The chair is turned around for episode one. Dwayne Kerrigan — entrepreneur, host of The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast, and a dear friend — interviews Keiron McCammon about why Spark of Trust exists at all. It starts with a wrong answer: Keiron went looking for what broke in 2022, blamed social media, and found something underneath it. Trust broke in three acts over six decades — first our communities, then our institutions, then our information environment — each stacking on the one before, so no single fix, founder, or organization repairs it. What follows is an hour and a half on that, and on why the honest response is not a solution but a signal.
Time stamps
00:00 – Trust is awaiting a spark
02:57 - Where this started: a 2022 realization
04:58 - Two wrong diagnoses before the real one
05:46 - The root cause: a breakdown of trust
06:08 - Three acts: community, institutions, information
07:59 - It didn't start with Facebook
08:21 - Why this is a wicked problem, not a hard one
09:08 - No one institution or person can fix this
09:26 - The show's premise: the bat signal and reigniting trust
10:17 - The builders nobody's funding
11:44 - The honest starting point
14:41 - Up next: Neya and rebuilding community
16:55 - Trust rebuilt through small useful acts
18:28 - Why the show is called Spark of Trust
19:22 - Trust is a stacking event
23:03 - Community decline since the '60s, institutions since the '70s
25:37 - Trust in institutions, now under 30%
29:48 - Maybe we're right not to trust them
31:17 - How institutions get captured
34:22 - What trustworthy education, healthcare, and news could look like
37:45 - Technology's long history of speeding up information
47:07 - You're not alone
52:45 - The return on collisions
54:10 - The Team of Teams model
57:35 - From information network to action network
1:05:45 - The stakes when trust breaks down
1:06:58 - Building companies that protect the mission
1:13:09 - The one spark: choose who you do business with
1:15:25 - The close: I'm one spark, looking for others
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