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Sex Talk with Khrys
Ep. 45 - Body Count Battles: Truth, Ego & the Double Standard "A BVI Perspective"

Sex Talk with Khrys

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2025 65:00


In this unfiltered and island-flavored episode, Khrys sits down with two bold men from Tortola, BVI, to unpack a hot and controversial topic — does a woman's body count really matter? Or is it just a reflection of fragile egos and outdated expectations? We dive deep into the double standards, male insecurities, and the emotional triggers behind “the number.” Is it really about how many… or WHO she gave her body to? Does sexual history disqualify a woman from being wifey material in a man's eyes? And why do some men feel entitled to a woman's purity when they've got bodies on bodies themselves? You don't want to miss this raw and real conversation. Laughter, tension, truth, and a few mic drops—this is one for the books.

Blind Abilities
Wellness Wednesday: I Got a Feeling, Somebodies Watching Me

Blind Abilities

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2025 20:51


In this casual conversation, Beth, robin and Jeff talk about that feeling that people are watching us when we are out and about in the public sphere. How fear may hinder our perception and distract from our intentional mobility. Listen in as they travel down this sidewalk unexpectedly and found themselves navigating quite a complex quandary found in the BVI community. Are they watching me? Check out all the Wellness Wednesday episodes. Show Hosts:             Robin Ennis on the web at www.robinennislcsw.com             Beth Gustin, LPC, NCC, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, CAGCS, PLGS             Www.transitioningthroughchange.com You can message Beth and Robin by calling 612-367-6093 or by email. They are looking forward to hearing from you!    

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Episode 56: Zeitenwende bei der Rüstungsfinanzierung!

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2025 19:18


Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://bvi.podigee.io/56-ruestungsfinanzierung 091759bed63fabd337bb828fa0a15d70 Thomas Richter und Rudolf Siebel (Geschäftsführer des BVI) diskutieren in der aktuellen Folge, wie sich der Finanzierungsbedarf der Rüstungsindustrie seit dem Ukraine-Krieg verändert hat und welche politischen sowie regulatorischen Anpassungen in Deutschland und Europa dazu geführt haben, dass Investitionen in Rüstungsunternehmen heute anders bewertet werden. full no Thomas Richter

Breaking Banks Fintech
What The Future Looks Like in Finance and Fintech: Jo Ann Barefoot, Nick Hughes and Brett King Live From Virgin Unite

Breaking Banks Fintech

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2025 41:01


In This Episode In a rare and inspiring crossover episode, Breaking Banks teams up with Barefoot Innovation to bring you a special dispatch from Necker Island, BVI. Hosted by Brett King and Jo Ann Barefoot, this episode captures the energy and insight of a one-of-a-kind fintech gathering organized by Virgin Unite: an event bringing together innovators from around the world, from a cross section of industry, exploring what the future of finance could (and should) look like. Podcasts hosts and speakers Brett and Jo Ann share their talks and insights from this carbon neutral event, connecting with Dr. Nick Hughes, OBE, father of M-Pesa, co-founder of M-Kopa and now Managing Director 4rdigital.com, the fourth revolution is digital, to cover all things fintech. Listen as these leaders discuss applications of fintech in other markets and all that is possible if we come out of our silos and collaborate -- the combination of problem solving perspectives, resources, networks and more can make an impact on some of the world's toughest challenges. We have the tech to do what we need to do, the potential is enormous! If you're looking for inspiration and forward-thinking ideas this episode delivers!

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Episode 55: Mehr europäische Investitionen durch mehr Fondsmanager in der EU?

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2025 16:23


Fri, 11 Apr 2025 08:47:15 +0000 https://bvi.podigee.io/55-investitionen-durch-fondsmanager-in-der-eu b9ae110f97842bcbb371b1386414e56a Thomas Richter und Markus Michel (Leiter Research beim BVI) stellen in der aktuellen Folge die Ergebnisse einer neuen BVI-Studie vor, die den „Home Bias“ von Fondsmanagern und dessen Auswirkungen auf die Kapitalallokation in der EU-Wirtschaft untersucht. Sie zeigt zudem, dass eine Ansiedlung von mehr Fondsmanagern in der EU zu zusätzlichen Investitionen in die europäische Realwirtschaft führen könnte. full no

Brawn Body Health and Fitness Podcast
Cara Brown: From Slopes to Sails: Cara's Journey in Ski Racing & Sailing

Brawn Body Health and Fitness Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2025 48:17


In this episode of the Braun Performance & Rehab Podcast, Dan is joined by Cara Brown to discuss her journey in sailing and skiing, including her injuries and travel adventures along the way. Cara Brown is a former British alpine ski racer turned sailing instructor in the British Virgin Islands. Born in London to Scottish parents, she moved to Milan at age seven, where she developed a passion for skiing. She trained with the British Ski Academy and the French race team Orsatus, excelling in multiple disciplines and winning the Ladies Overall British Champion title four times by 2017. Over her career, she earned more than 25 national titles and competed in Europa Cup races.After retiring in 2020, she co-founded VC Ski Fitness, helping individuals prepare for skiing through specialized training. She later transitioned to sailing and now teaches at Horizon Yacht Charters in the BVI. In 2022, she was recognized as one of the American Sailing Association's Outstanding Instructors, placing in the top 1% based on student evaluations. Cara's journey showcases her adaptability and dedication to excellence across sports.For more on Cara, be sure to follow @caratheskipper on social media!For more on Cara's swimwear line, be sure to check out https://www.corallinaswim.com/*SEASON 6 of the Braun Performance & Rehab Podcast is brought to you by Isophit. For more on Isophit, please check out isophit.com and @isophit -BE SURE to use coupon code BraunPR25% to save 25% on your Isophit order!**Season 6 of the Braun Performance & Rehab Podcast is also brought to you by Oro Muscles. For more on Oro, please check out www.oromuscles.com***Season 6 of the Braun Performance & Rehab Podcast is also brought to you by Firefly Recovery, the official recovery provider for Braun Performance & Rehab. For more on Firefly, please check out https://www.recoveryfirefly.com/ or email jake@recoveryfirefly.comEpisode Affiliates: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!Ice shaker affiliate link: https://www.iceshaker.com?sca_ref=1520881.zOJLysQzKeMake sure you SHARE this episode with a friend who could benefit from the information we shared!Check out everything Dan is up to by clicking here: https://linktr.ee/braun_prLiked this episode? Leave a 5-star review on your favorite podcast platform

Stay In Good Company
S8. | E9. The Aerial, BVI | Buck Island, British Virgin Islands | How Britnie Faith Turner's Pep Talk With Richard Branson Led To A Private Island With Purpose

Stay In Good Company

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2025 45:40


“And so all of our activities, all of our food, all of our ethos gets you to a place of just absolute peace. With that peace, you can find whatever it is that you're needing to break through. And once you break through, you can serve more than just your own problems. You can start solving these problems in the world.”We're in great company with Britnie Faith Turner, the Founder and Owner of The Aerial, BVI, a private island experience with the best views in the British Virgin Islands that acts as a force for good. What appears as an all-inclusive eco-resort goes well beyond just that—serving as an incubator for positive transformation, delivering a never-before-seen kind of luxury for its guests.Yet The Aerial, BVI is only a small piece in Britnie's larger plan to build numerous businesses that are for purpose, not for profit. As Britnie tells of the serendipitous beginnings of each, the story reveals a theme of elevating people and places through the pursuit of excellence.  In this episode, as we celebrate Women's History Month around the world, Britnie encourages us all to travel the world and discover our own ‘Aerial'—that higher perspective where we realize we are a part of something bigger than ourselves.  Top Takeaways[2:00] From humble beginnings living in her car while working for free, Britnie developed an eye for excellence—as she witnessed third-world poverty alongside first-world despair, realizing her mission would take her far beyond material success.[4:50] How an unexpected vision led Britnie to turn from mindful revitalization of dangerous neighborhoods to journey to find an island sanctuary where she would invite visitors to awaken their own transformational potential. [10:10] Britnie grew up self-admittedly hating wealthy people, yet before long, she sought out to surround herself with some of the richest people on the planet—finding this sense of discomfort and dreaming contagious.[15:00] Buying and building on a private island is not as easy as one might imagine—and yet even through a devastating divorce, two category-five hurricanes that annihilated the BVI, and a grand opening that coincided precisely with the global COVID-19 pandemic, Britnie's faith was unwavering.  [24:15] Inspired by personal passions, chance encounters, and loved ones, Heal the Heroes transforms troubled veterans and first responders into humanitarian operators—creating an 'army of good' that has rescued over 8,400 people from trafficking and disasters. [30:25] From sunrise to sunset, The Aerial, BVI captures the sacred healing properties of the Island—sharing it with guests through locally sourced cuisine, uniquely created accommodations, and an abundance of wellness activities. [35:20] Why “Purpose Luxury” is the perfect blend of excellence and impact, and how the future of luxury travel provides those who have everything and yet nothing, with the one thing that some seek and everyone deserves—peace.  Notable Mentions The Virgin Way by Richard BransonRedemption RanchElevate SummitsVisit For YourselfThe Aerial, BVI Website | @theaerialbviAerial Recovery Website | @aerialrecoverygroupBritnie Turner Website | @britnieturner

ACB Sunday Edition
Sunday Edition 20250323 Big Announcements – Sunday Edition is Growing!

ACB Sunday Edition

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2025 122:56


Big Announcements – Sunday Edition is Growing! As we celebrate 5 incredible years of deep conversations, powerful advocacy, and uplifting stories, Sunday Edition is thrilled to announce some major updates to our platform and programming! We're going independent! Starting today, Sunday Edition will now air every Sunday at 1 PM Eastern on our new home: 2020 The Beacon Replays will continue throughout the week on ACB Media, so you won't miss a thing. This move marks a new chapter in our evolution, as we expand our offerings and deepen our connection with the blind and low vision community. We are incredibly proud of our time with the ACB Media Network and Community, and we thank them for being our home for the past five years. What's New and What's Coming: Over the years, Sunday Edition has become more than just a talk show. We've grown into a multi-dimensional outlet reflecting all facets of the BVI experience: • Advocacy Partnerships: From supporting employment through grassroots efforts like Hinske's Crew, to connecting with HR professionals, corporations, and subject matter experts across industries. • Creative Showcases: Featuring programs like Behind the Music and our AI Music Showcase, spotlighting the innovation and creativity in our community. • Technology Expansion: Stay tuned for the launch of Sunday Edition Tech Talk, a new 15-minute segment highlighting cutting-edge tech and the people who create and use it. • Interactive Features: We're introducing post-show Clubhouse rooms, and opportunities for direct audience interaction with guests and panelists. • Community Columns: Our new twice-monthly advice column, Dear Emily & Garth, offers heartfelt guidance and connection from familiar voices in our community. And this is just the beginning. Today's Show: We marked this milestone with a look into the world of Blind hockey and ice-skating with the inspiring Josh Schneider, followed by a heartwarming and fun chat with Desiree and Jonathan, exploring the journey of finding, accepting, and nurturing love. Stay Connected – Join the New Sunday Edition News Email List! Want to keep up with everything Sunday Edition has to offer? Join our brand-new email list to: • Get weekly show announcements • Interact directly with our guests • Read special features like Dear Emily & Garth • Be the first to hear about new segments, surprise content, and more Subscribe now: Send a blank email to: SundayEditionNews+subscribe@groups.io Thank You for 5 Wonderful Years Here's to the next chapter of Sunday Edition—more conversations, more connection, more community. We're growing, and we're taking the BVI world by storm. Don't miss a moment. Yours, Anthony Corona He/Him Host and Producer of Sunday edition sundayeditionac@gmail.com

The Fix Productions
ep. 322 - "Selah!" (ft. Lloyd Laing)

The Fix Productions

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2025 142:53


This week the crew talks, Vybz Kartel's performances in BVI and an arrest warrant still being active for Mavado. Music Business Analyst Lloyd Laing aka Reggaeology also joins in, talks the future of dancehall music, Vybz Kartel, Koffee, Shenseea, major labels and the major pitfalls of male artists in the music industry. The crew also talks

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Episode 54: Hohe Marktdatenkosten behindern Wachstum und Innovationen.

