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In this episode of AUHSD Future Talks, Superintendent Matsuda interviews Lorena Moreno and Bindi Crawford, principals of Western High School and Orangeview Junior High School. During the talk, both principals discuss their journey that led them to their leadership roles, school consolidation and redesign, strengths at each site that can be built on for school redesign, key ideas from California State Board of Education President Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, and next steps in redesigning.

August 8, 2024 — A group of Redwood Valley residents are hoping to build a community recreation center at the old Redwood Valley School Campus.The Ukiah Recreation Center, which the City of Ukiah Recreation Department manages, serves hundreds of children every day. Students from Ukiah Unified elementary schools are bussed to the center to participate in the Boys and Girls Club. The Family Resource Center provides free bilingual programs for toddlers and their parents. Recreation centers can also help young people discover healthy and safe ways to have fun in their communities.Because of a decline in student enrollment, the Ukiah Unified School District Board of Trustees voted to close the Redwood Valley campus in 2010.The next step is for Ukiah Unified to get a waiver from the California State Board of Education.The next Ukiah Unified Board of Trustees meeting is on Thursday, August 8th. It starts at 6:30 pm at 511 South Orchard Avenue in Ukiah.

The California State Board of Food and Agriculture will bring together rural appraisers, financial institutions and agricultural associations to hear updates on market trends and the farm economy on Tuesday, August 6.

We explore a pivotal 2006 legal battle where the Hindu American Foundation sued the California State Board of Education over its closed-door textbook review process. The court ruled partially in favor of HAF, mandating a complete overhaul of the SBE's procedures to ensure transparency and fairness. Join us to learn how this landmark case reshaped #Hindu American advocacy.

The Equity Multiplier -- a new $300 million component to California's Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) -- is rolling out this  school year. Guests Natalie Wheatfall-Lum and Sara Pietrowski join Jason Willis to describe how the Equity Multiplier works, how it came about, and related changes to the state's accountability system, including what districts must now report in their Local Control and Accountability Plans (LCAPs). Along the way, they consider broader policy issues and implications for targeting LCFF funds directly to the school sites whose student populations generate them; helping LEAs better identify and address the needs of all of their students; and the importance of focusing on Black student achievement in particular. The Equity Multiplier is one piece of a larger set of changes to California's accountability system that were enacted as part of the 2023-24 state budget. Eligibility for the additional funding is based on two indicators at school sites: prior year non-stability rates of greater than 25 percent and prior year socioeconomically disadvantaged pupil rates greater than 70 percent. Similar to LCFF, the funds flow from the state to school districts or other local education agencies; however, in a shift from LCFF, Equity Multiplier funds are required to be used at the school sites that generate them. About Our GuestsNatalie Wheatfall-Lum, J.D., serves as Director of TK-12 Policy at The Education Trust-West, where since 2014 she has supported the organization's policy research, analysis, and position development, primarily in K-12 equitable funding and accountability. Before working in education policy, Natalie practiced law, gaining experience in various civil rights issues, including LGBTQ equal rights, fair housing, and immigration. Sara Pietrowski serves as Policy Director for the California State Board of Education, where she has supported the board's work of developing an accountability and continuous improvement system for more than six years, including the LCAP, California School Dashboard, and Statewide System of Support. She previously served  in Sacramento City USD where she led development of the district's data dashboard and coordinated LCAP and improvement science efforts. About Our HostJason Willis serves as  Director of Strategic Resource Planning and Implementation for WestEd, and he is a former chief business official in several California school districts.Related ResourcessEquity Multiplier page, CDE website and 2023-24 First Principal Apportionment of EM fundsSupporting the African-American Learner: Guide for Transforming Beliefs, Systems and Practices for Black Students Evaluation of California's Differentiated Assistance, WestEd More To Be Done: California's LCFF After A Decade, Education Trust-WestBudgeting for Educational Equity is presented by CASBO and WestEd.  The series is written and produced by Paul Richman and Jason Willis. Original music and sound by Tommy Dunbar.  Alyssa Perez and Hannah Jarmolowski at WestEd provides research and develop the written briefs that go along with each episode.

792: Bryce and Brita Lundberg on Growing Organic RiceContinuing a multi-generational practice of regenerative organic farming.In This Podcast: Brita and Bryce Lundberg of Lundberg Family Farms join us to share their four-generation family journey into Regenerative Organic farming. It is an amazing story that started in the great American dust bowl, then created a mantra of leaving the land and environment better than they found it.Our Guests: In 1937, Brita's great-grandparents left Nebraska in the wake of the Dust Bowl after seeing how farming techniques stripped the land of its topsoil. When they moved to California, they decided to do things differently by tending to soil, air, water, and wildlife as carefully as their crops so they can deliver on their founding promise to leave the land better than they found it. The Lundberg family began farming organically in the late 1960s and, in 2023, became the first U.S. grown rice brand to launch Regenerative Organic Certified® rice. Brita is a fourth-generation farmer, who has “boots-on-the-ground” experience in the fields. She also spent several years honing her storytelling skills in the New York publishing world. However, sometimes it takes leaving home to realize what you left behind. Today, Brita's favorite story to tell is her family's. Now, as a resident expert on the brand's rich history and heritage, Brita shares the Lundberg story with a broad base of eco-conscious consumers.Bryce is a third-generation rice farmer and serves as chair of the Northern California Water Association, is on the board of the Western Canal Water District, and on the California State Board of Food and Agriculture. He has previously served on the boards of California Certified Organic Farmers, the California Organic Food Advisory Board, and the California Rice Research Board, as well as on the standards committee of the Organic Crop Improvement Association.Visit www.urbanfarm.org/LundbergRice for the show notes and links on this episode!Need a little bit of advice or just a feedback on your design for your yard or garden?The Urban Farm Team is offering consults over the phone or zoom. Get the benefits of a personalized garden and yard space analysis without the cost of trip charges. You can chat with Greg, Janis or Ray to get permaculture based feedback.Click HERE to learn more!Become an Urban Farm Patron and listen to more than 850 episodes of the Urban Farm Podcast without ads. Click HERE to learn more.*Disclosure: Some of the links in our podcast show notes and blog posts are affiliate links and if you go through them to make a purchase, we will earn a nominal commission at no cost to you. We offer links to items recommended by our podcast guests and guest writers as a service to our audience and these items are not selected because of the commission we receive from your purchases. We know the decision is yours, and whether you decide to buy something is completely up to you.

Mullissa Willette is serving her first term on the CalPERS Board of Administration.She's an estate administrator with the County of Santa Clara, president of Service Employees International Union 521, and has served on multiple committees and commissions.Mullissa has a Bachelor of Management, Public Administration from Southern New Hampshire University. She also holds certifications in public pension investment management from UC Berkeley, and advanced assessment analysis at the California State Board of Equalization.

KFI's Steve Gregory joins Gary and Shannon to talk about the arson suspect who started the fire under the 10 freeway. The California State Board of Parole will release a serial rapist who still had 140 years left on his sentence. #TerrorInTheSkies.

Over the summer, the California State Board of Education proposed its new math framework, a nearly 1,000 page document that has generated considerable controversy. While some are criticizing the overt political content within the framework, the more important question is: Will the framework actually help students learn math?This week, Naomi and Ian are joined by Brian Conrad, mathematics professor and the director of undergraduate mathematics studies at Stanford University, to discuss the new framework. Brian focuses on the framework's pitch for schools to offer “data science” courses as an alternative to Algebra II. Brian explains that not only are these data science courses much lighter in math content, but they also have the potential to steer students off track from being able to study actual Data Science at the college level. He argues that the framework's proposals center on optics, or “fake equity,” as opposed to changes that would actually serve disadvantaged students. As other proposals emerge in other states, without any clarity on the long term consequences for students, Brian notes that parents and university professors need to push back. ResourcesCalifornia's Math Misadventure Is About to Go National | Brian Conrad | The AtlanticPublic Comments on the CMF | Brian ConradShow Notes1:04 | What about the proposed California Math Framework was so concerning to you?3:34 | What is data science as a field of study at the college level, and how would you describe the content of data science courses being advocated for at the high school level?6:54 | What is the best progression of math from 8th grade through high school to ensure that students are best prepared for college? 10:00 | What response did you receive when you released your public comment? 11:45 | What happened in the San Francisco experiment with the new CMF? 13:28 | What do you think about CalTech's decision to create an alternative pathway to admission for students that don't have access to upper level courses in math and science?18:08 | Do you think the tide is turning against “fake equity” proposals or will more of the country follow California's footsteps?20:20 | Is the concern behind some of these new proposals that allowing certain students to excel will cause inequity? Is that concern valid?24:28 | What happens now that the new framework has passed?

On July 12th, the California State Board of Education adopted a new math framework that will affect the way math is taught for the nearly 6 million students in California's public schools and has the potential to influence the way math is taught at the national level. On this episode of The Report Card, Nat […]

On July 12th, the California State Board of Education adopted a new math framework that will affect the way math is taught for the nearly 6 million students in California's public schools and has the potential to influence the way math is taught at the national level.On this episode of The Report Card, Nat Malkus speaks with two of the framework's critics, Jelani Nelson and Tom Loveless, about the framework, its intellectual origins, what they think it gets wrong, whether it is equitable, and what it will mean for California's students. Jelani Nelson is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley.Tom Loveless is an education researcher and former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.Show Notes:California Math FrameworkCalifornia Adopts Controversial New Math Framework. Here's What's in ItCalifornia's New Math Framework Doesn't Add UpAnalysis and Critique of California Math Frameworks Revisions (CMF)UC Berkeley, Stanford Professors Face Controversy, Debate State Math CurriculumCalifornia Students Are Struggling in Math. Will Reforms Make the Problem Worse?The Divider: Jo Boaler of Stanford Is Leading the Math-Instruction Revolution. Critics Say Her Claims Don't Always Add Up.

The California State Board of Education issued on July 12 a new framework for teaching math based on: “updated principles of focus, coherence, and rigor”; “Teaching for Equity and Engagement”; “Structuring School Experiences for Equity and Engagement,” “Supporting Educators in Offering Equitable and Engaging Mathematics Instruction.”  This new framework says that math teachers must be “committed to social justice work to equip students with a toolkit and mindset to identify and combat inequities with mathematics,” and also must teach students that “mathematics plays a role in the power structures and privileges that exist within our society.” Julie reacts.Don't forget to like this video, subscribe to our YouTube channel, and ring the notification bell so you never miss a future upload!  Check out other Julie Hartman videos: https://www.youtube.com/@juliehartman Follow Julie Hartman on social media: Website: https://juliehartmanshow.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julierhartman/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JulieRHartman Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timelesswithjuliehartmanSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Public schools across California are rolling out new state math guidelines after years of development, revision, and controversy. State education leaders approved the guidelines this summer and say the framework focuses on instilling “big ideas” in students beyond basic math skills. The new framework aims to improve math test scores at a time when only about a third of students meet state proficiency standards and help more Black and Latinx students excel in math. Critics say the guidelines could hold back more advanced high school students and put too much emphasis on bringing social justice into math lessons among other critiques. As kids head back to classrooms, we'll talk about what's in the new framework and take your questions. Guests: Linda Darling-Hammond, president, California State Board of Education; president, Learning Policy Institute Kyndall Brown, PhD, executive director, California Mathematics Project Statewide Office at UCLA Brian Conrad, professor of mathematics; director of undergraduate studies in math, Stanford University

Host Jason Willis provides a quick update on our upcoming new season. Plus, we replay our initial episode featuring several guests as a way to re-establish the context for the new episodes and help you get your "resource equity bearings."Guests on the replay include:Christopher Edley, Jr., J.D., interim dean, U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Education; co-founder and president emeritus of The Opportunity Institute; professor and dean emeritus, U.C. Berkeley School of Law; former professor, Harvard Law School; and co-chair, National Commission on K-12 Excellence & EquityMaria Echaveste, J.D., president and CEO, The Opportunity Institute; and former White House deputy chief of staffMichael Kirst, Ph.D., professor emeritus, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University; and past president, California State Board of EducationJayne Christakos, former chief business officer, San Bernardino City Unified School DistrictMarguerite Williams, Ed.D., chief business official, Inglewood Unified School District;; and former senior director of equity and diversity, Association of California School AdministratorsAdela Madrigal Jones, (retired) superintendent, Sanger Unified School DistrictJason Willis (host), director of strategic resource planning and implementation for WestEd and a former chief business official in several California school districtsDownload the Interactive Companion Brief for this episode.Budgeting for Educational Equity is presented by the California Association of School Business Official (CASBO) in partnership with WestEd.We are grateful to the Sobrato Family Foundation for providing additional support. 

Running a desk while growing and managing a team can be extremely challenging. Someone who has managed to pull it off is Allan Fisher, founder of Premier Financial Search.    Allan's got an amazing track record of personally billing over a million dollars for ten years straight. Then during Covid, Allan decided to turn a threat into an opportunity and grow his practice from a small, office-based team of 4 people to a remote team of 15 people based across the country.   According to Allan, the secret to his success involves excellent an operational support team, robust systems and processes, leveraging automation technology and commit to ongoing staff training & development.    In his long recruiting career, Allan has faced his share of adversity. As a recruiter and recruitment business owner, he went through the 9/11, the dot com bubble, the 2008/9 great recession, COVID and now the economic uncertainty and slowdown of 2023.  However, Allan believes that after every recession, prosperity follows.    Some of the key highlights that you will hear in this episode are:   The importance of consistent Quality output regardless of market condition The value of hiring an integrator in your team to focus on the operational aspect of your business How to build your business by putting up a remote team  How to create a great training and team culture in a remote setup   Episode Outline and Highlights   [01:30] How Allan became a recruiter; the value of his Pinnacle Society peer group. [06:43] Allan candidly reveals his career lowlights that many recruiters can relate to. [12:30] Three learnings from coming out of economic recessions. [20:40] How to prep your team to face challenging periods. [24:08] Allan shares his career highlights and accomplishments. [30:10] As a recruitment business owner, how critical is it to find someone to help you who is operationally focused? [38:04] How Allan scaled his business from 4 to 15 team members remotely. [42:17] Creating a great culture in a remote environment. [48:10] The value of tracking performance and metrics. [50:08] How Allan manages his internal recruitment just like any other successful search process.  [58:50] How Allan manages his time to be a top producer and recruitment business owner at the same time.   Insulating Your Team During Downturns   “If we are consistent with what we do, if we never change the quality that we present, we are really trying to make ourselves the firm of choice in any market. So it is not gonna make us recession-proof, but it will insulate us.” This is how Allan summarized how they have dealt with economic downturns and recessions since he started his recruitment business.   Allan started his recruitment business just around 2001, prior to the 9/11 attack. However, he had been a recruiter since 1988. So you can just imagine how many downturns Allan had undergone as a recruiter and business owner - the dot com bubble, the 9/11 attack, the real-estate bubble leading to the 2008 recession, and COVID. Now that we are all facing a similar uncertainty it is invaluable to hear Allan's thought process and insight, and below are the takeaways:   Coming out of a recession, the market usually rebounds in a dramatic way and this period usually brings prosperity. You will only lose out if you quit. When the market changes for the better, clients will have more choices and they will revert to QUALITY. Be consistent with what you do and never change the quality that you present in any market. Never stop doing business development. When things are doing well, it may be easy to get clients but never stop doing business development.   Why Having an “Integrator” is Key to Operational Success    Being a successful business owner is not the same as being a successful recruiter. On the other hand, the best recruiters are not necessarily always the best business owners. The best business owners are actually the ones who are good at marketing, sales, and leadership. Hence, if you are a successful recruiter transitioning to becoming a business owner, hiring someone complementary to your technical skills is a key to success.    This is the case with Allan, and he shared his journey of discovering this logical approach with his team. By finding his and his team's strengths, he was able to find the best role for his members. From within his team, he was able to find an integrator who is very effective in operational execution.    As a recruitment business owner, things you may need to ask yourself: Do you have an integrator to help in the operational aspects of your business? Are you able to set up your team for success by having them work primarily on their strengths?   Growing Your Business by Building a Team in a Remote Working Environment   A key highlight when growing Allan's business is when they started to grow the team from 4 to 15 members in a couple of years by hiring people remotely. “A couple of years ago when we realize that location was not really a factor for our clients. Then I realized, maybe it should not be a factor for us,” he recalled. So Allan started to work on building his team, by first running a search. He looked for candidates that have been doing what they do for 3-4 years and ran a national search. He was able to find rockstar team members in doing so. Given that this is a remote setup, Allan also revealed how they adjusted their training methodology in order to accommodate their new team members. Lastly, Allan also shared how he works on the team's dynamics and culture despite the differences in proximity.   Our Sponsors   This podcast is proudly sponsored by i-intro and Recruitment Entrepreneur.   i-intro® is an end-to-end retained recruitment platform. Their technology and methodology allow recruiters to differentiate themselves from the competition, win more retained business, bigger fees, and increase their billings. Their software combined with world-class training enables you to transition from transactional, contingency recruiter to consultative, retained recruiter. Instead of being perceived as a “me too” vendor, you'll be positioned as a “me only” solutions provider. Be sure to mention Mark Whitby or The Resilient Recruiter. Book your free, no-obligation consultation here: www.recruitmentcoach.com/retained Recruitment Entrepreneur is the world's leading Private Equity firm specializing in the international recruitment industry. If you've dreamed of starting, scaling, and selling your recruitment business, this is your chance. James Caan and his team at Recruitment Entrepreneur are actively seeking ambitious recruiters in who they can invest. They provide everything you need to grow a successful recruitment business including funding, financial expertise, coaching and mentoring, operational strategy, back-office support, marketing, and talent attraction solutions. Be sure to mention Mark Whitby or The Resilient Recruiter. Start a conversation here: https://www.recruitmentcoach.com/vc   Allan Fisher Bio and Contact Info   Allan Fisher has been the recruiter of choice to elite local, regional, and national accounting firms for 25 years. Leveraging his extensive industry expertise, Allan is driven to facilitate transformative change for organizations and candidates, alike. With a mission to further client strategic visions and goals, Allan has keen insight into accounting talent market trends and forces, enabling him to make placements that surpass industry averages for engagement and retention.   Allan originally began his career in accounting, spending two years with a professional services firm. From there, he moved to a division of a $500 million publicly traded software manufacturer. In January 1998, seeking to utilize his accounting background in service to others, Allan made the jump to recruiting and joining Accounting Principals, a national staffing firm. In his three and a half years with Accounting Principals, he was ranked as one of the top executive recruiters nationwide, winning the “Consultant Of The Year” award by the California Staffing Professionals Association (CSP) in 2000.   Today, Allan has established himself as an industry thought leader and has spoken at meetings of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants, the California State Board of Accountancy, The Westside Firm Administrators Group, and ProVisors. He has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal.   Allan on LinkedIn Premier Financial Search website link   People and Resources Mentioned   Harlan Friedman on LinkedIn The Pinnacle Society website link The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel Jeremy Sisemore on LinkedIn Leanne Sara Jones Hunt on LinkedIn   Connect with Mark Whitby Get your FREE 30-minute strategy call Mark on LinkedIn Mark on Twitter: @MarkWhitby Mark on Facebook Mark on Instagram: @RecruitmentCoach Related Podcast You Might Enjoy TRR#97 Lift Outs: How to Successfully Recruit an Entire High-Performing Team, with Harlan Friedman TRR#160 Why Balance is the Key to Unlocking Personal and Business Growth, with Jeremy Sisemore   Subscribe to The Resilient Recruiter  

Dr. Weber takes her oath of office to serve as California's first elected Black secretary of stateThis 2022 election marks several, notable, historical first among Black candidates now serving in very powerful positions in California's legislature as elected officials. ONME News first noted that former congresswoman, Karen Bass, became the second Black elected-mayor of Los Angeles but the first female to serve in the position; Los Angeles is the biggest city in California with over 3.9 million people. Such a seat will require political prowess due to the many woes that plaque the southern California city.Meanwhile, former chair of the California State Board of Equalization, Malia Cohen, sworn into office Monday, Jan. 2, 2023, became the first Black woman to serve as state controller; this involves disbursing state funds, auditing government agencies and serving on more than 70 boards and commissions. Cohen will be California's chief fiscal officer.Also at the state of California legislative level, Dr. Shirley Nash Weber, Ph.D., will serve as the first elected Black secretary of state. Sworn in Jan 10, 2023, Dr. Weber will serve as the 32nd Secretary of State of California.Dr. Weber, Ph.D. was nominated to serve as California Secretary of State by Governor Gavin Newsom on December 22, 2020 and sworn into office on January 29, 2021. She was California's first Black Secretary of State then to be nominated, and only the fifth African American to serve as a state constitutional officer in California's 170-year history.

