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Back to the basics: what macros actually are, how to count them, and how to fine-tune them for your bio-individual needs. Most people can recite wellness rules - hit your macros, eat the rainbow, cut carbs, eat more protein - and still cannot tell you what a macronutrient is, how it differs from a micronutrient, or how to sort a bag of groceries by protein, fat, and carbohydrate. This Body Wisdom Podcast episode with Jamie Belz, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and Master Health Coach with the Nutritional Therapy Association, rebuilds the language of food from the ground up. Jamie walks through nutrients vs. macronutrients vs. micronutrients, then breaks down the three macros in usable terms: Protein and amino acids, complete vs. incomplete proteins, digestion, absorption, and why a gram on a label is not the same as what your body can use Dietary fat, fatty acids, cholesterol, fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K, satiety, and why flax ALA is not the same as EPA and DHA from seafood Carbohydrates as sugars, starches, and fiber, gluconeogenesis, carefully selected whole-food carbs, resistant starch, and why carbs are not the enemy You will also get a practical method for tracking macros without turning food into a lifelong spreadsheet: how to use Cronometer for a 5–7 day baseline, what 4 / 4 / 9 calories per gram actually means, a 40/30/30 starting frame versus average American intake, and how to adjust protein, fat, or carbs from your body's feedback — hunger, energy, sleep, digestion, recovery — instead of the latest diet trend. This is a Foundations episode for anyone lost in carnivore vs. vegan arguments, protein powder debates, and influencer buzzwords who still wants to be the steward of their own health. Future Body Wisdom Basics episodes will build on this with micronutrients, vitamins and minerals, phytonutrients, zoonutrients, and bioavailability. If you have been nodding along in nutrition conversations, start here. In this episode: What "nutrient," "macronutrient," and "micronutrient" actually mean Protein, amino acids, and complete proteins from real food Fats, fatty acids, omega-3s (ALA, EPA, DHA), cholesterol, and real vs. industrial fats Carbohydrates, fiber, sugar, starches, blood sugar, and whole-food carb selection Why hydration can mimic "I need to change my macros" symptoms How to establish a baseline, track food intake, and make small adjustments using hunger, energy, digestion, sleep, and workout recovery as feedback. Why eating enough deserves attention before chasing a different macro split. Whether macro tracking is brand new or already part of a daily routine, this episode offers a clearer understanding of what those numbers represent and how to use them thoughtfully in your bio-individual pursuit of health. The foundations of health deserve attention before the expensive gizmos, gadgets, lotions, potions, and biohacks. Understanding food is one of those foundations. Every body is a case study of ONE, and better nutrition knowledge makes it easier to become an informed steward of your own health.  SUBSCRIBE! Leave a review. Write comments. Check out these additional resources: S1E74: Dehydration Nation (WATCH FIRST 2 MINUTES WITH VIDEO!!!) * Download the free CRONOMETER app * Work with a Nutritional Therapy Practitionert: ⁠NTA Health ⁠⁠⁠  ⁠Get Your Free Health Assessment⁠ Work with a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP)⁠ in Private Practice⁠⁠⁠ * Interested in becoming an NTP? Check out the ⁠⁠Nutritional Therapy Association ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Join a webinar to see if the Nutritional Therapy Practitioner Program is right for you!⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ * Connect with Jamie on Instagram:  ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/jamiebelzfntp/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/stories/thebodywisdompodcast/⁠⁠⁠

Omega-3 nehmen mittlerweile viele. Worauf kaum jemand schaut: was genau in der Kapsel oder im Öl drin ist. Denn EPA und DHA sind nicht dasselbe und übernehmen im Körper sehr unterschiedliche Aufgaben.In dieser Folge kläre ich den Unterschied zwischen ALA, EPA und DHA. Ich erkläre, warum Leinsamen und Leinöl deinen Bedarf leider nicht decken, was EPA mit Entzündungsregulation zu tun hat und warum DHA für Gehirn, Nervensystem und Augen so zentral ist. Dazu spreche ich über Schwangerschaft, Stillzeit und die Versorgung von Kindern, über Herz-Kreislauf und über Regeneration.Außerdem zeige ich dir, was eine gute Fettsäureanalyse leisten sollte, was der Omega-3-Index aussagt und wie du Etiketten richtig liest. Mein wichtigster Tipp dazu: Rechne EPA und DHA immer zusammen.———————————————————Im Podcast erwähnt:Website: www.norsan.deProdukte von NorsanVeganes Omega 3 mit EPA von NorsanFettsäureanalyse von NorsanMit dem Rabattcode hannah15 sparst du 15% auf deine erste Bestellung.Podcastfolge 266: Omega 3 bei ADHS - Studienlage und wie es helfen kann⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠———————————————————Du möchtest keine Folge verpassen und zusätzliche Tipps direkt in dein Email Postfach bekommen? Dann melde Dich für meinen Newsletter an und erhalte meine 5 Tipps für ein gesünderes Leben in einem kleinem eBook.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newsletter & Freebie⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Deine Gedanken zu meinem Podcastfolge kannst Du mir diese gerne auf Instagram @ernaehrungscoach.hannah mitteilen.

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AD | Tu | https://tuclothing.sainsburys.co.uk/list/the-sheerluxe-editWhat does it really take to launch a beauty brand while juggling work, motherhood and nearly 20 years with the same person? This week on the SheerLuxe Podcast, Georgie is joined by Rochelle Humes and Tobi Asare for a wide-ranging conversation covering everything they're loving, wearing and talking about right now.Rochelle gives us the inside story on Eulah, her new affordable skincare brand, revealing why she stripped back her own routine, her thoughts on the ‘Sephora kids' generation and how she secured major high-street retailers before launch. Plus, she shares the products she genuinely swears by, her current weight-training routine and why three or four matchas a day is completely normal in her world.Elsewhere, the team discuss the secrets to a long marriage, autumn fashion buys, Gemma Collins, Theo James and why they're firmly divided over the return of the ‘elevated dry robe'. Expect plenty of recommendations, honest opinions and laughs along the way.Get SheerLuxe Straight To Your Inbox, Daily | http://sheerluxe.com/signup 02:42 Rochelle Humes On Family Trips & Making Memories07:39 Inside the SKIMS Regent Street Launch Party10:27 Skincare Ingredient Apps: Helpful Or Scaremongering?19:43 Why All Women Should Be Weight Training24:02 Gemma Collins Is A National Treasure34:10 Marriage Advice After 20 Years Together38:55 Rochelle Humes' First Meeting With Marvin Was On Kids TV40:40 Rochelle Humes Introduces Her New Skincare Brand44:46 How A Celebrity Skincare Brand Gets Into Major RetailersPANELGeorgie Coleridge Cole | https://www.instagram.com/gcoleridgecole/Tu Blue Stripe Long-Sleeved Shirt | https://on.ltk.com/+_jxSNw8k6XRyne9CrV5Zqg Gianvito Rossi Leopard 105 | https://on.ltk.com/+a7NHb2S3er0CeOxbDcgWxQ Tobi Asare | https://www.instagram.com/tobi.asare/ ASOS DESIGN Slinky Shoulder Pad Bodysuit | https://on.ltk.com/+_NwkikCaJxWw7ZtjpVn_qg The Frankie Shop Skirt | https://on.ltk.com/+OmM9Y3HzEBEV2FFaESuxxw Rochelle Humes | https://www.instagram.com/rochellehumes/ Alaïa Wedge Sandals | https://on.ltk.com/+yS9IyTBZTpk3eLd8KnCkaw THINGS WE LOVESheerluxe x TU | https://tuclothing.sainsburys.co.uk/list/the-sheerluxe-edit Form Performance Protein | https://healf.com/en-uk/products/performance-protein-vanilla?variant=42883784868079&selling_plan=6797295855 Black Faux Leather Penny Loafers | https://on.ltk.com/+zNpBRzdCIAncNaG0K-S7Dg Dark Red Faux Leather Penny Loafers | https://on.ltk.com/+VTyCNtukUcRrleZO0p_t2w Nº98 Beauty Hydra Bond Hair Masque | https://no98beauty.com/products/hydra-bond-hair-masque?srsltid=AU7gw4WoB7F7vHOdhhKGRcCL81C3UglYUwqccNBrGmhphuWS6l8PdDmC Philip Kingsley Elasticizer Intensive Treatment | https://on.ltk.com/+REfqXyYPfsndAShoHEw04g Pilates by Bryony | https://www.instagram.com/pilatesbybryony/ Body By Ciara | https://www.instagram.com/ciaralondon/?hl=en Astrid Bakery | https://www.astridbakery.co.uk/ Koibird Matcha Marylebone | https://koibird.com/Stylé – The Paris Edit | https://styleparis.substack.com/ SHOPPINGAlaïa Blue Wedge Sandals | https://on.ltk.com/+oLDrAjn0X9GgkMnYyOYu2g Khaite Sybil Boots | https://on.ltk.com/+dJeyE3vqqtcwIbru9bEQFw Khaite Eva Draped Pumps | https://on.ltk.com/+Ucl-jwmOJ4EYKcXZnjSXbA Eulah | https://eulahskin.com/

"When a product is produced, you have to think about whether it was made by child labor or was it made by artisans that are being paid a fair wage. That's the first step to thinking about sustainable systems, sustainable product development." —Noelle Bonner Pre-loved luxury isn't a trend anymore — it's a business model, and Noelle Bonner built hers around a pair of six-inch Gucci heels she wore exactly once. This episode was filmed live inside The NOBO, Presidio Heights' award-winning consignment shop, and it traces how a regretted Halloween purchase turned into a swap program that lets clients recover full value on the items they no longer wear. Noelle walks through the mechanics that most resale platforms never explain: why a traditional consignment sale returns roughly 65% of an item's value, and how The NOBO's swap program instead gives sellers 100% in store credit for a flat 6% fee. From there, the conversation moves into what "circularity" actually means in practice — fair labor, real materials, and what happens to a garment after someone's done with it — plus how a resale business authenticates luxury handbags, jewelry, and vintage pieces like a 1991 Chanel suit and rare Hermès and Dior finds. This episode is for anyone who's ever hesitated before consigning a designer piece, wondered whether pre-owned luxury is actually worth it, or wanted a straight answer on how authentication actually works. It's part business breakdown, part sustainability conversation, and part practical guide to getting more out of a closet full of things you no longer wear. Key Takeaways The NOBO's swap program pays sellers full item value in store credit for a 6% fee, compared to keeping roughly 65% through standard consignment. Noelle Bonner's entire swap concept originated from a pair of Gucci heels bought for a single Halloween costume in 2015. Circularity, as defined in the episode, covers three stages: fair-wage production, material quality, and what happens to an item at the end of its life. The NOBO authenticates handbags and jewelry using internal product codes, third-party specialists, and AI-assisted verification tied to serial numbers and materials. Vintage pieces from brands like Chanel and Alaïa often outlast newer releases because of stronger construction and materials used decades ago. Clients most frequently request vintage Dior saddle bags, Hermès Birkins, and seasonal occasion wear like gala and bridal looks. 100% of ticket sales and 10% of items sold during this live event benefited Marin Foster Care. Meet Noelle:  Noelle Bonner is the founder of The NOBO, a pre-loved luxury fashion company offering a curated circular shopping experience. After launching online in 2022, she opened The NOBO's first physical store in Presidio Heights in March of this year, where the brand was recognized as "Best Fashion, Second Life" in the Best of the Bay Awards.  Drawing on her own experience with single-use luxury purchases, Noelle developed The NOBO's innovative Swap program, enabling clients to retain full resale value as NOBO Cash for a modest fee, alongside competitive consignment and traditional resale options.  Committed to sustainability and quality, she champions choosing pre-owned first, emphasizes ethical production and durable materials, and leads rigorous authentication through internal standards, expert partners, and AI-supported verification. Noelle curates inventory to meet seasonal demand—particularly occasion wear—and ongoing requests for coveted pieces, fostering a community-centered, high-trust marketplace for enduring luxury. Website LinkedIn Instagram Facebook Connect with NextGen Purpose: Website Facebook Instagram LinkedIn YouTube Podcast Chapters: 01:21 Meet Noelle Bonner: Founder of The NOBO Pre-Loved Luxury Shop 02:07 The Halloween Heels That Sparked the Swap Idea 03:38 Swap vs. Consignment: Why 6% Beats Losing 35% 05:41 Defining Circularity: From Fair Labor to Landfill 08:02 Vintage Chanel and Why Pre-Loved Pieces Outlast New Ones 09:58 Why Pre-Owned Beats Waiting for Next Season 13:36 How The NOBO Authenticates Handbags and Jewelry 15:54 Curating Inventory: Not Every Prada Bag Makes the Cut 17:01 Most-Wanted Pieces: Birkins, Saddle Bags, and Gala Wear

Episode 161: The 5 Hormone Red Flags Everyone Over 35 Should KnowIf your bloodwork looks "normal" but you feel anything but fine — this is the episode.Dr. Lisa O walks through the five hormone red flags she sees every single week in her practice — the ones most doctors miss, the ones that mean you need to stop accepting "you're just getting older" as an answer, and the ones that are almost always fixable when you actually address the root cause.This one is for anyone (yes — women AND men) who's been told they're fine when they know they're not. Print the free checklist that goes with this episode, take it to your next doctor's visit, and refuse to be dismissed.What we cover:• Red Flag #1: The weight that won't budge (and why it's not a calorie problem)• Red Flag #2: The 3 AM wake-up and the sleep that isn't restoring you• Red Flag #3: The rage, anxiety, and crying at commercials — you are not "just hormonal"• Red Flag #4: The libido that disappeared (and the intimacy that's suffering because of it)• Red Flag #5: The brain fog that's making you afraid you're losing your mind• Why "normal bloodwork" is one of the biggest lies in modern medicine• The story of Jen — 46, dismissed by her doctor, and what actually turned it around• What to do THIS WEEK based on your score

Send us Fan MailThis week in Just MS News:Alpha-lipoic acid has passed an important interim checkpoint in the phase 3 OCTOPUS trial for progressive MS, while metformin will not continue. This does not yet prove ALA slows disability progression, but it has shown enough potential to keep testing.A new Nature Medicine study also found EBV-related immune changes appearing roughly 30–90 days before confirmed MS relapses. The findings strengthen the link between EBV, B cells and MS activity, but do not prove EBV caused the relapses.European regulators have recommended expanding Ocrevus to people aged 10+ with active relapsing MS. We also cover a newly cleared C-CAR168 CAR-T trial for progressive MS and early Manitoba research into NRG-1 and myelin repair.SOURCESOCTOPUS / Alpha-Lipoic Acid https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/sep/existing-drug-shows-early-promise-treat-progressive-ms https://ms-octopus.mrcctu.ucl.ac.uk/EBV Before MS Relapse — Nature Medicine https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04665-3Ocrevus / Pediatric MS https://www.roche.com/media/releases/med-cor-2026-09-18 https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/variation/ocrevusC-CAR168 CAR-T / Progressive MS https://www.neurologylive.com/view/fda-clears-c-car168-trial-refractory-progressive-multiple-sclerosisNRG-1 / Manitoba Research https://umtoday.ca/stories/potential-new-ms-treatment-may-restore-brain-function https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72639-7Just Multiple Sclerosis https://justmultiplesclerosis.comJust MS News is for education and discussion and is not medical advice. Discuss treatment decisions, supplements or changes to your care with your healthcare team.#MultipleSclerosis #MSNews #ProgressiveMS #MSResearch #Ocrevus #EBV #CART #SPMS #PPMSThe Just MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Show, w host Justin Loizos, is a podcast that connects, educates and tries to uplift others living with multiple sclerosis. It provides real-life stories, interviews, and information about DMTs (disease modification therapies) and updates on research developments.www.justmultiplesclerosis.com

