Let's Give A Damn
Let's Give A Damn is a weekly podcast hosted by Nick Laparra featuring inspiring, entertaining, and deep conversations with activists, nonprofit leaders, authors, entrepreneurs, artists, and many other kinds of damn-givers. You'll hear from exceptional humans like Matthew McConaughey, Rainn Wilson, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Reshma Saujani, Gabor Maté, Colman Domingo, and hundreds of others.
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🎉 It’s David Gate Day on the podcast! 👉🏽 It is a joy to have David on the show this week. David is from London and now lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Asheville, NC. His work centers around care for the individual (heart, mind, body & soul) and the nurture of community (culture, the earth & environment, the di
🎉 It’s Dr. Ibram X. Kendi day on the podcast! 👉🏽 It is a joy to have Dr. Kendi on the show this week. Read his full bio here: https://www.ibramxkendi.com/bio 👉🏽 In this conversation, we talk about his new book (Malcolm Lives!), collective liberation, the genocide in Gaza, the rise of fascism in the United States,
278 - Gabor Maté & Chris Hedges - Palestine Is The Moral Issue Of Our Time
On May 5, Let's Give A Damn co-sponsored an event in NYC called Palestine: The Moral Issue Of Our Time with Gabor Maté and Chris Hedges. It was a sold-out event with 800 attending in persons and hundreds more attended online via our livestream. Most importantly we raised tens of thousands of dollars for Middle East Chi
🎉 It’s Taylor Lorenz Day on the podcast! 👉🏽 It is a joy to have Taylor on the show this week. Read Taylor's full bio here: https://www.taylorlorenz.com 👉🏽 In this conversation, we talk about the current state of independent journalism, why she constantly puts herself in the crosshairs of willfully ignorant idiots,
It’s Maggie Smith Day on the podcast! Maggie Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful; My Thoughts Have Wings, a picture book illustrated by SCBWI Portfolio grand prize winner Leanne Hatch; the national bestsellers Goldenrod and Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and C
It’s Ed Begley Jr. Day on the podcast! Ed Begley, Jr. recently starred in Hallmark film, Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story, and was a fan favorite on the very popular series Young Sheldon and Better Call Saul and was recently a series regular on Netflix’s Future Man. On the environmental front, he is one of the