2023-03-30
1 小时 10 分钟Living an intentional life is hard because it means reflecting on what you want, honoring your truth, and then bringing that truth in the world, even when the world around you may not support it or you don't completely understand.
And you don't only have to do that one time.
You have to do that your whole life.
You have to do that all the time.
And that's a very demanding existence.
So one of our core beliefs here at good Life project is that every human being, regardless of how they identify, love, practice, or live, is endowed with dignity and worth and is entitled to be treated through this lens.
We also believe that every person can learn from any person, especially those they perceive as being different from them in some way.
It's a big part of the reason that we're always seeking to share a rich tapestry of people and voices on the podcast.
The moment we close ourselves off to those we perceive as other, whether from fear or lack of knowledge or lived experience, we close ourselves off to a part of ourselves and of life that could have made our days so much richer, and we shrink our worlds and lives along the way.
So as we head into this year's trans day of visibility, we wanted to share a selection of moments, ideas, and awakenings from a few deeply moving conversations we've had over the years with some incredible, big hearted, and wise humans who also just happen to identify as transgender and have chosen to make it their life's work to really step into conversation with others, to share their experience not just of being transgender, but also of moving through a world that often misunderstands labels and ostracizes on the level that leads to injustice rising at times to violence and suffering.
These conversations aren't just about transgender life, though.
They're about life the way we choose to relate to each other, to hear and see each other, to acknowledge our shared humanity and really choose to either expand our horizons and lives, or contract both.
So excited to share this compilation episode featuring Amara Jones and Tristan Reese.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
So imagine walking through life knowing who you are, but not feeling like you can live as that person.
That was how my guest today, Amara Jones, experienced the first half of her life before making a series of choices that would allow her to feel safe and supported stepping back into her own life on her own terms.
Amara is the Emmy and Peabody Award winning founder of Translash Media, a cross platform journalism, personal storytelling, and narrative project which produces content to really shift the current culture of hostility towards transgender people in the US.
As part of her work at Translash, she hosts the Webby nominated translash podcast with Amara Jones, as well as the investigative limited series the anti trans hate machine.
In 2019, she shared the first ever UN high level meeting on gender diversity and was featured on the COVID of Time magazine in 2020 as part of its new American Revolution special edition.
She has held economic policy posts in the White House and communications positions at Viacom, and Amara's work as a host on air news analyst, contributor and writer.