In this episode, we talk about the fight between Michigan State and Michigan, where a number of Michigan State players attacked a Michigan Football player. Will criminal charges follow against the Michigan State players? We also talk about the IARP giving penalties to Louisville. Are the penalties fair? Equitable? Kansas also decided to self-impose penalties. Are the penalties fair? Will the IARP give out more penalties? We also talk about UCLA and the move to the Big 10. Will the California State Board of Regents block the move? Lastly, AP makes his picks. Will he go 5-0? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/twolawyers/message

Today we are talking with Jorge Pacheco Jr. He is a national award-winning teacher, appointed by the California State Board of Education to help the California Department of Education create Ethnic Studies curricula for the state in 2019.  Jorge, who is proudly indigenous, has been an elementary and middle school Native Studies and Spanish teacher in the Bay Area since graduating from UC Berkeley in 2013. In his role as an advocate for equity and public education, he is now working to close the digital divide for Santa Clara County as a Digital Equity Specialist for Community Health Partnership.  Jorge currently serves as President for both the Oak Grove School District of Education as well as the California Latino School Board Association or CLSBA, where he leads an organization that represents and fights for Latino students and school board members across the state. The CLSBA  is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that Latino/a/x students have the best educational opportunities and resources available to succeed. We are committed to meeting the educational needs of all Latino/a/x students by working with educational organizations and empowering current and future Latino/a/x School board members. Together, we will positively change and improve the educational [...]

Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr. is an American billionaire businessman. He's the co-founder, chairman, and co-chief executive officer of Netflix. Hastings also sits on a number of boards and non-profit organizations. A former member of the California State Board of Education, Hastings is an advocate for education reform through charter schools. In 1997, Hastings and former Pure Software employee Marc Randolph co-founded Netflix, offering flat rate movie rental-by-mail to customers in the US by combining two emerging technologies; DVDs, which were much easier to send as mail than VHS-cassettes, and a website to order them from, instead of a paper catalogue. Netflix has amassed a collection of 100,000 titles and more than 100 million subscribers. Hastings had the idea for Netflix after he left Pure Software. "I had a big late fee for Apollo 13. It was six weeks late and I owed the video store $40. I had misplaced the cassette. It was all my fault. I didn't want to tell my wife about it. And I said to myself, ‘I'm going to compromise the integrity of my marriage over a late fee? Later, on my way to the gym, I realized they had a much better business model. You could pay $30 or $40 a month and work out as little or as much as you wanted."   5x #1 Bestselling Author and Motivational Speaker Erik Qualman has performed in over 55 countries and reached over 50 million people this past decade. He was voted the 2nd Most Likable Author in the World behind Harry Potter's J.K. Rowling.   Have Erik speak at your conference: eq@equalman.com   Motivational Speaker | Erik Qualman has inspired audiences at FedEx, Chase, ADP, Huawei, Starbucks, Godiva, FBI, Google, and many more on Digital Leadership.   Learn more at https://equalman.com

"Community schools" are something that we may be seeing a lot more of in California in the coming years after the state made a roughly $4B investment in the teaching model. These schools re-define what it means to be a public school in California, and are seen by proponents as an answer to helping children left behind during pandemic shutdowns.  For more, KCBS Radio news anchors Patti Reising and Bret Burkhart spoke with Linda Darling-Hammond, President of the Learning Policy Institute and President of the California State Board of Education

Have you ever dreamed of an approach to carbon capture and sequestration that can be deployed anywhere, and has many years of demonstrated success? It turns out farmers have been employers using this technology – plants – for thousands of years.Dr. Jeff Creque is a co-founder of the Marin Carbon Project and the Carbon Cycle Institute, where he serves as Director of Rangeland and Agroecosystem Management.  Jeff provides senior leadership on carbon farming and land management, informed by thirty-five years of applied experience and theoretical training. He is an agricultural and rangeland consultant and a Natural Resources Conservation Service certified nutrient management planning specialist and technical service provider.Jeff's organizational affiliations include: Founding Board Member, Alliance for Local Sustainable Agriculture (Marin); Co-Founder, Bolinas-Stinson Beach Resource Recovery Project; Agricultural Director, Apple Tree International; Co-Founder, West Marin Compost Coalition.Jeff holds a PhD in Rangeland Ecology from Utah State University, and is a California State Board of Forestry Certified Professional in Rangeland Management.Support the show

Malia Cohen serves on the California State Board of Equalization, the first African American woman to serve on the Board. She represents 10 million people living in 23 counties throughout the state. Prior to being elected to the Board of Equalization, Malia served as President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She currently serves as President of the San Francisco Police Commission where she is a strong voice for police accountability. As Chair of the San Francisco Employee Retirement System (SFERS), Malia led the effort to divest from fossil fuels and thermal coal investments and moved $100 million into a fossil fuel-free index fund.

In what may be the saddest state of affairs we've seen regarding medical tyranny in months, California is pushing forth a bill that would criminalize the prescription of Ivermectin and other drugs for use against Covid-19. They want people jabbed. They want them ventilated. They want them to take Remdesivir instead.Of course, Anthony Fauci is at the center of this even if he's not associated with California Assembly Bill 2098. And it's not just his name behind the government's push for jabs and Remdesivir use. Rumors are he's been working behind the scenes with members of the California legislature to craft the wording properly.This isn't just a California problem, as I detailed in the latest episode of End Medical Tyranny. This will spread to other blue states. And if/when another pandemic pops up, whether it's a new strain of Covid, the Monkeypox, or something we haven't seen yet, they will get some red states to adopt the draconian, anti-science measure as well. Such is the state of affairs in America today.Ethan Huff over at Natural News did a full write-up of the situation. As he puts it, "The system really does not want people using ivermectin, in other words, which suggests that it actually works – otherwise they would not be trying to punish physicians for helping their patients with it."California Legislators Are Trying to Criminalize Doctors Who Treat Covid Patients With Anything Other Than Remdesivir, Ventilators and VaccinesDoctors in California who advise their Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) patients to take ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), or really anything outside of the "norm" could soon face prosecution under a new proposed law.The California legislature recently introduced Assembly Bill 2098, also known as the "medical misinformation bill," which would criminalize health practitioners who deviate from the state's official position on "safe and effective" remedies for the Fauci Flu.If a doctor tells a patient to take zinc and green tea instead of deadly remdesivir, for instance – Tony Fauci profits every time a patient is given remdesivir, by the way – then he or she could lose the ability to legally practice medicine in the Golden State.Back in April 2020 near the start of the plandemic, the State of California Department of Consumer Affairs, the California State Board of Pharmacy and the Medical Board of California all issued a statement regarding the "improper prescribing of medications related to treatment of Novel Coronavirus." One of the treatments mentioned was HCQ, the prescription of which was described as "inappropriate" and "unprofessional."On June 29, 2021, the Federation of State Medical Boards also issued a warning about how "Physicians who generate and spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation or disinformation are risking disciplinary action by state medical boards, including the suspension or revocation of their medical license."A few months later, Fauci himself came out to claim that there is no evidence that ivermectin works against the Chinese Virus, even though Fauci said the exact opposite back in the early 2000s. It was then, long before covid appeared, that Fauci agreed that ivermectin is a powerful and effective remedy against coronaviruses.Ivermectin Derangement Syndrome is a serious problem in the United StatesIn December 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also chimed in, echoing the same statements made by Fauci and officials in California that people "should not use ivermectin to treat or prevent Covid-19."In an updated statement issued on April 29, 2022, the FDA's Covid-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel added that it "recommends against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of Covid-19, except in clinical trials."The system really does not want people using ivermectin, in other words, which suggests that it actually works – otherwise they would not be trying to punish physicians for helping their patients with it."Should AB 2098 become law, doctors who prescribe medications not approved by the state or who claim unsanctioned drugs are effective would see their licenses revoked and face strict penalties and disciplinary actions by the Medical Board of California," reports The Epoch Times."In short, AB 2098 would designate the dissemination of information not approved by the state related to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes ‘COVID-19,' as misinformation or disinformation, which constitutes unprofessional conduct."One physician by the name of Dr. Syed Haider says that he has been reported to four state medical boards since the plandemic began. Pharmacists, he says, "don't like filling ivermectin prescriptions," and when they are asked to, some of them suffer meltdowns that can only be described as Ivermectin Derangement Syndrome (IDS).Dr. Haider now has to retain a lawyer in order to protect his medical license from being stripped by IDS sufferers who do not want people healing with ivermectin or any other remedy that actually stops the Fauci Flu."‘Official state-sanctioned position' is communism, plain and simple," wrote someone at the Times about how any government holding this much power is a threat to freedom and liberty."Politics has no business in medicine," wrote another, getting straight to the point.The latest news about medical fascism can be found at Tyranny.news.Sources for this article include:TheEpochTimes.comNaturalNews.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit endmedicaltyranny.substack.com

  Today on the show, host and NewDEAL CEO Debbie Cox Bultan talks with Malia Cohen, a Chair on the Board of Equalization of California. They talk about what the California State Board of Equalization does, what her role as the chair of this Board entails, and the large purview of the Board. With the amount of money being brought into California annually by the California Board of Equalization, California's economy could be considered the 6th largest globally. Through their decisions, board seatings, and investments, the Chairs and Controller determine what is done with this money. Looking ahead to more ways to serve, she has now entered into the Controller race to interact with crucial industries, become the deciding vote on the Board, and control fiduciary responsibility to help California grow for all. Malia looks back at her work as the President of the San Francisco Police Commission, where she played a pivotal role in improving law enforcement policies, and the Board of California Public Employees Retirement Systems (CalPERS), where she helped divest retirement funds from fossil fuels. Highlighting her leadership approach and how the golden thread that ties all of these positions together is Malia's deep drive to effect positive change in the communities she serves. She credits a lot of this to a memorable field trip to City Hall that inspired her to work there when she got older. Stay tuned to the end of the episode to hear about a San Francisco favorite of her's that serves some refreshing Margaritas just in time for spring!

Get the full transcipt, PDF, animated summary and infographic on our free app: https://www.getstoryshots.com Storyshots Book Summary And Analysis Of No Rules Rules: Netflix and The Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin MeyerDisclaimer: This is an unofficial summary and analysis. Reed Hastings's Perspective Reed Hastings co-founded Netflix in 1997. The company develops, licenses, and delivers video entertainment across various genres and languages. By 2022, the platform served more than 200 million people in 190 countries. In 1991, he founded Pure Software, which creates tools for software developers. After a 1995 IPO and several acquisitions, Rational Software purchased Pure in 1997. Hastings is an active educational philanthropist. He served on the California State Board of Education from 2000 to 2004. He is on the board of several educational organizations, including DreamBox Learning, KIPP, and Pahara. He's also a board member of Facebook and was on the board of Microsoft from 2007 to 2012. Erin Meyer's Perspective Erin Meyer is a professor at INSEAD, a leading international business school. Her work focuses on how the world's most successful managers work with cultural differences in a global environment. She has helped executives in five continents to work with cross-cultural complexities. Erin frequently publishes in Harvard Business Review. In 2019, Erin accepted an award from Thinkers50 for the second time. They labeled her one of the fifty most impactful business writers globally. In 2018, she was one of the top 30 most influential HR thinkers of the year in HR magazine. Introduction When it comes to working at Netflix, there are no rules, and that's what No Rules Rules is about. Reed Hastings, Netflix's co-founder, outlines how he cultivated a unique work environment. Netflix values both individual and collective initiatives.

