Episode 6
Guest: Melissa (Missy) Bird, PhD, MSW
Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW
Dr. Melissa "Missy" Bird of Bird Girl Industries shares her approach to empowering women to engage in advocacy—and challenges the perfectionism that keeps people from taking action. She introduces the "Graceful Revolution," shares a story of using advocacy to empower a client, and tells the remarkable story of writing and lobbying a bill to emancipate homeless youth—as a graduate student—and getting it passed. Missy encourages everyone to find their passion and get involved.
In this episode:
- How fear of "doing it perfectly" holds people back from advocacy—and how to move past it
- The "Graceful Revolution" and what it means to challenge injustice with intention
- Using advocacy to empower clients in direct practice
- How Missy wrote, organized around, and lobbied a bill to emancipate homeless youth—and got it passed as a grad student
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