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Sep 2023
1h 10m

239. Why Are We Never Satisfied? with ad...

Glennon Doyle and Audacy
About this episode

Are you capable of being satisfied? Today, adrienne maree brown helps us uncover: 


  • How to find beauty and connection in the everyday;
  • How to stop wasting your time on things that don’t feel good;
  • Why the greatest risk of life is also where its preciousness comes from; 
  • How, through the discipline of pleasure, we can ALL be satisfied. 


About adrienne:

adrienne maree brown is a pleasure activist, writer, and radical imaginist who grows healing ideas in public through writing, music, and podcasts. adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Transformative Justice as ideas, frameworks, networks and practices for transformation. adrienne’s work is informed by 25 years of social and environmental justice facilitation primarily supporting Black liberation. adrienne is the author/editor of several published texts including Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds; Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good; Grievers; and Maroons. After a multinational childhood, adrienne lived in New York, Oakland, and Detroit before landing in her current home of Durham, NC.


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