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2025 21:08


Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:30:00 +0000 https://bvi.podigee.io/54-marktdatenkosten 05b04c151c4836a9b8deed2195b35761 Die Ausgaben der Assetmanager für Finanzmarktdaten, wie Börsenkurse und Indizes, sind in den vergangenen Jahren deutlich gestiegen. Thomas Richter und Rudolf Siebel (Geschäftsführer des BVI) analysieren in der aktuellen Folge die Auswirkungen auf die Fondsbranche und die Kapitalmärkte. Sie sprechen auch über die Notwendigkeit einer Regulierung, um Kosten für Assetmanager und Anleger zu senken sowie die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit zu steigern. full no Thomas Richt

Unstoppable Mindset
Episode 317 – Unstoppable Safety Positive Leader with Amy SP Wilson

Unstoppable Mindset

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2025 68:48


While participating at the National Federation of the Blind National convention this year with my colleague and friend, Sheldon Lewis who also is a former guest here on Unstoppable Mindset, we had the opportunity to meet Amy SP Wilson. Amy is the founder and leader of the Safety Positive Foundation. Amy began losing her eyesight at the age of ten years old due to a condition known as Stargardt's. this disease can best be described as macular Degeneration in juveniles. If you want to know more about Stargardt's just listen into my conversation with Amy. Amy has always been quite interested in personal safety. She also has been quite a physical person starting with wrestling with her cousins to later becoming the first female wrestler at the Missouri School for the Blind to later becoming part of the inaugural women's Judo team of the United States Association of Blind Athletes. Amy went on to college where she obtained a Bachelor's degree in Psychology. After a time and some life challenges Amy will tell us about she decided to go back to college to obtain a second Bachelor's degree in Social Work. She decided to get this second degree because she wanted to help persons with disabilities in the United States. In 2023 Amy founded Safety Positive Foundation to teach blind persons about self defense. Her approach is by no means all about being physical. She will talk with us about self awareness and self advocacy, two aspects she feels must be part of the psyche of everyone who wishes to take charge of their own life. About the Guest: ael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us. Well, hi everyone. I am your host, Mike hingson, and welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. And the reason it's worded that way people still ask me why I say that. The reason it's worded that way is that when we talk to diversity people, they'll talk about race, gender, sexual orientation and so on, and they never talk about disabilities. So unfortunately, the ship has mostly sailed when it comes to including disabilities in diversity, no matter what they say. So we won't let them do that with inclusion, which means it's inclusion diversity and the unexpected. And today we get to deal with a lot of all of that. The unexpected is anything that doesn't have anything to do with inclusion or diversity. But today, we do get to talk about inclusion a lot in some esoteric and maybe not so esoteric ways. Our guest today is Amy SP Wilson, and I just discovered, as Amy showed me, if you were to ask your smart speaker, like my Amazon Echo, who is Amy SP Wilson, it will tell you that she is the CEO of the positive safety positive foundation. We're going to talk more about that, so we'll get there anyway. Amy, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We're glad you're here. Wonderful.   Amy SP Wilson ** 02:45 Thank you for having me. It's an honor and a privilege, and   Michael Hingson ** 02:49 it's nice to know that the echo knows your name.   Amy SP Wilson ** 02:53 Yeah, I'm still kind of flabbergasted that that's a thing, but definitely gives you some street cred, I guess.   Michael Hingson ** 03:02 Yeah, it probably means that there, there aren't, well, there certainly aren't very many. Amy SP Wilson, so that works, yes, well, why don't we start the way I kind of really love to. Why don't you tell us, sort of about the early Amy growing up and some of that sort of stuff.   Amy SP Wilson ** 03:21 So in my younger years, I was born and raised in the state of Missouri, and have what I consider a biker family. We did a lot of traveling on motorcycles. I was riding my own dirt bike at the age of four, and so really tomboy at at heart, but loved, you know, wrestling and fighting with the cousins. And at the age of 10 is when I was diagnosed with star guards, and that put me on a different path, because at the age of 10, my dream was to be a motorcycle mechanic and join the Navy. And at the time, I did not have any expectations that a blind person could do either. So it really put me on a different trajectory of what I thought my life was going to going to be like, and I, of course, went on with school and and that sort of business, but I loved wrestling so much that I became the Missouri School for the blinds First Lady wrestler. And that led me into being part of the United States Association of Blind Athletes, where I was on the first women's judo team that they had, and so just got real passionate about personal safety and different ways. But due to my eye condition, I couldn't take hits to the head, and so there went my martial arts career this. I'll just say, or so I thought, and led me into going to college and get my my first bachelor's degree in psychology and and so on. But I I have people tell me that apparently I have been pioneering new things my whole life. And when I have to talk about myself and talk about I was the first to do this and first to do that, yeah, it's a very sobering reminder of those steps that I've make it in my life. Right?   Michael Hingson ** 05:35 Reading your bio, it says that because of star guard, you weren't at some at one point, able to continue kind of dealing with martial arts. What did star guard specifically have to do with that?   Amy SP Wilson ** 05:47 So it it affects my retina, and I noticed the more hits that I was taking to the head and, you know, being thrown I was having more cloudy spots in my vision, and when I stopped doing those things, it, it, you know, significantly reduced the amount of things I wasn't able to to see. And so that's, that's how that played into that well,   Michael Hingson ** 06:19 tell me a little bit about what star guards is. I'm not sure that everyone listening or watching will be familiar with   Amy SP Wilson ** 06:26 it, correct? Yes. So star guards is a juvenile form of macular degeneration. So you hear of, you know, your grandparents, or you know, maybe you're a person of experience, as I like to say, in your in your later years. And you know, hear about people getting macular degeneration. I essentially just got macular degeneration at the the age of 10. So little bit of a flip. And of course, again, being a first, I was the first person in my family to have any kind of blindness, low vision, and so it was. It really shook everything   Michael Hingson ** 07:06 is star guards, a genetic kind of situation.   Amy SP Wilson ** 07:12 So I learned that the only way that a person can get star guards is essentially by your parents getting together. It's not a medication defect, which is what they originally told my mother. So she carried a lot of guilt with that. And when I went to get seek a different doctor, he had me do some I guess genetic counseling is what they called it, because I had concerns of my son having it. And they were like, no, no, it doesn't work. And they explained it. I was like, well, that had been helpful in my younger   Michael Hingson ** 07:50 just sort of the right combination of things getting together that brings it on. Exactly. Yeah. Now, where do you live today? I live in the great Show Me State. Ah, so you're still in Missouri? Yes, I've   Amy SP Wilson ** 08:05 moved to a couple other states. I spent a year in Alaska, where my son was born. I lived in Indiana for a little bit. I pass on that, and fortunately, I was able to come back to to Missouri.   Michael Hingson ** 08:20 So we're in Missouri. Are you, uh, close   Amy SP Wilson ** 08:23 to Kansas City area? Okay, about about in that area, but I like to, I like it because I can take the train back and forth between Kansas City and St Louis. So, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 08:34 well, trains are very useful things to have around. I when I lived on the East Coast, would use the train a lot. And of course, going from New Jersey into New York, we had New Jersey Transit and other things that we had a lot of train stuff. But out here, where I live now, there is a train that stops here once, at 430 in the morning. If I want to go to San Francisco, I'm not going to do that on the train, I don't think, because you actually have to go to Los Angeles and then get another train to go to San Francisco, because the train that comes from Los Angeles stops here, and then, I guess, goes east. So, oh, well, one of these days, maybe there'll be more trains and more mass transit, and that'll be a good thing. Exactly.   Amy SP Wilson ** 09:19 I know in Europe, trains are used very heavily, and people that come over here are constantly surprised that we don't have more sufficient trains. And so hopefully, like you said, with time we'll we'll get some more transportation going. There's   Michael Hingson ** 09:36 a big argument and a brouhaha going on out here right now because Los Angeles wants to create a gondola system to go from downtown LA the train station to Dodger Stadium and stop along the way. And there are people who are saying, no, no. Because you're not going to get that many people on it, it's just not going to be worth the cost. So it'll be interesting to see how that all shakes out. I do agree that if you're going to do that, you have to have a lot of people using it, and you have to be able to transport a lot of people. So it will be interesting to see how that works out.   Amy SP Wilson ** 10:22 I can very much agree with that.   Michael Hingson ** 10:25 Oh, life goes on, right? That it does. So you went to, yeah, go ahead. I   Amy SP Wilson ** 10:32 said. We've heard the same debate here in Missouri about different, you know, options for trains. So, yeah, it's always an ongoing conversation.   Michael Hingson ** 10:39 When we first moved to New Jersey, we learned that with the Americans with Disabilities Act, they were finally catching up, if you will, to doing something. And the something where we lived in Westfield was to make the train station accessible and access to the train to be accessible. And what that meant was that they actually had to build a platform and ramps up to the platform so that a person in a chair, for example, like my wife, could transfer straight across and roll onto the train. Because before the platform was raised, the trains have these big, huge, high steps built into them. Each step is like 18 inches tall and you've got three steps to go into the train. Well, you're not going to really do that in a wheelchair. And there was major opposition from people in Westfield to putting in the ramps, putting in the platforms, because they said, well, but this is going to slow us down if we have to go up the ramps and can't just run to the train and jump on the train. Why don't you just have somebody at every station who will lift people in wheelchairs onto trains? Yeah, that's gonna really work, right?   Amy SP Wilson ** 11:50 Yeah, that's not, not feasible,   Michael Hingson ** 11:54 no. And it didn't, and the argument didn't hold, fortunately, and the the platforms were built and, and, and the reality is it didn't jeopardize anybody, other than maybe make them arrive 30 seconds earlier, rather than being so lazy. But, ah, the arguments that people have. But it'll be interesting to see how the train thing works out, because they do need to have more mass transit out   Amy SP Wilson ** 12:18 here. Absolutely, 100%   Michael Hingson ** 12:21 so you went off to college, and what did you do in college,   Amy SP Wilson ** 12:27 college stuff, but because I was unfamiliar with how to really maximize your college experience. I didn't really, you know, have a plan. Once I got done with college, all I knew was I needed to go to college. Go to college, yeah, and, you know, because that's, that's what's going to make your life better. Okay, I can, I can follow that plan. But what's the plan after, like, nobody, nobody had that. They just knew, you know, go to college. Oh, okay. And so I tried to get some, some different jobs, unsuccessfully. And then I ended up getting married and moving to Alaska, and so did some some different jobs up there. And through my experience of being married during that time, I also shared with people that I'm a domestic violence survivor, and it's one of the things that I really wish the disabled community was having more conversations about this, because there I know that I'm I'm not alone, and when I share it, I always have people come forward and Me too, me too. And I'm like, Yes, like, we, can we, you know, support one another. And fortunately, I was only in that marriage for for three years and and got out of it. Spent a couple more years in Indiana, but then when I moved back to Missouri, I learned about some blindness consumer organizations and and started getting involved with those. I also, at the same time, heard, heard about a self defense program for the blind. And I'm like, wait a minute, there's something you know that that works for us. So I jumped on it, became an instructor, became very involved in the that particular organization. And due to some some different circumstances, realized that that was not a healthy environment, and spent probably a year not doing that. But then had some people contact me to get another self defense program going, and I'm like, All right, let's do it. So yeah, that's a. Um, but I've, I've taken in that time of me teaching self defense, I also worked with my local dojo and would help with my son's classes. So I've definitely got the personal safety self defense experience down at this point, I feel like   Michael Hingson ** 15:24 so. So in other words, maybe if there were violent situation today, you could turn the tables and and be the one to beat up the other guy.   Amy SP Wilson ** 15:33 So that's you know, because I will share that, that that is you. That is a common thought.   Michael Hingson ** 15:43 I understand, yes,   Amy SP Wilson ** 15:46 however, in june 2019 I experienced sexual assault by somebody. And it's really what got me to tell people that personal safety you need to be proactive about it, especially in the disabled space. It is so very vital in that realm, yeah, but   Michael Hingson ** 16:11 yeah, there's only so much you can do. And you're right. It's, it's a matter of being, as you say, personally safe. And you know, it's, it is so important, and I think so many people, especially I think a lot of blind people I know about aren't as aware of their surroundings as they need to be, even just in in walking, even if it's not a a safety issue, that is where you're endangered from another person, but just being aware of your surroundings and being able to travel. I remember living in Boston and at the time, and I don't know if it's still the same or not today, but Boston or Massachusetts, had the highest accident rate per capita in the country, and this was back in the late 1970s into the early 1980s and I knew it, and it, it was just one of those factoids, if you will, that helped me stay really aware. So whenever I cross the street, I really made sure that the traffic was going the way I wanted to go, and I listened extremely carefully to what the traffic was doing around me, because any moment a car could come whizzing around a corner, nobody else would have seen it, and if I weren't listening for it, I might not have been able to judge appropriately whether it was safe to go or how fast I had to go to get across the street. So the reality is that we really do need to be situationally aware. And I think it's not just true for people who happen to be blind, but but it is especially true that we need to work on that and be aware of our surroundings   Amy SP Wilson ** 18:01 100% 100% that that is like, one of the first things we started offering right out the gate when it came to safety positive, is having discussions about personal safety topics, because it makes you more situationally aware. I know that. You know now that I have the mindset of being proactive about my personal safety, I am so keyed up on situational awareness that I sometimes freak out people, because I'm like, pay attention. Over there, pay attention. They're like, how? And I'm like, well, the more you learn about safety education, anything in the personal safety realm, it just helps you to become more situationally where, so you respond faster. You don't have to sit there and go, Well, what was that that I learned? No, no, that's not what we we want you to have. We want you to be, you know, kind of studying up on it so much that it becomes second nature for you?   Michael Hingson ** 19:00 Yeah, all too often we we learn something, and then we just have we, we sort of memorize the lesson. And we don't memorize what it is we really need to do. It isn't what, what did I learn? You need to get to the point where it's second nature, where it's just part of you, whether it's situational awareness or or a lot of things, even good musicians,   19:24 yes, you know,   Michael Hingson ** 19:26 do what they do because they've it's become second nature, yes.   Amy SP Wilson ** 19:30 And we, we talk about that, you know, it's, it's a journey you're not going to jump from, you know, being a beginner, you know, car guitar player, kind of like your manual musician, to being able to play on a, you know, stage with 5000 people overnight, it does not, you know, it is a process. And so, you know, giving, tell, you know, reminding people to give themselves grace. And it is a work in progress. So you know, you there's going to be deja mess. Up, but that's okay, you know, be do better tomorrow, on, on all those different situations. The   Michael Hingson ** 20:07 more you practice it, though, and the more you work on looking at lessons and looking at the things that you do and practice making them second nature, the easier it becomes. But it is a muscle the mind that you have to develop.   Amy SP Wilson ** 20:25 Yes, we, we basically tell people your, you know, your most important tool is your mind. So many people want that quick fix of having the pepper spray or, you know, this side of the other, and it's like, no, no, your mind is your most important, you know, tool in your arsenal, so take, take care of it. It's your, it's your biggest investment in life, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 20:48 and it's and it's the most important one, and it will do so much more for you. But the more you truly use it, the easier it becomes to use. But you've got to make that effort to make that happen, yes, so you got through college, you got, I think, what a degree in psychology, as I recall. And you said you went and worked on various jobs, and I gather nothing really struck a nerve.   Amy SP Wilson ** 21:15 No, you know, I, I actually went back to school and got a second bachelor's degree in social work because I knew I wanted to work with the disabled community, and so I of course, was advocating in my own classes for disability rights and driving my fellow students crazy. But I'm like, we're in social work, and we're not learning about disabilities. This is madness. You're going to be, you know, working with at least, you know, half the people have some sort of disability in some fashion, and we're not even having a conversation about it. So, but I guess I actually, before I got real involved with personal safety here, more recently, in the last couple years, I actually was a Mary Kay consultant for a while, and had had some fun with that. And it's a great, great company. They're they're real supportive. They call it kind of the pink bubble. But I learned a lot about marketing and sales through that. So I constantly am telling my team, I'm like, Yeah, that's a Mary Kay thing. That's America. But they've been around for so many years. There's obviously, like, I said, a method to their madness.   Michael Hingson ** 22:31 They kind of know what they're doing, yeah,   Amy SP Wilson ** 22:34 yeah, yeah. They've, they've got systems down. So yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 22:37 So when did you get your social work, bachelor's degree. When did you graduate with that 2016 Okay, so that was eight years ago, and then you you did other things and so on. But eventually, what, what caused you finally to form safety positive foundation.   