Bob Graul is a consultant providing Business Development Services for First Financial Bank's Professional Services Division and has Graul Consulting – Small Business Consulting. Mr. Graul hosts Pharmacy Insiders on the Pharmacy Podcast Network. Mr. Graul was Managing Director for the Professional Services Division of First Financial Bank which closed $50M in SBA loans annually. As National Vice President – RxOwnership for McKesson Corp from 2010 to 2015 Mr. Graul developed and launched RxOwnership and built it into a $1 billion program. Mr. Graul was President and CEO of Rancho Santa Fe Health Mart Pharmacy from 1985 to 2008 guiding it from $700K to $6M annually. He also served as CFO for OBJ, Inc. Graul was a consultant for retail pharmacies and McKesson Corp with responsibility for the RxOwnership program from 2008 to 2010. Additionally, he has served on several Boards and held voluntary consulting positions within the pharmaceutical industry. He has broad experience in the banking, retail drug, ownership transfer and managed care industries. Graul received the Outstanding Alumni Award from National University in 1997. He was named Pharmacist of the Year in 2005 by the San Diego County Pharmacist Association. Graul was awarded the Innovative Pharmacist of the year in February 2007 by the California Pharmacists Association. He was appointed to the California State Board of Pharmacy by Governor Schwarzenegger in February of 2007 and served for one term on the Board. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bob Graul is a consultant providing Business Development Services for First Financial Bank's Professional Services Division and has Graul Consulting – Small Business Consulting. Mr. Graul hosts Pharmacy Insiders on the Pharmacy Podcast Network. Mr. Graul was Managing Director for the Professional Services Division of First Financial Bank which closed $50M in SBA loans annually. As National Vice President – RxOwnership for McKesson Corp from 2010 to 2015 Mr. Graul developed and launched RxOwnership and built it into a $1 billion program. Mr. Graul was President and CEO of Rancho Santa Fe Health Mart Pharmacy from 1985 to 2008 guiding it from $700K to $6M annually. He also served as CFO for OBJ, Inc. Graul was a consultant for retail pharmacies and McKesson Corp with responsibility for the RxOwnership program from 2008 to 2010. Additionally, he has served on several Boards and held voluntary consulting positions within the pharmaceutical industry. He has broad experience in the banking, retail drug, ownership transfer and managed care industries. Graul received the Outstanding Alumni Award from National University in 1997. He was named Pharmacist of the Year in 2005 by the San Diego County Pharmacist Association. Graul was awarded the Innovative Pharmacist of the year in February 2007 by the California Pharmacists Association. He was appointed to the California State Board of Pharmacy by Governor Schwarzenegger in February of 2007 and served for one term on the Board. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on the podcast, we have acupuncturist Russell Brown; Founder of Poke Acupuncture LA, with over 15 years of experience practicing this ancient medicine with exquisite finesse. Using his distinctive voice and gentle wisdom, Russell advocates for a realisation of the constraints and meritocracy of the current whitewashed, capitalist-driven wellness industry. Russell is an educator and a brilliantly poetic writer who brings forth the kind of gentle healing one's soul longs to fall into at the end of the day. As a practitioner of acupuncture, Russell operates through the subtle energetic realms of Chinese medicine with ease, translating the insightful metaphors of this ancient knowledge into soothing remedies for the intensity of modern life. In this episode, Russell offers his nuanced perspective on the invention and westernised packaging of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the existence of cultural appropriation and privilege within the wellness industry, and how conscious social activism lies at the confluence of these topics. Tahnee and Russell discuss the Eight Extraordinary meridians, constitutional energy and life trajectory, The Five Elements, and the type of strength required of practitioners to support their patients through healing.    "I want you to experience beauty for an hour every week, every two weeks. I want you to be removed from the story of your life. I think that's the only way we're going to survive, frankly, is to have a chance to cushion ourselves from how hard the world is with some softness. And that's how I practice acupuncture now. I want people to be given an opportunity to catch their breath, to float, to not feel like the world is coming at them in a hostile way"   - Russell Brown     Tahnee and Russell discuss: The Wei Qi. Yuan Qi (source Qi). The Five Elements. The eight extraordinary meridians. Doing the work of social activism. The whitewashing of the wellness industry. Stomach 36 and our relationship to nourishment. The importance of creating and nurturing as humans. The history of Traditional Chinese Medicine communism. The institutionalisation and education system around TCM. Becoming very clear on your perspective as a practitioner.   Who Is Russell Brown?  Russell Brown, L.Ac, studied journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and enjoyed a career in feature film development (including The Fast and the Furious films and Cruel Intentions) before quitting his job on a whim and enrolling in Emperor's College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. After passing the California State Board in 2007, Russell opened Poke Acupuncture in Los Angeles in 2009.    Russell has operated pro-bono acupuncture clinics for the HIV/AIDS community in San Francisco and L.A. and was the in-house acupuncturist for the Alexandria House, a transitional home for women in Koreatown. He wrote a book on meditation titled Maya Angelou's Meditation 1814 and his writing on wellness has been published in several outlets including Bust and Lenny Letter. He sheepishly did acupuncture on Paris Hilton for her reality show in 2011, a real moment in time he only slightly regrets.    CLICK HERE TO LISTEN ON APPLE PODCAST    Resources: Poke Acupuncture Instagram Russell's website - Poke Acupuncture Subscribe to Poke Acupuncture Substack    Q: How Can I Support The SuperFeast Podcast? A: Tell all your friends and family and share online! We'd also love it if you could subscribe and review this podcast on iTunes. Or  check us out on Stitcher, CastBox, iHeart RADIO:)! Plus  we're on Spotify!   Check Out The Transcript Here:   Tahnee: (00:01) Hi everyone. And welcome to the SuperFeast Podcast. Today's guest is an acupuncturist from Los Angeles who's been practising for over 15 years and has, in my opinion, one of the freshest voices in the industry.   Tahnee: (00:12) He's an advocate for understanding the limitations of the industrial capitalist wellness machine, that's a mouthful. And he is an educator and a writer who, in my opinion, manages to put TCM theory into this most beautiful language and metaphor that's really accessible and relevant for modern humans.   Tahnee: (00:29) And Russell also has an ex-film producer background. And if you're a 90s kid you'll know some of those movies. Fast and the Furious, Cruel Intentions.   Tahnee: (00:36) So he's had this amazing 180 coming into this more subtle kind of energetic realm of traditional Chinese medicine. So I'm really excited to welcome you here today, Russell.   Russell Brown: (00:48) Thank you. Thank you so much. I'm so excited.   Tahnee: (00:50) Yeah, I'm so excited.   Russell Brown: (00:51) I spent some time in Australia by the way in the 90s.   Tahnee: (00:54) Did you?   Russell Brown: (00:54) Yes. I went to Sydney and then I was young and took a tour of the outback, which I'm sure you guys hate, but-   Tahnee: (01:01) Oh, nice. I love that.   Russell Brown: (01:02) One of the stops was at this farm in a place called Coonabarabran, I think.   Tahnee: (01:07) Yes.   Russell Brown: (01:07) I just stayed there. And so I lived on this farm for, I think like two months, and just worked on this farm out there. Yeah. And it was great and it was not my real life and it was nice to be not in my real life.   Tahnee: (01:19) And the stars.   Russell Brown: (01:21) Beautiful. Insane.   Tahnee: (01:23) Yeah.   Russell Brown: (01:23) Obviously coming from LA, like we don't really have stars in LA like that, so it was all very shocking to me so I have very fond associations with Australia.   Tahnee: (01:32) Yeah. They've actually preserved Coonabarabran, so the Warrumbungle is like a National Park there and that area is now a dark sky park, so.   Russell Brown: (01:39) Oh wow.   Tahnee: (01:40) They're trying to preserve it for yeah. Like, so you can't-   Russell Brown: (01:42) Because otherwise the development would come in and sort of just make it-   Tahnee: (01:45) Yeah. I don't know if they'd ever developed that [crosstalk 00:01:48] pretty far away. Yeah. But just more like, yeah, so people can't have, I don't know, flood lights on their farms or I don't know what people would do, but yeah.   Tahnee: (01:56) So you're the founder of Poke Acupuncture and you've got this amazing clinic going. I actually heard about you through lots of sort of connections in LA and then started following you on Instagram. And it's been a delight following you for a few years.   Russell Brown: (02:10) Thank you. It's so funny. Obviously I have such a take on wellness and part of that take is that I don't know that I need to be on Instagram.   Russell Brown: (02:20) I don't know that acupuncturists need to be on social media. I don't think that I have such an issue with like content creation. I don't think that I personally need to be making more content, but I also think there's something sociologically interesting about it.   Russell Brown: (02:33) And so I've sort of tried to find a use for Instagram that doesn't make me feel like a 17 year old. And I don't know if I'm succeeding at that personally, but I am enjoying the process of it most of the time.   Tahnee: (02:48) Yeah. I vote for you. I've had a really love, hate relationship with the platform and I really hear you on that. And I think it's evolved in really positive and negative directions, but there's this positive where it's this place to yeah, like share ideas and connect and use the kind of medium for education and inspiration.   Tahnee: (03:10) And I think you do a really good job of that and Wellness Trash Can just makes me laugh first of all. But also I'm always like, "This is so relevant big because we've got this culture," and something I've always said to my husband, the first time I went to LA was probably I think, seven or eight years ago.   Tahnee: (03:26) And I remember being like, "It's so artificial here. No wonder the wellness industry came from here," and my husband kind of looked at me and he was like, "What are you talking about?"   Tahnee: (03:33) And I'm like, "Well, everything's just plunked on top of the desert. It's not really meant to be here." And then we've got like this really toxic kind of culture there around aesthetic and lifestyle. And I'm sure you know all of that very, very well.   Russell Brown: (03:52) Well, I also think about it in context of one of the things about Los Angeles and Australia too, but really LA, we don't have seasons here, right? Every day is exactly the same weather wise. It's going to be between 75 and 85, right?   Russell Brown: (04:05) It's always going to be sunny. We have a couple weeks of rain, but there's no passing of time essentially. I wear the same thing to work every single day. I wear black t-shirt. I wear black pair of jeans every day. It doesn't really matter.   Russell Brown: (04:15) And I think as a result, we don't get the passing of time. We don't see it. There's no, the jacket comes out, the jacket goes away. Now summers here we get to go to the pool. We go to the pool every day here and as a result our relationship with ageing is affected by that. Our relationship with the way the body passes through time is affected by that.   Russell Brown: (04:38) And so I do think that wellness sort of came in as a sense of in part, because we have such a resistance to believing that we're ageing, people just can't believe that 10 years has passed because we didn't have any markers of that.   Russell Brown: (04:50) And I always say like if you're a man especially, like women you guys have a cycle, you have a menstrual cycle that says a month has passed. But for me, I really can't believe time is passing. I don't have children. I don't see any of that.   Russell Brown: (05:03) And so I think that wellness was really born a lot from this idea of how do I rectify the fact that I'm ageing even though I just can't believe it's to be true? And Los Angeles is really I feel like the epicentre of that.   Tahnee: (05:17) And if we drill right down to what you speak about a lot in your work anyway, we're talking like this idea of capitalism and how it's driving this kind of constant work ethic.   Tahnee: (05:28) And we can take that right back to the industrialization of the world and you speak about that online. The moving from it's a candle to get anything done at night to like, "Hey, we can electrify your whole house and you can watch TV or work on your computer or whatever."   Russell Brown: (05:44) Have that computer in your pocket and then go into your bed and so you can have the computer with you in the bed, in the place where you're supposed to be resting.   Russell Brown: (05:51) And then you wonder why you can't sleep because you've now made your bed into an office. And you're like, "I couldn't possibly meditate. There's just no way that could be." It's very, very complicated.   Tahnee: (06:03) It's a trip. And even if there's not that seasonal variance, we used to have that nocturnal rhythm, so there'd be dark and you'd have to go to bed at some point.   Tahnee: (06:14) I often think about that when I'm camping. I'm like, "Well, it gets a bit boring." You have a chat, you drink some wine and then you're like, "Well, let's go to bed." There's nothing else to do.   Tahnee: (06:23) So it's like, yeah, I think we've lost that natural kind of push to shut down. And so I think LA really, you've got the film industry there, not just that, but a lot of other kind of economies in that area that are just driving this kind of constant, hectic pace.   Tahnee: (06:40) And culturally, I think America too has had that anyone can achieve anything kind of push. And I see that in the wellness industry as well, it's almost like this kind of spiritual version of that sort of drive to succeed.   Tahnee: (06:55) And if you put your mind to it, you can be anything you want to be and create anything you want. And sometimes I'm very concerned about how toxic that is, so. Is that something you see?   Russell Brown: (07:04) Well, it's a lie, it's 100% a lie. And now like, especially lately in America being like, "Oh, actually it's still just intergenerational wealth."   Russell Brown: (07:13) The entire idea of American meritocracy is a lie, but we use that lie as a dangling carrot to make everyone feel terrible for not doing enough.   Russell Brown: (07:24) And I think the wellness industry is all braided up in that now. And that's part of the problem is that the foundation of it is that lie. It's not like manifesting, I don't believe and I don't think that's a thing.   Russell Brown: (07:34) I think this idea that you're supposed to rise yourself up in the bootstraps because allegedly one person did it one time, because Oprah Winfrey came from nothing and became Oprah Winfrey.   Russell Brown: (07:47) But she is the exception to the rule, which means that the rule is there that no one really can do it except for one person, two people, which are a complete, complete exception.   Tahnee: (08:01) They're unicorns. Yeah.   Russell Brown: (08:04) Totally. And now you are chasing a unicorn and thinking something is wrong with you is part of the problem, right? And that's the illusion of it all.   Russell Brown: (08:13) And I think America is starting to rectify or at least reckon with that lie, that it's not true. And part of the racial reckoning that's happening right now in America is like, "Oh, a lot of this meritocracy, the manifesting nonsense is for white people."   Russell Brown: (08:29) It's really not for any one of colour. It's certainly not for immigrants, queer people. It's really a very specific version of success that is not available to just about everyone.   Russell Brown: (08:41) And wellness is a part of that and that's why I am critical of it now more than I was before is that I see it and I see myself as the beneficiary of a lot of it too. And I feel like it's a lot of my responsibility to speak out on it.   Russell Brown: (08:55) One of the reasons why I am so critical of wellness and specifically acupuncture is because I am successful, but I am successful because I am a white man as an acupuncturist.   Russell Brown: (09:05) And I understand that media outlets like to see me and like to give me press, because it's easier to project Asian tradition and culture onto me than it is to actually just speak to an Asian person or an Asian American person.   Russell Brown: (09:22) And I feel that tension, even now on this podcast, I feel that tension. We're two white people talking about wellness and that feels odd to me. And I feel like it needs to be called out that I'm not from Asia. My ancestors are not from Asia. I learned this very generously from a Taiwanese woman in my school but I don't feel an ownership to this medicine.   Russell Brown: (09:48) And I feel very strange being a representative of the medicine often publicly, because I don't know that it's the most appropriate. I do the best I can, but I don't like often that I feel like sometimes when Caucasian people take up the spaces in these conversations they are doing so at a disservice to their colleagues who are minorities and I wrestle with that myself.   Tahnee: (10:19) Yeah. My husband, he has a comedy Instagram, he often says things like, "Look at the white people enjoying the empire," and it's as much a reflection on his own processes and people take it. They're like, "Oh, its not very kind."   Tahnee: (10:35) But we know we need to process this our own way. And I see that in your work with Wellness Trash Can and these things, it's like it's as much a self reflection as it is criticising the industry and we are a part of the problem.   Tahnee: (10:49) I have staff that are Sri Lankan and have different names and we've had people be really racist to them on the phone, like "Put me onto an Australian." And I'm like, "Jesus fucking Christ. You're buying Taoist tonic herbs from like two white people that have a company with some people with strange names in it. How can you be racist toward them?"   Tahnee: (11:07) And it's just a funny situation sometimes. And I often think, we have this amazing person in China we work with, with sourcing. And I often think if I put him front and centre on our social media, people just they would freak out. They wouldn't get it.   Russell Brown: (11:23) Well, that's the thing. What does it mean? Like what does it mean? Like what are we talking about here, especially like me as an acupuncturist, you're a yoga instructor.   Tahnee: (11:32) What are we doing?   Russell Brown: (11:33) What are we doing? And how did the industry become this place where it's like we have sort of appropriated a lot of these traditions. And now the industry wellness in general which is based on so many traditions of countries that are not Caucasian people. And yet the consumer is a white person who wants it to be a Caucasian thing and how that tension plays out.   Russell Brown: (11:59) I don't exactly understand, I don't know what to do with it. I don't know what to do with it, except for talk about it as much as I can and signal boost the other of practitioners who I'm close with and who I really believe in who I think need more attention put on them than I do.   Russell Brown: (12:19) But I don't know what it means about wellness. And it's one of the things that just makes me uncomfortable about wellness in general is knowing that how whitewashed it's become, how clean it all feels.   Russell Brown: (12:30) And it didn't actually come from a place of cleanliness. It's like a very superficial cleanliness. Particularly last year in America, there was so much anti-Asian violence because of COVID.   Tahnee: (12:42) And Trump.   Russell Brown: (12:42) That's like the least of it, I could just talk about forever, but for me to see acupuncture, white, Caucasian acupuncture, saying nothing about the anti-Asian violence really didn't ever compute to me.   Russell Brown: (12:58) And it would be like, "You owe your careers to Asian immigrants. You owe your careers to social activism on the part of racism. And now when racism is actually happening here in communities that are tangential to you and the work you do, you say nothing."   Russell Brown: (13:12) And that really just pissed me off last year. It still pisses me off. And there are friends of mine who want their Instagram and their social media to sort of portray that same cleanliness.   Russell Brown: (13:26) And I'm like, "The ship has sailed on that cleanliness." Your silence is what? What exactly do you think your silence is buying you around this? I don't understand it.   Russell Brown: (13:37) And COVID has only made it worse because of all of the conservatism around masks and the vaccines and things. And I think a reckoning is coming. I just think that the wellness industry can't continue to operate like this with a lot of these lies really at the heart of it.   Russell Brown: (13:56) And that's sort of where I ended up kind of going with my social media some of the time. And then sometimes I'm like, "Who needs to hear from me? I'm just like one more white guy who thinks that the world needs to my voice in it. And it doesn't." And I go back and forth with it. I go back and forth with it.   Tahnee: (14:19) Yeah. I really hear you on that. And I find pushing the button sometimes on publication myself very challenging. So I'm sure you have the same feeling.   Tahnee: (14:28) But I remembered you shared a whole piece on, is it Miriam Lee who was one of the advocates for Chinese medicine in your country and that was new to me. I didn't know that history.   Tahnee: (14:39) And I was really grateful you shared that. And if you don't mind, would you mind sharing a little bit about that? Because you talked about the politicisation of like all these wellness people avoiding politics, but really to get where we are now this is what's had to happen.   Russell Brown: (14:55) Well, Miriam Lee, we sort of consider her like the pioneer of Chinese medicine, at least on the west coast in America. She was a woman who came over from Asia I believe she came in 1969 and she was an acupuncturist in China.   Russell Brown: (15:07) And then she set up in the Bay Area in California and she was not legally allowed to practise medicine at the time. No one was really legally allowed to practise acupuncture at the time, but they did. They practised acupuncture.   Russell Brown: (15:19) And so she operated sort of under the radar and had a clinic and it was quite successful. And the versions of the story told of her is that eventually they found out about her. They came and arrested her and her patients came to court and demanded that she be freed.   Russell Brown: (15:43) And as a result, she was given licence to practise acupuncture. And which paved the way for California to be able to have licence.   Russell Brown: (15:51) The truth is is that she was not the meek, very subservient female acupuncturist that they portrayed. She was working with various organisations. She baited them to arrest her because she wanted to push the issue. And she actually had been lobbying for it. She bankrolled lobbyist's. She was out there actually doing the political work.   Russell Brown: (16:15) And I think that the difference is interesting because in one version we get to sort of just be either the victims of politics or the heroes of politics. But her version is actually no, you have to be a social activist.   Russell Brown: (16:31) The harder story to tell is this is a woman who knew exactly what she was doing and was doing it intentionally. And I think that that is a much better role model for acupuncture than just this very heroic tale of all of her patients worshipping her and wanting her to be able to practise.   Russell Brown: (16:46) But actually she was out there working in Sacramento, which is the state capital, to make sure that this legislature went through. And I think that that is something that we don't talk about enough is that we have to be really doing the work of social activism and not just hoping that our patients speak on our behalf, which is the fantasy that is told about Miriam Lee.   Tahnee: (17:09) Yeah.   Russell Brown: (17:09) The part that's also tangential to that is that Miriam Lee was only arrested because essentially what happened was is this cohort of Caucasian men at UCLA essentially discovered acupuncture in the 70s. They had never even heard of it before and learned it in about a year and a half from a teacher here in Los Angeles.   Russell Brown: (17:30) And as a result, they used their connections to get themselves permitted by the government to be able to practise medicine. But the terms of their permitting were that anyone who wasn't associated with medical school, they were with UCLA, anyone who wasn't associated with a medical school, then they became illegal.   Russell Brown: (17:50) So Miriam Lee was only arrested because these white men decided that they should have control of the laws around acupuncture. And they then went on to found most of the acupuncture schools in America, the curriculum of what it takes to become an acupuncturist, and worked with most of the states around the licencing of acupuncture.   Russell Brown: (18:11) And to me, that is the much bigger conversation is how it is that this group of white men basically decided that they should own the medicine, be responsible for the medicine, of which they had no connection to, to the detriment of the practitioners who actually this was their legacy. This was in their family. This was lineages of knowledge.   Russell Brown: (18:33) And that's why I think of myself as someone who is now one more in a lineage of white men who thinks that they should be the spokesperson for this medicine. I don't like that.   Russell Brown: (18:44) And I am very cautious of that because I understand how these things work. And I wonder, that when I am even on this podcast now talking to you, is there a Miriam Lee out there who's paying the price for my speaking on behalf of Chinese medicine in a way that perhaps I shouldn't be. And it's something that I think about.   Tahnee: (19:05) Yeah. We have a friend, Rhonda Chang, who's a Chinese-   Russell Brown: (19:10) Rhonda Chang's, and she was like, "I'm done, I'm not doing this anymore."   Tahnee: (19:14) This is what I was going to say. She just was like, "This fucking system is broken and you've taken my medicine and you've turned it into something that it's not, and I'm taking it back."   Tahnee: (19:26) And we've both been deeply inspired by her work and we spoke before we jumped on about the challenges of the institutionalisation and the education system around this work.   Tahnee: (19:37) And people like her, I'd much rather sit at her feet than the feet of some of the people I was studying with, so yeah it's a really tricky situation.   Tahnee: (19:48) And it sounds like you had a beautiful teacher from the little bit I've heard. Yeah. Could you tell us a little bit about your experience at school and how that went down?   Russell Brown: (19:57) I had a few teachers, but my first real primary teacher was a woman named Christine Chang, who, the first time I saw her, she had a man in a headlock on the floor of the clinic because she was cracking his neck which, of course we're not really allowed to do, but she doesn't care.   Russell Brown: (20:10) And she looked like a small woman wrestling a bear. And I was just like, "Who is this woman? I need to know everything she knows."   Russell Brown: (20:18) And so I followed her around and basically just made her talk to me and she was from Taiwan and she was the first person that would look at it like a point I was needling. And she'd be like, "Who told you to needle that?" And I'd be like, "Oh, Dr. Jai." And she'd be like, "Don't listen to Dr. Jai. Dr. Jai is a communist."   Russell Brown: (20:36) And I didn't know what she was talking about but come to find out that she's not wrong. I would be like, "No, Dr. Jai was born in America. I don't think she's a communist," because my understanding of what that was.   Russell Brown: (20:51) But what she was actually basically saying is that how when the communist party took over China in the 40s and 50s, they basically created acupuncture out of nothing.   Russell Brown: (21:01) It was an invented tradition that sort of took what they liked about eight principles and applied it to dialectical materialism, which is sort of communist ideas and sort of syphoned it down into a version of Chinese medicine that they could then package and sell to the west that would appeal to sort of Orientalism.   Russell Brown: (21:25) But it stripped out a lot of the things that she really believed the medicine to be. And Rhonda Chang, that's exactly what she speaks about, is that this sort of communist hybrid that they've made is not interesting to her at all. And it doesn't speak to the lineage she understands.   Russell Brown: (21:39) And so she is doing work that's around that but that's what my teacher was basically into and is that there was TCM, Traditional Chinese Medicine is a communist invention, and she's from Taiwan where they didn't subscribe to the TCM.   Russell Brown: (21:55) And so she was very strong about that and making me understand the difference between the two. And I was very fortunate of that. She was a real firecracker and just a very strong woman and taught me to be very strong in terms of my perspective on the medicine and having a perspective on the medicine. And I think that that's really ultimately what I teach.   Russell Brown: (22:20) And when I work with students now is that I want to say that there's a lot of ways of looking at the medicine. This idea of TCM, that there's one thing, it was never true. It never looked like that in Asia. There's always different perspectives on this.   Russell Brown: (22:36) Whether it's Five Element, all of them, whatever Rhonda Chang's doing. And the idea I always want is that you just see what you see and really own your perspective on it.   Russell Brown: (22:47) I like to work with a lot of students on just honing that perspective. What is your version of it? Do you see the world through the eight extras? Do you see the world through secondary vessels? Do you see the body through whatever mechanics? Orthopaedic mechanics?   Russell Brown: (23:02) But really becoming very clear on your own perspective is I think the most important thing. And I associate that with any success that I think that I have is that I've always had a pretty clear perspective. I see it the way I see it and I can own that.   Russell Brown: (23:17) And I'm sure a lot of that has to do with the fact that I'm a white man and so culture allows me to own my perspective in maybe a way that other people wouldn't. But I really think that that's the most important part of it.   Tahnee: (23:27) Mm.   Russell Brown: (23:29) I got that from my teacher.   Tahnee: (23:30) Well, I'm interested in that because, this is from my background research, I believe you were raised Jewish?   Russell Brown: (23:36) Yes.   Tahnee: (23:37) In kind of a fairly alternative household model, which if you want to talk about that you can, and then you studied journalism, then you've ended up in film and then you suddenly had a restaurant like, "Okay, I'm going to go study TCM."   Russell Brown: (23:51) Correct. You done your research.   Tahnee: (23:51) What is Russell's journey? Because how did you find your voice in all that? Because it doesn't really like seem particularly clear from my side of the pitch.   Russell Brown: (24:01) It's interesting. So yeah, I grew up Jewish is sort of a little bit of a stretch. I had a Bar Mitzvah, but that was about it and it was LA Jews. And my family was going through a very strange transition around the time of my Bar Mitzvah.   Russell Brown: (24:17) My mom had just left my dad to be with a woman. And so she and Diane had gotten together. My dad got remarried right away after that. And so by the time I was like coming of age, whatever that actually looks like, at around 13, it had been a long couple of years.   Russell Brown: (24:35) And so I just wanted to be done with that particular chapter and move on with my life. So I don't know that I ever really like thought like of myself as a Jewish person, even though my family was, but gosh, I never really thought about the full story.   Russell Brown: (24:53) One of the things that I knew growing up was is that there's more to be felt than to be seen in the world. And I think I always sort of like that. I always thought that there was magic. I always thought there was magic. I just really thought that there was things that I could see that other people couldn't see and that those were the things that impressed me the most, that I liked the most.   