Podcasts about baltimore washington

Ed, Rob, and Jeremy took some time from Wednesday's BBMS to debate if the number 8 is the most famous number in our mid-Atlantic region. Have guys like Cal Ripken Jr., Alex Ovechkin, and Lamar Jackson made the number synonymous with the Baltimore-Washington area?

We look at Spirit Airlines exiting bankruptcy, fundamental changes at Southwest Airlines, the non-functional CVR in the Philadelphia Learjet crash, helicopter route restrictions around DCA, a bill permitting property owners to shoot down drones, the JetZero blended wing body (BWB), Sikorsky's “blown wing” VTOL, and countries looking beyond the F-35 for 5th-generation fighters. Aviation News Spirit Airlines exits bankruptcy 4 months after filing for Chapter 11 protection Spirit Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November 2024. The airline continued operations through the proceedings. Spirit has reorganized its corporate structure, converted $795 million of debt into equity, and received $350 million in new equity from existing investors. Spirit changed its fare product structure with several tiers of premium seating. Southwest Airlines Threw Away Its Biggest Selling Point—And That's Exactly Why It Had To Start Charging For Bags Gary Leff writes, “Southwest is going to charge for checked bags, start expiring flight credits, and introduce no seat assignment basic economy.” Gary says this will end Southwest's product differentiation. Also that people are going to be bringing on a lot more carry-on bags, slowing down boarding. More carry-on bags means full overhead bins and customers having to gate-check bags. NTSB - Black Box from Plane in Deadly Philly Crash Never Recorded Audio On January 31, 2025, at 1807 eastern standard time, a Learjet 55 airplane, Mexican registration XA-UCI (call sign MTS056) was destroyed when it was involved in an accident in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The two pilots, two medical crewmembers, and two passengers were fatally injured. One person on the ground was fatally injured, 4 people were seriously injured, and 20 people incurred minor injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 129 air ambulance flight. The airplane was equipped with a cockpit voice recorder (CVR). The CVR was recovered from the initial impact crater under 8 ft of soil and debris and was sent to the NTSB Vehicle Recorders Laboratory, Washington, DC, for processing and readout. The recorder displayed significant impact-related damage as well as liquid ingress. After extensive repair and cleaning, the 30-minute-long tape-based recording medium was auditioned to determine its contents. The CVR did not record the accident flight and during the audition it was determined that the CVR had likely not been recording audio for several years. NTSB: Aviation Investigation Preliminary Report, Learjet 55, Philadelphia, PA Helicopter Route Permanently Closed After Deadly Black Hawk Collision with Plane After the NTSB highlighted the number of close calls in the DCA area, the FAA has permanently restricted helicopter flights. Excluded from the helicopter restriction are presidential flights, law enforcement flights, and lifesaving missions. The FAA is looking at other airports where different aircraft types share the same air space, including Boston, New York, Baltimore-Washington, Detroit, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and Los Angeles. NTSB urges ban on some helicopter flights at Washington airport where 67 people died in midair crash The NTSB recommended a ban on some helicopter flights in the DCA area. Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said in just over three years, there were 85 close calls when a few feet (meters) in the wrong direction could have resulted in the same kind of accident. Tennessee congressman proposes allowing property owners to shotgun low-flying drones Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett has sponsored HR1907, the Defense Against Drones Act [PDF] that would allow a property owner to use a shotgun to shoot down drones flying 200 feet or lower over their property. The bill also requires the property owner to report the aircraft and its registration number to the FAA within 60 days of the drone shooting. Related: S.F.

In this episode, Paul Nixon interviews the church development directors of Baltimore Washington and Western North Carolina Conferences of the UMC: Bill Brown and Rob Hutchinson. The topic: the changing signs of church vitality in the 2020s and what should we now measure?

Cellist Amit Peled is the founder and artistic director of the Mount Vernon Virtuosi, a string orchestra of young musicians who perform free concerts in churches, synagogues, prisons, hospitals and schools throughout the Baltimore-Washington area. The Mount Vernon Virtuosi will be presenting their annual Mozart in Jeans concerts tomorrow and Sunday in Baltimore and Rockville. The Mount Vernon Virtuosi is a WYPR underwriter.Email us at midday@wypr.org, tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.

Ed and Rob took some time out of the final hour of Wednesday's show to debate who is the best athlete in the Baltimore/Washington area: Lamar Jackson, Alex Ovechkin, or Cal Ripken Jr?

In this episode Jeff is joined by Matt Barinholtz, CEO of Future Makers. They discuss the company's mission to bridge the gap between learners and educators, particularly in elementary education. Matt shares his journey from being an educator in a secure facility to founding Future Makers, emphasizing the importance of hands-on learning experiences. They explore the challenges faced by educators, the need for practical, experiential learning, and the transformative impact of creative educational approaches. Highlighting how Future Makers aims to inspire and empower young people through innovative, engineering-based educational experiences.   About Matt He exists to spark hands-on learning.  His work connects learners, educators, and youth workers to traditional skills, creative technologies, and serious play. From his roots as a visual artist and maker serving underserved and disenfranchised youth, Matt spent a decade as an unconventional vocational educator and leader making shop-based learning available to homeless and incarcerated youth. Matt is proud of his midwestern roots, loves Baltimore, and believes small hands with big ideas deserve opportunities to explore, make things to keep, and the support of confident, caring, and playful educators.    About Future Maker  Seeing the opportunity to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline, Matt founded FutureMakers to help elementary educators confidently integrate tools and hands-on learning in historically underserved classrooms across the Baltimore-Washington corridor.     Matt's Top 5 Albums/Artists  The Ink Spots - If I Didn't Care. Take Five Steely Dan - Asia Joni Mitchell The Flamingos-  I only have eyes for you   Learn more about Matt at http://www.mattbarinholtz.com.   Follow us on social media: IG: @capitalismtheremix LinkedIn

Disgraceful Coaching change in New York to start the weekSwag and Surf Kirk! Cousins goes for 500+ in Big W!Vikings D playing Super Bowl level to start 5-0!Baltimore Washington win to set up mouth watering Week 6 clashTrash - Cinci Defence costing Bengals any chance of relevance this yearQ Time - Will Bo Nix continue hot start in Denver??Week 6 Preview - Will it live up to brilliant Week 5?!Week 6 Best Bets

Ready to learn the history, philosophy, and practice of an experienced professional in the test prep industry? MEET OUR GUEST Meet Mike Settele, the founder of Settele Tutoring, an SAT prep company that specializes in creating user-friendly SAT resources. Mike has published thousands of hours of SAT lessons on his YouTube channel, which are watched every day by students around the world. Mike began his SAT career while an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University, where he studied political science and philosophy. He started as a Writing section tutor for Capital Educators, a test prep company that runs courses in the Baltimore-Washington metro area. After graduating, Mike became a full-time program director for Capital Educators, but he eventually found his true passion helping to create their curriculum for the new SAT in 2016.  Once the new test was released, Mike moved to Los Angeles and founded Settele Tutoring, shifting his focus to private tutoring so that he would have time to create new SAT materials. He has since published the “SAT Packets” study guides for both the Reading and Math sections of the exam, with new editions coming soon for the digital SAT. In fact, when he's not tutoring, Mike can often be found sitting on Santa Monica Beach, writing SAT questions. Find Mike at https://setteletutoring.com/ or his YouTube SAT channel. ABOUT THIS PODCAST Tests and the Rest is THE college admissions industry podcast. Explore all of our episodes on the show page. ABOUT YOUR HOSTS Mike Bergin is the president of Chariot Learning and founder of TestBright. Amy Seeley is the president of Seeley Test Pros. If you're interested in working with Mike and/or Amy for test preparation, training, or consulting, feel free to get in touch through our contact page.  

In this episode of Cancer Registry World, we delve into the arena of legislation and advocacy as these topics relate to important issues for cancer registries and Oncology Data Specialists. The Counting Veterans Cancer Act, discussed in this segment, was signed into law on March 9, 2024. Linda Corrigan, MHE, RHIT, ODS-C, is Manager of Cancer Registry & Accreditation at the University of Maryland's Baltimore Washington Medical Center and a leader on the NCRA Advocacy Committee. Linda is joined by Adam Ebbin, a Public Policy & Strategy Consultant working with the National Cancer Registrars Association. Please enjoy listening and learning!

In this episode of the Brawn Body Health and Fitness Podcast, Dan is joined by Dr. Gerard "Gerry" Gioia to discuss the evolution of concussion management and the developmental readiness model of care. Gerard Gioia, Ph.D., is the director of the Safe Concussion Outcome, Recovery & Education (SCORE) Program at Children's National Hospital. He is a professor at George Washington University School of Medicine. He directs the Neurobehavioral Core research laboratories for Children's National's Clinical and Translational Science Institute and the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center. Dr. Gioia treats persons and families with brain injuries with dual areas of interest in disorders involving the executive functions and pediatric concussion/ mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). He has been the Principal Investigator of several multi-site CDC-funded research studies of pediatric mild TBI with a focus on the development of methods/tools for the evaluation of the executive functions and post-concussion neuropsychological functioning. He has developed several smartphone apps, Concussion Recognition & Response and Concussion Assessment and Response (CARE Sport), the Acute Concussion Evaluation (ACE) and ACE Care Plan, a pediatric neurocognitive test for concussion, and post-concussion symptom scales for children and parents. He works closely with the CDC on their “Heads Up” concussion educational programs, as a contributing author to the toolkits. Dr. Gioia has been an active participant in the 2004, 2008, and 2012 International Concussion in Sport Group Consensus meetings, and was on the American Academy of Neurology Sports Concussion Guideline Author panel. He is the team neuropsychologist for the NHL's Washington Capitals and the NFL's Baltimore Ravens, school systems, and numerous youth sports organizations in the Baltimore-Washington region. He consults with the local and National Governing Organizations of ice hockey, lacrosse, football, rugby and soccer related to concussion management and is on the Medical Advisory Committee for USA Football and the National Advisory Board of the Positive Coaching Alliance. For more on Dr. Gioia, be sure to check out https://appointments.childrensnational.org/provider/Gerard+Anthony+Gioia/2360199 & https://research.childrensnational.org/people/gerard-gioia *SEASON 5 of the Brawn Body Podcast is brought to you by Isophit. For more on Isophit, please check out isophit.com and @isophit **Be sure to check out the NEW Brawn Body website by clicking here: brawn-body.com Episode Sponsors: MoboBoard: BRAWNBODY10 saves 10% at checkout! AliRx: DBraunRx = 20% off at checkout! https://alirx.health/ MedBridge: https://www.medbridgeeducation.com/brawn-body-training or Coupon Code "BRAWN" for 40% off your annual subscription! CTM Band: https://ctm.band/collections/ctm-band coupon code "BRAWN10" = 10% off! PurMotion: "brawn" = 10% off!! GOT ROM: https://www.gotrom.com/a/3083/5X9xTi8k Red Light Therapy through Hooga Health: hoogahealth.com coupon code "brawn" = 12% off Ice shaker affiliate link: https://www.iceshaker.com?sca_ref=1520881.zOJLysQzKe Training Mask: "BRAWN" = 20% off at checkout https://www.trainingmask.com?sca_ref=2486863.iestbx9x1n Make sure you SHARE this episode with a friend who could benefit from the information we shared! Check out everything Dan is up to, including blog posts, fitness programs, and more by clicking here: https://linktr.ee/brawnbodytraining Liked this episode? Leave a 5-star review on your favorite podcast platform! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daniel-braun/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daniel-braun/support