As the books close from one fiscal year to the next, it's a good time to both reflect on progress and set goals for more of it. This week the American Angus Association Board of Directors met to: Detail a strong fiscal year, with positive bottom lines for the organization and its entities. Celebrate program wins, from 1 million AngusVerifiedSM AngusLink® enrollments and a huge uptick in Data Driven Herd recognitions to numerous Ag Media Summit awards. Discuss business, such as ongoing fertility research projects, an Angus Journal ® subscriber campaign to new members, and ways Certified Angus Beef is combating supply reductions.  Hear about updates on work in progress, from Angus Foundation funding opportunities to Angus Genetics, Inc. efforts to collect commercial data.  From branded beef tallow and TikTok advertising to heart health research, this recap episode condenses a week's worth of meetings into a conversation that gets you caught up on the recent highlights in the breed.HOSTS: Miranda Reiman and Mark McCully GUESTS: Jim Brinkley, 2026 president and chairman, has served on the American Angus Association Board of Directors for the past seven years. Along with their children, Crystal and Justin, Brinkley and his wife, Sherry, own 1,300 acres and 400 registered Angus cattle at Brinkley Angus Ranch (BAR) near Milan, Mo. Rob Adams has been a lifelong resident of Union Springs, Ala., where his grandfather established their current farm in 1936 and bought the first Angus cattle in 1939. He is serving a second term on the Board and is currently chair of the Member Services Committee. Adams has been involved in the day-to-day operations since purchasing his first cow at 8 years old. The farm has transitioned over his lifetime from a diverse cattle and row-crop farm to registered Angus cattle and timber. Adams has also worked as a financial advisor for more than 35 years. He and his wife, Connie, have four children.Roger Wann is a native of Poteau, Okla., and was raised on a multigenerational family commercial cow-calf ranch. While a student worker at the Oklahoma State University Purebred Beef Center, he says the value of the Angus cow herd at OSU was the last step in a learning curve that would lead him and his family into the Angus seedstock business. After completing a bachelor's degree in animal science at OSU, Wann earned a master's in physiology of reproduction from Texas A&M (TAMU). Wann is serving a second term on the Board of Directors and is currently vice chair of the Commercial Programs Committee. RELATED READING: President's Letter Don't miss news in the Angus breed. Visit www.AngusJournal.net and subscribe to the AJ Daily e-newsletter and our monthly magazine, the Angus Journal.

Below is a script for today's podcast. Links to resources mentioned in the episode are included in the script. Christina Hello, everyone, I'm Christina Darnell, the managing editor of MinistryWatch. Welcome to the MinistryWatch podcast. In today's extra episode, I talk with Warren Smith about some news items that are slightly (even significantly) outside of our normal charity and philanthropy “beat.” So, Warren, what's up first?   Warren   The trial of Anglican Archbishop Steve Wood concluded last Friday, Sept. 11. The trial included five days of testimony from 38 witnesses. Acting Archbishop Julian Dobbs released a statement asking for “patience and prayer as we wait on an opinion from the Court.” Christina By church law, the court has up to 101 days to issue its decision. Warren My sources tell me that even if he is acquitted, he will have a hard time leading the denomination, given the serious “hit” his credibility has taken by this process. Christina Missy Hanks of The ELM Foundation in Huntsville, Ala., and Misty Kelso of Watered Gardens Ministries in Joplin, Mo., recently testified before the U.S. House of Representatives at a hearing on federal welfare programs. Warren I've become a fan of both these organizations. We've written about Watered Gardens here at MinistryWatch. They are both a part of the True Charity Network, which we've also written about here. Christina So what did they say in their testimony? Warren Hanks described an “effort-based” model in which participants work, set goals and build education and job skills. She said assistance should be a bridge, not a source of dependency, and argued that work provides more than income. It builds confidence, skills, social connections and dignity. Christina Kelso works with women experiencing homelessness, addiction and poverty. Warren She drew on her own recovery in her testimony. She said people need more than immediate material assistance. They need relationships, redemption, hope and human dignity. She described work as something that eventually gave her purpose rather than merely a paycheck. Both women argued that effective assistance should address individual barriers while helping people move toward stability and independence. Watch their testimony here. Missy begins at 22:00 and Misty begins at 33:05. Christina One of the most common complaints we get here at MinistryWatch is about our low rating for Samaritan's Purse. The ministry has earned a “Withhold Giving” rating from MinistryWatch. Warren I get emails regularly from people telling me what great work the ministry does, asking why the low rating. The answer, I often say, “It's not magic. It's math.” In other words, a close look at Samaritan's Purse reveals that it spent nearly $100 million on fundraising alone last year. It now has more than $2.4 billion in assets, with nearly $1.4 billion of that in cash. Christina But don't they need that much cash to do the things they do? Warren Samaritan's Purse is remarkable in many ways. It is large enough to be able to do things that no other ministry can do. But it is sitting on mountains of cash while still spending another mountain of cash trying to get people to give them more. I think their behavior is questionable, at best, and I think they well deserve the low rating we give them. (Though it grieves me to say so.) I should also add that the organization just withdrew from the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, after being a member for decades. This action should be another “red flag” for donors. Christina But didn't Samaritan's Purse recently turn down $300 million from the federal government? Warren They did. And when they did, Franklin Graham, Samaritan's Purse president, said the organization “always relied on God, not government, for funding.” It's a laudable statement. It is also simply not true. They've been taking government money for years, including $75 million in 2024. I think Samaritan's Purse did the right thing by turning down that money. I just wish Graham had told the truth about why. So, for all of these reasons, MinistryWatch stands by its rating of Samaritan's Purse, and it's our hope that it will take steps to but more transparency and accountability into its operations. Christina Another common email we get here at MinistryWatch regards Voice of the Martyrs. Warren The emails we get are nearly identical, leading me to believe they are part of a campaign. The emails complain about VOM's $28 million expenditure on a headquarters campus, expenditures that took place 15 years ago. Also, in 2012, the president of VOM, Tom White, was credibly accused of sexually abusing a minor girl.  When the charges became public, he committed suicide. Christina That's a horrible story. Warren It is, so let me take the Tom White story first. It does raise some concerns about how a man could have gotten to be president of a major Christian organization with such a character, but I investigated this case pretty hard around 2013 and 2014. I interviewed the chief of the police department in Bartlesville, and reporters who had covered the story, in addition to some of those who were accusing White and VOM of wrongdoing. Christina What did you find? Warren I could find nothing that led me to believe there was anything systemically wrong at VOM. To be clear: The fact that I found no wrong-doing doesn't mean there WAS no wrong-doing (other than Tom White's obvious wrongdoing), but I looked hard and couldn't find it. Christina So what about the headquarters building? Warren I don't have an opinion about whether the building is extravagant or not. It is certainly nice, and it did cost a lot of money. But I would also note that according to VOM audits, the property is now worth as much as $50 million, nearly twice what they paid for it. Whether it was extravagant or not is not up to me to decide. It does, however, seem to have been a pretty good investment. Besides, what I think is kind of beside the point. That decision was made by the board and it appears to have been fully disclosed to its donors. None of this was done in secret. I found nothing inappropriate about the way the organization communicated with donors or the public about its headquarters building. Christina What does our profile of Voice of the Martyrs say? Warren You can read our profile of Voice of the Martyrs here. It shows an organization that is not perfect in terms of financial management. And it no longer releases a Form 990, which we think is a huge red flag. We give VOM an “Exercise Caution” rating. I'll be honest. I wouldn't give to the ministry myself. There are too many other ministries in our database that does what it does, with much higher ratings. But I am reluctant to endorse or condemn a ministry. We try to find information and make it available to donors and to the public and let them decide. So, while I would not give VOM a completely clean bill-of-health, I can say that we looked hard at the accusations and couldn't find anything that we thought rose to the level of wrongdoing.   Christina Any final thoughts before we go? Warren MinistryWatch on YouTube. If you have not discovered our YouTube channel, check it out here. We now have 200 videos there, and they have attracted tens of thousands of views. Subscribe, like, and share to spread the word about our work. Christina The producer for today's program is Jeff McIntosh. I'm Christina Darnell, along with Warren Smith. Until next time, may God bless you.

"Some people don't have heirloom items. Even people who have everything in the world, they don't have their own heirloom items. Those are really special things to have, and incorporating those things in your wardrobe- that's what makes somebody's style personal and special." —Theresa Palmer Pre-loved luxury isn't a compromise anymore— for many stylists, it's the whole point. Wardrobe stylist Theresa Palmer has spent nearly 25 years dressing Bay Area executives, creatives, and public figures, and her practice now rests on one conviction: the most considered thing you wear is something with a history. In this conversation, Theresa breaks down what luxury actually means once quality and craftsmanship stop being measured only by what's new. She explains why heirloom pieces carry a kind of personal meaning that new items can't replicate, how she sources hard-to-find designer pieces — including exclusive consignment through platforms like Reflaunt — and why a curated wardrobe is fundamentally more sustainable than one built by constant accumulation. She also gets specific about the mechanics of great personal style: bespoke fittings, mixing one vintage statement piece with modern basics, and treating your own closet like a department store you already own. This episode is for anyone rethinking what belongs in their closet, curious about secondhand luxury, or looking for a more intentional approach to getting dressed. Key Takeaways • A curated wardrobe makes dressing faster because every piece is chosen to work with everything else already in the closet. • Heirloom and vintage pieces — an inherited ring, a vintage blazer, a strand of pearls — give an outfit a personal story that new items can't replicate. • Hard-to-find luxury items like Alaïa belts are often easier and cheaper to source secondhand than to find new, even at full retail price. • Exclusive consignment platforms like Reflaunt can offer stylists and clients higher resale returns than broader resale marketplaces. • Pairing one vintage statement piece with new basics instantly makes an outfit feel more personal and less generic. • Photographing your shoes, bags, and jewelry to build new outfit combinations is a simple way to shop your closet before buying anything new. • Rotating pieces you already own, instead of reaching for the same favorites, can make getting dressed feel genuinely fresh again. Listen to the full conversation and subscribe for part two of this pre-loved luxury series next week: https://tinyurl.com/Essential-Ingredients-Podcast  Meet Theresa:  Theresa Palmer is a vetted San Francisco based wardrobe stylist with 25 years of experience working with individuals and publications.  Her styling has been featured on magazine covers from San Francisco Magazine to Silicon Valley Magazine. In addition to editorial work, her styling services include a custom mix of: • Creating a versatile and cohesive wardrobe that tells the story of who you are and who you want to be—in a stylish way  • A comprehensive wardrobe and style system including a full closet edit • Concierge - level resale and donation management • Digital lookbook • Personalized, strategic shopping • Event dressing • Travel packing to coordinate with your events • White glove, turnkey delivery service to your closet • Private tailoring session with exclusive master tailoring partner for custom - made, bespoke and couture pieces Website LinkedIn Instagram Facebook Connect with NextGen Purpose: Website Facebook Instagram LinkedIn YouTube Podcast Chapters: 01:09 Meet Theresa Palmer: The Stylist Behind Pre-Loved Luxury 01:57 What Luxury Means Now: Heirlooms vs. Buying New 05:39 Does Sustainability Drive Wardrobe Choices? 07:05 Hunting Rare Finds: Vintage Belts and Jewelry 09:18 Why Quality Craftsmanship Still Wins 15:39 Mixing Vintage with New for a Signature Look 16:23 Bespoke Styling and Intentional Dressing 18:20 Curated vs. Accumulated: What Changes 22:09 The Future of Pre-Loved Luxury and Resale 24:55 Key Takeaways and Where to Find Theresa THE PRIMES  ✨ You're more capable than you have ever been, and somehow more invisible than ever. You keep handing out advice you do not take yourself. You keep saying 'after this next thing' to your own life, and the people around you have no idea because, from the outside, everything looks fine— that is exactly what The Primes was built for.

Nicole Maggi is the author of the award-winning National Park Mystery Series, beginning with A MURDER IN ZION, the first in the National Park Mystery Series (Oceanview Pub), which Publishers Weekly called “a winner.” The book won the 2025 Gold Medal from the FOREWORD Reviews for Best Mystery, the Silver Medal from the Independent Book Publishing Association for Best Mystery, and was nominated for a Golden Poppy Award. The second book in the series, LOST IN YELLOWSTONE, has been praised by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus and hailed as “riveting.” She also penned THE FORGETTING, an International Thriller Writers Thriller Award Finalist, a Junior Library Guild selection and a #1 Kindle Bestseller. Nicole holds a BFA from Emerson College and has spoken at numerous conferences, including Left Coast Crime, Bouchercon, LA Times Festival of Books, and ALA. When she's not writing, she's plotting her next escape to a National Park. Website: https://nicolemaggi.com/Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolemaggiauthor/Blue Sky Handle: https://bsky.app/profile/nicolemaggi.bsky.socialThreads Handle: https://www.threads.com/@nicolemariemaggi*****************About SinCSisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.www.SistersinCrime.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/sincworldwideInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincworldwide/Threads: https://www.threads.com/@sincworldwideBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/sincworldwide.bsky.socialTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sincworldwideLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sisters-in-crime/The SinC Writers' Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/