Russell Brown: (25:22) I had a grandfather who had a park and he would take us to the park and he knew every tree in that park in New York. And he would put bird seed in his mouth and the birds would sit on his chin and eat it out of his mouth because he would go there every day and the birds knew him. And I understood that to be the real world. I just knew that that was real and everything else was not.   Russell Brown: (25:45) And he played music and I understood that that was real and music was real. And I think that from a very early age, I understood that beauty was the point. The point was beauty and finding beauty in the world that is becoming increasingly ugly has always mattered to me.   Russell Brown: (26:03) And when I was, as you said, I got into the film industry and was working in films. And I think that that's a really beautiful service actually, out of the time to provide, I think we work hard, we deserve to be transported for a couple of hours to something else. I think we deserve to see other stories and to be transported by the stories of other people.   Russell Brown: (26:23) And I thought that was a really beautiful service to provide. I worked on the Fast and Furious movies and though those movies are ugly in a lot of ways. I think what a beautiful gift to give young people, to say to a 17 year old, "You could be somewhere else for a few hours. You could be in a flying car for a few hours. You don't have to be in your life that is hard."   Russell Brown: (26:47) And I still think that that's a beautiful gift and I knew that I wasn't going to be in that profession for long. But I still think that what I do now is a version of that.   Russell Brown: (26:59) I want you to experience beauty for an hour every week, every two weeks. I want you to be removed from the story of your life. I think that's the only way we're going to survive, frankly, is to have a chance to cushion yourself from how hard the world is with some softness.   Russell Brown: (27:17) And that's how I practise acupuncture now is I want people to be given an opportunity to catch their breath, to float, to not feel like the world is coming at them in a hostile way. What could it feel like to just be soft and to sit alone in the dark and wait for something to happen?   Russell Brown: (27:40) I just think is such a beautiful way to be for a little bit of time, especially in Los Angeles where it's not like that. And it's hard and we drive cars and everything feels hard here in a way.   Russell Brown: (27:51) It's easy here in LA, but it's also hard in that like parallel parking and all of that, the tiny streets and part of the Los Angeles lifestyle is it's a hustling lifestyle, right? Like these are people who are here to make things happen and that hustle is hard and it feels like it's coming at you.   Russell Brown: (28:09) And I like to offer people a space where it doesn't feel like the world is coming at them for a little bit. And I think that's beautiful. I think that that's what I'm still offering is beauty.   Russell Brown: (28:20) I like to think that I'm giving them a chance to feel what it could be like in a soft world where your grandfather gets birds to sit on his chin and eat out of his mouth. That's all really I'm trying to do. That's really all I'm trying to do.   Russell Brown: (28:36) And so I don't know that I'm a great acupuncturist in that way. I don't know that I know the most about endometriosis or herbs, but I do know that that's how I'm trying to practise, is to give people that small space in their lives for some magic to fill it.   Tahnee: (28:54) Hmm. What do you do for you to get that same thing?   Russell Brown: (28:59) The best question. The blacksmith does not get his shoe shined. I go through phases where I'm good at it and where I'm bad at it.   Russell Brown: (29:09) I had a place in the desert and the desert really helped me out a lot there because it is so quiet and it's so peaceful out there. I spend a lot of time with my dog.   Tahnee: (29:17) Backpack.   Russell Brown: (29:19) Backpack is my dog, but Backpack is really helpful because Backpack is a reminder that the world is polite. He's a very, very polite dog. He doesn't take anything for granted. He always asks for permission. Even like to sit on the couch, he looks at me like, "Will you please invite me on the couch?"   Russell Brown: (29:36) And just being in relation to that kind of gentleness is incredibly healing for me. And it slows me down and he just wants me to put my face on his face and I just think that's the best. And I find that kind of sweetness is very, very medicinal for me. So we spend a lot of our time together when I'm not at work.   Russell Brown: (30:01) I read a lot. I write a lot as you know. I really like to write and part of that writing is that I get to spend time with myself and it's a place of creation for me. And creation is really important for me.   Russell Brown: (30:12) And so I have to remember that when I hit the send button on the Instagram post that I'm embarrassed about or that I think is too much it's as much because that kind of creation is very important for me. I don't toil over it too much. I just need to be able to make and to create.   Russell Brown: (30:29) And that's how I sort of restore myself a lot is just with that kind of creation is helpful for me. I don't have kids. I'm not interested in parenting like that, but I do think that creation is still important. I think nurturing is still really important and that's how I nurture.   Russell Brown: (30:49) I eat. I like to eat. I like to watch TV. I like to check out, I need that too. I need stupid. I have a boyfriend and he's a genius, but he's also very stupid. And that balance is very, very important for me.   Russell Brown: (31:05) He's one of the stupidest geniuses I've ever met and will just make me laugh. We've been together a long time and I just can't believe he still makes me laugh, but those are some of the things I do. Yeah.   Tahnee: (31:18) That's really nice. Do you receive treatment yourself from anyone or?   Russell Brown: (31:21) I do. I go to an acupuncturist who does not know I'm an acupuncturist.   Tahnee: (31:26) Secrets.   Russell Brown: (31:27) Yeah. I don't need him to know. I prefer he think that I'm not so that I don't have an opinion or a position and I don't want to talk about acupuncture.   Russell Brown: (31:39) So he thinks I'm a law clerk, which is a job I don't know what is.   Tahnee: (31:41) I was going to say, what does a law clerk do?   Russell Brown: (31:45) I have no idea. Actually someone told me, I can't say I don't know what it is, a lawyer finally told me a law clerk is a lawyer who works for a judge in America.   Russell Brown: (31:53) So like when a judge does a whatever judges do when they make rulings and they write out their rulings, the law clerk writes it out. So that's what I do. My understanding is it is the most boring profession there is because there is no follow up question you could ask to a law clerk. Like there's no like, "Oh you wouldn't." And so he just never does.   Russell Brown: (32:15) And whenever I've said I'm a law clerk, because I'll say at a party. Because sometimes I don't-   Tahnee: (32:18) So just shut downs conversation.   Russell Brown: (32:20) It just kills a conversation dead.   Tahnee: (32:23) Love it.   Russell Brown: (32:23) There's nothing you can ask. There's nothing you can ask about a law clerk, but there's something about being an acupuncturist, especially in LA, I don't want to talk about it.   Russell Brown: (32:31) Especially in certain settings in LA, at an LA party, the minute you say you're an acupuncturist, then you're like in a whole place. And a lot of times I like it. My boyfriend's always like, "You will find some woman with a menstrual disorder at any party who wants to talk to you about her menses."   Russell Brown: (32:48) And I love it. Nine times out of 10 I love it. But like I will always be at a party at a chocolate fountain talking about menstrual cramps and my boyfriend will always walk up and be like, "How? How did you find this woman to talk about her cramps with you?"   Russell Brown: (33:00) But I like it most of the time, but sometimes you just don't want to talk about that. And so that's when you say you're a law clerk and people change the subject or they never speak to you again.   Tahnee: (33:09) I'm so stealing this.   Russell Brown: (33:11) Law clerk's the best.   Tahnee: (33:13) There was a time about six or seven years ago, where if we said we worked with medicinal mushrooms, people would kind of back away.   Russell Brown: (33:18) Oh, yeah.   Tahnee: (33:20) But now it's unfortunately you're-   Russell Brown: (33:26) You're just a law clerk.   Tahnee: (33:26) Yeah. Got to get there. So on clinical practise, and I want to bring it around to that because we've spoken about this before we came on, but I have a little bit of background in understanding some of the basics of what acupuncture means to be as a practitioner and-   Russell Brown: (33:40) You know more than the basics. I think you probably know more than most acupuncturists.   Tahnee: (33:44) Well, yeah. I've had some really amazing mentors and like you said, people who are pushing back against that sort of communist industrial sort of model.   Tahnee: (33:54) So they've pushed me to learn very deeply, which has been something I'm really grateful for. But I wouldn't feel comfortable sticking needles in someone just yet.   Russell Brown: (34:04) You can do it. It's not that hard.   Tahnee: (34:07) I know my husband's always like, "You can test it on me maybe." But yeah, some things I've really noticed about your work which I find interesting, is you work a lot with the eight extraordinaries. So for those that don't know, could you explain a little bit about and how you came to work with those in clinic?   Russell Brown: (34:23) Absolutely. But people don't know is when they go to an acupuncturist, most of the time the acupuncturist is doing like, "We're working on the liver channel, working on the gallbladder channel."   Russell Brown: (34:30) But when they say that they're talking about a very specific type of meridian. There's 12 primary meridians. And those are the ones that most acupuncturists use. Stomach channel, the heart channel. Those are meridians that deal with blood that go to the organ level.   Russell Brown: (34:47) But when an acupuncturist is selecting to use the primary meridians, often they're doing that because those are the meridians that are taught most in schools, but not necessarily because those are the ones that are the most clinically relevant to what is happening with the patient.   Russell Brown: (35:02) The primary channels are the middle level of energy in the body, but there's two other levels of energy that are accessible by acupuncture.   Russell Brown: (35:08) There's Wei Qi, which is the superficial level of energy, which is deals with the skin and the musculature of the body. The Wei Qi levels have no organ connection. They're really just superficial levels. And you can access them through different types of meridians called the sinew channels and the diversion channels, which is a different type of meridian.   Russell Brown: (35:31) And then there's the deepest level of energy that is below the blood level, that deals with something called Yuan Qi, which is source Qi, constitutional Qi, really the energy that is dealt with.   Russell Brown: (35:43) And we sort of talk about more with destiny, like the actual curriculum of your life. And that is what the eight extras are. The eight extras are the deepest level. These are vessels that deal with the trajectory of your life.   Russell Brown: (35:55) And I like them because often when you're dealing with the eight extras, when you deal with the primary channels, this is the thing that they don't tell you much is, the primary channels are a response to life.   Russell Brown: (36:07) The thing happened and then it affected your body. And now it's in the meridians, the primary meridians. And so by the time you're working on the stomach channel, it's because of all the bad things that already happened to your stomach.   Russell Brown: (36:18) When you deal with the eight extras, you're saying, "Life didn't matter." This is energy that was not affected by anything that happened to you after you were born, this is energy that is related to your constitution and what you have to learn in this lifetime.   Russell Brown: (36:33) The directionality of your life, as given to you at birth, the minute of conception even. And so when you deal with eight extras, you're really dealing with life trajectory. And I often think that that's probably, for me, that's a more useful place for what I want to do with patients, which is to step back from the bad thing that happened and actually have some perspective on maybe what that bad thing means to the bigger story of your life.   Russell Brown: (37:02) Or even to forget that the bad thing happened and actually see yourself as so much bigger than that all together. And that is how I think you get back to healing is to widen your imagination back to how you were actually considered before you were even born.   Russell Brown: (37:17) And so the eight extras are a way for me to look at the body that way, or to explain the body that way. Could we just look at your primary resources? Could we look at the way you think of nourishment? Can we look at the way you think of curiosity?   Russell Brown: (37:35) The eight extras are a really good set of metaphors for that curriculum I think. And so that's how I was always taught them. But again, it's about the selection of them. I don't do the eight extras on every patient. Some patients they have a stomach ache and they need to be worked on their stomach. And so then you do a primary channel and that's what it's there for.   Russell Brown: (37:53) But what happens is because the boards tend to only test on the primary channels, acupuncturists don't learn anything but the primary channels. And so they think those are the only ingredients. But there's other options.   Russell Brown: (38:04) And what we're talking about is they're Russian nesting dolls. It's like the primary's in the middle but there's bigger ones and they're smaller ones. And so I want to pick the nesting doll that is most appropriate to where my patient is and that I just want to have as many tools as possible.   Tahnee: (38:21) Well, I've heard acupuncturist claim that you can't clinically work with the eight extraordinaries, which I know not to be true through people like yourself and other people I've worked and studied with.   Tahnee: (38:32) They say, "Oh, once you're born, once you're incarnate there's no effect there." But my experience is that's not true. So what would you say to those people? They just haven't learned enough or?   Russell Brown: (38:46) What we're talking about now is...   Tahnee: (38:49) The woo woo.   Russell Brown: (38:50) It's not even the woo woo. I'm just like, well, it's how literal you want to interpret anything as far as I'm concerned.   Russell Brown: (39:00) I think that the primary meridians are metaphors, frankly. I think Stomach 36 is a point that everyone uses, which is like the big point for digestive function.   Russell Brown: (39:10) But I don't actually think that when I put a needle into Stomach 36, it sends a signal into my stomach that helps me digest food better. I don't think of acupuncture as operating necessarily on the most literal level.   Russell Brown: (39:23) And so I think of the eight extras in terms of all of that. I think all of the meridians are metaphors, frankly. I think they're all poems that I'm trying to talk to the body through. And again, that's what I'm speaking about before is that I think the whole thing is poetry, frankly.   Russell Brown: (39:38) I think that the points are all poems. I think that the metaphor of Qi moving through the body, of feeling stagnant is the metaphor I think. The metaphor of how I digest the world, make sense of it, use it to make me stronger and dispose of the waste. That's the metaphor of digestion I think.   Russell Brown: (40:02) And so perhaps none of it is true. I'm open to that possibility. But I do think that those metaphors are still powerful and I think they're more powerful than any medicine, frankly.   Russell Brown: (40:12) And so that's where I come at it from. I can't say that you can or can't use certain vessels. I think it's sort of a silly conversation to have at some point.   Tahnee: (40:24) So what do you think is happening when you needle 36? Is it your intention? You've been educated and you're sending that through that person?   Russell Brown: (40:34) I'm not going to use Stomach 36 by itself. I'm going to use it in the context, the conversation about how one uses nourishment. What are we talking about when we talk about where you think nourishment is? What do you think it means to take something in and make sense of it? How much worth do you think you have that you deserve that nourishment?   Russell Brown: (40:53) I think that there's when we get into stomach stuff, we're talking self worth obviously. We're talking about how much I want to take care of myself, how much I learned how to invest in this body, to invest in my life.   Russell Brown: (41:07) And so I'm often involved in sort of a larger conversation when it comes to that. And that's why I think like my version of Stomach 36 is going to be different than your version of Stomach 36 because I have my own take on what digestion is and which is informed by my own mom issues. And which is what stomach is, is about how we-   Tahnee: (41:31) Oh, I know all about that one.   Russell Brown: (41:33) I'm sure. Yeah. As a mom and as a daughter, but like, yeah, how much I feel safe in the world and how much I trust nourishment and how much I trust to be continued to be taken care of in this lifetime and how much I trust my capacity to give care relative to my capacity to receive care.   Russell Brown: (41:54) I think all of those things are involved in that. Stomach 36 is a particularly one because in five element tradition, it's the earth point on the earth channel, which means it is really about rectifying that relationship to digestion.   Russell Brown: (42:07) It is saying, "You had it all wrong. You were confused actually about what that relationship to nourishment is." And so we are saying, "It's time to reset that relationship."   Russell Brown: (42:19) So when you do Stomach 36, you're basically instructing the body that you're from an earth standpoint, your earth is confused and we're going to restart, which is why it's such a powerful point and why everyone uses it, because it is a way of basically resetting your understanding of basic nourishment on the deepest level there is.   Russell Brown: (42:40) And that's why, for some acupuncturists, that's the only point they need to use. They only want that because the idea is that if I can get a patient to just understand clearly nourishment on a very basic level, then all the rest of the body processes will come back online. And I think there's some truth to that.   Russell Brown: (42:58) So I do use Stomach 36 quite a bit, but I don't think that it's just going in there and telling my body to help me not be lactose intolerant anymore. I'm still lactose intolerant.   Russell Brown: (43:12) But that's why like then you do earth points on the other meridians. And you're like, "Oh, Lung Nine is actually this beautiful point for saying nourishment... Grief is part of nourishment."   Russell Brown: (43:22) That's what the lung points. The metal element is about loss and what the earth point on the lung channel is about saying is like, could you take all of that loss that you've experienced in your life and understand that even that was a way of taking care of yourself? That even that was a version of self love.   Russell Brown: (43:38) That is the most beautiful thing I think Lung Nine is so beautiful as to say, "All of that loss you ever had, that heartbreak that you had, that was for you, that fed you too. There was actually nutrition in all of that loss." What a beautiful way of looking at that loss I think from point of nutrition, from the point of nourishment. I love Lung Nine.   Russell Brown: (43:59) And doing Stomach 36 to say, "You've had it wrong. Now we're going to think of nourishment a new way. And you're going to take that understanding to lung, to your broken heart, to all that grief." Perfect treatment, as far as I'm concerned.   Russell Brown: (44:12) Those two points, that's it, I'm done. I'm out. Those are primary channels. That's not secondary vessels, but that's a perfect treatment, I think. But that's how I look at it.   Tahnee: (44:21) And your work, especially your writing I suppose, but even how you speak is so poetic and my husband was supposed to see you, but didn't get the chance because of COVID.   Tahnee: (44:32) But I get the sense from your writing that you speak to your clients about their lives and use these beautiful metaphors from Chinese medicine.   Tahnee: (44:42) And I think that's something I've really loved about your work is you bring a really fresh... A lot of people just repeat the wrote learned kind of chart of five element theory.   Tahnee: (44:52) Deliver, "You might feel frustration or irritability." I get a little bit like, "Oh, okay, can we evolve this conversation now?"   Tahnee: (45:00) And yeah, I think that it's not an embodied or useful way, I suppose of speaking to these things. And I wonder if you could, I know it's a long conversation, but could you give us a quick journey through the five elements from your perspective?   Russell Brown: (45:16) I really think that the seasons are such a perfect way of looking at it. And that's why I sort of wrote about it recently is that we learn the five elements and then learn the seasons, which I think is sort of backwards because they're going to teach you wood, which is means nothing, right?   Russell Brown: (45:30) They're going to teach you metal which means nothing. And these are all the things. Wood is frustration. What is anger? Wood is spring. Wood is green. And you're like, "Oh, okay." But they teach it that way because they're going to test you multiple choice. Right? So they just want to make sure that you've covered the bases.   Russell Brown: (45:46) But I like to go the other way. I want to start with the season. By season I think of spring and that's wood, right? And what's spring about? Spring is about the force that was required for a seed to break through snow and want to grow.   Russell Brown: (46:03) The liver and wood is about understanding the path forward. It's the journey that's taking you up. And that is really what we're talking about when we talk about wood. It is vision for the future, capacity to plan, knowing which way you want to go.   Russell Brown: (46:21) The wood is the general, it's like, "This is how I want to go. I want to go this way. That's how it is." And that's what spring is. It takes a lot of energy to crack that seed open after winter and that's what the wood energy is.   Russell Brown: (46:34) And so when you meet a wood personality type, those are aggressive people who know what they want, they are competitive and they're prone to anger.   Russell Brown: (46:43) And the reason why they're prone to anger is because they want to grow so badly that when life gets in the way they take it personally. They don't understand that obstacles are part of growth. And they perceive it as a stagnation. They perceive that as someone blocking their capacity to grow, and that is what anger comes from.   Russell Brown: (47:03) And so that's how you get to anger. You can't learn anger first. You have to understand that the end of it is where, oh, it's like, "Yeah, those people are really angry because they think that growth is supposed to just be a free flow of energy." And it's not. Growth comes with challenges.   Russell Brown: (47:23) Kites rise against the wind, not with the wind. But if you think that the world is coming at you hostilely and it's trying to prevent you from manifesting the plan that you see so clearly in your mind, you're going to be frustrated all the time.   Russell Brown: (47:35) And that's what a wood type is essentially. But that's how it is. So then you get through wood. Next is fire and fire is the culmination of that, that's summer, right? It's like the height of life.   Russell Brown: (47:47) And I have always sort of joke that I never like fire because fire people tend to be so full of life and in LA a fire type is like an actor, right? We're a fire city. People come to LA because they're fiery. And I hate that. I never want to talk to those people generally.   Russell Brown: (48:03) And as I was younger, I was like, "They're too vexing." Like that kind of fullness, that kind of like so much fire is about inspiration, being enlightened is fire, which could be annoying.   Russell Brown: (48:15) And especially in LA and love is fire, which I find to be just sort of treacly and basic. But as I've gotten older, I'm like, "No, actually those people are right. What else is there?" It's what we're trying to do. We're trying to reach up to fire.   Russell Brown: (48:32) That is the point of fire is that we should be looking for love. We should be inspired. We should want to be set on fire with excitement for living like that is the point. And that's summer.   Russell Brown: (48:45) Summer's not my season. I don't like being hot and I don't like parties and I don't like splashing or in the pool, but I get it now that if you have come from snow and if you live in not LA, but you live in some place snowy, you love summer and you just want it to be sun and summer all the time. And that's really what the fire element is about.   Russell Brown: (49:05) And then you get on the other side of fire and you're in fall, which is where I'm at now, which is about the pairing back. The bloom is over. And now we're actually coming into a state of decline again.   Russell Brown: (49:18) And it's about the tree losing its leaves, but it doesn't lose the leaves for pain. It's losing the leaves because it's going into a state of hibernation and it's going back into a state of contraction.   Russell Brown: (49:29) And I'm writing a lot about grief right now, and it's not that the grief is meant to break people's heart. It's about to see yourself clearly and what metal is about, metal is fall, and metal is about letting go of all of the things you thought you were, but you weren't really.   Russell Brown: (49:46) And that's why the metal organs are the lungs and the large intestine, because the lungs and intestine are filters. The large intestine is saying, "All the things you ate that you said were who you are, you're not." And actually you could just let them go. It's a filter.   Russell Brown: (50:01) That's the idea is just because you digested it, it didn't become who you were, your job isn't who you are, your mom isn't who you are, your role as a mother isn't who you are. There is an essential you underneath it.   Russell Brown: (50:14) And if you could let those things go, you actually get a chance to see yourself more clearly. And you take that essential part of you into the hibernation of winter, which is what the water element is about. And that's where you go after that.   Russell Brown: (50:28) Water is the conservation period. It's about saying, "I need to actually incubate for a little bit." Water is so interesting. And I'm looking at it now from a different point of view, which is that if you look at the five element cycle, water is the beginning. It's actually the beginning of life, but it's the dark part.   Russell Brown: (50:46) And the idea is that life begins in darkness and then brightness comes out of darkness. And that's really what water is about saying, "It's going to be dark. Can you move through the fear to know that there's life on the other side of that?"   Russell Brown: (51:03) And I think that that's so much part of the life experience is that the Big Bang itself was about light coming out of dark.   Russell Brown: (51:11) And that's what the water element is about, is that this virtue is the wisdom of saying, "I don't know, but I am willing to go into darkness in my belief that life will come after this, that there will be something that comes after this. I'm not sure I'm making peace with that darkness because I believe that there is light that comes out of the darkness."   Russell Brown: (51:35) And trusting that that is the case. And that's really where you get to when you get with the water element, which is why water types tend to be wise.   Russell Brown: (51:44) We think of the water type is the wizard because the wizard is the one that's like, "I don't need to control things. I don't need to know everything. I'm actually just going to soften myself and move really slowly and trust that there's light here."   Russell Brown: (51:58) And that then turns into spring again, which is the burst of light that comes out of that, which is insane. And it's deranged, completely insane that there would be grass growing under snow. I just think it's crazy. But that spring, it comes back around.   Russell Brown: (52:16) And so I didn't do a great job explaining the five elements, oh, I skipped earth, shit. Earth is a tricky one.   Tahnee: (52:21) Well, they can stick it in the middle and then nobody knows.   Russell Brown: (52:24) Earth is in the middle. Either Earth is in the middle, earth is after every season or earth is in the fall, right? Is in that period of fall where it's harvest, but earth is about reaping what you sew basically.   Russell Brown: (52:36) Earth is about saying after summer you actually get to collect all of the things that the summer gave you and bringing it back into a place of nourishment.   Russell Brown: (52:45) Earth's the most important one for any of us who are listening, because it's all going to be healers who are listening and we're all earth types, because that's why we got into healing to begin with is because we all have inappropriate relationships with giving and receiving care. It's the only reason you become a healer to begin with.   Russell Brown: (53:00) And hopefully we get that worked out, but that's also why we're all burnt out is because we give more care than we get. And that's the earth, that's the earth deficiency.   Russell Brown: (53:11) But that's how I am looking at the cycle now. And I see that cycle in myself and I see that cycle in myself every day, because that cycle is every day when I wake up in the morning and then I crash at the end of the day.   Russell Brown: (53:23) And I see that cycle in my patients and explaining some of that helps me contextualise a lot of where patients are. And I think it helps, like I said, to step back from where you are in the immediacy of your life and be like, "Oh, this is just one part in this big story."   Russell Brown: (53:42) And actually the context is important because if you are lost in darkness and you are lost in grief right now, and you don't understand that the grief is so important and that it's actually incubating something very special in you. And you just think that all of the leaves on these trees are falling because it's sad and your heart is supposed to break for it.   Russell Brown: (54:04) And you don't know that actually that tree is alive under there. It looks like it's dead, but it's not. And that is what actually metal is about, is that you are being stripped down to what is most bare in you so that when you come back, you come back stronger.   Russell Brown: (54:19) I think that that's such an important part that we don't get from just talking about regular old metal and grief. I just think that parts of it are missed if you don't actually sort of put it in the context of all the other organs and elements.   Tahnee: (54:34) Yeah. And I was taught the word poignancy, which is like the beautiful grief and then the counter to that almost, the courage that comes from facing what we don't want to face and actually that growth.   Tahnee: (54:48) And that for me really transformed because I was a grief avoider for sure. Especially in my 20s. And yeah, I remember when I was taught that it was a bit of an epiphany for me. And you mentioned an epiphany earlier. Should we segue to epiphanies?   Russell Brown: (55:06) I would love it. I'm in a class with an acupuncturist. I won't mention his name because there may be some patient confidentiality stuff, but I'm with a teacher who I've been with for years. And he's an acupuncturist and he's brilliant.   Russell Brown: (55:20) But I also kind of think he's a little bit pompous in a way that a lot of-   Tahnee: (55:26) They tend to be.   Russell Brown: (55:28) Acupuncturists can be, and his arrogance does something visceral to me that makes it hard, but I just find him to be so brilliant.   Russell Brown: (55:35) And so we're in this weekend courses now where we basically are watching him do intakes with patients and he does pulse and he doesn't actually do needles on anyone. It's all just intake. And then we talk about the patient after that.   Russell Brown: (55:45) And so people in the class bring in a patient and normally the patients are of a certain type, just like, oh, maybe a little trauma, maybe a little psycho emotional stuff, because that's kind of his focus, but they're all interesting.   Russell Brown: (56:00) But then a couple days ago I was in one over the weekend. We had this patient who was probably like a 45 year old electrician, like a blue collar guy, which isn't classically someone who would show up to an acupuncture workshop.   Russell Brown: (56:16) And he was sort of doing a little bit of like he would talk to my teacher and then he would sort of talk to us, like he was kind of entertaining a little bit and wanted to sort of have a laugh and be a little bit of a performer for us, which I appreciated.   Russell Brown: (56:30) But when it came down to it, he ultimately was talking about h

