In a 68-minute special, I sat down with CEO Retort’s Tim El-Sheikh to honor Dolly Parton and to consider what we can learn from her about music, politics, gender, and decency and tolerance.

While upholding her life and works, I look at the need to move forward, drawing from her example.

0:00: Introduction
2:54: Dolly Parton and the politics of care – from her one-room shack to global philanthropy and community investments
12:10: Why Trump and the far right cannot claim Dolly
13:52: Dolly in an Irish pub
18:30: How do we rebuild after politics and the rise of division?
33:35: Pushing backing against Trumpish, Thatcherism, and individualism
37:43: Promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion
46:33: Dolly, The Chicks, and Woody Guthrie
49:44: Holding governments accountable over immigration
1:06:50: Supporting LGBTQ and the disabled against the hard right
1:09:50: Dolly’s moral of “Coat of Many Colors”

EA-CEO Retort VideoCast: What We Can Learn From Dolly Parton