In this conversation, Thomas Stanley, Ph.D., interviews spoken word recording artist Ursula Rucker.    Thomas Stanley is an artist, author, and activist deeply committed to audio culture in the service of personal growth and social change. As performer and curator, Bushmeat Sound has been an integral part of a visionary music scene straddling the Baltimore-Washington corridor. His audio work employs musical sound to anchor, frame, and accelerate our subjective experience of history.   Ursula Rucker is an interdisciplinary poet, performer, and recording artist whose work reflects on personal history, family, and place. She characterizes her work as situated “along the edge of the terrains of poetry.” Dr. Stanley's conversation with Ursula explores culture, world issues, and how it affects art and expression.  This podcast is an extension of TORRENTS: New Links to Black Futures, an artist-led program exploring new territories in Black future-building through visual arts, technology, music, film, and performance.  This conversation was partly supported by The Kennedy Center's Office for Social Impact, partnership with Art in Transit, The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, and The Humanities DC's Visions Grant.  Learn more about Torrents: New Links to Black Futures on our website: ⁠culturaldc.org/torrents⁠ ⁠culturaldc.org⁠ ⁠@cultural_dc Edited and mixed by ⁠Zeos Greene⁠

Today's conversation is between Thomas Stanley, Ph.D., and Alex Zamalin. Thomas Stanley is an artist, author, and activist deeply committed to audio culture in the service of personal growth and social change. As performer and curator, Bushmeat Sound has been an integral part of a visionary music scene straddling the Baltimore-Washington corridor. His audio work employs musical sound to anchor, frame, and accelerate our subjective experience of history. Dr. Stanley interviews professor and author Alex Zamalin to discuss themes of his book Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism.  This podcast is an extension of TORRENTS: New Links to Black Futures, an artist-led program exploring new territories in Black future-building through visual arts, technology, music, film, and performance.  This conversation was partly supported by The Kennedy Center's Office for Social Impact, partnership with Art in Transit, The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, and The Humanities DC's Visions Grant.  Learn more about Torrents: New Links to Black Futures on our website: culturaldc.org/torrents culturaldc.org @cultural_dc Edited and mixed by Zeos Greene

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Scott Shane joins Midday.  He retired from the New York Times in 2019, and dove into a very different kind of project: a book that tells the story of the extraordinary Thomas Smallwood. Born into slavery, Smallwood purchased his freedom and helped hundreds of other enslaved people escape their bondage in the Baltimore-Washington area. Along the way, Smallwood coined the term “underground railroad.” Shane details the life of Smallwood in his book, Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland.Email us at midday@wypr.org, tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.

In the latest episode of Nopixafterdark podcast, Aaron sits down with Brian D. Pennick, CEO of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield. The conversation touches on a variety of topics, including the importance of community and transportation, as well as CareFirst's role as an anchor in the Baltimore Washington region. Did you also know that Brian was a DJ back in the day, spinning tracks at roller skate rinks in Philadelphia? Check out this fascinating episode, available now on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify. Don't miss out! Brian D. Pieninck is the President and CEO of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShielc multi-line, not-for-profit healthcare company. Brian embodies CareFirst's mi leading over 8,000 individuals dedicated to transforming the healthcare syst more equitable, affordable and accessible to the 3.5 million individuals and across Maryland, Washington, D.C. and Virginia. Brian's community involven centers on equitably advancing opportunities at the intersection of health an economic wellbeing throughout the mid-Atlantic region, a personal investm and expertise that closely aligns with CareFirst's mission. He is the Board Ch Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Board of Directors, Chairman of the Boar Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH). Additionally, he is an activ of several boards, including Federal Employee Program Board of Managers, Baltimore Committee, Baltimore's Promise, BCS Financial Corporation, Grea Washington Partnership, Synergie Medication Collective, the Greater Washir Board of Trade, the United Way of the National Capital Area, and a member Morgan State University Board of Regents. Brian holds a B.S. in Business Stu Business Administration from Southern New Hampshire University and is a Leadership Maryland's Class of 2016. A native of Southeastern Pennsylvania his family currently reside in Baltimore County, Maryland.    

RadioOnFire.TV - How far does ‘absolute immunity' go? Trump's lawyer argues for incredible Judge rescinds permission for Trump to give his own closing argument at his civil fraud trial. Christie announces at New Hampshire town hall that he's ending presidential bid. Gun captures at Baltimore-Washington airports increased by 18% in 2023. Become a Member: https://onfire-tv.com/join/ Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/djdiamondk/membership Explore the podcast: https://linktr.ee/thediamondkshow Book Diamond K: djdiamondk@gmail.com

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Scott Shane joins Midday. He worked for 36 years with the New York Times and, before that, with the Baltimore Sun.  Shane is the author of an award-winning book, Objective Troy: A Terrorist, A President and the Rise of the Drone.   He retired from the Times in 2019, and dove into a very different kind of project: a book that tells the story of the extraordinary Thomas Smallwood. Born into slavery, Smallwood purchased his freedom and helped hundreds of other enslaved people escape their bondage in the Baltimore-Washington area. He capped off these successful escapes by taunting slave holders in print. Along the way, Smallwood coined the term “underground railroad.” Scott Shane has written a compelling, assiduously researched and eye-popping book that I hope will catapult Thomas Smallwood out of obscurity, and into the light of recognition he richly deserves. It's called Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland.Email us at midday@wypr.org, tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.

Learn about the rich Hispanic communities in the greater Baltimore-Washington from Isa Carrizales - nutritionist on the Healthy Living team. She'll share local inspired dishes, her top picks when you want to try something new and ways to earn more Flexible Rewards this Month on top Latin Products.  Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated Mid-September to Mid-October. Show Notes: Check out:  Isa's Hispanic Heritage Recipes on Tik Tok    Hispanic Heritage 400 Flexible Rewards Offer I Giant Food Shop Hispanic and Latin Products I Giant Food Connect with Isa: Vida Saludable | Giant (giantfood.com) Recipes:  Recipes That Can Help You Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, Mexican Inspired Recipes, El Salvador Inspired Recipes Hispanic Heritage Month - Origins & Facts | HISTORY

Monday June 26 2023 Storm Prediction Center

Welcome to episode 6 of 15 in my Pharmacist Authors Series!  My guest is Tony Guerra, PharmD.  Join us as we discuss his Pharmacist Residency and Career Series (8 books).  Stay tuned until the VERY end of the episode to hear Tony narrate a sample from Book 1 in the series.   Thank you for listening to episode 225 of The Pharmacist's Voice ® Podcast! To read the FULL show notes, visit https://www.thepharmacistsvoice.com/podcast.  Click on episode 225. Subscribe to or follow The Pharmacist's Voice ® Podcast to get each episode delivered to your podcast player and YouTube each time a new one comes out.   Apple Podcasts   https://apple.co/42yqXOG  Google Podcasts  https://bit.ly/3J19bws  Spotify  https://spoti.fi/3qAk3uY  Amazon/Audible  https://adbl.co/43tM45P YouTube https://bit.ly/43Rnrjt Bio  Tony Guerra, PharmD, originally from the Baltimore-Washington corridor, has combined creative writing work with his experience to author over 30 books.  He's either written and/or produced books in four major categories, pharmacology, pharmacotherapy, career/residency, and professional school admissions and interviews. He has taught college pharmacology and chemistry for over a decade and a half and lives in Ankeny, Iowa, with his wife Mindy and triplet daughters Brielle, Rianne, and Teagan. You can work with him at https://residency.teachable.com/courses/ or hear his podcasts at pharmacy.libsyn.com and memorizing.libsyn.com  Highlights from our interview Tony is an English major. His expertise is in writing and helping people tell their story.  He's more of a writing expert than than a residency expert.  Tony helps pharmacy students one-on-one write a Letter of Intent.  The goal is to find a pharmacist residency that's a good fit.  According to Tony, it's very hard for pharmacists to talk about themselves and to do a “humble brag."  The audience for this 8-part books series is pharmacy students, namely P2's for 3-year programs and P3's for 4-year programs.  Students, read these books as you start those years of school! Tony loves audiobooks, and he understands the need for them for his readers.  However, depending on the length of the book, Tony sometimes hires narrators instead of narrating the books himself.  Tune in to hear his advice for pharmacist authors who want to narrate their own audiobooks.   Pharmacist Residency and Career Series (8 books) amazon.com links The Strong Residency Letter of Intent: Writing to Be Interviewed with a Cover Letter that Earns the Invite (Pharmacist Residency and Career Series Book 1)  by Tony Guerra Residency Interview Help: In Case of Interview Invitation, Break Glass (Pharmacist Residency and Career Series Book 2) by Tony Guerra https://bit.ly/44876qx  100 Strong Residency Interview Questions, Answers, and Rationales for the Residency Match (Pharmacist Residency and Career Series Book 3) by Brandon Dyson and Tony Guerra (audiobook available)  Phone Interview Survival Tips: Job Interview Questions and Answers for Introverts and Extroverts (Pharmacist Residency and Career Series Book 4) by Tony Guerra Crushing the Phase 2 Pharmacy Residency Match: Proven Tactics to Earn a Clinical Pharmacist Training Position (Pharmacist Residency and Career Series Book 5) by Tony Guerra Finding Your Unicorn Job for Pharmacists: Financial Freedom, Flexible Hours, and Personal Fulfillment Beyond the Pharmacy Counter (Pharmacist Residency and Career Series Book 6) by Tony Guerra READ THIS BEFORE PHARMACY RESIDENCY: The Right Moves on the Road to a Residency Match (Pharmacist Residency and Career Series Book 7) by Tony Guerra, Chase DiMarco, and Gene Rodden Strong Ambulatory Care Residency Letter of Intent: Writing Cover Letters that Earn Multiple Interview Invites (Pharmacist Residency and Career Series Book 8) by Callie Abramowitz and Tony Guerra Links from this episode The Pharmacist's Voice ® Podcast Episode 156 featuring Tony Guerra, PharmD Pharmacy Residency Podcast

What are your thoughts on the 23 churches leaving?