In today's show, Taylor Chalstrom talks with Roger Isom about the congestion that is still going on with west coast shipping ports and how that's affected the tree nut industry. We also cover the California State Board of Food and Agriculture meeting. Supporting the People who Support Agriculture Thank you to our sponsors who make it possible to get you your daily news. Please feel free to visit their websites. AgroPlantae - https://www.agroplantae.com/ Agromillora – https://www.agromillora.com/ California Citrus Mutual – https://www.cacitrusmutual.com/ The California Walnut Board – https://walnuts.org/ Soil and Crop – https://mysoilandcrop.com/  TriCal, Inc. - https://www.trical.com/

A data hack outs active duty NYPD officers as Oath Keeper members. Anti-Karens confront racist ‘Karen' on a bus. A Texas christian school president jailed for a disturbing crime. A ‘Karen' trashes a fast food restaurant and blames it on her diabetes. A ‘Karen' claims to be an investigator for the California state board. A Black New York mother died during postpartum hospital treatment, and her family wants to know why. A Fox News host railed against free school lunch programs. Hilarity unfolds when a neighbor and cop harass a guy cleaning up old property.Co-Host Jackson White.Read More HERE:Hack Of Oath Keepers Militia Group Includes Names Of Active NYPD Officers, De Blasio Launches InvestigationAnti-Karens Confront Racist Karen On A BusFormer Lubbock Christian School president sentenced to more than 5 years for child pornographyMcDonald's Karen has a fit, throws stuff on the ground and blames it on diabetes and IBD"Karen" is an investigator for the California State Board of Equalization.A New York mother died during postpartum hospital treatment, and her family wants to know whyFox News Host Rails Against Literal ‘Free Lunch' for Hungry KidsGuy cleans his old property, & shows us why he moved. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Todd Zipper, President of Wiley Education Services, welcomes Ted Mitchell, President of the American Council on Education (ACE). Todd and Ted discuss what ACE is currently working on and how are they helping colleges and universities through innovation. Plus, Ted shares his thoughts on how higher education will evolve under the Biden administration.  Topics Discussed • What to expect from the Biden Administration regarding affordability and accountability • How the pandemic negatively impacted enrollment rates for adult learners • The current student loan debt crisis and potential solutions to solve it • The effect digital credentialing will have on higher ed • How institutions can leverage investments from the big MOOC and platform players to bring down costs and drive better outcomes for students Guest Bio Ted Mitchell is the President of ACE, the coordinating body for higher education institutions in the United States. ACE's work encompasses policy advocacy, program development, and research focusing on equity, access, and student achievement.  Ted's leadership of ACE, and of the nation's higher education sector, is informed by a lifetime of work in higher education as a Professor, Dean, College President, Trustee, and most recently as U.S. Under Secretary of Education in the Obama administration. Previously, he served as the President of the California State Board of Education and CEO of the NewSchools Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy investing in K–12 innovation to support low-income students, schools, and communities. Ted received his bachelor's, master's, and PhD degrees from Stanford University. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, Christine, and their two children.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

We're excited to share with you this first episode of a new limited series podcast presented in collaboration by WestEd and CASBO. It's called Budgeting for Educational Equity.About this new seriesHow can dedicated teams of educators, administrators, school business officials and entire school communities allocate resources to better meet the needs of all their students -- especially at this watershed moment when student needs have never been greater due to the pandemic and an influx of additional federal and state dollars available to support transformative change? That's the story we're here to share.In this first "introductory" episode, host Jason Willis, director of strategic resource planning and implementation for WestEd and a former chief business official in several California school districts, invites guest experts, advocates and school district leaders to share how they think about and define resource equity in education as a way to help us get our "resource equity bearings." Subscribe to the new episode at:Apple podcasts SpotifyGoogleMore... Guests in this episode include:Christopher Edley, Jr., J.D., interim dean, U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Education; co-founder and president emeritus of The Opportunity Institute; professor and dean emeritus, U.C. Berkeley School of Law; former professor, Harvard Law School; and co-chair, National Commission on K-12 Excellence & EquityMaria Echaveste, J.D., president and CEO, The Opportunity Institute; and former White House deputy chief of staffJayne Christakos, former chief business officer, San Bernardino City Unified School DistrictMarguerite Williams, Ed.D., former assistant superintendent of educational services, Adelanto Elementary School District; and former senior director of equity and diversity, Association of California School AdministratorsAdela Madrigal Jones, superintendent, Sanger Unified School DistrictMichael Kirst, Ph.D., professor emeritus, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University; and past president, California State Board of EducationBudgeting for Educational Equity is presented by the California Association of School Business Official (CASBO), the premier resource for professional development and best practices for more than 24,000 California school business leaders, in partnership with WestEd, a national nonprofit research development and service agency that works to promote excellence and equity in education. Join the conversation on Twitter at @Budget4EdEquity Budgeting for Educational Equity is written and produced by Paul Richman (your trusty guide on "Adventures in Ed Funding") and Jason Willis. 

Advancing equity continues to be a major focus for California public education at all levels of the system. Yet, as education leaders and school business officials, it's not always easy to press your way forward into the noisy, bustling, sometimes uncomfortable intersection where equity meets educational resources.  In our first episode,  host Jason Willis, director of strategic resource planning and implementation for WestEd and a former chief business official in several California school districts, invites several guest policy experts, advocates and school district leaders to share how they think about and define resource equity in education. It's our way to help you get your "resource equity bearings." This also helps set the context for a core question we'll be exploring throughout this series: How can dedicated teams of educators, administrators, school business officials and entire school communities allocate resources — resources like time, money and our most valuable asset, people — to better meet the needs of all their students? Especially at this watershed moment, coming out of the pandemic, when student needs have never been greater and an influx of additional federal and state dollars offer opportunities for transformative change. Guests in this episode:Christopher Edley, Jr., J.D., interim dean, U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Education; co-founder and president emeritus of The Opportunity Institute; professor and dean emeritus, U.C. Berkeley School of Law; former professor, Harvard Law School; and co-chair, National Commission on K-12 Excellence & EquityMaria Echaveste, J.D., president and CEO, The Opportunity Institute; and former White House deputy chief of staffJayne Christakos, former chief business officer, San Bernardino City Unified School DistrictMarguerite Williams, Ed.D., assistant superintendent of educational services, Adelanto Elementary School District; and former senior director of equity and diversity, Association of California School AdministratorsAdela Madrigal Jones, superintendent, Sanger Unified School DistrictMichael Kirst, Ph.D., professor emeritus, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University; and past president, California State Board of EducationDownload the Interactive Companion Brief for this episode.Budgeting for Educational Equity is presented by the California Association of School Business Official (CASBO), the premier resource for professional development and best practices for more than 24,000 California school business leaders, in partnership with WestEd, a national nonprofit research development and service agency that works to promote excellence and equity in education. We are grateful to the Sobrato Family Foundation for providing additional support. Engage with us on Twitter at @Budget4EdEquity Budgeting for Educational Equity is written and produced by Paul Richman and Jason Willis. Original music, mixing and sound by Tommy Dunbar. John Diaz at WestEd serves as an advisor and develops the written materials that go along with each episode.

Ryan Zauk hosts legendary venture capitalist, billionaire, bitcoin investor, activist, and educator, Tim Draper. Tim Draper helps entrepreneurs drive their visions through funding, education, media, and government reform. His investments over the last few decades include companies like Baidu, Hotmail, Skype, Tesla, SpaceX, Robinhood, Twitter, Carta, Coinbase, and many more. He also is a large holder of bitcoin, having bought 50,000+ bitcoin when it was priced below $1,000. Draper Associates: draper.vc DFJ: https://www.dfj.com/ Website: timothydraper.com Book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Startup-Hero-Textbook-Entrepreneurs-ebook/dp/B078HWH29T They discuss: - His bullish views on bitcoin and the 1 reason he will never sell - His investment in Robinhood, Carta, and others - His very strong libertarian views and why he believes in minimal government, which ties into his bitcoin thesis - Why the Mt Gox hack improved his belief in bitcoin - His thoughts on the current state of China and where it's headed - And a fun rapid-fire round including the first bank branch in space and his updated bitcoin price target About Tim: Tim Draper is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist and founder of Draper Associates, DFJ, and the Draper Venture Network, a global network of venture capital funds. The firms' investments include Baidu, Focus Media, YeePay, KongZhong, Skype, Hotmail, Tesla, SolarCity, Coinbase, Ledger, Robinhood, Athenahealth, Box, TwitchTV, SpaceX, Cruise Automation, Carta, Planet, PTC, and many others. Tim is a leading spokesperson for Bitcoin, Blockchain, ICOs, and cryptocurrencies. He won the US Marshall's auction in 2014 (where he bid on 50,000 bitcoins) and invests in over 50 crypto companies as well as leads investments in Coinbase, Ledger, Tezos, and Bancor, among others. He created viral marketing, a marketing method for exponentially spreading an electronic service from customer to customer. Tim is regularly featured on major networks, in publications, and in social media as a proponent for entrepreneurship, innovative governance, free markets, and Bitcoin. He has received various awards and honors including the World Entrepreneurship Forum's "Entrepreneur of the World." He has also been highly ranked on several notable lists including one of the top 100 most powerful people in finance by Worth Magazine, the top 20 most influential people in Crypto by Crypto Weekly, #1 most networked venture capitalist by AlwaysOn, #7 on the Forbes Midas List, and #48 most influential Harvard Alum. In his mission to promote entrepreneurship, Tim created Draper University of Heroes, a residential and online school based in San Mateo, California, to help extraordinary people accomplish their life missions. School alumni have gone on to build 350 companies including crypto leaders, QTUM, Spacecash, DataWallet, and Credo. He also started Innovate Your State, a non-profit dedicated to crowdsource innovation in government; and BizWorld, a non-profit that teaches young children how business and entrepreneurship work. Tim is involved in California politics and education/organizations, having served on the California State Board of Education and starting a movement for local choice in schools that led to him becoming a proponent for a statewide initiative for school vouchers. He also led a statewide initiative to create competitive governance with Six Californias, followed by an initiative for Three Californias. Tim received a Bachelor of Science from Stanford University with a major in electrical engineering and a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School. He also has two honorary doctorates from The International University and Trinity College of Dublin. -- For more FinTech insights, follow us below: Medium: medium.com/wharton-fintech WFT Twitter: twitter.com/whartonfintech Ryan's Twitter: twitter.com/RyanZauk LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/wharton-fintech-club/

Host Sloan Simmons joins Lozano Smith attorneys Ruth Mendyk and Joshua Whiteside to discuss updates to district policies and practices during the 2020-21 school year, pending legislation on student retention and grading issues for 2021-22 and proposed curriculum and kindergarten / preschool related issues for future years. Show Notes & References 2:30 – Assembly Bill (AB) 1127 - Expanded transfer rights to victims of bullying (Client News Brief 74) 4:34 – Education Code 48900(r) - Student discipline for bullying 6:35 – Heightened transportation obligation within AB 1127 7:55 – Changes to conditions for student UCP (Uniform Complaint Procedures) complaints (Client News Brief 77) 10:35 – Face masks 11:20 – California Department of Public Health (CDPH) guidelines (Client News Brief 3) 12:30 – Vaccinations 16:47 – June 15th reopening 17:46 – Masks and buses (Executive Order 13998) 19:26 – AB 104 - Student retention 26:29 – AB 104 timelines 28:10 – Pass/no pass grades (Education Code 49066.5) 31:10 – Senate Bill (SB) 545 - Student retention 36:56 – AB 101 - Ethnic studies curriculum 38:24 – California State Board of Education (CSBE) adopted curriculum 38:54 – Critical race theory & teaching about race 42:54 – AB 22 - Expanded transitional kindergarten 43:26 – SB 50 - California state preschool program 44:05 – Virtual instruction & independent study Lozano Smith's COVID-19 Resources can be found here. For more information on the topics discussed in this podcast, please visit our website at: www.lozanosmith.com/podcast.

In today's show, we cover the California State Board of Food and Agriculture meeting with topics including drought, SIGMA, and broadband. We also celebrate June Dairy Month with an interview from one of California's organic dairies. Supporting the People who Support Agriculture Thank you to our sponsors who make it possible to get you your daily news. Please feel free to visit their websites.   Agromillora – https://www.agromillora.com/ California Citrus Mutual – https://www.cacitrusmutual.com/ The California Walnut Board – https://walnuts.org/ Soil and Crop – https://mysoilandcrop.com/  For advertising inquiries, please contact us at 559-352-4456 or jay@jcsmarketinginc.com  

The Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF) is a nonprofit running several programs in K-12 STEM education, including its Computer Science Institute for middle and high school teachers. Rosemary Kamei is the Chief Development and Innovation Officer of SVEF, and she talks about why SVEF piloted its CS Institute a few years ago and how it has been going through the pandemic. She talks about how it aims to promote equity in CS education, across the digital divide and accounting for socioeconomics, race, and gender in the Silicon Valley community. Related to this episode: • SVEF: https://www.svefoundation.org/ • SVEF CS Institute: https://www.svefoundation.org/computer-science • California State Board of Education Content Standards for Computer Science Education: https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/computerscicontentstds.asp • Elevate Math at SVEF: https://www.svefoundation.org/elevate-math • CS for CA: https://csforca.org/ • SVEF Digital Equity: https://www.svefoundation.org/digitalequity Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You'll also be supporting projects like the Engineer's Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates! Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

Malia Cohen discovered when she was a child that she wanted to serve in government. She visualized herself in her dream job and then made it happen. Today, she has moved on from that role and sits on the California State Board of Equalization and serves as President of the San Francisco Police Commission, the first African-American woman in both of these roles. So how has she powered forward to make her goals a reality in spite of many obstacles along the way? On this episode, she shares her story openly and honestly, and imparts wisdom and advice that can benefit anyone in any career. Listen and be inspired.Meet the GuestMalia M. Cohen serves as a Member of the California State Board of Equalization (BOE), California’s elected tax commission. She was elected to the BOE in November 2018, served as Chair in 2019, and is the first African-American woman to serve on the Board.As the BOE Board Member for District 2, she represents 10 million constituents living in all or parts of 23 counties extending from Del Norte County in the north to Santa Barbara County in the south. In January 2019, her BOE Board Member colleagues unanimously selected her to serve as Chair of the Board.A strong advocate for social justice and inclusion, Board Member Cohen pledges to ensure that the views of all who come before the Board of Equalization are considered carefully, with respect, civility, and courtesy. She further commits to collaborate with her colleagues to guarantee that all the actions of the BOE are open, transparent, and above reproach.Prior to being elected to the Board of Equalization, Board Member Cohen served as President of the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco. She was first elected to the Board of Supervisors in 2010 and re-elected in 2014.As a Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, she served as the Chair of the Budget and Finance Committee. As Finance Chair, she oversaw the adoption of an $11 billion budget, and measures concerning bond issues, taxes, fees, and redevelopment and real estate matters. She also served as a fiduciary member of the San Francisco Transportation Authority, which manages the proceeds of a half-cent sales tax that generates $100 million annually for transportation investments in the County.Previously, she served as a Commissioner of the San Francisco Employee Retirement System (SFERS), which manages a $23 billion pension fund. As President of SFERS, she led efforts to divest from fossil fuels and thermal coal investments and moved $100 million into a fossil fuel-free index fund.Throughout her life, Board Member Cohen has fought for diversity and inclusion. She has championed policies and programs that protect public health, foster economic development, promote new affordable housing, and that create good jobs through protecting and expanding our manufacturing base.Board Member Cohen was born and raised in San Francisco. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Fisk University, a historically Black university in Nashville, Tennessee, and a Masters in Science in Public Policy & Management from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

In today's show, Taylor Chalstrom talks with Luca Brillante for this week's Tech Thursday report. Sabrina Halvorson has today's news brief and audio from the state senate agriculture budget hearing as well as the California State Board of Food and Agriculture meeting on the challenges at the ports.  Supporting the People who Support Agriculture Thank you to our sponsors who make it possible to get you your daily news. Please feel free to visit their websites.   Agromillora – https://www.agromillora.com/ California Citrus Mutual – https://www.cacitrusmutual.com/ The California Walnut Board – https://walnuts.org/ Soil and Crop – https://mysoilandcrop.com/ WRT – http://wrtag.com/promax/   For advertising inquiries, please contact us at 559-352-4456 or jay@jcsmarketinginc.com

In today's show, Taylor Chalstrom reports on the effects of trade wars on tree nuts. Sabrina Halvorson reports on the problems at the state's ports and the California State Board of Food and Agriculture meeting on the challenges and opportunities related to overall port congestion. Supporting the People who Support Agriculture Thank you to our sponsors who make it possible to get you your daily news. Please feel free to visit their websites.   Agromillora – https://www.agromillora.com/ California Citrus Mutual – https://www.cacitrusmutual.com/ The California Walnut Board – https://walnuts.org/ Soil and Crop – https://mysoilandcrop.com/ WRT – http://wrtag.com/promax/   For advertising inquiries, please contact us at 559-352-4456 or jay@jcsmarketinginc.com

We continue our important discussion on the universal support of agriculture. Today's episode focuses on the Herculean efforts of two States, Maryland, and California, and the farmers who make those States great through the USFRA's Decade of Ag effort, Earth Day, and the public private partnerships, which we are all focused on the future of sustainable agriculture. In the previous episode, we heard about what's happening in Maryland, where the number one industry is actually farming. Now we travel across the country to California to continue the discussion with California's Secretary of Ag, Karen Ross and Don Cameron, President of the California State Board of Food and Ag.

The California State Board of Education approved an ethnic studies curriculum for K-12 after years of tumultuous debate. Some critics say the curriculum falls short of the true intent of ethnic studies as an academic discipline. Meanwhile, other opponents of the early drafts of the curriculum were concerned about presenting students with too critical a view of capitalism and white supremacy. In the end, the board of education adopted the curriculum in a way that provides teachers and districts flexibility in how they will teach ethnic studies. We examine the guidelines and the pushback, and hear about a proposal to make ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement in California.

On this episode of the Startup of the Year Podcast, we listen to Frank Gruber’s interview with Tim Draper at the Startup of the Year Summit in the fall of 2020. Tim is a top global venture capitalist, founder of Draper Associates, DFJ and the Draper Venture Network, a global network of venture capital funds. Tim’s investments include Coinbase, Robinhood, TwitchTV, Skype, Tesla, Baidu, Focus Media, YeePay, Hotmail, SolarCity, Athenahealth, Box, SpaceX, Cruise Automation, Carta, Planet, PTC, Ledger and many others. Tim is also a leading spokesperson for Bitcoin, Blockchain, ICOs and cryptocurrencies. He has served on the California State Board of Education, and led a movement for Local Choice in schools culminating in becoming proponent for a statewide initiative for School Vouchers. Tim also led an initiative to create competitive governance with Six Californias, followed by Three Californias, which was approved for the ballot, but was rejected by the California Supreme Court before the vote. We also hear from Rich Maloy, our VP of Engagement with Established and part of Established Ventures, who has some tips about keeping top of mind in a competitive funding landscape in a segment called the “VC Minute.” We also celebrate one of our alumni, Blake Hall, and his company ID.me (which is a digital identification platform that simplifies how individuals securely prove and share their identities online) recently raised Nine-Figure Round. There is also the upcoming CTA Foundation's 2021 Virtual Pitch Event (sponsored by AARP Innovation Labs) which will take place on March 31st. Join us as eight startups pitch their innovations and engage in Q&A with experts. This year there will also be an audience favorite award, where attendees vote LIVE as startups pitch! You can find out more info and register for the event at: est.us/331EB. We’ve also recently been active on the Clubhouse app where we have created our new “Startup Community Club” for our community and we hope that you all will join or follow the “Startup Community Club.” You can find it at est.us/clubhouse. We also invite all of our listeners to get involved with our program by visiting: established.us/programs. This is the best way to get notified of the various startup opportunities that we come across while working with various partner organizations and in a number of ecosystems across the country. It is also that time of year again when the Startup of the Year 2021 Application is open. So if you are a startup looking for exposure and to become part of an amazing community make sure to apply at soty.link/apply21. Lastly, we want to continue to let our startup listeners know that the NASA iTech program is looking for for startups for their various pitch sessions and you can apply by visiting our link at: est.us/nit Thank you for listening, and as always, please check out the Established website and subscribe to the newsletter at www.est.us Checkout Startup of the Year at www.startupofyear.com Subscribe to the Startup of the Year Daily Deal Flow: www.startupofyear.com/daily-dealflow Subscribe to the Startup of the Year podcast: www.podcast.startupofyear.com Subscribe to the Established YouTube Channel: soty.link/ESTYouTube *** Startup of the Year helps diverse, emerging startups, founding teams, and entrepreneurs push their company to the next level. We are a competition, a global community, and a resource. Startup of the Year is also a year-long program that searches the country for a geographically diverse set of startups from all backgrounds and pulls them together to compete for the title of Startup of the Year. The program includes a number of in-person and virtual events, including our annual South By Southwest startup pitch event and competition. All of which culminate at our annual Startup of the Year Summit, where the Startup of the Year winner is announced, along with an opportunity at a potential investment. Established is a consultancy focused on helping organizations with innovation, startup, and communication strategies. It is the power behind Startup of the Year. Created by the talent responsible for building the Tech.Co brand (acquired by an international publishing company), we are leveraging decades of experience to help our collaborators best further (or create) their brand & accomplish their most important goals. Connect with us on Twitter - @EstablishedUs and Facebook - facebook.com/established.us/.

Join us for a discussion of women in politics, paths to success, making a difference, and how female leaders are shaping the future.  Meet the Speakers Malia M. Cohen serves as a member of the California State Board of Equalization (BOE), California's elected tax commission. She was elected to the BOE in November 2018, served as Chair in 2019, and is the first African-American woman to serve on the Board. As the BOE Board Member for District 2, she represents 10 million constituents living in all or parts of 23 counties extending from Del Norte County in the north to Santa Barbara County in the south. In January 2019, her BOE Board Member colleagues unanimously selected her to serve as Chair of the Board. A strong advocate for social justice and inclusion, Board Member Cohen pledges to ensure that the views of all who come before the Board of Equalization are considered carefully, with respect, civility, and courtesy. Fiona Ma, CPA, is California's 34th state treasurer. She was elected on November 6, 2018 with more votes (7,825,587) than any other candidate for treasurer in the state's history. She is the first woman of color and the first female Certified Public Accountant (CPA) elected to the position. Ma was a member of the State Assembly from 2006–2012, serving as speaker pro tempore from 2010–2012. Prior to serving as speaker pro tempore, she was Assembly majority whip and built coalitions during a state budget crisis to pass groundbreaking legislation that protected public education and the environment while also expanding access to health care. Stefanie G. Roumeliotes, a native to the San Francisco Bay Area, has parlayed her passions for supporting political candidates and causes, and enhancing the welfare of others, into a highly productive career as a seasoned strategist and fundraiser in the political and non-profit arenas. Recognized nationally as a leader in her field, Stefanie has established an admirable reputation for handling each enterprise she manages with expertise and success. In 2004, Stefanie founded SGR Consulting, of which she is CEO. SPEAKERS Malia M. Cohen Member, California State Board of Equalization; Former Member, San Francisco Board of Supervisors Fiona Ma CPA, Treasurer, State of California; Former Member, San Francisco Board of Supervisors Stefanie G. Roumeliotes Founder and CEO, SGR Consulting; Northwestern Finance Director, Hillary Clinton 2008 Presidential Campaign Michelle Meow Producer and Host, "The Michelle Meow Show," KBCW/KPIX TV and Podcast; Member, Commonwealth Club Board of Governors—Co-Host John Zipperer Producer and Host, Week to Week Political Roundtable; Vice President of Media & Editorial, The Commonwealth Club—Co-Host In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on March 18th, 2021 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us for a discussion of women in politics, paths to success, making a difference, and how female leaders are shaping the future.  Meet the Speakers Malia M. Cohen serves as a member of the California State Board of Equalization (BOE), California’s elected tax commission. She was elected to the BOE in November 2018, served as Chair in 2019, and is the first African-American woman to serve on the Board. As the BOE Board Member for District 2, she represents 10 million constituents living in all or parts of 23 counties extending from Del Norte County in the north to Santa Barbara County in the south. In January 2019, her BOE Board Member colleagues unanimously selected her to serve as Chair of the Board. A strong advocate for social justice and inclusion, Board Member Cohen pledges to ensure that the views of all who come before the Board of Equalization are considered carefully, with respect, civility, and courtesy. Fiona Ma, CPA, is California’s 34th state treasurer. She was elected on November 6, 2018 with more votes (7,825,587) than any other candidate for treasurer in the state's history. She is the first woman of color and the first female Certified Public Accountant (CPA) elected to the position. Ma was a member of the State Assembly from 2006–2012, serving as speaker pro tempore from 2010–2012. Prior to serving as speaker pro tempore, she was Assembly majority whip and built coalitions during a state budget crisis to pass groundbreaking legislation that protected public education and the environment while also expanding access to health care. Stefanie G. Roumeliotes, a native to the San Francisco Bay Area, has parlayed her passions for supporting political candidates and causes, and enhancing the welfare of others, into a highly productive career as a seasoned strategist and fundraiser in the political and non-profit arenas. Recognized nationally as a leader in her field, Stefanie has established an admirable reputation for handling each enterprise she manages with expertise and success. In 2004, Stefanie founded SGR Consulting, of which she is CEO. SPEAKERS Malia M. Cohen Member, California State Board of Equalization; Former Member, San Francisco Board of Supervisors Fiona Ma CPA, Treasurer, State of California; Former Member, San Francisco Board of Supervisors Stefanie G. Roumeliotes Founder and CEO, SGR Consulting; Northwestern Finance Director, Hillary Clinton 2008 Presidential Campaign Michelle Meow Producer and Host, "The Michelle Meow Show," KBCW/KPIX TV and Podcast; Member, Commonwealth Club Board of Governors—Co-Host John Zipperer Producer and Host, Week to Week Political Roundtable; Vice President of Media & Editorial, The Commonwealth Club—Co-Host In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on March 18th, 2021 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Expert Panel: Parenting and Family During Crisis!During this difficult time of COVID, Dr. Mark Schillinger and Maria Espinosa discuss surviving family challenges during a crisis and share professional tips that can help save us. Due to the pandemic, challenging economic times, and school closures, both young and adult children are living with their parents much more than before. This is creating a significant increase in stress in the home. Families who love each other, but don’t have the necessary skills to adapt to these stresses efficiently, are suddenly finding themselves living in a toxic home - filled with fear, anxiety, conflict, and competition.About guests Dr. Mark Schillinger and Maria EspinosaDr. Mark Schillinger, aka “The Teen-Whisperer Who Helps Young Men Ignite Their Inner Hero,” was interviewed by Lisa Ling of CNN for his pioneering work. Mark is the founder of Young Men’s Ultimate Weekend and Challenging Teenage Sons, is a thought leader, social philosopher, public speaker, community leader, and a chiropractor specializing in mind-body wellness. An expert in stress management and family dynamics, he is the creator of “The RIGHT Way®,” a method to help families enjoy more caring and cooperative relationships. His pioneering work earned him the California State Board of Chiropractic Examiners distinction to teach health professionals simple scientific stress reduction techniques. Mark’s wisdom draws upon the sciences of personal growth, neuro-science, mindfulness-based stress management, and tribal ancestral family wisdom. Mark owns a recording studio and collaborates with his son, Gabe, an award-winning hip hop producer and a Young Men’s Ultimate Weekend mentor and contributor. Not realizing that his teenage son was involved with drugs and alcohol, Dr. Mark Schillinger considered himself a failure as a parent and even contemplated suicide.Before starting his workshops, Mark, a chiropractor specializing in mind-body wellness who was voted best in Marin by a reader’s poll in the Marin Independent Journal, described his personal and business life as “hitting the wall.” Moving from Oregon to California as he and his wife were in the midst of getting divorced, he was rapidly running out of money, and his son was getting involved with drugs and alcohol.Facing a series of devastating life-changing events and knowing that he didn’t want to go to his deathbed, not having tried to do the best for his family, led him to start innovative and highly praised workshops. He is the founder of Young Men’s Ultimate Weekend (YMUW), a wilderness rite of passage for young men. Inspired by a similar event in Canada where he learned that he needed a village of men to help him raise his son, he started his own Weekends in 2000 in Fairfax, California. The Weekend now has over 3,500 graduates. The outstanding results have earned Mark the moniker “teen whisperer.” Mark lives and practices in Marin County. https://www.challengingteenagesons.com/homehttps://www.ymuw.org/  (Young Men’s Ultimate Weekend)Maria Espinosa says, “Through any crises, especially now during the pandemic, we all, especially families, feel isolated and unmoored. Therefore, it’s crucial to look out for one another and work through differences and salute what brings us closer together.” Keying in on her own love-rage relationship with her mom who had an affair with her husband in one novel, Maria’s latest book Suburban Souls (Tailwinds Press – October 15, 2020), brings the Jewish experience and her trials in a mental institution to the forefront. Using her life experiences as a catalyst, American Book Award winner Maria Espinosa shows that we can be resilient and still bring joy and happiness into our lives despite tragedy. Although the stories may differ, a common thread in Maria’s writing is the search for love and how best to find it.Having known numerous Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, she saw how the memories that haunted them left their marks on many of their children. She felt poignant in the families she depicted was the lack of communication and the isolation that each member felt. Unfortunately, she believes that this is true not only of these Holocaust survivors but also for so many families in the world.According to the National Institute of Mental Health, mental illness is common in the U.S., affecting tens of millions yearly. Yet, not everyone gets help. Fortunately for Maria, whose own experience of a breakdown and staying in a mental institution when she was nineteen reminded her of how isolated she felt, and found other young women like herself during her stay that helped her heal.Maria’s various experiences gave her insight into how we are all capable of surviving trauma; therefore, her writing highlights how we are able to recapture the best of life with the right kind of help. https://www.mariaespinosa.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/eNprQ3nwCXoCall in and Chat with Kat during Live Show with Video Stream: Call 646-558-8656 ID: 8836953587 press #.  To Ask a Question press *9 to raise your handHave a Question for the Show? Go toFacebook– Dreams that Can Save Your LifeFacebook Professional–Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavoshttp://kathleenokeefekanavos.com/

In this News too Real segment, producer host Julia Dudley Najieb takes a deep look at the possible disastrous situation regarding the effects of new law passed as Proposition 19; Black families who own property could stand to lose their investments they have procured within their families for over decades. The Honorable Malia Cohen representing the California State Board of Equalization, district 2 explained the severe ramifications of this law that passed at the hands of voters --perhaps many of us did not read the fine print. Now many recipients of such property inheritances may stand to lose due to property tax debt set to change starting this Feb. 16; based on the new law, property rented and not used as one's primary residents is subject to reassessment based on the 2021 base values, not the original value of homes, even if they were bought decades ago.

