Episodi

  • Forgiveness Is a Skill. These Are the Trainers.

    Forgiveness Is a Skill. These Are the Trainers.
    Dec 10 2025
    This final episode of season 1 features three guests from Forgiveness International, a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to promote interpersonal forgiveness through ESPERE, the schools of Forgiveness and Reconciliation. This conversation with Leocadia Montero-Hainley, Rodney Peterson, and Daniel Carman brought me back to the heart of why I do this work. These three shared […]
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    18 min
  • Secrets of Peace Negotiator Antti Pentikäinen

    Secrets of Peace Negotiator Antti Pentikäinen
    Nov 12 2025
    What can a former terrorist negotiator teach us about healing our families and ourselves? In this moving conversation, Antti Pentikäinen shares what he’s learned from conflict zones to parenting teens: Transformation begins with how we see one another. The energy we bring into a room—whether love or judgment—shapes every outcome. Antti invites us to become […]
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    Meno di 1 minuto
  • Ambassador Chowdhury on Forgiveness

    Ambassador Chowdhury on Forgiveness
    Oct 7 2025
    In this conversation, I sit down with Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, whose decades of global peace work remind us that true peace isn’t just the end of war — it’s the end of prejudice, injustice, and inequality. He shares how forgiveness and gratitude form the heart of the culture of peace, and why women’s equality […]
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    31 min
  • Biology, Brains, and the Business of Forgiveness

    Biology, Brains, and the Business of Forgiveness
    Sep 8 2025
    Tim Phillips has witnessed firsthand how forgiveness reshapes lives—whether in high-stakes negotiations that ended apartheid and sectarian violence, or in the emerging science that shows forgiveness can literally rewire the brain. As a leader who has supported reconciliation processes from South Africa to Northern Ireland, Tim shares wisdom from figures like Desmond Tutu alongside insights […]
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    37 min
  • The Priest and the Guerrilla Fighter

    The Priest and the Guerrilla Fighter
    Aug 12 2025
    Father Leonel Narváez grew up dodging bullets in a Colombian war zone. Later, he befriended the founder of FARC—the same guerrilla group that had brought violence to his doorstep. That experience changed him forever. Now, he teaches nations how to heal through political forgiveness. “We are asking people to move from being a beast toward […]
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    35 min
  • Forgiving a War Commander. Forging Community.

    Forgiving a War Commander. Forging Community.
    Jul 8 2025
    What happens when a mass killer asks for forgiveness? In Sierra Leone’s Fambul Tok (Family Talk) former combatants gather with victims around a bonfire to share their truth, seek forgiveness, and restore community. In this interview with Libby Hoffman, we follow the powerful journey of Mohammed Savage and others who went from committing atrocities to […]
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    37 min
  • Forgiveness Heals Post-Election Violence, Kenya, 2008

    Forgiveness Heals Post-Election Violence, Kenya, 2008
    Jun 11 2025
    Twenty-five women said “enough.” While politicians pointed fingers and communities burned, these women rolled up their sleeves, and rebuilt their world — one water pipe, one factory, one peace treaty at a time. Mary Noble, co-founder of Feminenza, was the woman who orchestrated this transformation. She learned forgiveness in the most personal way possible: when […]
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    32 min
  • Forgiveness: When to Raise the Heat?

    Forgiveness: When to Raise the Heat?
    May 12 2025
    This frank exchange asks: How do we hold space for grief, for truth, and for those not ready to reconcile? Eileen and Julia Roig explore the tension between raising the heat to disrupt complacency and calming it to build connection. From grassroots organizers in northern New York confronting ICE raids to Republican leaders standing up […]
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    32 min