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Oct 30
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Elliot Sands

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Are you feeling the weight of political tensions? You’re not alone! 


This week on Here’s What We Know, we’re joined by Elliot Sands, Executive Director of Live Faith First and host of the Live Faith First podcast. We unravel the emotional divide that’s gripping America during election seasons and explore how it impacts personal relationships—even within families.

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In this Episode:

  • Navigating the Election Cycle
  • Understanding Political Polarization
  • The Impact of Loneliness on Politics
  • Questioning Our Political Affiliations
  • The Importance of Love, Respect, and Kindness
  • Finding Common Ground in Divisive Times
  • The Power of Positive Thinking
  • Emotional Health During Elections
  • The Importance of Gratitude, Resilience, and Perspective
  • Navigating Contentious Issues
  • Conversations Beyond Winning and Losing
  • Faith and Trust in Leadership
  • The Future of Political Discourse

Quotations:

“That’s been part of who we are. We mock the other side. What’s weird now, though, and what’s different now is that  we are as Americans; we are emotionally more divided than ever.” ~ Elliot Sands

“The irony of it is that both sides see the other side equally evil.” ~ Elliot Sands

“How do we humanize people on the other side is a, is a really big deal. and just realizing that for the most part, we’re all just trying to get home every day, and have a little bit of peace. get up the next morning, make sure our kids make it to school, and like just survive.” ~ Elliot Sands

“Write down five good things or think of five good things that the other side is doing well. Like, and what that starts to do is it actually starts to bring this kind of realistic.” ~ Elliot Sands

“Every side is getting a little bit, right? Every side is getting a little bit wrong. And so realizing that should humble us a little bit, should make us go, okay, let me not get so riled up because maybe my, maybe my side’s wrong there and that’s okay. That’s okay. Because we know that. not one side is gonna get it perfectly right.” ~ Elliot Sands

“We’ve gotten to this place where we define people by their political affiliation.” ~ Elliot Sands

“Our loneliness plays into this political polarization, our tribalizing around our political parties.” ~ Elliot Sands

“For every other divide in our society, whether it’s ethnic or socioeconomic divides, we make so many assumptions about people we don’t know because we don’t know them. And if we took a moment to talk to somebody from whatever other side it is for you, you might be surprised about how much you have in common, there will be differences, but there will also be a commonality. And when we bridge those gaps and find that commonality, now all of a sudden the gap that we thought we had because of your political affiliation or your ethnicity or your socioeconomic whatever it is, it fades away.” ~ Elliot Sands

“My core definition is not my political affiliation. That is not who I am.” ~ Elliot Sands

“In this election season, we must do better.” ~ Elliot Sands

“No matter a person’s political opinions, no matter their affiliations, their background, whatever it is, we need to treat one another with love, respect, and kindness. Everybody deserves that. Whether or not you agree with them or whether or not you vehemently disagree with them, we still need to treat people with love, respect, and kindness.” ~ Elliot Sands

“Commonality is such an important part of how we navigate these conversations because we have to look for it. It’s there. It’s there. And when we find it, we got to call it out.” ~ Elliot Sands

“So these elections aren’t so emotional, again, not that we agree on everything now, because that will never happen. But that it’s not driven by these negative, contentious, contemptuous emotions that we have towards one.” ~ Elliot Sands

Bio:

Elliot Sands is a dynamic leader with diverse experiences across multiple sectors. He is the Executive Director at Live Faith First, where he takes on the challenge of addressing division in society head-on, refusing to choose the easy path. As COO of The SHP Foundation, Elliot supports churches and homeless initiatives, meeting incredible people along the way. He was also a co-founder of CirrusMD, one of the fastest-growing telehealth companies in the nation, connecting thousands of patients to live physicians within 60 seconds—no bots, no AI, just real doctors.