Amy SP Wilson ** 22:58 I I essentially got madder than a hatter because we weren't offering choices. It was just this one self defense program, this one self defense program. And I'm like, Well, what about teaching people to advocate for themselves, or having discussions or this or that? Like and I kept getting shot down time and time again from from the leadership in those organizations, and I and I actually had a couple people who pulled me aside and really strongly encouraged me to start my own non for profit. And I was like, Excuse me. Like me be the leader. Uh, I don't, I don't. I don't know how I feel about this, um, but luckily they, you know, they convinced me. Had other people convinced me. And I just, it really is a big passion of mine to just make sure that the blind community has as many personal safety choices as everybody else does, because historically, we have not. So   Michael Hingson ** 24:05 you're saying some of the major consumer organizations kind of discouraged it at first. I   Amy SP Wilson ** 24:14 they were from elsewhere. Was from elsewhere. I wouldn't say some of them, you know, I'm not going to throw no shade on the major groups,   24:21 no, no, no.   Amy SP Wilson ** 24:22 But it was the companies that were teaching self defense got really only focused on just, you know, hands on self defense. And I'm like, and it was either, you know, release or break body parts. And I'm like, not everybody's comfortable breaking body parts like we need some choices. We need to teach people to advocate for themselves, to speak up. That is the like. The bigger thing that I have found is people not understanding the power of of their words and their language to, you know, get themselves out of situation. And it's usually a freeze response, and I know because I was personally guilty of that for many years. And so yeah, I'm I'm thrilled that I don't struggle with that nowhere near as much as I used to, but I can recognize that it is a huge need within our community.   Michael Hingson ** 25:20 So when did you actually form the foundation?   Amy SP Wilson ** 25:25 March 3, 2023 was when we officially launched safety positive foundation.   Michael Hingson ** 25:31 So it's fairly new. Yes, well, a year and about a year and a half old.   Amy SP Wilson ** 25:39 Yep, yep, we're still baby.   Michael Hingson ** 25:43 That's okay. Do you find that that men and women are interested in personal safety and so on, or is it just women or just men? Or what we   Amy SP Wilson ** 25:54 have both? I'd say at our events, it's half and half, I get more men volunteering to to work behind the scenes on stuff, because personal safety is primarily a male dominated profession, which makes me kind of a odd woman out. But you know, we are not for profits. I'll take the help wherever I can get.   Michael Hingson ** 26:17 Sure, well, even if you were for profit, it would make sense to do that. But yeah, I hear you, yes, yeah. So exactly, what does the safety positive foundation do?   Amy SP Wilson ** 26:32 So we offer, again, a variety of choices for personal safety. We have what we call our safety positive guide that gives our blind community, 24/7, access to training and resources. And so that's a resource all by itself, because we put in there motivational information resources, asking discussion questions. But then we also have chapters in our guide to where people can take our courses, where they can go from ProAct or from reactive to proactive on their personal safety. We also have in that guide links to what we call our weekly tea times, and that's probably one of our most popular services, and that's where we're having the space for discussions on personal safety. Each month we do a different topic, and we have also added verbal craft, which is a self advocacy and assertiveness communication training. And we've actually had that training from the very beginning, because, again, I knew, in my experience, that people really needed to learn that that advocating piece, like we're told to advocate, but never given a formula. And we finally have a formula with with verbal craft. So it makes me very excited. And then in just this year, when we started getting into our second year, we shifted away from focusing on the psychological safety to that physical safety aspect, and I became the first blind woman pepper spray instructor with saber so that was exciting. And then we created our own hands on self defense program that focuses on the fundamentals of self defense. We created this course because we knew people needed some pieces. So if they wanted to go take a, you know, martial arts class on a consistent basis, or if they wanted to go take that self defense class, they would have some language to talk with the instructors. And this is how you can assist me. And so, yeah, those, those are pretty much what we offer, but, and we're partnering with with other companies organizations to bring in more resources and training for our community. So like I said, it's only been a year and a half, but yeah, we're bringing it when it comes to the choices. Tell   Michael Hingson ** 29:13 me more about verbal craft, what, what that is all about, or how does that work? So   Amy SP Wilson ** 29:19 at the core, verbal craft was developed as a crisis de escalation communication training, and of course, for the purposes of the blind community, we realized that it also helps with teaching you self advocacy and assertiveness in your communication. So you know, say, somebody comes up and, you know, grabs your arm trying to assist you. Verbal craft has a, you know, we we work with you to develop to personalize your own formula. We also have a verbal craft club where people can come in and practice. This maybe a scenario and and get better at at their skills. I know for me when I first, because I did not even know a verbal craft again, I went to hearing about all the you know, need to advocate for yourself, and I'm like, How do I do that. But it was in November of 2022, that I I finally was able to take verbal craft. And since then, I have, I've discovered that I am even you know better at it. I don't, I don't freeze or fawn as much. And when people are trying to help me, or when people are trying to cross my my boundaries in those different ways.   Michael Hingson ** 30:48 I remember many times being in New York City or in other large cities, but New York especially, wanting to cross the street and go a particular way, waiting for the traffic flow to be going the way I wanted, and making sure that it's going the way I wanted, somebody will come up and grab me. Oh, let me. Let me help you. And of course, the problem is they don't even know for sure which way I want to go correct, which really makes life fun. And so they'll grab me and I go, No, hold on a minute. First of all, I'm really good. Do you know why I'm just standing here? No, you're, you're, obviously, you need help. No, let me explain Ricky, you know, but it is so unfortunate that people make these assumptions. And it happens all too often. It goes back to the basic view of of blindness that that people have, which is that we really don't know what we're doing and we can't really do it ourselves, that you need to have eyesight to do it, which is why earlier this year, at the National Federation of the Blind convention, I crafted the resolution that was adopted that says we need to stop using the term visually impaired and go to blind and low vision. And I mean, there are other terms, but the real issue is to get rid of the concept of impaired, which is what the professionals brought to the field many years ago, which was such a disservice.   Amy SP Wilson ** 32:18 Yeah, I can, I can agree, the word impaired is not the greatest term we want to be be using in that realm. And yeah, in in all my teaching of of self defense, the people coming up and grabbing is the number one frustration that that we deal with as a as a blind community, and it's the reason that people want to learn self defense, because they want to be able to figure out, how do I get myself out of this situation? And that's where you know verbal craft is that that first step of, if you can talk them down, that's that's the ideal situation. And then, of course, we're going to be bringing more choices of they don't want to do that. That's okay. We got some other skills. Yeah, yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 33:05 Well, and it's important to really learn to use all the skills that we have available, which is, of course, something that gets back to the whole issue of using your mind. And that's just something that all too often, well, if I were really abusive, I'd say that's something that every politician should learn to do, is use their mind, but they haven't learned that yet. So that's another story. But, oh, that was That was mean, but, but the reality is that that we need to learn to listen better than we do.   Amy SP Wilson ** 33:40 Well, I mean, the common thing is you have two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to do twice as much listening, and that also plays a lot into the situational awareness is, you know, sometimes you have to just stop talking so you can pay attention to what, what is going on on around you, right? I know, like with my friends and my team. They know if I'm stopped talking, they need to start paying attention themselves, because I don't usually stop mid sentence. I'm like, wait a minute, what? You know, I start kind of perking my ears and, yeah, yeah, yeah. And we've got, we've created different code words and stuff like that to help, you know, everybody be on the same page, to support people in that, that journey too   Michael Hingson ** 34:21 cool. Well, it's important. So what are the basic core values, the the core things that go into safety, positive foundation and that kind of guide what you do.   Amy SP Wilson ** 34:33 So we have five core values. One is safety, of course, um, innovation, because we are, I've been told numerous times we are pioneering new paths with what we're we're bringing in, so that's and we're always looking for other other things that the community needs to bring in as well. We also have potential as one of them, because. Do believe in the potential of of people in general, and then we also have agency because we want we strongly believe in people having choices when it comes to their personal safety and authenticity. Is our last one, and this one, it it took a little bit to get everybody on board, because I am very authentic myself. And so they were like, we're not talking about you. And I'm like, I know that like but you know, people feel safer when they can be them, their authentic selves, and that's what we want to support, is you know you getting comfortable with you and knowing that you have those you know, choices, potential and and those things. So we, we strongly believe in our core values   Michael Hingson ** 35:55 and and having the ability, or learning to have the ability to analyze who you are, what you do, what you're doing, and when necessary, make changes or to reaffirm that what you do is a good thing, whatever it is.   Amy SP Wilson ** 36:11 Yes, yeah. So, you know, sometimes people need that permission to, you know, change their mind or be on the path that they're they're being on on our on our tea times. I am very well known for telling people, does anybody have questions, comments, concerns or emotional outburst? And because I want to give people that space to you know they need to just yell it out. Yell it out. We're here to support you. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 36:40 sometimes that's important and necessary to do absolutely. Why is the foundation called safety positive Foundation?   Amy SP Wilson ** 36:50 We created that name. And actually I created that name because I got tired of the fear mongering that was going on with the self defense organizations and programs that already existed in the blind community. In fact, I had been told one time that I needed to be more negative and in pitching, you know, and trying to scare people. And I'm like, I refuse. I will not do that. Our community is already scared enough. And No way am I, you know, going to hammer home all the the statistics and stuff like that, people, people already have fear. And so in that I played around with words, of course, I have SP in the middle of my my name. And so I was like, Well, you know, safety positive, like, we're all about safety. We want to be positive. And then one of my board members was like, well, we need to add, you know, foundation, because, you know, we're building a foundation here. And I'm like, there it is, safety, positive Foundation was born just based off of the collection of all that. There   Michael Hingson ** 38:14 you go. And and it works. How is it different from mother, self defense and similar kinds of organizations. Because I'm I'm sure that you feel that it is definitely different. Yes,   Amy SP Wilson ** 38:29 yes, we have created it different from the beginning. Because when we launched, we focused on psychological safety, it people would ask me, well, where's the hands on? I'm like, Nope, we're not, we're not doing it yet, because psychological safety needs to be that first step on your on your journey, especially if you have a lot of fear when it when it comes to personal safety. So that was the the mindset that we intentionally chose. The other thing that I would say that probably differentiates us is, of course, the choices and that as of right now, we don't have it to where you can sign up, pay a bunch of money and become an instructor in our program we're not interested in making making money off of that. We are interested in bringing people in as instructors at some point, and we've talked about doing that next year, but we want to be very mindful of how that approach works, because people have gotten trained in other programs, and then they go off and do their own thing, and we're like no, because we want to make sure that the curriculum you were teaching is safety, positive focus. We don't want people running off and trying to fear monger like they had been taught. Before. So that's that's our method to our madness.   Michael Hingson ** 40:05 Well, I may not know that the whole idea of fear is a subject that is near and dear to me, because recently, I published a new book called Live like a guide dog, true stories from a blind man and his dogs about being brave while becoming adversity and moving forward in faith. And the whole idea behind the book is to get people to understand that they can learn to control fear and that you don't need to have fear forced on you. And the reality is that all the negative aspects of fear that you've been talking about is what promotes fear. And I picked on politicians before, but that's what they do. They promote fear to a very large degree themselves, and promoting all this fear just makes people negative. They make it makes people be mistrustful. And the fact of the matter is that if we really learn to understand fear, which also is involved in developing the mind, as we've been talking about. But if we really focus on understanding fear, what we learn is that we can control fear, and that fear can be a very powerful tool to help us. So it isn't about not being afraid, it's about using that fear to focus and not let it, as I would say, blind or overwhelm you.   Amy SP Wilson ** 41:24 Yes, again, 100% agreeing with you on that, the more that you can. I'd say they're, they're, say, lean into the fear and make it your friend that you know that that helps so much. It's also part of that muscle memory of going, Okay, I don't need to be fearful in this situation. And we actually talk about that in our verbal craft training, how the brain, your brain state works when you know something happens to you, and how you can move through that   Michael Hingson ** 42:04 well, and that's exactly right. The issue is moving through it. I mean, just something happens. I mean, I was in the World Trade Center on September 11, and something happened. Right? So there's a lot to be afraid of, but if you prepare and learn to control your own mind, then that fear becomes a very powerful tool to help you focus and learning to listen to that inner voice is one of the most important things that we can ever do in our lives.   Amy SP Wilson ** 42:38 Yes, I I've actually used my personal safety training to help me to heal from some of my past traumas. And, you know, even to the point where practicing certain techniques that had been, you know, done on me to how do I get out of this? And that really, you know, at the, you know, the first few times, oh, yeah, anxiety was real high. And sure, the more you lean into it, the more you work through it, it can be helpful. The unfortunate part is, for some situations, like what you went through in 911 Ain't nobody preparing you for that   Michael Hingson ** 43:17 well, but not directly, but what you learn? But what what you learn? So like with me in September 11, I learned all about emergency evacuations. I learned all about where things were in the World Trade Center. And I learned just and I mentioned being in Boston and dealing with unexpected street crossings with cars coming, and all that you learn how to deal with surprise, yeah, and so it wasn't like there was anything magically brand new at the World Trade Center. So all of the skills, all of the life preparation for for me over the previous 51 years. Ooh, that gives away my age, but all that life preparation made it possible to learn to and actually control fear, so that I was able to use it in a constructive way, which is what the whole point is.   Amy SP Wilson ** 44:17 Yes, and that's why we, I think we've mentioned, like, the more you can learn, the more those things won't surprise you, and you're going to be ready to handle when life's throwing you curve balls,   Michael Hingson ** 44:30 right? And life tends to have a habit of doing that.   Amy SP Wilson ** 44:34 Yeah, universe has since humor that's pretty it does have a sense   Michael Hingson ** 44:39 of humor, but when it's throwing the curve balls, you can learn to hit those curve balls. So it's okay, yes, it's not a it's not a bad thing. How is the community reacting to safety, positive foundation and what you're doing and so on?   Amy SP Wilson ** 44:56 Overwhelming happiness in. Anytime I tell people we are here to offer choices, I've heard statements like, Finally, thank goodness. And I know from our trainings that that we offer it's been completely game changing for for people who went through our trainings, they they feel way more safe. We actually had one of our community people that flat out told me, if it was not for safety positive foundation, I would not have went to the National Federation of the Blind convention, because they just didn't feel like they were prepared. And I think it was a combination of learning things, and then, of course, us being there to help support them if something happened. But yeah, that was, I was floored when I heard that statement. I was like, do what that was. That was us. So we're bringing people out of their houses.   Michael Hingson ** 45:55 Well, things happen at conventions, and unfortunately, I don't know of any convention where things of one sort or another don't happen to one degree or another. So it is a matter of being prepared, but it's also a matter of monitoring yourself and knowing what you're going to allow yourself to get into and not get into to a degree as well. Yes,   Amy SP Wilson ** 46:17 absolutely. And like before we went, we had a safety briefing for our community to give them the rundown, and it was so overwhelming. I'm like, okay, apparently we're going to keep doing this because they they just they felt more prepared and safe for for those different things, and knew if something did happen, what policies procedures to follow, or who to who to be able to contact? Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 46:44 and the National Federation has become a little bit more aware, and yes, they have, has helped in that process, which is, which is also a good thing.   Amy SP Wilson ** 46:56 Yes, I would very much agree with that as well. But,   Michael Hingson ** 47:00 but people do need to really take responsibility for themselves and their own actions, and so doing what you do clearly helps, I would think so. So, what role do partnerships play in what you do, and how is that affecting everything?   