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What a great podcast! Anat Shenker-Osorio is brilliant. Her ideas, though well-known to the right wing, are sooooo necessary for us liberals to hear. Her vision helps explain why popular progressive policies so often are defeated by fringe conservatives with better messaging. The podcast is also tightly produced and sharp -- not one of those meandering "two guys rambling on about their coffee and the weather before finally getting around to the topic" podcasts that stretches 15 minutes of content into 70 minutes. She clearly took care to craft this material into entertaining, insightful, succinct stories/illustrations. BRAVA!

Please make more episodes :) - I can't wait!

Love this podcast!

Excellent job, if we listen to Anat Shenker Osorio’s advice, we can win 2020!!!

These stories are so inspiring and I hope every progressive cause is paying attention to the wisdom of people like Anat and her research. More episodes pls!

Amazing work and storytelling

Examples of victory paired with lessons on how to replicate those victories to fight the thorniest of problems. Bummed there isn’t more yet.

You'll learn more of what you need to know and consider for vital public policy decisions you CAN influence.

Progressives can win elections and issue campaigns by listening to experts like Anat Shenker-Osorio. Anat is one of the best in the business because she works with organizers and organizations committed to building power without sacrificing our values.

I’ve worked with the communication frames of this expert before and they do work. We needs the words that effectively communicate our values now more than ever!

During the run up to 2020 with everyone debating which candidates “can win” — often the person who spews the most pablum— this reminds me that anyone / anything is possible.

One of the things that's been heartening about the Trump era is how quickly so many people's political analysis has sharpened and their engagement has deepend. While this show is certainly helpful to people working directly on campaigns, it's really for anyone who wants a more sophisticated understanding of the shocking effect different words and stories have on shaping our reality. And hearing stories of victories? That just plain feels good.

Progressives, this is the messaging advice and philosophy we’ve been waiting for. Anat Shenker is freaking brilliant & has worked around the world on underdog campaigns that saw victories traditional political consultants thought were impossible. Curious how the amazing Jacinda Arden became prime minister of New Zealand? There’s an episode for that!

And, Minnesotans, there is an episode dedicated to the 2018 Greater Than Fear campaign.

Thoughtful, powerful analysis and storytelling from host Anat Shenker-Osorio helps you understand how compassion, strategic framing, listening and speaking out with the right message can lead to empowering victories and real systematic change. This is a handbook for people who want to be on the right side of history on how to win. They just need to listen and learn.

Anat Shenker-Osorio is one of the most brilliant, insightful, courageous and unequivocally genuine human beings ever to grace this Earth. She is touched by genius and completely unafraid, rushing into lion's dens all over the globe. This collection of work is great tool and source of inspiration and education: language is a form of magic, and the power of our words is something we do not take fully into account. Anat is here to guide and empower. Thank for this essential podcast!

We would have progressive people-powered majorities up and down the ballot and be able to pass laws and make policy grounded in racial and economic justice accordingly. Highly recommend.

Everyone should know this. Really important to understand!!

As someone who writes and talks about politics regularly as a blogger and podcaster and activist, I want EVERYONE I know who is in any way involved in political messaging to listen to this podcast. We HAVE to get this right and Anat lights the way in an easy-to-digest and easy-to-listen-to way. Five stars. Heartily.

The more I think about it the more I am certain that disciplined messaging is crucial to securing material rights for citizens in a democracy. I've been a fan of ASO since reading her book but this podcast makes the info so much more accessible!

This is my new favorite podcast, Shenker-Osorio’s analysis is on-point, engaging, and even funny at times. She has a gift for storytelling, taking complex concepts and illustrating them through real life examples. Well done!

I was hoping this podcast would be good because I think the underlying political messaging strategy (race-class narrative) is smart & effective and needs more attention. But I didn’t realize Brave New Words would be quite this good. Highly recommend.

This podcast reveals how “narrative shifts” happen, from the groundbreaking work of ACT UP during the bleakest days of the AIDS crisis in America to 2018 in Minnesota where the “Greater Than Fear” campaign demonstrated how to tackle the right’s strategic racism. If this sounds like what could be the template for a 2020 Democratic victory, now you’re getting it.

Revealing stories of victorious campaigns with the common message of not using the opposition’s narrative to defend one’s own and instead using your value messaging to connect and convince. Enlightening and so interesting for the curious bystander who wonders, “Now, how did on earth they do that?” Brava, Anat!

And made me INSPIRED and EXCITED - which can be manna to those of us who often find ourselvess slogging through our days despite the positive mission our work leads us on.

Anat's case studies each provide detailed explanations of the messaging cycle from ideation through execution and each provides a profound example of the ways in which a progressive campaign accomplished a seemingly impossible goal.

“Our job is not to say what is popular but to make popular what needs saying.”

Excellent examples of people uniting across differences to win progressive policies that change people’s lives for the better. With so much wrong in the world, there aren’t a lot of successful pushes for equity and justice to learn from. It’s great to get the insider look at six different success stories all in one place. Can’t wait to apply the lessons contained in this podcast!

Anat is so insightful and I really think has the keys to our collective success. We need only listen

Very powerful series by a practitioner at the top of her game, with a proven track record. No matter what you may be doing - and at what level - to make the world a better place, you’ll find invaluable lessons here, shared the best way: through direct experience.

It’s so easy to share and talk about what’s going wrong in this country, because there are plenty of things. And what Brave New Words does is give us a sense of hope for what is possible. If you have felt downtrodden and cynical about the state of the world, please listen to these six stories of how people came together across race and changed the political landscape of their community for the better.

Anat’s analysis, through the various campaign examples, paints a pretty clear picture for the way forward to victory in 2020. I hope and pray (and will be organizing, too) that candidates on the left take heed of the advice these examples provide. The stakes are too high not to!