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Growing Hope: What Depression-Era Gardens and Rainn Wilson Teach Us About Hard Times
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Growing Hope: What Depression-Era Gardens and Rainn Wilson Teach Us About Hard Times

Rainn Wilson joins Sharon for a conversation about loneliness, cynicism, and why the antidote to a broken world might already be growing in your backyard.

During the Great Depression, Detroit officials carved up vacant lots and handed exhausted families seeds and tools. It wasn't a hobby — it was survival. And a lesson for today: hope isn't just a feeling, it's a habit you practice.

Then Rainn Wilson — yes, Dwight Schrute — joins Sharon to talk about the loneliness epidemic, the rise of cynicism, and why posting about something isn't the same as changing it. 

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Credits:

Host and Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon

Supervising Producer: Melanie Buck Parks

Audio Producer: Craig Thompson

(00:00:00) A story on how to practice hope

(00:07:50) The loneliness epidemic

(00:22:41) Rainn Wilson’s on his faith

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