So What? Exploring Big Ideas and Why They Matter Welcome to Episode 9 of ‘So What’ as Brent Saccucci joins Michael and Trevor as they explore the big ideas of practicing discomfort so be accomplices with personal and social change to bringing liberation and healing and joy to the world.  Is it hard or easy?  Find out as you listen! Brent Saccucci has worked as a K-12 teacher and equity consultant in schools and universities across Canada for over a decade. He is now a faculty member in the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge, where he teaches courses in the social, cultural, and political contexts of education as well as critical media literacy. Before UofL, Brent taught social justice and literacy education at both the University of British Columbia and the University of Alberta. Brent is a Senior Research Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Far-Right Studies and serves as Faculty Advisor of the inaugural Leading Social Change in Schools Cohort for over 60 teachers looking to make change in Southern Alberta schools and communities. He is also a doctoral student at Western University in social justice education, where he studies theocratic government’s curriculum censorship of queer and trans voices. Brent is also writing an open-access, multimodal textbook with queer and trans students as a way to combat misinformation on ‘gender ideology’ in education; and he co-created a new cross-faculty course on “Misinformation” with six other faculty on the UofL campus to help equip undergraduate students with the tools needed for an increasingly polarized information world. Most recently, Brent was recognized as the 2025 Alberta Human Rights Champion by the John Humphrey Centre for Peace & Human Rights.    You can find more from Brent at https://www.learningwithbrent.com/about-brent If you enjoy this episode, please like it, subscribe, consider rating it, and sharing it with family and friends. This podcast can also be found on podbean, Spotify, Apple, and other platforms. Thanks to Jim for production and Rebekah for the voice behind the scenes. This podcast is produced by McKillop; Living Sacred Relationships.