In today's show, Sabrina Halvorson reports on the Senate Ag Committee confirmation hearing for President Biden's Agriculture Secretary nominee, Tom Vilsack, as well as the California State Board of Food and Agriculture's water hearing. We also hear from Pam Graviet and Jennifer Williams of the California Walnut Board & Commission. 

Ali is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with the California State Board of Behavioral Sciences. She has a Masters in Counseling Psychology and a website called CaliforniaOnlinePsychotherapy.com where she blends depth work with pragmatic tools. She also wrote a book that is coming out soon called, “The Therapist Next Door”. You can pre-order a copy on her website here: alipsiuk.com. Books referenced during our chat: What should I do with my life? https://www.amazon.com/What-Should-Do-My-Life-ebook/dp/B000FBFMKC/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=what+should+i+do+with+my+life&qid=1611010355&sr=8-1 The Noonday Demon - https://www.amazon.com/Noonday-Demon-Atlas-Depression-ebook/dp/B005UDIB94/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+noonday+demon&qid=1611011003&sr=8-1 Make your Mess Your Memoir - https://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Mess-Memoir-ebook/dp/B0895849G7/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=make+your+mess+your+memoir&qid=1611012230&sr=8-1 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stickaround/support

In today's episode we continue our series on regenerative agriculture examining why it is so important for our soils, the environment, and all of human life. Joining us today is Dr. Jeff Creque, PhD. Dr. Creque earned his PhD in Rangeland Ecology from Utah State University, and is a California State Board of Forestry Certified Professional in Rangeland Management. He is an agricultural and rangeland consultant and Natural Resources Conservation Service certified nutrient management planning specialist. Dr. Creque brings thirty years of applied experience and theoretical training to the task of informing and facilitating the goals of the Marin Carbon Project. Dr. Creque is a Director at the Carbon Cycle Institute, and the co-founder of the Marin Carbon Project, where he provides senior leadership on carbon farming and land management. Additionally, he has many organizational affiliations including: the Alliance for Local Sustainable Agriculture, Bolinas-Stinson Beach Compost Project, Apple Tree International, and West Marin Compost Coalition. To learn more about Dr. Creque and his work please visit: Carbon Cycle Institute website Marin Carbon Project Presentation on Carbon Farming

Let's talk about sex with Sexologist, Dr. Nazanin Moali. Fetishes, revealing your partner's desires and even simply getting back to having regular sex all begin with having the right conversations. In this episode, Dr. Moali shares tips and tricks on what men and women can do to have better sex, explore their fantasies with their partners and more!   *Topics Discussed* - Desire discrepancy - Low desire in women - Sexual communication   *About Dr. Nazanin Moali* I am a psychologist, a consultant, and a researcher. I am a licensed Clinical Psychologist through the California State Board of Psychology (PSY 27951). I have received extensive training in treatment of eating disorders and addiction from some of the nation’s leading experts. I am a published researcher who regularly gives talks at major universities and international conferences, and have given therapy advice and information on local television shows on areas of my expertise.   I received my Bachelor’s degree from University of California, San Diego in biology and psychology. I earned my Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University and my Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Alliant International University. The area of focus for my Clinical Internship was chemical dependency and addiction while the emphasis of my Post-Doctoral training was on eating disorders. *Connect With Dr. Nazanin Moali*    - WEBSITE: https://oasis2care.com - Sexology Podcast: http://www.sexologypodcast.com - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oasis2care - Twitter: https://twitter.com/oasis2care# - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sexologypod...    

Join Sujie Shin, CCEE Deputy Executive Director, and Matthew Navo, CCEE Board President and California State Board of Education Member, for a conversation about the current challenges educators are facing and insights on how to lead forward through these difficult times on our way to reimagining education for all students.

As a public educator, you want the truth. As a conservative teacher, you also want facts. Some conservative educators have not been happy with President Trump’s work in education in our country. The election is still not settled, although the media would tell you otherwise. As court battles loom over who will be our next president, educators want to know how a new administration will affect them. Episode #7 will discuss what a Biden presidency could be like for conservative educators and public education, and who will be the Education Secretary.What A Biden Presidency Could Mean For TeachersThe media has proclaimed Joe Biden as the next President of the United States. What a Biden presidency could look like for public teachers may get your attention. Organizations like AFT and NEA have thrown large amounts of money towards getting Biden elected. Keep in mind that NEA and AFT support Planned Parenthood, “SeXXX-ed”, transgender theory, BLM/Critical Race Theory, etc. Even some public school teachers who are conservative-leaning have thrown their support towards Biden because they did not like Betsy Devos. The spending proposed by the Biden administration will hit every taxpayer, including teachers in the hip pocket.Joe Biden has promised that he wants to look at forgiving student loan debt. This would come at an estimated cost of $1.3 trillion dollars. Someone has to pay that bill. So what a Biden presidency would initially mean is large federal spending. Biden’s transition committee for education is being led by Linda Darling-Hammond. Darling-Hammond is the President of the California State Board of Education. A state board that still has students locked down and not attending in-class schooling. The state of California is now teaching a radical program called “sexx-ed.” Which tears down scientific-based knowledge of sexuality and gender identification. Not to mention this state is not reflective of most teachers across America.The Biden administration has also promised to name a Secretary of Education that is a person of color. The two top candidates are Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, and Lily Eskelsen Garcia, the former president of the National Education Association. Sounds like pay-for-play to me, but you can make your own determination. What a Biden presidency teaches everyone is that if your union or organization donated large amounts of money, we will make sure you receive a spot in our cabinet as the education secretary.Important links for What A Biden Presidency Could Mean For Conservative Public EducatorsBiden’s Administration and Public EducationJoe Biden’s Education PlanDeVos out, Biden Plans Series of reversals on educationMore Interesting Podcast like What a Biden Presidency Could Mean for TeachersWhy Public Education should be state-funded, not Federally FundedPart One Biden’s America: The Joe Biden Plan on Immigration in AmericaConservative Educator PodcastRobert Mueller’s Report Should Be Released to the PublicCalifornia Removes Kamala Harris Records While Attorney General

Dr. Joseph Coppus from the Neurologic Wellness Institute talks to Dr. Sergio F. Azzolino who is an internationally renowned clinician who has been serving his profession and patients from around the world since 1995. In 2012 he was appointed by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. to the California State Board of Chiropractic Examiners, and continues to serve as Chairman of the Board. He is President of the American Chiropractic Neurology Board, an Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology for the Carrick Institute for Graduate Studies. www.neurologicwellnessinstitute.com

Today Guests: Jim Randall is on the California State Board. He is the NAMI Training Coordinator for the LAPD

The pandemic and social unrest around racism make it a challenging time for students and educators, but it’s also a period of opportunity. Janice Jackson, CEO of Chicago Public Schools, says it’s time to address long-standing inequities in education. In her district, the third largest in the country, students have been learning about justice and restorative practices — even before the death of George Floyd. With today’s crises unearthing large disparities, how can educators avoid returning to the status quo? Jackson and Linda Darling-Hammond, president of the California State Board of Education, discuss being authentic with students and curriculum grounded in this moment. Their conversation is led by Ross Wiener, vice president at the Aspen Institute and executive director of the Education and Society Program.As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, the Aspen Institute is nonpartisan and does not endorse, support, or oppose political candidates or parties. Further, the views and opinions of our guests and speakers do not necessarily reflect those of the Aspen Institute.

At 18 years old, our youngest guest-to-date, she shares an amazing story of getting to know her core self and then just “going for it.” From feeling restless and unfulfilled as a Sophomore, she talks about her journey of self-discovery and steps forward with “I just started doing things that I was definitely afraid of.” Brenna’s “I know myself and love when I can pour myself into something that I can believe in”, will inspire women of any age to fully claim their powerful, influential selves!Brenna Pangelinan just graduated from Eastlake High School, Chula Vista, CA with a cumulative GPA of 4.64. After a six month intensive interview process, she was selected by the Governor as the sole student representative on the California State Board of Education for 2019-20. As a voting member, she served with eight women and one man on the highest policy-making board for California public K-12 education.Prior to this appointment, Brenna served as a Board Member for Sweetwater Union High School District, Chula Vista, CA. She was Chair of the President’s Council for the Associated Student Body (ASB) of Eastlake High School and Leader of the ASB Athletics Commission. Also she was President of her HS Nothing but Nets club, raising dollars to send insecticide treated beds to malaria endemic countries, and in that role was a United Nations Foundation Campaign Champions Council Member. She regularly met with Congressional and Senate members advocating for federal support of global health legislation.Brenna is an accomplished athlete in swimming and was varsity captain for the water polo team where she was named All Mesa League 1st Team, and varsity defensive player of the year. In 2017 and 2019 she was part of the Mesa League Division II CIF Semifinalist Varsity Swim Team. She was honored as Freshman Swimmer of the Year, and a California State High School Championship Qualifier in the 200 Freestyle Relay. In 2017 she was part of a team of six that completed the 21 mile Catalina Channel Relay in the ocean. Brenna was accepted at Brown University, Providence, RI beginning her freshman year in January 2021 (start delay due to COVID pandemic).

She serves as President of the California State Board of Education, President and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute, and is one of the nation’s leading education researchers...In this episode Dr. Linda Darling Hammond shares what’s on her mind as plans for the new school year continue to take shape. How is distance learning going? What have other countries done to re-open their campuses safely and what else should our federal government do to support efforts here? Plus, we explore the role everyone in schools plays in providing social-emotional supports to students; key objectives for the new Learning Continuity and Attendance Plans that districts must adopt before October – and fact-checking presidential tweets about education.With back to school season upon us, local and state leaders are working tirelessly to ensure as Gov. Newsom has said, “learning is non-negotiable” while prioritizing the health and safety of students and staff during this time of COVID-19.In a recent Forbes article, “The Urgency of Reopening Schools Safely,” Linda discussed what other countries are doing to re-open their school campuses. She makes the compelling case that “where these re-openings have succeeded, governments have been responsive to addressing the significant financial needs.” Yet, with nearly $2.8 trillion in federal aid dedicated to the recovery so far in the U.S., less than half of one percent of the total funding has been allocated specifically for K-12 education. MORE RESOURCESReopening California's Schools: A Discussion on Political Insights for 2020-21, CASBO webinarReopening California's Schools: A FCMAT Discussion on Understanding & Planning for Federal Funding, CASBO WebinarCDE's Coronavirus Response and School Reopening Guidance webpageABOUT OUR GUESTDr. Linda Darling Hammond was appointed by Gov. Newsom to the State Board of Education in February 2019, and currently serves as President. She is President and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute (LPI), an organization that conducts and communicates independent, high-quality research to improve educational policy and practice. Linda is also the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and served as the faculty sponsor of the Stanford Teacher Education Program. She is past president of the American Educational Research Association and recipient of its awards for Distinguished Contributions to Research, Lifetime Achievement, and Research-to-Policy. Full bio here.ABOUT CASBOThe California Association of School Business Officials is the premier resource for professional development and business best practices for California's school business leaders. Follow at @CASBOAbout your series guide Paul Richman is a public education advocate and consultant. Contact him at edfundingca@gmail.com. Follow at @pjr100

Are you stuck sheltering in place and now your divorce seems to be stuck too?   Are you looking for ways to move your divorce forward during this global pandemic?   Erin Levine, CEO and creator of Hello Divorce, and founder of the Levine Family Law Group, shares several ways that you can be keeping the momentum flowing even while courts are closed.  The process of divorce can be complicated and there is a lot that can be done even while you are waiting for the world to re-open.   Erin gives real world steps and advice that can help you get unstuck and move forward starting today.   More About Erin "I’ve spent 15 years advising clients, litigating, negotiating and mediating contested and cooperative divorces, and running a respected boutique family law firm in the Bay Area.  And while I have received all the certifications, accolades and awards* that any family lawyer would strive for, I became disillusioned with the system that routes every divorce through court, pitting spouse against spouse. Not being one to shy away from a challenge and being comfortable as the “underdog,” I set out to create an online, ethically compliant, divorce. Hello Divorce has become the convenient, efficient, divorce option for (ex) couples who want to transition out of relationship without the expense and drama ordinarily associated with divorce.  *Certified Family Law Specialist, California State Board of Legal Specialization, 2019 Reisman Award for Legal Innovation (Clio), 2014 -2019 Super Lawyer, 2018 Duke Law & Tech Accel. Grand Prize, 2019 American Bar Association “Women in Tech,” 2019 Women Founders Network “Top Ten”, 2019 “FastCase 50”, 2020 James I Keen Memorial Award for Excellence in eLawyering" _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ THIS WEEK'S SPONSOR INFORMATION:   For more information, and to sign up for your free account with our Sponsor, visit HELLO DIVORCE.  Find out about their DIY option, which provides you with your own legal document assistant who will take you through the process from start to finish and even their on-call attorneys whose time can be purchased in 30-minute increments!  Hello Divorce has all the options to help you with an affordable, convenient and low-stress divorce!  Visit them at www.hellodivorce.com and be sure to tell them you heard about them on NEGOTIATE YOUR BEST LIFE WITH REBECCA ZUNG! GET $50 OFF ANY HELLO DIVORCE SERVICE WITH THE CODE:   HELLO50 ____________________________________________________________________ For more information on REBECCA ZUNG, ESQ. visit her website www.rebeccazung.com and follow her on Instagram: @rebeccazung and YouTube! GRAB YOUR FREE CRUSH MY NEGOTIATION PREP WORKSHEET RIGHT HERE!  SUBSCRIBE TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL RIGHT HERE.  HOT NEWS!  Make sure to grab a copy of Rebecca'a BRAND NEW BOOK, Negotiate Like You M.A.T.T.E.R.: The Sure Fire Method to Step Up and Win (foreword written by Robert Shapiro).   It went straight to being a #1 bestseller the first day it was launched!  Find out what everyone is so excited about - get the book RIGHT HERE!  To get your copy of Rebecca's bestselling book, Breaking Free: A Step by Step Guide to Achieving Emotional, Physical and Spiritual Freedom, please visit the Amazon website to order it RIGHT HERE.      Rebecca also is available for keynote speeches, and speaks around the country on "How to Successfully Negotiate With a High Conflict Personality" and "Win Any Negotiation in Just 6 Steps".   _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CONTACT US:  rebecca@rebeccazung.com WEBSITE:   www.negotiateyourbestlifepodcast.com ........................................................................................................................ Remember to follow THE NEGOTIATE YOUR BEST LIFE PODCAST on social media for updates and inside tips and information: Instagram Finally, we'd really appreciate it if you would visit iTunes and give us a 5 Star Rating and tell us what you like about the show - your feedback really matters  DISCLAIMER:  THE COMMENTARY AND OPINIONS AVAILABLE ON THIS PODCAST ARE FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND NOT FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING LEGAL ADVICE.  YOU SHOULD CONTACT AN ATTORNEY IN YOUR STATE TO OBTAIN LEGAL ADVICE WITH RESPECT TO ANY PARTICULAR ISSUE OR PROBLEM.  

What if you considered all the ingredients that go into making a great educational experience for students? If you added these up, how much do you think California would need to invest per student to make sure we could provide a quality education to all? That's exactly the study that our guest, Jesse Levin, principal researcher at American Institutes for Research spearheaded. It's a landmark California education funding adequacy study released in 2018 that was part of the statewide Getting Down to Facts II project. Jesse takes us "inside the room" as he recounts how a series of professional judgment panels made up of educational experts deliberated about the programs and services students would need to successfully achieve the State's academic and content standards.We explore how their models considered various school types and the different needs of student populations, all while attempting to maximize cost-effectiveness. And yes: we arrive at the amount that Jesse and his team determined California schools would actually need to invest. Hint: It's more than current spending levels.Jesse puts the findings of this adequacy study into illuminating context, plus he reflects on reactions to the study when it came out. It's an important and fascinating journey into the world of California education research.Note: This episode was recorded just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, the State's economic outlook has changed dramatically; however, the findings of this landmark study have not changed. We felt it was still highly relevant to present details about the study as a way to provide valuable context for current and future school funding deliberations. Key ResourcesWhat Does It Cost to Educate California’s Students? A Professional Judgment ApproachWhy Funding California Schools Is Crucial to the State's COVID-19 Recovery CASBO Podcast episodeAbout Jesse D. Levin Over the past 18 years at AIR, Jesse has directed projects investigating school finance equity and adequacy, resource allocation, and educational effectiveness. He currently serves as the director of several cost analysis/cost effectiveness studies for various educational interventions, and recently served as the director of a national study of district weighted student funding systems and as deputy director for a national study of Title I resource allocation, both funded by the U.S. Department of Education. In addition to California, Dr. Levin has conducted funding-related studies in Maryland, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Nevada and Pennsylvania.He is an appointed member of the California Practitioner Advisory Group, which advises the California State Board of Education, participates in the California Department of Education Technical Design Group, and serves a board trustee in his local district (Pacifica School District). Read full bio.About CASBO: The California Association of School Business Officials is the premier resource for professional development and business best practices for California's school business leaders. Your guide: Paul Richman is a public education advocate and consultant. Contact him at EdfundingCA@gmail.com

Craig is the owner/president of Sierra Orchards and the former president of California State Board of Food and Agriculture, advising multiple generations of state governors on farm related policies for the state that holds the title for 5th largest agriculture producer in the world. Craig is also the founder of the Center for Land Based Learning. This week on Agriculture Adapts: - Getting food to the people who need it: food waste, food scarcity, and "food apartheid" in the U.S. - A creative approach to pest/weed management for organic hazelnuts - Over-pumping groundwater has lead to irreversible subsidence in California - Ways to deal with extremely difficult water access issues in California - Taking steps to avoid a loss of multi-generational farming knowledge *** Resources mentioned in the episode: - Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in CA - California's Healthy Soils Initiative - CalCAN: California Climate and Agriculture Network

California’s public K-12 schools are likely to stay closed for the remainder of the academic year due to the shelter in place order.  California State Board of Education President Linda Darling-Hammond joins us to share how kids --and teachers--are coping with distance learning, and how the largest k-12 school system in the nation can do better.

