How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community

How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community

An Invitation to Community and Models for Connection

After almost every presentation activist and writer Mia Birdsong gives to executives, think tanks, and policy makers, one of those leaders quietly c…

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