Podcast host Casey Callanan talks with serial entrepreneur, Dimitrios "Dimitri" Topaltzas, owner of the new Venture X Columbia East co-working space in Maryland. Dimitri discusses his entrepreneurial journey and his latest mission of empowering the emerging crop of small business leaders in the Baltimore-Washington region. This podcast is a production of Clear Contender, LLC. VentureX: https://venturex.com/locations/columbia-east/ Clear Contender: https://www.clearcontender.com More Small Business Leadership Report Podcasts: https://www.clearcontender.com/leadership

This episode features Jason Carter, Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer at University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center. Here, he discusses his background, the evolution of the COO role, what issues he's currently focusing on, and more.

On today's episode, we speak with yoga therapist, editorial director and author, Laurie Hyland Robertson, about the benefits of both yoga and yoga therapy as they relate to the whole system.After more than a decade in scientific, healthcare, and business publishing, Laurie found her way to the transformational practices of yoga and then yoga therapy. She is now editorial director for the International Association of Yoga Therapists, where she serves as editor-in-chief of Yoga Therapy Today magazine and managing editor of the International Journal of Yoga Therapy. She co-edited Yoga Therapy Foundations, Tools, and Practice, a comprehensive textbook for graduate-level yoga trainings, and co-authored the popular book Understanding Yoga Therapy: Applied Philosophy and Science for Health and Well-Being. Combined with her 20-plus-year publishing career, Laurie's additional experience as co-owner of Whole Chiropractic gives her unique perspectives on healthcare systems and clinical care. She maintains a private practice as a yoga therapist the Baltimore-Washington area, where she owns Whole Yoga & Pilates. In the Adjusted Reality podcast, well-known athletes, celebrities, actors, chiropractors, influencers in the wellness industry, and other podcasters will talk with host Dr. Sherry McAllister, president, F4CP, about their experiences with health and wellness. As a special gift for listening today visit f4cp.org/health to get a copy of our mind, body, spirit eBook which focuses on many ways to optimize your health and the ones you love without the use of drugs or surgery. Follow Adjusted Reality on Instagram. Find A Doctor of Chiropractic Near You.

Religious difference is integral to life in the United States. Each religious tradition and community exists within a mosaic of cultural, historical, social, ethnic, and racial contexts. Trying to find the balance and create an urgency for interreligious pluralism is not a mission that many would choose to take on willingly, but this week we speak with a person who works for such an organization that has made it their goal to do just that.  Heather Miller Rubens is the Executive Director and Roman Catholic Scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies (ICJS). She is responsible for advancing the organization's vision to build an interreligious society in which dialogue replaces division, friendship overcomes fear, and education eradicates ignorance. The Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies (ICJS) believe engaging religious difference is necessary and transformative. The ICJS works to dismantle religious bias and bigotry to foster an interreligious society in which dialogue replaces division, friendship overcomes fear, and education eradicates ignorance. Through courses, fellowships, online events, and scholarship initiatives, ICJS builds learning communities where religious difference becomes a powerful force for good. ICJS is an independent 501c3 nonprofit organization. More information is at icjs.org.The Urgency of Interreligious Pluralism: https://icjs.org/resource/the-urgency-of-interreligious-pluralism/Guest Bio:Heather Miller Rubens is the Executive Director and Roman Catholic Scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies (ICJS). She is responsible for advancing the organization's vision to build an interreligious society in which dialogue replaces division, friendship overcomes fear, and education eradicates ignorance. Rubens is an experienced teacher, public speaker, facilitator, and practitioner of interreligious learning and dialogue. She develops educational initiatives that foster interreligious learning and conversation for the public in the Baltimore-Washington corridor and online. Rubens is a member of the Committee on Ethics, Religion and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a board member of the Washington Theological Consortium, and an invited member of the Christian Scholars Group. She has served in leadership positions with the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations and the Catholic Theological Society of America. She is a member of the 2019 Class of The Baltimore Leadership. Rubens holds degrees from Georgetown University (B.A.), the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (G.Dip.), and the University of Chicago (A.M. and Ph.D.). In her research and writing Rubens creatively focuses on the theoretical, theological, ethical, and political implications of affirming religious diversity and building an interreligious society.Support the showTo learn more about the show, contact our hosts, or recommend future guests, click on the links below: Website: https://www.faithfulpoliticspodcast.com/ Faithful Host: Josh@faithfulpoliticspodcast.com Political Host: Will@faithfulpoliticspodcast.com Twitter: @FaithfulPolitik Instagram: faithful_politics Facebook: FaithfulPoliticsPodcast LinkedIn: faithfulpolitics

THANK YOU 40 Euros were collected and will be fully given to the producers in this podcast thanks to Aslice platform. Thanks again for your support. To support the Techno scene, we have set up a tip system that will allow you to give a contribution to the producers present in this podcast (full tracklist in description below) https://tiptopjar.com/udwr 100% of the revenues (minus the Paypal commissions) will be equally given to the producers via the Aslice platform (www.aslice.com), U.D.W.[r] will not make any profit from this campaign. It is important that we, music lovers, can develop a fairer ecosystem for the suppliers of raw materials that are the producers. Thank you for your support. Please welcome this week 2psyched | Dj and producer from Austin, U.S.A. SC: @2psyched IG: www.instagram.com/2psyched_/ FB: www.facebook.com/2psychedofficial TW: https://twitter.com/2psyched_ Born and raised in the Baltimore - Washington area, attributing his foundation to growing up listening to a wide range of genres and working as a night club promoter, electronic artist producer. 2psyched is currently based in Austin, Texas. A psychiatric registered nurse by trade, playing his first gig at The Oven, ATX and regularly releasing mixes on Soundcloud, YouTube and Mixcloud. Label/podcast series owner of: Required Noise, curating an eclectic catalog of electronic music and DJ mixes that strive to serve as the therapeutic driver. Thanks for listening and supporting! TRACKLIST: Sour Taste (2psyched Remix) - Patrick Jergo (@user-330229850) https://requirednoise.bandcamp.com/album/sour-taste Label: @requirednoise Innocent Party - Isca Nublar (@isca-nublar) https://www.beatport.com/release/innocent-party/3930351 Label: @solid-capsule-records Super Sonic - Tintin (@tintinbeatz) https://www.beatport.com/track/super-sonic/16816037 Label: @sintetics Dance - Duniz (@duniz-music) https://www.beatport.com/track/dance/17233655 Label: @solid-capsule-records Things To Do When I Am With You - Alessandro (COL) (@alejandroperez98) https://www.beatport.com/track/things-to-do-when-i-am-with-you/17152430 Label: @tnrmedia Dirac - A.Paul/DJ Dextro (@a-paul/ @djdextro ) https://www.beatport.com/track/dirac/17273126 Label: @sessionwombtokyo I Got This - Kashpitzky (@kashpitzky) https://www.beatport.com/track/i-got-this/17146553 Label: @beasoneimprint Analog - Binny (@binnytechno) https://www.beatport.com/track/analog/17106034 Label: @mindcut-music Direction - Tenzella (@tenzellamusic) https://www.beatport.com/track/direction/15024161 @wearethebraveofficial Spherical (Sone @brian-s Remix) - Milkplant ( @from0to1 ) https://www.beatport.com/track/spherical/5957478 Label: @from0to1 Student - Mossed (@mossedmuzik) https://www.beatport.com/track/student/17248583 Label: @rekktormusic Agony - Das Ton (@das-ton) https://www.beatport.com/track/agony/17125838 Label: @solid-capsule-records Conduction - Steam Shape (@steamshape) https://www.beatport.com/track/conduction/15392478 Label: @off-recordings Gstaad - Bidoben (@bidoben) https://www.beatport.com/track/gstaad/16104888 Label: @truncate

Today I am flying solo! Many of you have requested that I do more solo episodes, so today I will be discussing all things ADVERSITY. Overcoming adversity is always one of the most highly requested topics for the podcast. In today's episode, I share with you nine things you must do when facing adversity so that you can use adversity to your advantage and become a better version of yourself after the challenging situation is behind you. These nine things will also become a valuable toolbox for the next time you face a hardship or obstacle in life. Remember, adversity is a muscle, and the more you work it healthily, the stronger it makes you!  What to Listen For:   00:00 Intro 01:26 How to develop self awareness 11:26 Your habits will make or break you 17:00 Acceptance is so important 20:34 Change your perspective 22:02 Accountability and responsibility  24:26 The conversation that changed my life 28:59 Accountability builds trust 32:29 3 types of people to avoid 36:23 Who should you spend time with? 40:44 Optimize your mental and physical health 45:22 The non-physical benefits of going to the gym 50:00 Pay attention to what you consume 52:47 Spend time learning 56:11 Spirituality  58:26 I was addicted to external validation 1:00:47 Healing from my past 1:04:30 Believing in the unseen 1:08:50 Being of service 1:10:26 One day at a time 1:14:35 Focus on how far you have come Thanks to today's sponsors:   BTR trucks: The leading commercial truck company in the Baltimore Washington region. BTR does everything a commercial truck user would ever need including repairs, routine maintenance, body work and inspections. If you are in the Baltimore Washington area and you or a loved one needs help with your truck, reach out to BTR at 410-691-9882 or check out their website at www.btrtrucks.com. ⚠ WELLNESS DISCLAIMER ⚠ Please be advised; the topics related to mental health in my content are for informational, discussion, and entertainment purposes only. The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your mental health professional or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding your current condition. Never disregard professional advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard from your favorite creator, on social media, or shared within content you've consumed.   If you are in crisis or you think you may have an emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately.   If you do not have a health professional who is able to assist you, use these resources to find help:   Emergency Medical Services—911 If the situation is potentially life-threatening, get immediate emergency assistance by calling 911, available 24 hours a day.   National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org.    SAMHSA addiction and mental health treatment Referral Helpline, 1-877-SAMHSA7 (1-877-726-4727) and https://www.samhsa.gov  