Amy SP Wilson ** 47:20 So when we with our partners, we bring in different people for different reasons, but essentially, it's to make sure our community has more resources for their personal safety. For example, we have partnered with Ali slaughter, who teaches yoga that you know, yoga can be very beneficial in so many ways. We also have partnered with NaVi lens to start, start working with them, because they are a company that offers these special cute like their specialized QR codes, but it can help you to navigate different areas. But not only that, you can create your own it's not like you got to wait for the company to do it. So you can label things around your house, where it'll be able to you know which remote or which seasoning. And the part I really like is it does it in multiple different languages, so it's not just a one and done deal. And then we've also partnered. Our most recent partner is Penny forward, and they teach financial literacy for the blind. And I'm like, financial safety, it is a thing like we seems like a very natural partnership here. So, yeah, yeah, we're, again, we partner with with people that are interested and helping the blind community become more safe.   Michael Hingson ** 48:47 Do you just work with the blind community, or do sighted or any persons without traditional disabilities ever become involved and become students and so on?   Amy SP Wilson ** 48:58 So we actually, we've had some sighted people attend our trainings and and events, and we are working behind the scenes to develop some different trainings for sighted individuals so they can communicate and interact with the blind community in a safe fashion, or just the disabled community, but there's, there's so much information, you know, out there, I feel like a lot of sighted people kind of don't know where to go, how to how to do stuff, and so we wanted to build that bridge of communication between the sighted or the non disabled world and the disabled community. I'd also like to note that, you know blind people typically, blindness is not their only concern. You know, sometimes people have mental health struggles. You. People or other types of disabilities. So we do work with other disabilities as as a result, we're not we, because we're a not for profit and we're new. We got to sort of niche down to the blind community, but we are happy to serve the disabled community as well, because from what I'm learning all disabilities lack personal safety choices.   Michael Hingson ** 50:27 They do or think they do, or probably both, which is, which is, it amounts to the same thing. Yes, we met, certainly through the NFB convention. Then also, I know that Sheldon Lewis from accessibe has reached out to you guys and, and I don't know   Amy SP Wilson ** 50:45 that's you know, you made me forget about the I've my apologies to accessibe, but yes, they are also one of our newest partners, making, yeah, making our website accessible we're happy to share With our other friends and stuff like, yeah, I, I love Sheldon from from access to be. He's one of my new friends, whether he wants it or not, but yeah, it's, it's pleasure that we're, we're also working with access to be as well.   Michael Hingson ** 51:18 That's pretty cool. I haven't been to the site and looked at it yet. I should really go visit the website. But because I've been now with accessibe for, oh, three and a half years, it'll be four years in January. So having a lot of fun, and again, I like the philosophy that it deals with a variety of different kinds of disabilities. And you're right. The fact is that whether whether we bring it upon ourselves or it's real, and it's probably both, we end up not having a lot of choices that we should have. But I think that that's what we need to do, as you point out, is to learn to advocate for ourselves, to bring those choices back into our lives.   Amy SP Wilson ** 52:06 Yes, you know, when I was talking with Sheldon from accessibe about us partnering with them, I said, Absolutely, because not only will it ensure our website's accessible, but I'm happy to tell people about it, because when blind people cannot navigate a website, it, it plays a big role into their psychological safety. And I mean, I, I'm a Mental Health First Aid person, you know, certified person, and I my joke was I needed Mental Health First Aid training to go through the training like it stressed me out, because it was so inaccessible, and I had to have people continuously helping me. And I actually had to take the course twice because of the lack of accessibility that that first go around and had to have people help me and stuff. And I'm like, This is crazy, like, we definitely need to to promote that more. And I'm so glad that they're just, you know, willing to work with with non for profits that are serving the disabled space like that, that that is going to be game changing for so many people and help them to feel more psychologically safe in going to those websites, they're not going to get stressed out and figuring out, how do I navigate this? Nope. Accessibe has got you so,   Michael Hingson ** 53:31 you know, here's a question, and I've asked a number of people this, but I'm curious to hear your answer. You mentioned earlier that we're not really involved in a lot of the conversations, whether it be about self defense, whether it be about personal safety and so on. Why is it that that blind or in general, persons with disabilities aren't involved in the conversations?   Amy SP Wilson ** 53:55 That is a great question. And I think that for some topics, it goes back to fear of being vulnerable in sharing what, what you're afraid of, at least for for personal safety. For some topics, they're they're hot topics, we discuss weapons and safety positive foundation and tell people, if that's a choice you want, we're happy to have the conversation. But people think that talking about weapons means that people are going to start buying firearms and getting involved with it, or bad things can happen, and that's where I go back to the if we're having a conversation about it, you can ask your questions and not have that fear wrapped around those particular topics, but that would be my personal answer,   Michael Hingson ** 54:56 yeah, I think all too often, suddenly. Weapons are the easy answer, yes, but they're not, no, they're not at all. But that's what people think. And they think that's going to take care of all of their fears. And it just doesn't work that way,   Amy SP Wilson ** 55:11 because often and it's statistically backed up, you know, oftentimes, those things will get turned on you, especially if you're not doing ongoing practice, and that's part of that proactive philosophy we talk about in safety positive is if you're choosing to use any kind of tool or device, you better be practicing with it at least once a month, minimum. And depending on the tool we're recommending even stronger practicing. But you you know, you can't just buy a pepper spray, drop it in your purse and you're good. It's like, no, because what happens when they do come to grab you? You're going to be finagling and but yeah, and then   Michael Hingson ** 55:59 you aim it the wrong way because you're not used to it. Yep, exactly. And it's and it's so important that, well, again, it goes back to like what we talked about before, with the mind, which is the most important tool that we have. And if we don't develop that tool by constant, and I believe it has to be constant use and constant us teaching ourselves we're not going to improve with it.   Amy SP Wilson ** 56:28 Exactly you. I mean, we are blessed right now that we have as much technology at at our fingertips to be able to phone a friend or use that app to help us cross the street, whatever the case might be, but technology fails, and so you can't say that this is going to be my, my backup for for everything, or for one of the things that I've learned is you Can't take your pepper spray through, you know, TSA. And there's certain things that, no, no, no, TSA, don't like it. So if you get too used to one kind of tool, it gets taken well, then what do you do? You have to have your own, your own mind to go, okay, I can handle this without all the fancy gizmos and gadgets.   Michael Hingson ** 57:18 Yeah. And, and TSA does what it does generally, for pretty good reasons. Yes,   Amy SP Wilson ** 57:25 yes, yeah, I understand their method to the madness. Yeah, it's still frustrating. Oh,   Michael Hingson ** 57:30 I know it is. You come all prepared, and then they take it away from you when, yeah, yeah. So of course, the the answer to that is you've got to put it somewhere in a bag where it's not reachable while you're on the flight. But that's another story   Amy SP Wilson ** 57:48 conversation for another day. Not that I'm talking about a short list that they will things that will get through TSA, but   Michael Hingson ** 57:55 well, how? Let me ask this. Then I think a relevant question, what are the future goals for safety positive Foundation?   Amy SP Wilson ** 58:05 We want to be the safety institution for the mind community, and so that's why we're we're very interested in bringing on more choices for trainings and working with different partners. So you know, when people think of personal safety in the blind community, their first thought is safety positive Foundation,   Michael Hingson ** 58:35 and that's pretty important to be able to do for you what's been the most rewarding experience you've had with safety positive foundation,   Amy SP Wilson ** 58:46 I would have to say it's watching the community grow as individuals like I said, you know, the one person that said, you know, if It wasn't for safety positive, I and I've heard, you know, other people telling me that they they feel safer and just learning different stuff, and that that is the the paycheck for me when I know we're we're making a difference in in people's lives, sometimes it makes me want to cry. I get, you know, so overwhelmed, but I I essentially do not want people to go through what I've went through in my life. And so the more that we can reach people and offer those resources and trainings that again, that that's what's going to do it for me,   Michael Hingson ** 59:46 so especially for blind people. But in general, what would be the message that you would most like for the community to hear from you regarding safety and safety positive foundation? Yeah.   Amy SP Wilson ** 1:00:00 When it comes to, I guess, sharing with the sighted community, be aware I'm teaching them that no is a complete sentence, and they don't gotta give you their backstory of why they don't want to accept your help, and if somebody doesn't want to take your assistance. Don't take it personal. That you know, there's so many people who do take it personal. When you tell them, No, I've got this. It's not about you. It's about people having the dignity and respect for themselves to sometimes do things on their own, or talk to you about how maybe you can assist them in a in a in a different manner, but yeah, just just don't take it personal. And no, you're also probably going to mess up a time or two. You're not You're not always going to get it perfect, because I know me as a person in the community, I mess it up sometimes.   Michael Hingson ** 1:01:01 You know, there's a lot of value in getting lost. And I, I worked in the World Trade Center a lot to get lost, because when you get lost, then you gotta figure out, how did you get lost, and how do you get out of being lost, and people helping isn't going to give you that learning experience of recovering, or, you know, using what we call whole structured discovery. The bottom line is, yeah, yeah, go ahead. I   Amy SP Wilson ** 1:01:30 say. I love the structured discovery. My whole organization, my board, yeah, when, when they like. I've got a couple of sighted board members, and they were new to the blind community, but knew it needed, you know, they were the ones who convinced me to start this. But once they learned about structured discovery, they were like, This is awesome, like, because I tell them, you know, don't help people, let them figure it out. And they watch, and they learned real fast that, okay, yeah, there is a method to the madness here.   Michael Hingson ** 1:02:04 Yeah, it's, it's important to be able to deal with, deal with, with variety of things. And you're going to be best if you teach yourself how to recover from being lost very quickly. What is structured discovery?   Amy SP Wilson ** 1:02:24 So my understanding, because I've not been given the quote, unquote definition, is where you you have an environment to where you are, um, walking through it yourself and and discovering your your environment on your own with your your white cane, your your guide dog, but you're essentially like, yeah, discovering the the environment on your own accord. Michael, you might have a different answer, but that's that's my, my understanding well,   Michael Hingson ** 1:03:00 and the other part of it is you're walking along, you expect to be going somewhere, and suddenly you discover you're not where you thought you were, or you walk on grass and you didn't expect to be there. Structured discovery also teaches you how what you do is you step back, mentally and then physically. But you step back, you go back and retrace what you did to figure out where it is that you deviated from the path that you were expecting to be on. And it works very well.   Amy SP Wilson ** 1:03:33 I've used it and all the traveling I do, yes, I've gotten lost and had to backtrack. And how did we do this? Where did we go wrong? And believe me, I'll never forget those routes.   Michael Hingson ** 1:03:48 Tell me how. So how do people get involved in the safety positive foundation? If they would like to.   Amy SP Wilson ** 1:03:57 So there's a couple different options. You can go to our website, at safety positive fdn.org, you can also we have a YouTube channel with lots of videos on on different information, and we have our Facebook page, the Facebook page and our website has links where you can come In and be part of our safety positive guide community, or you can also email us, phone call, just don't say send smoke signals. We're not going   Michael Hingson ** 1:04:31 to get those. Yeah, don't raise your hand. Don't raise your hand. That doesn't work. No,   Amy SP Wilson ** 1:04:35 no, no. It's lost on us.   Michael Hingson ** 1:04:39 Yeah, it is on all of us, which is what's okay, it's always something to be learned. Well, I want to thank you for taking the time to be here with us for more than the last hour. It's been fun, and I hope that that people have learned something from it. We'll definitely get to see you next. At the NFB convention, I assume, and that'll be kind of fun too.   Amy SP Wilson ** 1:05:02 Yes, we're going to be there with bells on. There you   Michael Hingson ** 1:05:05 go. Well, we'll, we'll be there. Yeah, and, and I'll, I'll bring my dog over, and either he'll teach self defense or he'll learn self defense. I'm not, there we go. He'll probably be looking for ear scratches and nothing else. So it's okay. We all,   Amy SP Wilson ** 1:05:24 we all need a little love from time to time. Yeah, yeah, and he's   Michael Hingson ** 1:05:27 good at that. Well, well, thank you again for being here. This has been absolutely enjoyable, and if you've enjoyed listening to us, please let us know you can email me at Michael H I M, I C, H, A, E, L, H i at accessibe, A, C, C, E, S, S, I, B, e.com, you can also go to our podcast page, where there's a contact form, and that's w, w, w, dot Michael hingson.com/podcast, that's m, I, C, H, A, E, L, H, I N, G, S o, n.com/podcast. We'd love to hear from you, and wherever you're listening or monitoring our podcast today, I hope that you'll give us a five star review. We really value your reviews. We appreciate it if you know of anyone and Amy you as well. If you know of anyone who you think might be a good guest for the podcast, we'd like to hear from you. We'd like you to provide an introduction. We're always looking for people who want to come on and tell their stories and help all of us see why we're all more unstoppable than we think we are. So I want to thank you all for for that as well. And Amy, once again, really appreciate you being here today. This has been a lot of fun. I   Amy SP Wilson ** 1:06:38 appreciate it, and I will end with my two cents of keep it safe, keep it positive and keep it safe and positive.   **Michael Hingson ** 1:06:50 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. To subscribe to our podcast and to learn about upcoming episodes, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com slash podcast. Michael Hingson is spelled m i c h a e l h i n g s o n. While you're on the site., please use the form there to recommend people who we ought to interview in upcoming editions of the show. And also, we ask you and urge you to invite your friends to join us in the future. If you know of any one or any organization needing a speaker for an event, please email me at speaker at Michael hingson.com. I appreciate it very much. To learn more about the concept of blinded by fear, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com forward slash blinded by fear and while you're there, feel free to pick up a copy of my free eBook entitled blinded by fear. The unstoppable mindset podcast is provided by access cast an initiative of accessiBe and is sponsored by accessiBe. Please visit www.accessibe.com . AccessiBe is spelled a c c e s s i b e. There you can learn all about how you can make your website inclusive for all persons with disabilities and how you can help make the internet fully inclusive by 2025. Thanks again for Listening. Please come back and visit us again next week. Amy SP Wilson, the trailblazer behind the Safety Positive Foundation, is revolutionizing personal safety for the blind and visually impaired community. Her journey began in March of 2023, but her path has been shaped by a diverse range of experiences. Some have been uplifting, while others have been challenging, but each one has served as a valuable lesson that propelled her towards the creation of the Safety Positive Foundation. Amy's commitment to personal safety has been a lifelong pursuit. From playfully wrestling with her cousins during her early years to becoming the first female wrestler at the Missouri School for the Blind in 1996, her passion for wrestling led her to the United States Association of Blind Athletes nationals in 1997, where she discovered Judo. In 1998, Amy proudly represented her country in the World Championships for the Blind in Judo, as a member of the inaugural women's Judo team of the USABA, all before graduating from high school. Unfortunately, Amy's eye condition, Stargardt's, prevented her from continuing her martial arts journey. Diagnosed at the age of 10 in 1992, she faced initial struggles. However, connecting with others who were also blind or visually impaired raised her expectations and inspired her to persevere. As life progressed, Amy earned her first bachelor's degree in psychology, only to become a survivor of domestic violence shortly thereafter. This was not her first experience as a survivor, and it is one of the primary reasons why she advocates for self-empowerment. Amy is deeply passionate about addressing the alarming rates of mental and emotional abuse within relationships involving individuals with disabilities. Amy's pursuit of knowledge led her to earn a second bachelor's degree in social work, providing her with valuable insights into developing systems within the Safety Positive Foundation. She consistently puts her education into practice, utilizing her expertise to make a difference. For the past decade, Amy has been involved in instructing and developing self-defense programs specifically designed for the blind and visually impaired. However, she found that these programs and organizations often had limited expectations for the BVI community, which did not align with her mission. Amy firmly believes that low expectations act as barriers, and she advocates for the BVI community to have unlimited choices when it comes to personal safety. Amy has dedicated her life to making this mission a reality for her community. She actively engages with the BVI community in various capacities, striving to enhance their lives as much as possible. Through the establishment of the Safety Positive Foundation, Amy shares her skills and empowers her community to embrace a safety-positive lifestyle. Ways to connect with Amy: Amy's digital business card link https://linqapp.com/ Book a meeting with me https://bit.ly/3LOviXT Website www.safetypositivefdn.org Facebook https://bit.ly/4fvKMO4 YouTube https://bit.ly/4d5FQy2 TikTok https://bit.ly/3LO9Ja1 LinkedIn https://bit.ly/4fvRbsE Instagram https://bit.ly/4duJq4B Contact info amyspwilson@safetypositivefdn.org 660-441-1907 About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can subscribe in your favorite podcast app. You can also support our podcast through our tip jar https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/unstoppable-mindset . Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Transcription Notes:

