Don Martin

Oh gosh.

Well, one, I think people are interested in lives that aren't like theirs.

But two, I also think right now we are just hungry for expertise.

We're just hungry for people that are just genuinely interested in making the world a better place and doing that through good research and good faith interrogation and willingness to admit that you don't know something and intellectual curiosity to go find it out.

And I think people are really hungry to see folks in positions of leadership or positions of authority

One, admit when they don't know something.

And two, model just what being an expert means.

It doesn't mean that you know everything.

It means you know how to learn.

And it means how to maybe teach that to other people.

And I think people are just so hungry for people who are just trying to make the world a better place in their one little weird niche area.

I talk about big stuff.

My research, my books, my platform is used to talk about systemic problems, homophobia, transphobia, racism, bigotry, immigration, yada.

My work has talked about all the stuff that you're not supposed to talk about at dinner, right?

Religion, death, loneliness, big conversations that are like, we're not supposed to talk about that.

We're supposed to talk about the weather and whether or not your car's working or something.

But I talk about those things and I think that storytelling allows me an avenue of permission to talk about these things with my audience because nobody ever feels talked down to and nobody ever feels bored.

But also we don't ever skimp on the research either.

You are going to come away from...

my social media content.