Work In Progress

“You’re an activist because you serve your community, you love your community, and you’re willing to fight for it even if it’s unpopular...step out and be the leader. Activists, we have to lead. And leaders lead from the front.” - @CoriBush on #WIP. Apple.co/workinprogress

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“Any time that we go through these spaces where our behavior is not optimal or our emotions are just off the wall, I think the question of why is the most important because it helps you introspect, it helps you go within...” - @SylvesterMcNutt on #WIP with @SophiaBush.

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“In a normal, healthy democratic society, everything isn’t politicized. Everything isn’t political. There’s a respite from the president. It’s in authoritarian societies when the leader is constantly in your face, constantly present…” - @SteveSchmidtSES on #WIP w/ @SophiaBush.

What an incredible honor it was to be a guest on @SophiaBush! @sophiabush is one of our best friends and partner in all good. It was so fun to reminisce about how we met, what we’ve learned, how to create meaningful… instagram.com/p/CCoa_vQFZOQ/…

“Through activism, the wonderful byproduct is that you end up finding your people.” - @DebraMessing and @mandanadayani join @sophiabush on today’s #WIP. Listen + subscribe: Apple.co/workinprogress

Tara joins @sophiabush to share her story, the impacts of whitewashing history & the erasure of a whole community, the substantial harm of environmental racism, the lack of federal response to violence against Native women, how we can lend our support & what justice looks like.

“Invisibility has many different outcomes but some of them are extremely deadly. And that’s happening across the board for lots of people.” - @zhaabowekwe on today’s #WIP. Listen + subscribe: Apple.co/workinprogress

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“I hope that people truly walk away from this film understanding deeply the contributions Black women have made to this society and that people start to hold space and reverence for Black women and their contributions.” - @OgeTheYogi on #WIP. Apple.co/workinprogress

“How do we make sure that we’re highlighting the most important people doing the most important work? Let me let you in on a little secret: it’s not five middle aged white men who are doing all the most important work on climate.” - @ayanaeliza on #WIP. Apple.co/workinprogress

“Policing as we know it is a system that somebody invented. And we’re people who can disrupt that.” - @DocMellyMel. This week we are re-airing @sophiabush’s conversation with Dr. Melina Abdullah from 2019. Listen: Apple.co/workinprogress

“All of those noes got me to here. And so I’m so thankful for every no...I would not be where I am and I would not appreciate it in the way that I do.” - @SimoneMissick on today’s episode of #WIP with @SophiaBush. Listen + subscribe: Apple.co/workinprogress

“Imagination isn’t where we go to escape reality. It’s where we go to discover the truest reality that we were meant to bring forth into the world.” - @GlennonDoyle on today’s episode of #WIP with @SophiaBush. Listen + subscribe: Apple.co/workinprogress

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“I’m not the things that have happened to me, but that’s molded who I am as a person...I am who I am because of them and also in spite of them.” - @meghanrienks on #WIP. She and @sophiabush discuss her book #YoureNotSpecial, mental health, #youtube & more! Apple.co/workinprogress

“It has really pulled people together… It’s a really positive thing and I think we can see that we benefit so much by having all those voices at the table.” - Dr. Risa Hoffman on how the medical community is coming together right now. #WIP Apple.co/workinprogress

“Democracy is hard work. It doesn’t work if citizens don’t vote. We’ve got to care about our democracy.” - @JohnKerry. He & @sophiabush discuss @WorldWarZeroOrg, #earthday, his time in service, the #2020election, the importance of paper ballots & more. Apple.co/workinprogress