at Rutgers University; and 3. Her appearance in the documentary “Can We Take a Joke?,” which garnered support from strange bedfellows such as the ACLU and the Charles Koch Institute.