September 11, 2001, changed Bob Ellis's life, just as it changed mine. Bob was working at the Pentagon that morning and had walked out of the building only minutes before Flight 77 struck the area where his meeting had taken place. You will hear how he immediately became part of the response, helping organize emergency supplies and support for those working at the Pentagon. We also compare our experiences from two different locations that day, Bob at the Pentagon and me at the World Trade Center with my guide dog Roselle. Twenty-five years later, our conversation is about more than remembering 9/11. It is about leadership, teamwork, service, controlling fear, and deciding what we do with the life we have been given. I believe Bob's story offers lessons we can all use when the unexpected happens. Highlights: 05:29-Bob shares how his early life and military support career shaped his path. 23:53-He recalls realizing the first World Trade Center strike was not an accident. 32:59-Bob describes being just 300 yards away when the Pentagon was hit. 37:00-He explains how he helped organize emergency relief supplies within hours. 1:03:54-Michael reflects on survival, fear, and the responsibility to move forward. 1:06:55-Bob shares the lasting life lessons he took from September 11. About the Guest: Bob Ellis is the Vice President, American Logistics Association responsible for Exchange, MWR, Food Service Operations. The native of Fort Walton Beach, Florida began his career with AAFES in 1972. From 1972 through 1984, he held retail management positions as a Branch Manager, and Operations Manager Main Store. In 1985, Ellis began a string of assignments as an Exchange General Manager trainee at Fort Belvoir, VA, and Exchange General Manager, Fort Hamilton, NY and Carlisle Barrack PA, (Army War College). Assignments as Area Retail Manager and General Manager at the former Japan Area Exchange ran from 1989-1992. In 1992, Ellis was transferred to Travis AFB in California as Retail Manager, Main Store. In 1994, Ellis was selected for the General Manager's position at Travis and spent three years assisting in the design and new construction effort of the largest retail Main Store ever constructed by AAFES. From 1997 to 2002, Ellis held the position of Director of AAFES' Washington Office, serving as the principal representative of the Commander, AAFES to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Departments of the Army and the Air Force, Congressional offices and industry representatives. Notable among his accomplishments, Ellis was instrumental in spearheading AAFES support to the Pentagon after the attacks of September 11th. Within 48 hours of the event, AAFES established a mobile exchange in the shadow of the impact site to support rescue workers and investigators with critical need and personal comfort items. After Washington, Ellis moved to AAFES Headquarters' in Dallas to assume the Vice President Specialty and Consumables position. In this role, Ellis was responsible for the SD-C Category Team Managers/Buyers. In August 2003, Ellis took his a position as Vice President of Corporate Planning and Communications where he managed the development of AAFES long range and contingency planning programs, oversight of corporate public affairs and ensured compliance with Department of Defense policy guidance with the goal of preserving and protecting the exchange benefit for soldiers and airmen and their families around the globe. Bob joined the ALA on 31 July 2006 where he continues to serve a role in military resale supporting Exchange, MWR, and Food Service, operations still serving military resale over 51 years continuous service. Ways to connect with Bob**:** You can find more benefits how Branded Riches can help you build your Brand, Product, Business, and Yourself at https://www.BrandedRiches.com   Connect:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/neryk-davydov Branded Riches Audiobook by Neryk Davydov https://www.audible.com/pd/Branded-Riches-Audiobook/B0GCP9MMRB Branded Riches Book https://www.amazon.com/Branded-Riches-Increase-Income-Irresistible/dp/1987753836 $5 Free Gift for Creating A New Ovato Wallet    www.ovatoCoin.com  About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can subscribe in your favorite podcast app. You can also support our podcast through our tip jar https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/unstoppable-mindset . Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Transcription Notes: Michael Hingson  00:00 Everyone, I am Michael Hingson, the host of Unstoppable Mindset. You've heard my voice for the last 471 episodes, but I'm calling you all out today and asking you to listen to this because we're going to make a special announcement now regarding the next four episodes, starting with 472. We're going to help commemorate the historic events of September 11, 2001. Yes, they're definitely historic, although not necessarily the most positive things that have ever happened. But as many of you may know, I was in the World Trade Center working on September 11, 2001, on the 78th floor of Tower One, and escaped with my guide dog. I've delivered a speech about that, which we put in the first episode of this podcast series back in August of 2021. But this Friday, episode 472 is going to have an updated speech that I delivered just a few years ago at the Marshfield, Missouri Cherry Blossom Festival. That festival is a yearly event celebrating different kinds of things that have happened in American history, and I was invited to come and speak, which I did. I'm going to put that speech up for you as episode 472. I think you'll find it enlightening. It'll teach you something about blindness and blind people. It'll tell you my story, and it'll give you some inspiration that I hope you will find helpful. Next Tuesday, september 8, Michelle Abraham is going to interview me. Michelle is with Amplify You, the company that does all of our back office stuff and helps me with the editing and other things regarding the podcast. Michelle owns her own podcast, and she is going to interview me about September 11th and other kinds of things relating to what I've learned and things that have happened over the past 25 years. She's also going to be putting this up on her podcast Amplify You, so you can find us in a lot of different places. On September 11th, I'm going to chat with Bob Ellis. Bob was in the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and had literally just walked out the door of the Pentagon when the plane crashed into the Pentagon and did the things and the damage that it did, and of course generated all the things that occurred at the Pentagon. On the 15th of September, I'm going to come back and have a conversation with all of you about lessons that I've learned over the past 25 years, and just reminisce a little bit about all of that. While the podcast is occurring on September 11th, I will be actually in Kilgore, Texas, doing a speech about September 11th. So lots of things going on, I hope you listen to these episodes. I hope that you'll tell everyone that you can about them. I really enjoy all of the support that you've given us over the years, and we're going to continue to do things with Unstoppable Mindset. And of course, as always, if you'd like to come on or know anyone who would, please let us know. We're always looking for guests. Thanks very much. We'll see you on Friday with the first of these four episodes. What if the biggest thing holding you back isn't what's in front of you, but rather what you believe? Welcome to Unstoppable Mindset, where inclusion, diversity, and the unexpected meet. I'm your host, Michael Hingston, speaker, author, and advocate for inclusion and possibilities. This podcast explores how the beliefs we carry shape the way we live, lead, and connect with others. Each week, I talk with people who challenge assumptions, face adversity head-on, and show what's possible when we choose curiosity over fear. Together, we focus on mindset, resilience, and the small shifts that lead to meaningful change. Let's get started. Hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of Unstoppable Mindset. You are listening to us today, or at least I'm assuming you're listening just when this came out. But whenever you're listening, it is today, September 11th, 2026, which is needless to say, a special day. If you have kept up with my podcast from the beginning, you know that I worked in the World Trade Center on September 11th, and ever since then I've been a public speaker, traveling the world, talking about trust, teamwork, leadership, the human-animal bond, and a variety of things. But recently, I met Bob Ellis. Michael Hingson  04:40 Now, Bob, as it turns out, on September 11th worked at the Pentagon, and I have not ever really had the opportunity to talk with someone who was at the Pentagon, especially on September 11th. But we get to chat about that today, and Bob knows our rules, which are basically. He sent me a series of questions that he wants to cover, but we are doing this as a conversation, so we'll probably talk about a lot of the things that he specifically sent. But we can go any old way that Bob wants to go, so that's what we'll we'll make this really fun. And I'm really looking forward to having the opportunity to talk with Bob. So again, welcome to September 11th, and Bob, I want to welcome you to Unstoppable Mindset. We're really glad you're here, Bob Ellis  05:28 Michael. Thank you for inviting me. I know you you've inquired several times, and I've debated it, and and I was just holding it for the right time, and this is the right time-the 25th anniversary of the event. Michael Hingson  05:40 Yeah, it is, and and and as as we've said, if you find anybody who needs a a speaker to come in and speak, let me know. But but for now, we get to chat about you and and hear your story, which I think is the important thing. I think we'll probably talk about both of our stories in the course of the day, no doubt about it. But I really am glad that you are here and that you are able to to talk with us today and and and talk about things. So let's start the way I love to start with people. Let's start at the beginning. Tell me kind of about the early Bob growing up and so on. Let's start with that. Bob Ellis  06:17 Well, I I grew up in let's say grew up until I was four years old. I lived. I was born in Pensacola, Florida. Lived in the Panhandle. Mother and father got divorced, and we moved to Norfolk, Virginia. And it was just my my mother and I until I was 14 years old. And I found out about my dad and found some letters from him and insisted to go see him. And so, between 14 and 15, I made a couple of unauthorized attempts to to make my way to Florida. On the third attempt, I made it, and it was quite a surprise for my father. Ended up living with him and being my closest friend up until I had he had grandkids, we had kids, and so I lived and grew up in the Destin, Fort Worth, Fort Walton area. Went to work, and this is where the story begins. I went to work at Eglin Air Force Base as a as a janitor in a gas station for the Army Air Force Exchange Service, so that I could continue to play high school football and practice, was a great job. It was an opportunity to work with the military, be around the military, and I took great pride in that feeling that that that that while I I wanted to go into the air force and I wanted to fly jets, that opportunity just never presented itself because the Vietnam War was going on and they were banking pilots instead of taking pilots. Anyway, I I ended up staying with the Army Air Force Exchange Service for 34 years. I moved all over the world. I've seen the every AOR and every combat scenario since the Vietnam War. Not in the Vietnam War, but I was in the refugee program, helping with the resettlement back in 1972, 1973. Spent the rest of my career going wherever they sent me, and and and that was from Tokyo, Japan, to to Tuli, Greenland, to California, and ultimately to to Texas. Michael Hingson  08:30 I remember during the Vietnam War, someone called me one day. I was a student at UC Irvine, and there was a refugee camp fairly close to the university, and someone said, and someone said, "There's a blind young man at the sent at the refugee center, and we should go see him. And so we we bought a transistor radio for him and went out to visit with him and spent some time with him, and I never got to see him after that. But I hope I hope he did well. He he seemed like he was doing okay, but he was a little bit lost, needless to say, because it's a whole bunch of people. There are no a lot of people who knew much about blindness and blind people, but I would presume he did reasonably okay. I hope so, but that was the only time I specifically had an involvement with him or anyone at the refugee camps. Later, when I met my wife Karen, she lived, I think, a door down, and she and her parents lived a door down from a Vietnamese couple, and he was a tailor and actually made her wedding dress, which was kind of cool, and so we got to spend a fair amount of time with the Voo's, which was was good, but what's. Interesting for me now, with with now being well so many years later. In November, I will be going to do a speech in Hanoi, so I'm really looking forward to to going over there and and experiencing it. At least it'll be a little bit cooler then than it probably is now. So we'll see, but it'll be it'll be pretty enjoyable to go and again see a different a different part of the world, and I I think we'll be fine. At least that's that's that's the plan. Bob Ellis  10:34 That that that that tour that I had at Eglin Air Force Base with the refugees, will come back to to to 911 2001 and the experiences that I had at that refugee camp replicated in the Pentagon park and lot there in 911. So we'll get to that. I'll explain it further. Michael Hingson  10:56 Yeah, I'm sure it was a a great a great lesson. Where did you do college, or did you Bob Ellis  11:03 went to went to Duke University and the University and the University of Maryland? Michael Hingson  11:10 Okay. Well, at Bob Ellis  11:12 least much of it was correspondence as well, only because I was deployed for for so many years back to back, 17 moves in 34 years. Michael Hingson  11:22 Wow, Duke University. At least you didn't go to one of those other schools in North Carolina. Boy, talk about talk about rivalries and basketball. What a what a group down there. Bob Ellis  11:35 Oh, I know, I know. Michael Hingson  11:38 I once spoke in Kentucky, and the Wildcats were in the NCAA championship that year, and I was asked to speak at an event on the night of the championship. But I was told I had to end by 630. I could not go one second past 630 because the gym I was speaking in was going to clear out. Well, I ended in time so that at 630, what they said was absolutely true. That gym cleared out. Everybody went home to watch the game. Bob Ellis  12:09 That's that's sports. Michael Hingson  12:11 Not sports. It is, but it's okay. I I learned a lot down there and got to meet a number of people, and so it was it was a lot of fun to to do it, and then years later I was in North Carolina when NC State and UNC were playing to see who was going to go into the championship. So again, pretty interesting world, and and sports ruled everything then, so it's okay. It Bob Ellis  12:43 hasn't it hasn't changed at all because my my my daughter I got her graduate studies done at NC State, and it hasn't changed a bit. It's just I'll bet it's just crazy as it's when was 20 3040 years ago, Michael Hingson  12:58 and it shall ever be, won't it? Bob Ellis  13:01 Yeah, yeah. Her undergraduate degree was at University of Texas. This was my son's, and she went on to NC State, and and he went on to medical school in in Houston. Michael Hingson  13:16 Okay. Well, UC Irvine, when I was there, had the championship water polo team, but that's what we had. But they started basketball while I was there, although it wasn't anything huge. But a couple of years ago, they made it to the Sweet 16, and that was kind of fun for UC Irvine. One of these days, it'll go all the way. Bob Ellis  13:40 Yep. Michael Hingson  13:41 Well, anyway, so you you went to college, and and what did you major in? Bob Ellis  13:45 Political science. Michael Hingson  13:47 Okay, political science Bob Ellis  13:48 and business management. With a with my two aspirations, I wanted to. I really wanted to major in in aviation science, but that that wasn't offered. So that's political science and business science, business law. Michael Hingson  14:06 But you were working for the Army Air Force Exchange Service. What is that exactly? Bob Ellis  14:11 Yeah, it's a it's it's it's a non-appropriated funded Service provided all goods. I think of it as the the Walmart or the Target of of the civilian sector, except the Army Air Force Exchange Service has stored everything from stores, every business that you can think of therein, from stores to convenience stores to gas stations to beauty shops and barber shops to dining facilities, franchise Burger Kings, anything that a soldier and his family needs at the base or overseas or in the combat arena, where we were there with it, providing it. It's been a great career. Michael Hingson  14:59 Did you? Do you have any involvement with, especially here in the U.S. the the Randolph Sheppard programs, the blind vending stand operations at any of the facilities? Bob Ellis  15:09 Yep, sure did many many times. We're still working with it. There's there's some issues present right now under the Randolph Shepherd that they're looking at. I don't know what what's going to change, but yes, sir, we were very, very close to that. Michael Hingson  15:24 Yeah, I know there. The current government's looking at it; they want to scale a lot of it back, which would, I think, not be a good thing. I think there's a lot of reasons to keep it, but we'll see. We'll see. We'll see how it goes. But I, the closest I ever came to dealing with anything from AAES was I was invited to speak once at an organizational meeting of the National Property Managers Association in the military. Are you familiar with that? Bob Ellis  15:56 I am. Yes. Michael Hingson  15:57 And when I was asked to come, the Speakers Bureau didn't do a good research job because they told me, "Oh, it's the people who rent apartments and all that. When I got down to the to the event, I will say that the National Property Managers Association certainly serves a nice breakfast. But anyway, the conversation just didn't seem like what I what I was expecting. So I asked somebody, and they told me that the organization was the organization that had complete jurisdiction over anything physical that the government owned, and Bob Ellis  16:30 absolutely Michael Hingson  16:31 that that changed my grass. Sorry, Bob Ellis  16:34 right down to the grass, right down to the grass and the concrete. Michael Hingson  16:37 There you go. Well, it also changed my speech in 10 minutes, but it was fun. They invited me back the next year, so that was good. But it's it's fun when you're you're planning to do a particular speech, and suddenly it turns out it's got to change. It's good to have the flexibility to do that. But I'm I'm glad I had the opportunity to do it, and hopefully we'll have opportunities to do it again, but you have served a lot of different kinds of of services within AAES, and and I assume that's all worked out pretty well. Bob Ellis  17:14 That that worked out very well. Yep, I had I started at the bottom and and climbed as close to the top as I possibly could, but Michael Hingson  17:23 you eventually got the the highest medal that was available for civilians when you retired or after you retired. Bob Ellis  17:31 No, the highest award that I ever received was from my man over the Pentagon 911 support program, which was a nice medoris civilian award. Michael Hingson  17:46 Okay, where is your favorite place to live in the world? Or is that really easy to say? I mean, you've been all over the place and seen a lot of different kinds of places. Don't know how much you got to two of them, but anyway, Bob Ellis  18:00 it wasn't the two places that I that I went overseas, which was Japan and Greenland. Those were the longest tours of my life. Beautiful country in Japan, and and great facilities and support in tuning Greenland. But I would I would guess throughout the United States, I had a great assignment at the Army War College, and I had a great assignment at Travis Air Force Base here in Michael Hingson  18:26 California. Yeah, Bob Ellis  18:28 yeah. Michael Hingson  18:30 I've spoken. Bob Ellis  18:30 My son was born in Japan. He's dual citizen as a result on the Air Force Base, and my daughter was born in California. So it was a great time, mainly because the kids were younger and and and and we were in great climate areas. Michael Hingson  18:48 When people ask me what my favorite place in the United States is, I say everywhere. I I just enjoy meeting people wherever I go in the U.S. It's so many different cultures and customs and ways of doing things. It is so fun to to see all the different places and see how they are. People ask what I like, where I like outside the U.S. And so far, it's been New Zealand. I would say is probably the best, but Japan has to be up there too. I've really enjoyed being in Japan. I've been there a couple times, and I thoroughly enjoyed Bob Ellis  19:23 it. I, I had, I think the most the the greatest thing about the assignments was some of the people I I got to to meet in in my in my tours. One of them would be the Crown Prince of of Thailand, who who is now the king of Thailand, King Rama, got to meet him when he was a pilot, and supported him when when I was at Yokota Air Base, and multiple other celebrities. I I had the opportunity as a kid to attend the funeral. For Douglas MacArthur, and and his his memorial was right across the street in North Virginia from where my mother worked. And 20 years later, I had the opportunity to to meet mrs. Mcarthur, Jean MacArthur, at Gracie Mansion in New York, and I I I wrote protocol. I when it came time for her to to meet me and meet meet her, I got down on one knee and I held her hand and I said, "I want to tell you a little story, ma'am. And she said, "Well, certainly, absolutely. And I told her the story how when the general had died in in 1964, I was required by my my mother to go to the funeral, and the most fascinating person I'd ever seen in my life was herself, and she just got she just turned red. Well, long story short, I was at an army command at Fort Hamilton. The next day, the the group the the installation commander called me over to his office, very angry, but he wanted me to know that I was going to be the first civilian aide for the old lady, which was mrs. Mcarthur, and he had to take one of his lieutenants off. And I got to know the family and and the Mcarthurs as a result of that. So lots of opportunities, just absolutely amazing. 911, and we'll get to it. I got to meet President Bush momentarily, but I I got to meet him and have a short conversation. Michael Hingson  21:32 I got to meet him in 2005. We went to the Oval Office, and we were supposed to have a two minute photo op, but he kept wanting to interact. We ended up talking for about 15 minutes. He kept the Italian ambassador or prime minister waiting, but it was a was a great conversation. I very much enjoyed having the opportunity to meet with him. Bob Ellis  21:53 Yeah, he was remarkable. Michael Hingson  21:54 Yeah, in in so many ways. If Speaker 1  22:00 you enjoy Unstoppable Mindset and would like to help us continue bringing these conversations to you each week, we've created a way for you to support the show. Your contribution helps us cover production costs and continue sharing stories, insights, and ideas that inspire people to live with purpose and possibility. If supporting the podcast feels right for you, you'll find the link in the show notes. Thank you for being part of the Unstoppable Mindset Community. Michael Hingson  22:33 So that's that's pretty cool. So as you were going around to all these different places, what would you say you were learning. Bob Ellis  22:41 I was learning business. I was learning relationships. I was learning marketing. Pretty much anything that you wanted to do as a general manager or a vice president, the exchanges let you do it. You know, until you got too far gone, and they they reel you back in. But I love being able to run multiple businesses on the installation, and and be accountable for them, and run them at a profit, and and at the end of the day, do great things for military families. Michael Hingson  23:16 Wow! So you um, you you've you've had a lot of challenges and and had to learn a lot of different things. Needless to say, but I would would think that you've you've been able to to keep a lot of that and use it. And you know we've referred to September 11 th, and so let's let's get to around that time. The first thing I would ask, and people have asked me, but you're in a better position in theory than I. Did you have any inkling that something like September 11th was going to happen? Bob Ellis  23:53 Well, actually, September 11th was was happening. I left for work about 4:30 in the morning. I lived out in the suburbs in Centerville, Virginia, and it was one of those days that you just wished you didn't have to go to work. It was the as the sun was coming up, it had a little cold breeze to it. The skies were blue. It was just one of those days that you just wanted to sit out in the yard and and relax or go bicycling, whatever. But I did my duty and I drove in to the Washington D.C. area and reported to my office on time, which was right around 5o'clock. My staff showed up around six and some at seven, and my secretary came in, and I don't know exactly what time it was, but it was shortly after, right around 9o'clock in Eastern Time, when the first airplane had hit the the trade center. Michael Hingson  24:49 Yeah, Bob Ellis  24:49 846-940-6846, Yes, right, 846. Yeah, and and so I I went in to look at the. The the television monitor standing there it was just her and I at the time and and and I said that's not an accident and she says how do you know that I said look at the skies that was an airliner they were talking about it was a little small private aviation well I'm a pilot I've been a pilot for 40 years 41 years I knew exactly, you know, that that where it was, what it was doing, and that wasn't a it wasn't an accident. And and my inkling was is that I was in a in rented space in Arlington, Virginia, because we had been moved out because the wedge that got attacked was the one that was still under construction. My office had not been completed there, and and I had a meeting in that wedge at 9o'clock that morning. And my secretary said to me, "You know, Bob, the Pentagon is next. And I paused for a minute and I looked at her and I said, "How in the world could you even imagine that, you know that that that's a fortress? Who would be crazy enough to attack the Pentagon? And she says, I I just I don't want you to go over, you know, just just just do it by phone, which I I probably could have done. And I said, No, I'm I'm going to go over there. If they're going if they're going to attack the Pentagon, I'm going to go down with it, and that was kind of my philosophy. So, in the back of my mind, seeing that airplane hit the Trade Center and her telling me that certainly made me wonder if it wasn't a possibility. Michael Hingson  26:33 So, you didn't. You don't think that anyone, and I've never heard of any such, but that anyone had any advance notice? There wasn't chatter. There wasn't anything that made people suspect what might be getting ready to happen. Bob Ellis  26:47 No, I I I think that is the the worst our country has ever been off guard. It reminds me of you know the the attack on Hawaii and that you know in in Pearl Harbor. We were completely unprepared, and I thought we were completely unprepared on 911. And in fact, after the attack, I knew we were unprepared when I saw the two jets fly over with no armament on the wings. So no, I don't think anybody had any idea. Michael Hingson  27:18 Well, the other side of it, and I've talked about this in in some talks I've given. I talk a lot about trust and teamwork, and like it or not, one of the things that I observe is you had 19 terrorists who functioned well enough as a team that they didn't talk about it. They didn't let anything come out. So no matter how much armament or whatever we might have had, I'm not sure whether we could have predicted that on September 11th, what occurred was going to happen. Bob Ellis  27:49 You know, all the indicators were there. You know, those those 19 trained at private airports, and they and during their training, it was it was reported multiple times that all they were interested in was taking off, not landing. I mean, first clue, you know. Okay. Why would you just be interested? He's taking off an airplane, and and I always found that very curious, and I'd heard it several times. That should have set alarm bells off. Should have. It didn't. Apparently, it did. Michael Hingson  28:20 Good point, and you know the the thing is though that, as as you pointed out, who would have thought that anybody would attack the Pentagon, the fortress that it was? Who Bob Ellis  28:33 yeah, Michael Hingson  28:33 who would have thought? So again, you can only go by what you got, and so nobody, I think, would have ever imagined that. Well, of course, the first plane hit the World Trade Center, and at first, people didn't really know what happened because there were really not very many people who who saw it. In fact, we only have the few photos that were taken by the French photographers who were there for something else, but then a little after nine, the second plane hit, and that changed the dynamic and changed the perspective a lot. Although a bunch of people who started seeing it on TV thought it was just a movie, and it wasn't true, but the second plane hitting changed the attitudes. I think for most people, and that's when people knew something was going on. Bob Ellis  29:24 Yeah, I didn't know anything about the second trade center. I had left my office in Crystal City, and I had headed to the Pentagon. And the meeting, the meeting that I had was with the Army Personnel Chief and several other folks. And as it turned out, that is exactly the window that the airplane flew into. That was ground zero for the for the for the target for the airplane going in just above the first floor for the Pentagon. So I didn't know anything. I was I was trapped at that point. I was trapped. Couldn't go um. Wouldn't go um. Didn't want to go um. And I had lived in New York City for five years, and I was my biggest. I was always impressed by the New York City Fire Department. I mean, they're they're just walking heroes if you've ever seen them. I mean, they were like they were like giants when you got next to them, and that they would they were just superhumans. And I always wondered upon the top floors how in the world you would get a fire put out at the top of the World Trade Center, and and I did not know until two days later when I made it home. That was my first question to my family: How did they get the the fire out at the top of the World Trade Center? And I and and it was repeated to me centers, and I said, What are you talking about? Centers in my family, and they said, "Bob, the World Trade Centers are gone. I said, "I don't understand. How could they be gone? And that was that. That was you know two days later that I found out about that. It was quite a shock to me to learn what it actually while I was on on the Pentagon mission. Michael Hingson  30:58 Well, when the first plane hit. Well, in the second plane, the firefighters were going up the stairs carrying all their equipment, and I had had had known about that and asked people, "Well, why are you or would you be carrying equipment? Because I met I I didn't meet the FDNY people ahead of the World Trade Center attacks, but I did meet with other people to learn about emergency preparedness and so on because I felt as the leader of an office, it was my job to know because I wasn't going to be able to read signs, and I love information, so I was trying to learn all I could, and they told me that where would if you if you had equipment stored in the in the towers, then people would go to it. Firefighters would go to it and get the the equipment. What floor do you put it on? Because no matter what floor you put it on, what if the fire broke out one floor below? You know, you can't get to the equipment. So the only way they could get up the stairs to fight the fires was to carry all of the equipment with them, yep, yep. Not enough is said about those guys in history. No, and I met a number of them coming up the stairs as we were going down, and they wanted to escort me down, and I didn't want them to do that because I knew they were a team, and I I pushed back pretty hard and said, no, you guys go up and we'll go down unless we can help you fight the fires, and they said no. The reason they eventually let me go down without any assistance was I had a friend with me who could see, and I said, "Look, David can see. Don't worry about us. And David and they turned to David and they said, "You're with him. And David said, "Yeah, leave him alone. He's fine. So we went on down, and they went up. I don't know whether the people we interacted with made it down or perished up above. It was about 10 after 10 after nine or so when we got to the 30th floor where we met them. So it was another hour and almost 20 minutes before the tower collapsed, but I don't know where the firefighters were, or how many people from the groups that we interacted with perished, or if they all made it out. I don't know, but Bob Ellis  33:12 yep, I I memorized all those numbers. You know, 189 between the airplane and the Pentagon, 200 injured, but 189. 189 total were 64 on the airplane, 125 in the Pentagon, and I'll never forget those numbers. Yeah, I'll never forget the time. I looked at my watch at 9:17, and and I have to tell you that on 9/11, I always sit very quietly until I get past 917, not 937. I'm sorry, 937. Michael Hingson  33:48 So Bob Ellis  33:48 in the morning. Michael Hingson  33:49 So, how close were you to where the plane came into the Pentagon? Bob Ellis  33:56 About 300 yards. When when it was clear that the meeting wasn't going to happen because the air traffic control system had been shut down. They released us to go back to our our offices, and I was going out the front door. I left about 930. It was supposed to start at nine 930. The generals said we'll just reconvene, and and I agreed. And from his office on on the south portico, I was walking out the front door. Literally, I heard the engines spool up. I had been in the AOR in rail combat munitions, and and I've heard cruise missiles, and and I could hear this one spinning up, and I thought it was a cruise missile, and so when it hit when it hit the building, it was just it was just a horrendous sound. But my first impression was to run to it to see what happened, what what what caused that, and there was nothing there. It was just four or five cars burning and smoke billowing out of the building. And and the the rest turned into a you know a rescue and a a recovery. Michael Hingson  35:08 AOR is what Bob Ellis  35:10 the area of responsibility. Michael Hingson  35:13 Okay, area of responsibility. Okay, Bob Ellis  35:16 yeah, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, wherever we are, it's it's N A O R, and that's your A O R. That's state. That's where you are. So that that's where I encountered first first and only live person coming out of the building, and which was a which was a really big surprise. But I knew that there was something that I I had to do, and and one of the things was to, if he needed assistance, getting him assistance. And there were several people. He was he was he was burned third degree burns over his whole body. He lived. I said one prayer was for him. And as it turned out, he became a a great ambassador. Turned out to be a great friend, and is actually back in the Pentagon to this day, just steps away from his old office as a civilian, went went back on a presidential appointment. Michael Hingson  36:09 So, you mentioned the general a while ago. Was did he survive? Bob Ellis  36:15 No, he was the he was the highest ranking person that we lost in in the entire encounter, and it was the entire office was just instantly vaporized. So he did not survive. Michael Hingson  36:33 Well, so you heard the engines revving up, and you went after you heard the explosion and so on. You went over to see what was going on, and then what did you do? Because it certainly had to be a major surprise and a shock by any standard. Bob Ellis  36:49 Yeah, I went that side of the building, saw the hole in the building, kind of convinced myself it was a cruise missile, but I never heard such a loud engine noise. As it turned out, it was it was two big engines off of a 757 200, and so I immediately tried to figure out you know what can I do? What should I do? Should I even be here? And that's when I saw the colonel coming out of the building, and I was able to walk with him and four others over to the the road, the Washington Boulevard that goes around the Pentagon, and and I sat down on the telephone pole, a light pole that the airplane hit going in. Now I'm a pilot, and and I have to tell you to take an airplane going at Mach point eight seven, and hit a target, hit the building, and not hitting the ground was just absolutely amazing to me. So as they got the colonel into an SUV and and and got him out of the the scene, I sat there. Just it was almost like a movie I was watching. The triage was being set up. The Pentagon was burning. The emergency services units were starting to show up, and we had very intermittent phone capability. And I had I had a a friend, my my the commander that I worked for in Dallas at the time. This secretary's husband was a bodyguard for Secretary Rumsfeld, and and Secretary Rumsfeld was actually carrying litter patients, carrying people out of the debris area and out of the offices. He was actually helping people, and he he realized that something needed to be done. So he gave Jerry a note, a piece of paper. We called them snowflakes, but it was a tablet, and he had listed what needed to be done and what needed to be done now. And Jerry found me sitting over there and gave me that that piece of paper, and it had everything listed on it. He wanted a a tactical field operation in place. He wanted it now, not yesterday. He wanted something in the interim, and it was to provide emergency relief supplies. So I I sat down on that telephone pole and I called our our local dist not local our largest distribution center in the world was down in Newport News, and I got the director on the phone and I said, I have an official order from you coming from the Secretary of Defense, and and don't override, don't just just follow my instructions until we can get to the commander at AFIS headquarters, and so I gave him the list. I just gave him the full list of things that we needed to get rolling, and I called another gentleman that was just across the river, the American Logistics Association, which owned all of the brokers and manufacturers, and I gave him a list of stuff that we needed now, like Gatorade boots. the The surface was over 2000 degrees, and the emergency service boots were melting almost upon contact. So I had I had 1000s, hundreds of 1000s of dollars of equipment. And supplies coming in, and we set up the USO tent, put everything in the USO tent. We raided all the stores in the in the Washington D.C. area. I was able to contact the region manager, and I told him, you know, what we needed to take it off the shelf, put it in the back seat of the cars, don't account for it, and get it to me. And that's what we did the entire first night was setting up the USO trailer, and the next morning I had two tactical field tractor trailers coming up the ramp just as the sun was coming up, and they were loaded with supplies, and that's what stayed in place for the next two months. Over $2 million worth of merchandise, emergency recovery type merchandise, everything from linens to the towels to eye wash, and and and we had to actually have some special boots made out of leather for the dogs because the dogs' feet were so it was it was quite an operation. We ended up well running within within 24 hours of the attack, Michael Hingson  41:04 why is it that you are able to stay pretty focused through all of this? Bob Ellis  41:08 I you know I you know I I've often asked that question. I wanted to go home. Alls I could think of is my kids, my wife. What what are they doing? What are they thinking? They're watching this on the news, and I had I had drifted over to which my car was very close, and it was taped off. The parking lot was taped off. It was a crime scene. There was no going anywhere. There was no transportation. If I wanted to walk 40 miles, I guess I could have, but because I couldn't go anywhere, I had to do something there on the scene, so that's that's that's what I did, and and it wasn't until the next day when the phone started working again, our two star in Dallas was able to get through to me on on my BlackBerry, and he wanted to know what the situation was, and and and I told him, and and he said, what what are we going to do? And I explained to him what we had done already, and he says, "How did you do all of that? I said, "I picked up the phone and I told him I was working for Secretary Rumsfeld, and this is the order. And and he says, "How are we going to pay for all of this? I said, "Sir, this is our finest hour. We're not. We're going to donate. These are all donating goods, and and it really was an interesting. I I just I just don't know. I was compelled. He he he ordered me on that second day to go home, and and I said I had no way to go home. And he said go to the motor pool. I'm going to call the motor pool. He had been the commander of the Air Force One Squadron, so he had a lot of connections in Washington, and he he got me a car, and I went home long enough to change clothes and and and to come back out. So it was it was just out of adrenaline, I think. Somebody had to do something, and and everything that I've told you here today is not written anywhere in history. I own every bit of what happened in in in that story, other than some of the people that were working there. Michael Hingson  43:07 What phone did you use that first day? You said you're you're it was the second day or the next day that you're phoned. So how were you able to communicate? Bob Ellis  43:17 We had Blackberries, and and until the networks got completely overrun, we were able to use it. And and so by the second third day, we we had pretty consistent communication, because the the the commander called me back that same morning, and and he said, you know, he said, how come you haven't been home? And I explained to him, and he says, "Will you do me one favor? And I said, "I would. He said, "Will you go back into the building? Said, "Sir, the building's on fire. He says, "Well, well, you get in the front, and I'm looking at it. He was looking at it on television, and the military clothing store was in the very front, within 100 feet, probably of that door that I went out of. And he says, "Would you see if our people survive, and if the store itself survived? It was sitting near the the area. I went in the store. I went into the building, into the burning building, and was able to look in the door, and I could see that the the room was full of smoke, and the door was locked. So I told him I would assume that our people made it out, alive and okay. And they say that was a, and they did, and they absolutely did. And in fact, everybody that that that that had any kind of supervisory capability around the Beltway, they volunteered to come over and work for me and and operating that facility for 2024 hours a day, seven days a week. Wow! So and not and not to shorten the the question, I wasn't there, but because of what I was doing in the in the Pentagon, my old homestead was at Fort Hamilton. Fort Hamilton picked up the same thing and went over to the Trade Center area, and they gave them a place to put a mobile. Food truck, and they brought supplies in and pretty much supported the firefighters and the and the and the police there. So so we had quite an operation going for a long time. Michael Hingson  45:11 Yeah, and and needed to, but it was interesting and commendable that in both places people were able to focus, and were able to carry out missions. I know at the World Trade Center when the two towers collapsed. Of course, it was it was unexpected, but we know now, of course, why they collapsed. It wasn't that the planes hit; it's that they were they were full of what 36,000 pounds of jet fuel each, and that exploding jet fuel is what damaged the infrastructure of the buildings to cause them to be able to collapse. But as well as at the Pentagon, but very quickly people were able to start to move and deal with issues and put procedures in place that were able to, I'm sure, keep more people from perishing and keep kept more people being able to focus throughout the whole the whole sequence of events. It it certainly was very scary, but it is something that that people like you were able to do. I know for me, the reason I was able to focus was because I had learned what to do in an emergency at the World Trade Center. I spent time with people and I learned how the whole building was structured, so I knew when the building tipped, why it tipped, and and things like that. You Bob Ellis  46:40 felt it. You you felt it. Michael Hingson  46:43 Oh yeah. Oh my god. We moved probably at least 20 feet, and then it came back, and oh my Speaker 2  46:48 god, it Michael Hingson  46:48 got vertical again. It got vertical again, and then a few seconds later, it dropped about six feet because the expansion joints went back to their normal configuration. But Bob Ellis  46:59 we uh we we knew from 937 till about 5o'clock that evening there would be no more survivors. It was over, and and and the dogs were getting depressed because they were they were they were not cadaver dogs. They were recovery dogs, and they were used to fight. And we we actually had ceremonies for the dogs every day, where we sewed flags onto their collars, and they had special water and special food. So they played a big, big role in morale, mine especially. Michael Hingson  47:33 And at the same time, I know people had to do drills to keep the dogs focused because they weren't able to find people, as you said, so they had to do things to give them something to find to keep them happy, which was was so important. Bob Ellis  47:50 Yeah, that we had two two tractor trailers lined up. It was just just two 300 feet from where you went into the damaged area of the Pentagon, and those dogs and their handlers would get up underneath those trailers and sleep, and they would play with the dogs. We actually had some carpets brought out, tarps brought out, and that's kind of where that was kind of their headquarters during 911. We had to make it up as we went along, and and the other interesting part of this story is in 1972 at the at the refugee camp, I was sleeping in the back of a van because there was just no way to go home. It was too it was too far to drive home to turn around and come back at 8o'clock the next morning, and I heard somebody knocking at the door, and and and I and I opened up the door, and it was a military colonel in uniform, and there was a civilian standing there with him. And he says, "Are you part of this operation? And I said, "Yes, sir, I am. He said, "Who are you with? And I said, "The Army Air Force Exchange Service. And and he says, "You're not provided any other facilities. This, I said, that was my choice. And as it turned out, I was speaking to Secretary Rumsfeld during his first administration as Secretary of Defense, and it was interesting that when he found out that what I did in in that program, I won the Indo Indo China Award for service, and then of course you you move ahead to to 2001, and we we knew each other. I had briefed him several times, and we we knew each other in the Pentagon. And that day, he knew that I would know what to do for the support role, and that's why he sent the letter up. And as it turned out, when he retired and and left the Pentagon, he was on a book tour, and and the the general secretary and myself got an invite to come to the book tour with him and and have lunch with him. And he handed me a book and he said, "I want you to have this, but I don't want you to open it up until you, Bob. I don't want you to open it up till you get home. I don't want you to give it to your wife. And and it was like this. Sure, I'm not not a problem, and so I got I got home. You know, this is this is 10 years later, and handed the book to her, and I said, "Open it up. I'm not wasn't allowed, and there's a nice thank you page on the front from Secretary Rums for allowing him to use me on 9/11, and you just you just that's the best reward that I could have ever ever expected. A guy that I just idolized to do that. Michael Hingson  50:26 When you got home, so you weren't able to talk to your wife before you got home, or did you ever get communication so you could call her? Bob Ellis  50:33 No, I didn't. I when I finally got the phone back up and running and got in the car. I had lost the battery, so I said, "I'm gonna be home in in an hour. I'll just be there. But General Wax called up, and she answered the phone. She went. She went sometime during that day and pulled the kids out of the private school, brought them home. She could see my car. It was a yellow SUV, and she could see it in the South parking lot in the news choppers going around. She said that was my car where my spot was, and General Wax got her on the phone and she and and she answered the phone and he said this is C J Wax and she thought that was the call. She thought that was it, and she alls I could do was drop to my knees and and and C J said and it's it's okay. I've ordered him to come home. He's all right. He's running. He's running a a program for us for for recovery. And if he's not there, he should be there shortly. And then by the time I got there, I got to the front step. I'm asking the question about the World Trade Center, how they got the fire out, and I was ordered that I could not go in the house because I smelled like smoke. So, so two minutes before that, I was the most important person in the world, and and then all of a sudden, I was I was back to Bob, and I wasn't going to wear that that suit in the house to to smoke it. So anyway, that's that's how she found out. He he called her up. I asked him. I think I asked him if he would get in touch with her at our last conversation, and he did. Michael Hingson  52:06 Soon after both towers collapsed, like a minute or so later, I called and got through to my wife Karen. I had talked with her before we left our office, and then when we got downstairs, I couldn't get through to her because the circuits were busy, and it was obvious that everyone we learned later was saying goodbye to loved ones, and so the circuits were busy. So after both towers collapsed, I was able to get through to her, and as I tell people, there were tears on both sides of the phone at the when that conversation started, but she was the first one who told us how two aircraft had been crashed into the World Trade Center towers, one to the Pentagon, and at that time, the fourth one was apparently still missing over Pennsylvania, and of course, then it crashed at Shanksville. Bob Ellis  52:52 I love it. Michael Hingson  52:54 Yeah, but we, you know, we talked, so she knew I was okay. Then a friend of ours, Tom Painter, who had been a friend of Karen's at high school out in California, but Tom, over the years, had ended up moving to New Jersey. He came down to stay with her, not knowing until he arrived whether I was in the office that day or out with a customer or what was going on. And of course, then she told him, and so he drove her to the train station to pick me up. When, when I got back out to Westfield, we went home. And you talk about with with dogs. We got in the house, and I took Roselle's harness off because I was going to take her out, and she would have none of it. She ran off, grabbed her favorite tug bone and started playing tug of war with my retired guide dog Linny, and I talked to the veterinarians at Guide Dogs for the Blind in San Rafael the next day, and they said, "Did anything threaten her? And I said, "No, not directly. And they said, "That's why she ran off because it was over. Nothing threatened her. Bob Ellis  53:58 Comfortable. Michael Hingson  53:59 She, they don't. Dogs don't do what if like we do, and so she was comfortable. She was happy. She wanted to play, and then then she did go out. But by the same token, the the whole point was that she was able to deal with with all of it and was able to to focus. Then we got her outside and and came back in, and she ate and and all that. But the the the thing is that she focused all day, and and she did a a wonderful job. And the reason that she focused and did so well was mainly because I worked at keeping her focus by telling her every chance I got. You're a good girl. What a good dog! Good dog. You're doing a great job. Keep going. I did that all the way down the stairs in the World Trade Center, and I was very deliberate about that because I knew she had to sense the fear and what was going on, and I wanted her to know that I was okay and I was going to be there for. Her, which is of course what teamwork and support is all about. You understand that very well. You you proved it in so many ways. I kept working with Roselle and kept her focused, and you know it all it all really went well. I still think one of the most relevant things for me in the World Trade Center. I went down the stairs with a guy named David Frank. David was from our corporate office in California, and David and I were going to be conducting sales seminars that day, teaching some resellers how to sell our products. And we got down to about the 50th floor, so David was there to talk about the the pricing and so on. I was going to do the majority of the presentation because I was going to be their technical contact, anyway, and we got to about the 50th floor, going down, and suddenly David said, "Mike, we're going to die. We're not going to make it out of here. And as I tell people, since I got a teaching credential, I had learned all about the secrets of how to yell at students. So I just said, "Stop it, David. If Roselle and I can go down these stairs, so can you. And he then immediately said that I brought him out of his spunk, and he told me that later as well. But what he told me was that he wanted to walk a floor below me on the stairs and shout up to me everything that he was seeing. He had to take his mind off of what was going on, and so he asked if I cared, and I said, "No, go ahead. That's what you need to do. That's fine. So I got like down to the 48th floor, and he yelled, "47th floor, Mike. All's clear here. Going on down. So we went down several floors that way. Eventually, I got to 45, and he was 44th floor. This is where the Port Authority cafeteria is not stopping. And the reason I mention it is because I think what David did is one of the unsung things that is so important from September 11th. He kept shouting up to me everything that he saw, but the reality is, anyone in the sound of his voice heard that there was someone who was okay going down the stairs, and he had to keep panic out of people's senses for so many individuals, because they just heard him, Mike, 43rd floor, all's good here. Going on down the stairs, all the way down the stairs. He had to have been able to keep so many people focused because he was able to keep his mind off of what was going on by shouting to me, and I think that that's so important, and so I'm. I always tell that story. I've been telling it for many years now because I want people to know what he did to keep so many people focused going down the stairs, and he had to have done that. Bob Ellis  57:31 Well, you know, I have. That's that's the first I've heard that, and and and and I read everything that I followed your story very closely, as well as the colonel who I was so close to, but there there are a couple of stories that are just never mentioned, not talked about, and one of them where we had to do every day. There was an update that the military gave the families an update as to what is happening, what was found, what was recovered, what to expect, and they would bring the kids in to listen to these brutal military briefings. I mean, just you know, these were these were soldiers, these were these were combat folks, and this is the way they briefed. And the therapy dogs were brought in, and there wasn't but about a dozen of them, and I will never forget not only the kids on the floor with the arms around those dogs, but some of the adults were as well. And I thought, what what a moment! That was the most touching moment of my entire life witnessing that. I mean, I could have done without it, but it was it was a very special moment. And then the the other thing that the world doesn't know about is on the second day, I got a I got a phone call from Secretary Rumsfeld's office that the VA was completely out of coffin flags. We had nothing in inventory to to cover the remains or the caskets for burial, and what could I do? And and right right from the Pentagon parking lot, I I called one of the buyers that bought American flags in Dallas, and then I asked her who do you get flags from, and she says it's American Flag Company. I'll give them credit for that, and and I said you need you need to get their entire inventory. We need to get it flown in, whatever expenses cover it, and get them here. The Pentagon doesn't have them, and New York doesn't have them. And those flags came in. They were they were there about that midnight that that that night. Now boxed up, thrown in the bag box, whatever tape they were bound, but everybody that came out later, you know, the recoveries as we got deeper into the debris, that had a had a flag that that came that came from us in the as well as at the Pentagon, and they put two very big special flags in there. I mean, like you see flying over a car dealer. And they hung that on the side of the Pentagon. And if you look at any of the any of the news willers of that time, it was on day two that flag was hanging that that came in with the rest of the other flags. So it was it was quite impressive. You never know what the next moment was going to bring you on you know from my side and and and can I meet the challenge? That was what I constantly worry about. How could I let any of this down? And I've got to do something. And and we were making it up as we went along. Michael Hingson  1:00:33 Yeah, that's all you could do. And so when I go back to Bob Ellis  1:00:37 to to this to this day, you know, we go back. They've got 184 markers. I don't know how many people attend it, but it's it's right in that zone, right outside the building, in that grassy area where they they they've made that memorial. And 184 people, to include I think two infants, are are memorialized there forever, which is very touching. It was a that was a hard place to go back to. Still was New York City when I went to it because I'd never I had never been 20 years 20 years yet 18 years before I ever went to to New York City to see the recovery there. I've never I've not been to the to the to the Pennsylvania field. I plan to go. I want to go. Just hadn't been convenient to get there, but but if I do that, I will have seen all all the sites. Michael Hingson  1:01:26 Yeah, I haven't been to Pennsylvania either. In 2017, I did make it to the World Trade Center Museum. In well, so we moved out of Westfield, and I moved back to California in late January, beginning of February of 2002, to work for Guide Dogs for the Blind and and speak from there. And traveled around and speak. Karen was there for a couple more months selling our home, and then she came out. But in May of 2002, Roselle was going to be honored by Hart's Mountain, the pet food and pet supply company. So, so we went back to New York, and while we were there, I met one of the police officers with with one of the service with one of the rescue dogs that that had been around the World Trade Center, and he arranged for us to get in a vehicle and drive down into the pit that was where the World Trade Center was, and they had built an artificial, well, a temporary road, and they were bringing things up, but we got to go down to what would have been the seventh sublevel, the bottom of the tower, and it was just a for me just imagining it standing in that dirt area in a hole seven stories deep and remembering what what it was like, and then in 2017 I went to the World Trade Center Museum and got to spend a little bit of time there, and of course everything had been rebuilt. The reflecting pool was there, and so on. But it was nothing like what I remembered from having been in the World Trade Center, and I walked around with someone who was able to be aware and describe what was where we were and what was above us, or what part of the building we were in as we walked through the complex. But of course, it was totally different. So it was it was such a strange feeling to experience all of that. But we did it, you know. And so now I've been to the museum, and actually there is a there's an animal exhibit in the basement, and Roselle's collar is is part of that exhibit. We donated that to oh Bob Ellis  1:03:50 really, oh really, oh God, I I was I was thinking that when I asked you that question earlier today, and I was thinking about that that has got to be remarkable, you know that that that's what touched me so much at the period. That the fact that the two of you were such a team, and I read everything that newspapers printed and watched. I guess there was some there was some CBS specials and so forth too, where you were interviewed, and it was it was just it was just absolutely amazing. Michael Hingson  1:04:21 Well, it is. you know, it is a an awe-inspiring sort of thing. And you know, people always say, you know, don't you feel guilty about surviving when so many people didn't? And and I said, no, I I didn't have any control over that. But what I do have control over is having been a survivor. What am I going to do about it? It's my responsibility to decide how I'm going to deal with moving forward after something like that. And of course, the opportunity opened to travel and speak, and so I've been doing it ever since. And I believe my job is. Is to educate people about what happened on September 11th, and let them know t