Accessible South Africa Travel Podcast
121 - Linsay Lusyne on Being a Low Vision Travel Advisor and Coach

Accessible South Africa Travel Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2025 47:02


** My new Kindle book, Paws for Thought (second edition) is now available. Get your copy at https://www.amazon.com/Paws-Thought-second-Seeing-Through-ebook/dp/B0DRTJF95G/ In today's episode, Lois chats with low vision travel coach Linsay Lusyne about her work helping those from the blind and visually impaired(BVI) community who wish to become more confident travellers. Drawing on her experience as an orientation and mobility instructor and as a guide dog trainer, Linsay has a thorough understanding of the way that members of the BVI community travel. Combining that with her love of travel and exploring new places and cultures, the insights that Linsay offers into the world of accessible travel are of immense value to anyone in the BVI community and those who would like to gain a greater understanding into how blind and low vision people travel. Please note: during the conversation, Linsay mentions a workshop that will be taking place in early December. This episode was recorded some time ago and that workshop has already happened. But take a look at Linsay's website and socials to see what is coming up. Reach out to Linsay at the following: Vision Loss Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/617168270274903 • Website: visionlosstravel.com • YouTube: https://youtube.com/@visionlosstravel?si=FByTI9pxz1aREuyz • Email: visionlosstravel@gmail.com Image description: A woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a dark dress with a floral pattern is walking down a paved path surrounded by tall trees and greenery. She has a red shoulder bag over one shoulder. I'd love to hear from you – contact me at Web: https://www.loisstrachan.com/ LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/lstrachan Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/loisstrachanspeaker This episode edited by Craig Strachan using Hindenburg PRO – find out more on Hindenburg.com Credits and music by Charlie Dyasi.

