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\"There's some things that are [working], and I find that they're coming from individuals who are working collectively to make the world a safer place,\" she said. \"And I hope that people hear stories that encourage them to lean in those directions too, to lean towards curiosity, compassion, belonging, community and possibility so that it can be held with a little bit more balance in what we're ingesting in our world.\"

Ross said that in helping bring \"I Am America\" to life, she is following a lesson her mother, the legendary singer Diana Ross, taught her as a child: \"You buy gifts for other people by buying them something you would want.\"

\"I try and create things that I hope other people would like, but I start with [asking myself], 'Does it wake me up?'\" Ross said of what inspired her to co-create the podcast. \"That is the compass that I follow.\"

\"I Am America,\" from Dear Media, premieres Jan. 31. Click here for more information on the podcast.

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