From Systems Change To Sweet Relief: Joy Marsh On Liberation, Baking, And Belonging

About this episode

Joy Marsh discusses the intersection of liberation, baking, and belonging in the context of personal and social healing.

Healing doesn’t have to shout to be powerful. Sometimes it looks like a steady whisk, a kitchen scale, and the quiet joy of a macaron rising just right. We sit down with Joy Marsh—social scientist, strategist, and the heart behind Minneapolis’s Blissful Cakery—to talk about the craft of staying whole while doing hard things. Joy has led transformational change inside city government, healthcare, and nonprofits, and she opens up about what liberation means in practice: precise language, shared...

People in this episode

Host: Altreisha Foster

Guest: Joy Marsh

Topics covered

• healing
• baking
• liberation
• belonging
• social change

Keywords

• healing
• baking
• liberation
• Joy Marsh
• Blissful Cakery
• Minneapolis
• social change

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Blissful Cakery

Places: Minneapolis

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