Show Notes
Questions? Leave us a message. Exciting news...We are launching a podcast! The Horizon Story with Norma Wong is a new podcast grounded in a Native Hawaiian, Zen, and indigenous worldview. Each episode shares thought-provoking teachings, conversations, poetry, and humor in the context of complex local and global challenges. Building on the themes in Norma's first two books, "When No Thing Works" and "Who We Are Becoming Matters," The Horizon Story offers fresh perspectives on world events, na...
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Questions? Leave us a message. Why are we so lonely when we’re more connected than ever? In the Season 3 finale, Executive Producer Na’alehu Anthony joins host Norma Wong to answer questions from the audience about loneliness, belonging, and what it means to be human. They explore how we’ve come to let technology stand in for real human relationships, how reconnecting with the child within can reawaken our creativity, and how we can go about interrupting the habits that keep us isolated rathe...
Questions? Leave us a message. “We have to meet the moment by first figuring out not what it is we’re going to do, but who we are called to be. And in that one expression, the entire assignment.” -Norma Wong In this episode, recorded live at Tamaya in New Mexico, Norma explores what it means to be undaunted as we seek to be good ancestors. Being undaunted doesn’t mean we aren’t afraid. It means we can see ourselves, our ancestors, and the horizon. We use this grounded stance to steady ourselv...
Questions? Leave us a message. What if our habits are the reason we aren’t meeting the moment? Recorded live at Tamaya in New Mexico, this episode explores habits and practices. Norma Wong makes the case that there's no such thing as a "good" habit, and that identifying habits and cultivating practices is how we shift our lives, our communities, and the world. Jeremie Greer returns for his second episode with Norma to dig into urgency, ego, and what it means to be a good ancestor. In This Epi...
Questions? Leave us a message. In this episode of The Horizon Story, Norma Wong is joined by Jeremie Greer of Liberation in a Generation for a conversation about becoming, renewal, and the courage it takes to move forward. They explore what happens when we shed the identities, expectations, and pathways that no longer serve us — and how grief can be part of that process. From letting go of credentials and inherited ideas of success, to the very literal work of cutting grass and clearing a pat...
Questions? Leave us a message. In this episode, recorded live in New Mexico, host Norma Wong explores how othering takes hold across the ideological spectrum, fueled by scarcity, survival, and the need to define who is “us” and who is not. Vivian Chang joins Norma to discuss what it would mean to let go of othering – not only in our organizations and movements, but in how we think about power, resources, and what it would take to create durable wins. They explore how the pull toward othering ...