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We recently sat down with Jenni Bonura, President & CEO of Harry Norman, REALTORS®, Atlanta's premier luxury real estate firm, for an exclusive deep dive into the massive success and strategic impact of their fifth annual HN Cares initiative. Bonura shared her leadership insights on how impactful philanthropy drives business success and reinforces core company values in the highly competitive Metro Atlanta market. * Balancing Scale and Depth: Bonura discussed the strategic challenge of achieving high-volume impact(supporting over 1,500 Metro Atlanta families) while ensuring deep, meaningful assistance to core partners like Ronald McDonald House Atlanta (RMHA) and The Sandwich Project. The solution? Empowering individual offices to choose local non-profits for deeper engagement.
 * Philanthropy as Agent Retention: The HN Cares initiative, led by the Impact Council, is crucial for internal culture. Bonura explained how these philanthropic efforts reinforce the firm's people-centric values, confirming that the commitment to community service is a key driver for agent recruitment and retention in the competitive Metro Atlanta real estate space. * Measuring True ROI (Return on Investment): Beyond the simple metrics of "families supported," the interview explored how Harry Norman measures the true success of HN Cares. Bonura confirmed that the firm tracks metrics related to brand affinity, community perception, and the long-term sustainability of their impactful partnerships. * Luxury Identity & Core Needs: How does an initiative focused on core community needs, like addressing food scarcity and family support, strengthen the luxury brand identity? Bonura highlighted that genuine, purpose-driven initiatives showcase the firm's integrity and differentiate Harry Norman within the high-end market, proving that impact and luxury are not mutually exclusive. * The Future of HN Cares: Looking beyond the record-breaking delivery of 6,321 care kits to RMHA since 2022, Bonura previewed the strategic evolution of the initiative, hinting at deepening relationships through skill-based volunteering and potentially incorporating a mentorship element leveraging the success of their top agents. Bonura concluded by sharing a valuable leadership lesson learned from the hands-on involvement of her team: HN Cares highlights the fundamental core values of Harry Norman, REALTORS®—integrity, dedication, and community—in ways that simple business metrics never could. Web: www.harryNorman.com Harry Norman, REALTORS®, Atlanta and North Georgia's premier luxury real estate firm, proudly announces the successful completion of its fifth annual Harry Norman Cares initiative! This year, over 100 dedicated Harry Norman agents and employees significantly boosted their impact across the Metro Atlanta community. This marks the fourth consecutive year that Harry Norman, REALTORS® partnered with Ronald McDonald House Atlanta (RMHA) as the cornerstone of their community efforts. * 1,520 Care Kits Donated: Agents and employees packaged and delivered a total of 1,520 essential care kits for RMHA families. These kits, filled with "Personal Care," "Laundry Essentials," and "Grab-and-Go Snacks," provide crucial support to families staying near their sick children. * 6,321 Total Kits: With this year's contribution, Harry Norman, REALTORS® has donated an incredible 6,321 care kits to Ronald McDonald House Atlanta since 2022, demonstrating a deep, sustained commitment. Celebrating its 95th anniversary, Harry Norman expanded its giving by empowering each local office to select a charity, connecting agents even more closely with their specific communities. Jenni Bonura, President & CEO of Harry Norman, REALTORS®, stated, "We considered how we could make an even greater impact on the Metro Atlanta community... serving as an opportunity to connect even further with those in need within their communities.” Highlights of Local Office Volunteer Efforts: * North Office: Supported local shelter animals by volunteering with FurKids, the largest cage-free, no-kill shelter in the Southeast. * Atlanta Perimeter Office: Tackled food scarcity by making sandwiches for The Sandwich Project for distribution to Atlantans in need. * East Cobb Office: Held a Silent Auction benefiting Canine Assistants (service dogs) and The Orange Duffel Bag Initiative (supporting Georgia students in need). * Intown Office: Contributed to urban green space through a clean-up effort at a BeltLine Connector Volunteer Day. * Woodstock Office: Sponsored Parent Night at Carmel Elementary School, preparing and serving 600 meals to students and parents. 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Welcome back to another episode of the unSeminary podcast. We're talking with Tensley Almand, President and CEO of Atlanta Mission, the largest and longest-running provider of services for people experiencing homelessness in the Atlanta metro area. Founded in 1938 as a soup kitchen during the Great Depression, Atlanta Mission now operates four campuses, serving over 800 men, women, and children nightly through programs that provide housing, recovery support, and Christ-centered transformation. How do you lead through complexity while staying true to your calling? Tensley shares leadership lessons from his transition from church ministry to leading a $20 million nonprofit—insights that apply to every pastor or church leader navigating growth, complexity, or change. Moving beyond shelter to transformation. // While many think of Atlanta Mission as only an emergency shelter, over 60% of its beds are dedicated to long-term transformational programs that address root causes of homelessness. The yearlong program includes counseling, trauma recovery, life skills, and vocational training. Clients complete a four-week “Next Steps” program focused on relational, emotional, and workplace health. The results are remarkable: 70% of graduates maintain stable housing and employment a year later. Learning to lead by listening. // When Tensley stepped into his CEO role, he faced the challenge of succeeding a leader who had guided the organization from crisis to stability. Rather than arriving as the expert, Tensley began as what he calls the “Chief Question Officer.” He met with every employee to ask four key questions: What's right? What's wrong? What's missing? What's confusing? The responses revealed a clear need for strategic focus. Building clarity and focus. // Using that input, Tensley led a yearlong process to create a strategic roadmap—a seven-year plan that defines the organization's mission, values, and measurable outcomes. When there's clarity in an organization, saying ‘no' becomes easy and saying ‘yes' becomes difficult. The new strategy gave Atlanta Mission a unified framework for decision-making, with every initiative measured against the same mission. Measuring what matters. // Data fuels care. In order to better track client progress, the team at Atlanta Mission built dashboards, measuring not only how many people they serve but how lives are changing. When graduation rates dipped from 70% to 45%, they discovered the cause wasn't program failure but economic change. That same approach can transform church leadership. Churches measure nickels and noses, but what if we measured progression—how many first-time guests become group members, or how many volunteers grow into leaders? Partnership through presence. // Atlanta Mission thrives through partnerships with churches across the city. Tensley explains that relational poverty—people lacking healthy connections—is as debilitating as material poverty. Rather than only focusing on “do for” service projects, he encourages churches to create “be with” opportunities: hosting birthday parties, sharing meals, or building relationships with families at Atlanta Mission. Encouragement for leaders. // Reflecting on his own journey, Tensley reminds church leaders who feel stretched or uncertain that often you’ll overestimate what you can accomplish in 90 days, but underestimate what you can do in a year or two. Take time to listen, build unity, and stay faithful in the process. Over time, that faithfulness becomes transformation—both in the people you lead and in yourself. To learn more about Atlanta Mission, visit atlantamission.org or email to connect or schedule a visit. Thank You for Tuning In! There are a lot of podcasts you could be tuning into today, but you chose unSeminary, and I'm grateful for that. If you enjoyed today's show, please share it by using the social media buttons you see at the left hand side of this page. Also, kindly consider taking the 60-seconds it takes to leave an honest review and rating for the podcast on iTunes, they're extremely helpful when it comes to the ranking of the show and you can bet that I read every single one of them personally! Episode Transcript Rich Birch — Hey friends, welcome to the unSeminary podcast. I am so glad that you have decided to tune in. We’ve got a real honored to have an incredible guest on today’s episode. We’ve got Tensley Almand with us. He is the president and CEO of Atlanta Mission. Rich Birch — Now, if you don’t know Atlanta Mission, I’m not sure where you’ve been. You really should know. This organization was founded in 1938 as a soup kitchen to feed men who were displaced by the Great Depression. And they just keep chugging along. They do incredible work. They now serve Metro Atlanta’s largest homeless population and bring hope in the face of homelessness, poverty, and addiction. Rich Birch — Prior to serving at Atlanta Mission, he was in vocational ministry for 20 plus years, the last 12 of those, as we were just saying in the pre-call. He said, felt like he had the the best job in the world, was a lead pastor at Decatur City Church, one of the eight Atlanta City, Atlanta area campuses of North Point Ministries. Tensley, welcome. So glad you’re here. Tensley Almand — Man, so good to be here. Thanks so much for having me. I’ve been looking forward to this conversation. Rich Birch — No, this is going to be good. I’m excited. Why don’t you kind of fill in the picture? Tell us a little bit more of your background and tell us a bit more about Atlanta Mission, that kind of thing. Just help set the table. Tensley Almand — Yeah, so I’m a native Atlantan. I grew up here, born and raised just north of the city. Yeah. Only child. Parents still live north of the city in the same town that I grew up in. Rich Birch — Nice. Tensley Almand — My wife and I, we have four kids. We have been married now, just celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary… Rich Birch — Congratulations. That’s great. Tensley Almand — …which makes me feel old, but it’s it’s it’s all good. So four kids, three boys, little girl, they’re all just amazing, doing great things and in their worlds. We live over in city of Decatur. So ah for those that don’t know, just kind of just right outside of downtown Atlanta. So we feel like we’re living in the heart of the city. Rich Birch — Cool. Tensley Almand — Like you said, I spent 20 plus years on the church side of ministry, which you had told younger me that that was going to be my future, I probably would have laughed at you. Grew up in a family that church just frankly, wasn’t that important to us. My mom gets mad if I say I didn’t grow up in a Christian home, um, which, you know, looking back, I think is really true. I just grew up in a home that we didn’t feel like the church was for us. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — And so, um, after, you know, meeting Jesus in college, giving my life to him, which is a whole nother really cool story, started down the path towards ministry. And eventually several years into that kind of looked up and thought, I don’t know what I’m doing. Like I’m working at these churches that I don’t even want to attend. Tensley Almand — Like remember this very pivotal meeting in my life where our pastor asked us, he’s like, if I didn’t pay you to go to church here, is this the church you would attend? Rich Birch — Yes. Tensley Almand — And every one of us said no. Rich Birch — Oh, gosh. Oh, my goodness. Tensley Almand — And they were all okay with it. Rich Birch — Oh, no. Tensley Almand — And I just like something broke in me. Rich Birch — Oh, no. Oh, no. Yeah. Tensley Almand — And I remember going home and I told my wife, I was like, I can’t do this anymore. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — And so I started the process of just trying to find a job. But the problem is I’ve genuinely felt called by God to ministry. And so God used that to, to lead us down the path of starting Decatur City Church. And, um, our whole dream was just to create a church that people who didn’t like church would love to attend. Tensley Almand — And so, which is really cool. Again, it’s probably a whole other episode, but really cool because we got to do that in one of the most unchurched cities in Atlanta. 70% of the people who live in Decatur ah don’t go to a church. And Decatur, for those who don’t know, small little town right outside of a big city. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — But literally, there’s over 600 churches in that town. So we used to say all the time, nobody wakes up on Sunday wondering where a church is. They just wake up wondering if church is for them. Rich Birch — Right, right. Tensley Almand — And so that’s, that’s the thing we tried to solve. Right. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — And so did that for 12 years, thought I would do that with my whole life. Just an amazing season. And then God called me out of there to Atlanta Mission. And so for those who don’t know, and we can get into that story here if you want to, but, for those who don’t know, Atlanta mission, like you said, it’s the largest and longest running provider of services… Rich Birch — Wow. Tensley Almand — …for men, women, and children experiencing homelessness in our city. So for perspective, what that means is on any given night, we’ll have about 800 men, women, or children who are staying with us. Rich Birch — Wow. Wow. That’s a significant operation. That’s, that’s incredible. Tensley Almand — It’s a significant operation. Rich Birch — Yeah. Tensley Almand — It represents that in our city, that represents about 35 to 40% of all the shelter beds in Atlanta. Rich Birch — Wow. Wow. Tensley Almand — So that’s, it’s a, it’s pretty remarkable opportunity that we do that across three campuses in downtown Atlanta. Rich Birch — Okay. Tensley Almand — One for men, two for women and children. Rich Birch — Yeah. Tensley Almand — And then we have this really cool drug and alcohol addiction facility out near Athens, which is about an hour outside of town, on 550 acre farm that is just beautiful ah for men who are in recovery from addiction. Rich Birch — Wow. Oh my goodness. Huh. Tensley Almand — So yeah. Rich Birch — Yeah. That’s, that’s incredible. i’m I’m glad you started with the kind of community size that you’re you’re serving. That’s, that’s amazing. Give me a sense of the operation from like a, you know, total number of staff, other kinds of metrics. Like I’m just trying to, I know, you know, you’re not a kind of person that’s going to brag about that kind of stuff, but just trying to help people kind of place, because this is a significant operation, friends. Atlanta Mission is it’s a world-class organization doing great work and honored to have you on this the show. But people might not be ah kind of aware of the the scale of it. Give us a bit more sense of that. Tensley Almand — Yeah, no, it’s a, it’s a good question. I appreciate you asking. Cause yeah, I definitely don’t, I don’t want to, I don’t like going there, but… Rich Birch — Yes. And it’s even just, it’s a funny thing to, it’s a funny thing to even like, it’s like, well, we’re really good. It’s like, it’s like, well, yeah, it’s a tough thing you’re doing. So it’s like, man, it’s a weird thing to kind of try to but get ah your arms around. How, how do we talk about this? Yeah. Tensley Almand — Yeah. So let me kind of give you scope and then let me talk a little bit about what we’re doing. So scope is ah we’re we’re about a $20 million dollars a year organization. Rich Birch — Yep. Yep. Tensley Almand — And so just like every church out there, that means, you know, we start July as the start of our fiscal year and we start at zero… Rich Birch — Yep. Tensley Almand — …and then we go and raise $20 million dollars… Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — …to meet the need of our expenses. And we do that through mainly private and and corporate donations. And so… Rich Birch — Yep. Tensley Almand — …we’re almost a hundred percent privately funded this year. Rich Birch — Oh, wow. Tensley Almand — We, we, we took our very first government grant. Rich Birch — Huh. Tensley Almand — But I mean, it’s a $250,000 grant, which is not insignificant, but on the scope of 20 million. So that kind of gives everybody an idea. So you’re talking about, uh, you know, thousands of donors who come alongside of us to partner with us, which is just amazing. Rich Birch — Yeah. Amazing. Yeah. Tensley Almand — We serve about 800 men, women, and children, like I said, Rich Birch — Yeah. Tensley Almand — And we have right at about 180 staff… Rich Birch — Wow. Tensley Almand — …who are who are either you know full-time equivalents basically here with us. And that’s across four different campuses. So we’re essentially like a multi-site operation. So I’m sitting here at my office today, which is basically our mission support center. Rich Birch — Yeah. Tensley Almand — So your accounting, HR, development team, all of your infrastructure, and we support the work that’s happening all over our city. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — And then we also have three thrift stores across Northeast Georgia that’s included in that head count. Rich Birch — Wow. Tensley Almand — And so a little bit of that 20 million that I was telling you about that that revenue comes from sales as well. And so, so yeah, it’s pretty broad organization. And then what we do, a lot of people think about you know Atlanta Mission, especially here in our city, and they just think emergency shelter. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — Certainly what we do. But of those 800 beds, roughly only 40% of those go towards emergency shelter. And so if you… Rich Birch — Oh, really? OK. Tensley Almand — Yeah. And so if you show up at our door and you just need safety, security, stability, um, you’re just trying to like get off the street… Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — …we have a program called Find Hope… Rich Birch — Yep. Tensley Almand — …and it’s a 30-day program. You can stay with us rent free 30 days. You know, bed meals, showers, really, really, really, really low expectation on those clients. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — It’s just like, hey, we’re here to meet your needs. Rich Birch — Yeah, that’s cool. Tensley Almand — The other 60% of our beds go towards what we call our transformational model… Rich Birch — Okay. Tensley Almand — …where we provide complete wraparound services. It’s about a year long program. Rich Birch — Wow. Tensley Almand — You show up and we’re going to try to help you get healthy relationally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, vocationally. We’ve got counselors, we’ve got advocates, we’ve got social workers. You have a whole team… Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — …that works with you, walks with you for a year… Rich Birch — Wow. Tensley Almand — …depending on really your core traumas, what’s caused your homelessness. And our main goal, our mission is to transform through Christ the lives of those who are experiencing homelessness, poverty, and addiction. Tensley Almand — And so what we want to do, what that means to us is over the course of that year, Um, we want to give you the tools to identify your traumas, understand those traumas and ultimately break the cycles so that you don’t ever have to come back to our doors again. We we tell our clients, we love you, but we don’t ever want to see you again. Like this is just like, like, how do we… Rich Birch — Yes. Yes. This was a phase of your life, hopefully, right? Tensley Almand — Yeah. Rich Birch — That’s the goal. Tensley Almand — How do we end that for you? And so our program goes through all the counseling, all the services, and it wraps up in a vocational training program we call Next Steps that… Rich Birch — Wow. That’s amazing. Tensley Almand — …that gives our clients the soft skills they need to not just get a job. Because here’s here’s what’s really cool. You you would get this. Our clients are really good at getting jobs. But like so many people out there, we’re terrible at keeping a job. Rich Birch — Right. Right. Right. Yes. Tensley Almand — Like people don’t know the skills needed to like keep a job. Like how do you manage conflict? Rich Birch — Right, right. Tensley Almand — What do you do with that boss who’s just overbearing? How do you have normal workplace conversations? Rich Birch — Yes. Tensley Almand — And so we have a ah four week training program that gives our clients those skills. And what we’re finding is that for the clients who go all the way through our program, 70% of those who graduate our program, they still have a house or a living situation a year later. Rich Birch — Wow. Tensley Almand — And they are maintaining that job a year later. Rich Birch — Wow. That’s incredible. Tensley Almand — And so it’s just been a remarkable, remarkable journey. And so we’ve got some transitional housing in there… Rich Birch — Yep. Tensley Almand — …where you graduate our program, you stay with us, we help you save up and and we help you find an apartment. And then when you’re ready financially and you’re you’re stable, we help you move into that that apartment. Tensley Almand — And what’s really cool, probably one of my favorite things is for alumni is that year after you graduate, you get a retention coach with us and they walk with you. And they just help you navigate life because, man, when you’ve stayed somewhere for a year and then you kind of come back in and you’re like, oooh, the pressures of the world are on me. That first year is so tough. Rich Birch — So hard. Yeah. Tensley Almand — Yeah. Yeah. Rich Birch — Well, that’s cool. I appreciate you sharing that. and And yeah, even church leaders that are listening in, um man, ah there whether if you’re in the Atlanta area, you definitely should reach out to Atlanta Mission. Rich Birch — But even in your neighborhood, like there are, this is why you shouldn’t be trying to invent this yourself as a church. There are these are incredibly complex issues that you know when I heard all of the the different things you’re doing to surround people, try to help them, um that’s that’s inspiring. That’s amazing. Rich Birch — Well, I’d love to pivot and talk about kind of your experience as you’ve transitioned in, like some try to extract some leadership lessons. It’s been said that one of the first things that leaders do is define reality or gain clarity for their for their organization. Rich Birch — When you first started early on in your role, what were you listening for or look for that told you, maybe there’s some areas here that just aren’t very clear? What did you see as you were, you know, we got to bring some more clarity in the organization? Were there things you kind of saw that that made you think, oh, we maybe this is some areas we need to gain some better clarity as an organization? Tensley Almand — Yeah, no, absolutely. And I think, you know, every leadership transition is different. One of the advantages I had is that what my predecessor was leaving me was so much different than what he inherited. Rich Birch — That’s good. Tensley Almand — And so he inherited an organization that was in crisis. He handed me an organization that was thriving. But, that organization really was, and he was, and it’s it’s all kind of wrapped up in our story, is that it was time for him to retire. It was time for him to move on. And so the whole organization was asking what’s next. And so that’s, that’s one advantage I had is that there was this collective, like, well, like what what is next for us? That was helpful. Tensley Almand — The other advantage I had, and I did not think this was an advantage. But, you know, I, I came out of church ministry. I didn’t know how to lead a nonprofit. I didn’t know anything about homelessness. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — Tensley Almand — I didn’t know much about social services. And so, yeah I truly believe God called me into this, but I couldn’t come in like an expert. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — And so I literally was forced to, my I tell people my door said CEO, but I think I was really the chief question officer. I mean, my my first year… Rich Birch — Help me understand. Help me understand. Tensley Almand — …was, yeah, asking questions. I can I can vividly remember our clinical director coming into my office and saying, hey, we’ve got this massive clinical decision that we need to make and there’s this and this and this. And you know and then like trying to leave that way. What do you think we should do? And I’m like… you’re the clinical director. Like, what do what do you mean? Rich Birch — Yes. Tensley Almand — But that was again, and this is and he would say this if he was sitting here, my predecessor had an organization that was in crisis. And so every decision had to center on him. And I needed to come in and teach our team how to have a decentralized leadership. How like, hey, look you’re the clinical director I’m going to support you, I’m to remove obstacles for you. But if I have to make clinical decisions, we’re we’ve got a really big problem because I’m not qualified to make that decision. Tensley Almand — And so um really pushing leadership down… Rich Birch — yeah Tensley Almand — …asking a lot of questions, understanding what we do. And so that was that was a huge advantage that that i think a lot of people probably, they can like I did, they they think about the things that are stacked against them. To me, it’s like you don’t know anything about the space. That’s a big obstacle. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — Well, maybe lean into those obstacles because it’s a really good way to to get underneath the hood. And so it forced me to ask questions, forced me to listen. And then what I did is I I truly went on a just a listening tour. Rich Birch — That’s good. Tensley Almand — I set up a meeting, I think, with every employee of our organization. Rich Birch — Wow. Wow. Tensley Almand — And I asked everybody what’s right, what’s wrong, what’s missing and what’s confusing. Rich Birch — Huh. Tensley Almand — And I still have that notebook. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — I mean, my assistant like cataloged answers for days. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — And what was so cool to me was that without having the same language, almost everybody in the organization identified the same rights, wrongs, missings and confusions. And so I was able to then take that and really come back to our senior team and say, hey, what should we do about this? Like we all… Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — We all agree this is a problem. like What should we do do? And I think a colleague of mine, I remember walking into his office and he had this drawing on his board. I’m like, what is what is that? He’s like, well, is how I feel about our organization. I remember it was ah it was a circle. Rich Birch — Yeah. Tensley Almand — And all the arrows were pointed in every direction around the circle. And he’s like, that’s us. Like, we’ve got the right idea… Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — …but everybody’s pulling in a hundred directions to try to figure out how to do that idea. Rich Birch — Wow. Tensley Almand — and I said, man, we need to take that circle and get all those arrows on one side. Cause if we can collectively pull… and that just kind of became our quest. And so we took all those answers and, you know, basically the the big thing was, um you know, and I don’t know where I learned this, but I feel like when there’s clarity in an organization, ‘no’ is really easy and ‘yes’ is is really difficult. It’s like really easy to say no. Rich Birch — That’s good. Tensley Almand — And what I found at Atlanta Mission was we were just saying yes to everything. And the reason we were saying yes to everything is because there was no strategy, there was no clarity. Rich Birch — That’s good. Tensley Almand — And so we took that first year and a half, wrote our strategic plan, identified who we want to be and why we want to be that. And then what would it look like to be that organization? And so we just kind of built it backwards. And that’s the journey we’ve been on now for the last four years since I’ve been here. Rich Birch — Wow. That’s, ah yeah, that’s incredible. I love that that feeling. In fact, i I took over a nonprofit ah kids camp and much smaller scale than what you’re running. But I remember those early days where there yeah people are looking at you and and and there is this sense of like, okay, so like you got to tell us where we’re going. What is the thing we’re doing next? Like and it’s easy to like… the easy thing is, let’s try this. Let’s try that. Let’s do a bunch of different things. And that can lead to that pulling, those hundred different, you know, it’s lots of activity, but it’s not focused. Tensley Almand — Yeah. Rich Birch — And trying to get everybody on a kind of a shared page of or shared picture of what the future looks like, man, that’s great through this, this process of kind of we’re going to do a strategic plan over a year. What, what would you, what would you say to a leader that is feeling the pressure of like, Hey, I want to define the future now, as opposed to that feels like a step back. We’re going to year and a half and define this stuff. What would you say to a leader? Why should we slow down? Talk us through why that, how that benefited now that you’re on the other side of all that. Tensley Almand — Yeah, I think the first thing I would say is it’s it’s totally worth it. I mean, it it was hard. It was challenging. It it does feel like a step back. But I don’t know how to step forward without without clarity, you know. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — And that’s, you said at the beginning, I got to ah got to be one of the campus pastors at North Point Community Church for years. I can remember Andy always saying, The beauty of North Point wasn’t that we got to start with a blank page, just that we started on the same page. Rich Birch — That’s good Tensley Almand — And I just think that like that, that is always set with me. And so when I when I started here, I realized like, hey, I don’t I don’t get the luxury of a blank page. I mean, this organization has been around since 1938. You know, when I when I started Decatur City, it was so easy because I just told everybody what we were doing and why we were doing it and there was nothing else we were doing. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — And so it was just like… But here it’s like, OK, if I can’t get to a blank page, the best thing I can do is we’ve got to get on the same page… Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — …or else we’re just we’re going to spin our tires. And, and you know, I think I’ll I’ll this story probably sums it up and maybe somebody can relate to this. I have a monthly breakfast with our board chair and our vice chair. And the very first breakfast I went to in this role, it was my predecessor’s last breakfast and my first. And so we’re all so it’s him, it’s me and it’s a board chair a vice chair, all of which have been around this organization 3x the amount of time I had at that point, I had been there like three days. Rich Birch — Yes. Yes. Couple weeks. Tensley Almand — And and we got this email the night before the breakfast, and it was from a developer. And they were offering $14 million dollars for the piece of property that my office sits on, which is a widely underused piece of property… Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — …that we’ve always kind of wrestled with, like, what do we do with this thing? Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — $14 million dollars. Rich Birch — Yes. Tensley Almand — That’s almost our entire year’s budget. Rich Birch — Yes. Tensley Almand — And I remember showing up to this breakfast with this LOI and I asked the question, should we take it or should we not? Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — And nobody could answer my question. Rich Birch — Wow. Wow. Tensley Almand — Nobody knew if it was a good idea to take $14 million dollars or to walk away from $14 million dollars Rich Birch — And if that group doesn’t know, nobody else in the organization is going to know, right? Tensley Almand — And that’s exactly what I said. I was like, if you don’t know, and I don’t know… Rich Birch — Yeah. Yes, exactly. Tensley Almand — …nobody knows. Rich Birch — Yes, yes, yes. Tensley Almand — And so I started with that small group and I said, hey, would you give me the freedom to to take however long it takes for us to make sure we can answer that question? Rich Birch — Yeah, that’s good. Tensley Almand — And so in our first board meeting, I raised my hand and I just said, hey guys, I know I’m new, I know I just started. But I shared the story and I said, hey, we have to be able to answer questions like this. Or we’re never going to get anywhere. We may do a lot of good things, but we are going to have no idea if we did the best thing. Rich Birch — Right, right. That’s good. That’s good. So kind of double clicking on that, continuing to kind of focus in on this. You know, there are churches, organizations that will do the strat plan or roll. We go away for the big retreat. We come up with the new value statements. It’s got great strategy on paper. But it doesn’t end up translating into practice. What are you doing at the mission to try to make sure that we’re going from that wasn’t just a great document that’s like in a nice book somewhere, but it’s actually rolling out. Maybe give us some examples of that. And what are those kind of rhythms, cadences, all that? How how are you making that happen? Tensley Almand — Yeah, it’s wish I could really tell you we’re crushing it in this area. It’s this is a new habit for us. Rich Birch — Sure. Sure. Good. Tensley Almand — And so we’re I’m four years in. We just finished our first full fiscal year under our new strategy. And so I can tell you what we’ve learned. Rich Birch — Hey, that’s good. Yeah, good. Tensley Almand — One, once you get it built you have to start small. We, I wish I could remember the exact number, I think as a senior team we committed and told our board we were going to do 392 new initiatives or something in year one, you know. Rich Birch — Wow. Right. Tensley Almand — And this is a seven-year plan… Rich Birch — Yes. Tensley Almand — …we’re like we got almost for it and I think we got 100 through of the 392. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — And we celebrated like crazy at the end of the year because it was like, that’s 100 things that were all in alignment that we’d never done before. We learned so much. So, start small. Tensley Almand — The other thing is we built our plan. And I was I was very intentional about this because of what you just said. I did not want another notebook that was going to sit on my shelf. And so our strategic plan is really a strategic roadmap. And what I have told our board, what I’ve told our staff is I want an organization that knows how to think. Rich Birch — That’s good. Tensley Almand — And our our plan is really a roadmap for how we should think. It’s not overly prescriptive in necessarily what that means. Because it’s it’s designed to take us all the way through 2030. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — Well, I have no idea what’s going to happen between now and 2030. Rich Birch — Right. Right. Tensley Almand — But I do know that if what we said we want to accomplish, we’re accomplishing, however that looks, by 2030, we’re on the right track. And so that would be the other thing is just like, I would build, I wouldn’t make it so prescriptive that it tells you like, Hey, next week you’re doing this. And the week after… It needs to teach the organization how to think, how to act so that the person who’s brand new on the front line, if I’m not in the room, they don’t need to spend any time going like what, what would Tensley want me to do? They just, this is who we are as an organization. It’s how we think. Tensley Almand — And then we at a senior level and then we pushed it all the way down to our organization. We built a meeting cadence around it. Rich Birch — Nice. Tensley Almand — And so we have our senior team meets once a week. Rich Birch — Yeah. Tensley Almand — That’s my six direct reports and plus my admin. Rich Birch — Yeah. Tensley Almand — And we, one, so we do that on Tuesday morning, one, the first Tuesday of the month is a strategy meeting. We talk all about the strategic plan. That’s like a, how how are you doing and your department doing towards what you said you were gonna do? Rich Birch — That’s good. Tensley Almand — And we have a dashboard to measure that against. And then the next Tuesday is an operations meeting. And it’s just like, hey, what are what are we working on? We can’t live at 50,000 feet all the time. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — Let’s get down to 1,000 feet or whatever it is. Rich Birch — Yeah. Tensley Almand — And so we have that operations cadence. And then the third meeting is kind of like a catch-all, like, hey, what you know what needs to happen? And then our last meeting of the month is a monthly ministry review with the entire, not just my direct reports, but all the managers that sit under my direct reports. Rich Birch — Oh, that’s cool. Tensley Almand — And they lead that meeting. I listen in that meeting. And I get to hear what’s happening at every campus, what’s going on. And I get to hear how people are implementing or not implementing the strategy. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — And then the very next meeting, if you’re keeping up, is then our strategy meeting. Rich Birch — Yes. Tensley Almand — So then I’m like, hey… Rich Birch — Here’s some stuff I heard. Tensley Almand — …tell me more about this. Rich Birch — Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Tensley Almand — Or I didn’t hear like, Hey, I thought we were working on this. Why is that not happening? And so we have dashboards. Rich Birch — Yeah, yeah. Tensley Almand — We’ve never had those before. We have data that we can follow. We have metrics we’ve identified as a, as a team, our wins. And so it’s like, Hey, how are we tracking towards those wins and just have created a layer of accountability that didn’t exist probably three years ago. Rich Birch — Yeah, that’s good. Let’s talk a little bit more about the data thing. I’ve, or data thing. We, I’ve, I’ve said with younger leaders, you know, spreadsheets are the language of leadership. Like you’re going to have to get used to this stuff. This is just… Tensley Almand — Yep. Rich Birch — …this is how we care for people at scale is, is that is what it looks like. So data can either inspire or intimidate. How do you track outcomes? How do you, how do you how have you seen, you know, data over this last year actually change behavior and move things, improve care, better outcomes, all that kind of stuff. Talk us through what, cause you know, what we measure can get, can, you know, steer us in the wrong direction or steer us in the right direction. Help, help us think through that. As we’re thinking about what numbers should we pay attention to? Tensley Almand — Yeah. So again, when I started, that was a big question I had. So if you were to look at our numbers, you would see that we serve, you know, let’s, these are rough, but right at about 3000 people a year come through our doors. Rich Birch — Okay. Tensley Almand — Right. Which is huge. Rich Birch — Yep. Tensley Almand — You’re like, man, that’s amazing. Well, then I, as I walk you through that, by the time you get to the end of our vocational training a year later, we may graduate like 400. And then 70% of those 400 are still doing well the the next year. And so, you know, on paper, you’re like, man, is that good? Rich Birch — Right. Yes. Tensley Almand — Like that, that there’s a lot of attrition there. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — Like should, is, is, are we fail… And that was, again, when I started, that was a question nobody could answer for me is, Hey, is that good? Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — And so even backing up before we built our strategy, our senior team spent so much time defining our outcomes. And we had all of these statements, you know, but it was like we want somebody to be healthy vocationally. Tensley Almand — It’s like, okay, what does that mean? Crickets in the room. Rich Birch — Yes. Tensley Almand — Wait, if you don’t know what it means and I don’t know what it means, does the person who’s leading that program know what it means? Better question: does the person who’s receiving our services know if they’ve actually achieved help in that area? Tensley Almand — And so we went through, defined all of those terms so that there was a clear outcome to it… Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — …so that we could then measure it. And then we built both a one-page dashboard that our senior team could look at at a high level. So I could I can open this dashboard on any Monday morning. It’s just in Tableau, so nothing super you know exciting. Rich Birch — Yep. Yep. Tensley Almand — And I can just see, i can see progression through our program. I can see healthy exits. We’ve defined what are healthy exits. I can see, ah you know, are people getting stuck? That was a big thing we were we were learning is like, people are just getting stuck in our program and we’re committing to somebody. You’re going to be at this phase of the program 30 days. Well, then they spend 60 days. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — And what we were finding. We were, so this, this probably long winded way of saying this, but what we, we didn’t know what was happening or why it was happening and it felt good. But you know, you’re like, I don’t know. Tensley Almand — And so what we were finding is it’s like, Hey, so that’s an example. Like, somebody gets stuck in our program. We promised them 30. It takes 60. All of a sudden, we were able to track that, hey, there’s a certain amount of fallout rate at this stage of the program. Why is that happening? Oh, people are stuck. They’ve been here too long. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — We got to fix that. And so it it enabled us to know what needed to be fixed and and not fixed. Rich Birch — Yeah, that’s good. Tensley Almand — And probably the the best real-time example of that is just recently. So I keep telling you the 70% number of graduates are successful. That’s kind of our historical data. Rich Birch — Yep. Yep. Tensley Almand — Well, this year, that number fell for the first time ever. It’s gotten better every year. Rich Birch — Wow. Tensley Almand — This year it fell and it fell like dramatically. And this is one of those I don’t like to talk about it because it doesn’t look good. Rich Birch — Interesting. Yes. Tensley Almand — I mean, like it fell down to almost like 45, 50 percent. Rich Birch — Oh, wow. Tensley Almand — You’re like, what’s happening? Rich Birch — Almost inverse. Yeah, yeah. Wow. Tensley Almand — Exactly. And so at first, you’re like, our program is no good. We got rewrite our program. Well, thankfully, we had been tracking all of the kind of whys and we understood what was happening in people’s lives. And what we have found out is no, like the economy shifted. You can’t get a job in 30 to 60 days anymore. Rich Birch — Interesting. Tensley Almand — And so a gate in our program is when you graduate, you have 60 days to get a job. If you don’t get a job, you can’t move into our transitional housing because if we just allow you to stay, beds back up and then more people can’t get in. Tensley Almand — Well, our clients then would stop taking our advice and stop waiting for a good job. And at day like 50, they would just go get that job that doesn’t pay well. Rich Birch — Ohhh. Tensley Almand — And they knew it wasn’t going to be a career builder job. It was just going to keep them sheltered. Rich Birch — Right, right. Tensley Almand — And so it was our our like metrics were actually driving a behavior we didn’t like. Rich Birch — That’s interesting. Tensley Almand — And so we’re in the process now of like, hey, we’ve got to change this. The length of time it takes to get a job now takes longer. and Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — The job market’s more you know fierce right now. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — And so we don’t want nothing against these types of jobs. We don’t necessarily want our client leaving to go get a job at McDonald’s Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — But for them, leaving it to go get a job at McDonald’s versus not having a place to stay, I’ll take the McDonald’s job… Rich Birch — Right. Yes. Tensley Almand — …even though I know I’m only going to be there three months. Rich Birch — Right. Right. Tensley Almand — And so it was throwing off all of our numbers and it’s because we were incorrectly driving a behavior that we don’t want to drive. So. Rich Birch — Wow. That’s cool. That’s a great, very vivid example. And there’s lots of that in the church world. I know you I know you know that. There was a church I was doing some work with last year, large church, 10,000-person church. And they were we were talking one of the numbers I obsess with my clients over is documented first-time guests, the actual number of people that come every single weekend. And I was convinced that this church was just was missing a whole bunch of first time guests. And so they were telling me about how great their, their, their assimilation numbers were. They were like, Oh, this is so great. And I was like, I just don’t believe it. I’m like, because, because if you are not capturing the number of, of documented first time guests, then yeah and you’re comparing against half of what you probably actually have coming into your church, then then every number be below that, all your integration stuff looks twice as good as it actually is. Tensley Almand — Yeah. Rich Birch — And you know that that happens in lots of places across our numbers. We’ve got to get real clear and benchmark against other people. Tensley Almand — If I could go back and if I could go back, no, no, it’s just, like I’ve often thought like, what would I do different if I was a church leader now? Rich Birch — Yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s a good question. Tensley Almand — And I would I would measure so much differently. Rich Birch — Yeah, interesting. Tensley Almand — You know, historically we’ve measured nickels and noses, right? Like how much money’s coming in and how many people are sitting in the pews. But it’s like, those are important. Rich Birch — Yeah. Tensley Almand — I wouldn’t stop measuring them, but I would pay attention to like this. I would try to find a way to measure progression, you know. Rich Birch — Yes, 100%. Tensley Almand — It’s like to your point how many first-time guests are you having okay well then of those first-time guests how many of them are actually moving to your small groups. Rich Birch — Yeah, 100%. Tensley Almand — Of those who moved your small groups do any of them ever volunteer like and and really understand the behaviors you want. And then measure to those behaviors and i think especially in a world where just church attendance looks so much so much different, we could gauge health of our churches so much more effectively if we were Rich Birch — Yeah, it’s so true. I’d love to I’d love to kind of pivot for a few minutes in a slightly different direction. Tensley Almand — Okay. Rich Birch — So we have a lot of church leaders that are listening in and I’d love to understand how Atlanta Mission partners with churches. What does that look like? How do you work together? So specifically at Atlanta misha, and then what would you, Mission, and then what would you say to churches in general? Hey, um what advice would you give now that you’re on this side of the equation of actually partnering with an organization like Atlanta Mission? How can you be kind of the best partner? How do we what are what are people on your side of the table actually looking for from a church like ours? Because I’m sure there’s all kinds of stories of like, yeah, that didn’t work well. Talk us through what that looks like, partnerships specifically, and then kind of in general, how can we be better at that? Tensley Almand — Yeah, and partnership is one of our pillars of our strategic plan. I think I think for nonprofits, especially when you’re large and you’re self-funded, you can it’s easy to get siloed. And we we fell into that category, not just with outside partners that wanted to come in and help us, but also with other service providers across the the, you know, continuum of care in our city. is It’s just it’s easy to kind of put your head down and do your own thing. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — And so this is a huge emphasis for us, mainly because it’s really woven into the vision of our organization. Our organization is a community that’s united to end homelessness one person at a time. Well, I mean, it’s like partnership has to be built into that. Rich Birch — Right. Yes, baked into it. Yeah. Tensley Almand — So what who are we to then go get siloed? Like, that’s like, wow, you can’t even accomplish what you said you wanted to do. And so um we… I’ll back into this answer by telling you one of the things we’ve discovered at Atlanta Mission is that this isn’t this, you know, this isn’t novel, but, you know, material poverty, we all know is debilitating. Relational poverty is just as debilitating as material poverty. Rich Birch — That’s so true. Tensley Almand — And what we find with our clients is that almost 100 percent obviously are struggling with some version of material poverty, but they are just relationally broken and poor. They are void of healthy relationships. And so this is this is so much where partnership comes in, because we we literally have a metric that we track of how many healthy contacts does a client have in their phone before they graduate our program. And what we were finding is I mean we were their only healthy contact. Rich Birch — Oh, wow. Tensley Almand — And it’s wait this is this is not good. And this is such a great place for churches to partner with us because we have so many opportunities that we just call we call them “be with” opportunities there’s like there’s “do for” service projects but there’s also “be with” service projects. And they’re just designed for you to establish healthy community with our clients, build relationships, throw a birthday party for somebody… Rich Birch — That’s so good. Right. Tensley Almand — …have a Christmas party at one of our shelters. Come, you know, we’re moving into the holiday season, you know, come and build gingerbread houses together with our kids who are staying with us and just create an hour in somebody’s life that’s normal. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — And I feel like churches are better at this than anybody. Our corporate partners are fantastic at the “do for” projects. They can then come in and beautify our campuses in 30 minutes in a way that none of us can. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — You know, Home Depot comes in and it’s like, we’re going to transform your landscape. Great. This is awesome. Rich Birch — Yeah, yeah. Tensley Almand — I love it. But a church can come in and just be authentic and be real and be with our clients. Rich Birch — That’s good. Tensley Almand — And you would be amazed at how different somebody’s life looks after just that hour. And so, and I think that’s a huge thing. And then what I would tell churches, I think even as a church leader, I I probably overlooked how vital we were to nonprofits. You just you know, you think it’s an hour, but you know, even the day of, you know, you wake up that morning and you’re like, they don’t really need me. Like, I don’t know. Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — This is, am I not really going to make a difference? Yes, you are. Rich Birch — That’s good. Tensley Almand — You are going to make a huge difference. It is worth the hour. It is worth the drive. Tensley Almand — And we we tell people all the time, and I’ve seen this in my own life. The thing that happens at Atlanta Mission is there’s always two stories of transformation happening. There’s the story of transformation that’s happening in a client’s life. But God transforms my life every day. Rich Birch — That’s so true. Tensley Almand — And it’s that’s the part I didn’t expect, Rich, is that… Rich Birch — Right. Tensley Almand — …my life is being changed as much as anybody else’s. And so I would, I would tell a church, Hey, our clients need you. But you need this as well. Rich Birch — Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Tensley Almand — Like God’s going to do something in your life. Tensley Almand — And then the other is just, um I think, especially for really big churches, it’s easy to think like, I bet they need my expertise. It’s like, actually, that’s not like. We need your partnership. Rich Birch — Yes. Yes. Tensley Almand — You know, we, we know how to do this. Come put wind in our sails. Rich Birch — Yeah. Yeah, Tensley Almand — Come just serve, be a part of what we’re doing. Rich Birch — Yeah, it’s so good. That’s super helpful. Love love that. Well, just as we’re coming to land, any kind of final words or encouragement you’d you’d say to church leaders that are listening in today that are, you know, wrestling with maybe clarity or wrestling with some of the stuff we’ve talked about today? This has been a really fruitful conversation. Thank you for it. Tensley Almand — Yeah, I think the, you know, probably the biggest thing I would say, and I have to tell myself this all the time. I mean, I’m an entrepreneurial type A. I’m going to like, you know, go conquer the world in a day is that, you know, remind yourself, you know, more than likely what you can accomplish in 90 days is nowhere near what you think it is, you know. But what you can accomplish in a year or two years is probably way more than you ever imagined you could. Rich Birch — Right. So true Yeah, that’s good. Tensley Almand — And so just again, kind of back to the strategy thing, it takes time. It’s messy. You know, you’re going to feel like, is this worth it? It creates conflict on your team. It feels uncomfortable. We were, we were joking as a senior team the other day. There was, it was about a year where I just, every Tuesday morning, I thought I want to cancel this meeting because I just didn’t enjoy, like we were just, we were at conflict because we were… Rich Birch — Right. Yes. Tensley Almand — …hashing out who we are and why we exist and what are we going to do and why are we going to do it? Rich Birch — Yes. Tensley Almand — But now it’s my favorite hour of the week. Like, I just love it. And so, you know, I would say that… Rich Birch — That’s good. Tensley Almand — …you know, and I think, yeah, I don’t know that I have anything, you know, much more. Rich Birch — That’s good. Tensley Almand — Yeah. Rich Birch — No, that’s good. Well, I really appreciate being on the show today. Where do we want to send people if they want to connect with you or with Atlanta Mission? Where are the best places for us to send people online? Tensley Almand — Probably the easiest place is just our website, atlantamission.org. You can find everything you want to about us. If you want to know more, you can email info@atlantamission.org. And that actually goes right to my assistant and we’ll get you connected to the right person. And you can, you know, next time you’re in town, you partner with us. You can help us. You can be happy to give you a tour, show you what we do. Rich Birch — That’s great. Thanks so much, Tensley. Appreciate you being here today. Tensley Almand — Thanks.

