Welcome to Come to the Brink. This is where we gather — the grievers, the dreamers, the builders — to speak honestly about what it means to live through endings and still create.

My guests today are Fiona Oliphant and Cassie Whitebread of Healing Equity United, an organization dedicated to centering those living at the margins by valuing lived experience, amplifying marginalized voices, and realigning power within institutions and communities.

Their recent article, “Preparing for the Future Means Feeling Now,” reminds us that numbness is not neutrality is the only way through this dystopian nightmare.

Fiona brings decades of experience as a legal advocate, executive director, public speaker, and Jamaican-American mother with an unshakable belief that c ...