Fly Away
Episode 537: Windstar in the BVI with Aimee

Fly Away

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2025 29:49


Windstar Cruises offer a uniquely luxurious experience that larger ships simply can’t match. With fewer passengers, you get more space, personalized service, and access to hidden gems that are off the beaten path—away from the usual crowds. You can also go back and listen to Episode 484 to hear more of the background on this … Continue reading Episode 537: Windstar in the BVI with Aimee →

The Regulatory 15/15
British Virgin Islands Regulatory Update - Beneficial Ownership Regime

The Regulatory 15/15

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2025 11:46


In this BVI episode, Chris Capewell, Chris Newton, Matthew Gilbert and Nikki Wood discuss recent updates to the British Virgin Islands Beneficial Ownership Regime.SPEAKERS:Chris Capewell Partner | +1 345 814 5666 | chris.capewell@maples.com | View bioChris Newton | Partner | +1 284 852 3043 | chris.newton@maples.com | View BioMatthew Gilbert | Partner | +44 20 7466 1608 | matthew.gilbert@maples.com | View BioNikki Wood | Associate | +1 345 814 5463 | Nikki.Wood@maples.com | View bioRELATED SERVICES:Maples Group Regulatory and Financial Services AdvisoryWith a depth of experience across all regulated sectors, the Maples Group Regulatory and Financial Services team is positioned to address client needs and sensitivities. We have the largest dedicated Cayman Islands Regulatory and Financial Services team in the offshore market.FOLLOW US: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/maplesgroup/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maplesgroup/Twitter: https://twitter.com/maplesgroupFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/maplesgroup/Website: https://maples.com/podcasts/15-15

Sailing - The Ocean Cruisers Podcast
Laura Dekker World Sailing - The Ocean Cruisers Podcast - Chat 104

Sailing - The Ocean Cruisers Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2025 57:02


Hi GuysThis weeks episode is with World Record Holder Laura Dekker and her husband Sander.If you would like to book one of your kids onto Laura's Foundation experience email her lauradekkerworldsailing@gmail.com for more information.The Odyssey Sailing FestivalIf you would like to join The Odyssey Sailing Festival in the BVI in April please visit www.theoceancruisers.com/odyssey or email Andy on Andy@theoceancruisers.com Cheers!If you want to support the content we are creating, check out  https://www.patreon.com/c/OceanCruisers to join the Patreon community, we look forward to seeing you there#sailingSupport the show

Sailing - The Ocean Cruisers Podcast
Max, Un-Tide Sailing - The Ocean Cruisers Podcast - Chat 103

Sailing - The Ocean Cruisers Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2025 74:57


Hi GuysThis weeks episode is with max from Uni-tide sailing.Please follow him on  @UntideSailing on YoutubeVisit his instagram which is https://www.instagram.com/un.tide/His Patreon is https://www.patreon.com/untidecrewThe Odyssey Sailing FestivalIf you would like to join The Odyssey Sailing Festival in the BVI in April please visit www.theoceancruisers.com/odyssey or email Andy on Andy@theoceancruisers.com Cheers!If you want to support the content we are creating, check out  https://www.patreon.com/c/OceanCruisers to join the Patreon community, we look forward to seeing you thereSupport the show

Sailing - The Ocean Cruisers Podcast
Aiyanna, The Pirate Princess - The Ocean Cruisers Podcast - Chat 102

Sailing - The Ocean Cruisers Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2025 35:29


This week we are having a chat with Aiyanna The Pirate PrincessIf you would like to join her on Patreon please follow these links:https://www.patreon.com/PiratePrincessChronicleshttps://www.patreon.com/HurricaneAiyanaYou can follow her on Instagram with the following handles:@pirateprincesschronicles @hurricaneaiyanaThe Odyssey Sailing FestivalIf you would like to join The Odyssey Sailing Festival in the BVI in April please visit www.theoceancruisers.com/odyssey or email Andy on Andy@theoceancruisers.com Cheers!If you want to support the content we are creating, check out https://www.patreon.com/OceanCruisers to join the Patreon community, we look forward to seeing you thereSupport the show

Sailing - The Ocean Cruisers Podcast
Dan and Kika, Sailing Uma - The Ocean Cruisers Podcast - Chat 101

Sailing - The Ocean Cruisers Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2025 87:30


This week on The Ocean Cruisers Podcast we talk with Dan and Kika of  ‪@sailingumaThe Odyssey Sailing FestivalIf you would like to join The Odyssey Sailing Festival in the BVI in April please visit www.theoceancruisers.com/odyssey or email Andy on Andy@theoceancruisers.com Cheers!Support the show

Sailing - The Ocean Cruisers Podcast
Lauren Landers - The Ocean Cruisers Podcast - Chat 100

Sailing - The Ocean Cruisers Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 25, 2024 43:23


This week on The Ocean Cruisers Podcast we talk with  @laurenlanders  The Odyssey Sailing FestivalIf you would like to join The Odyssey Sailing Festival in the BVI in April please visit www.theoceancruisers.com/odyssey or email Andy on Andy@theoceancruisers.com Cheers!Support the show

Sailing - The Ocean Cruisers Podcast
Laura & Ross, Sailing Holly Blue - The Ocean Cruisers Podcast - Chat 99

Sailing - The Ocean Cruisers Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2024 82:23


This week on the ocean cruisers podcast im having a chat with Laura and Ross from @sailinghollyblueIf you are interested in online schooling for your kids check out https://www.minervavirtual.comFor Laura's Boat Fit programmes visit https://sailinghollyblue.com/boat-fit/If you are interested in Super B Batteries then visit https://www.super-b.com/enIf you would like to see the videos of my own Super B Install then check out https://youtu.be/PyedOa4uaK4The Odyssey Sailing FestivalIf you would like to join The Odyssey Sailing Festival in the BVI in April please visit www.theoceancruisers.com/odyssey or email Andy on Andy@theoceancruisers.com Cheers!If you would like to purchase some goodies from our new Ocean Cruisers store visit https://www.theoceancruisers.com/storeIf you want to support the content we are creating, check out  https://www.patreon.com/OceanCruisers  to join the Patreon community, we look forward to seeing you there!Support the show

ChaseLife with Kelly
138: Heal, Elevate & Transform w/ Britnie Faith Turner

ChaseLife with Kelly

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2024 62:10


In this powerful episode, Kelly and Britnie take us on a journey through the intersection of purpose, passion, and entrepreneurship. From the emotional highs and lows of pursuing your calling to the transformative power of business done with integrity. Tune in as Britnie discusses everything from emotional elevation to intentional living, offering practical wisdom for anyone looking to heal, elevate, and transform their life. Britnie Faith Turner has been on a mission of being a force for good from the age of 12. She bought her first house at 18 and started her real estate development career during the greatest real estate recession in US history while living in her car and working for free. A mere 6 years later she won the ‘Forbes 6th fastest growing Woman-owned / Woman-led Company in the World' and bought a private island in the British Virgin Islands. As the owner of The Aerial, BVI she took her passion for elevating people and places and turned this private island into a space that heals, elevates and transforms the lives of those who visit. Turner is currently scaling the model to more resorts and healing centers with the goal of helping even more people. She is impacting lives through her resort and its programs but she is also using the island to restore struggling veterans and first responders. Through her non-profit, Aerial Recovery, these Heroes go through a year-long program and become Humanitarian Special Operators that in turn, rescue vulnerable people from sex trafficking and natural disasters. To date, Aerial's programs have helped with suicide prevention for over 150 Heroes and these Heroes have led to the rescue of over 8,000 people around the globe. [6:37] Eye-Opening Mission "I was angry because I dedicated my life to anti-trafficking, but now I am seeing kids starving, and I see women getting horrifically abused." [8:30] Elevating Emotions with Passion "Your purpose is gonna take you to a heightened level of anger or sadness." [12:56] Business for Good "I've learned that business so I could be a force for good." [23:27] Fool to Genius "You might really have to look like an idiot until you look like a genius." [33:04] Business Bound "If I had to be in business I'm still gonna do good with it." [40:42] The Entrepreneurial Brain "We've created a program called Heal the heroes." [46:11] Restored Lives “Our promise is that we provide healing through purpose.” [50:07] Consequential Choices "There's so much that happens if you do and if you don't." [55:46] Stop Trafficking "I would be more sad to do nothing, and I know that I probably cannot stop all the trafficking on the entire planet in my lifetime. But, by God, I'm gonna do it for the one." [1:00:42] Intentional Living "Being good is not living intentionally." Follow Britnie Faith Turner on instagram @britnieturner Follow The Aerial Bvi on instagram @theaerialbvi Follow The Aerial Recovery Group @aerialrecoverygroup Please download, rate & review this episode and share it with friends!  Connect with Kelly here: Follow Me on Instagram at @chaselifewithkelly  Follow Me on TikTok at @iamkellychase Subscribe to My YouTube Channel Goddess Magic Program Kelly's Favorites Visit Our Website!

WISSEN SCHAFFT GELD - Aktien und Geldanlage. Wie Märkte und Finanzen wirklich funktionieren.

Mit einer guten Strategie zur ersten Million. Deine erste Million als Anlageziel? Warum nicht. Wie schnell lässt sich dieses Ziel erreichen? Ein paar Rechenbeispiele. Viel Spaß beim Hören,Dein Matthias Krapp(Transkript dieser Folge weiter unten) NEU!!! Hier kannst Du Dich kostenlos für meinen Minikurs registrieren und reinschauen. Es lohnt sich: https://portal.abatus-beratung.com/geldanlage-kurs/   

Nachdenken
Episode 50: DORA – Was sind die nächsten Schritte?

Nachdenken

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2024 20:32


Der Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) soll die Finanzbranche widerstandsfähiger gegen Cyberrisiken machen und IT-Ausfälle verhindern. Die europäischen Finanzunternehmen müssen DORA bis zum 17. Januar 2025 umsetzen. Thomas Richter und Peggy Steffen (Leiterin Risikomanagement beim BVI) erörtern im Podcast, was die aktuell größten Herausforderungen im Umsetzungsprozess sind und ob der ambitionierte Zeitplan eingehalten werden kann.

ACB Sunday Edition
Sunday Edition Presents: Hocking your Holiday Wares and Trish of Blind Girl Designs 20241124

ACB Sunday Edition

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2024 119:10


In our first hour we welcome Trish of Blind Girl Designs to get to know her and her fabulous designs. She has definitely made a name for herself and we look forward to hearing her story and holiday recommendations. Then in our second hour we will highlight entrepreneurs within the BVI community and hear their holiday offerings. Questions or comments for the show can be sent to: SundayEditionac@gmail.com

Radio Cayman News
LOCAL SPORTS

Radio Cayman News

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2024 4:51


The Cayman National Men's Football team will head to St. Kitts and Nevis next month for the continuation of the CONCACAF Nations League. The team will face BVI once again and get another chance at the home team. The Cayman U14 and U18 Girls Rugby teams have kicked off their season with a bang! The Corporate Basketball League is back, offering a fantastic opportunity for companies to mix business with pleasure.  

Daily Compliance News
August 14, 2024 - The CCO Salary Survey Edition

Daily Compliance News

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2024 6:26


Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you compliance-related stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee and listen to the Daily Compliance News. All from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider four stories from the business world: compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest for the compliance professional. In today's edition of Daily Compliance News: A new CCO salary survey is out. (WSJ) Will the UK finally try and clean up BVI? (Politico) Bank of America tells junior bankers to ‘follow the rules'. (WSJ) Texas sues GM over stealing drivers' personal data from its cars. (Reuters) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Above Deck
157. Below Deck Med S9 Ep4: Beach Olympics with an Olympian

Above Deck

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2024 36:21


Kelli and Sarah discuss Season 9, Episode 4 of Below Deck Med. Topics include: Jono to the Bridge, remembering the firing of Chef Kiko, perms, Iain's lack of planning, Gael saving beach day, Joe's jump serve, Allrecipes.com, the King and Queen of Spain, breaking plates, the outdoor drama: Tecumseh, Gigi's disappointment in the food, sending out a signal to Norma and Bri and Ellie competing for Joe. In Hot Tub Convo we discuss Aesha and Ellie on WWHL, Alex visiting Chase in the BVI's, an update on Daisy's sister, Bonnie, and Captain Jason at Universal with Brock and Scheana. Time to text Norma - a new episode of Above Deck is out now!  Follow us on Instagram: @abovedeckpod  Get in touch: abovedeckpod@gmail.com  Get ya some Above Deck merch! https://shop.hurrdatmedia.com/collections/above-deck Thank you to Stream2Sea for sponsoring this episode! For 10% off your order go to http://stream2sea.com (U.S.) or http://stream2sea.net(Europe) and use code ABOVEDECK. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts, and tell a friend!  (00:00) - Intro (00:54) - Episode Recap (01:15) - Discussion (24:19) - Acting Like Aesha (26:16) - Stream2Sea Ad  (27:26) - Hot Tub Convo (32:42) - Join Me in the Wheelhouse (33:22) - Outro This is another Hurrdat Media Production. Hurrdat Media is a podcast network and digital media production company based in Omaha, NE. Find more podcasts on the Hurrdat Media Network by going to HurrdatMedia.com or Hurrdat Media YouTube channel! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Brand Called You
Revolutionising Health Assessment: Introducing the Body Volume Index (BVI) | Richard Barnes | CEO and Founder, Select Research Limited, Inventor of the Body Volume Index

The Brand Called You

Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2024 14:25


In a world where health is paramount, accurate assessment tools are key to preventive care. Enter the Body Volume Index (BVI), a groundbreaking innovation reshaping how we measure and understand individual health risks. Developed by Richard Barnes, CEO and Founder of Select Research Limited, BVI offers a transformative approach to health assessment by considering body shape and weight distribution. Let's delve into this game-changing technology and its implications for the future of healthcare. [00:22] - About Richard Barnes Richard is the CEO of Select Research Limited. He has been a pioneer in measuring body shape in 3D for over 25 years. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tbcy/support

SeventySix Capital Leadership Series
De Anna Guerreiro, Founder of Athlon Family Office - SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show

SeventySix Capital Leadership Series

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2024 27:25


On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed De Anna Guerreiro, Founder of Athlon Family Office. Guerreiro is an entrepreneur and founder of Athlon Family Office LLC. Founder and CEO of Vinecrest Investments LLC, a private equity consulting firm and Managing Partner of Aenon Capital Ltd a BVI offshore investment holding company. Guerreiro started her career in finance with Citibank in the 1980's. She moved into the mortgage lending industry as an Account Executive for banks and mortgage lenders. Creating loan programs for the mortgage industry. She was successful in the acquisition and development of hotels, luxury homes, high-end subdivisions and shopping centers. An opportunity to raise capital for a shell mine opened a new path in investing in mining, oil & gas, agriculture, energy, and technology. She founded Aenon Capital by raising money with private investors and invested in 10 oil wells in Texas. Currently, she has a partnership with an offshore bank to manage Athlon's Trade Finance Division to bridge the gap for manufacturers, suppliers, exporters, and importers. De Anna Guerreiro: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/de-anna-guerreiro-8091b314/ X: https://x.com/DeAnnaGuerreiro

You Deserve A Luxury Vacation
Why You Should Visit The British Virgin Islands?

You Deserve A Luxury Vacation

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2024 30:38


 Discover why the British Virgin Islands should be your next luxury vacation destination. From pristine beaches and crystal-clear waters to exclusive resorts and vibrant local culture, we delve into what makes this Caribbean paradise a must-visit. Tune in to learn about the hidden gems and unforgettable experiences awaiting you in the BVI.   Click here to view the episode on YouTube:  You Deserve A Luxury VacationFree Consultation Belvin's contact informationLinkedinYouTubeShowtime TravelInstagram Showtime TravelInstagram - Luxury Travel by BelvinFree ConsultationSupport the Show.

The Fifth Court - Ireland's legal podcast
E75 The Fifth Court - Joe Brolly, life, times and law.

The Fifth Court - Ireland's legal podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2024 46:08


E75 The Fifth Court - recorded at the Solicitor's Growth SummitOur hosts, Mark Tottenham BL and Peter Leonard BL are joined by barrister Joe Brolly BL, the well know GAA football analyst who played at senior level for Derry and was a member of that county's only All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winning side in 1993. An entertaining romp through the life and times of the well known lawyer and pundit. About the Northern Troubles, according to Joe his mother always said, 'he started the Troubles'. Having won an All-Ireland he was dispirited and wondered 'Is that it?' He denies Mary McAleese's description of him being (one of her) outstanding students. Great entertainment. His book recommendation? 'The Fight' by Norman Mailer.Peter and Mark also delve into three more cases from the Decisis.ie casebook. They include:A bankruptcy case where there was non-disclosure of a property in Thailand and a BVI company. A case involving an 'enduring power of attorney' where a woman was said not to have the ability to control her own affairs.A child abduction case where the judge decided it was not in the child's interest to be sent back to Ireland from Poland. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Epstein Chronicles
A Look Back: The Prime Minister Of The BVI Is Arrested On Narco Trafficking Charges

The Epstein Chronicles

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2024 18:12


If you follow drug money on the street you will inevitably trace it back to a drug dealer. When you follow drug money that moves through the banks, you will inevitably trace it back to some politician somewhere. In todays update, that is exactly the case as the Premier of the BVI and the Port Authority director are both in custody and charged with drug and money laundering violations.(commercial at 9:39)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/british-virgin-islands-premier-and-port-authority-director-arrested-on-drug-and-money-laundering-charges-in-miami/ar-AAWISYv?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=37b0e0ae46e0444486784a78aac5a7e6Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.

Beyond The Horizon
ICYMI: The Prime Minister Of The British Virgin Islands Is Arrested On Narcotic Charges

Beyond The Horizon

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2024 18:12


If you follow drug money on the street you will inevitably trace it back to a drug dealer. When you follow drug money that moves through the banks, you will inevitably trace it back to some politician somewhere. In todays update, that is exactly the case as the Premier of the BVI and the Port Authority director are both in custody and charged with drug and money laundering violations.(commercial at 9:39)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/british-virgin-islands-premier-and-port-authority-director-arrested-on-drug-and-money-laundering-charges-in-miami/ar-AAWISYv?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=37b0e0ae46e0444486784a78aac5a7e6

Debtwired!
Ireland as an international restructuring hub with Maples Group's Kathlene Burke

Debtwired!

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2024 18:32


On this episode, we speak with Maples Group's Kat Burke about the Irish restructuring toolkit and in particular, its potential as an implementation route for global workouts. Kat is Of Counsel in the Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team at Maples Group, Dublin. She is an Irish, English, US and BVI qualified corporate restructuring lawyer and has experience in key restructuring jurisdictions including New York and London.

Sailing Into Oblivion Podcast
EP#234 Conversation with Sailing Instructor Dr. Gonzo

Sailing Into Oblivion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2024 69:11


Today I catch up with an old friend that is now working in the BVI as a watersports instructor with the Bitter End.  We get into the first impressions and then go off into the weeds of camping and much more.  Thanks for listening! Support the Podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sailingintooblivionpodcast One Time Donations Via PayPal and Venmo: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/JeromeRand https://account.venmo.com/u/sailingintooblivion Sailing Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/sailing-into-oblivion/ Books: https://a.co/d/eYaP10M Reach out to the Show: https://www.sailingintooblivion.com/podcasts

Sailing - The Ocean Cruisers Podcast
Tripp Brower, Apparent Winds - The Ocean Cruisers Podcast - Chat 77

Sailing - The Ocean Cruisers Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2024 57:03


This week on The Ocean Cruisers Podcast I have a chat with my good friend Tripp who I recently met at The Odyssey Sailing Festival in the BVI.Tripp and his partner Kiera are wonderful people that bring joy to everyone around them.Check out their vlog on  @apparentwinds and visit https://apparentwinds.org to learn more about what they do.If you would like to purchase some goodies from our new Ocean Cruisers store visit https://www.theoceancruisers.com/storeIf you want to support the content we are creating, check out  https://www.patreon.com/OceanCruisers  to join the Patreon community, we look forward to seeing you there!Support the show

Analyze This with Neville James
Wednesday, January 10, 2024 - Part1

Analyze This with Neville James

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2024 58:52


Neville James engages with the National Weather Service for a midweek forecast.  He then reflects on yesterday's show regarding the upcoming play by the Caribbean Community Theater "The Meeting", and current news. He is then joined by Dwayne Henry for an extended session of "Bush Tea" as they discuss the BVI government, the Trump matters, the Virgin Islands' lack of a Constitution, among other matters.  

On The Brink with Castle Island
Weekly Roundup 12/22/23 (Inscriptions mania, Fairshake PAC) (EP.490)

On The Brink with Castle Island

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2023 31:45


Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode:  Matt's tree crisis The Jamie Dimon Elizabeth Warren nexus Is there a really a revolving door between crypto and the government? Warren's latest volley of letters Promethian gets authorization to start trading We recap the inscriptions frenzy A new Super PAC is raised The BVI issues a seizure of the 3AC assets Zooko steps away from Zcash Content mentioned in this episode: Messari's Crypto Theses for 2024 Bitwise 2024 predictions Blockchain Coinvestors 2024 predictions Sponsor notes State of the Network's 2023 Year in Review In Coin Metrics State of the Network Issue 238, we revisit major stories that shaped the digital asset industry in 2023 with a data-driven lens

Life After Addiction And Indictment
Ben Tuff - Alcoholic Turns To Long Distance Swimming In Shark Infested Waters

Life After Addiction And Indictment

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2023 47:06


Ben Tuff grew up splitting his time between Atlanta, GA, and Jamestown, RI. He attended Colby College, where he met his now wife, Gretchen, and treasured his time working as a sailing instructor and boat captain in the British Virgin Islands. Ben developed a lifelong appreciation for the ocean between Jamestown and the BVI.  Ben is a lifelong educator and has had the privilege of working with hundreds of boarding students from across the world. In 2012, Ben made the life-altering decision to break free of the hold that the addiction to alcohol had on him. Despite not knowing how to swim, the sport of triathlon arrived quickly in his life. After seven years of competitive triathlon, Ben made the switch to marathon swimming. After many crossings from Newport, RI to Jamestown, RI on Save the Bay Swims, Ben throttled it up with the 12.5 Mile FKCC Swim Around Key West. After that, he couldn't stop and completed a 21-mile swim around Jamestown and began his endeavor to preserve the Rhode Island marine environment by raising money for the non-profit Clean Ocean Access. He continued his challenge with a 19-mile swim from Block Island to Jamestown, most recently by swimming the 24-mile length of Narragansett Bay from Providence, RI to Jamestown, RI. Esteemed producer, Matt Corliss, chronicled Ben's journey to sobriety and the parallels of his recent swim. Ben has successfully raised over $270k to preserve the local marine environment of Rhode Island which has all gone to Clean Ocean Access. Connect with Ben: Website: Swimtuff.com Instagram: @ben.tuff

The See-Through Podcast
Mary Kathryn LeMaster (Accessibility & Mindfulness Consultant)

The See-Through Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2023 93:24


Episode 096 | Mary Kathryn LeMaster (Accessibility & Mindfulness Consultant) joins the podcast! In this episode, MK talks to Lance about her abrupt transition into legal blindness, why she names her white blind canes, how she created her own BVI community, the difference between image descriptions and alt text, and how both individuals and businesses can create an accessible experience in the digital world. SEE-THROUGH is hosted by Lance Johnson. Based in New York City, Lance is a video editor living with the rare degenerative eye disease - retinitis pigmentosa or "RP” for short. In most cases, RP causes legal-blindness by the age of 40. Now at the age of 33, Lance uses SEE-THROUGH as his platform to explore his inevitable future of blindness.  ------------------------- SUPPORT SEE-THROUGH: Merch: https://seethroughpod.com/merch ------------------------- MARY KATHRYN LEMASTER LINKS: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigsightmk/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bigsightmk ------------------------- SEE-THROUGH LINKS: YouTube: https://bit.ly/3JRSPEO Instagram: https://instagram.com/seethroughpod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@seethroughpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/seethroughpod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seethroughpod Website: https://www.seethroughpod.com/

Sailing Into Oblivion Podcast
EP#196 Conversation with Dobbs

Sailing Into Oblivion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2023 78:37


Today, I sit down with Dobbs once again and talk about the BVI and it's current state and recovery, a bit about what I am trying to do and just about anything in-between.  Always a pleasure to spend a little time with one of my favorite people.   Support the Podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sailingintooblivionpodcast Sailing Into Oblivion Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/sailing-into-oblivion/ Check out Sail Junky at https://www.sailjunky.com/ For information on Presentations: https://www.sailingintooblivion.com/

The See-Through Podcast
Stephanie Jones (Menus4ALL)

The See-Through Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2023 69:47


Episode 094 | Stephanie Jones (Menus4ALL) joins the podcast! In this episode, Stephanie talks to Lance about how she regained her independence after abruptly losing her vision at the age of 29. Stephanie explains how her drive to provide value for her family sparked a path for her to become a braille and assistive technology instructor for the BVI community as well as the Vice President of Marketing for the accessible restaurant menu app Menus4ALL! SEE-THROUGH is hosted by Lance Johnson. Based in New York City, Lance is a professional video editor living with the rare degenerative eye disease - retinitis pigmentosa or "RP” for short. In most cases, RP causes legal-blindness by the age of 40. Now at the age of 33, Lance uses SEE-THROUGH as his platform to explore his inevitable future of blindness. ------------------------- SUPPORT SEE-THROUGH: Merch: https://seethroughpod.com/merch ------------------------- STEPHANIE JONES LINKS: Download the Menus4ALL app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/menus4all/id1640547801?platform=iphone Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/menus4all Website: https://www.menus4all.com/ ------------------------- SEE-THROUGH LINKS: YouTube: https://bit.ly/3JRSPEO Instagram: https://instagram.com/seethroughpod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@seethroughpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/seethroughpod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seethroughpod Website: https://www.seethroughpod.com/  

Blind Abilities
C & C Insights: Two Perspectives on Home Schooling and Public Schooling from a Blindness Perspective and What About Accommodation's for Parents?

Blind Abilities

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2023 41:49


Carrie, from the YouTube Channel, "Carrie On Accessibility" and Cindy from the YouTube Channel, "Seeing Blind" are back in the studio for their 3rd podcast episode, ""C and C Insights". In this episode, they let us in on  how Home Schooling and Public Schooling both have similar and unique challenges for parents who are Blind or Visually Impaired. Carrie brings another perspective as her child is BVI as well. Learn how they overcome the challenges and what they suggests for others as they take charge of their families educational journey's.   You can contact Carrie and Cindy by email at CCInsightsPodcast@GMail.com   Be sure to check out their YouTube Channels and all their social presence below:   ·      ·      Carrie On Accessibility on YouTube ·      ·      Find all Carrie's Socials  at  Carrie On Accessibility on the web ·      ·      Seeing Blind on YouTube ·      ·      Follow Cindy on all her Socials  

19Keys
(19Keys) THE USE OF THE WORD "BLACK" | w Baba Heru

19Keys

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2023 11:47


19KEYS presents High Level Conversations to bring you into the high frequency of speech and communication to elevate your mindset and value.S3E1 Ft. Baaba HeruFeatured Guest Bio: Baaba Heru, born in Quisqueya, La Romana, grew up on the British colony of Tortola, BVI. In 1958 he migrated to the USA attending Wingate HS in Brooklyn. Heru worked in data processing until becoming a NY City Police Officer from 1964-1985. During his patrols, he cultivated respectful relationships with the community, taking pride in never having fired his weapon in the 20 years that he served. Always preferring entrepreneurship, in 1967 he established the Sphinx Shop in Brooklyn, NY, manufacturing Dashikis and collectible Afrakan Artifacts. In 1971, he met Master Jeweler, Anacleto Santiago de Colon, who then mentored him in the art of jewelry making. As an official, "Craftsman of Ptah", he founded and became the Chief Designer of the Studio of Ptah, known for Authentic Kemetic amulets, for which he coined the term JOYARI and then established Heal ThySelf alongside Queen Afua in the early 90s.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/19keys/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

19Keys
(19Keys) WHY ISN'T THERE A KEMETIC FRETERNITY FOR COLLEGES? | w Baba Heru

19Keys

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2023 11:48


19KEYS presents High Level Conversations to bring you into the high frequency of speech and communication to elevate your mindset and value.S3E1 Ft. Baaba HeruFeatured Guest Bio: Baaba Heru, born in Quisqueya, La Romana, grew up on the British colony of Tortola, BVI. In 1958 he migrated to the USA attending Wingate HS in Brooklyn. Heru worked in data processing until becoming a NY City Police Officer from 1964-1985. During his patrols, he cultivated respectful relationships with the community, taking pride in never having fired his weapon in the 20 years that he served. Always preferring entrepreneurship, in 1967 he established the Sphinx Shop in Brooklyn, NY, manufacturing Dashikis and collectible Afrakan Artifacts. In 1971, he met Master Jeweler, Anacleto Santiago de Colon, who then mentored him in the art of jewelry making. As an official, "Craftsman of Ptah", he founded and became the Chief Designer of the Studio of Ptah, known for Authentic Kemetic amulets, for which he coined the term JOYARI and then established Heal ThySelf alongside Queen Afua in the early 90s.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/19keys/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

CITIUS MAG Podcast with Chris Chavez
Adaejah Hodge's Road to World Championships Makes A Stop At New Balance Nationals + Coach Gerald Phiri On Coaching Generational Talent

CITIUS MAG Podcast with Chris Chavez

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2023 67:16


"I always define the impossible as possible. Nothing is impossible to me. I always put my mind to do impossible things." Montverde Academy rising senior Adaejah Hodge shook the track and field world when she won the New Balance Nationals Indoor 200m title in 22.33 seconds. The performance broke the previous record of 22.97 by Bianca Knight, which stood since 2007. Hodge also qualified for the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary later this summer, where she will represent the British Virgin Islands. She holds the BVI national records in the outdoor 100m (11.11s) and indoor 200m (22.33s). On Memorial Day weekend, we paid a visit to Clermont, Florida to witness her work on her powerful start and smooth stride alongside coach Gerald Phiri.  The 17-year-old has tremendous potential to become one of the best sprinters in the world. Her work ethic and her personality are unmatched for someone her age. Hodge is entered in the 100 meters, 200 meters, 4x200m relay and 4x400m relay and sprint medley relay at New Balance Nationals Outdoor from June 15-18 in Philadelphia. You will be able to watch all of the action LIVE and for FREE on the New Balance YouTube channel. Host: Chris Chavez | @Chris_J_Chavez on Instagram Guest: Adaejah Hodge | @daejahdaej on Instagram Guest: Coach Gerald Phiri | @peer_ee on Instagram SUPPORT THE SPONSORS OLIPOP is a prebiotic soda with only 2-5g of sugar that is actually good for your gut health. – and it's delicious. Use code CITIUS25 for 25% off non-subscription orders. Learn more at https://DrinkOlipop.com (click the link or use our promotional code for the discount) NEW BALANCE: I've had a pretty solid shoe rotation this spring with New Balance. I'll do my everyday junk miles in the FuelCell SuperComp trainer. I'll do some tempo runs and long runs in the FuelCell SC Elite v. 3. Occasionally, when I have to spike up, I've thrown on the FuelCell MD-X v2. Check out NewBalance.com for all of their offerings. GARMIN: Introducing the Forerunner 965 from Garmin, the ultimate GPS running and triathlon smartwatch. With a bright AMOLED touchscreen display and lightweight titanium bezel, this premium watch is designed for athletes who demand the very best. Learn more here: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/ UCAN: UCAN is offering the Citius Mag community an exclusive chance to try 6 Edge samples for free – all you need to pay is the cost of shipping. Just head over to ucan.co/citius to claim this exclusive offer. And if you're already a fan of UCAN or want to try some of their other products, use code CITIUS at ucan.co to save 20% on the full variety of product HOW TO SUPPORT THE PODCAST

19Keys
(19Keys) WHAT IS HEALTHY MASCULINITY? | w Baba Heru

19Keys

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2023 13:06


19KEYS presents High Level Conversations to bring you into the high frequency of speech and communication to elevate your mindset and value.S3E1 Ft. Baaba HeruFeatured Guest Bio: Baaba Heru, born in Quisqueya, La Romana, grew up on the British colony of Tortola, BVI. In 1958 he migrated to the USA attending Wingate HS in Brooklyn. Heru worked in data processing until becoming a NY City Police Officer from 1964-1985. During his patrols, he cultivated respectful relationships with the community, taking pride in never having fired his weapon in the 20 years that he served. Always preferring entrepreneurship, in 1967 he established the Sphinx Shop in Brooklyn, NY, manufacturing Dashikis and collectible Afrakan Artifacts. In 1971, he met Master Jeweler, Anacleto Santiago de Colon, who then mentored him in the art of jewelry making. As an official, "Craftsman of Ptah", he founded and became the Chief Designer of the Studio of Ptah, known for Authentic Kemetic amulets, for which he coined the term JOYARI and then established Heal ThySelf alongside Queen Afua in the early 90s.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/19keys/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

19Keys
(19Keys) FROM MASCULINITY TO FEMININITYS | w Baaba Heru

19Keys

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2023 10:46


19KEYS presents High Level Conversations to bring you into the high frequency of speech and communication to elevate your mindset and value.S3E1 Ft. Baaba HeruFeatured Guest Bio: Baaba Heru, born in Quisqueya, La Romana, grew up on the British colony of Tortola, BVI. In 1958 he migrated to the USA attending Wingate HS in Brooklyn. Heru worked in data processing until becoming a NY City Police Officer from 1964-1985. During his patrols, he cultivated respectful relationships with the community, taking pride in never having fired his weapon in the 20 years that he served. Always preferring entrepreneurship, in 1967 he established the Sphinx Shop in Brooklyn, NY, manufacturing Dashikis and collectible Afrakan Artifacts. In 1971, he met Master Jeweler, Anacleto Santiago de Colon, who then mentored him in the art of jewelry making. As an official, "Craftsman of Ptah", he founded and became the Chief Designer of the Studio of Ptah, known for Authentic Kemetic amulets, for which he coined the term JOYARI and then established Heal ThySelf alongside Queen Afua in the early 90s.This Episode:This episode goes high level into the conversation of our understanding the concept of linguistic sovereignty, ancestral legacy, unification, differentiating between the spiritual and human experience, and changing the connotation of Black.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/19keys/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

19Keys
(19Keys) ANKH SECRETS REVEALED| w Baaba Heru

19Keys

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2023 10:09


19KEYS presents High Level Conversations to bring you into the high frequency of speech and communication to elevate your mindset and value.S3E1 Ft. Baaba HeruFeatured Guest Bio: Baaba Heru, born in Quisqueya, La Romana, grew up on the British colony of Tortola, BVI. In 1958 he migrated to the USA attending Wingate HS in Brooklyn. Heru worked in data processing until becoming a NY City Police Officer from 1964-1985. During his patrols, he cultivated respectful relationships with the community, taking pride in never having fired his weapon in the 20 years that he served. Always preferring entrepreneurship, in 1967 he established the Sphinx Shop in Brooklyn, NY, manufacturing Dashikis and collectible Afrakan Artifacts. In 1971, he met Master Jeweler, Anacleto Santiago de Colon, who then mentored him in the art of jewelry making. As an official, "Craftsman of Ptah", he founded and became the Chief Designer of the Studio of Ptah, known for Authentic Kemetic amulets, for which he coined the term JOYARI and then established Heal ThySelf alongside Queen Afua in the early 90s.This Episode:This episode goes high level into the conversation of our understanding the concept of linguistic sovereignty, ancestral legacy, unification, differentiating between the spiritual and human experience, and changing the connotation of Black.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/19keys/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

19Keys
Secrets of the Ankh: Kemetic Revelations, Crystallized Evil, Story of the gods, Egyptian Animal Worship Truths 19Keys Ft Baaba Heru

19Keys

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2023 211:33


Master the joy of bringing joy, innerstanding the symbols of life, interpreting history through hieroglyphics, how to overcome the over-indulgence of the flesh and resurrecting the power of women. 19KEYS ft Baaba HeruDescription:19KEYS presents High Level Conversations to bring you into the high frequency of speech and communication to elevate your mindset and value.S3E1 Ft. Baaba HeruFeatured Guest Bio:Baaba Heru Ankh RA Semahj Se Ptah, was born in Quisqueya, La Romana and grew up on the British colony of Tortola, BVI. In 1958 he migrated to the USA. He attended Wingate HS in Brooklyn then worked as a supervisor in Data Processing for 4yrs. He became a NY City Police Officer from 1964-1985. During his patrols as an officer he cultivated respectful relationships with the people of the community he served. He takes pride in never having fired his weapon in the line of duty or off duty in the 20 years that he served. Always preferring entrepreneurship, in 1967 he established the Sphinx Shop in Brooklyn, NY, teaming up with fine artist Jokulo Cooper. There he manufactured Dashikis and collectible Afrakan Artifacts. In 1969 he became a vegetarian and soon after founded a cultural group known as the "Jewels of Aton" focusing on the Old Kingdom legacy of ATN-RA which reemerge during the 18th Dynasty led by Tehutimes 4, Amenhetep 3, Queen Tiye, Akhenaton and Nefertiti. In 1971 he met Master Jeweler, Anacleto Santiago de Colon, who became his mentor in the art of jewelry making in copper, brass, silver, gold and platinum. He officially became a "Craftsman of Ptah". He then Founded and became the Chief Designer of the Studio of Ptah, known for Authentic Kemetic SA-Protective amulets, for which he coined the term JOYARI. In 1980, he awarded Dr. Yosef Ben Jochannan with a Priest Carrying Ankh, also Alma Nomsa John, the first African American registered nurse at Harlem hospital. Historians, John Hendricks Clark, Ivan Van Sertima , and Charsie McIntire, educator, Adelaide Sandford, NYS Board of Regents, artist, Sun RA, activist, Sonny "Abubadika" Carson, Judge Bruce Wright ("Cut Em Loose Bruce")' Susan Taylor (Essence Magazine), Queen Mother Moore and many others. In the early 90s along with Queen Afua, he established the SMAI TAWI- Heal ThySelf.This Episode:This episode goes high level into the conversation of our understanding of the concept of linguistic sovereignty, ancestral legacy, unification of the nations, differentiating between the spiritual and human experience, changing the connotation of Black, challenging the narratives, and highlighting the role of unity and harmony in overcoming obstacles.Join the High Level Society today by answering the questions on this survey!https://forms.gle/SPzq3y7h5ppq6zZY7Featured Guest Contact:Website: Studio of Ptah | New York NY | Facebookhttps://www.soptah.com/Chief Elder | Shrine of Ma'at (shrineofmaat.org)Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/baabaheru_creates/?hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/studioofptah/?hl=en19KEYS:He is a believer in the unlimited human potential, and he aims to help more and more people realize their full potential. His mantra is “slaveship to ownership.” Growing up in Oakland, California as a Muslim of African-American origins, he had to face a lot of difficulties. Many people around him lost their lives due to poverty which motivated him to work harder and secure a better future. 19KEYS is a global thought leader and one of the pioneers in the space of Web 3, business, mindset, holistic wealth, tech , metaphysics and financial literacy; having millions of followers across the globe. 19KEYS is known for his relentless efforts in matters of wealth creation, especially for the youth. One of his initiatives has funded over 5 million student investment accounts. 19KEYS is also the co-founder of initiatives such as The Block World Order (BWO), Goldewater, and Crownz Society. When people think of 19KEYS, they think of a self-taught 21st-century polymath who believes work is the cure to all of our problems.Follow his links below to learn more:BWO (THE BLOCK WORLD ORDER)https://bwo.cheatcode.com/ LinkTreehttps://linktr.ee/19_keys Crownz 19 Linkhttps://crownz19.com/ GoldeWater Linkhttps://goldewater.com/ Book linkhttps://crownz19.com/products/paradigm-keys-solution-based-mind-reprogramming-e-book?variant=17962889904179 **************Special EYL Viewer Promotion**********Text “HLC“ to 3235776692Tap in on all platforms:Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/c/19keysTwitter:https://twitter.com/Instagram:www.instagram.com/19_keys/TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@19keys?Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/19keys/messageSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/19keys/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy