Peter Cohen and Richard Herb
Recorded
August 4, 2022
Archived
August 4, 2022
49:18 minutes
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ddv001954
Description
One Small Step partners Peter Cohen (71) and Richard Herb (66) share their work in leadership, their views on politics, and their relationship to scholarship.Subject Log / Time Code
Peter (P) shares how his experiences as a student at UC Berkeley in the 1970s shaped him, and shares how he got involved with the Kansas Leadership Center.
Richard (R) talks about the loss of his two children, the first soon after his birth, and the second after a 20 year struggle with addiction.
R reflects on the path he took to becoming an ordained pastor.
R considers his high school government teacher to be one of his biggest influences. P considers his mother and her value of service to others as important influences in his life.
R and P share their political values and discuss “one person, one vote.”
P reflects on the latest election cycle in Kansas, where people voted in favor of access to abortion.
P talks about having studied psychology and working in higher education and leadership.
R reflects on the connections between his work as a business coach and a pastor. R talks about his interest in family genealogy.
R and P talk about feeling misunderstood by people with similar and differing views.
R and P share their earliest memories of politics, including the Kennedy vs Nixon presidential race and the Cuban Missile Crisis. They also talk about voting for the first time and about their reactions to the Watergate scandal.
P and R consider why political conversations can get heated.
Participants
- Peter Cohen
- Richard Herb