In this episode, Joanne Z. Tan shares her deeply personal story from the Cultural Revolution in China, where political passion turned neighbor against neighbor and left millions dead — including her own father and stepbrother’s mother. She draws chilling parallels to today’s America, where divisiveness threatens our democracy.
– Why unchecked political anger destroys nations from within
– Lessons from the Cultural Revolution that America must heed
– A call to resist hatred and violence across party lines
– How to see each other’s humanity in times of bitter division
This is a message of warning, but also of hope: no good comes out of violence. Each of us has the power to preserve our democracy by choosing civility, tolerance, and respect — by being our better angels.
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Joanne Z. Tan is the Founder & CEO of 10 Plus Brand, Inc., a brand strategist, thought leadership coach, and speaker. She helps executives, board members, entrepreneurs, and organizations decode their Brand DNA, create authentic brand identity and content to build brand equity and lead their industries in the AI age. Trained in law and business, Joanne was a former journalist, and an award-winning photographic artist. She had a liberal arts education from Brandeis University before earning a law degree. Joanne’s passion is to build brands for leaders and their organizations with her analytical, holistic, and strategic design thinking, as well as her artistic creativity. Her coaching emphasizes comprehensive strategies, business modeling, thought leadership and high authority content creation, brand building, culture, teamwork, leadership mindset and resilience. She guides leaders to stand out with vision, multi-disciplinary approaches, and strategies in leading themselves and their organizations. Additionally, Joanne is a poet, writer, and artist.
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