On today’s episode, Rachel Vindman, Jasmine Clark, and Amanda Weinstein talk about how overwhelming everything has been feeling lately. There are so many fires to put out and we can only carry so many buckets. They talk about the absurd GOP antics at Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings, Biden’s remarks about Ukraine, and how we can redirect the national conversation while still whacking all of those right-wing “whack-a-moles.”Then TN mom Taylor Lyons joins the pod to talk about her work with Chattanooga Moms for Social Justice. Taylor's organization has organized a banned book fair, provided books for libraries in underserved communities, held a workshop for parents of trans kids, and had difficult but important conversations with their neighbors. Taylor is basically an all-around super mom-- and her adorable baby even makes her presence known!After that, Jasmine sits down with one of our favorite humans on the planet, Connie Schultz. They talk about how to stay hopeful and engaged, how to lean into love, how to put down our buckets once in a while, what advice she'd give her younger self, and who she’d cast as her husband in the movie version of their life.Finally, our hosts raise a glass to family and to Spring Break in this week’s “Toast to Joy.”For a transcript of this episode, please email theswppod@redwine.blue.

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