Give us about fifteen minutes a day, and we will give you all the local news, local sports, local weather, and local events you can handle.   SPONSORS: Many thanks to our sponsors... Annapolis Subaru, the SPCA of Anne Arundel County,  Solar Energy Services, Hospice of the Chesapeake,  and Alpha Engineering. Today... Cherry Blossom predictions are out! County Executive Pittman gave away a million dollars to 41 local non-profits. We spilled the beans on the entertainment at Bands in the Sand this June 10th..and we're pretty happy that CBF asked us to do it again! MGM National Harbor is the top casino in the country outside of Vegas and Baltimore-Washington is the third largest gaming market following Vegas and Atlantic City. Several local firms made Inc. Magazine's list of fastest-growing firms in the Mid-Atlantic region. Of course, we also have some pod news for you as well! Back with her weekly Annapolis After Dark is BeeprBuzz. She'll keep you up to speed on all of the fantastic live music we have in the area! And as usual, George from DCMDVA Weather is here with your local weather forecast! Please download their APP so you can keep on top of the local weather scene! The Eye On Annapolis Daily News Brief is produced every Monday through Friday at 6:00 am and available wherever you get your podcasts and also on our social media platforms--All Annapolis and Eye On Annapolis (FB) and @eyeonannapolis (TW) NOTE: For hearing impaired subscribers, a full transcript is available on Eye On Annapolis

Today's guest is Robert Greene. Robert is the author of the NY Times bestsellers The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law, Mastery, & The Laws of Human Nature. In this episode, Robert and I chat about  why it's important to understand your emotions, why success is more dangerous than failure, how to read nonverbal communication cues and body language to determine if someone actually likes you, the dark side of human nature, the importance of protecting your reputation, how to overcome adversity and much more.      What to Listen For:   00:00 Intro 01:28 3 Most important principles from Robert's books 07:00 Understanding your emotions 11:44 Robert's near death experience 18:30 How to overcome adversity   23:22 Why the 48th law of power is so important  27:55 Why does Robert struggle with feeling inferior? 32:05 Success is more dangerous than failure 36:56 Protect your reputation at all costs (5th law of power) 41:07 Nonverbal communication and body language 46:46 How to tell if someone actually likes you  51:53 What does Robert think of me? 55:42 What types of people should you stay away from? 1:00:46 How to tell if someone is lying to you 1:04:37 Master your dark side 1:11:11 Robert's live event with Ryan Holiday   Thanks to this episode's sponsor:   BTR trucks and service: the leading commercial truck company in the Baltimore Washington region. BTR does everything a commercial truck user would ever need including repairs, routine maintenance, body work and inspections. If you are in the Baltimore Washington area and you or a loved one needs help with your truck, reach out to BTR at 410-691-9882 or check out their website at www.btrtrucks.com. Episode Resources:   Connect with Robert   Instagram Website Books Attend Robert Greene & Ryan Holiday's LIVE event   Follow me on Social Media: LinkedIn Instagram Twitter  

What you'll learn in this episode: How dyscalculia changed Michele's path in jewelry for the better Why Michele lets her hands guide her artistic process, and how she embraced her style of working Why jewelry artists don't need to make their work smaller or more palatable to find a customer base How the Little Rock, Arkansas art scene compares to the rest of the country How Michele uses her jewelry to connect with patients About Michele Cottler-Fox Michele Cottler-Fox is a physician jeweler, with a studio practice focusing on translating fiber techniques to metal, primarily crochet, knitting, and twining, and often incorporating found objects to tell a story. She was one of four metal artists chosen for the Heavy Metal exhibit by the Arkansas committee for the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Additional Resources: Instagram Photos available on TheJeweleryJourney.com Transcript:   Physician-jeweler Michele Cottler-Fox struggled with dyscalculia—a math learning disability—as a child. When she began to study jewelry, she found math-heavy jewelry fabrication methods and measurements nearly impossible to understand. But instead of stopping her jewelry career in its tracks, this disadvantage pushed Michele to make her freeform crocheted metal designs. She joined the Jewelry Journey Podcast to talk about how she embraced her creative process; where her career as a physician and her career as a jewelry artist intersect; and why she loves crocheted designs.   Sharon: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Jewelry Journey Podcast. This is the first part of a two-part episode. Please make sure you subscribe so you can hear part two as soon as it's released later this week.    I am pleased to welcome Michele Fox to the Jewelry Journey Podcast. I've gotten to know Michele through several of the trips we've taken as part of Art Jewelry Forum. In addition to making very unusual jewelry, Michele is a physician who now works part time at the University of Arkansas Medical Center. We'll learn all about her jewelry journey today. Michele, welcome to the program.   Michele: Thank you for having me, Sharon.   Sharon: I'm so glad. It's great to have a chance to talk to you uninterrupted. Tell us about your jewelry journey. Were you artistic as a child? Did you know you wanted to be a doctor?   Michele: I come from a family where women didn't sit with idle hands. My grandmother taught me to crochet and knit before I was six years old. I can remember very clearly her saying to me, “Don't ever crochet. You do not know how to count properly.” I put the crochet hook away at an early age, picked up the needles and never looked back. I taught myself to embroider and to do needlepoint, but my family, for the most part, never thought about me as being a creative type. I did have a great aunt, very much an Auntie Mame type of person, who was a dress designer. She thought I was creative and tried very hard to encourage me, but the rest of the family, being engineers and physicians, they won.   Sharon: So, your family was more science oriented.   Michele: Very much.   Sharon: Can you tell us about your jewelry education? Did you go to GIA? What did your jewelry education entail?   Michele: I was self-taught from the beginning almost to the end. I grew up in a family where jewelry was the gift of preference for all special events. My father had worked as a teenager in an import/export business, so he knew many of the people involved in stone cutting and stone selling in New York City. I would tag along with him as a kid when he went to say hi. One of my favorite experiences was meeting a man who sold opals and being allowed to choose my own gift from everything in the case. It was overwhelming. While being seven or eight years old, there was a little glass bubble filled with opal chips and liquid that hung from a pendant. I still have it.    Sharon: Wow! And you still have it. Do you wear it? I haven't seen it, I don't think.   Michele: I pretty much stopped wearing anything around my neck when I began working in the hospital full time. Necklaces have a tendency to go straight down into patient's faces which when you are trying to listen to their lungs or their heart.   Sharon: Were you attracted to glittery things besides this case?   Michele: I loved stones. I loved the color and the shape and the light when you move them. In fact, after graduate school, I took a class learning to cut stones and to polish them. I ran up against the fact that I'm both dyslexic and dyscalculic, which means measuring and numbers are very difficult for me. Although I could polish stones beautifully and evenly, I could never figure out the faceting machine. So, I gave that up.    Sharon: Did you want to be a maker after school?   Michele: I thought for many years that I wanted to be a maker of some sort, but there was really no time to go to school. So, I started designing jewelry and trying to find people to make it for me. There were a lot of gold and silversmiths in the Baltimore/ Washington area. I would look at what was available at the ACC Baltimore Craft Show and try to find a maker from my area who was showing there and talk them into making something for me. I rather rapidly learned that describing what you want to someone when you don't understand what's involved leads to some major disasters.   Sharon: That's a really interesting idea. I never thought of that. It seems like on this side of the country, there's not much going on.   I met you through Art Jewelry Forum, so I've only seen you be attracted to what I would call avant garde jewelry. What attracted you to that?   Michele: It was a very slow shift from classic jewelry onwards. I had exposure to good design from makers sold by Tiffany and Georg Jensen as a child and teenager. I didn't know at the time that I was seeing Georg's work and very famous Scandinavian gold and silversmiths. My husband and I lived in Sweden after I had a degree in research biology and before I went to medical school, and I discovered that all the things I liked best were Scandinavian. So, I started learning about classic Scandinavian jewelry while we lived there.    When I came back to the States after medical school, I started looking for galleries and more modern makers in the Baltimore/Washington area. I was very fortunate in meeting a gallerist who had a gallery at the time in Baltimore called Oxoxo, which no longer exists. The gallerist retired many years ago, but I would stop in on my way home after a Saturday on call at the hospital and she'd let me play. I would try everything on in the gallery. I would always find the one thing that wasn't properly made. I'd say, “How does this work?” and then it would break in my hands, to the point where I felt I was a disaster. But the gallerist had a different take on it. She said, “You need to come the night before I open a show and try everything because then I'll find the one thing that isn't going to work. I wouldn't have it in the show to scare people.” We got to be good friends, and she helped educate me about what I was looking at and the makers. One day she said, “You have such good ideas about what you're looking at. You really need to learn how to make something like this,” but there was no time. The Maryland Institute College of Art, MICA, was literally visible from my office window in the hospital, but there was no time to go, which was very frustrating.   Then I was offered a job in Little Rock and took it. I suddenly discovered I had three hours a day in my life that I never had before because I was no longer commuting. There was a night school attached to the art center, and I started to take classes. Again, I came head-to-head with the fact that I'm dyscalculic, which means I can't measure worth a darn and I can't count, so fabrication drove me crazy. I couldn't stand it. So, I stopped taking classes and I thought, “All right, I'm just going to figure this out on my own.”   I was home sick one weekend. I had a spool of wire I had bought for something that didn't work, and I had crochet hooks and knitting needles at the side of the bed because that's what I did when I was home alone. I thought, “I wonder,” and I picked up the spool of wire, which was silver. I threaded on some random beads and started to crochet, and the necklace self-assembled. I had no idea what I was doing, but my hands made something that was beautiful and wearable, and I thought, “O.K., I've got to do more of this.” I still have that necklace, which is amethyst beads on silver wire.   Sharon: You thought it was so beautiful. Did you consider selling it? What happened?   Michele: Absolutely. Selling started as an accident, as most good things in my life have been. I walked into a local gallery, and the gal behind the counter—who was the owner, it turned it out—looked at what I was wearing, my own work, and said, “Do you sell your work?” I said, “Well, I'd like to. Why?” She said, “I want to carry it.” So, I gave her some earrings and a couple of necklaces. Being very young at the business, I said to her, “Here's my beeper number. I'm a physician. I'm always on call. If somebody actually buys one of these, please let me know.” She laughed, and I'll be darned if two days later I didn't get a beep saying, “Your earrings sold.”   Sharon: Did you make more?   Michele: Of course. I was hooked. It was a novel experience, that I could suddenly make somebody happy. I'm trained as a hematologist/oncologist, and most of what I have to tell patients does not make them happy.    Sharon: I can believe that.    Michele: This sense of joy that people got from picking up and trying my stuff on was an overwhelmingly positive experience that I wanted to continue.   Sharon: Did you consider yourself a salesperson?   Michele: No. I'm bad at it. The gallerist is now one of my best friends. She grew up in a retail family, and she shakes her head every time we do a show together. She knows how to present her work. She knows how to sell her work. I just tell people what I made, why I made it and how I did it. It's good enough. They take my stuff home anyway.   Sharon: So, you don't have to sell it; it sells itself.   Michele: It's a very tactile form of jewelry, and it is very different from what most people are accustomed to seeing. I learned that there are some people who look at it and say, “Well, it looks like a Brillo pad. Why would I pay money for that?” and that's O.K. I have no ego about it, none. I want my pieces to go to someone who loves it. I prefer that people who are not enthusiastic about it not have it.   Sharon: I have to stop here and say even though we show images on the website, we're not showing what you're talking about. Everything you have is crocheted or knitted wire. It's all, like you said, the Brillo pad look. I never thought of a Brillo pad, but it's wire crochet. It's very interesting and freeform, much of it. What do you do?   Michele: My hands figure out what to make. For many years I thought that meant I wasn't really an artist, until I started reading what artists I admired said about their own manner of working. I read an essay by Becky Kessler, who is a Dutch artist I love, and she said exactly the same thing I've been saying. Her hands decide what to make and she just goes along with it. As her hands work, she has many different options, but the choice of what to make is her hands' choice.   Sharon: Do you have wire next to your chair or your bed and you just decide to do it?   Michele: That's exactly right. The spools of wire are in a basket at bedside. The crochet hooks are in a copper bowl at bedside.   Sharon: Are you knitting or crocheting? I know the difference, but looking at it, I can't tell.   Michele: Most of the time these days, I'm crocheting. Knitting is a little bit more difficult physically for me. I have to do it around the needle or it falls off continuously. The stitches don't slip off the way they would if they were yarn, so it's easy to recover, but it was more frustrating, I think. With the crocheted pieces, my hand can make round things or flat things. I noticed a long time ago that the hook is in my right hand, but my left hand actually forms what I'm making as I move. So, even when I teach someone to make exactly what I make, it never looks the same because their hand forms it differently.   Sharon: That's interesting. Michele, there are two things I remember about you. One is that you didn't speak any Swedish before you went to Sweden to medical school there, right?    Michele: That's absolutely correct.   Sharon: That is amazing to me. And now you say you don't know numbers or fractions. What you did is really amazing.    Michele: There are workarounds for everything if you're determined. I think “determined” ought to have been my first name rather than Michele.   Sharon: Were you determined to be a doctor, a physician, a scientist, a bio-researcher? What were you going to be?   Michele: At the age of 12, having read science fiction hidden in my physician uncle's library, I decided I wanted to go to space, but I knew even back then that, as a woman, I was going to have difficulty getting into an official program for space. I decided that if I were a physician and I had gone through a psychology major in college, I might have a better shot at it. I was thinking, “Be a surgeon. Have a backup plan as psychologist, and maybe there will be a position for me on a space station or a colony on the moon.”   Sharon: Where you can crochet.    Michele: I wasn't even thinking about that. My grandmother had said, “Put it away. You don't know how to count.” Once I decided that's what I was going to do, I just walked in a straight line. I applied to colleges that had strong psychology programs. I ended up going to Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, which was the only school that Sigmund Freud had visited. It was also a college where Robert Goddard, the father of rocketry in this country, had worked. I had exactly what I wanted all in one place. Of course, taking the introduction to psychology class disabused me completely of the notion of being a psychologist. I ended up a biology major with a minor in English.   Sharon: That's an interesting combination. I bet you're the only one who has a biology major and a minor in English. What would your grandmother say now that you crochet and that people want the things you make?   Michele: I think about that often. I see her shaking her head or rolling her eyes. The English major put me in very good stead because I've been a language editor for all my working life. I primarily help people who do not have English as a first language but need to write in English.   Sharon: Do you read what they've written and say, “This is what you really meant to say,” or “This is how you'd say it in English”?   Michele: I fix it for them.   Sharon: I know you still work part time, but when you decided to retire, was your plan that you would have more time to make jewelry?   Michele: That was exactly what I had planned. I thought it would be a very easy segue from full-time physician to full-time artist. My initial plan was that I'd take the first year after retirement and go to school to learn better techniques. Of course, I chose to retire in July 2019, which meant I found myself confronting the pandemic.    Sharon: So, you had a lot of time on your own.   Michele: I had two straight years at home. I focused on making things that were much bigger than I had the time to make beforehand. As I was thinking about all the changes the pandemic was inflicting on us, I started to work in series. My first series I called “Social Distancing is Awkward.” As the pandemic progressed, I made a series called “Controlled, Constrained and Confined.”   Sharon: Was that just the name you gave it, or did you form it around the name?   Michele: In that case, I actually had the name first and I was thinking about how I could represent it. My hands gave me a way. I've always worked in series to some extent because as I make one thing, I see a different way I could have done it, and I need to make that in order to see if it works. After “Controlled, Constrained and Confined,” I made one called “What Galaxy Do You Live In?”   Sharon: When you said you made them larger, did you mean you wanted to bring them to a gallery? Were they too large to wear?   Michele: Very few of my things are too large to wear, particularly since I have a good friend and fellow member of AJF in Little Rock who says it's not big enough. I have a couple of galleries in Little Rock that take my work. They've never shied away from any of the things I bring them, and I have brought several big things. People aren't nearly as frightened of them as I always thought they would be, which has been a pleasant surprise. This year I've been working on a series called “Broken People” because of what I see around me.   Sharon: That's a good name. I have to say I was very impressed with how creative Little Rock was. I never thought I'd ever be in Little Rock, but it was a very creative town.    We will have photos posted on the website. Please head to TheJewelryJourney.com to check them out.

