Reckonings
UPDATE: Reckonings is on indefinite hiatus. To pick up where the show left off, follow Stephanie Lepp on Twitter: @stephlepp
ABOUT THE SHOW
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 an exploration of how we look in the mirror, and grow from what we see.
Stories have included that of a tough-on-crime prosecutor who revolutionized his understanding of our criminal justice system, a former Facebook executive 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.
If you're new to the show, start with this quick intro: bit.ly/1VypoeX
Then go for any of these episodes — Beyond Goliath, A Journalist Reckons With Truth, or A Survivor And Her Perpetrator Find Justice: reckonings.show/episodes
Reckonings is produced by Stephanie Lepp.
- Update frequency
- every 47 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 35
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2020
#13 || Navigating wealth within cross-class relationships
'I was taught that money is not something you talk about, because once people know you have it, you’ll get taken advantage of.' Like many young members of the 1%, Michelle inherited immense wealth at…
#12 || A conversion on climate change
"When my son said, 'dad, I'm gonna vote for you, but you're going to clean up your act on the environment,' it wasn't a threat. It was my son saying, 'dad, I love you, and I want you to be what you c…
#11 || The fracture of a fundamentalist worldview
'I don't know if I can convey how comforting it is to believe that you possess the secret to how everything in the universe works. And as a consequence, we had this amazing bonus: we were going to he…
#10 || An unlikely friendship transforms the gun debate
"What really blinds people on both sides is thinking that it's either or: either we do nothing and put up with the horrendous tolls of firearm deaths and mass shootings, or we take all the guns away.…
#9 || Defecting from the Donald
"One of my co-workers said, 'Trump supporters are without exception the worst people I've ever met, they're almost sub-human.' And I'm standing there thinking, you know, we're friends, but I think I'…
#8.5 || Behind The Mic
There's so much that goes on behind the microphone, and I'm going to start bringing you back here. This is the inaugural 'Behind The Mic' piece, stay tuned for more. For this first one: what is Recko…
#8 || Transcending a lineage of violence
"I called myself a Karma King, because I was distributing the shit that had been given to me." The finale of Season 1 features Daniel Gallant, a former violent extremist turned anti-violence activist…
#7 || Emergence of a conscientious objector
'I realized that my excuses for justifying war had nothing to do with what we were trying to achieve. I justified war because I wanted to believe that the things I’d done were right, and that my fell…
#6 || From addiction to recovery and beyond
'My mantra back then was I hate my life...My mantra now is I love my life.' Paige Sargent is a singer and song-writer, who once struggled with alcohol and cocaine addiction. The destruction of her ad…
#5 pt. 2 || The conscience of a public intellectual
'What I regret is not being aware of the extent to which what I was pronouncing as right or wrong for the world was motivated by my own personal issues.' So admits Glenn Loury, prominent academic eco…
#5 pt. 1 || The conscience of a public intellectual
'What I regret is not being aware of the extent to which what I was pronouncing as right or wrong for the world was motivated by my own personal issues.' So admits Glenn Loury, prominent academic eco…
#4 || Revelations of a tough-on-crime prosecutor
'I went through 4 years of college, 3 years of law school, and a 2-year judicial clerkship without ever really thinking about the way our criminal justice system functions.' That's the admission of P…
#3 || Mother of an ISIS militant
"He wanted a purpose." Those are the words of Christianne Boudreau, whose son Damian left Calgary for Syria, to join ISIS. She raised him Christian, but he was convinced by Islamic State recruiters t…
#2 || White-collar criminal turned whistleblower
'The top executives from Enron, WorldComm, and ADM — we went to jail for narcissism.' Mark Whitacre was the FBI informant in one of the biggest price-fixing cases in US history, against global food c…
#1 || Drug cop turned drug war critic
"When you call something a war, everyone believes that they're a warrior." Neill Franklin is a former Maryland State Police Major, who oversaw 17 drug task forces. Take a ride on his journey from nar…