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One Small Step partners Jay Price (53) and Jacob Dailey (27) discuss what people misunderstand about farming and farmers, and the difficulty of navigating various political views within their own families.

One Small Step partners Darlene Dabbs (69) and Vicki Smith (61) sit down for a conversation about their childhoods, religious beliefs, and political standings.

One Small Step conversation partners Wes Edwards (60) and Beverly White (64) discuss about politics.

One Small Step partners Thomas "Tom" Barlow (39) and John Amoroso (45) share their challenges being divorced fathers of daughters, and their learning process around the changing language and mores regarding sexual orientation and gender identity.

One Small Step partners Bronwyn Hughes (58) and Donald "Don" Morrison (65) discuss find faith traditions later in life, the challenges of working with seriously ill infants, and feeling misunderstood.

One Small Step conversation partners Michael "Mike" Carley (55) and Peter McManus (65) discuss our country's increasing diversity, the people they struggle most to interact with, and the values they'd like to instill in their children.

One Small Step conversation partners Heather Lockerman (48) and Eric Kaufman (46) discuss the intersection between U.S. politics and religion, why interaction with people different than you matters, and navigating when your children's views differ from your own.

One Small Step conversation partners Abigail "Isabel" Ordoñez (22) and Logan Cantrell (23) discuss differences between Wichita and where they grew up, their earliest memories of politics, and trying to understand the events of September 11, 2001 as people who...

Vanessa Lemus (23) and her One Small Step partner and roommate Nico Orisini (24) discuss the misconceptions and motivations of their political beliefs.

One Small Step conversation partners Jeffrey Mendelssohn (59) and Susie Olive-Allison (45) have a conversation about their childhood experiences, rising children, and the role of religion within in their lives.

One Small Step partners Dan Swassing (64) and Curtis Bustamante (45) have a conversation about their beliefs on current social issues.

One Small Step conversation partners Erika N. (66) and Hugh Murray (81) talk about LGBTQ+ issues, diversity in their lives and value sets, and their shared troubled feelings about lies being pervasive in the US.

One Small Step conversation partners Patrick Tyrrell (19) and Weston Engram (21) discuss feeling misunderstood, assumptions people make about them, and their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.

One Small Step partners Janelle Bogart (38) and Keith Pickus (63) discuss their differences growing up Baptist in Wichita, Kansas and Jewish in Los Angeles, California.

One Small Step conversation partners Joan Heminway (60) and Owen Thurber (20) discuss activism, disability, feminism, and workplace discrimination.

One Small Step participants Shasta Steinert (28) and Arvin Fontarum (38) talk about not being fully represented by either political party, the way people express their beliefs to others, and how learning and experiencing more has shaped their beliefs today.

One Small Step conversation partners Mary Louzon (64) and Rachel Berryman (41) discuss the challenges of family relationships when they are toxic and when politics divides them.

One Small Step conversation partners Krysta Hartman (41) and Mark Rolfes (60) discussing political values, abortion, gays, divorce and religion.

One Small Step partners Harold Lewis (61) and Matthew "Scott" Knox (48) share stories about their different lived experiences as a Black man growing up in the segregated South and a gay man growing up in the Northeast.

One Small Step partners Victor Acevedo (61) and Ajax Greene (66) discuss understanding LGBTQ identities as straight cis men, whether businesses should take political stands, and their fears around aging and disability.

One Small Step partners Caleb Lawen (24) and Scarlet "Scar" Pardue (19) discuss their upbringings, Christianity, and LGBTQ+ issues.

One Small Step conversation partners Larry King (39) and Taylor Stevenson (33) discuss growing up "privileged" versus "dirt floor poor," the role of the U.S. military, and struggles with substance abuse and depression.

One Small Step conversation partners Margaret Woody (62) and Claudia Marshel (59) discuss their upbringings and how politics have influenced their lives.

One Small Step partners [No Name Given] [No Name Given] (18) and Kelsey Terra (32) have a conversation about their struggles with learning disabilities, their goals, and hobbies.

One Small Step conversation partners Christina "Tina" Neal (63) and Diane Metheny (51) discuss about politics.