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Small Talk: The Best and Worst Things to Talk About
Arlin Cuncic, MA, is the author of The Anxiety Workbook and founder of the website About Social Anxiety. She has a Master’s degree in clinical psychology.
Amy Morin, LCSW, is a psychotherapist and international bestselling author. Her books, including ⁘13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do,⁘ have been translated into more than 40 languages. Her TEDx talk, ⁘The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong,⁘ is one of the most viewed talks of all time.
Small talk refers to the informal, polite, light conversations people have when they don’t know each other well (or at all). Although such social transactions generally focus on inconsequential topics, they’re an important way to make connections, build rapport, and nurture relationships.
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Sophie Culpepper : You come from a background of philanthropy beyond news. What perspective do you bring about how to build enduring philanthropy in a new field? And what do you see as uniquely challenging about applying that knowledge to news?
All those questions are similar questions to what we’re now dealing with in journalism philanthropy. I got asked in my interview — how will I, or how should Press Forward, focus on sustainability? And how do we think about that? And should that be the one thing that Press Forward should be focused on, mostly, if we can’t do everything?
Sustainability is a word that is used by every single nonprofit, not just journalism nonprofits. if you are a nonprofit, you worry about sustainability. So there might be some lessons we could learn from some of those [other] ecosystems about how they got to sustainability. By the way, it’s rare that you get to perfect sustainability, let’s put it that way, unless you find your own revenue source, which is hard. Sometimes it feels like we act like, in journalism, we are the only ones that this is happening to. That is not the case.