Midday on Music continues now in the studio of our sister station, WTMD in Towson, where we are fortunate to be joined by members of the Mount Vernon Virtuosi Cello Gang. The founder of the Virtuosi is Amit Peled, an internationally acclaimed ‘cellist and conductor and, for the past two decades, a professor at Hopkins' Peabody Institute conservatory. Peled founded the Mount Vernon Virtuosi five years ago to provide professional opportunities for young musicians, and to bring music to people young and old throughout the Baltimore-Washington area, in venues that are not restricted to just concert halls. The Mount Vernon Virtuosi Cello Gang is a rotating ensemble composed of Peled and five of his gifted Peabody student cellists who frequently tour the country. The Gang currently includes Shawn Hsu, Paul Lee, Rachel Taylor, Natalia Vilchis and Jiaoyang Xu. For today's Midday mini-concert, the group performs three distinctive works beautifully arranged for six cellos: Georg Golterman's Serenade, Op.119, No. 2; Sergei Rachmaninoff's Vocalise; and a Brett Howland medley arrangement of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah and George David Weiss's What a Wonderful World. You can find video of today's performances by the Mount Vernon Virtuosi ‘Cello Gang on the WYPR YouTube page. Amit Peled and his Cello Gang's performance today previews their concerts in Montgomery County, Maryland, this weekend. They'll be playing on Saturday, December 10 at 4pm at the Spencerville Church in Silver Spring.On Sunday, December 11, they will play two shows at the Bender Jewish Community Center in Rockville, at 2:00 and 4:00pm. Click the links for more details.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's episode of Inside Outside Innovation, we sit down with Lorraine Marchand. Lorraine is the author of the new book, The Innovation Mindset. She and I discuss how innovation starts, how you can build your muscle of innovation through exploration and experimentation, and much more. Let's get started.Inside Outside Innovation is the podcast to help new innovators navigate what's next. Each week we'll give you a front row seat into what it takes to learn, grow, and thrive in today's world of accelerating change and uncertainty. Join us as we explore, engage, and experiment with the best in the brightest, innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneering businesses. It's time to get started.Interview Transcript with Lorraine Marchand, Author of The Innovation MindsetBrian Ardinger: Welcome to another episode of Inside Outside Innovation. I'm your host, Brian Ardinger, and as always, we have another amazing guest. Today we have Lorraine Marchand. She is executive managing director of Merative, which is formerly IBM Watson Health. And she's author of the new book, The Innovation Mindset: Eight Essential Steps to Transform Any Industry. Welcome to the show, Lorraine. Lorraine Marchand: Thank you, Brian. Really happy to be here. Brian Ardinger: I'm excited to have you. You have been in this space for a while. For the past three decades, you have been in product development, working with companies like Bristol Myers Squibb and Covance, and Cognizant. How did you get involved in the realm of innovation?Lorraine Marchand: Well, it started when I was actually pretty young. I was reared by my dad, who was an inventor. And when I was growing up around the house, he would always challenge my brother and me, to find three solutions to every problem, usually problems that he would identify. And one summer morning, he really brought that point close to home. And he took us to a local diner called the Hot Shops Cafeteria in Wheaton, Maryland.And our job was to determine what was slowing down table turnover. So we sat in the big red vinyl booths eating our breakfast of scrambled eggs and orange juice. And after three days of using our stopwatches and writing down notes, and even interviewing waitresses and bus boys, we determined that the culprit was sugar packets. People were spewing them all over the place. True to his tenant that we had to find three solutions we did. And we ended up taking one to an MVP, minimal viable prototype. And that was the sugar cube. And we ended up selling it to the Hot Shops cafeteria that summer, and pretty soon it was distributed throughout the Baltimore Washington area.So early on, I learned that problem solving was fun and lucrative. And fast forward throughout my career, whether it was at the National Institutes of Health or Bristol Myers Squibb, or founding my own startups and the diagnostics and ophthalmology area, I found that I really did love this idea of being able to clearly define a problem, and then as my dad had taught me kind of systematically evaluate and choose solutions. And to me, the heart of the innovation mindset that I write about is an insatiable curiosity, a passion for problem solving, and embracing change. And so I have found myself, whether in large corporations or in startups, desiring to be that agent of change and bringing that problem solving methodology that I learned so early at the age of 13 with me in all of my career endeavors. Brian Ardinger: I love that story and I love, you have this in the book that one of the key mindset essential steps is this innovation starts with at least three ideas. Can you talk a little bit more about why it takes more than one idea to get something going and that process? Lorraine Marchand: You know, I like to say that first of all, your first two ideas, one of them is probably a solution that you've already been mulling over before you even confirmed that you had a problem. Because I find that we, as human beings, love to go into solutioning mode before we've really carefully defined the problem. So, if you are making your way around a problem, you probably have a bias in terms of what one of the solutions is. The second solution is always to do nothing, right? The competition is always the default, the status quo, I'm not going to change.So right there, you already have number one and two. So you have to be true to the problem solving discipline and this idea of brainstorming and coming up with the three solutions, because it could be that third one that is the winner. If you go a little bit beyond the three, I'm okay with that, but I don't allow my students or any of the individuals I coach to cheat and come up with fewer than three. That you can't do Brian Ardinger: That makes perfect sense. Like you said, you've been in this space for a long time and you've, you've helped create products, you've helped create companies and that. What are some of the biggest maybe obstacles or misconceptions that people have about innovation and starting this particular process.Lorraine Marchand: I think a lot of people are intimidated that they think that innovation has to be at the hands of some of the quintessential greats like Edison and Jobs and Musk and Gates, etc. And so, the first thing I like to do is educate and inform individuals that not all forms of innovation are disruptive. They're not all big hunt. And it is absolutely honorable, and it could be your style of innovation to create incremental improvements. To do more renovation, retooling something for another type of use case. To be optimizing, which actually my story about the Hot Shops Cafeteria, truly if I'm honest about it, it's more about optimizing than truly innovating.But I'm okay with that because like you, I'm very passionate about just encouraging more people to access the freedom, the excitement, the job satisfaction that comes from innovating. And I'm okay to use a broader set of terminology in order to attract more people to just find ways to get started. So that's the first thing. I think people are really put off by that. And then I think that a lot of innovators find that it's very difficult to do customer research. Where do I find the customer? How do I talk to them? Do they want to talk to me? How do I really write a question guide that doesn't bias them toward my solution? So that's one that is very difficult to do, and I find that a lot of individuals will gloss over it. You know, I, I say you have to talk to a hundred customers. And my students look at me with their eyes crossed going, I can't possibly do that. I can't even find five. And I say, well, how are you going to sell your product if you can only find five people to talk to about it? Okay. Right there. And then I would say the other area is pivot. I'm a real fan of pivoting you never fail. Some people will argue with me, but I like to say, you don't fail if you're constantly adjusting your strategy based on the data, based on the market dynamics, and you're moving in the direction where you keep learning and improving what you're doing and moving it closer to the customer. We don't fail, we pivot. But a lot of founders, fail to see the warning signs. That maybe things aren't taking off the way they thought. And so pivoting too late can be pretty dangerous. Brian Ardinger: You spent some time both in bigger corporations as well as a startup entrepreneur. Do you see any differences about how those types, either early-stage startups innovate versus bigger companies, and what are the differences and similarities?Lorraine Marchand: I think that one of the big challenges in a corporation is, number one, the corporation exists in order to systematize, routinize, and scale. So, by its very nature, it's not really incented to be an innovative type of organism because innovation is the opposite. Innovation is about experimentation. It's got to create a safe environment for you to try something and fail. The only time I'll use the word fail. You have to be able to experiment and know that it's not gonna move forward. And as we both know, so often corporations living quarter by quarter, they just don't have a lot of patience for investing time, money, and important talent and resources in creating new ideas that might not make it to market.So that's one of the biggest challenges, and I tell my corporate colleagues who wanna innovate or even head up innovation, how important it is to embed it in the culture. And one of the first tips that I give them is you have to create an environment where experimentation is encouraged, and failure feels safe.And failure is also even encouraged and incentivized. And I do like the way Jeff Bezos positioned that within Amazon. So, he had try, fail, learn. And if I had to reiterate a mantra to my friends in the corporate world, it would be you have to create that kind of environment. And if he did it, with a logistics company, surely you can do it too. Brian Ardinger: Absolutely. It's interesting to talk a little bit about that. You know, you mentioned earlier about how you define innovation. And I think that's so important in that early-stage process to get people comfortable with the fact that I can be an innovator even though I'm not a Steve Jobs.The idea that just taking an idea and creating value around that idea, that's how I define innovation. You know, being able to take your idea and move it forward to create value from it. That alone gives the individual person on the line permission to see a problem and say, I can fix that. And that is innovation and appreciate that particular type of approach.It also then allows you to start building that muscle. To take on maybe bigger things down the road, bigger, more adjacent or transformational types of innovation. As you kind of learn about the process and learn that anybody can go through the part of taking an idea and creating value from it.Lorraine Marchand: I really love that, Brian. In fact, I love that metaphor of the muscle. I was talking with one of the innovators that I profiled in the book, Sarah Apgar, who invented a piece of fitness equipment called the Fit Fighter. She's just phenomenal. It's a nationally recognized business and brand now, and so we use that metaphor when we were talking about Fit Fighter and innovation that it's like a muscle.I might have a goal of doing a half marathon. And I go out in day one, I've never run before. But I'm going to run half a mile and then the next week I'm going to run another half a mile and I'm going to build up to it. Because building a muscle, practicing is what makes you the half marathon runner. And building the muscle and practicing is what makes you good at innovating.Brian Ardinger: So, you mentioned one of the stories that is in your book, but the book is packed full with a variety of different case studies and and things that you've seen along the lines. Can you tell us some of the success stories that you highlight in the book? Lorraine Marchand: You know, one that I don't often get an opportunity to talk about. So, thank you for letting me choose one of my favorites. I had a fantastic opportunity when I was a professor of entrepreneurship at Princeton, to judge a business pitch contest at a prison in a local New Jersey County. And so that day I drove out to the prison not really knowing what to expect. And it was just the most enlightening and humbling experiences that I had.The inmates had really worked hard over the 12 weeks in the entrepreneurship program. And they had studiously written their business plans down on loose leaf paper with pencils. And so, when I came in, I read the plans and then they had an opportunity to present their ideas and to pitch their ideas to me. And they were so engaged in the feedback. So responsive and receptive to it, and they really just wanted to learn and get better. And you could just feel the energy in the room. But the best part of the story was three of those gentlemen went on to found the businesses that we had discussed in the session that day. And even though I couldn't stay in touch with them because of rules around these sorts of engagements, I was able to get information from the warden later that they had been successful. And really not too many stories have warmed my heart like that one. Brian Ardinger: It's excellent to see that again pretty much anybody from anywhere can find problems to solve, and if you go through a process to make that happen, you can actually create value and change lives, so that's amazing. The other thing I like about your book, you have a section in there talking about women innovators and some of the unique challenges that they face. Can you talk a little bit more about that? Lorraine Marchand: My focus on women is around increasing awareness and raising women up and encouraging them to step up and stand out and give innovation a try. And I just think that for a lot of women, it's not something that they naturally think about being entrepreneurs or innovators.And we do find that the data indicates that even among venture capital firms, there's still only about 2 to 3% of them that have women partners. And when we look at investments in women founded companies, it's also still hovering at around 2 to 3%. And I'm just such a fan of innovation for all the reasons that we've talked about because I think it can be so satisfying to take an idea, to take a problem that you've personally observed and bring it to life, bring it to market as we've been discussing. I think that's tremendously satisfying. And I also think that it can be economically satisfying and help women find economic freedom. And a sustainability of their economic freedom and status. So I want to get the word out. I really encourage women in STEM. I encourage women to figure out ways to access capital. And I have a resource guide to help women with that. And then very importantly, I like to help women think a little differently about their own networking. And the truth of the matter is you have to be comfortable networking with accountants and attorneys and investors, and maybe not those folks that are in your social circles on a day-to-day basis, but you have to get out there and be able to have those conversations and pull those people into your network. So those are some of the tips that I give to women. Brian Ardinger: They're great tips and they apply to everyone as far as that ability to build a network. I think a lot of people think of innovation as this sport that you do in your garage and the tinkerer who figures things out on their own. But like you said, there are so many different components that have to come together to create that value, whether it's the accountants or the lawyers or the other people that can help build the product, whatever the case may be. Collaborative nature of innovation is so important. How do you stay fresh and current and connected with the new things that are going on in your world, and how do you stay on the top of, of your game? Lorraine Marchand: Well, I am always reaching out to new innovators. I get so much inspiration from the students that I teach at a graduate level. Or I'll be going to the Philadelphia Venture Fair later this week. And so, I'll get to talk to the early-stage entrepreneurs there. And share ideas and explore and create with them. So, I need to put myself in an environment where I'm around innovators too and entrepreneurs and I feed off of their energy. So that really is what does it for me, is just staying out there with other people, with ideas that want to create and grow. And by linking arms, we move this whole movement forward and it keeps me fresh too. Brian Ardinger: It's always important to keep in touch with where those new ideas are coming from and that. Do you see any new trends or things that you're excited about? Lorraine Marchand: I think the area of AI is absolutely fascinating. You know, I was recently reading a report that AI innovation about a 1.1 billion cagr, but the fastest growing area, even though it's very much focused on manufacturing, automation, automobiles, for example, the fastest growing sector is in healthcare. And I just think that's incredibly exciting if you think about the ability to use artificial intelligence on information about a patient's cancer tumor, have it diagnosed earlier, precision medicine in terms of knowing how to treat it.Or even being able to develop the sensors that can go into devices and help to measure and monitor pain or someone's activity around the house. So, I definitely love the healthcare applications of AI, one of those areas that I'm particularly passionate about. For More InformationBrian Ardinger: I want to thank you for coming on Inside Outside Innovation, to kind of share your insights and that. Look forward to having the conversation again in the future as we talk more about some of the crazy things that are happening in the world. If people want to find out more about yourself or more about your book, what's the best way to do that?Lorraine Marchand: I'm on LinkedIn, so I'd love for you to connect with me, Lorraine Marchand on LinkedIn. And if you would like a copy of the book, it's on Amazon, The Innovation Mindset with my name. You can buy a copy there and you can also go to the Columbia University Press website, and you can also purchase the book through Columbia. Brian Ardinger: Well, Lorraine, thanks again for being on the show. Appreciate the time and looking forward to continuing the conversation in the future. Lorraine Marchand: Thank you, Brian, and continued good luck with all of your fabulous endeavors as well.Brian Ardinger: Thank you. That's it for another episode of Inside Outside Innovation. If you want to learn more about our team, our content, our services, check out InsideOutside.io or follow us on Twitter @theIOpodcast or @Ardinger. Until next time, go out and innovate.FREE INNOVATION NEWSLETTER & TOOLSGet the latest episodes of the Inside Outside Innovation podcast, in addition to thought leadership in the form of blogs, innovation resources, videos, and invitations to exclusive events. SUBSCRIBE HEREYou can also search every Inside Outside Innovation Podcast by Topic and Company.  For more innovations resources, check out IO's Innovation Article Database, Innovation Tools Database, Innovation Book Database, and Innovation Video Database.  