✦ Creative digital technologies have no doubt expanded the art of animation for filmmakers, yet there's still nothing like the wow-factor of a fully handmade film. Director, writer, and animator Sebastian Soler crafted, placed, and shot every frame of his new Action-Thriller "Spanish Moss," a traditional stop-motion work he emphatically calls a "labor of love." The edge-of-your-seat adventure is filled with danger, romance, humor, thrills, and, of course, Legos. "Spanish Moss" screens followed by a Q&A with the creatives at the Tara Theatre on August 29th, and the filmmaker recently joined City Lights Collective co-host Kim Drobes to explain how 29 thousand handcrafted frames became a feature-length film. ✦ Today on "In Their Own Words," we highlight blues guitarist Buddy Red. This is where they tell us who they are, what they do, what they love, and a few things you might not see coming. What things? Who knows, there's only one way to find out. ✦ The Center for Puppetry Arts is launching a new beta program this fall to bring puppets into Atlanta-area classrooms. WABE arts reporter Summer Evans shares more. ✦ When you think of movie censorship, you might picture blacked-out scenes, controversial ratings, or headlines from the 1980s. But what if I told you that the roots of film censorship in America go back over a century—and that Atlanta played a starring role? We're diving into the world of film censorship- starting in 1897, Maine, and winding to 1960s Atlanta. We'll meet the people who shaped what Atlantans could and couldn't see on screen and uncover the strange, often absurd criteria that determined what was safe for public eyes. City Lights Collective member Victoria Lemos has more on this bit of Atlanta history. ✦ You know as well as I do that there is always a plethora of things to do in Atlanta, and we have earned the title of "The Cultural Capital of the South." Mike Jordan, senior editor at the AJC, and Sammie Purcell, associate editor at Rough Draft Atlanta, know this well, too. They join us weekly to share a few of their picks for your weekend entertainment. Today, their mix includes a gem show, a reminder to see Ain't No Mo, and the Atlanta Alt rock fest. ✦ Hip Hop is a male-dominated genre and industry. For a woman to make a name for herself and carve out a slice of the rap pie is no small feat. From Sha-Rock, The Sequence, Roxanne Shante, MC Lyte, Salt N Pepa, and Queen Latifah up to Megan Thee Stallion and Doechii, it's been quite the climb. Vocalist, M.C., Producer, mother, wife, and Lawyer, Stacy Epps has a name that has echoed through the halls of hip hop for more than two decades. She's shared the stage and booth with legends and has become a legend herself. Ahead of her new album, “FlowHeart,” which will be released tomorrow, August 22nd, she sat down with City Lights Collective Co-Host Jon Goode to discuss music, life, and her winding journey through both.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shoot us a Text.Episode #1124: Today we break down the latest Fixed Ops Golden Metrics, showing where service departments are winning and where there's room to grow. We also look at how dealer inventory has returned to pre-tariff “normal” levels, and why Atlantans are playing cancellation games just to ride in a Waymo robotaxi.The Fixed Ops Golden Metrics 2025 report from Reynolds and Reynolds highlights how service departments are stacking up in hours, labor rates, and RO profits—plus the big gains from technician efficiency tools.Dealers are grouped two ways—by urban classification (Major Urban, Metro, Community, Rural) and by 5 volume classes based on monthly customer-pay ROs: Class 1: 1,200.High-volume Class 5 stores topped 3,000 hrs/month. Major Urban averaged 1,613 hrs/month vs. Rural at 490. Major Urban led profit per RO at $414, Rural just $225. Class 1 averaged $400, dropping to $243 in Class 5.Using recommendation software added +0.5 hrs/RO, +$18 ELR, and +$62 profit/RO—worth $9K more profit/month for a 150-RO store.After months of tariff shocks and supply swings, dealer lots look familiar again. The average automaker now has a 73-day supply of new cars — right on the industry's long-term target.Lots once ran as high as 89 days of supply during early tariff panic.Inventories plunged to 66 days when 25% tariffs first hit but have since recovered.Despite costs, prices rose just 1.5% YoY as automakers and dealers absorbed tariffs.Some brands buck the trend: Toyota/Lexus are tight with just over a month of supply, while Ram and Land Rover sit on four months' worth.Waymo has expanded beyond its California and Arizona roots, bringing robotaxis to Atlanta. But there's a catch: you can only hail one through Uber, and it's not guaranteed.Riders can select “Prefer Waymo” in the Uber app, but often get matched with human drivers.Some Atlantans cancel ride after ride—one reporting 20 cancellations on average—just to snag a Waymo.Waymo has only dozens of vehicles in the city now, with plans to grow to hundreds in coming years.Riders can improve their odds by staying inside the 65-square-mile service zone, avoiding highways, and riding outside peak times.As one rider put it, “The fact that it's so challenging to get has turned it into a game.”0:00 Intro with Paul J Daly and Kyle Mountsier1:08 We'll be at the NAMAD Annual Meeting next week1:45 Webinar on Dealer Reputation Tomorrow2:26 Fixed Ops Golden Metrics from Reynolds and ReynoldsJoin Paul J Daly and Kyle Mountsier every morning for the Automotive State of the Union podcast as they connect the dots across car dealerships, retail trends, emerging tech like AI, and cultural shifts—bringing clarity, speed, and people-first insight to automotive leaders navigating a rapidly changing industry.Get the Daily Push Back email at https://www.asotu.com/ JOIN the conversation on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asotu/

