Hunger relief, policy, and moral urgency.
Add Passion and Stir treats hunger as both a personal hardship and a systems problem. Its conversations move from food banks, detention centers, and school meals to the policies and institutions that shape children’s lives.
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Add Passion and Stir is an interview-driven social impact show organized around hunger relief, child welfare, and the responsibilities of public life. Its center of gravity is practical compassion. The show returns again and again to children: how they eat, how they learn, how policy reaches them, and what happens when institutions fail. Some episodes stay close to nutrition, including the first years of life, brain development, immunity, and the long consequences of early deprivation. Others move into harder civic terrain. Conversations address children and families in detention, ICE threats, the limits of temporary legal settlements, and the human cost of treating vulnerable people as political abstractions. The show also looks inward at nonprofit work. It considers how Share Our Strength funds hunger relief, communicates impact, builds corporate partnerships, and works through state directors to turn laws into meals. That operational focus keeps the series from becoming only inspirational. It is interested in how change is financed, measured, staffed, and defended. The philanthropy episodes widen the lens further, asking whether large-scale giving can become less controlling and more accountable to communities. The pacing is steady. Guests are allowed to explain, but the conversations keep returning to concrete stakes: school breakfast, summer meals, food benefits, detention standards, state policy, and community nutrition programs. Billy Shore and Debbie Shore appear as recurring guiding voices, often connecting personal stories to larger systems. The show’s editorial character is humane and advocacy-minded, with a clear moral concern for children and families. It suits listeners who want social change discussed with warmth, specificity, and institutional memory rather than slogan or spectacle.
Made for: For listeners interested in child hunger, nonprofit leadership, public policy, philanthropy, and social justice work grounded in real communities.
What sets it apart: The show connects personal testimony to the machinery of change: state implementation, nonprofit funding, legal advocacy, nutrition science, and philanthropic power.
Every other Wednesday, “Add Passion and Stir” shares the inspirational stories of individuals who set their sights on a problem and use their strengths to create solutions. Hosted by Share Our Strength’s founder Billy Shore, a leading advocate in food justice for 40 years, we convene leaders from the worlds of hospitality, education, government, and beyond tackling issues like hunger, systemic racism, and access to education. Join us to learn how you can share your strength. Follow us on Twitter @AddPassionStir and Instagram @billshore and like us on Facebook
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Billy Shore connects hunger and childhood health to the policies, institutions, technologies, and food traditions that shape people's lives.
Add Passion and Stir follows food from the body into the systems around it. Billy Shore conducts guest conversations about childhood nutrition, hunger, government benefits, nonprofit funding, immigration detention, and the cultural history carried through cooking.
Chef stories and SNAP software share a table; you get the policy questions between courses.
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A grounded single-episode review of how early nutrition shapes children's health and why food access matters publicly.
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A careful look at how detention makes immigration policy immediate for children and families.
Detention is framed here as a crisis for children and families living inside immigration policy, rather than as a distant legal issue. Billy Shore speaks with Massachusetts lawyer Cori Martin, who travels to the Dilley Detention Center for pro bono work, and with Jason about…
A grounded conversation on hunger relief, community wealth, and the partnerships supporting Share Our Strength's work.
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A clear, morally serious survey of the policies and global pressures shaping child hunger in 2025.
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A grounded conversation about SNAP, hunger, and software built around real needs.
Add Passion and Stir returns to hunger in America through Jimmy Chen of Propel and Ofec Lavian of Forage, with the conversation centered on SNAP and broader access to government benefits.
Jerome Grant's son-of-gun stew turns a museum dish into a lesson in labor, migration, and cultural exchange.
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Brother Luck connects culinary ambition with the harder work of claiming an identity and sustaining a meaningful voice.
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Masha Gessen narrates her own cousin's murder-for-hire arrest and custody battle.
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Peter Attia evaluates longevity science, from CETP inhibitors to protein debates, through evidence.
Rhonda Patrick translates NAD, vitamin D, and coffee research into daily health protocols.
Shawn Stevenson interviews researchers and coaches on nutrition, sleep, hormones, and fitness.
Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-hosts field Cosmic Queries on physics, space, and beyond.
Chef Brother Luck joins Add Passion and Stir to discuss his memoir 'No Lux Given' and his journey from a traumatic childhood to culinary success.
Host Billy Shore interviews Chef Jerome Grant of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture and civil rights advocate Hubie Jones.
Billy Shore interviews Jimmy Chen and Ofec Lavian about their companies Propel and Forage, which use technology to democratize access to government benefits like SNAP.
Billy Shore reprises a 2018 episode with Louis Caldera and Rose Previte discussing servant leadership, the role of public spaces, and the impact of USAID cuts on humanitarian efforts.
Billy Shore discusses the importance of early childhood nutrition and criticizes current policies that undermine health resources for vulnerable children.
Billy Shore discusses the human cost of child detention with attorneys Cori Martin and Jason Thomas, who share their experiences advocating for immigrant children.
Billy Shore and guests discuss how Share Our Strength navigates economic uncertainty and shifting philanthropy to fund the fight against hunger.
Billy Shore introduces a behind-the-scenes episode with No Kid Hungry state directors, discussing the importance of state-level execution of anti-hunger policies.
Billy Shore reprises a discussion with philanthropy leaders about challenges facing human services, highlighting a ProPublica report on children detained in a Texas facility.
Billy Shore interviews Glen Galaich about his upcoming book 'Control' and rethinking big philanthropy for more powerful social change.
Billy Shore and Jim Wallace discuss ICE threats in Maine, drawing parallels to Minnesota Lt.
Add Passion and Stir's year-in-review episode surveys the most important child hunger developments of 2025, with host Billy Jordan compiling clips from five advocates.
Host Billy Shore of Add Passion and Stir interviews Jimmy Chen, founder and CEO of Propel (a free app used by over 5 million Americans to manage SNAP/EBT benefits), and Ofek Lavian, co-founder and CEO of Forage (which builds payments infrastructure for EBT acceptance), one week into the new Trump administration.
Mayors Broome and Parker discuss the growth and impact of the Mayors Alliance to End Childhood Hunger, now with over 380 members across all 50 states.