Growing Hope: What Depression-Era Gardens and Rainn Wilson Teach Us About Hard Times
Growing Hope: What Depression-Era Gardens and Rainn Wilson Teach Us About Hard Times
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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- Host: Sharon McMahon
- Supervising Producer: Melanie Buck Parks
- Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon
- Audio Producer: Craig Thompson
- Host: Sharon McMahon
- Supervising Producer: Melanie Buck Parks
- Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon
- Audio Producer: Craig Thompson
Guests
Guests
Rainn Wilson
Rainn Wilson is an Emmy nominated and SAG award-winning actor, writer and producer best known for playing the role of ‘Dwight Schrute’ on NBC's The Office, which garnered him three Emmy Award nominations.
Wilson’s book, Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution released on April 25th of this 2023. In this book, he explores the benefits spirituality gives us in creating solutions for an increasingly challenging world.
Wilson can be seen in “Rainn Wilson and The Geography of Bliss” a six-part travel docuseries in which he travels around the world to discover the happiest places on Earth. The docuseries is based on Eric Weiner’s novel The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World and debuted on Peacock on May 18th, 2023.
Other movie and television credits include “WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story,” “Jerry & Marge Go Large,” “Dark Winds,” “An Idiot’s Guide to Climate Change,” “Star: Trek Discovery,” “Super,” “The Meg” and “Six Feet Under” among many others.
Wilson co-founded SoulPancake, a digital media company designed to celebrate humanity and champion creativity. He is the author of The Bassoon King and the New York Times Bestselling SoulPancake: Chew on Life’s Big Questions.