With around 63 million beneficiaries, Medicare is the single largest provider of health insurance in the United States, serving Americans aged 65 or older, as well as some younger patients who have certain disabilities. Directing this massive program is Dr. Meena Seshamani, an otolaryngologist and former Vice President of Clinical Care Transformation at MedStar Health, a large health care organization primarily operating in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area. There, she led initiatives in palliative care, geriatrics, and community health. She has also served as Director of the Office of Health Reform at the US Department of Health and Human Services. In this episode, Dr. Seshamani discusses her path from surgeon to health policy leader, what draws her to caring for older adults, and her vision for a better, more sustainable health care of the future.In this episode, you will hear about:Dr. Seshamani's enthusiasm for medicine at a young age and the diverse career trajectory that followed - 2:08A discussion of Dr. Seshamani's past leadership roles, including those at the Office of Health Reform under the Obama administration and at MedStar Health - 6:27Balancing the need for clinicians to work collaboratively and the inclination of physicians to value autonomy - 10:20An explanation of Medicare's role in the US healthcare ecosystem - 14:51What draws Dr. Seshamani to focus on the care of older adults - 17:39The crisis of burnout in the medical profession and Dr. Seshamani's vision for how this can be addressed - 21:00The fee-for-service mechanism of healthcare reimbursement, accountable care relationships, and the value of preventative care - 25:33The pay disparity between specialists and primary care physicians, and the role Medicare can play - 30:40How the growing population of aging Americans impacts the future sustainability of the Medicare program - 38:41How Medicare is reforming its allocation of resources to promote health equity - 42:02Dr. Seshamani's advice to students and clinicians on engaging in meaningful work as they advance in their careers - 48:24In this episode, we discuss the speech “Cowboys and Pit Crews” by Atul Gawande, published in the New Yorker.You can follow Dr. Seshamani on Twitter @DrMeenaSeshVisit our website www.TheDoctorsArt.com where you can find transcripts of all episodes.If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, and review our show, available for free on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you know of a doctor, patient, or anyone working in health care who would love to explore meaning in medicine with us on the show, feel free to leave a suggestion in the comments or send an email to info@thedoctorsart.com.Copyright The Doctor's Art Podcast 2022

