Episode Details

This season finale celebrates our journey through 35 episodes, featuring familiar voices Beau Shaw, Colin Smith, Gabrielle Weasel Head, Janet Pennington, KJ McCusker, Lyse Carrigan, Muriel Wynnobyl, and (new) Tom Prilesky of InnerOuter (and the Polluter Pay Federation). We reflect on the importance of music in inspiring change and share personal stories and songs that have shaped our lives. Join us in celebrating a year of learning and community building. Visit us at thegravitywell.net and find us on YouTube and streaming platforms.

Welcome to Season One Return Guests

Alex:

Welcome to The Gravity Well Podcast with Alex and Jenny. Here you break down heavy ideas with us to understand their complexities and connections. Our mission is to work through your dilemmas with you in conversation and process making our world a better place for all.

Jenny:

We acknowledge that we live on the traditional territories of treaties, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 10. The ancestral homelands of diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Metis. Peoples whose ancestors have walked this land since time immemorial and whose histories, languages, and cultures continue to influence our vibrant communities. We pay respect to indigenous people through our ethical relationship building efforts. Our community agreement asks for genuine conversations, real hearts, open minds, and different perspectives in conflict. Let’s rely on our six W system and live participant feedback. What matters most is finding common ground.

Alex:

We dedicate this podcast to our children, nieces, nephews, grandchildren, and all future generations. The gravity well is on YouTube and streaming wherever you get your podcasts. Join us@thegravitywell.net.

Jenny:

Welcome. This is our season finale. We made it, I can’t believe it’s been 35 plus episodes later. And here we are. Thank you very much for everyone joining us. You should see some familiar faces. Muriel was with us in episode 12. Gabrielle’s been with us in the last few episodes in 29 and 33. Lise was also in episode 12, and Beau was in episode 20 and Janet was in six and 19, I think. Yeah, thanks. I’m not used to having somebody in the center like that. Janet, please wave at me if I accidentally miss you in some capacity. But thank you everybody for being here. And Tom, sorry, I need to lead with the end, which is Tom is an extension of the Pluto Pay Federation. I’ll let him introduce himself properly, but Tom and I have been working through that group, Regan and Mark, you would remember, and Dwight and Vern for that matter, we’re on the show.

Jenny’s Song

Jenny:

Thank you again for being here. Today we’re trying to just celebrate. It’s been a big year of learning for Alex and I for sure. And we’re really grateful to all of you for giving your time to us and helping us build this project, especially when it was not well understood when we started. Really appreciate your flexibility and also the importance of the things that we’re covering. I’m looking at you, Muriel. We have important issues like water. We’re going to try and set that aside today. Try and think about some things that inspire us. I really think that music can bring us together in ways that we can’t imagine, and music shows us that we’re capable of creating something new, always. It’s a really good marker for us. But most importantly, music can inspire meaningful change. My song, and I grew up listening to a variety of things, but The Guess Who was one of my favorite bands when I was in high school, a more obvious one is American Woman, which by the way, I don’t know if you know, but it was created on the stage at Woodstock.

Apparently the band was arguing about the song Burton Cummings was playing it, and people didn’t really get it. They were like, it’s too showy for us, too fancy or too commercial, let’s say. But they were asked to come back on stage at Woodstock because there was lo