✦ Brunching in Atlanta is practically a sport, and many of us don't know how to play. There are strategies involved—arrive early to beat the rush of a crowd, or maybe you're a diner that prefers to make reservations. Regardless, you'll need good stamina to make it through bottomless mimosas and rich portions of pancakes and bacon. BUT in this economy, who has the money to drop $80 to $100 on breakfast food and drinks every weekend? In our new mini-series, "Brunchin' on a Budget," we look at several delicious AND affordable brunch spots in Atlanta. On today's installment WABE Arts Reporter Summer Evans heads to Castleberry Hill to visit No Mas Cantina. ✦ The Little 5 Points Alliance hosts its annual People Make the Place event on Sunday, and this year, awards will be presented to community members who focus on elevating the arts in the area. City Lights Collective Co-host Kim Drobes has more. ✦ A star is on the rise with the new music act "Star Forest." It's a colorful squad of animated creatures who deliver good vibes and positivity through the expansive Star Forest media ecosystem of music videos, catchy tracks, interactive experiences, and even a podcast. Some say it's like "Gorillaz" for kids – one thing's for sure, it's ambitious, joyful, inclusive, and downright psychedelic. "Star Forest" is launching its debut live event, "Cosmic Campfire," at Sandy Springs Cinema on August 16th, and the creator of the "Star Forest," Genevieve LeDoux, recently spoke with City Lights Collective producer Josh Thane to learn more. ✦ You know as well as we do that there is always a plethora of things to do in Atlanta, and we have earned the title of "The Cultural Capital of the South." Mike Jordan, senior editor at the AJC, and Sammie Purcell, associate editor at Rough Draft Atlanta, know this well too. They join us weekly to share a few of their picks for your weekend entertainment. Today, their mix includes a vintage expo, a brewery anniversary party, and a bioluminescent event at the Georgia Aquarium. ✦ Atlanta is a place of remarkable history, and the new audio-intensive project "Tales of Downtown Atlanta" shares that history alongside some creative storytelling. Part podcast, art exhibit, and old-school mix tape, "Tales of Downtown Atlanta" aims to become an audiovisual anthology of Atlanta. The project features short stories written, voiced, and visually amplified by notable Atlantans who offer a spirited tour of our historic downtown locations. Sundiata Rush, the creative behind "Tales of Downtown Atlanta," recently joined City Lights Collective co-host Kim Drobes to elaborate on his vision of stirring civic engagement and introducing the world to Atlanta's soul.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

✦ In good art, there is often beauty, offense, challenge, common ground, and that special little something that stays with you long after you've experienced it. When City Lights Collective co-host Jon Goode went to The Balzer theater to see the True Colors theater's presentation of "Ain't No Mo," by playwright Jordan E Cooper, he didn't know what he was in for but left knowing he'd just seen some good art. ✦ The 8th annual "Middle Age Cabaret: Cougar Club is a sizzling mix of burlesque, comedy, aerialists, and more. WABE arts reporter Summer Evans takes you to the cabaret. ✦ When thinking of foods that are deeply rooted in the American South, Grits might immediately come to mind. City Lights Collective members and food contributors Akila McConnel and Chef Asata Reid have the story behind the creamy porridge's history, AND how grits became a classic Atlantan dish. ✦ Alex "Cost One" Acosta lives at the intersection of art and community outreach. His non-profit organization, Soul Food Cypher, uses freestyle rap and lyricism as tools for empowerment. By showcasing the positive aspects of rap through cypher events and tournaments, the organization provides lyricists with a nurturing environment where their voice and artistry can grow. This year marks the 13th anniversary of their first freestyle cypher, and their next event is August 24, at Create ATL in Adair Park. When Soul Food Cypher founder Alex Acosta and Cypher member Rio Nkosi recently spoke with City Lights Collective Co-host Kim Drobes, Acosta painted a picture of a typical Cypher event. ✦ Visual artist and music enthusiast Kosmo Vinyl bought his first LP when he was nine. He spent the next several decades immersed in music and began his professional career at London's pioneering indie label, "Stiff Records." In 1979, Kosmo started working exclusively with "The Clash" and stayed by their side until the punk icons disbanded in 1986. Over the years, Kosmo's record collection became legendary. In 2014, he began posting about his favorite releases on social media for his series, "Kosmo's Vinyl of the Week," and he joins us weekly to share the stories behind the records he treasures. Today, he tells us the story behind X-Ray Spex's "Germ Free Adolescents." ✦ City Lights Collective member Shane Harrison spends his days at Arts ATL looking for cultural events to share with readers. He joins us weekly to share highlights, and today, his mix includes Monster-rama, The Black Martial Arts Cinema Double Feature at the Plaza, and a flute quartet at the Supermarket.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Before Atlanta was crisscrossed with interstates and highways, there was a bold plan—born from the Great Depression, inspired by Germany's Autobahn, and fueled by fears of another economic collapse.  In this episode, we rewind to the 1930s to unpack how the U.S. highway system began, why Atlanta jumped in headfirst, and how a single report—the Lochner Report—shaped decades of urban design, displacement, and, yes... gridlock. From ambitious plans, to having to teach Atlantans how to drive on the interstate, and even a traffic-stopping turkey, this is the origin story of the Atlanta Expressway and the infamous Downtown Connector. Want to support this podcast? Visit here Email: thevictorialemos@gmail.com Facebook | Instagram   

✦ The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever is dancing into its 10th year in Atlanta on Saturday, July 26, in Candler Park. City Lights Collective member, Chantelle Rytter, has more on this odd Atlanta tradition that brings Kate Bush and Emily Brontë fans together in a public dance. ✦ Today marks the 5th anniversary of Congressman John Lewis' death. Lewis dedicated his life to advancing the cause of freedom and equality in America and was a towering figure in our country's struggle for civil rights. He inspired countless people, including the band members of the Cabbagetown band, Evan Stepp & The Piners. They recently released a single titled "Good Trouble," and Evan joined us recently to share the story behind the song. ✦ The West End's Portrait Coffee is hosting an event this weekend called "A Place to Play," and City Lights Collective co-host Jon Goode recently sat down with co-founder Marcus Hollinger to learn why play is not a game. ✦ Today, we trace the history of one of Atlanta's most nostalgic institutions: the Science & Technology Museum of Atlanta, or SciTrek. From its grassroots beginnings to becoming a downtown sensation, SciTrek brought science to life for a generation. City Lights Collective member, podcaster, and self-proclaimed history nerd Victoria Lemos recently traced SciTrek's journey through civic politics, fundraising highs and lows, and the love Atlantans still have for the museum today. If you grew up here (or wish you had), this nostalgic deep dive is for you. ✦ You know as well as we do that there is always a plethora of things to do in Atlanta, and we have earned the title of "The Cultural Capital of the South." Mike Jordan, senior editor at the AJC, and Sammie Purcell, associate editor at Rough Draft Atlanta, know this well too. They join us weekly to share a few of their picks for your weekend entertainment. ✦ ATL Comic Convention is this weekend, and a couple of the stars from the hit saga "Twilight" will be in town to participate. WABE arts reporter Summer Evans spoke with two of the vampires—actors Kellan Lutz and Jackson Rathbone, or for you fangs out there, that would be Jasper Hale and Emmett Cullen, ahead of their appearance at the Georgia World Congress Center. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Georgia GOP leader accused of $140-million Ponzi scheme: "Sorry;" Low-Key COVID; and how much above the average income Atlantans will have to find in the couch seat cusions to afford an average house. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

✦ Summertime is officially upon us, and there’s nothing better to help cool you off on hot Atlanta days than ice cream. City Lights Collective food contributors Akila McConnel and Chef Asata Reid know this well, and they’re taking us back to 1870 to learn the history of ice cream in our city. ✦ Praised by jazz legends Ramsey Lewis and Les McCann, Atlanta jazz pianist Joe Alterman has never been a gatekeeper. He knows that jazz is for everyone, and it’s not rocket science – in the words of Duke Ellington, “If it sounds good, it is good.” Now, Joe Alterman is lending his voice, wisdom, and impeccable taste to WABE listeners with a brand-new radio show, “The Upside of Jazz,” with the first episode airing July 12th at 7pm. He’ll also be performing live at Eddie’s Attic on July 10th. ✦ City Lights Collective member Shane Harrison spends his days at Arts ATL looking for cultural events to share with readers. He joins us weekly to share highlights, and today, his mix includes things to do even if you’re not one of the three hundred thousand Atlantans heading to Mercedes-Benz Stadium for Beyoncé’s four-night stand. ✦ Visual artist and music enthusiast Kosmo Vinyl bought his first LP when he was nine. He spent the next several decades immersed in music and began his professional career at London’s pioneering indie label, "Stiff Records." In 1979 Kosmo started working exclusively with "The Clash" and stayed by their side until the punk icons disbanded in 1986. Over the years, Kosmo's record collection became legendary, and in 2014, he began posting about his favorite releases on social media for his series, "Kosmo's Vinyl of the Week," and he joins us weekly to share the stories behind the records he treasures. This week he shares the history behind Mongo Santamaria’s version of “Fever.” ✦ City Lights Collective co-host Jon Goode tells us about his recent visit to The Book Bird, an Avondale Estates nook, that sales physical books, and closes down so that you can open up. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Even though this is a bye week for me, I wanted to share a bonus episode related to a special project that I got to do recently.  I worked with Canopy fellow Damius Smith on his piece "Built for Legacy". Collier Heights was designed by and for Black people, with the architectural design of every house telling a story. From American Small Houses, to ranch-style, to mid-century, each home focuses on the symbolic power of the neighborhood. https://canopyatlanta.org/2025/06/27/legacy-collier-heights-architecture/ Canopy Atlanta is a community journalism nonprofit founded in 2020. They collaborate with residents to tell stories about their communities, redefining who journalism is by and for. Even better, they pay and train residents to report alongside experienced journalists. And they've trained over 200 Atlantans so far.  

On this, the third anniversary of the Trump-packed Supreme Court's 'Dobbs' decision overturning 'Roe v Wade,' it's notable that abortion rates are actually up in states with and without abortion bans on the books, according to a recent study. Still, pro-choice activists and Georgia Democrats made their case throughout the day that women deserve the right to bodily autonomy. On with me today to discuss the state of women's reproductive rights in Georgia and the U.S. is Georgia WIN List executive director Melita Easters.------Melita stuck around to share her insights on the dichotomy between (President Jimmy) Carter-era foreign policy - a more heart-felt and hands-on approach that led to the infamous Camp David Accords and the irrational 'Truth Social-led' Trump attempts at "waging" peace on the Middle East with bombs. On Iran, by the way, I shared a powerful op/ed written by Atlantan, Iranian-American Sophie Kaufman, married to a Jewish American man .... mother of two children and raising them immersed in both cultures. Then a peak in at a recent segment on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' featuring two New York City mayoral candidates - one Muslim-American, the other Jewish-American. Why I shated this? It shows the coexistence of so-called 'rival factions' in a deeply liberal city and how both sides actually come to a point of agreement on shared values and goals on the left, whereas the right continues to believe, for more than half a century now, that military might and the threat of more of it, will somehow eventually make the suppressed opposition come to heel.

Since 1996 Flying Change Equine Therapy has been helping children, adults and whole families discover a new way to approach emotional and behavioral health. On today's edition of “Closer Look,” the team returns to Flying Change Equine Therapy to visit with founder Lissa Corcoran and, of course, the sassy horses. Plus, we revisit an April interview at the Wylde Center’s Edgewood Garden featuring another community-minded animal: chickens.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As Pope Francis is buried this weekend, we hear from Atlantans about his legacy and what characteristics they are looking for in the next pontiff. Plus, Governor Brian Kemp took a victory lap this week after signing a once-in-a-generation overhaul of Georgia’s civil litigation rules. It's a shining moment for a term-limited governor as he weighs his political future. The National Rifle Association finished its annual meeting in Atlanta this week, as Georgia gun-owners consider recent events having to do with firearm safety. And we have more on Georgia's film industry is going through what some are calling a slowdown ,which was a topic of conversation at the 49th annual Atlanta Film Festival this week. Also, shrimpin' ain't easy: the plight of Georgia's shrimping boat captains. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Mother's Day weekend, one of Atlanta's most cherished outdoor traditions returns as the Chastain Park Spring Arts Festival takes over the green, tree-lined paths of Buckhead's iconic Chastain Park. On Saturday, May 10, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Mother's Day, Sunday, May 11, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., more than 175 hand-selected painters, sculptors, photographers, jewelry designers, leather and metal artisans, glass blowers, and more will showcase their work at this free, family-friendly festival. Perfect for art lovers, curious collectors, families, and even four-legged friends, this two-day event offers something for everyone. In addition to the expansive artist market, attendees can enjoy live artist demonstrations, a bigger-than-ever Kids Zone with bounce houses and hands-on fun, delicious bites from local food trucks, and a special pop-up from neighborhood favorite DBA Barbecue. "This event has truly become a Mother's Day tradition not just for Atlantans, but for families across the Southeast,” says Randall Fox, founder of Atlanta Foundation for Public Spaces (AFFPS). “It's a place where art meets community. Where you can spend the day discovering new artists, letting the kids explore, enjoying a great meal, and simply being together. That's what makes it special, year after year.” Chastain Park Spring Arts Festival (4469 Stella Drive, Atlanta, GA 30327) takes place rain or shine and is open to all ages. For more information, please visit www.chastainparkartsfestival.c... and www.affps.com. Stay connected on Instagram at @affps_festivals. WHAT:Chastain Park Spring Arts Festival WHEN: Saturday, May 10th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 11th from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Chastain Park 4469 Stella Drive Atlanta, GA 30327 COST:Free to attend. Open to all ages and dogs are welcome. CONNECT: For more information, visit www.chastainparkartsfestival.c... and stay connected on Instagram at @affps_festivals. About the show: Ash Brown is a force to be reckoned with in the world of motivation and empowerment. This multi-talented American is a gifted producer, blogger, speaker, media personality, and event emcee. Her infectious energy and passion for helping others shine through in everything she does. Ash Said It, Ash Does It: * AshSaidit.com: This vibrant blog is your one-stop shop for a peek into Ash's world. Dive into exclusive event invites, insightful product reviews, and a whole lot more. It's a platform that keeps you informed and entertained. * The Ash Said It Show: Buckle up for a motivational ride with Ash's signature podcast. With over 2,000 episodesalready under her belt and a staggering half a million streams worldwide, this show is a testament to Ash's impact. Here, she chats with inspiring individuals and tackles topics that resonate deeply. What Makes Ash Special? Ash doesn't just preach motivation; she lives it. Her strength lies in her authenticity. She connects with her audience on a genuine level, offering real-talk advice and encouragement. She doesn't shy away from the challenges life throws our way, but instead, equips you with the tools to overcome them. Here's what sets Ash apart: * Unwavering Positivity: Ash Brown is a glass-half-full kind of person. Her infectious optimism is contagious, leaving you feeling empowered and ready to take on the world. * Real & Relatable: Ash doesn't sugarcoat things. She understands the struggles we face and offers relatable advice that resonates with listeners from all walks of life. * Actionable Strategies: This isn't just about empty inspirational quotes. Ash provides practical tips and strategies to help you translate motivation into action, turning your dreams into reality. So, if you're looking for a daily dose of inspiration, actionable advice, and a healthy dose of real talk, look no further than Ash Brown. With her infectious positivity and dedication to empowering others, she's sure to become your go-to source for making the most of life. ► Goli Gummy Discounts Link: https://go.goli.com/1loveash5 ► Luxury Women Handbag Discounts: https://www.theofficialathena.... ► Review Us: https://itunes.apple.com/us/po... ► Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/c/AshSa... ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1lov... ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ashsa... ► Blog: http://www.ashsaidit.com/blog #atlanta #ashsaidit #theashsaiditshow #ashblogsit #ashsaidit®Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-ash-said-it-show--1213325/support.

It's been a minute since 'Atlanta Voice' editor-in-chief Donnell Suggs and I last spoke, and with so much to discuss, today seemed like as good a day as any to reconnect. Suggs got to spend a wire-to-wire day with Atlanta mayor Andre Dickens recently, so naturally, I had questions. With his re-election campaign's coffers brimming with cash, is that positive or negative in the eyes of Atlantans? Will 'Cop City' be a drag for him? His 11th hour pivot on 'Beltline rail?' Recent word that former mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is looking into a gubernatorial run had me wondering if she's more popular with the Atlanta voter base than conventional wisdom might bely. Will Senator Jon Ossoff lose support from black voters because of attack ads targeting his vote on trans sports participants?Will looming tariff costs to the average American household keep folks from traveling this summer? Like to the new Universal Epic Universe theme park journalists like Suggs had the opportunity to get a sneak peak of?

Tune in with Host Nichel Anderson as she shares her journey while releasing an impromptu moment two years ago sharing her insight of why ppl that treat people wrong of neg nature will always reap what they sow. "You keep striving and being who you worn born to not to what others that want you to fit in their confined concept. You RISE. YOU Be The Best You Were Born To Be. You Get Your Success. You Just Keep Moving Forward On Your Destiny Purpose Journey" - Nichel -- Music Song in background; "Atlantans" by Nichel MOLIAE aka Nichel Anderson      *** Get The Atlantans MOLIAE Hoodi | Only on official Nichel MOLIAE Website: https://moliae.com/product/atlantans-wings-of-glory-moliae-hoodi/     =============   Listen, Download this song and share it here; Support Nichel's M-Film Dream;  SHOP ON OFFICIAL WEBSITE; Purchase the Remix of Nichel's songs of her forthcoming song only here or the catalog of songs here;   https://moliae.com/nichel-moliae-music/ https://moliae.com/shop ----------- Check out other music by Nichel, the most recent song released for her forthcoming album: Released on Valentines Day: "Of The Remix Dont You Remember The Times"

In this BONUS, with Host Nichel Anderson sharing her journey while releasing an impromptu moment two years ago sharing her insight while that podcast was for Atlantis Character breakdown, and went there of why ppl that treat people wrong because of their wants and projections that their neg nature will always reap what they sow.  "You keep striving and being who you worn born to not to what others that want you to fit in their confined concept. You RISE. YOU Be The Best You Were Born To Be. You Get Your Success. You Just Keep Moving Forward On Your Destiny Purpose Journey" - Nichel -- Music Song in background; "Atlantans" by Nichel MOLIAE aka Nichel Anderson      *** Get The Atlantans MOLIAE Hoodi | Only on official Nichel MOLIAE Website: https://moliae.com/product/atlantans-wings-of-glory-moliae-hoodi/     =============   Listen, Download this song and share it here; Support Nichel's M-Film Dream;  SHOP ON OFFICIAL WEBSITE; Purchase the Remix of Nichel's songs of her forthcoming song only here or the catalog of songs here;   https://moliae.com/nichel-moliae-music/ https://moliae.com/shop ----------- Check out other music by Nichel, the most recent song released for her forthcoming album: Released on Valentines Day: "Of The Remix Dont You Remember The Times"

Amid ongoing nationwide efforts to put restrictions on teaching specific segments of American history, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights has launched a free learning portal to expand access. It aids teachers and parents in bringing a complete history about civil and human rights to students. Nicole Moore, who serves as the director of education for the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, talks more about the portal that offers ready-to-go lesson plans, worksheets and other interactive tools. She also explains how the lessons are taught to help students connect with their history. Plus, the Atlanta E-bike Rebate Program launched in 2024 with the goal of eliminating financial barriers to e-bike ownership, reducing transportation costs, and promoting a shift from car-dependent travel. The program was funded by a $1 million investment from the Atlanta City Council and administered by the Atlanta Regional Commission in partnership with Propel ATL. Bennett Foster, the managing director of mobility at the Atlanta Regional Commission, and LaMiiko Moore, a recipient of the e-bike rebate, talk with Rose about a new report that details specifics about the E-bike Rebate Program—such as who received the citywide rebate, and how the rebate was used. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Does a decades-old case hold the keys to new truths that have yet to be investigated? Tune in for an inspiring discussion with Mike Cobb on his new historical novel You Will Know Me by My Deeds.  Moments with Marianne airs in the Southern California area on KMET1490AM & 98.1 FM, an ABC Talk News Radio affiliate!Mike Cobb is a writer, a native Atlantan, and a student of history. His body of literary work includes both fiction and nonfiction, short-form and long-form, as well as articles and blogs. While he is comfortable playing across a broad range of genres and topics, much of his focus is on historical fiction, Southern literary fiction, crime fiction, and true crime.  Rigorous research is foundational to his writing. He gets that honestly, having spent much of his professional career as a scientist.  https://mgcobb.comFor more show information visit: www.MariannePestana.com

Tune in to the Power of Reading Week! Yay! Host, Nichel Anderson returns this month of February celebrating the power of reading with Special Guest Zenia Habib, she joins in studio to talk about her mission to make an impactful life to others as a superior life coach that outlines with how to create boundaries that are beneficial for the person looking to make a difference in their path that defines their purpose and mission. She dropped a lot of gems with word terms and phrases "Body Intelligence is important" by doing so you excel in our goals and understanding how your mind and body works. This week were are focusing on books and how it can change you, in this interview Zenia shared her wisdom of the body and mind that can be influence by many factors and inspiring, tune in to receive an uplifting message of hope and action to write your own story or what books made you think of who you want to be by the power of a word or phrase or reference to overall objective; keep you moving forward with new insight. Now thats the power of reading a book! What are your favorite books? Share that with this episode and share it with someone else today.   You can contact Zeina Habib at: Linkedin : Zenia Habib Instagram: Zeina_Voice_Within   ------- Song music in background; "Atlantans" by Nichel MOLIAE aka Nichel Anderson      *** Get The Atlantans MOLIAE Hoodi | Only on official Nichel MOLIAE Website: https://moliae.com/product/atlantans-wings-of-glory-moliae-hoodi/     =============   Listen, Download this song and share it here; Support Nichel's M-Film Dream;  SHOP ON OFFICIAL WEBSITE; Purchase the Remix of Nichel's songs of her forthcoming song only here or the catalog of songs here;   https://moliae.com/nichel-moliae-music/ https://moliae.com/shop     --- You Know Me | SONG Remix;  https://moliae.com/song    ======   ***Apple Music My Song Links:    You Know Me:  https://music.lnk.to/yVTBWP     Don't You Remember The Times https://music.lnk.to/mXk8Xf   Atlantans https://music.lnk.to/Fgg572     Kingship   https://music.lnk.to/XORSTW   When love was divine      --- Stream Spotify Nichel's songs:  Kingship https://open.spotify.com/track/6PqzW6hkAkx0dHUMabj6pN?si=dc3e0b2c990f441b -- You Know Me https://open.spotify.com/album/4gd09XfrS5KFby3JbAjDxC?si=Jq-RRza7QrWDdY_aZ_53NQ -- Atlantans  https://open.spotify.com/album/1V2DjkvDteCb9UFwr0m6OC?si=AMNciL30SKyOz1agxoE7oA -- We Are Atlantans https://open.spotify.com/album/3ecYQyZ2INxYcTQ1yEUd9l?si=DzGSldhjRSS-ySjz_haVDA     --- When Love Was Divine https://open.spotify.com/track/6ta4GKvwYSBfffeZ2NHhaO?si=2cf54113cc434d6e ---- Get the NFTs Support the M-Film Project | Pyramids Mystery Temple Reunion (PMTR)   MOLIAEWorld.com Mint.MOLIAEWorld.com   SHOP ESSENTIAL OILS OF ANCIENT EGYPT Self Care for Kings and Queens: MOLIAEBeauty.com    --- Check out another episode this week! Share this!          

In this empowering episode for to the Power of Reading Week! Yay! Host, Nichel Anderson returns this month of February celebrating the power of reading with Special Guest Zenia Habib, she joins in to discuss about her mission to make an impactful life to others as a superior life coach that outlines with how to create boundaries that are beneficial for the person looking to make a difference in their path that defines their purpose and mission. She dropped a lot of gems with word terms and phrases "Body Intelligence is important" by doing so you excel in our goals and understanding how your mind and body works. This week were are focusing on books and how it can change you, in this interview Zenia shared her wisdom of the body and mind that can be influence by many factors and inspiring, tune in to receive an uplifting message of hope and action to write your own story or what books made you think of who you want to be by the power of a word or phrase or reference to overall objective; keep you moving forward with new insight. Now thats the power of reading a book! What are your favorite books? Share that with this episode and share it with someone else today.   Special Guest: Zeina Habib   You can contact Zeina Habib at: Linkedin : Zenia Habib Instagram: Zeina_Voice_Within   Song music in background; "Atlantans" by Nichel MOLIAE aka Nichel Anderson      *** Get The Atlantans MOLIAE Hoodi | Only on official Nichel MOLIAE Website: https://moliae.com/product/atlantans-wings-of-glory-moliae-hoodi/     =============   Listen, Download this song and share it here; Support Nichel's M-Film Dream;  SHOP ON OFFICIAL WEBSITE; Purchase the Remix of Nichel's songs of her forthcoming song only here or the catalog of songs here;   https://moliae.com/nichel-moliae-music/ https://moliae.com/shop     --- You Know Me | SONG Remix;  https://moliae.com/song    ======   ***Apple Music My Song Links:    You Know Me:  https://music.lnk.to/yVTBWP     Don't You Remember The Times https://music.lnk.to/mXk8Xf   Atlantans https://music.lnk.to/Fgg572     Kingship   https://music.lnk.to/XORSTW   When love was divine      --- Stream Spotify Nichel's songs:  Kingship https://open.spotify.com/track/6PqzW6hkAkx0dHUMabj6pN?si=dc3e0b2c990f441b -- You Know Me https://open.spotify.com/album/4gd09XfrS5KFby3JbAjDxC?si=Jq-RRza7QrWDdY_aZ_53NQ -- Atlantans  https://open.spotify.com/album/1V2DjkvDteCb9UFwr0m6OC?si=AMNciL30SKyOz1agxoE7oA -- We Are Atlantans https://open.spotify.com/album/3ecYQyZ2INxYcTQ1yEUd9l?si=DzGSldhjRSS-ySjz_haVDA     --- When Love Was Divine https://open.spotify.com/track/6ta4GKvwYSBfffeZ2NHhaO?si=2cf54113cc434d6e ---- Get the NFTs Support the M-Film Project | Pyramids Mystery Temple Reunion (PMTR)   MOLIAEWorld.com Mint.MOLIAEWorld.com   SHOP ESSENTIAL OILS OF ANCIENT EGYPT Self Care for Kings and Queens: MOLIAEBeauty.com    --- Check out another episode this week! Share this!          

Tune in to the Power of Reading Week! Yay! Host, Nichel Anderson returns this month of February celebrating the power of reading. What are your favorite books? Ms. Anderson returns reading Dr. W.E.B. DuBois infamous book ' Souls of Black Folk' in the chapter called "Of the Wings of Atlanta" where you will be a breakdown analysis by Ms. Anderson afterwards to grasp the gems left for us to all continue learning of the culture and new frontier.    Song music in background; "Atlantans" by Nichel MOLIAE aka Nichel Anderson  Next episode in celebration the wonderfulness of books on Wednesday!    =============     Listen, Download this song and share it here; Support Nichel's M-Film Dream;    -------- SHOP ON OFFICIAL WEBSITE; Purchase the Remix of Nichel's songs of her forthcoming song only here; You Know Me | SONG Remix;  https://moliae.com/song    or the catalog of songs here; https://moliae.com/shop   SHOP MOLIAE HOODI'S, Tshirts; https://moliae.com/product/wings-of-atlantis-moliae-hoodi/ ====== --- ***Apple Music My Song Links:    You Know Me:  https://music.lnk.to/yVTBWP     Don't You Remember The Times https://music.lnk.to/mXk8Xf   Atlantans https://music.lnk.to/Fgg572     Kingship   https://music.lnk.to/XORSTW   When love was divine      --- Stream Spotify Nichel's songs:  Kingship https://open.spotify.com/track/6PqzW6hkAkx0dHUMabj6pN?si=dc3e0b2c990f441b -- You Know Me https://open.spotify.com/album/4gd09XfrS5KFby3JbAjDxC?si=Jq-RRza7QrWDdY_aZ_53NQ -- Atlantans  https://open.spotify.com/album/1V2DjkvDteCb9UFwr0m6OC?si=AMNciL30SKyOz1agxoE7oA -- We Are Atlantans https://open.spotify.com/album/3ecYQyZ2INxYcTQ1yEUd9l?si=DzGSldhjRSS-ySjz_haVDA     --- When Love Was Divine https://open.spotify.com/track/6ta4GKvwYSBfffeZ2NHhaO?si=2cf54113cc434d6e   ---- Get the NFTs Support the M-Film Project | Pyramids Mystery Temple Reunion (PMTR)   MOLIAEWorld.com Mint.MOLIAEWorld.com     --- Check out another episode this week! Share this!          

Tune in to the Power of Reading Week! Yay! Host, Nichel Anderson returns this month of February celebrating the power of reading. What are your favorite books? Ms. Anderson returns reading Dr. W.E.B. DuBois infamous book ' Souls of Black Folk' in the chapter called "Of the Wings of Atlanta" where you will be a breakdown analysis by Ms. Anderson afterwards to grasp the gems left for us to all continue learning of the culture and new frontier.    Song music in background; "Atlantans" by Nichel MOLIAE aka Nichel Anderson  Next episode in celebration the wonderfulness of books on Wednesday!  Share this!   Song music in background; "Kingship" by Nichel MOLIAE aka Nichel Anderson with featured Rapper "Chris Jenkins" | IG @chrisjenkinstvg     Listen, Download this song and share it here; Support Nichel's M-Film Dream;    -------- SHOP ON OFFICIAL WEBSITE; Purchase the Remix of Nichel's songs of her forthcoming song only here; You Know Me | SONG Remix;  https://moliae.com/song    or the catalog of songs here; https://moliae.com/shop   SHOP MOLIAE HOODI'S, Tshirts; https://moliae.com/product/wings-of-atlantis-moliae-hoodi/ ====== --- ***Apple Music My Song Links:    You Know Me:  https://music.lnk.to/yVTBWP   Don't You Remember The Times https://music.lnk.to/mXk8Xf   Atlantans https://music.lnk.to/Fgg572   Kingship https://music.lnk.to/XORSTW   When love was divine  --- Stream Spotify Nichel's songs:  Kingship https://open.spotify.com/track/6PqzW6hkAkx0dHUMabj6pN?si=dc3e0b2c990f441b -- You Know Me https://open.spotify.com/album/4gd09XfrS5KFby3JbAjDxC?si=Jq-RRza7QrWDdY_aZ_53NQ -- Atlantans  https://open.spotify.com/album/1V2DjkvDteCb9UFwr0m6OC?si=AMNciL30SKyOz1agxoE7oA -- We Are Atlantans https://open.spotify.com/album/3ecYQyZ2INxYcTQ1yEUd9l?si=DzGSldhjRSS-ySjz_haVDA --- When Love Was Divine https://open.spotify.com/track/6ta4GKvwYSBfffeZ2NHhaO?si=2cf54113cc434d6e   ---   Check out another episode this week! Share this!    

This episode is sponsored by Mountain Lights & Safety of Lookout Mountain.(423) 463-7704Outdoor Lighting - Home Security - Smoke & Fire Detection****************************Have you ever dreamed of going to a special place?Do you ever want or need to get away from the hustle and bustle?Do you want to go somewhere but you're just not sure where? Or how to do it.Warning: the following podcast episode may unlock your dreams, high adventure and possibly even some danger - use caution if you proceed!Do yourself a huge favor and join us for another great episode on The Mountain Echo as Strib Stribling opens up about himself, family, relationships and of course, fishing; you will be so glad you did.Do you have a travel wish? A long-held destination wish? This fun and inspiring episode may just be the 'sign' you've been waiting for. Growing up in Atlanta and falling in love with a girl form Lookout, Strib is at his best just relaxing and sharing great stories. Atlanta to Lookout, and parenting along the way, he weaves a great listening experience for listeners as he shares a very powerful message to folks. Strib founded and operates Stribling and Company and he helps people have great experiences via travel and trips in the great outdoors. He does a really good job of explaining what this cool, Lookout-based company does for people, families and groups, Strib has more stories than he does fishing lures - and that's saying a lot!  Sit back for a real treat for your ears, and your heart as this wonderful, talented, skillful and gracious man encourages you to dream big and to have the courage to act on your desires to travel. Spoiler alert: His real goal is even bigger - helping people discover new feelings about themselves and those around them - and the power of relationships.Stribling and Company is the real deal for serious travel - whether personal discovery or group relations and dynamics - friends or corporate. Give Strib a call and talk to him - he's great to talk with and incredibly knowledgeable about many places and about different types of trips. People who have used him already know - ' Strib IS THE Guy'Strib - 'thank you', you did a great job - tMEhttps://www.Striblingandcompany.comSpread the word! Find us at ...theMountainEcho.orgPlease "Like" and 'subscribe' for notification of new episodes on your media player's podcast menu. Also, on regular, full length, non-bonus episodes, many thanks for closing music featuring the Dismembered Tennesseans and vocals by the amazing Laura Walker singing Tennessee Waltz. Opening fiddle music played by the late Mr. Fletcher Bright.

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Plans are in place for Atlantans to pay respects to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter; Vincent Fort, the longtime state senator, is remembered as a tireless advocate for those government had left behind; and the Fulton County Jail enters a consent decree with the feds to improve conditions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's episode of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Politically Georgia podcast, host Bill Nigut continues our coverage of the passing of Jimmy Carter, the only Georgia-born president of the United States. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Jon Meacham joins the podcast to reflect on President Carter's remarkable life and enduring legacy. We'll also bring you the latest updates on tributes and funeral arrangements as the nation honors one of its most extraordinary leaders.     Links to today's topics: Memorial services for Jimmy Carter planned in Plains, Atlanta and DC At Carter Center, Atlantans bring peanuts, flowers to mourn ‘passing of an era' The life and legacy of the man who had an impact around the world     Have a question or comment for the show? Call the 24-hour Politically Georgia Podcast Hotline at 770-810-5297. We'll play back your question and answer it during the listener mailbag segment on next Friday's episode.     Listen and subscribe to our podcast for free at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also tell your smart speaker to “play Politically Georgia podcast.”   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fulton Co. DA Fani Willis is disqualified from prosecuting former President Donald Trump; Some gasoline (figurative--not literally) is poured on Georgia's decades-long water war; and for our series, "Six Million and Lonely," we hear from a young Atlantan who turned the social isolation of his disability into an entrepreneurial opportunity.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The family of the environmental activist shot and killed by Georgia state troopers is filing a lawsuit against three law enforcement officers; Republicans met at the Capitol Tuesday to cast 16 electoral votes for Trump; WABE's series "Six Million and Lonely" begins by asking Atlantans how they define isolation and why public health officials are so concerned.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join in the beautiful return of modern day short stories by host NicheL Anderson, in her newest storyline "MOLIAE Love Groove" from her Youtube MOLIAE Channel MOLIAE Love Groove Playlist. Nichel returns with the new characters of Cynthia and her crush from College as both of them are overseas on business trip and he sends her special gift that starts the change to consider what will make out their reunite to try new love again.  Tune in to divine storytelling that is of giving nature as well as learning the aspect of the journey of love.  --- Opening Song by Artist:  Jadhe'  Song title: "Accra to Oktap" Album Feature Spotify Url;  https://open.spotify.com/album/6fIxk0byiGKFj8sJ4ju28F?si=cFwcDP3fQhu44lUTMA32Ww -- Support the funding dream to film her M-Film project by buying her songs Remix version only on MOLIAE.com that was audio mixed by Nichel!     **NEWS | Become a MEMBER today and get access to original divine "exclusive" short stories monthly. Subscribe here:  Join   Visit Official Website: MOLIAE.com Get Nichel MOLIAE song "You Know Me" at: https://MOLIAE.com/Song  |  from the forthcoming album "When Love Was Divine" --- *Support Nichel's dream to film her book the M-Film project.  Buy the songs remix: moliae.com/shop   MOLIAE Music "You Know Me" now available for download as the anticipated wait for the album. ---   Go here for the Atlantans song remix to support Nichel's production and the M-Film;  https://moliae.com/atlantans-song Atlantans - Song  | available now remix, support M-Film project ---the more rap version "We Are Atlantans" remix tba on moliae.com  -------- https://moliae.com/song    You Know Me song --------- https://moliae.com/shop Kingship song   Songs are available globally but the remix of songs only available on official MOLIAE website.   --- Stream Spotify Nichel's songs:    You Know Me https://open.spotify.com/album/4gd09XfrS5KFby3JbAjDxC?si=Jq-RRza7QrWDdY_aZ_53NQ -- Atlantans  https://open.spotify.com/album/1V2DjkvDteCb9UFwr0m6OC?si=AMNciL30SKyOz1agxoE7oA -- We Are Atlantans https://open.spotify.com/album/3ecYQyZ2INxYcTQ1yEUd9l?si=DzGSldhjRSS-ySjz_haVDA -- Kingship https://open.spotify.com/track/6PqzW6hkAkx0dHUMabj6pN?si=dc3e0b2c990f441b --- When Love Was Divine https://open.spotify.com/track/6ta4GKvwYSBfffeZ2NHhaO?si=2cf54113cc434d6e   ---- Summer Break Schedule 2025 Episodes Release Dates: June 30, 2025 July 28, 2025 August 25, 2025   Buy The Book:  "Mitsrayim: A Memoir of A Past Life In Ancient Egypt" Available on Amazon.com and Barnes-n-Noble   | Follow and Share - FOLLOW MOLIAE on Social Media & Share this! YouTube Channel - subscribe today https://www.youtube.com/moliae Instagram - Follow us, Share this: MOLIAE8 : https://www.instagram.com/moliae8 and… MOLIAEBeauty8 : https://www.instagram.com/moliaebeauty8 — Facebook https://www.facebook.com/moliae SkinCare Beauty brand for Kings and Queens https://www.faebook.com/moliaebeauty Twitter Social Page https://www.twitter.com/moliae Skincare Twitter Page: https://www.twitter.com/moliaeb  --- --- | ---- | ---- -- MOLIAE MERCH Tshirts | Support This Podcast Show - Buy Our T-shirts https://moliae.com/shop ------- ANNOUNCEMENTS | NFTS of MOLIAE | "Pyramid Mystery Temple Reunion" | Who took the HUJTA Swords? NFTs Collection "Pyramid Mystery Temple Reunion" PMTR _ MINT NOW. Visit official website:MOLIAEWorld.com MOLIAE Token is TBA get ready plans to be utilize on official cryptocurrency, NFTs website MOLIAEWorld.com Follow this MOLIAE Project on twitter.com/MOLIAEWorld & share it. PMTR NFTs collection is of 10,000 classmates that are pixel pyramids on Ethereum blockchain with symbolism and meaning with numerology and astrology as our ancient ancestors did so in Sumner and Ancient Egypt/Mitsrayim. In this collection theme purpose, additionally, the mystery to whom took their swords is uptmost concern, in particular, the 24 HUJTA swords (there are more swords assigned to each pyramid) when the call to vote (for whom will be task to solve the mystery that will launch another NFTs future collection "Aspu Legends of Lions" that will be in 3D) follow the storyline that is the bedrock of intrigue written by no other than the prestige Ms. Nichel Anderson creating the official MOLIAE World from her book "Mitsrayim: A Memoir of A Past Life in Ancient Egypt" : The PMTR NFTs collection Utilities. --- MOLIAE Comic book series episodes will be announce for the timeline before the podcast series - "The disloyalty amongst the Tribal Leaders" available on Webtoons to catch up on this saga series: Vol 1  "A Deal Was Made In The Cosmos"  ------- You LOVING this episode "free bonus" then UPGRADE to PRIME Membership available Exclusively on Substack, sign up to get more of these short stories, special guests interviews access, Director notes and more now here:  https://moliae.com/membership-levels   Share this, follow the podcast and tune in as you support the podcast and get you a brand Tshirt at MOLIAE.com and pick up a NFT at MINT.MOLIAEWORLD.com    ---- Check Out Brand of Essential Body Oils: MOLIAE Beauty Shop: https://moliaebeauty.com   GIFT BOX KITS | You want to send Ancient Egypt in a beautiful one of a kind present treasure chest. 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Georgia State Senate Democrats today elected two new leaders going into next year's legislative session; Georgia Power's first battery storage system is now online at a facility near Columbus; and whether you know it by its official name, "The Municipal Market," or by what many Atlantans refer to as "the Sweet Auburn Curb Market," the city treasure downtown on Edgewood has weathered a century of ups and downs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We return to another episode of series "Atlantis" | Part 10 "New Love Rises Within Another" "short story, were one of the twins gets a visit by one of the citizens of their brother rule kingdom on Atlantis and there seems to perhaps start of a new interest amongst the restructuring of power as their brother is still recouping from his ordeal lead up to Part 7 of Atlantis. Tune in to find out which twin and where it will go next in this new exciting short story series.  --- Opening Song by Artist:  "Fai$al"  Song title: "Afterschool" Youtube: FAI$AL IG: FAI$ALGOGAGA -- Support the funding dream to film her M-Film project by buying her songs Remix version only on MOLIAE.com that was mixed by Nichel own self!   **NEWS | Become a MEMBER today and get access to original divine "exclusive" short stories monthly. Subscribe here:  Join   Visit Official Website: MOLIAE.com Get Nichel MOLIAE song "You Know Me" at: https://MOLIAE.com/Song  |  from the forthcoming album "When Love Was Divine" --- *Support Nichel's dream to film her book the M-Film project.  Buy the songs remix: moliae.com/shop   MOLIAE Music "You Know Me" now available for download as the anticipated wait for the album. ---   Go here for the Atlantans song remix to support Nichel's production and the M-Film;  https://moliae.com/atlantans-song Atlantans - Song  | available now remix, support M-Film project ---the more rap version "We Are Atlantans" remix tba on moliae.com  -------- https://moliae.com/song    You Know Me song --------- https://moliae.com/shop Kingship song   Songs are available globally but the remix of songs only available on official MOLIAE website.   --- Stream Spotify Nichel's songs:    You Know Me https://open.spotify.com/album/4gd09XfrS5KFby3JbAjDxC?si=Jq-RRza7QrWDdY_aZ_53NQ -- Atlantans  https://open.spotify.com/album/1V2DjkvDteCb9UFwr0m6OC?si=AMNciL30SKyOz1agxoE7oA -- We Are Atlantans https://open.spotify.com/album/3ecYQyZ2INxYcTQ1yEUd9l?si=DzGSldhjRSS-ySjz_haVDA -- Kingship https://open.spotify.com/track/6PqzW6hkAkx0dHUMabj6pN?si=dc3e0b2c990f441b --- When Love Was Divine https://open.spotify.com/track/6ta4GKvwYSBfffeZ2NHhaO?si=2cf54113cc434d6e   ---- Summer Break Schedule 2025 Episodes Release Dates: June 30, 2025 July 28, 2025 August 25, 2025   Buy The Book:  "Mitsrayim: A Memoir of A Past Life In Ancient Egypt" Available on Amazon.com and Barnes-n-Noble   | Follow and Share - FOLLOW MOLIAE on Social Media & Share this! YouTube Channel - subscribe today https://www.youtube.com/moliae Instagram - Follow us, Share this: MOLIAE8 : https://www.instagram.com/moliae8 and… MOLIAEBeauty8 : https://www.instagram.com/moliaebeauty8 — Facebook https://www.facebook.com/moliae SkinCare Beauty brand for Kings and Queens https://www.faebook.com/moliaebeauty Twitter Social Page https://www.twitter.com/moliae Skincare Twitter Page: https://www.twitter.com/moliaeb  --- --- | ---- | ---- -- MOLIAE MERCH Tshirts | Support This Podcast Show - Buy Our T-shirts https://moliae.com/shop ------- ANNOUNCEMENTS | NFTS of MOLIAE | "Pyramid Mystery Temple Reunion" | Who took the HUJTA Swords? NFTs Collection "Pyramid Mystery Temple Reunion" PMTR _ MINT NOW. Visit official website:MOLIAEWorld.com MOLIAE Token is TBA get ready plans to be utilize on official cryptocurrency, NFTs website MOLIAEWorld.com Follow this MOLIAE Project on twitter.com/MOLIAEWorld & share it. PMTR NFTs collection is of 10,000 classmates that are pixel pyramids on Ethereum blockchain with symbolism and meaning with numerology and astrology as our ancient ancestors did so in Sumner and Ancient Egypt/Mitsrayim. In this collection theme purpose, additionally, the mystery to whom took their swords is uptmost concern, in particular, the 24 HUJTA swords (there are more swords assigned to each pyramid) when the call to vote (for whom will be task to solve the mystery that will launch another NFTs future collection "Aspu Legends of Lions" that will be in 3D) follow the storyline that is the bedrock of intrigue written by no other than the prestige Ms. Nichel Anderson creating the official MOLIAE World from her book "Mitsrayim: A Memoir of A Past Life in Ancient Egypt" : The PMTR NFTs collection Utilities. --- MOLIAE Comic book series episodes will be announce for the timeline before the podcast series - "The disloyalty amongst the Tribal Leaders" available on Webtoons to catch up on this saga series: Vol 1  "A Deal Was Made In The Cosmos"  ------- You LOVING this episode "free bonus" then UPGRADE to PRIME Membership available Exclusively on Substack, sign up to get more of these short stories, special guests interviews access, Director notes and more now here:  https://moliae.com/membership-levels   Share this, follow the podcast and tune in as you support the podcast and get you a brand Tshirt at MOLIAE.com and pick up a NFT at MINT.MOLIAEWORLD.com    ---- Check Out Brand of Essential Body Oils: MOLIAE Beauty Shop: https://moliaebeauty.com   GIFT BOX KITS | You want to send Ancient Egypt in a beautiful one of a kind present treasure chest. Order our gift box kits and be like a Royal ! You remember the times.. https://moliaebeauty.com/collections/gift-box-kits   -----  

“Closer Look's” second national PRX show examines Atlanta's income inequality gap. While Georgia's capital city is rooted in civil rights and it's bustling with entertainment, sports, technology and culture, data reveals Atlanta is stalled when it comes to economic mobility. In fact, within the last decade, Atlanta has consistently remained atop or near the top for U.S. cities with the worst income inequality. On average, Atlanta's poorest residents earn around $11,221 per year, while its richest earn around an average of $324,230 per year. Now, the overarching question remains: What's driving Atlanta's income inequality? To find answers, show host Rose Scott examines the past, present and future of the city described by former Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen in the 1960s as “The City Too Busy to Hate.” Scott talks with Atlantans about the southern city's identity and its influence on everything from politics to hip-hop. Atlanta natives also share how and why they feel the city has failed to equip all of its residents with the needed tools and resources to become the beloved and equitable community envisioned by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

I have already learned a lot and made many connections in this MAD RUSH podcast journey. Today is no exception, and I am excited to talk with my guest, Mary Corder Harrell, about some of the crazier rush stories we've heard. Thank you so much for being with us today. The people have asked, and we are delivering because TODAY IS CRAZY STORIES DAY! Mary Corder is a native Atlantan and a successful real estate agent (broker?) with SothSotheSotheby'sAtlanta. I am so impressed with her work ethic and tenacity, and I imagine these traits extend to her real estate career as well. Mary Corder graduated from The University of Georgia and was the Panhellenic VP of Recruitment in 2011. I am SO EXCITED for this episode and can't wait to get started, but first, give us a little background on your involvement in Greek life in college.  Mary's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marycorder/ Follow Trisha on Instagram: https://instagram.com/@rushwithconfidence Learn more about TrisTrishTrisha'sany https://itsallgreektome.org Have questions or comments? Send us an email: info@madrushpod.com #sororityrush #college #sororityrecruitment #sorority #greeklife #bamarush  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Check out the latest update of Nichel's summer break from podcasting before the her podcast show returns next month September 23, 2024. Listen in as she answers questions about what she been doing her summer break and any new tips of advise to what to expect next month, while listening to the background music of her latest song "Atlantans" now the remix is available to support the Dream M-Film project at moliae.com/atlantans-song only available on the official website.     ---PREMIERE PODCAST SHOW | Season 8 2024-2025 !!! YAY RETURNS September 23, 2024  | 10:00am  EST ---- Music in the background :  "Atlantans"  which is Nichel newly released songs! ;) of the Forthcoming Album "When Love Was Divine"   Nichel's Songs Now available see links below:   Support the funding dream to film her M-Film project by buying her songs Remix version only on MOLIAE.com that was mixed by Nichel own self!   Go here;  https://moliae.com/atlantans-song Atlantans - Song  | available now remix, support M-Film project ---the more rap version "We Are Atlantans" remix tba on moliae.com  -------- https://moliae.com/song    You Know Me song --------- https://moliae.com/shop Kingship song   *Support Nichel's dream to film her book the M-Film project.  Buy the songs remix: moliae.com/shop Songs are available globally but the remix of songs only available on official MOLIAE website.   --- Stream Spotify the songs;    https://ditto.fm/atlantans https://ditto.fm/we-are-atlantans https://ditto.fm/kingship-nichel-moliae https://ditto.fm/you-know-me-nichel-moliae https://ditto.fm/when-love-was-divine   ---- | Follow and Share - FOLLOW MOLIAE on Social Media & Share this! YouTube Channel - subscribe today https://www.youtube.com/moliae Instagram - Follow us, Share this: MOLIAE8 : https://www.instagram.com/moliae8 and… MOLIAEBeauty8 : https://www.instagram.com/moliaebeauty8 — Facebook https://www.facebook.com/moliae SkinCare Beauty brand for Kings and Queens https://www.faebook.com/moliaebeauty Twitter Social Page https://www.twitter.com/moliae Skincare Twitter Page: https://www.twitter.com/moliaeb  --- Become a PRIME Member on Apple Podcast of Nichel Anderson Short Story And Beyond Subscribe here. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nichel-anderson-short-stories-and-beyond/id1312722848   --- | ---- | ---- Visit Official Website: MOLIAE.com Get Nichel MOLIAE song "You Know Me" at: https://MOLIAE.com/Song  |  from the forthcoming album "When Love Was Divine" --- MOLIAE Music "When Love Was Divine" now available for download as the anticipated wait for the album. --- Buy The Book:  "Mitsrayim: A Memoir of A Past Life In Ancient Egypt" Available on Amazon.com and Barnes-n-Noble -- MOLIAE MERCH Tshirts | Support This Podcast Show - Buy Our T-shirts https://moliae.com/shop   ------- ANNOUNCEMENTS | NFTS of MOLIAE | "Pyramid Mystery Temple Reunion" | Who took the HUJTA Swords? NFTs Collection "Pyramid Mystery Temple Reunion" PMTR the MINT date is TBA. Visit official website:MOLIAEWorld.com MOLIAE Token is TBA get ready plans to be utilize on official cryptocurrency, NFTs website MOLIAEWorld.com Follow this MOLIAE Project on twitter.com/MOLIAEWorld & share it. PMTR NFTs collection is of 10,000 classmates that are pixel pyramids on Ethereum blockchain with symbolism and meaning with numerology and astrology as our ancient ancestors did so in Sumner and Ancient Egypt/Mitsrayim. In this collection theme purpose, additionally, the mystery to whom took their swords is uptmost concern, in particular, the 24 HUJTA swords (there are more swords assigned to each pyramid) when the call to vote (for whom will be task to solve the mystery that will launch another NFTs future collection "Aspu Legends of Lions" that will be in 3D) follow the storyline that is the bedrock of intrigue written by no other than the prestige Ms. Nichel Anderson creating the official MOLIAE World from her book "Mitsrayim: A Memoir of A Past Life in Ancient Egypt". The  PMTR NFTs collection Utilities Portfolio will be announce soon as when the website is available for view soon.  --- MOLIAE Comic book series episodes will be announce for the timeline before the podcast series - "The disloyalty amongst the Tribal Leaders" available on Webtoons to catch up on this saga series: Vol 1  "A Deal Was Made In The Cosmos"    ---- ------- **Begins TBA  |Get the PRIME access for the continuation of extra content of Future Series of Nahor and Princess Aamina on Substack Membership subscribe today: Sign up here:  https://moliaeworldshortstories.substack.com/   In today wonderful return bonus, we are enthralled of this lovely and beautiful memories of stories that focuses on Egyptian | Mitsrayim born; Nahor , the son of Ezri the Highest Rank Herbalist of Mitsrayim (Ancient Egypt) of the Royal Family and Palace and as well of the whole Sudan and Princes Aamina, the daughter of King Mahlon and Queen Hagar of Mitsrayim.  --TBA; You LOVING this episode "free bonus" then UPGRADE to PRIME Membership available Exclusively on Substack, sign up to get more of these short stories, special guests interviews access, Director notes and more now here:    moliaeworldshortstories.substack.com   Feed for PRIME Members of this Podcast Show: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1135361.rss Contact us at ; info@moliae.com  |  Follow : moliaeworldshortstories@substack.com Share this, follow the podcast and tune in as you support the podcast and get you a brand Tshirt at MOLIAE.com and pick up a NFT at MINT.MOLIAEWORLD.com    ---- Check Out Brand of Essential Body Oils: MOLIAE Beauty Shop: https://moliaebeauty.com   GIFT BOX KITS | You want to send Ancient Egypt in a beautiful one of a kind present treasure chest. 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Personal anecdote last night I was involved in a scuffle where a guest in our condo building got belligerent and unruly. He'd had a long day of drinking and was wandering the building and making some residents anxious and nervous. Some neighbors and I tried corralling him to guide him back to whatever unit he was staying in, and the guy got physical. My 8:45pm call to 911 likely caught it all on audio recording before Atlanta PD end the call. No one from the department arrived until 12:15am. Atlanta doesn't need "Cop City" as much as Atlanta needs more COPS in the city. What my neighbors and I dealt with last night wasn't deadly - but what if it could have become deadly? I went to bed having given up on my city's police department to show up two hours after waiting and one hour before they arrived. Atlantans deserve better. Okay, enough about that; Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's ⁠roaming the state testing counties' voting machines and tabulation processes⁠. Then, get this: former Fulton County Elections supervisor Cathy Woodard - frequent pundit on local TV's "The Georgia Gang" - recorded her appearance for that show Friday morning, then filed an ethics complaint against the "MAGA-3" not he Georgia Elections Board. Legislative Democrats followed with their own call for action over the weekend, as well. Woolard's action is particularly delicious in that Governor Brian Kemp is mandated to do something - and that something will anger Donald Trump. Competing economic messages have been unleashed by the two major Presidential candidates; one a rambling off-prompter tirade of incoherence by a buffoon in front of tables of grocery items, the other a pointed list of actions the American people need relief on: grocery prices, more and attainable housing and tax breaks for families raising kids. Seems an easy choice to make.

Tune in for a summer break check in with host, Nichel Anderson, discusses episodes of Season 7 as well listen in to the background of her music for the forthcoming album. Nichel talks about the journey and answering queries of podcast show as well the lessons learned.   ----- Schedule of next Summer Break Episodes: August 26, 2024 | 10:00am EST   ---PREMIERE PODCAST SHOW | Season 8 2024-2025 !!! YAY RETURNS September 23, 2024  | 10:00am  EST ---- Music in the background :  "Atlantans"  which is Nichel newly released songs! ;) of the Forthcoming Album "When Love Was Divine"   Nichel's Songs Now available see links below:   Support the funding dream to film her M-Film project by buying her songs Remix version only on MOLIAE.com that was mixed by Nichel own self!   Go here;  https://moliae.com/atlantans-song Atlantans - Song  | available now remix, support M-Film project ---the more rap version "We Are Atlantans" remix tba on moliae.com  -------- https://moliae.com/song    You Know Me song --------- https://moliae.com/shop Kingship song   *Support Nichel's dream to film her book the M-Film project.  Buy the songs remix: moliae.com/shop Songs are available globally but the remix of songs only available on official MOLIAE website.   --- Stream Spotify the songs;    https://ditto.fm/atlantans https://ditto.fm/we-are-atlantans https://ditto.fm/kingship-nichel-moliae https://ditto.fm/you-know-me-nichel-moliae https://ditto.fm/when-love-was-divine   ---- | Follow and Share - FOLLOW MOLIAE on Social Media & Share this! YouTube Channel - subscribe today https://www.youtube.com/moliae Instagram - Follow us, Share this: MOLIAE8 : https://www.instagram.com/moliae8 and… MOLIAEBeauty8 : https://www.instagram.com/moliaebeauty8 — Facebook https://www.facebook.com/moliae SkinCare Beauty brand for Kings and Queens https://www.faebook.com/moliaebeauty Twitter Social Page https://www.twitter.com/moliae Skincare Twitter Page: https://www.twitter.com/moliaeb  --- Become a PRIME Member on Apple Podcast of Nichel Anderson Short Story And Beyond Subscribe here. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nichel-anderson-short-stories-and-beyond/id1312722848   --- | ---- | ---- Visit Official Website: MOLIAE.com Get Nichel MOLIAE song "You Know Me" at: https://MOLIAE.com/Song  |  from the forthcoming album "When Love Was Divine" --- MOLIAE Music "When Love Was Divine" now available for download as the anticipated wait for the album. --- Buy The Book:  "Mitsrayim: A Memoir of A Past Life In Ancient Egypt" Available on Amazon.com and Barnes-n-Noble -- MOLIAE MERCH Tshirts | Support This Podcast Show - Buy Our T-shirts https://moliae.com/shop   ------- ANNOUNCEMENTS | NFTS of MOLIAE | "Pyramid Mystery Temple Reunion" | Who took the HUJTA Swords? NFTs Collection "Pyramid Mystery Temple Reunion" PMTR the MINT date is TBA. Visit official website:MOLIAEWorld.com MOLIAE Token is TBA get ready plans to be utilize on official cryptocurrency, NFTs website MOLIAEWorld.com Follow this MOLIAE Project on twitter.com/MOLIAEWorld & share it. PMTR NFTs collection is of 10,000 classmates that are pixel pyramids on Ethereum blockchain with symbolism and meaning with numerology and astrology as our ancient ancestors did so in Sumner and Ancient Egypt/Mitsrayim. In this collection theme purpose, additionally, the mystery to whom took their swords is uptmost concern, in particular, the 24 HUJTA swords (there are more swords assigned to each pyramid) when the call to vote (for whom will be task to solve the mystery that will launch another NFTs future collection "Aspu Legends of Lions" that will be in 3D) follow the storyline that is the bedrock of intrigue written by no other than the prestige Ms. Nichel Anderson creating the official MOLIAE World from her book "Mitsrayim: A Memoir of A Past Life in Ancient Egypt". The  PMTR NFTs collection Utilities Portfolio will be announce soon as when the website is available for view soon.  --- MOLIAE Comic book series episodes will be announce for the timeline before the podcast series - "The disloyalty amongst the Tribal Leaders" available on Webtoons to catch up on this saga series: Vol 1  "A Deal Was Made In The Cosmos"    ---- ------- **Begins TBA  |Get the PRIME access for the continuation of extra content of Future Series of Nahor and Princess Aamina on Substack Membership subscribe today: Sign up here:  https://moliaeworldshortstories.substack.com/   In today wonderful return bonus, we are enthralled of this lovely and beautiful memories of stories that focuses on Egyptian | Mitsrayim born; Nahor , the son of Ezri the Highest Rank Herbalist of Mitsrayim (Ancient Egypt) of the Royal Family and Palace and as well of the whole Sudan and Princes Aamina, the daughter of King Mahlon and Queen Hagar of Mitsrayim.  --TBA; You LOVING this episode "free bonus" then UPGRADE to PRIME Membership available Exclusively on Substack, sign up to get more of these short stories, special guests interviews access, Director notes and more now here:    moliaeworldshortstories.substack.com   Feed for PRIME Members of this Podcast Show: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1135361.rss Contact us at ; info@moliae.com  |  Follow : moliaeworldshortstories@substack.com Share this, follow the podcast and tune in as you support the podcast and get you a brand Tshirt at MOLIAE.com and pick up a NFT at MINT.MOLIAEWORLD.com    ---- Check Out Brand of Essential Body Oils: MOLIAE Beauty Shop: https://moliaebeauty.com   GIFT BOX KITS | You want to send Ancient Egypt in a beautiful one of a kind present treasure chest. 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This week, I am covering one of my most requested topics, the Science & Technology Museum of Atlanta, better known as SciTrek. I didn't grow up here and so I love hearing people's stories of classic Atlanta memories or experiences that really defined their childhood and one of these is definitely SciTrek. The way that current Atlantans reminisce about and their stories of school field trips, etc., makes me wish I could go back in time and experience it. So today we're talking about the idea of a science museum in Atlanta, the people that made it happen, the early history of SciTrek and all the way through it's closing.   Want to support this podcast? Visit here Email: thevictorialemos@gmail.com Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Let's get into this BONUS Summer Break usual release while host, Nichel Anderson, is on summer break as she checks in to discuss what is the most going on with her journey that this episode will be broadcasted on both of her podcast shows highlighting her favorite episodes, the dropping gems by her Special Guests interviews during Season 7 2023-20241 What a year podcasting!! Nichel Anderson very excited and thankful to all those following the journey these many years and grateful for such support.    ----- Schedule of next Summer Break Episodes: July 29, 2024 | 10:00am EST August 26, 2024 | 10:00am EST   ---PREMIERE PODCAST SHOW | Season 8 2024-2025 !!! YAY RETURNS September 23, 2024  | 10:00am  EST ---- Music in the background :  "Atlantans"  which is Nichel newly released songs! ;) of the Forthcoming Album "When Love Was Divine"   Nichel's Songs Now available see links below:   Support the funding dream to film her M-Film project by buying her songs Remix version only on MOLIAE.com that was mixed by Nichel own self!   Go here;  https://moliae.com/atlantans-song Atlantans - Song  | available now remix, support M-Film project ---the more rap version "We Are Atlantans" remix tba on moliae.com  -------- https://moliae.com/song    You Know Me song --------- https://moliae.com/shop Kingship song   *Support Nichel's dream to film her book the M-Film project.  Buy the songs remix: moliae.com/shop Songs are available globally but the remix of songs only available on official MOLIAE website.   --- Stream Spotify the songs;    https://ditto.fm/atlantans https://ditto.fm/we-are-atlantans https://ditto.fm/kingship-nichel-moliae https://ditto.fm/you-know-me-nichel-moliae https://ditto.fm/when-love-was-divine   ---- | Follow and Share - FOLLOW MOLIAE on Social Media & Share this! YouTube Channel - subscribe today https://www.youtube.com/moliae Instagram - Follow us, Share this: MOLIAE8 : https://www.instagram.com/moliae8 and… MOLIAEBeauty8 : https://www.instagram.com/moliaebeauty8 — Facebook https://www.facebook.com/moliae SkinCare Beauty brand for Kings and Queens https://www.faebook.com/moliaebeauty Twitter Social Page https://www.twitter.com/moliae Skincare Twitter Page: https://www.twitter.com/moliaeb  --- Become a PRIME Member on Apple Podcast of Nichel Anderson Short Story And Beyond Subscribe here. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nichel-anderson-short-stories-and-beyond/id1312722848   --- | ---- | ---- Visit Official Website: MOLIAE.com Get Nichel MOLIAE song "You Know Me" at: https://MOLIAE.com/Song  |  from the forthcoming album "When Love Was Divine" --- MOLIAE Music "When Love Was Divine" now available for download as the anticipated wait for the album. --- Buy The Book:  "Mitsrayim: A Memoir of A Past Life In Ancient Egypt" Available on Amazon.com and Barnes-n-Noble -- MOLIAE MERCH Tshirts | Support This Podcast Show - Buy Our T-shirts https://moliae.com/shop   ------- ANNOUNCEMENTS | NFTS of MOLIAE | "Pyramid Mystery Temple Reunion" | Who took the HUJTA Swords? NFTs Collection "Pyramid Mystery Temple Reunion" PMTR the MINT date is TBA. Visit official website:MOLIAEWorld.com MOLIAE Token is TBA get ready plans to be utilize on official cryptocurrency, NFTs website MOLIAEWorld.com Follow this MOLIAE Project on twitter.com/MOLIAEWorld & share it. PMTR NFTs collection is of 10,000 classmates that are pixel pyramids on Ethereum blockchain with symbolism and meaning with numerology and astrology as our ancient ancestors did so in Sumner and Ancient Egypt/Mitsrayim. In this collection theme purpose, additionally, the mystery to whom took their swords is uptmost concern, in particular, the 24 HUJTA swords (there are more swords assigned to each pyramid) when the call to vote (for whom will be task to solve the mystery that will launch another NFTs future collection "Aspu Legends of Lions" that will be in 3D) follow the storyline that is the bedrock of intrigue written by no other than the prestige Ms. Nichel Anderson creating the official MOLIAE World from her book "Mitsrayim: A Memoir of A Past Life in Ancient Egypt". The  PMTR NFTs collection Utilities Portfolio will be announce soon as when the website is available for view soon.  --- MOLIAE Comic book series episodes will be announce for the timeline before the podcast series - "The disloyalty amongst the Tribal Leaders" available on Webtoons to catch up on this saga series: Vol 1  "A Deal Was Made In The Cosmos"    ---- ------- **Begins TBA  |Get the PRIME access for the continuation of extra content of Future Series of Nahor and Princess Aamina on Substack Membership subscribe today: Sign up here:  https://moliaeworldshortstories.substack.com/   In today wonderful return bonus, we are enthralled of this lovely and beautiful memories of stories that focuses on Egyptian | Mitsrayim born; Nahor , the son of Ezri the Highest Rank Herbalist of Mitsrayim (Ancient Egypt) of the Royal Family and Palace and as well of the whole Sudan and Princes Aamina, the daughter of King Mahlon and Queen Hagar of Mitsrayim.  --TBA; You LOVING this episode "free bonus" then UPGRADE to PRIME Membership available Exclusively on Substack, sign up to get more of these short stories, special guests interviews access, Director notes and more now here:    moliaeworldshortstories.substack.com   Feed for PRIME Members of this Podcast Show: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1135361.rss Contact us at ; info@moliae.com  |  Follow : moliaeworldshortstories@substack.com Share this, follow the podcast and tune in as you support the podcast and get you a brand Tshirt at MOLIAE.com and pick up a NFT at MINT.MOLIAEWORLD.com    ---- Check Out Brand of Essential Body Oils: MOLIAE Beauty Shop: https://moliaebeauty.com   GIFT BOX KITS | You want to send Ancient Egypt in a beautiful one of a kind present treasure chest. Order our gift box kits and be like a Royal ! You remember the times.. https://moliaebeauty.com/collections/gift-box-kits   -  

City of Atlanta residents endured a water crisis over the weekend -- the result of several water main breaks. Days later, the city's response is still being scrutinized even after repairs were made. Just why did it take so long to communicate what was unfolding to weary Atlantans?On this week's Political Breakfast, Democratic strategist Tharon Johnson, Republican strategist Brian Robinson and host Lisa Rayam sort through what feels like a lifetime without water for some.Plus, a follow-up on Donald Trump's conviction on 34 felony counts in the hush-money trial in New York. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

AJC reporter Mirtha Donastorg gives the podcast an update on efforts to repair water main breaks that left hospitals, restaurants, entertainment venues, homes and apartments, and more without water over the weekend.         Then, the podcast turns to the ongoing response to Donald Trump's criminal conviction in the Manhattan hush-money case. Republicans are raging and Democrats are trying to decide how to respond. How will it affect Georgia voters?      Links to Topics       Water still gushing in Midtown as repairs, outages continue  Atlanta mayor blasted for handling of water main breaks  Areas where boil advisory remains in effect and where to get bottled water  An overview of the impact of the water main breaks  Trump guilty verdict has uncertain impact on Georgia voters  Trump's Georgia allies go to war in aftermath of verdict        Have a question for the show? Call the 24-hour Politically Georgia Podcast Hotline at 770-810-5297. We'll play back your question and answer it during the listener mailbag segment on next Friday's episode.     Listen and subscribe to our podcast for free at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also tell your smart speaker to “play Politically Georgia podcast.”      CREDITS   Executive Producer- Shane Backler  Producer- Natalie Mendenhall  Engineer- Matt McWiliams   Editor-Matt Owen  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Exclusive access to listen on the beginnings of Chris future song as he shares the music beat rhythm he initially calling Latin Vibes on Nichel's finale week of podcast show wrapping up Season 7 2023-2024. Nichel and Chris also discuss the Atlantans song and We are Atlantans as both are debuting same day May 24th.    Chris Jenkins is multi-talented engineer, rapper, and entrepreneur and socials are;   IG; @ChrisJenkinsTvg Website; ChrisJenkinstvg. YouTube; ChrisJenkinsTVG   ---

Tune in for Nichel discussing her newest two songs of her anticipated album as she breakdown the reason for the song, the message of the song, and the lyrics as well as her journey to how it all connects to her purpose.    Support the Nichel's Dream for the M-Film project you can help to raise the funds by buying the music remix by her on moliae.com/song of her song' You Know Me" and/or buy one of the MOLIAE Hoodi's or Tshirts today at moliae.com/shop --   Visit Official Website: MOLIAE.com Season 7 Podcast Episode Release Schedule 2023-2024   ---- Become a PRIME Member on Apple Podcast of Nichel Anderson Short Story And Beyond Subscribe here. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nichel-anderson-short-stories-and-beyond/id1312722848     ------- **Begins November 2023 |Get the PRIME access for the continuation of extra content of Future Series of Nahor and Princess Aamina on Substack Membership subscribe today: Sign up here:  https://moliaeworldshortstories.substack.com/   In today wonderful return bonus, we are enthralled of this lovely and beautiful memories of stories that focuses on Egyptian | Mitsrayim born; Nahor , the son of Ezri the Highest Rank Herbalist of Mitsrayim (Ancient Egypt) of the Royal Family and Palace and as well of the whole Sudan and Princes Aamina, the daughter of King Mahlon and Queen Hagar of Mitsrayim.  -- Share this, follow the podcast and tune in as you support the podcast and get you a brand Tshirt at MOLIAE.com and pick up a NFT at MINT.MOLIAEWORLD.com    --- | ---- | ---- Visit Official Website: MOLIAE.com Get Nichel MOLIAE song "You Know Me" at: https://MOLIAE.com/Song  |  from the forthcoming album "When Love Was Divine" --- MOLIAE Music "When Love Was Divine" now available for download as the anticipated wait for the album. --- Buy The Book:  "Mitsrayim: A Memoir of A Past Life In Ancient Egypt" Available on Amazon.com and Barnes-n-Noble -- MOLIAE MERCH Tshirts | Support This Podcast Show - Buy Our T-shirts https://moliae.com/shop   ------- ANNOUNCEMENTS You LOVING this episode "free bonus" then UPGRADE to PRIME Membership available Exclusively on Substack, sign up to get more of these short stories, special guests interviews access, Director notes and more now here:    moliaeworldshortstories.substack.com   Feed for PRIME Members of this Podcast Show: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1135361.rss Contact us at ; info@moliae.com  |  Follow : moliaeworldshortstories@substack.com NFTs Collection "Pyramid Mystery Temple Reunion" PMTR the MINT date is TBA. Visit official website:MOLIAEWorld.com MOLIAE Token is TBA get ready plans to be utilize on official cryptocurrency, NFTs website MOLIAEWorld.com Follow this MOLIAE Project on twitter.com/MOLIAEWorld & share it. PMTR NFTs collection is of 10,000 classmates that are pixel pyramids on Ethereum blockchain with symbolism and meaning with numerology and astrology as our ancient ancestors did so in Sumner and Ancient Egypt/Mitsrayim. In this collection theme purpose, additionally, the mystery to whom took their swords is uptmost concern, in particular, the 24 HUJTA swords (there are more swords assigned to each pyramid) when the call to vote (for whom will be task to solve the mystery that will launch another NFTs future collection "Aspu Legends of Lions" that will be in 3D) follow the storyline that is the bedrock of intrigue written by no other than the prestige Ms. Nichel Anderson creating the official MOLIAE World from her book "Mitsrayim: A Memoir of A Past Life in Ancient Egypt". The  PMTR NFTs collection Utilities Portfolio will be announce soon as when the website is available for view soon.  --- MOLIAE Comic book series episodes will be announce for the timeline before the podcast series - "The disloyalty amongst the Tribal Leaders" available on Webtoons to catch up on this saga series: Vol 1  "A Deal Was Made In The Cosmos"    ---- Check Out Brand of Essential Body Oils: MOLIAE Beauty Shop: https://moliaebeauty.com   GIFT BOX KITS | You want to send Ancient Egypt in a beautiful one of a kind present treasure chest. Order our gift box kits and be like a Royal ! You remember the times.. https://moliaebeauty.com/collections/gift-box-kits   -- FOLLOW MOLIAE on Social Media & Share this! YouTube Channel - subscribe today https://www.youtube.com/moliae Instagram - Follow us, Share this: MOLIAE8 : https://www.instagram.com/moliae8 and… MOLIAEBeauty8 : https://www.instagram.com/moliaebeauty8 — Facebook https://www.facebook.com/moliae SkinCare Beauty brand for Kings and Queens https://www.faebook.com/moliaebeauty Twitter Social Page https://www.twitter.com/moliae Skincare Twitter Page: https://www.twitter.com/moliaeb  ---

In this FINALE Season Episode, yay! #67 "Kings rule over Tiamat secures the Astar" for Season 7 2023-2024, we return from the last moment where King Mahlon back in Mitsrayim Ancient Egypt giving his speech of progress and blueprint to finding all those responsible what took place leading up to the very first Episode 1: Before The Time Of Princess Aamina of this podcast show! Many world leaders and future leaders such as the young Daniy'el | that will be the husband to Princess Aamina in later years | appeared in this episode as a very young boy of royal with his Ankui father both near the throne of Mitsrayim. We get a glimpse of young Princess Hannah the sister to Princess Aamina (not born yet) and how Princess Hannah is handling the onset returning back to beloved home country of Mitsrayim.   | What is the Astar? Why did the Great General Hanee of Orion was in search of it on Tiamat? You have to Get in the Know of prior Episodes and Seasons for some clues :) Does the Astar still stills deep in one of the hidden pyramids overseen and rule control by King Mahon, as the ruler King for intergalatical leadership of Tiamat and Mitsrayim still know where it is? If so, does the whereabouts of the Astar near the portal access and runway of starships that Nahor had access too and in Premiere Show PA1 " Future Series of Nahor and Princess Aamina (PA1) "Entering the Mystics must answer to King Mahlon? Hmmmmm....you to find out by tuning in the collection of MOLIAE Short Stories to get in the know.    | Divine Storytelling Is Giving |   Later the finale for the first time introduces Kohane in a way that he has a significant scene, he is the stepfather of Dumah ( not born yet and close suppose to be mate with Princess Aamina) in this finale will you found out their mother? In ancient times they called her Istaskal (the mother of Daniy'el and Dumah, as has they had the same mother but different father), say what? yes drama over there) nonetheless, in this FINALE Episode, this moment is important as it sets the path to find who, why two different Ankui of these brothers, Istaskal birth two royal sons. Why Istaskal traveled to Tiamat (Earth) to see King Kohane again and did she informed him for what it seems he was waiting for a long time? What was their deal way in the beginning before the time of Princess Aamina?   PowerBREAKERS. 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Visit official website:MOLIAEWorld.com MOLIAE Token is TBA get ready plans to be utilize on official cryptocurrency, NFTs website MOLIAEWorld.com Follow this MOLIAE Project on twitter.com/MOLIAEWorld & share it. PMTR NFTs collection is of 10,000 classmates that are pixel pyramids on Ethereum blockchain with symbolism and meaning with numerology and astrology as our ancient ancestors did so in Sumner and Ancient Egypt/Mitsrayim. In this collection theme purpose, additionally, the mystery to whom took their swords is uptmost concern, in particular, the 24 HUJTA swords (there are more swords assigned to each pyramid) when the call to vote (for whom will be task to solve the mystery that will launch another NFTs future collection "Aspu Legends of Lions" that will be in 3D) follow the storyline that is the bedrock of intrigue written by no other than the prestige Ms. Nichel Anderson creating the official MOLIAE World from her book "Mitsrayim: A Memoir of A Past Life in Ancient Egypt". 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Atlanta Real Estate Consultants Broker Eugene James, a seasoned professional with 30 years of experience in the real estate sector, joins host Carol Morgan for this week's Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio episode. In the newest All About Real Estate segment, James gives his opinion on where the market is headed for the rest of the year and how the recent NAR ruling has influenced it. James believes the new ruling will not affect experienced, effective real estate agents. He noted that the seller and buyer agents need strong communication when determining compensation details. When asked if the NAR ruling will make real estate agents less desirable, James made it clear that real estate agents will not be replaced and that buyers and sellers need a professional to guide them through pitfalls with such a significant investment. Recently, Atlanta reported a 50% increase in home inventory, but James still claims it's a seller's market. Home prices have not dropped despite the growth, and he predicts prices will continue to climb. James said, “Atlanta is still a hot place to live. And we still see the population growth.” Of course, this will place more pressure on the need for home inventory. The problem with new construction and housing inventory is a land and lot shortage. James says finding land is the developers' most significant challenge and will continue to be. He also shared that the resale market will remain the same unless mortgage rates go down, estimating that it will be late 2025 until home prices and mortgage rates come down. James said, “It's getting more challenging for builders to build entire communities because of government restrictions that are being put in place, even for that sector." Recently, developers reported that new zoning requirements in Paulding County add around $200,000 to each new home, which creates a significant burden for home builders and a huge price increase that homebuyers will have to absorb. This new zoning exemplifies how government regulations can negatively affect inventory. What about the Silver Tsunami? Is it real? James shared that the current housing market hasn't made the Silver Tsunami possible because if people 55+ sell their homes, they have no homes to buy, as the housing inventory hasn't met demand. Tune into the full interview above to learn more about Atlanta Real Estate Consultants, or visit https://ARECSold.com. A special thank you to Denim Marketing for sponsoring Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio. Known as a trendsetter, Denim Marketing has been blogging since 2006, podcasting since 2011 and is currently working on strategies for the Google Helpful Content update and ways to incorporate AI into sales and marketing. Contact them when you need quality, original content for social media, public relations, blogging, email marketing and promotions. A comfortable fit for companies of all shapes and sizes, Denim Marketing understands marketing strategies are not one-size-fits-all. The agency works with your company to create a perfectly tailored marketing strategy that will adhere to your specific needs and niche. Try Denim Marketing on for size by calling 770-383-3360 or by visiting www.DenimMarketing.com. The Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio “All About Real Estate" segment, presented by Denim Marketing, highlights the movers and shakers in the Atlanta real estate industry – the home builders, developers, Realtors and suppliers working to provide the American dream for Atlantans. For more information on how you can be featured as a guest, contact Denim Marketing at 770-383-3360 or fill out the Atlanta Real Estate Forum contact form. Subscribe to the Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio podcast on iTunes, and if you like this week's show, be sure to rate it.

President Stephen Haines with Artisan Built Communities joins the Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio show to discuss the builder's newest community, The Manor at Gainesville Township, Calhoun's new construction opportunities and more. Haines sits down with Carol Morgan, President of Denim Marketing and Show Host for this week's episode. With decades of experience under his belt, Haines shares invaluable insights into the journey of Artisan Built Communities and its mission to redefine living in the Atlanta area. Haines traces his roots to the industry giants and his experience working with well-known names and brands such as John Wieland, Meritage Homes and Beazer Homes. Now, at the helm of Artisan Built Communities, Haines and his team are dedicated to crafting exceptional communities that blend affordability with luxury. One of the Atlanta-based builder's standout projects, The Manor at Gainesville Township, promises an unparalleled living experience. Nestled in the foothills of Hall County, this master-planned community boasts breathtaking views, world-class amenities and a vibrant neighborhood atmosphere. The community is home to an elementary school, a new baseball park, a large pool with splash pads and a varied selection of homesites. Haines said, “We're excited that we are now expanding our footprint all over the city!” Addressing the need for affordable housing, Artisan Built Communities introduces Salacoa, a haven of luxury in Calhoun. With a focus on quality craftsmanship and thoughtful design, Salacoa offers the perfect blend of elegance and accessibility. With starting prices in the low $300,000s, Salacoa presales are set to begin in June 2024. Reminiscent of an old barn, Salacoa's clubhouse sits among rolling hills and the community's two beautiful man-made lakes. Against this breathtaking natural backdrop, a pool, splash pad and an outdoor amphitheater will be available for live performances. It's easy to see why Haines and his team at Artisan Built Communities are excited about Salacoa, as it makes luxury living attainable. Since the company's inception, pocket parks, wooded areas and walking trails have been integral to all Artisan Built Communities neighborhoods. Homebuyers love the connection the builder continues to foster with nature.  Haines said, “We do our best to connect to nature. It's in our DNA.” Now selling in Cumming,  Jason's Walk also reflects the builder's commitment to a natural environment with an amenity package featuring a dog park and wooded areas. This exciting new community redefines modern living. With proximity to essential amenities and a thriving community spirit, Jason's Walk promises to be a sought-after destination for homebuyers. Tune in to the full interview above to learn more about Artisan Built Communities, or visit www.DiscoverArtisan.com. A special thank you to Denim Marketing for sponsoring Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio. Known as a trendsetter, Denim Marketing has been blogging since 2006, podcasting since 2011 and is currently working on strategies for the Google Helpful Content update and ways to incorporate AI into sales and marketing. Contact them when you need quality, original content for social media, public relations, blogging, email marketing and promotions. A comfortable fit for companies of all shapes and sizes, Denim Marketing understands marketing strategies are not one-size-fits-all. The agency works with your company to create a perfectly tailored marketing strategy that will adhere to your specific needs and niche. Try Denim Marketing on for size by calling 770-383-3360 or by visiting www.DenimMarketing.com. The Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio “All About Real Estate" segment, presented by Denim Marketing, highlights the movers and shakers in the Atlanta real estate industry – the home builders, developers, Realtors and suppliers working to provide the American dream for Atlantans.

Gaslit Nation is recharging our batteries for the big election ahead so we're re-running a popular episode this week: Andrea's interview with Dr. Katharine Wilkinson, the co-author of All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis. Exclusively for our Patreon community we're publishing an all new bonus show this Saturday answering questions from our supporters at the Democracy Defender level and higher. Thank you to everyone who supports the show -- we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!     With so much ominous news about the climate crisis heralding the man-made apocalypse, we need leaders like the women highlighted in the must-read book All We Can Save. Co-edited by Dr. Katharine Wilkinson, climate author and teacher, and Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, marine biologist and founder of the non-profit think tank Urban Ocean Lab who promoted a Blue New Deal to save our oceans, this soul-hugging anthology provides a breathing space to wrap our hearts and our minds around solutions for healing our planet and ourselves. We cannot recommend this book enough. Dr. Wilkinson joins us for an unforgettable discussion of the climate crisis: where are we now and what must we do about it?     From the biography on her website: "Dr. Katharine Wilkinson co-founded and leads The All We Can Save Project with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, in support of women leading on climate. She also co-hosts the podcast A Matter of Degrees, telling stories for the climate curious with Dr. Leah Stokes. Previously, Dr. Wilkinson was the principal writer and editor-in-chief at Project Drawdown, where she led the organization's work to share climate solutions with audiences around the world. She speaks widely, including at National Geographic and the United Nations. Her TED Talk on climate and gender equality has more than 1.9 million views. A homegrown Atlantan, Dr. Wilkinson holds a doctorate in geography and environment from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and a BA in religion from Sewanee. Formative months spent in the Southern Appalachians, as a student at The Outdoor Academy, shaped her path. Time magazine featured Dr. Wilkinson as one of 15 'women who will save the world' and Apolitical named her one of the '100 most influential people in gender policy.' You can find her on Twitter: @DrKWilkinson. Fight for your mind! To get inspired to make art and bring your projects across the finish line, join us for the Gaslit Nation LIVE Make Art Workshop on April 11 at 7pm EST – be sure to be subscribed at the Truth-teller level or higher to get your ticket to the event!     Join the conversation with a community of listeners at Patreon.com/Gaslit and get bonus shows, all episodes ad free, submit questions to our regular Q&As, get exclusive invites to live events, and more!     Check out our new merch! Get your “F*ck Putin” t-shirt or mug today! https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/57796740-f-ck-putin?store_id=3129329     Show Notes:     Opening Clip: https://youtu.be/vXlJEcrinwg     All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis Katharine K. Wilkinson (Editor)  Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (Editor) https://bookshop.org/p/books/all-we-can-save-truth-courage-and-solutions-for-the-climate-crisis-ayana-elizabeth-johnson/18834354?ean=9780593237083

Bio -Sheila Parsons   Hello.  I'm Sheila Parsons, a 70-year-old retired federal employee, wife, mother and grandmother, raising two of my grandchildren, a 20-year-old in college and a 15-year-old in high school.  I am a native Atlantan and have lived in this area all my life. Hello.  I'm Sheila Parsons, a 70-year-old retired federal employee, wife, mother and grandmother, raising two of my grandchildren, a 20-year-old in college and a 15-year-old in high school.  I am a native Atlantan and have lived in this area all my life.   I am obsessed with Intermittent Fasting!  It's magic!  Clean fast, and the rest is magic!   o   After reading Delay Don't Deny by Gin Stephens, I began IF January 2019–5 years ago, weighing 205 lbs. o   I am 5'2” tall and currently weigh 134 lbs., maintaining 132-135 for two years.  o   Total weight loss 71 lbs. o   I wear size Small to Medium, size 8 clothes. o   I am healthy!   o   I walk and swim in summer for exercise.   o   I have so much energy!   o   I drink only black coffee, unsweetened teas and water while fasting. o   I eat whatever I want during my window, opting for mostly healthy choices.  I eat all the things, keeping it simple. No Keto, no calorie counting.  I have always hated that in previous diets, and I have tried them all.  Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, Atkins and I have taken diet pills.  I lost weight but never stayed with it and would gain all the weight back, plus some.   The Fasting Highway Our Patreon Supporters Community Please consider joining the Fasting Highway Patreon community. I strongly urge you to do so if you need more accountability and support for not a lot each month, as it is helping so many people to do that. It has become an excellent add-on to our patrons' IF lifestyle, who enjoy a lot of bonus content to support them living an IF life, and it supports me in getting the podcast out and running the Facebook group. For less than a cup of coffee a month, you can join and support your own health goals. Please go to www.patreon.com/thefastinghighway to see the benefits you get back and how to join. Private coaching by Graeme. Graeme is available on a limited basis for private one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions with you. He can help you with those burning questions about how to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. To book a time, go to the website and click Get help/coaching. www.thefastinghighway.com Graeme's book The Fasting Highway can be found at your local Amazon store in paperback and Kindle. Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast should be taken as medical advice. All content is the opinion of the host and guest only.   I am obsessed with Intermittent Fasting!  It's magic!  Clean fast and the rest is magic!   --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/graeme-currie/message