{"podcast":{"title":"Good Is In The Details","slug":"good-is-in-the-details-562493","podcast_index_feed_id":562493,"rss_url":"https://goodisinthedetails.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.goodisinthedetails.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/1/c/a/b/1cab7784f2124372e5bbc093207a2619/New_Cover_Art-20231213-ign2qfql1d.jpg","author":"Gwendolyn Dolske","episode_count":198,"summary":"Good Is In The Details is an engaging philosophy and education podcast hosted by Gwendolyn Dolske, Ph.D., and Rudy Salo, exploring the ideas that shape how we think, learn, and live. Blending philosophy, higher education, books, ethics, culture, and critical thinking, the show invites listeners into thoughtful conversations with scholars, authors, and experts from a wide range of disciplines. Each episode makes complex ideas accessible, connecting philosophy to everyday life, current events, human behavior, and the pursuit of meaning. From ethics and epistemology to history, sociology, and the philosophy of culture, Good Is In The Details helps listeners learn what they didn't know they didn't know while encouraging curiosity, intellectual growth, and deeper understanding. Ideal for lifelong learners, students, educators, and anyone seeking a fun, engaging, and thoughtful learning experience, this podcast combines academic insight, real-world relevance, and lively conversation. Whether you're interested in philosophy, books, higher education, or developing critical thinking skills, Good Is In The Details offers meaningful dialogue, fresh perspectives, and wisdom you can carry into…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T12:19:28.715822+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/good-is-in-the-details-562493"},"episode":{"title":"How To Navigate The Homeless Crisis With Humanity and Reason","slug":"how-to-navigate-the-homeless-crisis-with-humanity-and-reason","published_at":"2026-05-25T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/good-is-in-the-details-562493/how-to-navigate-the-homeless-crisis-with-humanity-and-reason","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/good-is-in-the-details-562493","url":"https://goodisinthedetails.libsyn.com/how-to-navigate-the-homeless-crisis-with-humanity-and-reason","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/prfx.byspotify.com/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/goodisinthedetails/KindnessKO.mp3?dest-id=1300679","summary":"In this episode of Good Is In The Details , Gwendolyn Dolske sits down with Karen Olson — founder and CEO emeritus of Family Promise , a national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping homeless and low-income families, whose organization has trained and mobilized over one million volunteers over the past thirty years to provide services to homeless families, and author of Meant for More: Following Your Heart and Finding Your Purpose, to have the conversation about homelessness that most people are too uncomfortable, too misinformed, or too distant to have. The myths Karen dismantles in this conversation: The homeless are lazy. The homeless are addicted and choose not to get help. Homelessness is an individual failure rather than a systemic one. The people on the street are strangers with no history and no future. Karen has spent thirty years learning the truth. Family Promise has helped more than a quarter of a million people annually, and in that work Karen has come to know her clients the way most of us know our neighbors: by name, by story, by the specific combination of circumstances and choices and bad luck and systemic failure that brought them to where they are. She calls them her friends. In a culture that speaks of homeless people as a mess to be cleaned up, as a problem to be managed, as a category rather than a collection of individuals with names and histories and futures, Karen Olson calls them her friends. And she means it. What we explore in this episode: Who is actually homeless in America, and why the answer will surprise you. Children. Veterans. Families. People who work full-time jobs that pay less than the cost of a roof over their head The drug and alcohol addiction myth, what Karen has actually observed about addiction and homelessness, why a…","meta_description":"In this episode of Good Is In The Details , Gwendolyn Dolske sits down with Karen Olson — founder and CEO emeritus of Family Promise , a national nonprofi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2429,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/good-is-in-the-details-562493/episodes/how-to-navigate-the-homeless-crisis-with-humanity-and-reason/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/good-is-in-the-details-562493/how-to-navigate-the-homeless-crisis-with-humanity-and-reason.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}