Tema del Día: Mexicano que se respeta... Entrevista con Wereverwero, quien llega a La Caminera para recordar los inicios del Werever Tumorro Crew a casi dos décadas de su origen. El Top 3 de Fran Evia. Miércoles Paranormal con Alaín Luna. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This week Nicola and Di chat with entrepreneur and visionary, Mennan Yelkenci. Mennan was awarded the 2024 Young Entrepreneur of the Year and is the founder of Booked.ai, the world's first IATA-accredited AI travel agent. Mennan swapped a career in corporate ASX roles for the world of startups, and we loved hearing his story and the exciting projects he’s working on. In this episode, we chat to Mennan about the path that led him here. From consulting on renewable energy projects (and helping international developers communicate with Aussie farmers), to building Apify to solve his own frustrations with outsourced tech development, and finally launching Booked.ai, an IATA-accredited AI travel agent, to help plan and book your next trip. Mennan is an amazing example of someone who spots a problem and builds the solution. We get into exactly how Booked.ai works, the built-in duty-of-care safeguards that check destination safety before you fly, right through to the reassurance that real human travel agents are still there on the back end when something needs a personal touch. Mennan is clear that Booked.ai isn't here to replace human travel agents, but to offer an alternative for the times you just want it sorted, fast and to disrupt the online booking space. We also talk about our love of travel, Mennan’s Turkish heritage and his incredible tips for a Turkey itinerary (Istanbul, Alaçatı, Bodrum and Cappadocia are all must-dos), and what makes him tick as a new dad and a serial entrepreneur. We had such a great time with Mennan. His energy, ambition and vision for the future of travel are infectious. We hope you love this episode as much as we did! This episode is proudly supported by Montgomery Investment Management, trusted experts helping you build and protect your financial future. For further information, please contact David Buckland, Chief Executive Officer or Rhodri Taylor, Account Manager on (02) 8046 5000 or investor@montinvest.com Follow Mennan on IG here - https://www.instagram.com/mennannn/ Follow Booked AI on IG here - https://www.instagram.com/booked.ai/ Find out more about Booked AI and use it here - https://booked.ai/ Follow Booked AI on LinkedIn here - au.linkedin.com/company/booked-ai Follow Mennan on LinkedIn here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mennan-yelkenci/ Follow Nicola and Di on IG here - https://www.instagram.com/overthebackfencepodcast/ Find out more about the India trip, access the itinerary and book your place here - https://wetu.com/ItineraryOutputs/Discovery/78191347-4d64-4c52-acfd-5422d92ec90f Watch Over The Back Fence on YouTube here - https://www.youtube.com/@Overthebackfencepodcast/podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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On this Make a Difference Minute, Limestone County, Ala. - Commission Commissioner Collin Daly shares his thoughts from Operation We Remember, an Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs effort focused on veteran suicide prevention and support. Collin talks about the importance of physically showing up for veterans who may be struggling, recognizes Limestone County Veterans Service Officer Matthew Bozigian and his family's commitment to the community, and reminds us that support doesn't stop at a county line. This Make a Difference Minute is brought to you by The Butcher - Meat Co., The Butcher's Chuck Wagon, & The Butcher's Smoke and Flames Barbeque Cookoff, proudly supporting stories and the people who make our communities strong. Real stories. Real people. Real impact. News That Unites!™️ (

In this edition of Study Break, we discuss the coiffed Californian camp of Ryan Murphy's The Shards, KATSEYE's continued reign as the queens of sensory overload brainrot pop, and a new cast of nominatively absurd figures including Igby Rigney, Stella Lefty, Chanty Beluga, and Nimrod Workman. We also ponder Ella Langley as the new poster girl of American alt-lite, and we consider the uncomfortable indignity of life after fleeting virality as illustrated by Jools Lebron and the Love Island USA cast. Perhaps most importantly, we pause to mourn the loss of American Founding Mother and universal aphorist Dolly Parton :( Links: Dolly Parton and her parents sing “In the Pines” (1976)“Evening Shade” by Dolly PartonDolly Parton last health update vide on InstagramTikTok #searchfordolly audition videos (exhibit A, exhibit B)“How ‘The Shards' Blew Up at HBO — and Ended Up in Ryan Murphy's Hands” by Benjamin Svetkey in The Hollywood ReporterKaia Gerber and Homer Gere shot by Steven Meisel for Vogue September 2026 Cover Story Kaia Gerber prompts BBL accusations in Alaïa F/W 2026Kaia Gerber says she had an exorcism performed on her with a didgeridooNymphet Alumni Ep. 6: The Milf-ification of Billie Eilish (Emergency Roundtable)First look of Billie Eilish as Esther Greenwood on the set of The Bell Jar dir. Sarah PolleyHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Official Teaser from HBO Max“Happee Birthdae Harry” merch in the Harry Potter Japan StorePoppi x RushTok x Love Island USA (exhibit A, exhibit B)Jools Lebron original GoFundMe video and her Jeffree Star readKATSEYE (캣츠아이) – “Hootie Frutti” (Official Music Video)KATSEYE choreographer Grant Gilmore on TikTokGUI GUI on InstagramElla Langley –“Be Her” (Official Music Video)Ella Langley's Shiner beer collab party trickElla Langley feat. “Stayin' Alive” by the Bee Gees“The Untold Story of Sierra Ferrell: Train-Hopping to Stardom” on YouTubeStella Lefty – “Boston” Review in Pitchfork (“Stick Season” obsession evidence)Coal miner, union activist, and singer Nimrod Workman performs the traditional Appalachian folk song “Oh Death”A woman named “Chanty Beluga” introduces herself at a pool partyEvan Lazarus in defense of Chanty BelugaBodacious Humphrey WilliamsCristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodríguez's wedding shot by Juergen Teller for Vogue This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nymphetalumni.com/subscribe

Good morning from Pharma Daily: the podcast that brings you the most important developments in the pharmaceutical and biotech world. Today, we dive into the dynamic landscape of the industry, highlighting significant scientific breakthroughs, strategic partnerships, and regulatory updates that are reshaping healthcare as we know it. Novartis recently announced a major milestone with its BTK inhibitor, Rhapsido, which met its Phase 3 clinical trial goals for treating relapsing multiple sclerosis. This success is particularly noteworthy as it comes without any liver safety concerns, a common challenge for this class of drugs. The development of Rhapsido marks a promising advancement in managing neurological disorders, offering new hope for patients dealing with the debilitating effects of multiple sclerosis. However, not all developments are without challenges. Novartis and Bristol Myers Squibb have halted their CAR-T trials due to safety concerns linked to autoimmune conditions like lupus and multiple sclerosis. These pauses highlight the complexities involved in developing CAR-T therapies for non-oncological applications. At the same time, Roche and Simcere Zaiming have joined forces to develop SIM0660, a T-cell engager targeting B-cell diseases. This partnership, involving an initial payment of $75 million and potential milestones up to $1.53 billion, underscores the increasing interest in antibody-based therapies. These treatments leverage the body's immune system, moving towards more targeted modalities for oncology and autoimmune diseases. Meanwhile, drug pricing reforms continue to take center stage as the White House negotiates Most Favored Nation pricing agreements with pharmaceutical giants like Alcon and Astellas Pharma. These agreements aim to make medications more affordable by aligning US drug prices with those in other developed countries. Such policy initiatives reflect growing governmental efforts to address rising healthcare costs and improve access to essential medications. Shifting focus to vaccines, GSK has embarked on a Phase 3 trial for its mRNA-based flu vaccine. This initiative highlights the broader trend of extending mRNA technology beyond COVID-19 vaccines to tackle other infectious diseases. The adaptability and rapid production capabilities of mRNA platforms could revolutionize vaccine development and enhance our response to seasonal influenza. In cardiovascular health, Amgen's Repatha has shown a 20% reduction in mortality risk during a Phase 3 trial focused on primary cardiovascular prevention. This finding reinforces the critical role of PCSK9 inhibitors in lowering cholesterol levels and preventing cardiovascular events for high-risk patients. Similarly, Alumis faced setbacks when its TYK2 inhibitor failed to meet primary endpoints in a Phase 2 study for systemic lupus erythematosus. Despite this, promising subgroup signals suggest potential paths forward. On the regulatory front, the FDA has issued warnings to Alar Pharmaceuticals regarding unapproved promotional claims for its ketamine-based product ALA-3000. Additionally, Boston Scientific has suspended sales of its Imager II angiographic catheters due to manufacturing defects causing serious injuries. Medtronic is recalling its esophageal reflux monitoring capsule over safety issues tied to numerous injuries. These regulatory actions emphasize the critical importance of compliance with safety standards in protecting patient well-being. Industry innovation is further propelled by ongoing fundraising activities supporting cutting-edge research. Companies such as PMV Pharmaceuticals are advancing precision oncology therapies targeting p53 mutations, while Rakovina Therapeutics utilizes AI-powered platforms for cancer drug discovery. These efforts underscore the sector's commitment to addressing complex diseases through technological innovation. The exploration of novel therapeutic modalities continues with Eli Lilly's acquisition of Merida Biosciences for $2.88 billion to target autoimmune diseases by selectively degrading pathogenic autoantibodies. This acquisition aligns with broader trends toward precision medicine solutions aimed at modulating immune responses. In oncology news, Akeso's success with ivonescimab in biliary tract cancer exemplifies the potential of bispecific antibodies beyond initial indications. Meanwhile, Genentech's collaboration with DualityBio aims at overcoming resistance mechanisms in antibody-drug conjugates, promising expanded treatment options for patients resistant to existing therapies. Lastly, Labcorp's introduction of a new hepatitis D test represents a proactive step toward addressing diagnostic gaps in viral infections. Early detection remains crucial for effective disease management and improved patient outcomes. These developments collectively illustrate an industry at the forefront of innovation and strategic adaptation. As companies navigate these evolving landscapes, their focus remains steadfast on improving patient care through groundbreaking therapies while overcoming regulatory hurdles—a testament to their resilience and dedication in pursuing new healthcare frontiers.Support the show

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Ala'a Al Qaisi joined Green Left Radio on August 28 to discuss her new play The Return inspired by martyred Palestinian sisters, Nagham and Rozan Abu Samra, killed by an Israeli strike on Gaza in 2024. The Return Project and Free Palestine Melbourne are hosting a September 15 performance. The Return is described as a powerful theatrical event not to be missed. We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First Nations people and pay our respects to Elders past and present. If you like our work, become a supporter: https://www.greenleft.org.au/support Support Green Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/greenleft Green Left online: https://www.greenleft.org.au/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greenleftaction Twitter: https://twitter.com/greenleftonline YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/greenleftonline TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@greenleftonline Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenleftonline/ Podbean: https://greenleftonline.podbean.com/ Telegram: https://t.me/greenleftonline Podcast also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Antennapod, Itunes and PodcastAddict.

Robert interviews Ala'a Al Qaisi, writer and director of The Return, a play about Marwan, a Palestinian father in Gaza, who waits for his martyred daughters to return.Ala'a speaks about the meaning of the title, the inspiration behind the play and the character Marwan, the meaning of the word martyr to Palestinians, and the importance of faith in Palestine. The Return is playing in Melbourne from September 15-22. Tickets are available here: https://events.humanitix.com/the-return-play-melbourne 

When trying to get beef out to the masses, there's a step in the supply chain that has a lot of influence on what beef goes where: foodservice distributors. Hear from BJ Johnson and Pat Shepherd, who represent both the buy and the sell side of that equation. From sourcing and procurement to restaurant partnerships and consumer expectations, the message is clear — they don't want beef they have to push, they want pull-through demand. The pair covers the emerging Prime trends, how they combat volatility and the importance of being able to talk about all the work that happens back on the ranch.  HOSTS: Miranda Reiman and Mark McCully  GUESTS:  BJ Johnson, director of sales, Buckhead Meat of Atlanta Growing up near his family's farm in Huntsville, Ala., where they raised Angus cattle, cotton and soybeans, BJ developed a deep appreciation for agriculture and the food industry. He attended the University of Alabama, where he studied management, and later graduated from Johnson & Wales University with a degree in Culinary Arts in 2002. That same year, he began his career with Sysco.  Over the past two decades, BJ has served in roles across Alabama, Charlotte, Atlanta and Chicago, holding leadership positions in three of those markets. Alongside his teams, he helped launch two highly successful Certified Angus Beef® programs in North Carolina and Georgia and was honored as Certified Angus Beef® Marketer of the Year. Today, BJ serves as director of sales for Buckhead Meat of Atlanta where he leads a team of 26 sales consultants across the Southeast. Together, they proudly lead the nation in Certified Angus Beef® Prime sales. Pat Shepherd, director of beef procurement, Buckhead Meat of Atlanta Pat oversees beef sourcing and purchasing strategies for Buckhead Meat Company, the specialty meat division of Sysco, one of the nation's leading foodservice distributors. A University of West Georgia graduate with a culinary background, Shepherd joined the company in 2010 and discovered a passion for the beef industry. Today, he collaborates across the supply chain to ensure consistent quality, manage inventory and procurement, and help foodservice operators deliver an exceptional beef experience to consumers.   SPONSORS:   SenseHub Cow Calf®: Cattle reproductive success has relied on visual observation for decades ...  until now. SenseHub® Cow Calf provides a new approach to breeding success and time management. Learn about 24/7 collection of data and insights you can use to detect heats and more at SenseHub-CowCalf.com.  Angus Media: Don't let a busy schedule stop you from being the most informed breeder in the room. Click here to subscribe to the AJ Daily or the AJ Weekly. Don't miss news in the Angus breed. Visit www.AngusJournal.net and subscribe to the AJ Daily e-newsletter and our monthly magazine, the Angus Journal.

