Lean In Olympia

Corey has a conversation with Jamal Rahman & Jennifer Friedman around interfaith ministry in the postmodern world, how we nurture the spiritual lives of those who might walk in disparate traditions t…

Meg continues her dep dive on the City of Olympias homelessness response by sitting down with Kim Kondrat, the Homeless Response Coordinator for the city!  

Erin Jones is the author of the book "Bridges to Heal US: Stories and Strategies for Racial Healing", published in 2021.  Erin served three years as Assistant State Superintendent for Student Achieve…

Meg continues her series in getting more understanding in the community about what the city is doing to regarding homelessness and affordable housing response! Joining Meg to continue the conversatio…

Corey sits down with Nicole Virgil, a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship! They dive into her journey with Christian Science and her explorations in the Christian Science perspective…

To kick off Meg's next series of Lean In episodes focused around the City of Olympia's response to issues around homelessness and public safety, she sits down with Teal Gardener from the Crisis Respo…

Meg sits down with Olivia Hickerson, the Executive Director of SideWalk! We get to hear about about Olivia's experience in Homeless Services before coming to SideWalk, the work that SideWalk does and…

On this episode of Lean In we sat down with Olympia City Council Member Dani Madrone! We got to learn about her journey that led her to Olympia from Virginia, her work building Tribal relations for t…

Corey got to sit down with Brad Schrandt, Music Director of the South Sound Swing Orchestra & Director of Jazz Studies at South Puget Sound Community College - all on top being a music wizard! They d…

On this episode of Lean In Olympia, Meg sits down with Noha Mahgoub the Senior Policy Advisor of Housing & Homelessness for the Governors Office! 

Colleen Carmichael, Executive Director of Quixote Communities! Colleen joined the Quixote team as the Executive Director in September 2021. She offers an extensive background in homeless housing, fin…

On this episode of Lean In Olympia we have Olivia Salazar de Breaux! Olivia is the Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Specialist at the Parks & Recreation department for the City of Olympia! We get to h…

In this episode of Lean In Olympia, Meg sits down with Interfaith works very Raven Scrivener & Wendy Mosier to talk about the REST program at Interfaithworks!  We also get to learn more about Raven &…

On this episode of Lean In Olympia we have the pleasure of sitting down with Sarah Augustine! Sarah is the Co-Founder & Executive Director of the Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Coalition. As w…

Jerad Koepp has been a teacher for the last 16 years, the last eight of which as Native Student Program Specialist at North Thurston Public Schools.  Jerad was named 2022 Washington State Teacher of …

Meg talks about Overdose Awareness and the event we held Aug. 31st at Heritage park!  As well as deconstructing the stigma around addiction, getting into a place of healing and navigating this very c…

We have special guest, Dr. Greg Urquhart. He is the founder of South Sound Street Medics and Red Road Rising and shares from his journey of being an Iraq veteran and an indigenous healer.

Corey sits down with Sr. Anna-Camille Wooden OSB & Jan Vleck! Sr. Anna-Camille is a sister in the Order of St. Benedict and lives in the community of St. Placid Priory in Lacey, WA. Jan is a member o…

We decided to switch it up on this episode of Lean In Oly! We had Miguel Pineda, Operations Director at Porcupine Media, interview our very own Meg Martin about her life, how she moves through the wo…

Corey sits down with Olmypia City Counselman Clark Gilman to talk about his life and journey!