What the American Dream is Missing with Mia Birdsong, Author of 'How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship & Community

Stories of Transformation

Mia Birdsong is a pathfinder, community curator, and storyteller who steadily engages the leadership and wisdom of people experiencing injustice to chart new visions of American life. She plays an important role in pointing to people’s lived experiences to inform institutional learning and transformation. In How We Show Up, her upcoming book about how we make family and community, Mia charts swaths of community life and points us toward the promise of our collective vitality.

She also hosted a four-part podcast called More Than Enough from The Nation, which explores the concept of guaranteed income, or “universal basic income,” through conversations with the experts, people who actually experience poverty in America.

In this episode of Stories of Transformation, we discuss the fallacy of the "American dream", and the crisis of love and marriage in the US. Why are 50% of our relationships falling apart, and what is fundamentally wrong with the widely accepted beliefs on what “success” looks like in American culture?

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Produced by: Dana Drahos

Edited by: Joseph Gangemi

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Theme music by: Qais Essar

Artwork by: Masheed Ahadi