In this inaugural episode, Dreamshot co-hosts Kate Gordon, Nuin-Tara Key, Priyana Mohanty, and Carolyn Kousky, talk through California’s volatile state budget, the Rainy Day Fund, why resilience investment keeps losing out to short-term costs, and what it would take to treat resilience as a core economic strategy rather than an add-on.

They close with a round of “By the Numbers”—guessing how many California homeowners in high-risk wildfire zones rely on the state’s FAIR Plan for insurance —and preview what's coming up on both halves of the show, from grid transmission and manufacturing to adaptation finance.

The California Dreamshot podcast is hosted by Kate Gordon (CEO, California Forward), Nuin-Tara Key (COO, California Forward), Priyanka Mohanty (UAW Center for Manufacturing a Green Economy), and Carolyn Kousky (Insurance for Good) on the fiscal side of climate change.

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California Dreamshot is a podcast from California Forward (CA FWD) — a multi-partisan, nonprofit organization working to build a new California economy that’s resilient, sustainable, and inclusive. Our hosts and their guests go past the headlines to the decisions that actually shape the state. With a focus on industrial and energy policy, and climate and economic resilience, California Dreamshot is made for the people who move California forward. New episodes every other week.

Learn more at CAFWD.org/podcast

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