His week that was – Kevin Healy Interview with Australian/Palestinian writer and filmmaker, Ala'a Al Qasir about her latest play The Return. Dr Tim Anderson and the consequences of the US and Israeli war on Iran. Ken Davis, International programmes director with APHEDA Union Aid Abroad, speaking about the fight back for education for children and young adults in Gaza. Dr Colin Hughes, environmentalist, human rights activist and social commentator looking at issues impacting Australians from world events and government policies  

Tema del Día: Historias que nadie me cree... En entrevista Mauricio Martínez, quien presenta su primer protagónico en cine en EE.UU. con la película musical Brotherhood (estreno el 2 de octubre), que aborda la temática de los migrantes. Miércoles paranormal con Alaín Luna. El top 3 de Fran Hevia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It is possible that the two yutes... In a world where one man has only seen 30 or so movies comes a desire to learn from a master. A master of film. A master of cinema. A master who has led such a sad life.  Logan seeks the knowledge and he turns to his own personal “Yoda”; Keithie. Join Logan & Keithie on a wild adventure to discover as we watch along with a new movie each episode in THE MOVIE EDUCATION OF LOGAN CROSLAND. This episode, Logan, Keithie & Tim watch one of the favorites in the Langston Household, My Cousin Vinny The guys talk Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Fred Gwynne and Temu Jay O Sanders. Logan also enjoys Judge Chamberlain Haller's facial expressions the whole time and also, the career change that Coach Reilly has and we find out if a 1964 Buick Skylark has positraction. Hey, Stan, you're in Ala-fuckin'-bama. You come from New York. You killed a good ol' boy. There is no way this is not going to trial!

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A Native girls softball team made history this summer, winning a Babe Ruth Softball World Series championship during its first year competing in the tournament. Na7ive Na7ions brought together Native athletes from different tribal communities to compete in Florence, Ala., but founder and former Major League Baseball pitcher D.J. Carrasco says their success was not only about what happened on the field. They were also battling the summer heat. Temperatures hovered in the 90s, with high humidity making conditions even tougher, but inside the Na7ive Na7ions dugout, there was something you might not normally associate with championship softball: Watermelon. Grapes. Oranges. Pickles. And a team favorite: frozen pickle juice, or “pickle pops”. Autumn Lopez is a holistic nutritional therapy practitioner and co-founder of Na7ive Na7ions. “We feed them from the moment they start swinging the bat, warming up through the entire game. And at first it was hard for them, and they didn’t really understand, but they adapted really fast to eating during the game.” Lopez says the approach was intentional. Carrasco pitched professionally, including ten seasons in Major League Baseball, while Lopez has a background in massage therapy and nutrition. Lopez says the goal is to develop the whole athlete, not just what happens between the lines. And in Alabama, she believes it made a difference. “We were probably one of the only teams, if not the only team, who didn’t suffer heat exhaustion, nausea, throwing up. Every time you looked around, there was a coach throwing up… We didn’t have one girl go down, so that was huge.” Lopez says she repeatedly reminded the girls that winning required more than playing good softball. They also had to stay healthy enough to keep playing. Carrasco says the tournament tested them against some formidable competition, including Puerto Rico. He says the experience also gave the girls a chance to represent Native people and their individual cultures on an international stage. “They’re literally ambassadors. They’re truly ambassadors of their tribe and their cultures.” Lopez says other teams began noticing what looked like a buffet inside the Na7ive Na7ions dugout. And eventually, what started as the team’s own nutrition strategy spread beyond it. Before another game against Puerto Rico, Lopez had extra bananas. “I thought, do I share my secret weapon?… So I grabbed those bananas and I took them over to Puerto Rico… and I said, hey, I have some bananas for you, for your team.” She also handed out electrolytes to umpires and other teams. For Lopez, that reflected something bigger than winning. (Courtesy Native Nations Sport / Facebook) Na7ive Na7ions wants young athletes to leave the program understanding how to care for themselves long after the final out. And the girls left Alabama with something else: a championship. Lopez says watching the final out was emotional after four years of building the organization, but her thoughts quickly turned toward what the victory could mean for the Native girls coming behind them. “When I saw the girls go out there, that last pitch was thrown, that last hit was hit, that last catch was caught, and they realized they won, I just thought they have just changed the trajectory for so many generations of young girls underneath them.” It was the first year Na7ive Na7ions fielded a girls softball team at the Babe Ruth World Series. Carrasco and Lopez says interest in the program has surged since the victory, with Native families asking how their children can participate. For the girls who made history in Alabama, he says the magnitude of what they accomplished might not sink in for years, but eventually, he hopes they’ll be able to look back and say: “They started it.” Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts. Check out today’s Native America Calling episode Monday, August 17, 2026 — Remembering Hurricane Katrina more than 20 years later

Editor Erin Jones shares insights into her work in librarianship, the development of the 11th edition of the Intellectual Freedom Manual, and the importance of accessible, inclusive resources for all library professionals.   Erin Jone's LinkedIn ALA Editions Intellectual Freedom Manual 11th ed. ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom Podcast Linktree Search by title, guest and location!  Editable PD Certificate FAQ's and ISO (In search of…) APA format for citing a podcast/podcast app SLU Playlists  Amy's episode: The Importance of PLCs I would like to thank composer Nazar Rybak at Hooksounds.com for the music you've heard today.  

Emily Pilbeam presents a mixtape of her personal selection of tracks from BBC Introducing, with music from ALA.NI, Marla Kether, Mr. Fish, Maddie Ashman, Billy Sharp, Roan Stripp, Sisters, The Healing Power of Horses, Precious Metals, Formal Sppeedwear, Thandii, Yas. ft. Cloudman, ADJUA, Eddie Doyle and a new Track of the Week from Neighbour Club.Produced by BBC Audio for BBC Radio 6 Music.

Alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) is a naturally occurring fatty acid. It has several plausible mechanisms for slowing ALS progression. Preclinical studies showed ALA slowed motor function decline. Some patients reported improvement when taking ALA together with other supplements. Here we discuss the mechanism, clinical studies, and potential risks. 

Connect with us via text! The future of skin care is being shaped by ingredients that promise everything from cellular repair to regenerative results, but which ones are truly worth the hype? This week we welcome Michael Q. Pugliese, third-generation CEO of Circadia, accomplished skin care formulator, and award-winning educator, to break down the emerging ingredients and technologies redefining professional aesthetics. From PDRN, exosomes, NAD+, and 5-ALA to the growing focus on skin resilience, recovery, and circadian biology, Michael separates science from speculation while sharing the trends every professional should have on their radar before they become mainstream.Follow DERMASCOPE:Instagram: @dermascopeFacebook: facebook.com/dermascopePinterest: @dermascopeTikTok: @dermascopeYoutube: @dermascopeFollow Michael:Instagram: @pugliese.michaelFollow Circadia:Instagram: @circadiaFacebook: facebook.com/circadiaAdditional Links:Visit our website.Learn more about this podcast.Subscribe to the magazine.Read the August 2026 issue. 

Tema del Día: ¿Pareja guapa o pareja feliz? En entrevista Eli Esparza, quien viene a platicarnos de cómo pasó de soñar con ser YouTuber en su natal Jalisco a triunfar en redes sociales y televisión. Top 3 de Fran Hevia. Miércoles paranormal con Alaín Luna.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

D/Annie Liontas joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation about suffering 3 brain injuries in one year and how that changed their relationship to their body and to the world, post-concussive syndrome, how science is delayed around all things female body, gender and selfhood, being a reluctant nonfiction writer and how memoir was the last thing on their mind, understanding the external and internal forces that we have to reckon with to live, the narratives around women and queer people, interrogating our own patterns, knowing when we're sidestepping a thing, the cascading problem of vulnerability, considering how you protect the people you love in a memoir, what stories need to be told, and doing so on our own terms, the lonely condition of being inside the human body, how memoir has its own timeline, getting to the story beneath the story and their new memoir Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery.   Ronit's upcoming workshop: Writing Dynamic Memoir: From Lived Experience to Gripping Story https://www.lmcmurtrylitcenter.org/workshops/writing-dynamic-memoir-from-lived-experience-to-gripping-story   Also in this episode: - redacting text - knowing when we're hiding - finding comfort in the telling   Books mentioned in this episode - Fit Into Me by Molly Gaudry - Decade of the Brain by Janine Joseph - The Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction by Elizabeth McCracken - The Writing Life by Annie Dillard - Bone Black by bell hooks - Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life by bell hooks - Mad Eden by Morgan Thomas - Clam Down by Anelise Chen   Essay: “Against Catharsis: Writing is Not Therapy” by Essay by T Kira Madden https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/litfriends-podcast/id1717357361   D/ANNIE LIONTAS is the trans-genderqueer author of the crip-queer memoir Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery, which won the ALA's 2025 Stonewall Award for Nonfiction and was shortlisted for The Athenaeum of Philadelphia's Literary Award. They are a recipient of the 2025 Lambda Literary Córdova prize, and their debut novel, Let Me Explain You, was selected as New York Times Editors Choice. They co-edited the anthology A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors, and their work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, BOMB, McSweeney's, The New Review, Oprah Daily, and elsewhere. An Associate Professor at George Washington University, LIONTAS helped secure a Mellon Foundation grant on Disability Justice to bring storytelling to communities in the criminal justice system. They write the Most Anticipated Queer Books list at Electric Literature and live in Philadelphia with their wife, dog, and Email the rabbit.    Connect With D/Annie Liontas:  https://www.instagram.com/aliontas/ https://www.annieliontas.com/ (currently being updated)   Purchase Book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Sex-with-a-Brain-Injury/Annie-Liontas/9781668085561 https://www.theshipmanagency.com/annie-liontas Lit Friends Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/litfriends-podcast/id1717357361

Playlist: Errol Eats Everything, featuring Rome Streetz - Round N Round [Statik Selektah Remix]Honey Dijon, Greentea Peng - I Like It HotSaint Joshua - Palo SantoChassol, featuring ALA.NI - What is Stand-Up?EL Michels Affair, Clairo - AnticipateOgi - I Got ItLady Wray - Be A WitnessThe Allergies - All The TimeSt. Paul and the Broken Bones - Mess I MadeThee Sacred Souls - Live For YouThe Womack Sisters - If I Let YouDojo Cuts - SundayBaby Rose - Let Me GoOlive Jones - End if TimeLOV - G.O.S.

Each week we aim to bring together the biggest events in Vtubing and talk about what's been going on. Stop by, hang out, and let's catch up with us! Quick reminder that we record on Tuesdays so some large stories from the week may not appear. KAM'S ALBUM OUT NOW https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/jasperwylick/were-growing-distant Buy Merch Here!  https://otamerch.shop/ Join this discord : https://discord.gg/M7tVYWTSFR Follow here for updates: https://twitter.com/SuperChatsPod Shorts over here: https://www.tiktok.com/@superchatspod Playlist of music: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp6uXoGNUwk9Tq0NWOwaCLGruX0XdVBfd00:00:00 Intro 00:00:00 Intro 00:03:18 Hololive Dreams 00:13:17 Where's Ala? 00:14:12 a discussion on memberships and value 00:17:27 oh yeah Holodori 00:24:32 Offkai announcements 00:25:56 SVP Gained 3 Members 00:29:39 more info on Wildecard Club 00:30:57 we spin out over a non-controversy here for way too long you can skip it if you want 00:44:31 Paige Terner's getting another dimension 00:48:18 The Big Merch Unboxing 00:54:55 Con Guests and Meet n Greets 01:01:56 Original Songs 01:05:12 Breaking Tomoe Update 01:06:23 More Originals 01:10:46 Strange Ollie Collab 01:12:36 Cover Songs 01:17:04 Dr Nova's Big Mistake 01:20:08 Paige ASMR 01:22:29 Snoozy's Unschooling 01:23:51 Carlos Watches 01:30:21 Mint Home Safety Hotline 01:35:45 Bibi Biscuite made Peach Cobbler 01:38:27 Carlos Wrap-up 01:40:00 Community and Shilling 01:45:24 Birfdays

Did you ever wonder what happens to the mail that you screwed up the address on? Well, this movie is going to answer that...but then not be about that at all. This movie is gonna throw a lot of things at you...and then keep moving?Who's responsible for this?Director: Joe DeBoer, Kyle McConaghyWriters: Joe DeBoer, Kyle McConaghyStars: Sterling Macer Jr, John Fleck, Thomas Boykin, Micki Jackson, Susan PriverRecommendations:Michael - DTF St. LouisEmily - Look Mum, No computer - analog synthesizers on YouTubeJeremy - Librarians, ALA, Dust Bunny, They Will Kill YouJOIN JEREMY'S ZOOP CAMPAIGN AND HELP MAKE GREAT COMICS! https://zoop.gg/c/slayTake our listener survey: http://bit.ly/progressivelyhorrified-surveySign up to support Progressively Horrified on Patreon for as little as $5 a month and get bonus episodes! https://www.patreon.com/c/progressivelyhorrified Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Good morning from Pharma Daily: the podcast that brings you the most important developments in the pharmaceutical and biotech world. Today, we're delving into a series of significant breakthroughs and strategic moves reshaping the industry landscape. Repligen Corporation's recent decision to acquire BioLife Solutions for $1.5 billion marks a pivotal moment in the cell therapy sector. BioLife Solutions' expertise in cryopreservation media is integral to maintaining cell viability during storage and transport—an essential factor for the success of cell therapies in oncology and regenerative medicine. This acquisition ensures Repligen a stable supply chain to support the burgeoning demand for advanced therapeutic options, potentially enhancing patient outcomes through more reliable treatments. Meanwhile, Novartis is expanding its reach in South Korea with a $95 million investment aimed at enhancing its radioligand therapy supply chain. Radioligand therapy represents a groundbreaking approach in oncology, utilizing targeted radioactive particles to specifically attack cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue. This strategic investment underscores Novartis's commitment to ensuring a robust infrastructure for delivering innovative cancer treatments. On the clinical front, Crystalys Therapeutics has made waves by securing $130 million in Series B funding, propelling their gout treatment, Dotinurad, into Phase 3 trials. This drug targets uric acid levels, addressing a significant unmet need in gout management. The progression into late-stage trials reflects confidence in Dotinurad's potential to provide effective relief for patients suffering from this painful condition. Regulatory advancements are also making headlines with the UK's MHRA granting approval to Chiesi's Clenil Modulite with a low-carbon propellant for asthma maintenance treatment. This move signifies a crucial step towards more sustainable pharmaceutical practices without compromising efficacy—setting a potential benchmark for future respiratory treatments that incorporate eco-friendly technologies. In business development news, Ashlins Pharmaceuticals and Lee's Pharmaceutical have struck a $31 million licensing deal for interferon alpha-2b outside China, focusing on rare diseases. Similarly, Jupiter Neurosciences' acquisition of MDMA asset ALA-002 from Pharmala Biotech illustrates ongoing interest in small molecule therapeutics for neurological conditions. Royalty Pharma's significant $425 million payment to Neurimmune highlights strategic investments in cardiovascular therapies through royalty financing, underscoring confidence in advancing novel treatments. Concurrently, Dimension has raised an impressive $800 million for an AI-driven biotech drug discovery fund. The integration of AI promises accelerated drug development timelines and enhanced precision in identifying viable candidates. However, not every development is favorable. Celldex Therapeutics faced a setback with their Phase 2 trial failure for barzolvolimab in prurigo nodularis patients. Such challenges highlight the inherent risks associated with innovative drug development. Turning our attention to another scientific milestone, Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals has reported promising Phase 3 data on its triglyceride-lowering drug, Plozasiran. With analysts praising its "best-in-class profile," Arrowhead aims for FDA approval by year-end, setting up potential competition with Ionis Pharmaceuticals' Tryngolza. These advancements underscore significant progress in targeting specific lipid disorders and the promise of novel therapies to improve cardiovascular health. Corporate strategies are also evolving as seen with Sanofi undergoing executive restructuring under new leadership by CEO Belen Garijo. This reflects broader industry trends where leadership shifts align corporate strategies with market demands and scientific opportunities. Legal developments have not gone unnoticed either. Amgen's $74 million settlement over allegations of concealing a substantial tax bill highlights ongoing scrutiny over corporate governance within the sector. Meanwhile, industry giants are rallying around regulatory defenses, as evidenced by biopharma companies supporting the FDA amidst legal challenges concerning mifepristone—a move emphasizing the industry's vested interest in maintaining access to drugs based on scientific merit. From a technological perspective, companies are increasingly adopting connected trial technologies to streamline processes such as consent and reporting—advancements crucial for reducing patient burden and accelerating drug development timelines. In conclusion, these developments portray an industry at the forefront of scientific innovation while navigating complex regulatory environments and ethical considerations. As firms continue exploring novel treatment avenues and leveraging technological advancements like AI, they position themselves for transformative impacts on patient care and global health outcomes. We look forward to keeping you updated on these exciting trends shaping the future of pharma and biotech industries.Support the show

