Reckonings
How do we change our hearts and minds?
What moves us to shift our political worldviews, transcend extremism, and make other kinds of transformative change?
Reckonings is a narrative podcast that explores how we change our hearts and minds.
Stories include that of a tough-on-crime prosecutor who revolutionized his understanding of criminal justice through a friendship with an inmate, the architect of Facebook business model who’s since devoted his life to tackling technology addiction, and a perpetrator and survivor of sexual assault who managed to work through it using restorative justice. Amid dystopian headlines, Reckonings takes on our thorniest issues — but in a way that’s transcendent.
During its tenure, Reckonings ranked in the top #40 documentary podcasts on iTunes, and was featured in The Constant Listener’s Best Podcasts. The show aired on radio stations nationwide, with a weekly spot on Oakland’s KGPC. Episodes were adapted for major podcasts, like Snap Judgment and Love+Radio.
If you’re new to the show, consider starting with these episodes:
Episode #21 — a perpetrator and survivor of sexual assault who worked through it using restorative justice
Episode #25 — the architect of Facebook’s business model who then devoted his life to tackling technology addiction
Episode #18 — the reckoning of the former protégé of the late Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes
To hear lessons learned from the show about how people change their hearts and minds, check out this X thread and this interview on KALW’s Inflection Point.
To explore the entire Reckonings catalogue, visit: reckonings.show