The real dirt to common ground is found "Beyond Your Table".  It's a new podcast launched at the 2020 World Ag Expo in Tulare CA. Leading voices in the agriculture and food space found common ground  on the future of agriculture from diverse perspectives. Podcasters and co-hosts, Michael R. Dimock of Flipping the Table and the advocacy group Roots of Change and Rodger Wasson of Farm to Table Talk  engaged two of California’s most important farmers in a roundtable dialogue. Don Cameron President of the California State Board of Food and Agriculture and VP and General Manager of TerraNova Ranch joined Judith Redmond, Co Owner and Co Founder of Capay Valley's Full Belly Farms. Don is a diversified large-scale grower, producing  25 conventional, organic and biotech field crops on over 9,000 acres in Fresno County.  Full Belly Farms produces over 80 crops on 400 organically certified acres. Since global and domestic challenges appear larger than ever to farmers and ranchers with battles over trade, falling prices, regulatory burdens, labor shortages and extreme weather events, running an agricultural operation is hugely challenging. Is the real dirt inevitable conflict or is there  common ground? This is the inaugural episode of a the new podcast launching in 2020 from the host of Flipping the Table, Michael Reid Dimock and the host of Farm To Table Talk, Rodger Wasson.  The World Ag Expo graciously hosted this first live podcast event.  The underwriters of this podcast are the Environmental Defense Fund and the Agricultural Council of CA.

Sharon Duggan, an environmentalist lawyer, with an emphasis on forestry regulation has successfully taken on both private and public entities, including the Maxxam Pacific Lumber Company, Sierra Pacific Industries, and the California State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection. Why Forests Matter   Listen to West of Malbay   People talk about this episode here   Sign up for the weekly email   Buy me a coffee on Patreon   Here's my Instagram   The Motherfucker Awards   Contact: info@kyle.surf   SC Medicinals Use the code KYLE10 to get 10% off everything at SC Medicinals.

Sharon Duggan, an environmentalist lawyer, with an emphasis on forestry regulation has successfully taken on both private and public entities, including the Maxxam Pacific Lumber Company, Sierra Pacific Industries, and the California State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection. Why Forests Matter   Listen to West of Malbay   People talk about this episode here   Sign up for the weekly email   Buy me a coffee on Patreon   Here's my Instagram   The Motherfucker Awards   Contact: info@kyle.surf   SC Medicinals Use the code KYLE10 to get 10% off everything at SC Medicinals. Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

NATO is 70. Does the World Still Need It? (0:31)Guest: Greg Jackson, Assistant Professor of Integrated Studies & Assistant Director of National Security Studies, host of the podcast “History That Doesn't Suck”World leaders are in London marking the 70th anniversary of NATO. It's not been a complete lovefest. There's been some sniping and backbiting. President Trump called Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “two-faced” and said French President Emmanuel Macron's earlier comments about NATO experiencing “brain death” were “nasty.” President Trump has been publicly critical of NATO, too, but seems to be warming to it. What exactly is there to celebrate as NATO turns 70? Is it Ethical to Cast Deceased Actors by Using CGI? (18:33)Guest:  Scott Stroud, PhD, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at University of Texas at Austin and the founding Director of the Media Ethics InitiativeJames Dean is slated to co-star in a movie about the Vietnam War coming out next year. Except that James Dean has been dead since 1955, shortly after starring in “Rebel Without a Cause”. The studio behind this new movie has acquired the rights to use James Dean's likeness and they plan to use a combination of real footage, CGI and voice actors to bring him to life in this new role. It's not totally unheard of. Both Star Wars and the Fast and Furious franchise have done it. But it raises all sorts of ethical questions. The Real Cost of Cheap Clothes (35:07)Guest: Shawn Bhimani, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, Supply Chain Management ExpertWhen you're shopping for clothes on Amazon or Walmart's online marketplace –or even in a store like TJ Maxx or Ross-you may end up buying something that was made in a Bangladesh factory with collapsing walls, blocked exits and doors that lock from the outside to keep workers in until their shift ends. Conditions like that led to a disastrous factory collapse in Bangladesh in 2013 that killed more than 1,000 people. After that, some of America's biggest clothing retailers –including Walmart and Target –voluntarily joined a coalition to police the safety of factories that make their products. But Amazon didn't join. A Wall Street Journal investigation found dozens of items for sale on Amazon that were made in dangerous Bangladeshi factories. Is there anything we can do as shoppers to know where our clothes were made? The Apple Seed (51:10)Guest: Sam Payne, The Apple Seed, BYUradioSam Payne from The Apple Seed shares a story about Christmas. Landmark Cases That Changed Bilingual and Special Education in America (1:02:24)Guest: Marty Glick, litigator, Arnold & Porter, Co-Author, “The Soledad Children: The Fight to End Discriminatory IQ Tests”A child's race and income level are strong indicators of the quality of education that child will get in a US public school. Inequality often arises in education today because of how segregated our communities have become –with poor and minority students clustered in schools with fewer resources. In the 1950s, 60s and 70s, the reason poor and minority students got sub-par education was because of overt racism. This was the era of court-ordered desegregation and countless lawsuits brought by civil rights lawyers on behalf of black and brown students. Marty Glick was one of those attorneys. While working for California Rural Legal Assistance in the late 1960s he represented the children of Mexican farmworkers in a landmark case against the California State Board of Education that shaped the future of bilingual and special education in America. Diss on Millennial Coworkers All You Want, but Don't “Okay Boomer” a Boomer (1:26:07)Guest: Elizabeth Tippett, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of OregonVideos set to this song are all over TikTok right now. “OK Boomer” is the putdown of choice for youngsters dismissing the outdated views of someone older. Doesn't even have to be a Baby Boomer. Anyone who's not cool or “woke” could get Okay Boomer'ed. But watch out, because if you say it to a Baby Boomer at work –even in jest –you could end up with an age discrimination charge on your hands. Feel free to diss on Millennials and Gen-Z'ers all you want, though, cause they're not protected by the age discrimination laws. How's that fair?

As the Science of Learning and Development becomes better understood – the discoveries that connect how children develop and learn and how their environments can make or break their progress – a next challenge becomes clear: Turning that research into practice. So what exactly will it take from schools in communities and through public policy to make education work for every child in America? Linda Darling-Hammond, to put it mildly, has some ideas. Linda is president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and President of the California State Board of Education. She also is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University. With many other leadership roles, award-winning books, more than 500 publications and education experience from preschool through higher ed, Darling-Hammond is simply one of this country's leading thinkers and doers in the field. In fact, in 2006 she was named one of the nation's 10 most influential people affecting educational policy, and in 2008 she headed President Obama's education policy transition team. For more information, go to www.turnaroundusa.org/podcast/

HodlCast Ep. 87 with former IRS Tax Attorney Dashiell Shapiro We discussed the letters from the IRS, the IRS’s likely strategy, similar to what was used for the Swiss Bank Accounts, to encourage people to self-report their crypto holdings and pay taxes. Check out his writing: https://stanford-jblp.pubpub.org/pub/crypto-irs-enforcement You can find Dashiell on Twitter: @DashiellShapiro You can email him at: dshapiro@sflaw.com Dashiell’s Bio: Mr. Shapiro advises individuals and business entities on a broad range of federal, state, and international tax planning and tax controversy matters. A native of the San Francisco area, he received his undergraduate degree and law degree from the University of Chicago. At the law school, he served as Comment Editor for the University of Chicago Legal Forum. Mr. Shapiro has successfully represented individuals and companies at all stages of tax controversy, from sensitive audit inquiries to administrative protests and appeals. He has significant experience litigating matters before California’s Board of Equalization and Office of Tax Appeals, the United States Tax Court, and in federal district courts in both civil and criminal tax matters. He has obtained favorable outcomes for taxpayers in a variety of settings, including no-change audit determinations, transitional relief acceptance within the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP), and 100% concessions of tax and penalties in IRS audit examinations and appeals. In 2014, he appeared before the California State Board of Equalization and obtained the Board’s full reversal of a $10 million constructive receipt determination made by the Franchise Tax Board. He appeared again before the Board of Equalization in 2017 and obtained a decision overturning California’s policy of imposing sales and use tax on destination management companies, and the full reversal of taxes, penalties, and interest. Prior to moving into private practice, Mr. Shapiro spent a total of seven years at the U.S. Department of Justice Tax Division litigating tax controversies in federal courts across the country. At the Department of Justice, he gained broad experience in all aspects of tax controversy practice in federal district and bankruptcy courts, including trial work and evidentiary hearings, depositions and written discovery, pleadings, motions practice, appeals, and settlements. He regularly handled a docket of 60 to 70 cases, and worked on a variety of matters including tax shelters, statutes of limitation, employment tax disputes, tax liens and collection cases, international tax disputes, summons enforcement in criminal matters, interpretation and defense of Treasury Regulations, and many others. For his achievements, the Department of Justice awarded Dashiell with a Special Commendation Award and an Outstanding Trial Attorney Award. Mr. Shapiro regularly publishes articles on tax litigation, the tax treatment of cryptocurrency transactions, and the taxation of financial products and investments.

California State Board of Education member and Natomas Charter School co-founder and retiring Executive Director Ting Sun joins us to discuss what makes her school so special.  Natomas Charter School is one of the schools profiled in Lance Izumi’s book, Choosing Diversity.  She discusses the innovative learning programs that are meeting the unique needs of Sacramento-area students, and also responds to the growing political hostility against charter schools at the State Capitol.

Don Cameron, President of the California State Board of Food & Agriculture discusses shaping policies that influence and strengthen the agriculturally rich area of California's Central Valley. This interview was produced in collaboration with ValleyPBS.

The California State Board of Education votes on new sex education guidelines for public schools, and the Clovis Unified School Board stands strong and continues prayers before board meetings.

A former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and current member of the California State Board of Equalization, Malia Cohen was our guest speaker at this evening’s One Shabbat Service. Malia spoke on the subject of Social Justice and the Black American/Jewish relationship in fighting for justice.

This week, California's new State Board of Education president; the state's lowest performing schools; using immigrant students' home languages to build their confidence; and an Oakland school tries out a novel approach.

School's In with Dan Schwartz and Denise Pope: "Funding Schools with guest Mike Kirst" California State Board of Education President and Stanford Professor Emeritus of Education and Business Administration, Mike Kirst shares his insights on how schools are funded and why they are financed that way. Originally aired on SiriusXM on July 7, 2018. Recorded at Stanford Video.

Michael Kirst, California State Board of Education president and professor emeritus of education and business administration at Stanford, shares his insights on how schools are funded and why they are financed that way.

On this episode of Action Items, Sacramento State President Dr. Robert Nelsen and Dr. Ting Sun, executive director of the Natomas Charter School and member of the California State Board of Education, join host Tre Borden to discuss K-12 public education, and college and workforce preparedness. Music: "Thinking Time" by Lunaverse; "Motivation" by Scott Holmes

It's Women's History Month and Brenda is speaking to amazing #mujeres about #Latina #leadership. This is part one with Dr. Feliza Ortiz-Licon, Senior Director of Education Leadership at the National Council of La Raza, and the only Latina on the California State Board of Education. Previous roles for Dr. Ortiz-Licon include Director of College Access, Fulfillment Fund; Director of Policy/Chief of Staff, Los Angeles Unified School District, Board District 5; researcher, Urban Planning, Housing/Land Use Development, City of Long Beach/Institute of Urban & Regional Development; elementary school teacher, Long Beach Unified School District. She is a mother, wife, sister, chingona, and friend. We hope you enjoy this minicast conversation with Feliza where she discusses the importance of mentorship, code switching, leadership, and more! Look for a second minicast with another amazing Latina leader soon!

The Obama Administration recently admitted its work in higher education is far from done. Undersecretary of Education Ted Mitchell, the president’s No. 1 authority on higher education, said he’d give his team an “incomplete” grade. Why? Mitchell previously served as CEO of NewSchools Venture Fund, president of the California State Board of Education and president of Occidental College. In his role with the federal government, he’s been been focused on improving college completion rates for first-generation, low-income students. Mitchell’s tenure will end this year when Obama leaves office. EdSurge recently had the chance to sit down with him to ask what kind of legacy the administration will leave in higher-ed innovation. Here’s our conversation.

Three tips for surviving California's new medical marijuana regulations, from tax authority Fiona Ma, — a CPA and Board Member at the California State Board of Equalization

Income tax, property tax, gas tax, and even a fire tax! With so many taxes in California, it's difficult to keep track all of them. Luckily for folks in OC, there are two experts looking out for us. Diane Harkey, Fourth District member of the California State Board of Equalization (the nation's only elected tax commission), represents Orange and other counties at the state level to ensure tax simplicity, transparency, and fairness. Since taking office in January, she has helped over 300 businesses resolve tax disputes! Additionally, CEO of OCTax and former Mayor of Orange Carolyn Cavecche exercises her breadth and depth of tax knowledge to inform elected officials and the public about looming tax increases under consideration at the state level. Taxes can be confusing, but Diane and Carolyn do a fantastic job of explaining what's on the horizon! We're glad they're keeping an eye out for us!

Dr. Michael Kirst, chairman of the California State Board of Education, focuses on the importance of implementation that has integrated all of California’s ongoing instructional efforts, as well as a renewed focus on postsecondary opportunities for children.

In the "Autobiographical Reflections" series, Mike Kirst, Professor Emeritus in the Graduate School of Business, talks about his career in the federal government prior to Stanford, and his current role as president of the California State Board of Education (for the 2nd time) and advisor to Governor Jerry Brown.

In this SCOPE Brown Bag Seminar, Michael Kirst, president of the California State Board of Education, provides a conceptual framework to understand the challenges of implementing the Common Core in California. (10/29/12)

Speakers: Yvonne Chan, Principal, Vaughn Next Century Learning Center; former Member, California State Board of Education Jason Culbertson, Chief Learning Officer and Executive Vice President, National Institute for Excellence in Teaching Warren Fletcher, President, United Teachers Los Angeles Patrice Pujol, Superintendent, Ascension Parish Schools, Gonzales, Louisiana Moderator: Thomas Boysen, Adjunct Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Southern California. Research and experience show that the teacher is by far the most powerful school factor in student achievement. Yet most are judged on the basis of several observations a year at best, without consideration of students' results or parent/student opinion of their work. Few experts believe that this traditional, process-focused approach aids smart decision-making on retention, promotion and tenure, or improves teaching and student achievement. Meanwhile, the federal government grants $2 billion annually for professional development programs that have nothing to do with teacher evaluation. Our panel will discuss the most effective evaluation models and how proven programs can be widely adopted. Should student performance be linked to promotion, tenure and higher pay? Can evaluation systems propel teacher development and energize educator learning communities? Will the new Common Core Standards and Assessments make the situation better or worse?

Education has been a rich area for social entrepreneurship over the past few decades. In this panel discussion from the NewSchools Summit, several prominent educational reformers discuss their work, their goals, and what they’ve accomplished. They consider the radical changes in education in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, where more than 60 percent of students attend a charter school and parents all over the city have a choice regarding where to send their children. They speak about the importance of pushing innovation in education reform. And they share the importance of having a political strategy to back up educational efforts. The 2010 NewSchools Summit was an event convened by the NewSchools Venture Fund. Kevin Chavous is a noted attorney, author and national school reform leader. As a former member of the Council of the District of Columbia and chair of the Council’s Education Committee, Chavous was at the forefront of promoting change within the district public school system. His efforts led to more than 500 million new dollars being made available to educate children in Washingon, D.C. Chavous is a partner at the law firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP. Walter Isaacson is the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies institute based in Washington, D.C. He has been the chairman and CEO of CNN and the editor of Time magazine. Isaacson is the chairman of the board of Teach for America, which recruits recent college graduates to teach in underserved communities. He was appointed by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate to serve as the chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and other international broadcasts of the United States. Ted Mitchell is the president and CEO of NewSchools Venture Fund. He also serves as president of the California State Board of Education. He serves on the board of directors of Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools, Bellwether Education Partners, EnCorps, Friendship Public Charter School, Green Dot Public Schools, and New Leaders for New Schools. Lindsay Neil has dedicated herself to improving childrens’ lives through education, including raising money to build a school in Nicaragua that she later managed during a two-year stay there. She spent several years working in the nonprofit sector providing direct services to children and families at an immigrant advocacy organization and school-based family resource center in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, and the Safe City Juvenile Diversion Program in Denver. With the goal of making larger-scale change for children, she spent the last four years as the government affairs director of the Colorado Children’s Campaign, where she strategically planned and lobbied their policy agenda and directed their grassroots advocacy network, It’s About Kids. Michelle Rhee‘s commitment to excellence in education began in a Baltimore classroom in 1992 as a Teach For America teacher. At Harlem Park Community School, she learned the lesson that informs her work every day: a city’s teachers are the most powerful driving force behind student achievement in a school. Chancellor Rhee founded The New Teacher Project (TNTP) in 1997, a leading organization in understanding and developing innovative solutions to the challenges of new teacher hiring. Her work with TNTP implemented widespread reform in teacher hiring practices, improving teacher hiring in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Miami, New York, Oakland, and Philadelphia. Rhee is currently the chancellor of District of Columbia Public Schools. Jonathan Schorr is a partner in the San Francisco office of the NewSchools Venture Fund. He leads NewSchools’ field-building efforts, including the annual summit and the Community of Practice, and oversees NewSchools’ policy advocacy, publications and public relations, as well as data analysis. Schorr brings experience in both entrepreneurial education reform and in communications. Prior to joining NewSchools, Jonathan served as director of New Initiatives at the KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) Foundation, a network of high-performing inner-city public schools. There, he led the foundation’s work in elementary schools and high schools, and its services to its alumni nationwide. https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/educational_entrepreneurship

Paul J. Growald The Way of the Bees (and Other Pollinators) Join Michael Lerner in conversation with investor, venture philanthropist, and beekeeper Paul J. Growald. While a long-time resident of San Francisco, Paul served on and chaired the board of directors of the California League of Conservation Voters for more than 20 years. He currently lives on a farm in Vermont, is married, the father of two college-aged sons and the keeper of tens of thousands of honeybees. Paul J Growald Paul is chairman and founder of the Coevolution Institute and its Pollinator Partnership including the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign. He is also a trustee of the Rockefeller Family Fund and donor/advisor to the Growald Family Fund. His main philanthropic interests are in the conservation of ecosystem services as exemplified by pollinators, in the minimization, mitigation, and management of climate change, and in policies and politics that impact conservation. Paul has been an amateur entomologist and naturalist since childhood. Following graduate school Paul worked as a special correspondent for The Washington Post, and then founded what became the Second Harvest Food Bank in San Jose, California. He was appointed by the Governor as the first public member of the California State Board of Food and Agriculture. Find out more about The New School at tns.commonweal.org.