Welcome to Hope Is My Middle Name, the podcast where Kate Tucker interviews everyday Americans doing big daring things to make the world a little better. Hope can be complicated these days, and hearing their stories reminds us that we too can make a difference, wherever we are. 

Join us for a new season of Hope Is My Middle Name, every Tuesday now through December. 

New to Hope? Start with "John Christian Phifer: Finding Life in Death with Natural Burial" season 2, episode 1 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. 

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Hosted and executive produced by Kate Tucker, Hope Is My Middle Name is a podcast by Consensus Digital Media in collaboration with Reasonable Volume. 

Special thanks to the following Hope guests, featured in this season 4 trailer, in order of appearance:

• Kevin Berthia - Listening to Understand the Mental Health Crisis
• Dr. Theresa Hamlin - forthcoming Hope Is My Middle Name season 4
• Doug Naselroad - Building Instruments to Recover from Floods and Addiction in Appalachia 
• John Christian Phifer - Finding Life in Death with Natural Burial
• Jennifer Arnold - forthcoming Hope Is My Middle Name season 4
• Sergeant Kevin Briggs - Listening to Understand the Mental Health Crisis
• Maria Rush - forthcoming Hope Is My Middle Name season 4
• Sally Sears - Transforming a Toxic Wasteland into a Wildlife Haven

I'm Kate Tucker, host of Hope Is My Middle Name, and we're striking out across the country in search of hope, bringing you voices of everyday Americans finding innovative, often unconventional ways to build community, build resilience, build hope.

I knew that I was 25 minutes from my destiny.

But I saw hope. I saw opportunities.

Opportunity is in the midst of every crisis.

If you look close enough, you can see that there's some light in there.

These people remind us that we too can make a difference in our own unique way.

We're never going to catch up with the need, unless we look at it differently.

I'm not gonna try to fix anything, but I can certainly sit there and listen to them.

Now I realize that I had to go through some things in order to give that hope to someone else.

And these folks, you've probably never heard of them because they're too busy cleaning up trash in the bayou, building a town for the homeless, bringing people out of incarceration and addiction, turning mine lands into farmlands, saving the planet to save our lives.

We're not here alone. We are here as part of something bigger.

Hear their stories and more on Hope Is My Middle Name every Tuesday on your favorite podcast platform.

Today's the first day of the rest of my life, so I have an opportunity to do something really powerful with it.