https://spectra.video/videos/watch/94dfe0bc-26dd-466e-b212-12a483a3193c Hi y’all! 👋🏽 This week, I am so happy to chat with Ashley Williams from Mind the Movement. She shares her journey of founding a mental health organization for grassroots organizers, the importance of community support, and practical strategies for maintaining mental well-being in social change work. At a moment when organizations are being defunded and activists are in crisis, mental health is a key issue to uplift across our organizations and movement. "We have to fight for that joy." In the Episode Prioritizing Mental Health in Movements & Politics Starting Mind the Movement The Front Lines of Social Change & It's Impacts Mental Health as a Social Issue Affinity Groups to Build Resilience Practicing Liberatory Change in Our Small Circles How Leadership & Managers Can Respond Unmute Yourself About Mental Health Supporting Our Loved Ones in a Mental Health Crisis Creating Care for New Organizers The Joys of Being Vegan About Ashley Williams (she/her) For the past 8 years, Ashley has built and led national democracy and political programs. She’s the creator of the largest political organizing training of all time where she trained 60,000 people in 4 weeks during the height of the pandemic. Ashley is a long-time vegan, adoptee and the only person in her family to graduate from college. She’s also experienced mental health struggles since childhood and is committed to supporting others without a safety net in getting the support they need. She runs a consulting firm The Most Good (and two other small businesses). In her “spare time” she figure skates and is learning to crochet. References / Resources 🌱 About Mind the Movement 🎶 Noah Kahan 🧰 Unmute Yourself Toolkits 🌱 Share Your Story 🧰 QPR Institute Thank you for being a listener of the roots of change agency! To access our podcast, media, & memberships, visit our website at rootschangemedia.com Want to share & support our work? Gift a membership to a heart-first activist in your life or donate to our healthy media ecosystem. Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:29:06 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://spectra.video https://spectra.video/lazy-static/avatars/71f5d173-eea9-47a7-b254-f7e91f9f5d25.png https://spectra.video/videos/watch/94dfe0bc-26dd-466e-b212-12a483a3193c All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://spectra.video/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.