Podcasts about American Landscape

In celebration of Black History Month and looking forward to Women's History Month - this week we're so pleased to air another of our CP LIVE: Dialogues to Grow By conversations, recorded live in front of an audience on the home ground of the Cultivators of Place with whom we are speaking.  This week's CP LIVE recording focuses on the paradigm-shifting landscape work of Leslie Bennett, who is dedicated to beautifully designed, edible-plant-rich, culturally rooted gardens for all people AND centering Black Women in the American Landscape. It's a great pairing. The interview and gathering for it took place on an unexpectedly chilly evening in late September 2024. Still, the spirited audience of 80+ people - in full celebratory finery - was not bothered at all. And the event was also an occasion for the first public unveiling of photographic portraits by Rachel Weil of the first eight women beneficiaries of a Black Sanctuary Garden. The portraits are taken of each woman in their gardens - embodying, as Leslie described it, their full and authentic joy and liberation. The whole evening unfolded in the heart of elegant, fruit, flower filled terraced backyard garden - one of the black sanctuary gardens to date. This conversation and all it was trying to express and hold space for was richly integrated with community, with an event specific shared music playlist, with laughter and food. Cultivating Place live is a special project of CP in the form of a limited series of CP interviews done with a curated group of gardeners across the US and recorded as audio and film (by the talented filmmaker Myriam Nicodemus of EM EN) throughout 2024 and 2025. These interviews are conducted in front of an audience of the gardeners' community in order to support and recognize these gardeners' accomplishments and contributions to the greater good as a result of their human impulse to Garden. These recorded CP Live experiences will be compiled into a film documentary rolling out in 2026/2027.  The mandate for me in these experiences and interviews is to not only give voice to (as the podcast always does), but actually make visible the many diverse connections animated by the gardening impulse everywhere. What this conversation makes visible to me, and I hope to all listeners, is that gardens are food, beauty, health, and divinity. Gardens are land use. Gardens are community centers, gardens are one form of public policy made manifest by the people. Gardens are authentic joy and liberation. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place.We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com.

Abandoned towns are scattered throughout the American Landscape.These remnants of bygone eras tempt us to speculate about the lives of those that left … Why did they leave? What makes the American West particularly populated with these so-called “Ghost Towns?”Noodles and I explore the desolate ghost town of Grafton - just south of Zion National Park - to find out! Recommendations: Good reference before visiting Grafton, the detour shouldn't take you more than two hours: https://graftonheritage.org/history-settlement/Zion Hikes: https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/utah/the-zion-narrows-riverside-walkhttps://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/utah/angels-landing-trailDon't Forget Utah's Mighty 5 (easily doable if you plan!) https://www.visitutah.com/places-to-go/parks-outdoors/the-mighty-5Works Cited: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20589495?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contentshttps://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/24889487.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3A69f9058b1c2537ad4427f269f32fac60&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&initiator=&acceptTC=1https://www.jstor.org/stable/41784569?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contentshttps://www.jstor.org/stable/44671309?searchText=ghost+towns&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dghost%2Btowns%26so%3Drel&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3Aa083d002fc7d91c16babbaf915c2cd7d&seq=2https://graftonheritage.org/history-settlement/https://www.britannica.com/topic/ghost-townhttps://travel.usnews.com/gallery/americas-15-coolest-ghost-towns-to-visit?slide=16https://www.canyoneeringusa.com/zion/hikes/grafton#:~:text=Located%20past%20the%20west%20end,Cassidy%20and%20the%20Sundance%20Kid.%22https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7G2DRrxbtEhttps://www.legendsofamerica.com/gt-hiddentales/Noah and Noodles here! We want to extend a heartfelt thanks to every listener of Backroad Odyssey. Your support fuels our passion and inspires us to keep sharing stories and discover overlooked locations. Follow each adventure visually at:https://www.instagram.com/backroadsodyssey/

In this episode of PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf, Sasha reunites with her very first guest on PhotoWork, the photographer and publisher, Bryan Schutmaat. Bryan and Sasha talk about his new book, Sons of the Living (Trespasser) and Bryan's love of being on the road and exploring the American Landscape. Sasha and Bryan also discuss how the idea of collaboration in portraiture may be misrepresented and how a book doesn't mean a body of work comes to an end. https://www.bryanschutmaat.co https://trespasser.co/shop/sons-of-the-living Bryan Schutmaat is a photographer based in Austin, Texas whose work has been widely exhibited and published. He has won numerous awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, the Aperture Portfolio Prize, and an Aaron Siskind Fellowship. Bryan's prints are held in many collections, such as Baltimore Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Pier 24 Photography, Rijksmuseum, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He co-founded the imprint, Trespasser.

We begin the week in New Jersey with Keith Calmes from Cherry Hill New Jersey. Songs include Parade of Skeletons, Selva Ganesh, American Landscape and Hymn For Her

Project 2025 is an ambitious and potentially transformative initiative that has gained attention due to its alignment with the political aspirations of former President Donald Trump and his prospective agenda should he return to the presidency in the 2024 election. The project is co-authored by key figures in the conservative movement and aims to significantly reshape the landscape of American governance on multiple fronts.At its core, Project 2025 is a strategic plan formulated by conservative think tanks and policymakers with the intention of preparing a governmental framework that aligns with Trump's vision. The project's proponents describe it as a "radical agenda" designed to overhaul key aspects of the federal government, regulatory practices, and other areas of public policy. It seeks to address issues such as deregulation, federal budget restructuring, and foreign policy realignment, emphasizing a more nationalist approach.A critical component of Project 2025 is its focus on deregulation across various sectors. Advocates argue that a reduction in federal regulations would spur economic growth, increase competitiveness, and restore what they perceive as freedoms curtailed by government overreach. This part of the agenda aims to streamline regulatory processes, reduce bureaucratic red tape, and foster an environment more conducive to private enterprise and innovation.In terms of fiscal policy, Project 2025 proposes significant changes to how the federal budget is managed. It calls for measures to reduce the national debt through spending cuts and potential reforms in entitlement programs. The initiative underscores the importance of achieving a balanced budget and maintaining fiscal responsibility as a cornerstone of sustainable economic policy.On the international stage, Project 2025 envisions a reorientation of U.S. foreign policy. It seeks to redefine America's global role by prioritizing national sovereignty and reducing involvement in multilateral agreements and organizations that its authors view as compromising U.S. interests. This approach suggests a more selective engagement with allies and a heightened focus on bilateral relations that bolster American strategic goals.Education and energy policy also feature prominently in Project 2025. The initiative advocates for educational reforms that emphasize parental choice and curriculum transparency, reflecting a push for increased local control over educational content. In the energy sector, the project recommends expanding domestic energy production, reducing reliance on foreign oil, and potentially revisiting environmental regulations that restrict resource development.Critics of Project 2025 argue that its proposals could lead to significant disruptions in existing policy frameworks and might challenge established norms both domestically and internationally. Concerns have been raised about the implications of such sweeping changes on social welfare programs, environmental protections, and global diplomatic relations.The potential implementation of Project 2025 would mark a notable shift in U.S. governance, presenting opportunities and challenges that could redefine America's position both at home and abroad. As the 2024 election approaches, the project serves as a blueprint for Trump's supporters and a focal point of debate among political stakeholders, reflecting broader ideological divides over the future direction of the nation.

Kimball is a realist landscape painter from the USA. His paintings capture the splendour and majesty of the American Landscape.Kimball explains“I experimented with Plein Air painting and found that the more time I spent outdoors, the more I wanted landscape to be a part of my life. I made a decision to devote my career to the study of nature through painting. Spending time out in nature is a necessity for me, both as an artist and as a human being. I think John Muir said it best when writing about the Sierra Nevada Mountain passes, “They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action. Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.” Going forward in my career as an artist, I want my work to capture nature and its idiosyncrasies. I hope that by doing so I can remind people about the real world that surrounds them.”

Sara Weaner Cooper, Executive Director of New Directions in The American Landscape, describes her organization's dynamic educational programing and her success in transitioning a front lawn into native meadow without the use of herbicides, smothering plastics, or turf removal

This episode we're giving our book pitches for our Battle of the Books 2023! Each of us has picked one title that we think we should all read and discuss and you get to vote for which one it is! Will we read Trust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy edited by carla joy bergman, The Seep by Chana Porter, A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher, or Inheritance: a Pick-the-path Experience by Daniel Arnold, Darrell Dennis, and Medina Hahn? You decide!  You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray

Ribbon fall. Gallery forest. You won't find terms like these in most dictionaries, but they and hundreds like them are discussed by famous writers in the book Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape. The book is an intriguing collection of specialized vocabulary that invites us to look more closely at the natural world -- and delight in its language. Also, how and why the Southern drawl developed. Plus, the phrase It's a thing. This expression may seem new, but It's a thing has been a thing for quite a long time. How long? Even Jane Austen used it! And: hourglass valley, thee vs. thou, bitchin', a word game inspired by Noah Webster, Willie off the pickle boat, who did it and ran, and Powder River! Let 'er buck!  Read full show notes, hear hundreds of free episodes, send your thoughts and questions, and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org/contact. Be a part of the show: call 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the United States and Canada; worldwide, call or text/SMS +1 (619) 800-4443. Email words@waywordradio.org. Twitter @wayword. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Note from James: I'm confused. There are so many national and international issues being debated on constitutional grounds lately. For example, issues at the Texas border and federal versus state powers—like the case of friends versus the state of Colorado. Does a state have the right to decide who appears on the national presidential ballot?Regarding COVID-19, I'm wondering if it was constitutional to close down all the businesses. It might have been the right decision, but does it infringe on our right to life, liberty, and property without due process? I posed these questions to a renowned constitutional expert, the author of "The Odd Clauses," who is also a professor of constitutional law at Boston University, Jay Wexler. He provided insights into which recent events were constitutional and which may not have been. Here's what he had to say.Episode Description:James leads an enlightening conversation with Jay Wexler, a professor of constitutional law at Boston University and author of 'The Odd Clauses'. They explore topics ranging from state rights in decision-making, such as Texas' border policies and Colorado's stance on the national presidential ballot, to significant constitutional debates such as the power of the Supreme Court, the implications of COVID-19 business shutdowns, and the increasingly prominent discussions around freedom of speech and presidential powers. Wexler provides deep insights into each topic, shedding light on the constitutional underpinnings and contemporary interpretations that inform these critical national discussions. The discussion also touches on potential constitutional conflicts and the nuanced understanding required to navigate these issues, with particular emphasis on the importance of Constitution's adaptability over time and the ongoing debate between originalism versus evolutionary interpretation. Episode Summary:01:00 Introduction: The Constitution in the News01:46 Interview with Constitutional Expert Jay Wexler02:33 The Life of a Law Professor03:13 Challenges of Teaching in the Digital Age04:49 Constitutional Battles in Recent Years06:16 The Power of the Supreme Court07:00 The Intricacies of Marbury v. Madison08:34 The Role of the Supreme Court in the Executive Branch11:38 The Texas Border Issue and Constitutional Merit24:46 The Power of States in Deciding Presidential Candidates33:18 Understanding the Qualifications for Presidential Candidates36:06 Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on Businesses and Constitutional Rights37:34 The Lochner Era and its Influence on Business Regulations40:20 Religious Rights and Restrictions during the COVID-19 Pandemic44:22 The Controversial Topic of State Secession51:31 The Intricacies of Freedom of Speech and its Boundaries54:51 The Power and Limitations of Presidential Executive Orders01:05:51 The Unusual Third Amendment and its Interpretation ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn

Fallingwater, perched above Bear Run in southwestern Pennsylvania is Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece, a house perhaps as recognizable as any other in the United States–and it's not even on the nickel. Less known is that it was designed and built at the end of decades of despair and seeming futility in the architect's life, a series of circumstances that would have broken nearly anyone else. Fallingwater is not only an instantiation of Wright's developing philosophy of architecture, but of his near fanatical determination to prevail against all enemies — often, most notably, himself.  But Fallingwater is also a monument to the Depression era, even though it seems very far removed from our mental images of what "the Depression" was like. With me today is Catherine W. Zipf, an award-winning architectural historian. She is executive Director of the Bristol, historical and preservation Society in Bristol, Rhode Island, and author of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater: American Architecture in the Depression Era, which is the subject of our conversation today For Further Investigation Fallingwater Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin: the one in Wisconsin Midway Gardens Wingspread The classic book to read about Chicago and its hinterland is William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West William R. Drennan, Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders Wright in Los Angeles, and his "California Romanza": The Hollyhock House, and the Ennis House This 1996 Library of Congress exhibit, "Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922-1932", covers one of the decades that Catherine Zipf and I talked about. It is full of beautiful designs, none of which were ever built. Some of the most impressive things in the exhibit are the meticulous models of the landscape in which Wright proposes to build. Catherine briefly mentioned that many houses of the 1920s, most of which are in revival style. For proof of this, see the architectural plans sold by Dover Publications Frank Lloyd Wright explains why he wrote his Autobiography Lincoln Logs and the Hollywood Bowl Listeners to recent podcasts will note some resonance with aspects of my recent conversation about Henry Wallace; but attentive long-time listeners will also note some curious resonance over the question of what is natural with Episode 222, about the career and views of Harvey Wiley.

In today's episode of Exploring Art, we actively deep dive into threepivotal American Landscape artists. Includes firsthand opinionsand critiques of the highlighted artwork. Tune in to discoverwhich specific artists we explore.

La curadora Waleska Santiago-Centeno visita el New Britain Museum of American Art para compartir sobre la exposición "Women Reframe American Landscape". Mas información aquí: https://nbmaa.org/exhibitions/women-reframe-american-landscape El audio, fotos, vídeos e información en inglés aquí: https://holyokemedia.org/women-reframe-american-landscape/

In Montana, an unlikely group of allies is working together to preserve a unique prairie ecosystem, and at the same time, help their own rural economies. Montana PBS's Stan Parker reports from one of the planet's last remaining intact grasslands. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Barry Lopez, Editor of "Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape," talks about the interesting definition essay on the words 'lake' and 'desire path.' This full interview from a 2006 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" can be heard now wherever you get your podcasts.

AP correspondent Jackie Quinn reports on Masking in America.

In this candid conversation, Nicole takes a beat to talk with Cristina Ciaravalli about her storied career in the fintech industry, from her early beginnings working for Goldman Sachs to meeting and falling in love with tech startup, Plaid.  The two chat about the differences between working for an organization like Goldman versus working for fintech startups and discuss what, exactly, drew Cristina to Plaid. Then, they pivot into dissecting how regulation makes banking as a service fundamentally different from fintech, before diving into the latest trends in fintech in Latin America.   Plus, Cristina divulges why she's excited to see the changes that come from the collaboration between the Central Bank of Brazil and the Brazilian government and explains what change in fintech she wishes to see the most.    Follow Cristina:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristinaciara/    Follow Nicole:  LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nicole-casperson-0820a5133/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/nicolecasperson     You can keep up-to-date with everything Humans of Fintech at https://workweek.com/brand/wtfintech/ 

This week on The Whiskey Trip Podcast, Big Chief traveled to Frankfort, Ky, for Bourbon on the Banks where he celebrated his 50th birthday. He had the opportunity to record a live show at the Kentucky History Museum with eight of his friends from around the Bourbon community. He started with Kelly Tennile and Brian Haara discussing Brian's book “Bourbon Justice” and whiskey on the reality TV show Moonshiners. He then invited Master Distillers, Lisa Wicker and Denny Potter, to talk about their new adventures and the rise of American Single malt. For the second half he started with Walter Zausch, from Whiskey Thief Distilling, and April Weller Cantrel, from Leiper's Fork Distillery, to discuss Craft Distilling on the American Landscape. Big Chief finishes the show with two legends of the whiskey industry, Andrea Wilson from Michter's Distillery, and Freddie Johnson, from Buffalo Trace Distillery. They discuss Bourbon tourism and the great experience of the Bourbon Trail. Freddie ends the show with a toast to Big Chief and to turning 50. All the guests sip on a single barrel Bourbon from The Whiskey Thief Distilling Co., who was the sponsor for the event. This ride on The Whiskey Trip was an adventure and the first live show with many family and friends in attendance to show their support for the big man. Cheers!

Guests: Erin Mallea and Paper Buck of Tree News, Bekezela Mguni of the Black Unicorn Library and Archive Project, and Adriana Monsalve of Homie House Press. Host:  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on September 9, 2023 at the Carnegie Museum of Art Erin Mallea is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the past and present of particular microcosms as entry points into larger environmental, social, and political conditions. Often public and collaborative in nature, her work manifests in a range of media including installation, film, photography, and writing. She sent vibrations from a giant fungus throughout the atmosphere and currently publishes Tree News, a newsletter about trees, people and places. Erin holds a MFA from Carnegie Mellon University (2019) and is an Assistant Professor of Art at the Pennsylvania State University School of Visual Arts. Paper Buck is an interdisciplinary visual artist, printmaker, and writer. His recent work is focused on place-centered research that critically explores white settler constructions of conservation, ecology, and the "American Landscape." Paper received his MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2020 and earned a Bachelor's degree in Studio Art from Macalester College in 2008. His practice is informed by a background in community organizing that centers anti-racist education, decolonial movements, and transgender justice. He was formerly a leadership team member at the Transgender, Gender-Variant and Intersex Justice Project, Unsettling Minnesota and the Catalyst Project. He publishes a collaborative artist newsletter, Tree News, with artist Erin Mallea.  Bekezela Mguni is a queer Trinidadian artist, radical librarian, and educator. She has over 15 years of community organizing experience in the Reproductive Justice movement and holds an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh. She completed her first micro-residency at the Pittsburgh creative hub Boom Concepts and was featured in the 2015 Open Engagement Conference. She launched the Black Unicorn Library and Archive Project. The Black Unicorn cultivates libraries as sites of learning, possibility, and freedom celebrating the literary and artistic contributions of Black women, queer, Trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people.  Honoring the far-reaching influence their storytelling has had on the lives of generations worldwide. She was a featured artist of the 2017 Activist Print Project, a partnership between, Artist Image Resource, BOOM concepts, and the Andy Warhol Museum.  Bekezela is a Boom Concepts studio member, a community space and gallery dedicated to the development of artists and creative entrepreneurs. She is currently the Artistic Director at Dreams of Hope which affirms the voices and leadership of LGBTQ youth through the arts.  Adriana Monsalve is an artist, cultural worker and collaborative publisher working in the photobook medium. Along with Caterina Ragg, Monsalve is co-founder of Homie House Press, a radical cooperative platform that challenges the ever-changing forms of storytelling with image and text. Within her photographic practice, Monsalve is an archivist and visual communicator who produces in-depth stories on identity through the nuances in between race, gender, and immigrant adjacent experiences. Within her cultural work as a collaborative publisher, she holds space for and with underrepresented communities through the multidisciplinary platform of Homie House Press (HHP); a cooperative playground where fotos become books, a safe space for secret stories and an open house for honest content that meets at the intersection of personal, political, and poetic. She is rigorously pushing towards finding ways for photographers and publishers to cultivate the capacity for care and tenderness within structures that actively work against their manifestations. She defines intimacy as the experience of being genuinely seen, heard, and held by another person or group of people. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/paper-cuts/support

Alex Johnston a land manager from the UK joined me to discuss his perspective on the American Landscape and American Regenerative Agriculture. We talk about the differences and similarities between American and UK agriculture as well as the process he has been going through to adapt a herd of beef cattle to their environment in...

Brandon Rushton is the author of The Air in the Air Behind It (Tupelo Press, 2022), selected by Bin Ramke for the Berkshire Prize. Born and raised in Michigan, his individual poems have received awards from Gulf Coast and Ninth Letter and appear widely in publications like The Southern Review, Denver Quarterly, Pleiades, Bennington Review, and Passages North. His essays appear in Alaska Quarterly Review, Terrain.org, the critical anthology, A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke, and have been listed as notable by Best American Essays. After earning his MFA from the University of South Carolina, he joined the writing faculty at the College of Charleston. Since the fall of 2020, he's served as a visiting professor of Writing at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

The Thomas Cole National Historic Site will be presenting a two-part exhibition titled “Women Reframe American Landscape” – one part will be historical – “Susie Barstow & Her Circle” – which will highlight the extraordinary work of Susie Barstow, who exhibited in her day with many of the renowned Hudson River School painters but whose work, along with other women in her circle, has since been overlooked.The contemporary component – “Contemporary Practices” – will explore the cutting-edge work of internationally renowned women artists responding through art to the American landscape today. The exhibitions take place through October 29, 2023 at the Thomas Cole Site in Catskill, NY.To tell us more we welcome: co-curator of the exhibition and Chief Curator at the Thomas Cole Site Kate Menconeri, co-curator of the exhibition and Associate Curator at the Thomas Cole Site Amanda Malmstrom, and one of the acclaimed artists whose work is presented in the exhibition, Mary Mattingly.

Welcome to the Beehive!  It's the 100th and final episode ever of the Rock Under Fire podcast.  It's all about hot takes as Mike Derrico is joined by Marisa Baldassaro, Heather Drain and Michael Lee Nirenberg in over two hours of too many topics to list.  But we'll try...let's see...there's random takes on Chuck Berry, the early days of the Internet, Joy Division, Brian Eno, the Gun Club, Def Leppard, Michael Monroe, Iron Maiden, Thin Lizzy, the Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty, Billy Joel, Phil Collins, Marisa's Vince Neil imitation, about a dozen different takes on Kiss, including the question..."is Kiss misogynistic," and a whole lot more.  It must have been in the stars, but we saved the most insane episode by far...for last.  Thanks to all our supporters over the years.  We had a small audience but we had a blast.  Thanks for listening. Peace. luv, rock and roll...   Rock Under Fire host, Mike Derrico is a freelance writer, pop cultural historian, and author of the books, AUTUMN AND EVERYTHING AFTER: The Murder of John Lennon, Evolution of Bruce Springsteen & the Birth of the Reagan Era (2020), THE LOCKER NOTES, a novel (2021), and the forthcoming ...AND THE CATHEDRAL FELL TO THE GROUND: The Lonesome Death of Rock and Roll (November 2023). Michael Lee Nirenberg, in his fourth time on the podcast, is a writer and director whose most celebrated recent works have been his 2014 documentary Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story, and his 2020 book Earth A.D. the Poisoning of the American Landscape and the Communities That Fought Back.   Heather Drain, in her second Rock Under Fire guest spot, is a writer who veers between the worlds of esoterica film, wild music, heart-born words, and prose that is dark, rich, quirky, and often undefinable. In the nonfiction realm, her work has appeared on the print and digital pages of Dangerous Minds, Diabolique, Video Watchdog, Art Decades, just to name a few. Her prose has appeared in both the Women in Horror Annual, as well as the 2020 anthology, The Blind Dead Ride Out of Hell: A Literary Tribute to the Amando de Ossorio. Marisa Baldassaro is a writer and fellow hater currently putting the finishing touches on her latest project, a Dory Previn zine, discussed earlier this season on Rock Under Fire (Ep. 79).  Marisa has also co-hosted several episodes of Rock Under Fire during Season 3.     Check out Heather's Patreon... https://www.patreon.com/mondoheather Follow Heather Drain on Twitter... https://twitter.com/mondoheather Follow Marisa Baldassaro on Twitter Marisa Baldassaro (@Nerdspringbreak) / Twitter Follow Mike Nirenberg on Twitter Michael Lee Nirenberg (@MLNirenberg) / Twitter Derrico Untitled https://derricountitled.com/  RUF Archives https://rockunderfire.libsyn.com/ Follow Mike on Twitter  https://twitter.com/Mike__Derrico Copyright free music provided by Lovers Squared by Letter Box 1973 by Bruno E Giorgio Di Campo for FreeSound Music

**this was originally released on the bonus feed for Patrons in July 2022; enjoy! And consider supporting the show on Patreon!**This is the second installment in our sporadic Dead Reckoning bonus series. This episode takes us to the haunted coast of Connecticut, where spirits are said to linger at New London Ledge Light and Penfield Reef. Sources: Blake, Kevin. "Lighthouse Symbolism in the American Landscape." FOCUS on Geography, Summer 2007, pp. 9 - 15. Carter, Donald. Connecticut's Seaside Ghosts. Schiffer, 2008. “Lighthouse Facts.” United States Lighthouse Society. https://uslhs.org/education/glossaries-facts-trivia/lighthouse-facts.Miller, Allen S. “‘The Lighthouse Top I See': Lighthouses as Instruments and Manifestations of State Building in the Early Republic.” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, vol. 17, no. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 13 - 34. Support the show

A conversation with author and curator Elliot Bostwick Davis about her new book “Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape” and the accompanying exhibit which runs July 22 to October 16 at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Both the book and the exhibit examine the impact of Hopper's wife Jo on his work and the trajectory of his career. Their relationship started in the summer of 1923 there in Cape Ann and it wasn't long before the 41-year-old Hopper became a rising star in the art world.https://a.co/d/9stfbjChttps://www.capeannmuseum.org/exhibitions/edward-hopper/

Tonight I welcome Greg back to the show. He is the host of the American Landscape https://www.youtube.com/@TheAmericanLandscape and he is here to talk about all the things in Bigfoot reserach that truly makes him scratch his head. This was a fun converstation, and I enjoy stepping outside the norm and just ponder the what ifs. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Support Our Sponsors Visit 4 Patriots Use Promo Code SASQUATCH for 10% off your first purchase!Sasquatch Odyssey Is Sponsored By BetterHelpVisit HelloFresh Now For Your 16 Free Meals!Get Dave Here!Visit Hangar1 PublishingSasquatch Odyssey YouTube ChannelVisit Our WebsiteParanormal World Productions Merchandise Store Support The Showhttps://www.patreon.com/paranormalworldproductionsAll The Socials And Stuff/Contact Brianhttps://linktr.ee/ParanormalWorldProductionsbrian@paranormalworldproductions.com Send Brian A Voicemail Or Tell Your Storyhttps://www.speakpipe.com/SasquatchOdysseyPodcastFollow The Show On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sasquatchodyssey/Follow The Show On TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@sasquatchodysseypodcast?_t=8XRHQxPMFYo&_r=1This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4839697/advertisement

Michael Lee Nirenberg, author of the book "Earth A.D. The Poisoning of The American Landscape and the Communities that Fought Back," stops by to talk about his book. From the description: "A sweeping oral history of two American Superfund sites. Comprised of hundreds of interviews with political, environmental, corporate leaders as well as the citizens affected by living in these toxic zones, Nirenberg tells the stories behind the Tar Creek lead mine wasteland in rural Oklahoma compared and contrasted with the history of chemical poisoning of Newtown Creek in the now real-estate hotspot, Brooklyn, NY. The sagas of Tar Creek and Newtown show how wealth, racism, and the rural-urban divide influences how environmental disasters are viewed. The diverse voices are woven into a quick-paced modern-day thriller drawn from firsthand interviews with the people who both witnessed and participated in what became some of the most expensive man-made environmental disasters. Everyone from governors to scientists to fishermen to teachers to kids tells their stories of Earth after disaster in this riveting true story. Earth A.D. is a documentation of the past and a warning to the future." A good time is had by all!  To start learning magick now, check out our free guided meditation at: https://start.magick.me

The Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, New York presents a two-part exhibition titled “Women Reframe American Landscape” May 6 to October 29, 2023.

From my curiosity generated by the headline of an op-ed piece in the New York Times titled “The Boss Is Back in Silicon Valley” came the following wide ranging conversation with Carol Schultz, the founder and CEO of Vertical Elevation and author of “Powered By People: How Talent-Centric Organizations Master Recruitment, Retention, and Revenue(and How … Continue reading EP 645 Tech Workers Benefits(And Jobs)Reset in the Changing American Landscape →

When NBC launched Monitor on June 12th, 1955, it was a true magazine of the air, running over NBC radio stations from Saturday mornings until Midnight Sunday in four hour blocks, completely taking over NBC's airtime on the weekends. The program offered actualities, remotes, comedy, and variety. Affiliates were free to pick up or put down the show in four hour increments. In the early 1960s, CBS countered with their own version called, Dimension. Burgess Meredith hosted a show called American Landscape. He brought the listener to various American cultural institutions, like this trip to the old drug store. This audio is hard to find and was digitized from an original transcription record.

Steven Bousquet is the President of American Landscape and Lawn Science (https://lawnscience.com/). He is also a partner at Green Profit Academy (https://greenprofitacademy.com/), a business coaching program specializing in the Profit First approach in lawncare and landscaping businesses. The Pest Control Millionaire Podcast is all about helping small business owners scale their lawn and pest companies by talking to experts in the service industry.For business coaching and mentorship, visit pestcontrolmillionaire.com.Send your business and entrepreneurship questions to info@pestcontrolmillionaire.com and we'll answer them on the show!Produced by Dalton Fisher, Fisher Multimedia LLC

Do you want your yard to benefit nature, while also being a place that speaks to you and is somewhere you enjoy spending time? Would you love for your yard to also be a place your neighbors admire and that inspires them to create pollinator and wildlife friendly landscapes? In this episode of the Backyard Ecology podcast, we talk with Larry Weaner about how to achieve both those goals. Larry is a Landscape Designer and the founder of Larry Weaner Landscape Associates and its educational affiliate, New Directions in the American Landscape, or NDAL. He is also the author of the book, Garden Revolution. According to Larry, ecology based landscaping or ecological landscaping takes into consideration where and how native plants naturally grow then adapts that knowledge to your property. The goal is to create a landscape that not only benefits nature, but is also a place that speaks to you and is somewhere you enjoy being. One of the topics that came up several times, and in several different ways, was how we connect and engage with a place. The place-based parts of our conversation included not only personal connections, but also community connections. Community connection is important because if our ecology based landscaping connects with our neighbors, then they may replicate some of those principles on their own properties, thus increasing the ecological benefits. Another topic that wove its way throughout our conversation was maintaining and managing our landscapes. This topic came up multiple times and in multiple ways. As Larry said, there probably isn't any such thing as a “no maintenance” landscape. Larry also talks about the biggest challenge he sees people face, especially when getting started. Larry is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to integrating ecological principles and landscape design. His approach is one that really resonates with me and has done so for several years. I encourage anyone who is interested in creating ecology based landscapes to read his book and look into his courses. Until next week, I encourage you to take some time to explore the nature in your own yard and community. Guest Links: New Directions in the American Landscape (NDAL): https://www.ndal.org/ Larry Weaner Landscape Associates: https://lweanerassociates.com/ Garden Revolution*: https://amzn.to/3Ckbp6F Backyard Ecology Links: January 2023 Survey: https://forms.gle/ztJECiwWjPeU4Aes5 Website: https://backyardecology.net YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/backyardecology Blog: https://www.backyardecology.net/blog/ Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/backyardecology One-time donation: https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=K7F3HJLJT9F8N Subscribe to Backyard Ecology emails: https://www.backyardecology.net/subscribe/ Episode image: Red spotted purple on purple coneflower. Photo credit: USFWS Midwest Region, public domain

Happy New Year everyone and welcome to episode 60 of Inside The Line: The Catskills! On this episode, I am joined by Glenn Kreisberg of the Overlook Mountain Center and tonight, we are chatting about ceremonial stone landscapes built by the Native Americans in and around the Catskills. CSL's symbolize many things including star patterns, alignment with the solstices, navigational purposes and much more. Glenn is the author of several books that discuss CSL's and also has done a great amount of research about CSL's in the Catskills. Subscribe on any platform! Share! Donate! Do whatever you want! I'm just glad you're listening! And remember... VOLUNTEER!!!!!! Links for the Podcast: https://linktr.ee/ISLCatskillsPodcast Want to donate a coffee? https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ITLCatskills Like to be a sponsor or monthly supporter of the show? Go here! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ITLCatskills/membership Thank you to our sponsor Outdoor chronicles photography - https://www.outdoorchroniclesphotography.com/ Glenn's author page - https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Glenn-Kreisberg/410050352 Overlook Mountain Center - https://overlookmountain.org/ Optically Stimulated Luminescence dating explained - https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/luminescence-dating NEARA - https://neara.org/ Trailhead stewards for 3500 Club - http://catskill-3500-club.org/adopt-a-trailhead.php Catskills Trail Crew - https://www.nynjtc.org/trailcrew/catskills-trail-crew NYNJTC Volunteering - https://www.nynjtc.org/catskills Catskill Center - https://catskillcenter.org/ Catskill Mountain Club - https://catskillmountainclub.org/about-us/ Catskill Mountainkeeper - https://www.catskillmountainkeeper.org/ Post Hike Brews and Bites: Westkill Brewing - https://www.westkillbrewing.com/ Peekamoose Tavern - https://www.peekamooserestaurant.com/ #cairns #overlookmountain #CLS #nativeamericans #hikesafe #volunteers #catskillmountains #catskillspodcast #catskills #catskillpark #podcast #catskillshiker #volunteers #catskillmountainsnewyork #catskillmountainsnewyork #catskillspodcast #catskillshiker #catskillshiking #hiking #insidethelinecatskillspodcast --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/insidethelinesthecatskill/support

One of the most important events of my gardening year is the extraordinary collection of gardeners, designers, and ecologists who assemble to exchange ideas every January at the New Directions in the American Landscape's two-day annual symposium.  Join executive director of NDAL, Sara Weaner, to learn about this year's line-up of extraordinary speakers and topics.  It's a don't miss opportunity

ROCK UNDER FIRE / THE FINAL SEASON Writer & director, Mike Nirenberg returns to the Rock Under Fire podcast once again. Nirenberg's most celebrated recent works have been his 2014 documentary Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story, and his 2020 book Earth A.D. the Poisoning of the American Landscape and the Communities That Fought Back. This time we are joined by writer and fellow hater, Marisa Baldassaro who co-hosted several RUF episodes during Season 3. Discussion includes riffs on jazz, record collecting, the writing process, Marisa's upcoming Dory Previn project, cancel culture, and reflections back 20 years to Mike and Marisa's early films such as Customer Service and the Roach Detectives. Mike Derrico hosts. https://derricountitled.com/ https://twitter.com/Mike__Derrico Copyright free music provided by Lovers Squared by Letter Box 1973 by Bruno E Giorgio Di Campo for FreeSound Music

Daniel Kaven is the author of Architecture of Normal: The Colonization of the American Landscape, a book that views the built environment through the lens of successive developments in transportation. An architect and visual artist hailing from Albuquerque, now calling Portland home, Kaven takes on suburbanization, flying cars, and why “Generation Z needs to get out in the streets and be really pissed off about work-from-home.” Intro/Outro: The Big Country, by The Talking Heads Discussed: Ed Ruscha Cibola – one of the Seven Cities of Gold COVID as accelerant of moving from an experiential lifestyle to a destination-based lifestyle Instagram feeds are the new main streets of America United Airlines buys Archer – an air-taxi company Henry Ford's flying personal cars department Prediction: First place to adopt flying cars – Saudi Arabia The Main Street and Mall Retail Apocalypse Future infrastructure and traffic planning will be about stratification of means of transport, literally Just because we have the technology to do something, doesn't mean we should Do we want to live in places where we just order online and it gets delivered to a drone pad? The Big Tech companies are nation-states, or partners thereof Urbanism had a good run from 1990s to just before COVID. The post-COVID boom is in places like suburban Boise – Boomtown ZoomTown, and it's already fizzling. “Generation Z needs to get out in the streets and be really pissed off about work-from-home.” Architecture firms have really phoned in their responsibility to make places where people want to be – as a counterpoint to work-from-home, the tone of which is being set by Facebook and their brethren. “There is no future with goggles on.” “We don't need to rip America apart and build the Metaverse.” “How can people live a more spacious life in an urban environment?” “We're going to regret having made all these 5-over-1 wood-frame buildings with cheap materials.”

I often hear budding entrepreneurs tell me they're going to start a business so they can have other people manage it while they go off and do something fun or significant in their life. My response is usually an internal “eye roll” because it's not as easy as it sounds. In fact, most business owners never see that lifestyle until they retire. In the meantime, the average business owner is working a lot more hours than they had dreamed. So, it's great when you actually get to meet a business owner that has built the entrepreneur's dream job.  Meet Jim Adams. Owner of a very successful business, American Landscape and Structure. So successful in fact that they grew 4x during COVID! But he's found the business formula that allows him to run the business while he's on the road with his wife, Cara and two dogs. He's also launched into his other passion of consulting small, privately held businesses accomplish the same thing he has. More freedom!

This episode of the Rural Voice begins our series of interviews with upcoming National Rural Education Conference speakers to be held in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in October of 2022. We Interviewed Mr. Ben Winchester, a former guest on the podcast, regarding the changing trends in housing from urban to rural areas of the United States. They discuss the changing housing landscape and need in communities, the influx of people moving to rural America, and the potential impact on education. While the data can help track these trends, Mr. Winchester suggests that each community may have unique needs. He further indicates that housing should meet the needs of the population's specific subsegments, yet much housing development does not consider those needs. https://extension.umn.edu/contacts-community-development/ben-winchester This episode is sponsored by Win Learning

Joining me this week is Steve Bousquet.Steve is the President of American Landscape and Lawn Science, a lawn care and landscape business based in Connecticut. Reading that, many of you are probably thinking, "That's an interesting guest for a podcast about Learning Culture". I had the same thought when I first met Steve, a self professed learning nerd who never hesitates to hire a coach or to get a certification in something that he thinks could help him in what he sets out to do.In this episode, we unpack important lessons about the learner path mindset that Steve has installed for his team of 30 people. It covers communication styles, leveraging strengths, the growth mindset, and of course, purpose. Steve shares some very practical tools that you could use to enhance these four areas of your business to promote and enable your people. Sometimes you have to look at a business entirely different from your own, to learn a new approach that resonates and can be applied to the situation you face. I left my conversation with Steve energized by his fresh perspective, and with a new set of practical ideas that I want to apply at Curious Lion. I have no doubt that you will find gems of your own hidden within this conversation.So please sit back and enjoy this episode with Steve Bousquet.

This weeks bonus show is a "Creepy Pasta" of sorts, as I chat with a friend of the show Greg Nutt host of The American Landscape travel show on YouTube. In addition to his service in the United States Military, Greg worked as a nightshift security supervisor at DisneyLand! He has some pretty cool ghost stories, a UFO experience and we even talk Bigfoot. I had a blast talking with Greg and I hope you guys enjoy your Creepy Pasta episode! Click the link below to head over to The American Landscape YouTube and hit that subscribe button and check out Gregs adventures. Support The Showhttps://www.patreon.com/paranormalworldproductionsAll The Socials And Stuff/Contact Brianhttps://linktr.ee/ParanormalWorldProductionsbrian@sasquatchodyssey.netFollow The Show On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sasquatchodyssey/The American Landscape YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAmericanLandscape/videos

This weeks show is a bit of a "Creepy Pasta" of sorts, as I chat with a friend of the show Greg Nutt host of The American Landscape travel show on YouTube. In addition to his service in the United States Military, Greg worked as a nightshift security supervisor at DisneyLand! He has some pretty cool ghost stories, a UFO experience and we even talk Bigfoot. I had a blast talking with Greg and I hope you guys enjoy your Creepy Pasta episode! Click the link below to head over to The American Landscape YouTube and hit that subscribe button and check out Gregs adventures. Support The Showhttps://www.patreon.com/paranormalworldproductionsAll The Socials And Stuff/Contact Brianhttps://linktr.ee/ParanormalWorldProductionsparanormalodysseypodcast@gmail.combrian@sasquatchodyssey.netFollow The Show On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/paranormalodyssey/The American Landscape YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAmericanLandscape/videos

Peter Nesbit came by today and we actually recorded on a Sunday (something I never do). I did that because I really wanted him on this podcast and sometimes you have to work around a person's schedule to capture important stories from important people. Anyway, Peter was in Tucson and I thought: "God, I got to have Pete on my podcast." Peter is just a really interesting individual. I've known him for 30 years, but you don't know somebody until you sit down and have an intimate talk about how they got through life accomplishing all the things they've accomplished.This podcast was uniquely Pete Nesbit. From his time in the Navy on a ship that was involved in a major ship-to-ship collision during Vietnam and how this moment affected how he sees things, to just his whole world view and how he wants to be remembered as a painter.It's clear that he puts that personal history and his place in the broader history of the world on a very high pedestal regarding what he does and why he does it, which is really trying to make an impact in every painting that he does. I think you'll find it very unique. I know I did.  I was really happy to have him on and I think you'll enjoy it as much as I did. Art Dealer Diaries episode 195 with Pete Nesbit.

Debra Gwartney joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation about the difference between character and narrator in memoir, navigating writing about loved ones, why memoirists need to hold their own feet to the fire, and what question every memoir asks.    Also in this episode:  -memoir and essay recommendations -craft book suggestions -tips for avoiding common pitfalls when writing memoir   Memoirs/Work mentioned in this episode: The Sisters Antipodes by Jane Alison The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster Borrowed Finery by Paula Fox Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick The Situation and the Story by Vivian Gornick To Show and to Tell by Phillip Lopate "The Fourth State of Matter" by Jo Ann Beard "Thanksgiving in Mongolia" by Ariel Levy Authors mentioned: Melissa Febos, Eula Biss, Ann Carson, Claire Vaye Watkins, Ander Monson   Debra Gwartney is the author of two book-length memoirs, Live Through This, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and I Am a Stranger Here Myself, winner of the RiverTeeth Nonfiction Prize and the Willa Award for Nonfiction. Debra has published in such journals as Granta, The Sun, Tin House, American Scholar, The Normal School, Creative Nonfiction, Prairie Schooner, and others. She's the 2018 winner of the Real Simple essay contest. She's also a contributing editor at Poets & Writers magazine and received a Pushcart Prize in 2021 for her essay “Suffer Me to Pass,” from VQR. Debra is co-editor, along with her husband Barry Lopez, of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape. She lives in Western Oregon.    Connect with Debra: https://www.facebook.com/writerdebragwartney/ http://www.debragwartney.com   Ronit's essays and fiction have been featured in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, The Iowa Review, The Washington Post, Writer's Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in both the 2021 Best Book Awards and the 2021 Book of the Year Award and a 2021 Best True Crime Book by Book Riot. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts' 2020 Eludia Award and will be published in 2022. She is host and producer of the podcasts And Then Everything Changed and The Body Myth. More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com More about WHEN SHE COMES BACK, a memoir: https://ronitplank.com/book/ Sign up for monthly podcast and writing updates: https://bit.ly/33nyTKd   Follow Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://twitter.com/RonitPlank https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank   Background photo credit: Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll's Fingers

Do I need more clients or better clients?  How do I get better clients?  What is a "sweet spot" in business?  We meet and learn from Steven Bousquet of American Landscape and Lawn Science.  Steve shares his experience of 40 years in business, meeting with hundreds of other business owners, and a lifetime of obstacles, failures, and debt that he was able to overcome and eventually build his thriving business.  Steve is also co-founder of the Green Profit Academy where they consult with lawn care and landscape business owners on obtaining long-term sustainability and scalable growth. Connect with Steven Bousquet:Webpage:  https://www.lawnscience.com/Webpage:  Green Profit AcademyFacebook: Green Profit AcademyBook: Profit First for Lawn Care and Landscape BusinessesLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-bousquet-19133718/Follow the podcast at @itsjustbusinesspodcast on all the major podcasting platforms.Connect with us:To get in touch with us, email the podcast at itsjustbusinesspodcast@gmail.com. Join us on Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn - we appreciate your support!www.itsjustbusinesspodcast.comYou can find Russ @reliable.remediationRuss Harlow – Reliable Remediation – Disaster RestorationGoogle: https://g.page/r/CXogeisZHEjMEBAYou can find Dana @adashofboss, @dana.dowdell and @hrfanatic Dana Dowdell – Boss Consulting – HR ConsultingGoogle -  https://tinyurl.com/y4wxnavx

Have you ever thought about dropping everything to pursue your passion? Susanne Papawassiliu profiles Mike Powers who left his life in Florida behind to do just that. Today, Mike resides in Berlin, where he spends his days making art.

How many people will you meet in your lifetime? How many will you remember? Fascinated by the countless chance encounters in their own lives, Susannah Edelbaum and Monika Müller-Kroll reveal the ways that casual interactions affect us all.

Cariad Harmon and her partner John Kesling embark on a long-awaited cross-country road trip. Cariad interviews locals and fellow travelers of all kinds at national parks, truck stops, and diners while sharing intimate details of life on the road — the good and the bad.

In today's podcast, we have a special guest, Steve Bousquet, owner and president of American Landscape and Lawn Science in North Franklin, CT. Steve has been a mentor and guiding influence for Sid's life and career for the past decade, and we are so excited to have him on to share his experience implementing Profit First, and The Pumpkin Plan by Mike Michalawicz. Steve also, goes through his amazing story of personal and business growth and development. It's truly an American Dream Story. You are going to love this one!