With roles ranging from Executive Pastor to School Principal, Elliot’s leadership has touched lives in profound ways. His career began in sales and customer service, with early lessons learned during his time as a Sales Rep at FCPA and as a Customer Service Rep at PG&E. Elliot’s education includes a Masters in Divinity from Western Seminary, where he grew immensely, and an MBA from San Jose State University, where he formed lifelong friendships.

Guest Contact Info:

Website: https://www.elliotsands.me/

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Oct 02
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Luppe B. Luppen & Hunter Walker

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This week on Here’s What We Know, we have a groundbreaking conversation with two esteemed guests, Hunter Walker, an investigative journalist and former White House correspondent, and Luppe B. Luppen, a lawyer and a prominent social media presence and writer. Together they discuss their book, The Truce: Progressive, Centrist, and the Future of the Democratic Party, offering listeners an insider’s account of political dynamics within the Democratic Party.

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In this Episode:

  • Access to Insider Stories
  • The Relationship Between Barrack Obama and Joe Biden
  • Obama’s Role in the 2020 Election
  • The Standard Bearer of the Democratic Party
  • Kamala Harris & Missteps
  • Likability and Sexism in Politics
  • Attacks and Double Standards in Politics
  • Tension Over US Support for Israel’s Campaign in Gaza
  • Fractures with the Progressive and Centrist Coalition
  • The Importance of Key Voters Groups of Biden
  • The High School Drama of Politics
  • Writing a Book Together
  • Unvarnished Understanding of Political Players
  • Election Insights
  • The Goal for Biden and Trump: Just Win, Baby

Quotations:

“Democrats recognize these questions. They know that the central thing we confront in The Truce, which is who’s going to lead this party after Biden and how are they going to do it, is in dispute. And they are, I think, eager to litigate that conversation.” ~ Hunter Walker

“One of the most interesting conversations we were able to report in the book was that late in the wee hours after Trump’s election, at 1:30 in the morning, Biden was in the Naval Observatory, the vice president’s residence, and he called the White House and we spoke to people in the room who heard him say to Obama, we told you, boss, people just don’t like her right, and referring to Hillary Clinton. And essentially, Biden was participating in what may be history’s greatest I-told-you-so moment with his former boss. So Obama was clearly haunted by that.” ~ Hunter Walker

“I think that of Obama fundamentally as a pragmatist, as much as he has the real ability to inspire his audience to tap into those sort of loftier rhetorical notes of idealism as a politician and as someone who is an operator within democratic politics, I think he is very pragmatic and calculating.” ~ Luppe B. Luppen

“Democrats have won the popular vote, right? If you look at issue after issue, whether it be abortion, gun control, public education, or health care, the values of the public are progressive. And that becomes more and more true as Generation Z takes the stage and as the country becomes more diverse. And yet our electoral result doesn’t always go that way. Right? And so that’s one of the questions we confront in this book.”  ~ Hunter Walker

“The salience of this compromise that was forged with progressives is that you do not see a progressive challenger in this Democratic presidential primary where Joe Biden is weakened, where there is a foreign policy crisis that is almost designed to put strains on the coalition he built and make progressives feel like they need another option.” ~ Luppe B. Luppen

“I tend to think that as a woman of color going into politics, you have to know how much better you’re going to have to be and how much more intense the opposition that you’re going to have to face is.” ~ Hunter Walker

“Unfortunately, in the world we live in, it’s impossible to pull apart questions of likability and political promise from sexism and racial attitudes.” ~ Luppe B. Luppen

Bio:

Luppe B. Luppen is a lawyer and a writer in New York City. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he graduated from Stanford University (2005) and Washington & Lee School of Law (2008).

Hunter Walker is an investigative reporter and author based in Brooklyn, New York. He has written for notable publications such as Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and The Atlantic. Walker spent five years as a White House Correspondent for Yahoo! News during the Trump administration and has covered politics for outlets like Business Insider and the New York Observer. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.

Guest Contact Info:

Luppe B. Luppen

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Hunter Walker

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hunterwalker/