Isn't Episode 4 the standard introductory episode in every podcast series? No? Well, GOOD because "standard" has never been our way! It's our Behind the Podcast episode! Dr. Amy presents her vision for NEVERTHELESS, PERSISTING. She and Lance then go on to think together about the ways and contexts that individuals do and don't have power in society, how the collective we persist through the crap we encounter, how we resist, and there may be a Peter Cetera tangent somewhere in the middle there.

Welcome to NEVERTHELESS, PERSISTING

Have you ever looked back on a moment and known that’s when everything changed? Now in my 5th decade on earth, I’ve learned that several such moments occur throughout life. For me, a fateful decision to honor a commitment is simply the latest.

On March 10, 2020, I boarded a flight bound for Des Moines, Iowa. I boarded that flight despite the fact that mere minutes before, my employer had banned employee travel due to the emerging COVID-19 pandemic. I boarded that flight with my boss’s blessing because I’d made a professional commitment and I intended to honor it. I boarded that flight and along the way, picked up a companion I haven’t managed to shake: a virus described by some as innocuous, nothing more than a nuisance, a cold, no reason to change business-as-usual. I boarded that flight and I’ve been suffering from Long COVID ever since.

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