Rob Wipond with us today, 3pm-5pm ET
My request to you — to spend this time with us and send in your feedback.
We're broadcasting with Rob Wipond on Intuitive Public TV from 3pm-5pm Eastern today at https://youtube.com/@IntuitivePublicTV/streams.
At 3pm, you'll see it appear as the most recent video thumbnail there on YouTube with a red "live" icon on it and Rob Wipond's name at the beginning of the title.
Rob's investigative journalism into the ways vulnerable people are harmed and exploited in care systems, and his exceptional lenses on how to re-center human dignity, creative healing, and community recovery, are powerfully key to the process and resources we organize in the Intuitive Community Media Network.
I'm looking for feedback from anyone who can tune into this 2-hour broadcast today about how we can help more people connect with this material.
Today, Thursday 11 September, is the first part.
The second part will be broadcast 25 September at 3pm-5pm Eastern, the same timeframe and also on a Thursday.
My contact info is here, here, or here.
Our previous interview with Rob Wipond was recorded in December 2023, just a few days before the passing of Father James Aloysius Shea O’Brien, SJ.
Father O’Brien was foundationally involved in the work our groups were doing then, particularly around this subject material, and made our successes possible in ways that are difficult to convey.
Miracles can be a challenge to communicate. :-)
Rob didn’t know anything about this part — but I could never have achieved that 2023 interview without all the work Father Jim did with us. It took every ounce of function I could muster for me to get it set up, get myself through the recording session, and (months later) get the interview finally published.
It’s taken more than a year and a half for me to find my own capacities and more collaborative support to allow us to follow up with Rob Wipond in public broadcast now again; something we knew was important and necessary with immediacy years ago, but couldn’t manage for a long time.
More dialogue at this subject intersection means we can better strengthen, protect, and uplift all our most invisible and severely impacted families and communities.
I’m especially appreciative if we can connect more people who knew, loved, and worked with Father Jim to these continuing conversations, because his vibration in that work was — still is — so crucial, resonant, and life-saving. His presence then and his energy now continue to work miracles.
And even though his spirit is so present with us always, it’s at mile-markers like this one when we especially miss Jim’s voice, faith, wisdom, determination, care, and humor.
Because wow, okay. We’re managing this again, somehow.
And I’m managing this again.
Somehow.
The spark here says — keep going.
If you didn’t know Father Jim, I’m deeply grateful for your spending this time with us and sharing your feedback — because in tuning in for these conversations and learning about the work our Intuitive Network groups have done to highlight Rob Wipond’s journalism, you’ll get a meaningful inkling of the courage and respect for life Father Jim demonstrated every day he worked on this with us.
I’m deeply grateful for anyone who can reach out to me to share your ideas and reflections. (Live public comments during the broadcast are very welcome and very helpful to us as well!)
Here's the link for today, one more time: https://youtube.com/@IntuitivePublicTV/streams
Gratitudes, gladness, and profound appreciation,
Megan Elizabeth