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Community Building and How We Show Up

Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:

How ‘the good life’ makes people disconnected and unhappy

Mia Birdsong’s work in community building

The intentionality required for creating communities of support

The importance of interdependence, vulnerability, accountability, and leaning on each other

And a discussion of her book How We Show Up

Today’s book is: How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong, in which Birdsong uses research, interviews, and stories of lived experience to explore how showing up—literally and figuratively—points us…

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