Encore Creativity for Older Adults is the nation's largest choral organization for adults over the age of 55. They are just now coming to the greater Seattle area.  Encore Creativity is a chorale celebration, bringing seniors together to sing and express themselves. Joshua Vickery, CEO of Encore Creativity, and local conductor Dr. Natalie Lerch join Suzanne to talk about the program. Based in Maryland, Encore has 15 Chorales and 6 Encore ROCKS rock & roll choruses in the metropolitan Baltimore-Washington area, as well as a chorale in New York City. Encore's newest program is the Sentimental Journey Singers (SJS) for individuals with early-stage Alzheimer's or other memory impairment. Encore has two SJS locations in Virginia. Through their Affiliate Program, they also have chorales in California, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Encore singers number nearly 2,000 across the country. Encore is an IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit tax exempt organization.  Learn more at their website.

Ms. Jonelle Ocloo, Esq. is the managing attorney of the Law Offices of Jonelle Ocloo, LLC (also known as LOJO Immigration) based in the Baltimore-Washington metro area. Ms. Ocloo received her Doctor of Law (J.D.) from Yale University. She has practiced U.S. immigration law exclusively for over 15 years and represents individuals, families, and businesses in a variety of employment-based and family-sponsored immigration and naturalization matters. She has assisted a broad range of businesses, and has spoken on complex immigration issues to lawyers in local, regional, and national seminars and conferences. Ms. Ocloo is Past Chair of the Maryland State Bar Association (MSBA) Immigration Law Section. She is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) where she serves as Liaison to the Baltimore USCIS office. She also serves on the executive board of the DMV Chapter of the Association of Ghanaian Lawyers of America (AGLA-DMV). Ms. Ocloo was named as a SuperLawyer in the field of Immigration Law. She has been recognized in the International Who's Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers, and was named as one of Maryland's Top 100 Women by the Daily Record. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/heather-harris96/message

Welcome back to the unSeminary podcast. Today we have Carl Kuhl with us, the lead pastor of one of the fastest growing churches in the country, Mosaic Christian Church in the Baltimore/Washington, DC area. Listen in as Carl shares about the missing piece that will help people in our churches go deeper, both with God […]

We're happy to welcome back Mike Sempervive (@sempervive) for another marathon pod. The main focus of the episode is the first Great American Bash in July 1985. We go over the show match-by-match, what was going on for each person at the time going into the show and where things were going after the show on the road to Starrcade 1985. We also talk about the other JCP show that night in Columbus, Georgia. There's also discussion of both the magazine coverage of the show and the video tape, put out in conjunction with Pro Wrestling Illustrated. From there, it's a free for all, as we talk about tape trading, not only in wrestling but also hockey fights and old television shows, running shows in high school gyms and armories, which led to a discussion of the 1993 film Blue Chips, hockey road trips, the usual discussion of 1980s wrestling TV in the Baltimore/Washington area and much more. As with most people these days, you can't talk this long without some coughing fits. We tried to edit them out, but may have missed some, so please accept our apologies. Also, our new podcast The Plot, done with When It Was Cool, now has two episodes:. The first is about the Mission Impossible TV show and the second is about the heist comedy The Lavender Hill Mob. You can find it in this podcast feed or over at the When It Was Cool Website. . Thanks for listening.

In this episode of FMC Fast Chat, we take a look at the state of editorial cartooning in a chat with a man with more than 40 years in the business, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Walt Handelsman. With a home base in New Orleans, Handelsman's cartoons are syndicated in more than 200 newspapers around the globe. Hosted by Jaci Clement. ABOUT WALT HANDELSMAN Walt Handelsman is the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist for The Times-Picayune/The Advocate in New Orleans. His work is nationally syndicated by Tribune Content Agency to over 200 newspapers around the country and internationally. One of the mostly widely reprinted cartoonists in America, Handelsman's work has been seen in Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post and others. He has been a featured guest on ABC's “Nightline”, CNN, PBS, NBC and Fox News. In 2006, Walt taught himself Flash animation and in 2007 he became the first person to win the Pulitzer Prize for animation. Before returning to New Orleans in 2013 to join The New Orleans Advocate, Walt worked for Newsday, The Times-Picayune, The Scranton Times and a chain of Baltimore/Washington weeklies. He holds an associate degree in Art Therapy and a General Studies degree in advertising. He worked for a Baltimore advertising agency before becoming a cartoonist. Walt is the author of 9 collections of his editorial cartoons as well as a children's book. He lives in New Orleans with his wife, Jodie. They have 2 adult children. FMC Fast Chat podcast features notables in news, media and business. It's available wherever you like to listen to podcasts. Please subscribe and be in the know in 30.  ABOUT FMC FAST CHAT FMC Fast Chat is the podcast of the Fair Media Council, a 501c3 nonprofit organization advocating for quality news and working to create a media-savvy society. Find out more at fairmediacouncil.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of FMC Fast Chat, we take a look at the state of editorial cartooning in a chat with a man with more than 40 years in the business, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Walt Handelsman. With a home base in New Orleans, Handelsman's cartoons are syndicated in more than 200 newspapers around the globe. Hosted by Jaci Clement. ABOUT WALT HANDELSMAN Walt Handelsman is the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist for The Times-Picayune/The Advocate in New Orleans. His work is nationally syndicated by Tribune Content Agency to over 200 newspapers around the country and internationally. One of the mostly widely reprinted cartoonists in America, Handelsman's work has been seen in Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post and others. He has been a featured guest on ABC's “Nightline”, CNN, PBS, NBC and Fox News. In 2006, Walt taught himself Flash animation and in 2007 he became the first person to win the Pulitzer Prize for animation. Before returning to New Orleans in 2013 to join The New Orleans Advocate, Walt worked for Newsday, The Times-Picayune, The Scranton Times and a chain of Baltimore/Washington weeklies. He holds an associate degree in Art Therapy and a General Studies degree in advertising. He worked for a Baltimore advertising agency before becoming a cartoonist. Walt is the author of 9 collections of his editorial cartoons as well as a children's book. He lives in New Orleans with his wife, Jodie. They have 2 adult children. FMC Fast Chat podcast features notables in news, media and business. It's available wherever you like to listen to podcasts. Please subscribe and be in the know in 30.  ABOUT FMC FAST CHAT FMC Fast Chat is the podcast of the Fair Media Council, a 501c3 nonprofit organization advocating for quality news and working to create a media-savvy society. Find out more at fairmediacouncil.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As FIFA prepares to announce the U.S. cities that will be the site of 2026 World Cup games, Kansas City has its fingers crossed. We're one of 16 spots in the running to be host cities. Ten or 11 will be selected. Will Kansas City make the cut? On today's SportsBeat KC podcast, columnist Vahe Gregorian and soccer writer Daniel Sperry break down the strengths and weaknesses of Kansas City as a bid candidate. Arrowhead Stadium and other facilities and the region's soccer culture are seen as pluses. Market size would seem to work against Kansas City. Or does it? We discuss. U.S. cities bidding for the 2026 FIFA World Cup: New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore/Washington, D.C., Boston, Atlanta, Miami, Orlando, Nashville, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Denver, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle Story link: How does Kansas City stack up against other cities bidding to host 2026 World Cup games? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Have you ever thought about what it would take to have a radio show? Join Jules & Corinna as they connect with John "Jay" Wiley, host and producer of Law Enforcement Today and the Law Enforcement Today Podcast Network. You'll learn how he moved from hosting a podcast that was coupled with a thriving Facebook group to terrestrial radio in his first 10 episodes. What is terrestrial radio, you might ask? You know, spaces you tune in "on the dial" on AM/FM -- and these days some even lump "terrestrial" and "satellite" together in one pot (satellite = Sirius XM). You'll discover how John "Jay" Wiley is even connected to Oprah, and hear his thoughts on what it takes to truly "make it" in broadcast media like podcasting, radio, YouTube and beyond. You'll also get a "tease" of a new podcast that Jules & Corinna are launching on 4/22/22! About Our Guest: Introducing John “Jay” Wiley... His friends call him Jay (and that means you can too). While people like to use terms like radio personality, or broadcaster, he prefers the old school terminology of DJ. Prior to starting his career in radio he was a member of the Baltimore Police Department. As an officer he worked in the Northwest District of Baltimore in Patrol, Operations, and Plainclothes Drug Enforcement Unit. He was detailed to the DEA Task Force in the Baltimore Office for more than a year investigating drug distribution gangs in the Baltimore/Washington area. He was promoted to sergeant at which time he was assigned to the Central District and then the Northwest District. His career in the Baltimore Police Department was cut short by a disastrous line of duty hand injury. Sadly, after multiple surgeries, he was retired, and then successfully pivoted to the world of broadcast / terrestrial radio (and now podcasting). Jay is the host and producer of the Law Enforcement Today Podcast, with new episodes out each Monday. 00:00 Introductions & What to expect in today's episode (including a surprise "tease" or two)08:30 Meet John J. Wiley, host of Law Enforcement Today Podcast13:00 Super niche podcast success with 2 examples: Motorcycles & Misfits and Supercar Blondie15:15 How Jay grew his podcast, expanding his reach through terrestrial broadcasting radio (syndicated on AM/FM in 81 markets)20:00 To bleep or not to bleep (on cuss words, brand names, and the FCC)22:40 Monetizing Law Enforcement Today through sponsorships based on audience size / reach (radio reach of 24M in addition to podcast)25:00 The importance of having BIG dreams and working HARD to reach them27:30 On avoiding podfade and what it takes to make it in podcasting (including perspectives from Tracy Hazzard of Podetize, Liza Miller of Motorcycles & Misfits)29:00 The importance of visualizing your audience -- putting them FIRST32:00 On meeting Oprah, working hard, and being authentically you35:18 Paying it forward by building a network: Law Enforcement Today Podcast Network (it's free to join)38:30 Successful podcasts that have recently sold: Call Her Daddy hosted by Alex Cooper & LORE, hosted by Aaron Mahnke42:20 Get a "tease" of an upcoming show Corinna & Jules are launching on 4/22/22 to help you discover your next favorite podcasts! Join Our Community Of "Dragonflies" And Reach For Your DreamsFollow us on all social spaces @themediacastersJoin The Mediacasters Community FREE for a limited time: https://themediacasters.mn.coInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/themediacastersPodcast website: https://themediacasters.comNetwork website, with all our community shows: https://podpage.com/themediacasters