Paul Gompers has a long history in the marathon and in the pursuit of excellence. It's hard to imagine anyone more competitive than Gompers. He even owns Alter-G treadmills in two separate residences so he can work out twice a day. Gompers ran his first marathon in 1983 while a Harvard freshman. His 2:15:28 in Huntsville, Ala, still stands as an under-20 world record on a eligible course.Four years later, Gompers improved to 2:11:39 at the 1987 Twin Cities Marathon. The following spring, he placed fourth in the 1988 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials behind Mark Conover, Ed Eyestone, and Pete Pfitzinger.Gompers turned next to the study of economics. He has been a professor at the Harvard Business School since 1995, specializing in venture capital and entrepreneurship.About 20 years ago, he learned to swim and began serious training for age-group triathlon, as did his wife Jody, a Boston-area physician. Gompers has since completed four Kona Ironman Triathlons, as well as many others, with top finishes for his age.In recent years, he has also advised Harvard's standout alumni runners, including Graham Blanks and Ben Rosa.For more on Paul Gompers, see this page on Wikipedia. WHERE TO FIND "RUNNING: STATE OF THE SPORT"Use your smartphone to download our podcast from Apple, Spotify, Pandora, or YouTube Podcasts. Once you've selected your favorite app, search for "running state of the sport."With your computer, tablet, or smartphone, you can also listen direct to “Running: State of the Sport” at the below internet links.APPLESPOTIFYYOU TUBEAUDIBLEI HEARTPOCKETCASTS

A RENAMO está em ebolição. Ala pró-Momade ameaça usar todos os meios para parar a ala contestatária do presidente. São Tomé e Príncipe está em contagem decrescente para as eleições presidenciais de 19 de julho.

The Under Armour S7VNS tournament spotlights rising stars as Colton Nussmeyer dazzles with his advanced quarterback skills and athleticism, solidifying Georgia Bulldogs' future at the position. Is Nussmeier poised to become the next breakout SEC quarterback, helped by his NFL coaching pedigree? Meanwhile, Ryan Richmond-McDavis electrifies scouts with his jaw-dropping quickness, drawing comparisons to Texas A&M's Mario Craver—can anyone contain this Cardinal Ritter High School phenom? The conversation focused on standout prospects from Under Armour's elite event at IMG Academy, breaking down top quarterback talents like CJ Cypher (Miami commit), Ty Snell (Allen, Texas), and Denari Hill (St. Frances in Baltimore), as well as elite corners like DeMarcus Van Dyke, Jr. (Auburn, Ala.) and James Allen (Carrollwood Day in Tampa) and receivers from powerhouse high school programs. Several points were raised, including the transfer portal's role in shaping recruiting classes, Miami Hurricanes' pursuit of a historic five-star haul in 2028, and bold projections for Ole Miss and its loaded SEC schedule. Which rising recruit will define the next era of college football dominance? Support us by supporting our sponsors! Odoo Great organizations win because operations matter. And that's why you should get Odoo. Try for free today at https://Odoo.com/lockedon. Indeed Listeners of this show get a $75 Sponsored Job Credit to help give your job the premium placement it deserves at http://Indeed.com/podcast FanDuel Today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Right now new customers can bet just five dollars and get one-hundred and fifty dollars in bonus bets if your first bet wins. Visit https://FANDUEL.COM to get started — Play Your Game. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expire in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Grace and Alvina welcome special guest Quade Kelley, who is a teenager, still in high school, and is also a very active book reviewer (and much more!). Quade and Alvina both share about their experience at ALA, and then they discuss Quade's journey as a reader and a book reviewer, as well as his many projects, including the Robie Harris Youth Choice Award, the Reading Athlete, and his participation with Bank Street, School Library Journal's Heavy Medal Mock Newbery blog, and the Children's Book Committee. They talk about his relationship with author Lois Lowry, how he approaches reviewing books, and what his career goals are. And, they also talk about Quade's time management and how he juggles his school work, athletics, and his extra-curricular activities. For the Fortune Cookie segment they discuss what they're all working on right now--Quade talks about co-writing a book with author Emily Barth Isler, Grace talks about working on her new middle grade project, and Alvina talks about the upcoming picture book THE PROMISE OF AMERICA by John Rocco. And they end as always with what they're grateful for.   Click here to become a Patreon member: https://www.patreon.com/Bookfriendsforever1.   Follow us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Bookfriendsforever_podcast   Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bookfriendsforever_podcast/ Find Quade here: https://whoisquade.com/

What does it mean to celebrate America on its 250th anniversary? The Trump administration's festivities — from the U.F.C. fight on the White House lawn to the Great American State Fair — have centered American glory and greatness. What has been missing are the Americans who fought to move America closer to its promises. They had to love a country — or at least believe in a country — that often failed them. How did they do it? Beneath that is a deep question for anyone who loves a country, or even loves another person: How do you love something in its wholeness, amid its imperfections and failures? One person who is thinking deeply about how to do this is Bryan Stevenson. He's a civil rights lawyer and the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, which is based in Montgomery, Ala. E.J.I. has created a series of museums and sites in Montgomery that aim to examine America's history of enslavement, racial violence and segregation, while also uplifting and honoring the people who endured these systems and fought to upend them. The sites are remarkable to witness, as I found out when I visited Montgomery, and they hold America's manifold truths in tension with one another — all its horror and beauty, tragedy and triumph, inhumanity and humanity. I asked Stevenson how he's thinking about America's 250th birthday — and what work the country has left to fulfill its vision of liberty and equality for all. Mentioned: The Legacy Sites, Equal Justice Initiative Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson The 1619 Project The 1776 Report The Apartheid Museum Book Recommendations: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Les Misérables by Victor Hugo The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com. You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs. This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Annie Galvin. Fact-checking by Kelsey Lannin. Audio by Jeff Geld and Johnny Simon Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show's production team also includes Marie Cascione, Michelle Harris, Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Jack McCordick, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Marion Lozano and Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Shows is Annie-Rose Strasser. Special Thanks to Sonia Kapadia, Tania Cordes, Danielle Carrasquero and the Equal Justice Initiative. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hoy hacemos una pausa para volver a ti y recordar que cuidarte no es algo que deba quedarse para cuando tengas tiempo. Un episodio para explorar pequeñas acciones que pueden ayudarte a sentirte más en calma, conectar contigo y hacer de tu bienestar una prioridad.A lo largo de estos 4 años de Despertando Podcast, hemos compartido episodios que les han ayudado muchísimo, y hoy queremos traerles de vuelta todas esas herramientas que han resonado con ustedes y cambiado sus mañanas ☀️.En este episodio hablamos de:Ideas sencillas para practicar el autocuidado en tu día a díaLa importancia de escuchar lo que necesitas antes de seguir avanzandoCómo pequeños momentos contigo pueden transformar tu bienestarSi quieres conocer más de Despertando Podcast síguenos en nuestras redes sociales:

Our second live show! Only Justin could make it to ALA but we've got THREE great guests plus very good audience questions. We talk about AI through discourse analysis, refusal, STS, and more.  Guests' writings Transcending Binaries of Agency through Librarians' Discursive Constructions of AI https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/961342  Discourses of fear around AI and their implications for library and information science: https://publicera.kb.se/ir/article/view/47548  I Bought Slop: A Conversation on the Accidental Purchase of AI-Generated Material https://acrlog.org/2026/02/09/i-bought-slop-a-conversation-on-the-accidental-purchase-of-ai-generated-material/  ChatGPT Can't Envision Anything: It's Actually BS-ing - ACRLog  https://acrlog.org/2023/07/21/chatgpt-cant-envision-anything-its-actually-bs-ing/  A ChatGPT generated post (and a first year librarian's thoughts) - ACRLog https://acrlog.org/2023/01/31/a-chatgpt-generated-post-and-a-first-year-librarians-thoughts/  “Against AI:Critical Refusal in the Library,” from Library Trends: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/968497  “Relationality Over Neutrality: On Technology,” from Information Technology and Libraries: https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/article/view/17581  Media mentioned Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/why-we-fear-ai  Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism https://nyupress.org/9781479837243/algorithms-of-oppression/ Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/imagination-a-manifesto  Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves – In the Library with the Lead Pipe  https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-awe/ Resurrecting the Black Body: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/resurrecting-the-black-body/paper  Investigating the 'Feeling Rules' of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/ai-feeling-rules/  Outsiders-within-Library and Information Science: Reprioritizing the marginalized in critical sociocultural work https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.24449  Libraries, Librarians, and the Discourse of Fear https://www.jstor.org/stable/4309528  Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/08pir9wg  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/qWPTurTnkT

Travis Armstrong is the Chief Operating Officer of English, Lucas, Priest & Owsley, also known as ELPO, the largest full-service law firm in South Central Kentucky. He has managed the operations of the firm for 21 years, after beginning his career in public accounting and later serving as a CFO in the insurance industry. Travis holds both a CPA and Certified Legal Manager designation and has overseen finance, operations, facilities, HR, and marketing as the firm has grown. He is also the immediate past president of the Association of Legal Administrators, the premier international professional association for legal management professionals, and has made mental health and well-being in the legal profession a personal priority. Outside of work, Travis is an avid outdoorsman who enjoys hiking, kayaking, and running, and has completed six marathons. WHAT'S COVERED IN THIS EPISODE ABOUT LAW FIRM LEADERSHIP AND OPERATIONS There is someone inside your firm who sees things that may never make it into the managing partner's inbox. They see the operational strain, the succession gaps, and the cultural undercurrents that affect how the firm actually runs. Yet in many law firms, the people managing the business side are still treated as support instead of strategic leadership. That gap creates real risk. Firms may have plans for transitioning client relationships, but far fewer have thought through what happens when the COO, firm administrator, or another long-tenured business professional leaves. There is also a cost to doing nothing, from attorney time spent figuring out administrative systems to culture problems that quietly affect productivity, retention, and mental health. In this episode of The Lawyer's Edge podcast, Elise Holtzman talks with Travis Armstrong of English, Lucas, Priest & Owsley about what law firm COOs see that leaders often miss, why operational succession planning matters, how mental health affects the whole firm, and what it means to look at and listen to your culture. 2:33 - How Travis moved from accounting and insurance into legal management 4:34 - Why law firms tend to adopt change more slowly than other industries 5:25 - What the Association of Legal Administrators does for law firm business professionals 10:05 - How managing partners can get more value from their COO or firm administrator 13:14 - How Travis's role evolved from firm administrator to COO as the firm grew 14:17 - Why operational succession planning is a blind spot for law firms 19:00 - The cost of doing nothing when an operational leader retires 21:23 - Why difficult succession conversations are worth having early 23:11 - What the ALA survey revealed about mental health resources in the legal profession 25:16 - Why legal administrative professionals often lack access to the same mental health resources as lawyers 27:45 - How ALA's mental health first aid training helps legal professionals spot warning signs 31:00 - Why law firm leaders need to look honestly at their culture 34:19 - The business case for supporting mental health in law firms 35:25 - Why attorneys need to listen to administrative staff and trust their judgment Mentioned In What Happens When Lawyers Actually Listen to Their COO  English, Lucas, Priest & Owsley, LLP | LinkedIn Travis Armstrong on LinkedIn Association of Legal Administrators ALA Mental Health First Aid Training Amanda Koplos | How Legal Administrators Help Unlock Your Law Firm's Potential Retirement by Design - Ida Abbott Consulting LLC Get connected with the coaching team: hello@thelawyersedge.com The Lawyer's Edge SPONSOR FOR THIS EPISODE This episode is brought to you by the coaching team at The Lawyer's Edge, a training and coaching firm that has been focused exclusively on lawyers and law firms since 2008. Each member of the team is a trained, certified, and experienced professional coach—and either a former practicing attorney or a former law firm marketing and business development professional. Whatever your professional objectives, our coaches can help you achieve your goals more quickly, more easily, and with significantly less stress. To get connected with your coach, fill out our contact form.

For over a decade, Laverne Cox has been one of the most visible trans women in America. In her new memoir, ‘Transcendent,' she writes about growing up in Mobile, Ala., and the bullying and harassment she faced. She says she survived it by going somewhere else in her mind, often through music and dance.Also, we hear from comic Ali Siddiq. He served six years in a Texas prison and turned his life into some of the most-watched storytelling in comedy.See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy

Hoy reflexionamos sobre esa sensación de que el día nunca alcanza y exploramos formas más amables y realistas de organizar nuestro tiempo. Un episodio para dejar de vivir con prisa, priorizar lo importante y recordar que descansar también es parte de una vida productiva.A lo largo de estos 4 años de Despertando Podcast, hemos compartido episodios que les han ayudado muchísimo, y hoy queremos traerles de vuelta todas esas herramientas que han resonado con ustedes y cambiado sus mañanas ☀️.En este episodio hablamos de:Cómo poner metas y pendientes más realistas para tu díaLa importancia de priorizar el descanso y evitar el agotamientoHerramientas para organizarte mejor y aprovechar tu tiempo sin vivir con prisaSi quieres conocer más de Despertando Podcast síguenos en nuestras redes sociales:

Laverne Cox never fit in as a child in Mobile, Ala. But she really didn't want to. From an early age, she knew she was going to be a star, and she was right. Decades later, Cox would break through as Sophia Burset on Netflix's “Orange Is the New Black,” and become the first openly transgender person to be nominated for an Emmy Award in an acting category.  In this episode of “Modern Love,” Cox talks about her new memoir, “Transcendent.” She tells the story of how she became the star she always knew she was, the men she loved along the way and how she learned to fully love herself.  How to submit a Modern Love EssayHow to submit a Tiny Love Story Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.