Baltimore is one of 17 U.S. cities in the running to host games in the 2026 World Cup. With sites likely to be selected in May, resident agency soccer fans Alan Brody and Alex Butler talk with Terry Hasseltine, President of the Baltimore Maryland 2026 Bid, about the chances of being chosen, what it would mean for Maryland and talk of a joint Baltimore-Washington, D.C-bid that could improve the prospects of being picked.

Dr. Denise Moore Revel is a CEO, founder, an award-nominated, best-selling author, speaker, and personal development coach. For over 25 years, she has literally helped people find their voices. As a speech-language pathologist (therapist), her job has been helping her clients discover their voice.  Dr. Denise founded The Own Your Amazing Movement has an extension of the message of finding your own voice and living your worth out loud. Through coaching, mentoring, and workshops, Dr. Denise empowers women to find their unique voice, live their worth out loud, and create amazing lives they love.Dr. Denise earned her bachelor degree in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, a master's degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders, and a doctorate in Human Services-Specialization in Multicultural Counseling & Coaching. She has owned a private speech therapy practice for over 15 years, serving the Baltimore-Washington, DC areas.Website:  www.ownyouramazingnow.com-Free excerpt from the book-The Daily Authenticity ChecklistOwn Your Amazing has grown into a MOVEMENT that's helping women live more authentically. Are you living YOUR Authentic self?The Daily Authenticity Checklist can help!

This week, the podcast talks with Stadium Journey correspondent Richard Smith on the sporting venues of Baltimore and Washington. VOC Nation takes you behind the scenes of your favorite moments in pro wrestling history. Notable show hosts include legendary pro wrestling journalist Bill Apter, former WWE/TNA star Shelly Martinez, former WWE and AWA broadcaster Ken Resnick, former WCW performer The Maestro, former TNA Impact talent Wes Brisco, Pro Wrestling Illustrated's Brady Hicks, independent pro wrestling and Fireball Run star Sassy Stephie, and more! Since 2010, VOC Nation has brought listeners into the minds of the biggest stars in pro wrestling and entertainment. Subscribe to the podcasts for free on most major directories, and visit vocnation.com for live programming. Subscribe to premium - only $3/mo - for commercial full commercial free audio and video episodes. Exclusive access to 50 years of Bill Apter's interview archives is available for a nominal charge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the second part of our conversation, Senior Pastor Shawn Zambrows and Associate Pastor Nick Quient are joined by Brian McLaren. Brian is an author, speaker, activist and public theologian. After teaching college English, Brian pastored Cedar Ridge Community Church in the Baltimore-Washington, DC area. Brain has been active in networking and mentoring church planters and pastors for over 20 years. He is a popular conference speaker and a frequent guest lecturer for denominational and ecumenical leadership gatherings in the US and internationally. In this episode, we are talking about Brian's new book, Faith After Doubt. If you are looking for a church service during COVID, we encourage you to enjoy our worship service on YouTube. We release the entire worship service Sunday mornings at 10am on YouTube. If you want to be kept up to date, you can also follow our church on Facebook, check out our webpage, and like our Podcast Facebook page as well.

In this first part of our conversation, Senior Pastor Shawn Zambrows and Associate Pastor Nick Quient are joined by Brian McLaren. Brian is an author, speaker, activist and public theologian. After teaching college English, Brian pastored Cedar Ridge Community Church in the Baltimore-Washington, DC area. Brain has been active in networking and mentoring church planters and pastors for over 20 years. He is a popular conference speaker and a frequent guest lecturer for denominational and ecumenical leadership gatherings in the US and internationally. In this episode, we are talking about Brian's new book, Faith After Doubt. If you are looking for a church service during COVID, we encourage you to enjoy our worship service on YouTube. We release the entire worship service Sunday mornings at 10am on YouTube. If you want to be kept up to date, you can also follow our church on Facebook, check out our webpage, and like our Podcast Facebook page as well.

Adam is the founder of the Lead ‘Em Up organization; a sports leadership & character program started in Maryland and now used in over 500 schools around the world. Adam works as leadership coach with teams all throughout the Baltimore/Washington region as well as teams across the country. He also also is the Founder & Co-Host of the nationally recognized Hardwood Hustle Basketball podcast. The Hustle has featured interviews with Mark Cuban, Kevin Durant, Jay Bilas, Jay Williams and hundreds of other notable guests. The Hustle is a resource designed to educate, empower and encourage coaches in the basketball community and beyond.

Adam is the founder of the Lead ‘Em Up organization; a sports leadership & character program started in Maryland and now used in over 500 schools around the world. Adam works as leadership coach with teams all throughout the Baltimore/Washington region as well as teams across the country. He also also is the Founder & Co-Host of the nationally recognized Hardwood Hustle Basketball podcast. The Hustle has featured interviews with Mark Cuban, Kevin Durant, Jay Bilas, Jay Williams and hundreds of other notable guests. The Hustle is a resource designed to educate, empower and encourage coaches in the basketball community and beyond.We are very excited to have him on the show this week to talk to us about leadership and building character in all that you do.

more on As activists gather for the upcoming United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs, "Radical" Russ covers the NCIA Oregon Spring Cannabis Caucus; Patients Out of Time Conference in Baltimore, Maryland; SSDP Conference in Arlington, Virginia; DCMJ White House Seed Giveaway in Washington, DC; and the Cannabis Science & Policy Summit and other New York City marijuana events.

  Adam is an expert in leadership & character development speaking and training coaches all over the country. He is the founder of Leademup - Lead 'Em Up is a turn-key sports leadership and character program designed to equip coaches with the tools to implement a dynamic leadership program. They provide coaches the season-long curriculum and teaching materials to lead their team every week through a powerful 30-minute session. The Lead 'Em Up curriculum includes teaching lessons, engaging team assignments, week-long player exercises and fun interactive game dynamics from their friends at Game On Nation. Adam also currently serves as a Leadership Coach for various sports teams in the Baltimore/Washington area, and is the co-host of the nationally recognized Hardwood Hustle podcast. Leademup Website: leademup.com Facebook: /LeadEmUp Twitter: @Lead_Em_Up Hardwood Hustle Podcast Website: hardwoodhustle.com Facebook: /HardwoodHustle Twitter: @Hardwood_Hustle Listen Now: Listen in ITunes: Itunes link Listen in Stitcher: Stitcher link Quote 'The drug of choice amongst the youth of today is popularity' - Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in California Hardwood Hustle Podcast Website: hardwoodhustle.com Designed for players, coaches, and parents Episodes are either basketball focused or hustle related New episodes every Monday and Thursday Character development Adam teaches kids that being cool and being a leader don't have to be either/or, you can do both Many kids would rather be cool than be great, but they don't realize that it's when they become great that they become cool Think about the word the kids will call each other: 'Try-hard.'  Why is that a bad thing? Lead 'Em Up Website: leademup.com Adam partnered with Game On to gamify his leadership curriculum so that he can really engage the kids and get them excited to learn how to be leaders. Game On's created an acronym for gaming, people are drawn to games because of the MILE: Mystery, Incentive, Laughter, Empowerment.  During the games - they often forget to try acting cool. Lead Em Up has developed a plug-and-play curriculum you can use with your teams - It's a 12 week program with a new theme each week to be done in a 30 minute session with your team. Parting Advice The first thing you have to evaluate as a coach - is how much you really care Ready to be an Awesome Youth Coach? Sign up for our free weekly newsletter: