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This episode is sponsored by: Set For Life InsuranceSet For Life Insurance helps doctors safeguard their future with True Own Occupational Disability Insurance. A single injury or illness can change everything, but the best physicians plan ahead. Protect your income and secure your future before life makes the choice for you. Your career deserves protection—act now at https://www.doctorpodcastnetwork.co/setforlife__________Leadership isn't just a title, it's a mindset physicians need to embrace to shape the future of healthcare. In this episode, Dr. MinhTri Nguyen explains how physicians can leverage their inherent skills to become great leaders. From filling leadership voids in high-stakes moments like a code to mastering emotional intelligence in the exam room and beyond, Dr. Nguyen shares actionable insights on adapting, delegating, and inspiring teams. He also explores why physicians must reclaim leadership roles to drive meaningful change in healthcare, offering practical advice for doctors at any career stage.Three Actionable Takeaways:Fill the Leadership Void: Step up in moments of uncertainty, like during a code, and adapt until a more experienced leader arrives—physicians are trained to act decisively.Master Emotional Intelligence: Recognize and manage your emotions and those of others to build trust, improve patient outcomes, and reduce burnout.Delegate to Amplify Efficiency: Use leadership skills to delegate effectively, freeing up time for patient care or personal life while empowering your team.About the Show:The Physician's Guide to Doctoring covers patient interactions, burnout, career growth, personal finance, and more. If you're tired of dull medical lectures, tune in for real-world lessons we should have learned in med school!About the Guest:Dr. MinhTri Nguyen is a medical oncologist and hematologist at Stanford University. Previously, he served as medical director of the Internal Medicine Clinic at Metro Health Systems and president of the House Officers Association at Case Western. Named one of Northeast Ohio's Top 25 Under 35, Dr. Nguyen is passionate about physician leadership and emotional intelligence, drawing from his extensive training in human behavior and team dynamics.LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/minhtri-nguyen-8bb6541abAbout the Host:Dr. Bradley Block – Dr. Bradley Block is a board-certified otolaryngologist at ENT and Allergy Associates in Garden City, NY. He specializes in adult and pediatric ENT, with interests in sinusitis and obstructive sleep apnea. Dr. Block also hosts The Physician's Guide to Doctoring podcast, focusing on personal and professional development for physiciansWant to be a guest?Email Brad at brad@physiciansguidetodoctoring.com or visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com to learn more!Socials:@physiciansguidetodoctoring on Facebook@physicianguidetodoctoring on YouTube@physiciansguide on Instagram and Twitter Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com to connect, dive deeper, and keep the conversation going. Let's grow! Disclaimer:This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical, financial, or legal advice. Always consult a qualified professional for personalized guidance.

When a patient talks about their sexual dysfunction, I always ask: what's going on with the person they're having sex with? You'd be surprised how many providers don't.Most people don't think to ask what's happening on both sides of a sexual relationship. But sexual dysfunction doesn't happen in a vacuum—it's a two-way street. In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Jessica Yih, a urologist who treats both men and women, and we get real about the overlap of issues that show up in the bedroom.We dive into Peyronie's disease and why it's been overlooked for so long, how injections can break down plaques, and why those curves aren't just uncomfortable—they can lead to serious problems for both partners. We also break down erectile dysfunction beyond the “just pop a blue pill” myth. Spoiler: Viagra doesn't work for everyone.Jessica brings a powerful perspective to the conversation, especially around what it's like treating both members of a couple, sometimes in back-to-back appointments. She's also helping train the next generation of sexual health urologists through her fellowship at UC Irvine.Sex is more than individual dysfunction—it's communication, treatment access, aging, and understanding both bodies in the room. If you're a provider, a patient, or just curious about how these dynamics work together, this episode is for you.Highlights:The truth about Peyronie's disease, painful sex, and treatment optionsWhy Viagra isn't a one-size-fits-all fix for erectile dysfunctionHow injectable medications and implants are changing the gameDyadic sexuality and the importance of treating both partnersJessica Yih's unique path to sexual medicine and her work training new fellowsIf this episode got you thinking, please hit that follow button, leave a comment, and give us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Your support helps more people find the info they've been missing.Dr. Yih's Bio:Dr. Jessica Yih is a urologist specializing in both male and female sexual health and male infertility. She currently serves as Director of Women's Sexual Health and Male Infertility and Assistant Professor at UC Irvine. Her clinical focus includes menopause care, vestibulodynia, arousal and orgasm disorders, erectile dysfunction, and oncofertility.Dr. Yih is active in research, surgical education, and advocacy, particularly in advancing care for women's sexual health. She contributes to several professional societies including SMSNA, ISSWSH, SMRU, AUA, and SWIU.She holds degrees in brain sciences, medical sciences, mental health, and healthcare management, and completed her M.D. at Wayne State, urology residency at Case Western, and fellowship at San Diego Sexual Medicine.Get in Touch with Dr. Yih:WebsiteInstagramGet in Touch with Dr. Rahman:WebsiteInstagramYoutube

This week your host Fred Williams and co-host Doug McBurney welcome Dr. James Oschman for his beneficial insights on the connection between our bodies, energy, information and the creation, (specifically the earth).   *Welcome James Oschman, PhD: Dr. Oschman has both academic credentials and a background in alternative therapies. His degrees are in Biophysics and Biology from the University of Pittsburgh. He has worked in major research labs around the world, including Cambridge, Case-Western, the University of Copenhagen, Northwestern where he was on the faculty, and the Marine Biological Laboratory, where he was a staff scientist. His many scientific papers have been published in the world's leading journals. He's written 3 books, The Resonance Effect: How Frequency Specific Microcurrent Is Changing Medicine, Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis and Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance: providing a theoretical basis for exploring the physiology and biophysics of energy medicine.   *The Dust of the Ground: Genesis clearly indicates a connection between our mortal bodies and the earth: Gen 2:7, “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Gen 3:17b, “...cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life…” Gen 4:11-12, “And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength…”   *Earthing: Hear how Earthing - simply grounding yourself to the earth (especially while sleeping) can improve your health and quality of life, and help with inflammation and dozens if not hundreds of other health problems.   *Bone of my Bone: Hear how the peizo-electrical effect affects and encourages skeletal health.   *Magnetism, Meridians & the Placebo  Effect: Ever noticed how just holding a sore spot makes it feel better? Why is that? Hear some fascinating incites on how knowledge of electromagnetism, information science and physics are beginning to teach us that an understanding of such sciences among medical doctors will improve medicine!   *Mysticism, Materialism vs Biophysics: Find out how the perceived mystical aspects of energy and earth medicines are beginning to be explained in light of the biophysical and information sciences.

This week your host Fred Williams and co-host Doug McBurney welcome Dr. James Oschman for his beneficial insights on the connection between our bodies, energy, information and the creation, (specifically the earth).   *Welcome James Oschman, PhD: Dr. Oschman has both academic credentials and a background in alternative therapies. His degrees are in Biophysics and Biology from the University of Pittsburgh. He has worked in major research labs around the world, including Cambridge, Case-Western, the University of Copenhagen, Northwestern where he was on the faculty, and the Marine Biological Laboratory, where he was a staff scientist. His many scientific papers have been published in the world's leading journals. He's written 3 books, The Resonance Effect: How Frequency Specific Microcurrent Is Changing Medicine, Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis and Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance: providing a theoretical basis for exploring the physiology and biophysics of energy medicine.   *The Dust of the Ground: Genesis clearly indicates a connection between our mortal bodies and the earth: Gen 2:7, “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Gen 3:17b, “...cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life…” Gen 4:11-12, “And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength…”   *Earthing: Hear how Earthing - simply grounding yourself to the earth (especially while sleeping) can improve your health and quality of life, and help with inflammation and dozens if not hundreds of other health problems.   *Bone of my Bone: Hear how the peizo-electrical effect affects and encourages skeletal health.   *Magnetism, Meridians & the Placebo  Effect: Ever noticed how just holding a sore spot makes it feel better? Why is that? Hear some fascinating incites on how knowledge of electromagnetism, information science and physics are beginning to teach us that an understanding of such sciences among medical doctors will improve medicine!   *Mysticism, Materialism vs Biophysics: Find out how the perceived mystical aspects of energy and earth medicines are beginning to be explained in light of the biophysical and information sciences.

Beacon professor's quest led to publication Thirty years ago, Adam McKible, a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina, stretched across a blanket outdoors to read The Letters of Davy Carr, a serialized novel published anonymously in 1925 and 1926 in a monthly magazine for Black writers and readers called The Messenger. McKible, who today lives in Beacon and is an English professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said he wasn't confident that the excerpts would contribute anything to a chapter in his dissertation devoted to the magazine. But after finishing the pages he had printed from microfilm, he realized he had found a forgotten novel written during the Harlem Renaissance and filled with details about the daily lives of Blacks in Washington, D.C. Its narrator, Davey Carr, also commented on hot-button topics such as Blacks whose skin was light enough to "pass" for white. "I realized it was a good novel, so the first thing I did was go to all my African-American literature professors and asked if they ever heard of it," McKible said. "Nobody had." McKible set aside the pages to finish his degree and begin work as a professor. In 2001, he shared the excerpts with a Columbia graduate student who knew how to use a new technology called Google and was able to identify the author as Edward Christopher Williams, the first Black graduate of the New York State Library School in Albany. In 2004, after the serial was typed into a manuscript, HarperCollins published the novel as When Washington Was in Vogue. To mark the 100th anniversary of When Washington Was in Vogue's publication in The Messenger, McKible will speak at 7 p.m. on Wednesday (March 18) at Stanza Books in Beacon. He will be joined by Eve Dunbar, an English professor at Vassar who will discuss another memorable novel published in 1925, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Born in Cleveland to a Black father and Irish mother, Edward Williams graduated from Case Western Reserve University before attending librarian school. Case Western hired him as its library director, a position he held until resigning in 1909 to become principal of Dunbar High School in Washington. Between those jobs, Williams married the daughter of Charles W. Chestnut, one of the Harlem Renaissance's best-known writers. In 1916, he became head librarian and chaired the romance languages department at Howard University. He died in 1929. Before HarperCollins published the book, McKible attempted to locate Williams' granddaughter by cold calling every Patricia Williams in Washington, D.C. After its publication, he received an email from Patricia's son in Georgia, who said she had died in 2000. He thanked McKible for the novel's publication. "I was conscious that this was somebody else's book, and I felt that it was important that it get out in the world," McKible said.

Send us a textWhat if the roots of a small town could shape the career of a remarkable coach? Alyssa Johnson, a distinguished coach and former soccer player, shares how her hometown of Easton, Pennsylvania, with its rich industrial history and vibrant sports culture, laid the foundation for her journey. From her early days at Lafayette College to her fervent support for Philadelphia's Eagles, Alyssa's story reveals a deep connection to her roots and an unwavering passion for coaching. Listeners are in for a treat as Alyssa recounts her transition from being a student-athlete to a sought-after college coach. Her candid insights into finding her direction through unexpected challenges and opportunities, like those at Arcadia University and Seton Hill, offer a fascinating glimpse into the world of collegiate coaching. With her varied experiences and a master's degree bolstering her career, Alyssa discusses the significance of following one's gut and how intuition led her to a fulfilling role at Case Western Reserve University.Alyssa's reflections on a challenging yet rewarding soccer season at Case Western culminate in a story of growth, resilience, and community. With heartfelt gratitude, she highlights the pivotal role of a mental performance expert in transforming her team and offers a peek into the supportive environment that makes Case Western unique. As she playfully contrasts life in Ohio with her Pennsylvania roots, her passion for her craft and appreciation for the institutions that shaped her career shine through, promising more captivating stories in future episodes.Subscribe for exclusive content: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1530455/support Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched!Start for FREEReaper Apparel Reaper Apparel Co was built for those who refuse to die slowly! Reaper isn't just clothing! Tactical BrotherhoodThe Tactical Brotherhood is a movement to support America.Dubby EnergyFROM GAMERS TO GYM JUNKIES TO ENTREPRENEURS, OUR PRODUCT IS FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO BE BETTER.ShankitgolfOur goal here at Shankitgolf is for everyone to have a great time on and off the golf courseSweet Hands SportsElevate your game with Sweet Hands Sports! Our sports gloves are designed for champions,Buddy's Beard CareBuddy's Beard Care provides premium men's grooming products at an affordable price.Deemed FitBe a part of our movement to instill confidence motivation and a willingness to keep pushing forwardDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showFollow us on all social mediaX: @mikebonocomedyInstagram: @mikebonocomedy@tiktok: @mikebono_comedianFacebook: @mikebonocomedy

Emily is a science writer, AuDHDer, and ND-affirming coach.They share online about neurodivergence topics and accuracy in science journalism as The Neurodivergent Well.In this episode, we talk about best practices as a consumer of science info online, especially via social media. If you don't have time or capacity to read journal articles, what CAN you do?Emily shares multiple approaches to being a better online citizen when we take in and share information.There's also a lovely bit about the complexity of identity, and whether the labels we use are accurate and useful.p.s. Emily has a doctorate in the Philosophy of Science, and over 10 years professional experience in writing and editingFind Emily online: The Neurodivergent Well websiteMedium writingInstagram @the.neurodivergent.wellTikTok @the.neurodivergent.well (posting this Jan 18th so we'll see...)Mentioned in the episode: The small Case Western study that found a 42% increase in resting info rate in autistic brains (with 19 children)An article about the DSM disorders disappearing in statistical clustering of psych symptomsExperimenting Your Way to an Extraordinary Life (course)Resources:Transcript DocEmail NewsletterLike Your Brain community space Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Professor Stacy McGaugh is Professor and Director of Astronomy at Case Western Reserve University. He studies galaxies, cosmology, and the mass discrepancy problem. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support

Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Miroslav Humer, Vice President and CIO at Case Western University joins host, Joe Gottlieb, President and CTO at Higher Digital, to explore how Case Western is leveraging objective prioritization to advance its research agenda, delving into the critical role of relationships, trust, and structured processes. Listeners will gain insights into fostering collaboration, balancing IT resources, and driving innovation through technology, including the impactful use of AI and the revolutionary early adoption of HoloLens devices in education and research. References: Miroslav HumerCase Western UniversitySubscribe or follow TRANSFORMED wherever you listen, to get the latest episode when it drops and hear directly from leaders and innovators in higher ed tech and digital transformation best practices.Find and follow us on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/higher-digital-inc

Welcome to the first episode of our new collaborative series with the Association of Surgeons in Great Britain and Ireland! During this series, BTK fellow Jon Williams and ASGBI hosts Kellie Bateman and Jared Wohlgemut compare and contrast the surgeon profession between the United States and the United Kingdom, debating who does what better. In this episode, we take a deep dive into surgical training in the US and the UK, from fostering student interest to trainee operating to specialization and certification. Dr. Jeremy Lipman represents the US while Dr. Jon Lund represents the UK in this thought-provoking conversation. Dr. Lipman is a colorectal surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic and the director of graduate medical education for all training programs at the Cleveland Clinic. Additionally, he is an Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education and Professor of Surgery at Case Western Reserve University. After going to Boston College for his bachelor degree, he obtained his medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. Subsequently he completed his general surgery residency training at Case Western and his colorectal surgery fellowship at Cleveland Clinic. After practicing at MetroHealth Medical Center where he served many training and education leadership roles, he returned to Cleveland Clinic as faculty where he remains today. Dr. Lund is Professor and Head of the Department of Surgery at University of Nottingham at Derby, and Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at Royal Derby Hospital. He is Chair of the Joint Committee on Surgical Training, and before that was Surgical Director of the Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Programme, the online training management system used by all trainees and trainers in Surgery in the UK. He has recently been appointed as Dean of education at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. So, who trains surgeons better? UK or US? Give the episode a listen and decide for yourself! Please visit https://behindtheknife.org to access other high-yield surgical education podcasts, videos and more.   If you liked this episode, check out our recent episodes here: https://app.behindtheknife.org/listen

Bioidentical Hormone discussion with Dr. Karen Kaufman, board certified OB/GYN. Karen Kaufman, MD is a board-certified Obstetrician/Gynecologist who has been practicing in Boulder, Colorado since 2003. Her medical school training was at Case Western reserve in Cleveland, Ohio followed by OB/GYN residency at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.While practicing conventional medicine in Boulder, Dr. Kaufman became aware that patients needed and wanted more than what they were receiving from traditional Western Medical healthcare. She observed that while traditional medicine had its role, many of her patients symptoms and issue weren't being addressed with this approach. She pursued the idea of functional or integrative medicine and then completed fellowship training with the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine where she honed her skills using bioidentical hormones.We will be discussing:1. Bioidentical hormones do NOT increase breast cancer risk. If estrogen causes breast cancer then why don't 25 year women, bubbling with estrogen get breast cancer?2. VAGUE language creates confusion – HORMONES – ESTROGEN. We discuss the actual names of bioidentical hormones such as estradiol and distinguish it from drugs such as birth control pills or Premarin.3. Birth control pills, Premarin and Provera are not hormones. They are drugs. Drugs are useful but dangerous and are never a part of “Bioidentical hormone replacement”.4. Bioidentical means it is identical to the hormones you have made your whole life and need forever if you intend on having a vital life. 5. Top 4 benefits derived from using BHRT: Reduce risk of heart attack by 50%. Brain protective and reduces risk of Alzheimer's by 30-60%. Bones stronger and reduced risk of osteoporosis. BEST first line treatment for bone density. Longevity: mice studies show 19% increase in lifespan.6. Why doesn't my OB/GYN offer BHRT? Hormones are not “drugs” so it is not taught in traditional western medicine. The vast majority of OB/GYN physicians know next to nothing about true bioidentical hormones or how to use them.

Bob Wright is an Illinois guy through and through. He grew up just outside of Chicago. Interestingly enough, he decided much of Psychology was balderdash until he spent time in France. He will tell you this fascinating story.   After returning to the states, he took up the subject for some of his Master's Degree work and then beyond. Although he didn't say it in so many words, once he began truly delving into Psychology, he was quite hooked and made aspects of it his career.   He has been coaching for more than 40 years. He also understands sales and led his first sales course in 1981 for a part of Prudential Insurance where he vastly improved the performance of the group.   Bob and I have quite the conversation as you will see. He even analyzes me a bit. We agreed that we will have a second episode later, but first, I will have the opportunity to talk with his wife, Judith, who is deeply involved with Bob's work at all levels. Stay tuned.   About the Guest:   Bob Wright is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and educator. He's a cutting-edge thinker, called upon by top leaders across the country. He coaches Fortune-level CEOS from coast to coast, as well as entrepreneurs. Part of what Bob loves is hitting every level, people that want to make a difference, people who are movers and shakers in the world, that's where his sweet spot is. In fact, he was called one of the top executive coaches by Crain's Chicago business. He led his first sales course in 1981 for Prudential Insurance, for a division of the organization that was ranked 200th out of 2000 nationally—within a month, they shot up to #16.   He is also a dynamic entrepreneur who has founded several successful businesses His first venture, Human Effectiveness, was ranked tops in the country by the Mercer, as well as Arthur Andersen. He sold that business in 1994 to focus on consciousness, maximizing human performance, and the fulfillment of human potential.   He has sold to Fortune level companies from coast to coast, has managed his own sales force, and was one of the first people in the country to develop a Neurolinguistic Programming Training for sales professionals. Likewise, he is the developer of The Wright Model of Human Growth and Development that we will work with this evening. This is a distinct opportunity to learn some concepts from a master who actually developed this and has helped numerous worked with it over time.   Highly respected by major business figures – he has coached and trained leaders who have risen to national prominence in the areas of finance, technology, retirement, economics, compensation, governance, and the list goes on and on. Bob has trained and supported hundreds of sale professionals to higher levels of performance and satisfaction.  It is common for people he supports to triple and even quintuple income while learning to have greater satisfaction and fulfillment in all areas of their lives. His cutting edge approach to selling is empowered by his revolutionary integrative model of human growth and development. Sales people he coaches find themselves enjoying life more, and succeed even in down markets. The people that he has coached and trained over these years are movers and shakers making a major difference in the world today.   Ways to connect with Bob: drbobwright@judithandbob.com https://drbobwright.com/   About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/   https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast   If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review   Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.     Transcription Notes: Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Well, hi, welcome once again to unstoppable mindset. We're glad you're here I am your host, Mike hingson. And today we get to talk with Dr. Bob Wright. Bob is by any standard and entrepreneur and I would say very much an unstoppable one. He has started and, and sold many businesses in his life. He actually conducted his first sales course with a division of Prudential insurance in 1981. Now we're starting to pin down his age. And he he made that division go and sales from number 200 In a few weeks to number 16. I liked that. Having been in sales, a lot of my adult life. He loves to coach CEOs and entrepreneurs. And we'll find out what else So Bob, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We're really glad you're here.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 02:13 Thank you so much, Michael, I'm looking forward to talking with you.   Michael Hingson ** 02:18 Well, I really appreciate you taking the time to do this. And as I said, we got to have fun doing it. So I think we'll we'll do that. Tell us a bit about tell us a little bit about the early Bob, you know, growing up and all that sort of stuff that sort of shaped where you went and where you have gone in life?   Dr. Bob Wright ** 02:37 Well, yeah, I was the almost the ultimate good boy. Everything My mom wanted me to be going through high school and then college begin throwing some monkey wrenches in the story. And it wasn't until my sophomore year of college when I went to Germany. And I discovered that the narrow world of wooddale, Illinois was far from all that was the world and that the values I learned there were the only values were not the only values in the world. And it was like this. Consciousness shock.   Michael Hingson ** 03:17 What a concept, right? Yeah.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 03:19 Now where's wooddale? West of O'Hare. Back in the days when Midway was the busiest airport in the world. Yeah, we're about 15 miles west of O'Hare.   Michael Hingson ** 03:30 I have relatives in Genoa and DeKalb. So, and I was born in Chicago, so I'm a little bit familiar with the area, but I don't think I've been to wooddale   Dr. Bob Wright ** 03:41 Oh, you've probably been through it if you know, Park Road. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 03:45 I might have very well been through it. Well, I live for my first five years on the south side of Chicago 5017 Union, and it's changed a lot since we moved in 1955. So that's okay, though. Things do need to change. It makes it makes for an interesting world otherwise, so where did you go to college?   Dr. Bob Wright ** 04:06 Oh, well, I started at Lawrence in Appleton, Wisconsin. Ah, I went to school in Germany. Left Lawrence came back to the quarter at the College of DuPage. west of Chicago, graduated with my bachelor's from the University of Illinois, Chicago in sociology, because that was the subject that gave me the most credits and everything else I had done in my life. And so then I went to school, in in, in France after that, and that blew my mind even further. I mean, just horrendously drew mind blew my mind even further. Because I was always looking for what I thought of as ultimate truth. And the French experience just was the mind blowing, launch in some ways of my, my my life   Michael Hingson ** 05:04 a lot different than even Germany, right? Well, it was different   Dr. Bob Wright ** 05:08 than Germany and I had a database. The irony is that I'm in something that people think of as psychology, positive psychology, performance psychology, I think of it as my research in my life work as optimizing adult development. And going into high school, there was this really, you know, good counselor, we thought that my friends went to see. And I was already kind of against counselors because the the social worker and the grade school my mom's friend, and she would be sitting in our kitchen crying in our coffee about boyfriends every Saturday morning. And so I was going already these people are pretty darn weird. But my friends start seeing this woman, and and she starts telling these best, brightest kids in high school that they're latent ly suicidal. And they go, Whoa, this is really sick. Oh, stuff. And so then I was rapidly against psychology. Now, the rest of that story that is public domain, is there a husband was this guidance counselor down the road, Irving Park Road, another 20 some odd miles at Lake Park High School, they were a murder suicide. He boy, so that's nailed down my assumption. This is all inland as sickos know, I'm in school in France, and I'm going to study phenomenology. But my in six months, my French wasn't good enough to understand philosophy classes. So I ended up taking psychology classes, I could understand them. They were an English, that got me into group dynamics, which led to the rest of the story that I have discovered, there are well Valid Elements of psychology. And it is really the people not the discipline. That was the problem back then. So   Michael Hingson ** 07:07 they weren't all just sickos after all? I   Dr. Bob Wright ** 07:11 don't think so. Either that or you joined the ranks? No, no, no, not at all. But the profession in search of validity for a long time, right, so profoundly insecure? Well, it's   Michael Hingson ** 07:23 a it's a tough subject, because a lot of it is is so I'm not quite sure how to describe it. It's so nebulous, it's so much that you can't really just pin it down and define it. You're dealing with emotions, you're dealing with people's attitudes, and so on. And that's really pretty nebulous, it's really kind of hard to just define it in so many words. Yeah,   Dr. Bob Wright ** 07:51 if we don't go to human experience, then we'd have nothing. But you've got to figure back in the 50s and 60s and 70s, the humanistic psychology movement was transforming businesses, or Life magazine had an issue that said, sooner or later, everybody's going to be an encounter group at their church or somewhere else. And so what what happened was, they still never tied that up to performance. And so you fast forward, and you get a guy named Goldman who bring in Oh, psychology, so wanted to be as science. And he starts out with positive psychology. He denies everything before, which is just absolutely not true. He and I are similar ages, and we grew up breathing those things. But positive psychology now has a deep research base that is becoming less and less nebulous, whether it's the emotional part with Frederick SENS Research, or his his part with other positive psychology research. So it's kind of cool, what's happening. And it just, unfortunately, doesn't include what happened before because it was so thoroughly attacked.   Michael Hingson ** 08:58 Well, and it's, it's an evolutionary process, right. Yeah, you got it. Yeah. Which is, which is exactly the issue. And that's, that's true of a lot of sciences. I mean, we can go back and look at physics and look at any any of the sciences and they've evolved over the years for a long time, classical mechanics, was it everything fit Newtonian law, but then we discovered that well, it's not quite that way, especially when you get closer to the speed of light. A lot of things change, but also, attitudes and philosophies of of sciences have have changed. So what you're saying certainly is no surprise, psychology as a science, social science or whatever, is still a pretty new science by comparison. So you're   Dr. Bob Wright ** 09:47 obviously a science guy more than I knew. And so, did you read Boones structures of Scientific Revolutions a long time ago. So that is where the term is. Trent was a sap perspective transformation, a new paradigm. That's yeah, he coined the term paradigm as we use it today. And he's in particular talking about the disconnect between Newtonian physics and einsteinium physics. And that gets us down to all the different paradigms, because a paradigm is a shift in knowledge. And the paradigm that psychology is wrestling with, is the shift from pathology and problems to potential and realizing making real our potential. Right.   Michael Hingson ** 10:35 And again, still, that is a harder thing to quantify them what you can do with a lot of physics, we also know that Einsteinian physics doesn't go far enough, but it's what we know, or what we have known. And again, we're evolving, but in the case of what you're talking about, it's a lot harder to pin down and put an exact number two, which is what also makes it a little bit more of a challenge. And we need to learn better how to define that, and communicate it as we move forward.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 11:03 Well, you know, that's the bind of pure research, but I've got a slightly different perspective on this. So what we measure our success against is the total quality of somebody's life, their relationships, their work, their personal concept, and their spiritual and their service to our world. And so in our work, now, our foundation is closing down in December, sadly, because we didn't survive COVID. But we had more than 90% of our students felt that they were living with a higher sense of purpose and spiritual integration. They tended to make more money by 30% or more in the first year of working with us. And and the divorce rate in our advanced couples was under 4%. And in the entire school, was under 9%. The last time we took a survey on that. So when if you've got the elements that typical markers of a quality of life, looking there, and they their self esteem was higher, people gave them comments that they looked better, and even commented to a lot of them that they look younger. So if you take those variables, we're now starting to find something for which everyone is reaching, whether it's better relationship, more money, more career fulfillment, or more contribution to the world, we help you be more you. And our core assumption is, then you will automatically grow in all those areas, the mistake so many disciplines make is they forget that the core element of that entire formula is the individual. And if we can help the individual optimize their self them themselves, then they are going to automatically begin shifting how they operate in those areas and get stronger and stronger in directions that are more satisfying, fulfilling, fulfilling and contributory to our world. By   Michael Hingson ** 12:52 definition. Yeah.   12:54 Isn't that cool?   Michael Hingson ** 12:55 Which makes a lot of sense. Well, some for you. You went on and got a doctorate and so on. But when you when you started coaching, I guess really the question is what got you into the whole environment of applied integrative psychology and coaching? What what really got you there? Okay,   Dr. Bob Wright ** 13:16 so, remember, we have a totally anti psychology, right? I have a taste of what we called existential psychology and group dynamics in France. So when I came back from France, I looked for the strongest program to get more training. And it was training in, in all the existential application of Gestalt transactional analysis. And the various body works and things of the time. And I studied those, I became a trainer in those. And it was wonderful to watch people learn and grow. But you still couldn't make a lot of money that way. So I went back to school and got an MSW and I, my goal was to be a therapist, therapist, and my partner Bob Kaufman was my supervisor and my MSW. And we built a business called human effectiveness. And by the mid 80s, we were doing 300 services a week, a third of whom were psychology types. And, and so that was my retirement goal. And in addition to that, we were leading in a lot of ways in what was called employee assistance and manage psychiatric care. And we were doing consulting and training, which is where you heard the story about Prudential. And so that was kind of the way to make money doing it and get licensed because I knew I was good at helping people and I just wanted the easiest and quickest license to get and that was an MSW   Michael Hingson ** 14:49 said then you got that and what did you do?   Dr. Bob Wright ** 14:51 So human effectiveness was our was our business from the 1979 To 1994.   Michael Hingson ** 15:02 And that was a business you started human effectiveness. Yeah. And   Dr. Bob Wright ** 15:05 so we had a very unique model of therapy using individual and group off of what Bob postle called contemporary Adlerian. Therapy. And we developed that more and more and more. And we started getting higher and higher functioning clients. And our clients were moving way beyond the therapy ideal. Their lives were taking off in all the areas we've discussed. And we started that we're doing well, in 82, we hired a PhD, you have to be dissertation approved, PhD from Yale, they had him start doing consumer research, found out that people loved what they were getting one time, near the mid 80s, I had a two year waiting list. And so when we asked our clients what was going on, and they said, We love it, but you're not telling us everything they wanted to know. And my first master's, which was in communications, was helping people in a psychiatric hospital, oriented to that psychiatric hospital. And so, what what, I've always been a consumer guy, and so we started putting together seminars to help our clients understand what was going on. So that changed our model, from individual group to seminars to training them, we did more and more research and they kept telling us more and more of what they wanted. So the model eventually, included Alfred Adler, existential developmental Albert Adler's areas of life, existential principles, and developmental levels, all in an axis of consciousness, helping people grow their consciousness, awareness and responsibility in life. And so those seminars were training people, many of whom could analyze their own life situation and strategize better than licensed psychologist. So we begin, we begin going, why why aren't people getting credit for this. So that's why we started graduate school on the road. And I left the therapy metaphor in 91. We started working towards developing our model in our seminars to be more and more effective with Judith in 9495, which led to the right foundation for the realization of human potential, and the right graduate university for the realization of human potential, offering master's and doctoral degrees in transformational leadership and coaching. We even got an MBA credited. Now that is, now that the foundation is closing down at Maharishi University in Iowa. So the program goes on. But the foundation is no longer running   Michael Hingson ** 17:40 it. And Judith is   Dr. Bob Wright ** 17:43 Judith and I are stepping into what we think is our ultimate mission is couples, couples, and helping people come become more conscious, responsible, satisfied in service filled couples. And so we're kicking that off in January.   Michael Hingson ** 17:58 And how long have you guys been together?   Dr. Bob Wright ** 18:02 We got married in 81. So it's 42 years or two years? Yeah. Wow.   Michael Hingson ** 18:08 Well, you have beat Karen and me by a year. But as I think I told you, she passed away last year. So we were married for two years and loved it and lots of memories. But I can appreciate the fact that you guys have made it work. And you've also worked together, which is as good as it gets. Yeah,   Dr. Bob Wright ** 18:28 so so the last two books we've written together, and to understand so the last book is called battling to Bliss. The couple's Guide to 15 Common fights, what they really mean how they can bring you closer. So our previous book called transformed. We had one paragraph as we were driving back from Texas to Illinois, that we fought over for probably an hour. And Judith has this wonderful mind. And I just, I'm the one that pushes things to get done. So I said that that sentence is good enough. She says, No, that sentence doesn't work with this. I'm going to come on down it. So she wins that sentence. And she wins. She ended up winning all four sentences. But I ended up winning and moving on. So movement is more my specialty and accuracy and depth is well we both do depth is Judith. So battling to Bliss is really about people people think fights are a problem. They don't understand fights are a symptom that you're dealing in, that you're working on becoming a better stronger couple together.   Michael Hingson ** 19:36 Yeah, and so there's nothing wrong with disagreeing as long as you eventually work together and recognize what you're doing and need to do. So. You're both one which is what it's really all about.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 19:50 Amen. You got it. So you develop   Michael Hingson ** 19:54 this thing you call the right model of human growth and development. And that's I guess what you're basically alluding to in the early 1990s? Well, I actually   Dr. Bob Wright ** 20:05 had Scott started with that research in 1982. And it developed. So the first thing we did was help people vision. Now, the work from Dr. Boyd says that Case Western is that vision is way more important than goals. So we'd have people write a vision in seven areas of life and measure their progress against that every four months. And they go, Wow, man, we're growing twice as fast. But you're still not telling us everything. We said? Well, the truth of the matter is, we think of you developmentally and we're seeking to help you develop in ways that you didn't get developed are all like plants that never got perfect nourishment. And we're helping you fill in those things. And so that led to a developmental axis of consciousness for them. And then we did another round of research. And they said, we're still not telling you said anything. We said, Well, the truth of the matter is, we're existentialists. And we, we just think if you're fully present in here, now you'll learn you'll grow, and you'll become the best you you can become. And so that brought in an existential aspect about the here and now, people engaging. And it's all driven by what we call the assignment way of living, which was started by Bob postal, who was part of the Alfred Adler Institute in Chicago back in the 1970s.   Michael Hingson ** 21:24 Okay, so but you developed it, and is that what you use in the the coaching that you did? And that you do?   Dr. Bob Wright ** 21:33 That? Absolutely. I'm working with. I'm working with an attorney who's shifting professions now, from law to coaching. And so what I do periodically is help her understand when she has a win. How did that win, take her on a step forward in her development, and then I help her understand how that win actually can be leveraged if she will have the discipline to keep doing it. Most. There's a thing called neuroplasticity. And most of the world is a little bit over in love with it. Because thinking oh, yeah, we can automatically change No, it takes 1000s of repetitions. So help her understand a vision of what it's going to mean to consistently redo that way of doing things. She challenges unconscious limiting beliefs, because our program was pretty much done by age seven, we are living out a self fulfilling prophecy off of our early programming. If we don't do things to transform, we can learn and grow. But transforming is the challenge.   Michael Hingson ** 22:39 Yeah, so what's the difference between growth and transforming?   Dr. Bob Wright ** 22:45 We're working on that for the founder of an incredible Japanese coaching group called coach a and his name is Ito son. And, and so learning is knowing something I didn't know before. Growing is doing something I've never done before. But in Judas research, the people who are in touch with their deeper yearning, engage more, and they learn more, it reveals to them regulating their limiting beliefs and their skill deficits. And it also causes them to share with other people that causes them to begin challenging their limiting beliefs. And so learning and growing can be yearning, it can be learned, knowing things and doing things who would have never done we call that liberating. When you're doing things you never would have done. Transforming requires that you pray that you that you strategically do new things in the direction that will consistently challenge some of your unconscious limiting patterns. If you think about what we have our neural pathways imagine we have a neural highway. And everything we do runs along that neural highway. But we want to cut a take a shorter road from Highway A to highway B. So we go into the jungle. Well, we get into the jungle halfway and we look back, we can't even see where we've gone. To get to highway B, we may get to highway B, but we will find out how to get back to Highway A. So we're still going to be doing the same thing. So we the first level of of as we think about it of transformation, neuro transformation is going back and forth along that path enough that we can see where we've been and we can repeat it. Then we have to widen that path. And we have to turn it into a well trodden path. And eventually if it becomes a superhighway, we have transformed and we are doing things that we never could have done before.   Michael Hingson ** 24:49 How do you get people to really overcome their limiting beliefs what what is it that you do as a coach that brings people maybe To that aha moment, and maybe it isn't quite so dramatic, maybe it isn't that at all, but it's more subtle, but how do you get people to the point where they recognize, oh, maybe it's not really quite what we thought, because not everybody's gonna go to France. Okay,   Dr. Bob Wright ** 25:16 so first of all, none of us has ever done. So I'm still dealing with my own limiting beliefs, and, and building new neural pathways the same way. But there's a way we start is what we call an Adlerian Lifestyle Analysis, Alfred Adler helped people understand there are perceptions, the unconscious beliefs that guide us, we have empowering our perceptions, limiting beliefs, empowering beliefs, that we we have limiting beliefs is our language for the limiting perceptions in Adlerian terms. And so when we understand that most of those were installed, by the time we were seven, we can do a lifetime and Adlerian lifestyle analysis that will help you understand your early programming in a way that can empower your growth the rest of your life or inform your growth the rest of your life and your learning and ultimate transformation.   Michael Hingson ** 26:15 Okay, and how do people perceive that?   Dr. Bob Wright ** 26:21 Well, the first time I experienced it was in front of a room of maybe 50 therapists. And it was a demonstration by Bob postal, the Adlerian, I mentioned. And I went up front. And in about 1510 minutes, I'm bawling my eyes out, as he's basically telling me my life story in ways that were profoundly true that I had never imagined. And most, most people except the most defensive, are blown away, that it can be that easily accessed.   Michael Hingson ** 26:54 So, alright, so he, he demonstrated that he knew you better than you thought he knew you and perhaps better than you knew yourself, then what?   Dr. Bob Wright ** 27:05 Well, first of all, he called it like mind reading. And it's what it feels like it feels like he's talking to somebody who's doing mind reading, and Bob postal it, boiled it down to like seven questions. Your birth order is super important in how you look for affection and affirmation in life. If you're the firstborn, did you win? Did you maintain what Adler called a position of primacy? Or were you overrun by a second, third or fourth born? In which case, that's a terrible blow to your self esteem? And so, how we negotiate birth order is probably the most important element of that. And then there are other elements, like who was mom's favorite? Who was dad's favorite? And we get everybody you know, most 90 90% of people say, Oh, no, my mom and dad, they were equal. That's absolute horse manure. And so what we get to that by is who is most like dad, who was most like, mom? And if you were in the zoo, walking and looking at things who would mom who would be holding Mom's hand and who would be holding Dad's hand? And then once we get to larger families, it gets even more complex?   Michael Hingson ** 28:15 How do you deal with that? And I asked that, knowing that in my family, of course, I was blind, I was the second child. And I think my brother always felt like he wasn't quite as well received, even though he was two years older. But in reality, when I look back on it, what my parents did was really worked, not to show favoritism, but they did have to do things differently with me than they did with him because he could see, and I didn't, but I think they really worked at it. But I think his perception always was that he wasn't the favorite, even though that I don't think that really was the case as I sit and analyze it even now.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 29:03 Well, you know, he may not have been wrong. He might not have been got more attention. So the primary indicator of a favorite is attention. It doesn't necessarily mean for what, because you get seen more, you get more interest more, you develop a sense that you matter. And he's developing a sense that he doesn't matter. So in Adlerian terms, you may have overrun him, and that was a terrible blow to his self esteem.   Michael Hingson ** 29:33 Yeah. Yeah. Even though this Oh, sure. If you want   Dr. Bob Wright ** 29:38 go ahead. So how's he doing today?   Michael Hingson ** 29:40 He passed away in 2015. So he died of of cancer.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 29:45 How did he do in life? Well,   Michael Hingson ** 29:47 fair question. He ended up working for the Customs Organization, the US customs in communications. He was married for, gosh, probably close to 40 years as well. I'm not sure that he was as happy as he would like, just in looking at it. He tended to want to be very controlling. And his wife didn't have a problem with that. But I think that I think there were some issues, but I think he did. Okay, but not great.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 30:28 So you've been happier in life than he has, even though you have a profound challenge. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 30:35 I think the challenge is more perceptual than in reality, but Yeah, probably. That's it.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 30:41 Thanks very much.   Michael Hingson ** 30:44 That's probably so.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 30:47 But I also so your dad overran him. Yeah, I   Michael Hingson ** 30:51 hear you. You did. Even though we even though later in life, he was in Florida, and I was in California, or in New Jersey. I think I appreciate what you're saying. Yeah.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 31:05 Yeah, it's it's hard for us to accept when we start looking at these unconscious elements of what's called the family system. And and the system is there's no blame. There's no blaming. Yeah. But But who is your mom's favorite?   Michael Hingson ** 31:21 Well, I'm sure that that there are those that would say it was me. I'm not, I'm not really so sure. Because the way my mom interacted with us, was was different with each of us. She had to help me learn braille again, when I was going from third to fourth grade. And she took the time to do that. But she also did take the time with my brother, but I'm sure that he would tell you that I was,   Dr. Bob Wright ** 31:48 well, what was your dad's favorite? Oh,   Michael Hingson ** 31:53 I'm sure that, that my dad and I spent more time together because I was interested in things that he was much more than my brother like electronics and science. So I'm sure I   Dr. Bob Wright ** 32:02 was, who was murdered?   Michael Hingson ** 32:06 Gee, that depends, I guess, on everything, but probably I was. Nobody ever wants to answer this, by the way, probably. But probably for a lot of reasons. I would say I was. Yeah,   Dr. Bob Wright ** 32:15 pretty obviously. So we don't know what his potential would have been. Right, who got developed? And so my guess is he was actually your mom's favorite. He might very well have been. But But I think it was your mom's favorite because your mom counted on him to keep things working in the family while he was hungry, but didn't didn't know how to do anything. But please her as she was ministering to you. And as your dad was enjoying playing with you? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure there's   Michael Hingson ** 32:50 a lot of there's a lot of truth to that.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 32:52 Yeah, I know. I just, it's so much fun to get out of this. Michael. Yeah. It   Michael Hingson ** 32:59 makes a lot of sense to, to really look at it in the in the way that you're doing. But I think there's there's another aspect of it, and it's part of human nature, that gets to be a challenge. Because he was probably a person who felt not as happy, not as loved and didn't know how to deal with that, and maybe address it in his own life. And I learned how to do some of that, and learn how to deal with a lot of the challenges that I faced socially, and, and economically. But I think that one of the things that he never did learn was how to go back and look at himself and look at his life and grow in the same way. Yeah,   Dr. Bob Wright ** 33:50 amen. Probably wasn't as inquisitive as you know,   Michael Hingson ** 33:54 I'm sure he was not. That I'm very sure of. And it's it is a it's an issue because one of the things that I maintain today is that all of us can do so much more to grow. If we would spend more time even just in the evening before we go to sleep, being introspective, looking at whatever happened on a given day. And why it happened the way it did, what could we improve? What went great, what could we even have done to make what went great greater? And I know that he didn't do a lot of that,   Dr. Bob Wright ** 34:28 you know, there's actually a spiritual discipline with the max handle Rosicrucians that, that goes into that. I'm not a follower of theirs, but this they call it a retro flexion or retrospect, I forget what they call it. Exactly. Because when I was in school in France, the game was the minute your head hit the pillow. You were to rewind your day in reverse to when you first woke up. Yeah, and it's incredibly challenging. It is our emotions get I get sparked off, we get to see where we had unfinished business during the day. And it took me all of pretty close to a year before I got back to a morning, and that was pretty diligence, did diligent application. And so I think you're absolutely right.   Michael Hingson ** 35:23 There's a lot of value in in doing it. Because no one can teach us anything people can give us information. But we have to teach ourselves. And I've learned, even just this year, I now hate calling myself my own worst critic. When I listen to speeches and other things I always have said, I'm my own worst critic, and when in reality is the case is I'm my own best teacher, because I'm the one that can teach me. And it's always good to take a much more positive approach. And recognizing that actually helps when I go back and analyze the day and analyze the things that have gone on. Because I look for the lessons. And the lessons aren't just in the things that went wrong or the difficult things. The lessons can come from anywhere, but we have to look for them.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 36:08 So you just defined the transformation of a perfectionist, perfectionist, criticized because it's the work outcome that matters. And people that are learning and growing and stepping beyond perfection. Look for the lessons. So you just described you growing, from avoiding mistakes, to feeling more and more success and satisfaction in learning and growing. Congratulations. Well, thank   Michael Hingson ** 36:37 you. And even the so called Mistakes You know, there aren't they're not a mistake until it ended up being one. And again, the lesson is, what do you learn and do about it? Yeah,   Dr. Bob Wright ** 36:46 but you're unusual, Michael, because you've actually taken a philosophy and applied it. A lot of people would say the same things you just said. But they don't practice it. I believe you practice it.   Michael Hingson ** 36:58 And you know what? It's fun.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 37:01 It says pretty clear. Yeah. You have fun way before now. Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 37:05 Well, I like to look for the for fun. Personally, I think life is an adventure. For years, I've called the Internet, a treasure trove an adventure. And yeah, there's a lot of stuff. And there's a dark side. And there are all sorts of different things that go on. But there's also so much information that's out there if we bought look for it and use it. Amen. So it really, it really helps a great deal. And you know, so it's, it's worth doing well, in your case. So, you you have been so what business do you own? Now? What What's your business called? Or do you have one right now? Well,   Dr. Bob Wright ** 37:47 we write business Inc has been our flowthrough business forever. But we are reemerging to the world as live right? Li ve WRI ght with Judith and Bob. That is our new go to market identity. Pool.   Michael Hingson ** 38:07 That's a great name. And certainly, from a marketing standpoint, one that somebody can remember.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 38:14 Well, right now we only exist online is D r B o b.com. And Dr. Judith, Bob Wright, dot com or Judith wright.com I think or at any rate, we don't have a joint website yet. We'll be launching that in December, God Willing and the creek don't rise   Michael Hingson ** 38:35 well and make it accessible. And if you want help with that, I can help   Dr. Bob Wright ** 38:41 you. So so cool. Cool. I'm gonna have to find out more about what you can do them. Because I really don't know,   Michael Hingson ** 38:48 we can talk about that. And we can talk about ways to do it. And it's and it's something that that you should do. Because the reality is what most people don't realize is that the cost of doing business should really make sure that inclusion is part of it. You know, I when looking for jobs and talking to many, I'll just use blind people as an example. We've had companies say but I can't buy a screen reader for you. That's not in our budget. Well, you know, sure it is you buy computer monitors for everyone. I don't need a monitor. But I do need a screen reader. Inclusion ought to be part of the cost of doing business.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 39:26 Well, which is why you're going to be our consultants. So we our desire is to have our work available in all languages. We're going to be putting out our couples book the heart of the fight in Spanish. The heart of the fight reached number one nonfiction best seller in China, Judas soft addictions solution is, as of our last knowledge, number 10 self help in China. And so the languages aren't just words and spoken are they but there's I mean, there's there's what do you call blind accessibility? Michael?   Michael Hingson ** 40:06 Well, there are a couple of ways to do something like that. A lot of it is just doing the right things on on your website, or when you produce a book, if you have graphs, they should and pictures, they should be defined. You can do an electronic version, you can do an audio version. And there are ways also to put the book in Braille. And again, we can we can certainly talk about that. Well,   Dr. Bob Wright ** 40:28 I'm zipping myself an email to circle back with you on that. So let's keep going with what you've got today.   Michael Hingson ** 40:36 Well, definitely one thing I need to say, because I was looking for when I was getting ready for now, is I would like to have pictures of your book covers that we can put in the cover notes so that people can go off and find them later.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 40:51 We'll get it. Perfect.   Michael Hingson ** 40:53 Well, tell me a little bit more about you and coaching. What ultimately do people get out of what you do? After a question,   Dr. Bob Wright ** 41:07 you know, I'm gonna go back a little further, we get everybody knows we get what we put into things. Yeah. And so to get   Michael Hingson ** 41:16 the most out of coke, good psychological answer, go ahead.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 41:19 Well, I'm actually going to answer it. I appreciate the work up to I'm gonna work up to it. So the investment is time, money and personal upset. The price most people are not willing to pay is the person will upset we have to do to stretch beyond our own serious limit deeper mental limitations. And when we do that, for me, I had a lot of limiting beliefs about money. I could give you stories, we talked about the mythology rules, myths and beliefs about money when I looked growing up, my dad's brothers, who had way more money than we had, didn't have a marriage as good as my dad's marriage. And one of my dad's brothers was a particular jerk. And he was the wealthiest of them. And so I draw this conclusion from early on in life, because we all grew up within miles of each other, or blocks, actually, that it's either money or relationship. So a limiting belief I've had to challenge forever, is money and relationship. And fortunately, I'm making some progress on that and intend to make even more before I'm done. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 42:37 it's interesting. People think that if they have a lot of money, they're successful, and they're happy. And what pops into my mind? And I'm not going to try to get political here. But what pops into my mind is Donald Trump, I wonder how happy he really is.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 42:54 You know, we can actually dive right into the happiness things. First of all, there's a lot of research on it that would show that he doesn't have the characteristics. But that's another story. But right, I hear you. But I think everybody has a formula for happiness, most of them are wrong. Yeah. And I think the good fortune in my relationship foundation is relationship. You know that happiness research says, the biggest variable is learning and growing. The happiest people are engaged in learning and growing. There, they have New Horizons coming up, that they can learn and grow together and a couple or whatever they're doing, but they learn and grow. That's happiest.   Michael Hingson ** 43:33 That's the most successful thing that one can do. And it is all about learning and growing, and wanting to learn and grow. And I think he pointed out very well, a lot of people will provide lip service to a lot of this. But the reality is, they're not really growing. It's just a lot of talk. Habits are hard to break it. I've heard all sorts of different numbers about how many times you need to do something to change a habit. But still, ultimately, it doesn't happen until you can, not only intellectually but emotionally recognize that the change needs to happen and then do it.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 44:15 So that's that's the end the cost. So Judas seminal work on soft addictions was looking at the cost that turned out causes a lot of people to take on the habits. However, a habit is a behavior to order to change the deeper level behind that habit. Because they have, it's always doing something for us in service of a limiting belief. And so a limiting habits because we remember two kinds of beliefs, two kinds of habits, empowering and disempowering. And so it's really important to understand, if I really want to learn and grow to the max, I have to go through the discomfort of not just changing the habit, but changing by myself my thoughts, feelings and actions at the foundational level   Michael Hingson ** 44:59 and that's The cost. Yes, sir. And it's it's not as expensive as one might think, if you really apply it and do it. But the problem is, so many of us don't want to do that, because we're just, I hate hearing while I'm, you know, people are in their comfort zone, they don't want to change. We talk about change all the time. But I think people don't want to change I think we we are brought up to just like our comfort zones and not wanting to change, we don't do what we talked about before retrospection or introspection, that's too much work. And so we we don't get taught by others nearly as much as we should. The real value of change, but change is all around us. And change is going to be everywhere. I after September 11, I kept hearing, we got to get back to normal, we got to get back to doing things the normal way. And I bristled at that. And it took me a little while to understand why I was so upset with it. But I finally realized, normal will never be the same. Again, we can't get back to normal because if we do, we're going to have the same thing. And we will have learned absolutely nothing. Even with a pandemic, I hear about getting back to normal, but normal will never be the same again, the   Dr. Bob Wright ** 46:17 problem that you're getting it from me that I think about with that usually is that normal is is average, and none of us really want to be average, we want to be better than normal. So why would we want to get back to normal when we still haven't hit our potential? Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 46:36 But we're not thinking about that. And we haven't learned to think in that way. Until we   Dr. Bob Wright ** 46:41 understand Judith research. So there's yearning, engaging, and regulating seeing where my limitations come in. Then liberating challenging those limitations. It's so challenging those limitations, and then re matrixing. And then I have to keep stretching myself towards the new, further goals. That forced me to look beyond my limiting beliefs, because they're always there. And they're always are rising beyond them.   Michael Hingson ** 47:07 How do we get people to be able to do that?   Dr. Bob Wright ** 47:10 I don't, we don't get people to do anything. It's all about investment. Will they pay the price? Spend the time reading the money, what they need to do? I was talking to a guy today who's ultra ultra wealthy, who started out with my former partner. And he would never have been able to pay my partner's rates today. And I said, You mean, you wouldn't have charged it on your credit card at least to find out? You know, what he could do for you? And so the people that I see that really want it, some people just charge it on the credit card, but they don't do it. Others? Do, they charge it on the credit card, and they've got that credit card paid off and are able to really fly with the overtime? Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 48:00 so and I was delivered and asking the question the way I did, but it isn't how do we get people to do things? What is it that will make people understand that they need to change? I mean, you've been coaching a long time. And I know there's not one key but what, what, more often than not is the trigger that make people go, Ah, I gotta really think more about this.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 48:27 You know, there are a lot of things in life traumas, car accidents, deaths, losses, that move people into that. There's a thing called a sociopath is sociopaths, not wanting to get divorced, will sometimes start looking at themselves for the first time. And so but but I think that, that Adlerian analysis, when people understand that there is an objective way to look at who they are today, it's your strengths and your weaknesses, as revealed by that lifestyle analysis we started playing with with you, then as you understand that there really is a way to do it, and it is systematic and reproducible, then the game starts really shifting, but most of the world doesn't believe it's possible because so many people are selling so much horse manure. Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 49:21 And we haven't learned to separate all the negative negativity in as you said, the horsemen or from from the positive stuff, we, we just haven't really learned how to do that and the people who have can really start to deal with it. One of the things that I have experienced over the past several years, especially with the pandemic is that for years I would travel and speak and tell people about my story and people said, well, you're blind. Of course you didn't know what happened. I point out well, the airplane had 18 floors above us on the other side of the building I got to tell you, nobody knew Superman and X ray vision are fictitious. Right? Well, but then the the other part about it is that what I realized over time was that the reason I wasn't afraid was that I prepared. I learned all about the World Trade Center, I learned what the emergency evacuation procedures were, I learned why they were as they were. And so when something actually happened, I was prepared for it. I didn't need to worry about reading signs. And if I had been in the building alone, I would have just been able to evacuate. But I wasn't alone. And we got some guests out. And then a colleague who was in from our corporate office, David Frank, and I went to the stairs, and we started down. But the reality is that what I learned was that for me, I, in fact, was not talking about why I wasn't afraid. And I didn't teach people how to learn to control here. So we're writing a book about that. And, and so I'm, I'm realizing that what I can help people do is recognize that you can learn to control fear, it's not that it's going to go away. And if you tell me, you're never afraid, I won't buy it. But you can learn to use fear in a powerful way, rather than letting it as I put it, blind you or overwhelm you,   Dr. Bob Wright ** 51:27 by preparing as you prepared the primary formula. First of all, we don't control it. But by preparing it doesn't grip us at the same level. We have pathways that we've already created. So you had created those pathways inside of yourself. And so sure you were afraid, but you had the fear motivating you along pathways for which you had prepared.   Michael Hingson ** 51:51 That's right. Help others. That's right. And we did and at one point going down the stairs, David panicked and said, Mike, we're going to die. We're not going to make it out of here and then and I just snapped at him. I'd love to joke about it and say, since I have a secondary teaching credential, I took that secret course voice 101 How to yell at students but you know, the the reality is that that what I did it I just snapped at David. I said, stop it, David, if Rosella and I can go down the stairs, so can you. And after that, he said, I'm going to I got to take my mind off of what's going on. And he walked the floor below me, went all the way down the stairs, he shouted up to me what he was seeing on the stairs. Now, did I need David to do that? No. But I knew that it would help David be more comfortable. But it had another effect, which again, was something that I figured out later. And that is that, as David was shouting up, hey, I'm at the 44th floor. This is where the Port Authority cafeteria is, we're not going to stop we're going on down. People above us. And below us. Many, many floors hurt him. And he gave them something to focus on. And I think that he did so much, not even thinking about it or realizing it to help people not panic as we went down the stairs, which was so cool. Oh, I   Dr. Bob Wright ** 53:07 just love it. So let's but let's go back. So, So fear is the primary the most basic emotion if you stay alive, sure. So you were afraid for him, not for you, but for him. And so you slapped him out of it. So you harvest your anger. So fear, fear, hurt, anger, sadness, and joy are the critical emotions that are fully foundational emotions. And so you have a relationship with your fear as few of us but in some ways, maybe. And you actually were able to harness anger as the crossover emotion between fear and joy. So you kept him alive, harnessing your anger to slap him out of it. And he became the leader he could become. Yeah. And needed.   Michael Hingson ** 53:56 Right. Well, and that's it's part of the story that that I think is he's such an unsung hero and what happened on September 11, because I know he had to keep so many people focused because they had someone to focus on. And someone who they could hear who was all right, no matter where they were on the stairs. Somebody else was okay, somewhere.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 54:21 So first of all, he was a leader right in relationship to you,   Michael Hingson ** 54:25 by definition. Well, in some ways, yeah.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 54:29 So you slapped him back into his leadership mode. And even though you didn't need it, he started leaving you in his own mind, but he was actually leaving everybody down those   Michael Hingson ** 54:40 steps. He was, you know, that was one of the things that he did his he was only in for the day from our corporate office. But but he but you know, the two of us, between us there were a lot of ways people also said to me later, we followed you down the stairs because we heard you praising your dog and We heard you staying calm. So we were calm. We followed you. Yeah. So we, in a in a very well, unpredictable isn't the right word but a very subtle way we the two of us really helped a lot of people. Oh   Dr. Bob Wright ** 55:15 my god, you guys formed the most amazing impromptu leadership team.   Michael Hingson ** 55:19 Right. Holy cow. I   Dr. Bob Wright ** 55:21 love it. Yeah. Well, isn't that cool? Oh, it's beyond cool. That is way beyond Cool.   Michael Hingson ** 55:27 Well, this has been fun. We need to do it again. And we need to get Judith involved. So we got to do   Dr. Bob Wright ** 55:33 another one of these. Absolutely looking forward to it. But   Michael Hingson ** 55:37 I really appreciate you being here. And I want to thank you and I want to thank you all for listening to us today. I hope that you enjoyed it. And and you heard Bob analyze me a little bit and it was a lot of fun and No, no problem at all. So we'll have to do more of it and and have another time together which I think would be fun. But I want to thank you for listening to us. Love to hear your comments. Please reach out. You can reach me Mike hingson at and my email address is Michael h i m i c h a e l h i at accessiBe A c c e s s i b e.com. Michael h i at accessibe.com Or go to our podcast page www dot Michael Hingson m i c h a e l h i n g s o n.com/podcast love to get your thoughts please give us a five star rating wherever you're listening to us. We value that and really appreciate all that you have to say. Bob if people want to reach out to you how do they do that?   Dr. Bob Wright ** 56:37 Well my website for now until we put them all together is Bob Wrightdot com or D r. B o b W r i  g h t dot com My email, which is easier right now we're in transition. The new company, as you heard will be live right with Judith and Bob. But right now D r. B, o b at Judith and bob.com D R B O B at J U D I T  A N D B .com. Cool.   Michael Hingson ** 57:04 Well, thanks again for doing this. It has been fun. And let us definitely set up another time and do another one of these.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 57:13 We've got more to talk about in so many ways, sooner than later while we're still putting together the web universe.   Michael Hingson ** 57:20 Perfect. Glad to do it. Well, thanks again for being here.   Dr. Bob Wright ** 57:23 Thank you so much.   **Michael Hingson ** 57:28 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. To subscribe to our podcast and to learn about upcoming episodes, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com slash podcast. Michael Hingson is spelled m i c h a e l h i n g s o n. 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Dr. Ryan Martin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Case Western Reserve University. As an Evolutionary Ecologist, Ryan is interested in animal diversity and design. Animals seem to be well adapted to their environment, and Ryan works to understand how diversity, adaptation, and design occur through the action of natural selection. He investigates how the presence of predators, weather conditions, and other environmental features change the way animals survive and produce offspring. In his free time, Ryan enjoys trying new restaurants with his fiancée. They also love to go hiking with their dogs, and Ryan has been honing his photography skills. He received a B.S. in Ecology and Evolution from the University of California, Santa Cruz and was awarded his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Afterward, Ryan conducted postdoctoral research at North Carolina State University and the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis in Knoxville, TN before accepting a faculty position at Case Western where he is today. Ryan is here with us today to tell us all about his journey through life and science.

Five dead after a violent weekend in Columbus; alternate commencement ceremony held for some Case Western students in Cleveland; former Buckeye Marvin Harrison Jr. hit with a lawsuit; how a baby elephant at the Toledo Zoo surprised staff.

Unlock the story behind Reid Tileston's remarkable entrepreneurial journey in this episode of Succession Stories. Join Laurie Barkman, The Business Transition Sherpa®, as she sits down with Reid, a driven acquisition entrepreneur, to dive into his inspiring path from a 23-year-old with $100k to a thriving Anytime Fitness franchisee.    Through candid conversation, Reid shares the highs and lows of his entrepreneurial journey. From navigating the challenges of owning an Anytime Fitness franchise during the rough Great Recession to achieving top-tier success across multiple units, Reid offers invaluable insights into the world of acquisition entrepreneurship.   Discover the pivotal lessons Reid has obtained from buying and selling four companies. Learn why he stresses the crucial role of assembling the right team and adopting the mindset of an "entrepreneurial business owner" who strategically works on the business rather than being consumed by day-to-day operations. Diving into the emotional dynamics of business sales, Reid draws from his doctoral research on seller satisfaction post-sale. He underscores the importance of intentionality, emphasizing the need for sellers to grasp their business's true value and envision their role post-sale with clarity.   Get a sneak peek into Reid's forthcoming book, "Gridiron," which promises illuminating insights into the world of acquisition entrepreneurship. Don't miss this episode filled with wisdom, inspiration, and the raw realities of entrepreneurial success. Listen in to learn more about The journey from finance to fitness franchise mogul Navigating the Great Recession and Beyond The untold stories of selling businesses Building teams and creating freedom A sneak peek into the upcoming book, "Gridiron" In This Episode [00:00] Reid's journey into franchise ownership and initial challenges in the fitness industry. [01:57] Entrepreneurial Business Ownership. [03:22] Reid's experience in acquiring an industrial cleaning company [05:00] Employee Engagement and Business Ownership. [09:06] Exit Strategy and Employee Ownership. [14:45] Seller's Perspective and Business Transition. [15:24] Promotion of the book "The Business Transition Handbook" [16:42] Eye for Opportunities. [17:35] Becoming the Best Fit Buyer. [19:22] Seller regrets one year after the sale [20:29] Factors Affecting Seller Satisfaction. [30:45] The phenomenon of value surprise [33:51] Achieving Satisfaction as a Seller. [34:46] Book Release - "Gridiron". [34:51] The American Dream. [35:42] Relationships in Business Ownership. [36:42] Considerations for Small Business Ownership. [37:21] Key takeaways. Notable Quotes   [10:14] "The money is nice, but what's really going to give you fulfillment is going to be based on the people that you help along the way, and most of those people are going to be your team members."-Reid   [11:57] "I always thought about it as selling to a strategic or doing an ESOP, and those were the two options that I thought about, and I definitely have some regrets about not doing the ESOP."-Reid   [14:39] "I still kind of wonder, was it the right move? Everyone's happy, it was a big victory for me and great for the team and the company, but I still ponder if it was the right decision."-Reid   [23:17] "I was surprised how good of a culture I had built in the business and how quickly the new buyer was able to methodically destroy it." -Laurie   [34:51] "The freedom and autonomy that can come from small business ownership are absolutely fantastic." -Reid   [35:42] "Some of my best relationships in life are with the employees that I've had, so you're going to meet some fun people along the process." -Reid   [37:41] "If you're not all in, you're in the way. This is not a halfway in, halfway out type of endeavor." -Reid Guest Bio Reid Tileston, an esteemed Adjunct Professor at Case Western Reserve University, is a seasoned entrepreneur with a remarkable 16-year journey of acquiring, growing, and successfully selling four companies. As a pioneering co-creator of the Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition curriculum at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Reid is dedicated to shaping the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders. His expertise is sought after not only in academia but also in advisory roles, where he shares strategic insights obtained from his diverse experiences. With a track record of achieving extraordinary returns on investment and excelling as an Anytime Fitness franchisee, Reid's impact resonates far and wide. Currently pursuing doctoral research at Case Western, he dives into the complexities of Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition, further solidifying his position as a thought leader in the field. Beyond his professional pursuits, Reid's adventurous spirit as an Eagle Scout and Ironman triathlete underscores his passion for relentless exploration and innovation.   Resources & Links Laurie R. Barkman https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauriebarkman/ https://www.youtube.com/@TheBusinessTransitionSherpa https://thebusinesstransitionsherpa.com/ Reid Tileston http://www.grititdone.com http://www.reidtileston.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/reidtileston/    Resources Book: "Get It Done" by Reid Tileston Book: "The Business Transition Handbook" by Laurie Barkman  

Show Summary In this episode, Linda Abraham interviews Christian Essman, Senior Director of Admissions and Financial Aid at Case Western Reserve University Medical School. They discuss the unique aspects of Case Western's three MD programs, the significance of research in the application process, and what makes an applicant stand out. Christian emphasizes the importance of quality experiences and reflections in the application essays and advises applicants to submit their applications when they are in tip-top shape, rather than rushing to submit on the first day. He also discusses the culture at Case Western, describing it as laid-back, balanced, and invested in the success of its students. Show Notes Thanks for tuning into the 571st episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Are you ready to apply to your dream medical schools? Are you competitive at your target programs? Accepted's med school admissions quiz can give you a quick reality check. Just go to accepted.com/medquiz, complete the quiz and you'll not only get an assessment but tips on how to improve your chances of acceptance. Plus, it's all free.  I'm delighted to introduce today's guest, Christian Essman, senior director of admissions and financial aid and fellow podcaster and host of the All Access Med School Admissions Podcast.  Christian, thank you so much for joining me today on Admissions Straight Talk. [1:31] Hi, Linda. Delighted to be here. Thank you for having me. Let's start with some just really basic information about Case Western University's medical school programs. Can you give a 30,000-foot perspective or view of the three MD programs that it offers? [1:39] Certainly. We're a bit unique in that we have not one, not two, but three different pathways to an MD/MD-PhD. The first one is the university program, which is our four-year MD, which is a traditional four-year degree. Then we have our MD-PhD program, which is a medical scientist training program, and that's about eight or nine years. MSTP actually started at Case Western back in the 1950s, by the way. It's the longest NIH-funded program ever in the history of the universe. And then the one in the middle is unique. I don't know if the word boutiquey is a word, but it's boutiquey. Our Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. So these are all three Case Western programs. They're under the umbrella of the university and they're all Case Western students, but we have three tracks. So the one in the middle, the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, is a five-year MD and it's for students who really like research. Really, really, really like research. But maybe advancing to an MD-PhD is not an educational goal to be in school for eight or nine years and getting a PhD, but they really like research. And so the reason why it's five years is because they thread research throughout the entire five years that you're there. And at one point students will step away usually after the second year to do 12 months of research with the results of hopefully having some publishable results. And so it's for students who might be considering MD-PhD, maybe they're also applying to MD-PhD. So it's one in the middle there and so that's why we have three different tracks. It's a bit unique. It is unique. I don't know of any other school that has that three structured program. [3:36] When people apply to us in AMCAS, they apply to Case Western and then in the secondary application, they can indicate which program or programs plural that they want to apply to. And so you could apply to the university program and the Cleveland Clinic program and then you get separate admissions decisions. We review them separately. So it's two for one or three for one if you want to think of it that way. But I will say this. Very few students apply to all three. Usually, if you're interested in MD-PhD, that's what you're applying to, and then maybe add in Cleveland Clinic,

Follow Roger on Instagram: roger.comstock Book a Call With Someone on Roger's Team Here:  https://bit.ly/3IYTw0o __________ Reid Tileston trains the future entrepreneurial business owners of America. As an Adjunct Professor at Case Western Reserve University he teaches Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition, invests in entrepreneurial business owners, is a board member, and is an award winning paid keynote speaker. Reid co-created the curriculum for the Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition course at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, lectures at leading academic institutions such as Dartmouth, the University of Chicago, the University of California, and BYU and serves on the University of Chicago Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Advisory Committee. His expertise is derived from 16 years of successful, on the ground entrepreneurial business ownership experience; acquiring, opening, growing and selling 4 companies in addition to his academic research. Reid achieved a return multiple of invested capital (MOIC) of over 10x on his most recent acquisition and was a top performing Anytime Fitness franchisee. Reid has worked with leading brands such as Harley Davidson, The Milwaukee Bucks, John Deere, Tough Mudder, and Microsoft and has been featured in publications including The Wall Street Journal and Crain's Chicago. Reid is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (BA, Economics) 06'; the University of Chicago (Booth) School of Business (MBA, General Management, Entrepreneurship) 15' and is a Doctoral Researcher at Case Western (26') doing a PHD dissertation on Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition where he presents his research at academic conferences. As an Eagle Scout, Ironman 140.6 distance triathlete, winning endurance athlete, and a graduate of the National Outdoors Leadership School (NOLS), Reid rejuvenates in the outdoors and is in a perpetual state of planning his next life adventure which recently entailed racing up the world's tallest staircase in Switzerland in addition to an around the world trip. Reid is well positioned to help business owners in experiencing the autonomy of entrepreneurial business ownership.

EPISODE SUMMARY: Ever pondered the blueprint for low-risk entrepreneurial success? Reid Tileston, a maven of the franchise world and a veritable author, joins us to draw from his deep well of experience across varied industries. He pulls back the curtain on franchise disclosure documents and their critical role for entrepreneurs, leaving listeners with a treasure trove of wisdom and a clearer path to follow. REID'S BIO: Reid Tileston is an Adjunct Professor at Case Western Reserve University, specializing in Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition. With over 16 years of entrepreneurial experience, he has acquired, grown, and sold four companies, achieving a remarkable return on investment. Reid co-created the curriculum for the Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition course at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and lectures at other prestigious institutions like Dartmouth and the University of California. He is also a board member, award-winning keynote speaker, and has worked with renowned brands such as Harley Davidson and Microsoft. Reid holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and is currently pursuing his doctoral research at Case Western. As an Eagle Scout and Ironman triathlete, Reid finds rejuvenation in outdoor adventures, constantly seeking his next challenge. GET IN TOUCH WITH REID : Book launch www.grititdone.com www.reidtileston.com https://www.instagram.com/reidtileston/ https://www.facebook.com/reidtileston/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/reidtileston/   EPISODE CHAPTERS: (0:00:00) - Franchising and Small Business Ownership Entrepreneur Reid Tileston shares insights on franchising, knowing your "why," and his book "Gritted Done" in this podcast episode. (0:08:39) - Franchising as an Investment Option Franchising's contribution to the economy and employment, benefits of buying into a proven system, due diligence, financial aspects, and investment opportunities. (0:19:45) - Entrepreneurship Opportunities With SBA Loans Align background and interests, minimize risks, consider SBA loans, enjoy freedom and financial benefits, invest in team members. (0:25:50) - Empowering Team Members for Business Success Empowering team members, fostering positive culture, addressing toxic employees, utilizing peer groups, understanding one's driving purpose. (0:31:49) - The Power of Relationships in Success Building strong relationships through challenging endeavors, stair racing, selling a business, and becoming an optional business owner. If you want to know more about Dr. Jason Balara and the Know your Why Podcast: https://linktr.ee/jasonbalara Audio Track: Back To The Wood by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://audionautix.com/  

Welcome to the Gladden Longevity podcast, and in this episode, Dr. Gladden speaks with Jeff Lioon. Jeff, born into the health industry with family ties to Douglas Laboratories, initially pursued a corporate career. After finding himself unfulfilled, he embarked on a transformative journey, including working with Ayahuasca in the Amazon. Dissatisfied with the corporate world's impact on his well-being, he left his job, explored carnivore diets, and mastered animal processing in Hawaii. Realizing his true calling in health, he returned to Austin to join his father in promoting Oligoscan technology for understanding mineral deficiency root causes. Jeff's journey reflects a shift from corporate life to holistic health pursuit. In this episode, Jeff, born into the health industry, shared his journey from corporate burnout to holistic wellness. Inspired by Ayahuasca's experiences, he left his NYC job and spent a transformative year exploring, then immersed in carnivore living. Realizing his true purpose, he joined his father in promoting Oligoscan technology. His story highlights a quest for holistic health, emphasizing the impact of lifestyle choices, nutrition, and spiritual well-being. The episodes promote sweating for detox, avoiding processed foods, and recognizing the spiritual dimension in overall health. Tune in as they discuss detoxification pathways, the benefits of sauna usage, the importance of a nutrient-rich diet, and so much more. So grab your headphones and get ready to embark on an enriching and insightful journey with the Gladden Longevity podcast.     Dr. Gladden says the conversation with Jeff was a fascinating one.  (00:55) In quantum thinking, all things are possible. (3:26) Dr. Gladden asked Jeff to share how he got into the health space. (5:22) Jeff shares that he wanted to see how the world works. (7:18) Dr. Gladden reveals how he went to Case Western, among other options. (9:45) Steve asks Jeff what biomagnetism is all about. (11:44) Dr Gladden asked Jeff to talk about oligoscan. (14:30) When people go on crash diets, they get toxic and feel pretty terrible because they are releasing toxins into the bloodstream. (16:57) Jeff recollects the first time he scanned himself using a technology his dad brought home. (19:10) Dr. Gladden mentions using oligoscan at a Radfest meeting earlier. (22:17) Jeff gives an example of a patient with high antimony due to drinking from plastic regularly. (24:30) Jeff believes the sauna is great and one of the excellent healing modalities. (27:51) Dr. Gladden asks Jeff about the number of elements they are currently testing. (30:40) Jeff notes that right now, most people have a magnesium deficiency. (34:10) Antiperspirant blocks the lymphatic system. (37:25) The body loves variety and nutrient density. (42:34) Jeff answers the question about what we will do differently in two to five from now. (45:56) Some toxins can get stuck into the structure of the body. (45:31) Dr. Gladden shares about Heliocare. (51:30)   To know more about Jeff: Website: www.TheOligoscan.com Instagram: @JeffLioon / @TheIntracellularPodcast Website: aynimana.com     Affiliate Link/Code:  https://www.zeolitelabs.com/?ref=oligoscan     Coupon Code: OLIGOSCAN10   Use the code ‘podcast10' to get 10% off your supplements at the Gladden Longevity Store.

Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Lawrence Krauss is a theoretical physicist who has taught at Yale, Arizona State University, and Case Western, and is the founder of ASU's Origins Project. He is a prominent public intellectual and best-selling author, and has written about the origins of the universe, atheism, and many other topics. He is also the host of the Origins Podcast. In this episode, Robinson and Lawrence have a wide-ranging conversation about the current state of physics—and whether or not there is a crisis—the potential shortcomings of string theory, whether or not the world is a hologram, arguments for the existence of god, and the role of science in ethics. Lawrence's most recent book is The Edge of Knowledge (Post Hill Press, 2023). Lawrence's Website: https://lawrencemkrauss.com The Edge of Knowledge: https://a.co/d/6tIrJzy OUTLINE 00:00 Introduction 04:04 Theory versus Experiment 10:13 Is There a Crisis in Physics?  22:43 On the State of Quantum Gravity 25:40 What's Wrong with String Theory? 40:58 Cormac McCarthy 50:22 Is the World a Hologram? 1:02:14 God and the Fine-Tuned Universe 1:19:33 Does Science Help Us with Morality? Robinson's Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robinson-erhardt/support

Show Summary Would you like to hear insight based on decades of experience, both advising applicants to a variety of healthcare programs and working in admissions offices for, again, many different healthcare programs? Well, today's episode is the ticket for you. Dr. Emil Chuck, Director of Advising Services for the Health Professional Student Association is our guest. He discusses the admissions process for healthcare programs. He shares his recommendation for networking, shadowing, and journaling as ways for applicants to gain insight into the healthcare field and develop critical thinking skills. He advises applicants to consider the mission and values of each school they apply to and to choose schools that align with their own goals and values. Dr. Chuck also emphasizes the importance of submitting applications early and being mindful of deadlines. He provides information about the Health Professional Student Association (HPSA) and Student Doctor Network (SDN) resources for applicants. Show Notes Welcome to the 561st episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Thanks for joining me. Do you know how to get accepted to medical school? Accepted does, and we share that knowledge and insight in our free guide, Med School Admissions: What You Need to Know to Get Accepted. Download your free copy at accepted.com/561download.  I'm thrilled to introduce our guest, Dr. Emil Chuck. He is the Director of Advising Services for the Health Professional Student Association, which among other services and assets host the Student Doctor Network, a major resource for applicants to and students in the healthcare fields. Dr. Chuck earned his Bachelor's of Science in Engineering in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University and his PhD in Cell Biology from Case Western Reserve University. He began his career in research, but then moved into higher ed and admissions. Serving at different times student advisor and test prep teacher for Kaplan Test Prep, founding health Professionals Student Advisor for 5 years at George Mason University, Director of Admissions at Case Western's School of Dental Medicine, admissions consultant for the ADEA, Director of Admissions and Recruitment at Rosalind Franklin University, and for the last two years as Director of Advising Services at the Health Professional Student Association or HPSA. On SDN's forums he is known as the prolific, helpful, and extremely knowledgeable Mr.Smile12. In addition, he has also served in numerous volunteer roles for professional organizations. Dr. Chuck, welcome to Admissions Straight Talk. [2:29] Linda, it's a great pleasure to be part of your podcast and thank you so much for inviting me. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Let's start with some really easy questions: your background, where you grew up, and how on earth you got interested in admissions from biomedical engineering. [2:39] I guess the stuff that's not on LinkedIn certainly is the earlier background about me. I'm proud to say that I'm a first-generation student. My parents immigrated from Hong Kong a couple of years before I was born. And so of all the places in the entire world where I guess in the United States where I would be born and raised for about 17 of my years before going to Duke was Shreveport, Louisiana, that's northwest Louisiana, not anywhere near New Orleans to just make sure people know. And basically I grew up in that city, that little small town in northwest Louisiana and now apparently the home district to our current speaker of the house. It's a little bit of a trivia note. I don't know him. That's one of the little known facts in terms of how it shaped my worldview one way or another.  Obviously at the period of time when I was growing up, I was involved in a lot of research type projects and did science fairs, was involved in medical research at the medical school over there at LSU Shreveport before moving on to ultimately apply to all the various scho...

JCO PO author Dr. Amit Mahipal shares insights into his JCO PO article, “Tumor Mutational Burden in Real-world Patients with Pancreatic Cancer: Genomic Alterations and Predictive Value for Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Effectiveness.” Host Dr. Rafeh Naqash and Dr Mahipal discuss real world evidence of immune checkpoint inhibitors in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. TRANSCRIPT Dr. Rafeh Naqash: Welcome to JCO Precision Oncology Conversations, where we bring you engaging conversations with authors of clinically relevant and highly significant JCO PO articles. I'm your host, Dr. Rafeh Naqash, Social Media Editor for JCO Precision Oncology and Assistant Professor at the OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center, University of Oklahoma. Today we are joined by Dr. Amit Mahipal, Professor of Medicine and Director of GI Oncology at the Case Western Reserve University in Seidman Cancer Center. Dr. Mahipal is also the author of the JCO Precision Oncology article titled "Tumor Mutational Burden in Real World Patients with Pancreatic Cancer: Genomic Alterations and Predictive Value of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Effectiveness."  Our guest disclosures will be linked in the transcript. For the sake of this conversation, we will refer to each other using our first names. So Amit, welcome to our podcast and thank you for joining us today. Dr. Amit Mahipal: Thanks for having me here. Dr. Rafeh Naqash: Excellent. We came across your article in JCO Precision Oncology and it really aroused my interest because the topic and the audience that it caters to is very important in the current times. Because immunotherapy generally is considered- pancreas cancer the graveyard in immunotherapy in essence, based on what I have seen or what I have encountered. And now you're the expert here who sees people with pancreas cancer or has done a lot of work in pancreas cancer research side. So can you tell us the context of this work and why you wanted to look at immune checkpoint inhibitors in pancreas cancer? Dr. Amit Mahipal: Absolutely, Rafeh. As you mentioned, pancreatic cancer is considered a what we call "cold tumors." They don't typically respond to immunotherapy. And when we talk to our patients or patient advocates, as you know, patients are very excited about immunotherapy. Immunotherapy has transformed the treatment for a lot of different cancers and not only has increased survival, but the quality of life is so much different than with chemotherapy. This work came from based on the KEYNOTE-158 trial, which was a tumor-agnostic trial which accrued patients who had TMB high tumor. What that means is that tumor mutation had more than 10 mutations per megabase. And what happens is because of that trial, more than 200 patient trial, the FDA actually approved this immunotherapy or pembrolizumab as a single agent pembrolizumab for any patient with a solid tumor who has high TMB. Again, tumor mutation burden, more than 10 mut/Mb. This question comes in now. Does this apply to our pancreatic cancer patient groups? Especially as we know these are "cold tumors" that typically do not respond. There have been multiple trials looking at immunotherapy, single agent, dual immunotherapy agents, as well as combinations with chemotherapy, with somewhat very, very limited success. So that was kind of the basis. So we wanted to look at this retrospective kind of review of a big database to see how many patients we can find who have high TMB and see in that patient population is immunotherapy really active based on the FDA approval or is pancreatic cancer not a tumor where we should try immunotherapy unit as a selective group.    Dr. Rafeh Naqash: Thank you for that explanation. Taking a step back again, since you see these individuals with pancreatic cancer I imagine day in and day out in the space of drug development, what is the general current standard of care approach for individuals with pancreas cancer in your clinic? I'm talking about what are the most common approaches that you utilize that seem to be working or have FDA approvals in the pancreas cancer space. Dr. Amit Mahipal: As with any tumor, the first thing is obviously staging. So depending on whether we're dealing with early stage or advanced stage and what are the goals of treatment. At this point, the only thing that can cure pancreatic cancer patients that would be considered conventional therapy is surgical resection. So any patient who is a candidate for surgical resection is in a different bucket compared to advanced patients. For early stage patients, we try to do what we call neoadjuvant treatment or neoadjuvant chemotherapy. We shrink the tumor or at least maintain it, look at the biology of the disease, and then take them to surgery, which typically involves a Whipple procedure if it's a head of the pancreatic mass.   Moving on to advanced patients, that's where we know the goal of treatment is palliative to increase survival, but unfortunately, most of the times we cannot cure them. And there the standard of care options include systemic chemotherapy. We have two typical regimens that we use, one is called FOLFIRINOX, which is a three-drug regimen of 5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, oxaliplatin, and irinotecan. And another regimen is gemcitabine plus abraxane, which is a two-drug regimen of gemcitabine plus abraxane. These are considered the standard of care. Unfortunately, the median survival even with the best standard of care chemotherapy is only about a year, 12-13 months, depending on what trials we look at.  Dr. Rafeh Naqash: I still remember some of these regimens from my fellowship, where we had to decide which to give to each individual based on their performance status and clinical status, etc. But now I can see a lot of ongoing drug development in the space of pancreas cancer. I'm guessing that's why you wanted to assess both the molecular genomic landscape of pancreas cancer in this study and also look at the immune biomarker aspect. Could you tell us a little bit about the Foundation Medicine Clinical Genomic Database? How did you identify the patients, how many patients did you identify, what you narrowed down in the criteria, and the eventual sample size of what you were looking at?  Dr. Amit Mahipal: FoundationOne has a rich database. They have two or three things. One is a genomic database only. So in our clinical practice, I think it's some sort of next-generation sequencing or mutational testing for all patients with advanced solid tumors. All of these goes into their database. All of the samples that are sent to FoundationOne that goes into their database where they know the diagnosis of the patient and the know the sequencing results of these patients. In addition, they also have a clinical database called Flatiron. Basically, they collaborated with them. Flatiron has about 280 or so cancer clinics throughout the country, so a lot of community settings and some academic sites as well. They did not only have a genomic database, but they actually have a clinical database. They have demographics, clinical features, baseline clinical features, comorbidities, what kind of treatment they received, what would be the stage of the cancer, how many months of treatment they received, and their overall survival, and so on. So from that perspective, the FoundationOne has access to this partnership with Flatiron, clinical genomic database where they have both clinical data as well as genomic database for a lot of these patients.  In our study, we only focused on patients with advanced pancreatic cancer. We excluded a lot of patients who did not have sequencing results available, they cannot be performed due to lack of tissue. So the first we talked about the genomic database and we found about about 21,932 patients, so almost 22,000 patients and there we had the sequencing and we also had the data on TMB or tumor mutational burden. So here, we classified them into two groups: high TMB and low TMB. High TMB was seen in 1.3% of the patients, and about 98.3% of the patients had low TMB. Here we looked at the genomic alterations between the two groups. So these are like our genomic group, so to speak of about 22,000 patients. And among them, as mentioned, that the clinical data was available for about 3300 patients or 3279 patients to be exact.   After excluding some of those patients, we found about 51 patients who received immunotherapy. And when we say immunotherapy, it is single agent immuno checkpoint inhibitor like pembrolizumab or nivolumab. And then we classified them into high TMB versus low TMB and then we also looked at patients with high TMB and compared them to who received immunotherapy versus other therapies. Just to recap, we had about 22,000 patients where we have the genomic database and about 3300 or so patients who we have both genomic and clinical data for this patients. One of the key findings was that high TMB was present in only 1.3% of the patients, or about 293 patients out of 21,932.  Dr. Rafeh Naqash: Definitely an interesting sample size that you had utilizing this resource, which, of course, is more or less real-world. It is important to gather real-world outcomes that you did.   So, going to the TMB story of this paper, where you looked at immune checkpoint inhibitor use in these individuals, was there a reason why some of the individuals with low TMB were also given immune checkpoint inhibitors? From my understanding, I did see some checkpoint inhibitor use there. What could be the explanation for that? Dr. Amit Mahipal: So this data is from 2014 to 2022. So from the span of about eight or so years. And as you know, immune checkpoint inhibitors were approved in the last decade. And there were a lot of not only trials, but even in the non-trial setting, people had tried immune checkpoint inhibitors in, frankly, different tumor types because of the success in some of the common tumor types, like melanomas, lung cancer, and so on. So I agree, as of today, we probably would not use immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients with low TMB or MSS. But at that time, I think that information was not available. So people with low TMB and MSI-stable tumors also received immune checkpoint inhibitors. But those numbers are again low. So it's not very high numbers. Dr. Rafeh Naqash: Understandable. That makes it a little more clear.  Now, you looked at the TMB aspect. I'm guessing you also looked at the MSI aspect of PDAC. What is your understanding, or what was your understanding before this study, and how did it enhance your understanding of the MSI aspect of PDAC? And I'm again guessing, since TMB high individuals are on the lower side percentage, so MSI high is likely to be low as well. Did you see any interaction between those MSI highs and the TMB highs on the PDAC side?  Dr. Amit Mahipal: Yeah, absolutely. So we are very excited in general about MSI-high tumors for solid tumors because of their response to immunotherapy. Although I would do a caveat because we still don't know how MSI-high pancreatic cancer responds although there have been some real-world, very, very small series as well. In this study, one of the things is, is high TMB totally driven by MSI-high? That's a question that comes up, and TMB high may not matter. It's only the MSI-high that might matter. So definitely when we look at this patient population, we found that the patients who were 35-36% of patients who were TMB high also had MSI-high patients. So we do expect MSI-high patients to have a higher TMB compared to MSS patients. But there were about 66 or two-thirds of the patients who did not have MSI-high tumors and still had high TMB, as defined by, again, ten mutations per megabase. So we did see patients with MSI-stable tumors who had high TMB. And I think that was one of our biggest questions. I think MSI-high patients, we all tend to think that we would try immunotherapy even if it's in pancreatic cancer. I think what is not clear, at least from the real-world or any of the trial data, is if we were to give MSI-stable patients who have high TMB, if we give immunotherapy, are there any responses or any disease control that we see? And that was one of the reasons for this study.  Dr. Rafeh Naqash: Now, one of the things that comes to mind, and again, I think you based it on the FDA approval for TMB high, which is ten mutations per megabase, as you defined earlier. I do a lot of biomarker research, and oftentimes you come across this aspect of binary versus a linear biomarker, in this case being TMB, where about ten, less than ten. Do you think, in general, an approach where you maybe have tertiles or quartiles or a biomarker, or perhaps a better approach in trying to stratify individuals who may or may not benefit from immunotherapy? Dr. Amit Mahipal: That's a great point. I think when we use ten mutations per megabase as a biomarker, as a binary endpoint, do we apply it to all tumor types? I don't think that's a fair comparison, frankly speaking. We do know that high TMB, even in different tumor types, do tend to respond a little bit better to or do have better outcomes for patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors in different tumor types. But what that cutoff is not known in most of the tumor types. And also, one of the problems is how do you measure TMB and is it standard across different platforms? Like I'm just giving some names like FoundationOne, Tempus, Caris, and some obviously like MSKCC and some other university-owned panels as well. And frankly, I think if you look at different panels and if you send the same tumor tissue, you will get different measurements. So I think standardization is a problem as well.  In one of the studies involving cholangiocarcinoma, for example, we found that a TMB of 5 was enough to have an additive effect of immunotherapy, same with chemotherapy, so to speak. But again, this needs to be validated.  So you're absolutely correct. I don't know why we use the binary endpoint, but on the same token, the binary endpoint is easy to understand as a clinician. Like, “Hey, someone has this, do this, not this.” And when we look into a continuous range, I think the benefit obviously varies between high and low, different tertiles, and becomes somewhat challenging. How do you classify patients and what treatments to give? So I think in clinical decision-making, we like the cutoffs, but I think in reality, I don't know if the cutoff is a true representation. And maybe with the more use of AI or computing, we can just input some values, and then it can tell us what the best treatment option might be for the patient. But that's way in the future. Dr. Rafeh Naqash: That would definitely be the futuristic approach of incorporating AI, machine learning perhaps, or even digital pathology slides in these individuals to ascertain which individuals benefit.  Going back to your paper, could you highlight some of the most important results that you identified as far as which individual is better, whether it was immunotherapy, and you've also looked at some of the mutation co-mutation status. Could you highlight that for our listeners? Dr. Amit Mahipal: So the first thing we looked at was the genomic database of almost 22,000 patients, and then we classified them into high TMB and low TMB, with about 300 patients in the high TMB group and the rest in the low TMB group. And what we found was, talking about again in the genomic database, that patients who have high TMB actually have low KRAS mutation. So if we think about KRAS mutation, pancreatic cancer, almost 85% or so of patients have KRAS mutation who have pancreatic adenocarcinoma. So patients in this subgroup, so in the high TMB group, only about two-thirds of the patients had KRAS mutation, compared to 92% of the patients with low TMB who had KRAS mutation. So just giving that perspective. So KRAS mutation, which is the most common mutation in pancreatic cancer and is a driver mutation, their rates vary differ from the high TMB group versus the low TMB group.   And then in addition, in the high TMB group, we found higher rates of BRCA mutation, BRAF mutation, interestingly, and then obviously from the DNA damage repair genes like PALB2 mutation, MSH2 or MSH6, MLH1, and PMS2. So all these mismatch repair protein mutations were higher. As I mentioned before, one-third of the patients with high TMB also had MSI-high. So it's not a totally unexpected finding. I think the biggest finding was that we found more KRAS wild-type pancreatic adenocarcinoma in the high TMB group, almost a third. And those tend to have different targetable mutations like BRCA2, BRAF, and PALB2 mutations. So I think one of the interesting findings is that patients in the high TMB group actually tend to have KRAS wild-type or less KRAS mutations. So they're not necessarily KRAS-driven tumors, and they have a higher chance of having other targetable mutations like BRAF and so on, for which we have therapies for. So it's always something to keep in mind. Dr. Rafeh Naqash: Would you think that from a DDR perspective, the mutations that you did  identify that were more prevalent in individuals with high TMB, do you think that this is linked to perhaps more DNA damage, more replication stress, more neoantigens leaning toward more tumor mutation burden perhaps? Or is there a different explanation?  Dr. Amit Mahipal: For sure. As we said, MSI-high tumors have mutations in the DNA damage repair pathway and they definitely tend to have higher TMB. So I don't think that is very surprising that we found PALB2, or other MMR genes like MSH2, MSH6, MLH1, and PMS2 at much higher rates. I think the interesting finding is the fact that the KRAS wild-type and having BRAF alterations at least that's not suspected to definitely increase TMB. Although if we look at colorectal cancer, BRAF mutation and MSI are somewhat correlated to patients with BRAF mutations and to have high rates of MSI-high tumors. But that's not the case in pancreatic cancer. We also found an increase in BRCA2 mutations as well. So I agree that the DNA damage pathway repair gene alteration is not unexpected because they tend to increase TMB, but I think the other mutations were interesting. Dr. Rafeh Naqash: And I think one other aspect of this, which I'm pretty sure you would've thought about is the germline implications for some of these mutations where you could very well end up screening not only the individual patient, but also their family members and have measures in place that we're trying to enhance screening opportunities there. In your current practice, you are at an academic center but I'm talking about in general with your experience, how common is it to sequence broad sequencing panels in individuals with pancreas cancer? The reason I asked that is I do a lot with lung cancer and even now despite having all those targets in lung cancer which sort of paved the pathway for targeted therapy in many tumor types, we still don't see a full uptake for NGS Phase I drug development. And I get a lot of referrals from outside and I often see that it's a limited gene panel. So what is your experience with pancreatic cancer? Dr. Amit Mahipal: We kind of changed our practice. Similar to you, I'm involved in drug developments. I've been a big proponent of NGS for almost a decade now, when didn't even have targeted therapies but these companies first came in and they're like, “Okay. We're very very low chance.” But now obviously, we transformed the treatment for a lot of different cancers. Especially lung cancer, you don't sometimes even start treatment before you get an NGS panel like you said in situ. So what we're finding, at least for pancreatic cancer, as you know, the targetable mutations are there but they are somewhat not that common, I would say, in the 10-15% range. So many people would get dissuaded and then it's like, what's the point of doing it?   But I think for those 10% to 15% of the patients, firstly we can really change their treatment course and their prognosis. Secondly, if you don't do it and they cannot go in a different clinical trials, now we have trials targeting KRAS G12C, but not only that, KRAS G12D which is the most common mutation we see in pancreatic cancer and so on. So it's becoming very very important. One thing, at least with our practice we adopted last two or three years is sending liquid biopsies or liquid based NGS or blood-based NGS testing. Otherwise, what's happening I would send a solid tumor NGS from the tissue. And pancreatic cancer as you know has sometimes a very small amount of tissue obtained from FNA. And inevitably after four weeks, we'll get the result that there's not enough tumor to do NGS testing. And then the patient comes one or two months later and then we order the test, and that just delays everything.  So now we adopted a practice where we are trying to send both blood based NGS and solid tumor NGS at the same time the first time of diagnosis when we see the oncologist for the first time. And that has really increased the rate of NGS testing results for our patient population. And it's not 100%, even in blood-based NGS, sometimes they may not be able to find enough circulating tumor cells to do this blood-based NGS testing, but at least they're having these. But you're correct. I think we still see about one third of the patients who had not had NGS testing or referred for phase I clinical trial and have gone through more than two or three line of therapies which is unfortunate for our patients.  Dr. Rafeh Naqash: That's a very interesting perspective on how important it is to sequence these individuals. As you said, it may not be that all of them may benefit, but the ones that have those important alterations, especially BRCA, PALB, and KRAS could benefit from novel precision medicine-based approaches.  A question that came to my mind, I saw that you were trying to look at MYC and turmeric low tumors as well. So what is the role of MYC in the context of these individuals? Is there any drug development that's going on? Because I see small cell lung cancer. MYC is an important target there. These are two different tumors, but it looks like there was a hint of some correlation with respect to some of the findings that you showed. Is that something that you're currently looking at or planning to look at?  Dr. Amit Mahipal: I think that if we just talk about MYC in general, it is present at somewhat lower rate. I think we found MYC amplification in about 5% or so of TMB-low patients who had that and not really seen in the TMB-high patients. So right now, I am not aware of any trials targeting MYC in pancreatic cancer. But as you said, if it's successful in lung cancer, maybe that's when we can transform into the pancreatic cancer group. Dr. Rafeh Naqash: Of course we can all learn from each other's specialties.We learned a lot from melanoma with respect to therapy. Hopefully, other fields can also benefit from each other's experiences in the space of drug development.  Thank you so much for this interesting discussion. The last few questions are more or less about you as an individual researcher. So could you tell us briefly on your career trajectory and what led you into the space of GI oncology, pancreas cancer, even for that matter, drug development? And some of the advice that you may want to give to listeners who are trainees or early career individuals? Dr. Amit Mahipal: Sure. So I have gone through some different institutions. During my fellowship, that's when I really decided that I wanted to do GI oncology. Prior to that, I actually have a Masters in Public Health, where I learned about epidemiological research and how to design clinical trials, how to design cohort studies. My focus was on, actually there was somewhat a lot, but one of my mentors was working on colorectal cancer, and they had this huge database called the Iowa Women's Health Study Database of 100,000 patients. So that's where I started by clearly getting into colorectal cancer and GI cancer in general and how to learn from this database, how to mine these databases, how to do analyses, which seems easy but is actually quite complicated.  During my fellowship, I think the key to it is finding a good mentor during the fellowship. And I worked with one of the top GI oncologists in the country who's practicing. And I worked under her and learned a lot not only from the clinic side but also from the research perspective and how sometimes you'll come up with the ideas during the clinic itself.Like, “Hey, this patient had this and why aren't we looking into this.” And she would even do some of the therapies based on phase II trials and she was a part of a lot of these trials and learning from those experiences.  And following my fellowship, I joined Moffitt Cancer Center, where I led the phase I program there. So I was heavily involved in drug development programs, all training programs I've been to, NIH in Bethesda, an observership in the CTEP program, and also did the ASCO/AACR Vail workshop, where you really learned a lot in just like one week. So those are kind of opportunities present for fellows and even the early investigators and attendings as well in the first few years can go there, have your proposal. And really they are the world experts in trial design and they'll talk about how to design trials, how to add collaborators, improve your trial, and basically learn the whole protocol in a week so to speak.   And then I was at Moffitt Cancer Center for about five, six years. My home was GI so I did both GI oncology as well as phase I. And in terms of the GI oncology, my main focus was pancreatic cancer and liver tumors. Then I was at Mayo Clinic in Rochester for about seven or so years. I kind of did the same thing and solidified my career at GI oncology, looking at liver tumors, and pancreatic cancer and then being a part of the phase I division program. And now, most recently, about a year or so ago, I joined Case Western to lead the GI program here. Dr. Rafeh Naqash: Are the winters in Cleveland better than the winters in Minnesota? Dr. Amit Mahipal: For sure. I always say, you don't know cold until you go to Minnesota. It's a different kind of cold. I'm sure people in Dakota might say the same thing, but the cold in Minnesota is very brutal and different compared to any other place I've been to.  Dr. Rafeh Naqash: Well, it was great learning about you. Thank you so much for spending this time with us and for sharing your work with our journal. We hope you'll continue to do the same in the near future.  Thank you for listening to JCO Precision Oncology Conversations. Don't forget to give us a rating or review, and be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find all ASCO shows at ascopubs.org/podcasts. Dr. Amit Mahipal: Thank you for having me here, Rafeh. Good luck. Take care. Dr. Rafeh Naqash: Thank you so much. The purpose of this podcast is to educate and inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions.   The guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experiences, and conclusions. Their statements do not necessarily express the opinions of ASCO. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement.   Dr. Mahipal: Consulting or Advisory Role:QED TherapeuticsAstraZeneca/MedImmuneTaiho Oncology Speakers' Bureau:AstraZeneca Research Funding:Taiho Pharmaceutical"

In this episode we got to sit down with David Cooperrider and Lindsey Godwin to hear about their work with the UN Global Compact and how they apply the Appreciative Inquiry approach. We take a deep dive into their experience using a dialogic process to bring leaders from across industries to work together towards a common goal – to create a sustainable world where all humans can flourish.    For more information on the initiative that Lindsay and David discussed visit the UN Global Compact. To learn more about Appreciative Inquiry, check out the AI practitioner journal, and find additional resources available through the Fowler Center at Case Western and the Cooperrider Center at Champlain.   Have a question, comment, or a recommendation for a perfect guest? Please email us at TransformationHorizon@gmail.com.    Enjoying the podcast? Subscribe to our Patreon: https://patreon.com/TransformationHorizonPodcast   #ODHorizonStories  

Alan is joined by the one and only Dr. Kevin Fryer of the Very Clinical podcast! The conversation was fun and wide ranging but we focused hard on EFDAs and Kevin's use of them! Schrodinger's Weed Black Friday Browns/Lions superbowl? How Kevin started using EFDAs (he was originally against EFDAs) EFDA workflows ("mini associates") Kevin's "selling time" concept and how EFDAs make this work. EFDA training (Case Western is Kevin's go to) Kevin and Al's very first patients in dental school University of Minnesota's branding mistakes Anesthesia in Kevin's office Dental Therapists and Restorative Hygienists Some links from the show: Black Friday by Steely Dan State by state rules of allowable dental assistant responsibilities Endo Pilot and Procodile Files Kevin's Endo course The Minnesota Rouser (the worst college fight song) Join the Very Dental Facebook group using the password "Timmerman," Hornbrook" or "McWethy," "Papa Randy" or "Lipscomb!" The Very Dental Podcast network is and will remain free to download. If you'd like to support the shows you love at Very Dental then show a little love to the people that support us! -- Crazy Dental has everything you need from cotton rolls to equipment and everything in between and the best prices you'll find anywhere! If you head over to verydentalpodcast.com/crazy and use coupon code “VERYDENTAL10” you'll get another 10% off your order! Go save yourself some money and support the show all at the same time! -- The Wonderist Agency is basically a one stop shop for marketing your practice and your brand. From logo redesign to a full service marketing plan, the folks at Wonderist have you covered! Go check them out at verydentalpodcast.com/wonderist! -- Enova Illumination makes the very best in loupes and headlights, including their new ergonomic angled prism loupes! They also distribute loupe mounted cameras and even the amazing line of Zumax microscopes! If you want to help out the podcast while upping your magnification and headlight game, you need to head over to verydentalpodcast.com/enova to see their whole line of products! -- CAD-Ray offers the best service on a wide variety of digital scanners, printers, mills and even  their very own browser based design software, Clinux! CAD-Ray has been a huge supporter of the Very Dental Podcast Network and I can tell you that you'll get no better service on everything digital dentistry than the folks from CAD-Ray. Go check them out at verydentalpodcast.com/CADRay!    

Looking fear straight in the eyes and choosing the path less traveled - that's the theme of this episode of Emancipation Nation. We uncover how fear, an emotion we're all too familiar with, can often serve as the chains that hold us back from reaching our full potential, our real dreams. Through personal anecdotes and stories of how successful individuals faced their fears and emerged victorious, we cast a spotlight on the idea that success isn't always about wealth, but could be about personal growth, relationships or just reaching a goal.As a host, I delve into my own journey of overcoming fear, from moving mountains to ensure my daughter gets the Montessori education she deserves, to getting accepted into Case Western for my Masters degree, and eventually pursuing a PhD. The episode also underscores the importance of self-care as a catalyst to not just nourish ourselves, but also to keep our fears at bay and enhance our lives. In essence, this episode is a call to action to embrace the unknown, challenge self-limiting beliefs and march forward towards your dreams. So, let's not just exist, but start living our dreams.

In this episode of Real Talk, KJK Student Defense Attorneys Susan Stone and Kristina Supler are joined by Carly Boyd, a domestic relations attorney.  In this episode, they talk about the effects of a recent Department of Justice Investigation at Case Western Reserve University will have on student life.  They discuss the biggest misperceptions students have around Title IX issues, why students don't report harassment cases in both Greek organizations and Sports Teams, and what triggers most harassment cases. Show Notes: (04:31)  Biggest Misperceptions Students Have with TitleIX and Other Issues (05:28)  The Reaction to the DOJ Sexual Conduct Investigation at Case University (08:41)  Why More Students Don't Come Forward (11:32)  Why Athletes Don't Report Harassment (14:08)  What Lies at the Heart of Most Harassment Claims (15:32)  Is Bystander Intervention Training Effective? (16:46)  Carly's Advice for Students this New Academic Year Transcript: Susan Stone: So Kristina, last week we just received a copy of the resolution agreement between the federal government and Case Western Reserve University. And for our listeners out there, Case is right in our backyard. It's where I went to law school. And apparently the Department of Justice conducted an investigation of the university's response to reports of claims by student on student and employee on student sexual harassment between the years of 2017 and 18, 20 and 21. So right smack in the pandemic. There were a lot of interviews were conducted with a whole host of administrators. And in particular, I couldn't help but notice there was a lot of interviews and roundtables that were facilitated with Interfraternity Council and the Women's Health Center and a lot of Greek organizations. Kristina Supler: Yeah, it was really interesting report to read, Susan. And I was surprised to see the report come out. I think a real upside to this is that Case is committed to strengthening its strength. It's training in response to programs associated with reports of sexual assault or harassment.  Susan Stone: Exactly, because the Case is actually rolling out it's a whole entire program called It's on CWRU, which is a violence prevention campaign. And it'll be interesting to see how that impacts Greek culture and hazing in general.  Kristina Supler: There's a lot of new obligations in that resolution agreement that the university is committed to. But also that fall on members of Greek life and,for example, sororities and fraternities have to disclose to the chapter when there's internal investigations of sexual misconduct. There's new operating protocols. And I'm really curious to hear more about how this is going to play out on campus, day to day realities. Susan Stone: We are so lucky because our very own Carly Boyd, our partner, might have some inside scoop.  Kristina Supler: Welcome Carly. We're pleased to be joined by Carly Boyd. She's a skilled domestic relations attorney who has been working in that field for over a decade and she's in the firms here at KJK family law practice group. And Carly, you might be thinking, why are you having a domestic relations attorney on this podcast. But Carly is actually a former advisor to the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority at Case Western Reserve.  And so she's here today to just talk with us about this resolution agreement and looking to the future, what it means for Greek life. So welcome, Carly.  Carly Boyd: Welcome, Ladies. Thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here and talk about this.  Susan Stone: Yeah. Carly, just tell us to start, what do you do or what did you do? Because I know you just stepped down in July for, and can I call the Alpha Gamma Delta the Alpha Gams? Is that correct?  Carly Boyd: Yeah, that's Okay. I was their chapter wellness advisor from 2018 to just this past summer. Case Western just added Alpha Gam in 2018. It was a new chapter for them, which was really exciting. Just, like Susan and I went to Case Western for law school and I was really excited to combine my passion for Alpha Gam at Case.  And so in a sorority and a fraternity, they have a main chapter advisor. And then there was a bunch of different ones to help with the different directors. So I was there to assist with the director as they needed me. The chapter wellness kind of focuses on membership on activities and really just being there for retention of members was where I was at. They didn't need me all the time, but there was issues I could be there as a guidance and as a true advisor for them. Kristina Supler: So you were really, in the trenches having contact with the students. I'm curious to hear, Carly, based on your experience working with the students, what do you see as the biggest, misperception or misunderstanding among students about issues like Title IX or maybe hazing and other student conduct issues? Carly Boyd: Yeah, I think, when it comes to the Greek life and the misperceptions and what people think of, it's all bad. It's all hazing, and it's all drinking. It's all, Just horrible stories that come out of the Greek life. And I think there's a balance between there's a really good of Greek life, benefits. When it comes to Title IX, I think people mainly look to like men and women's sports or inequality in that way. I don't know if people outside of your practice, understand the larger implications of what Title IX means on a campus and that it goes down into sexual harassment and misconduct and on those deeper levels. when I was thinking about this, I do believe just the idea of a Title IX investigation, do people understand how. What that really means in a detail of what they were looking into.  Susan Stone: When you read the resolution agreement, what are your impressions? Carly Boyd: I'm surprised that these things weren't happening already. It was my first thought. Really? I just, I think of this day and age of just trainings and so many things that we have to do as professionals. That I'm surprised that just certain annual trainings and reports weren't happening already. And I do believe that my experience with my chapters, they were doing those things that were very on top of providing resources, mandatory trainings. And so maybe I was just surprised that wasn't on a higher level happening at the university. I'm glad  Susan Stone: to see that. We don't know. I happen to believe that it probably was happening. But we don't know all the backstory. We're only looking at the resolution agreement.  Kristina Supler: Yeah, Carly, I'm interested to hear, since you seem to have some surprise when you read this, in some ways this is a whole bunch of nothing. Shouldn't, wasn't this already going on? What do you see realistically to be in terms of likely impact on Greek life, starting this academic year?  Carly Boyd: I hope there's a big impact and implication and how people feel in the Greek community. I hope they feel protected and heard through all these things. I don't know if there'll be a change in the actual work that needs to be done. If they were already doing their local chapters, we're already requiring annual trainings. The Navy doesn't change their day today. For, my chapter, you had to do certain trainings for the whole chapter to be in good standing and you had a report in it. And that's been like that for years internationally. Isn't that? Wasn't just a case Western thing. So I would hope that on a day today. The chapters are used to when you get new members, you educate them, you're doing these regular trainings. If they weren't, I'm looking forward to seeing how that could be implemented and that it's a positive effect in the community. Just because you do these trainings, though, are the members actually feeling like they're doing something good? Just because we all do these trainings and everyone has to go through it to check a box. Are people actually going and hearing it and feeling protected and safe because of those trainings. And so that's what I look forward to seeing is what is the impact of these trainings.  Susan Stone: From our perspective, and Kristina, correct me if you're wrong, we want there to be a culture of reporting. We want, yeah, We want students to come forward. I don't know, Carly, if you've had a chance to look at the complaint against Northwestern and what was going on with the team there, the football team, I believe. Kristina Supler: And swimming. And it's. As they're digging deeper, far wider spread than initially suspected, and according to the news, right?  Susan Stone: And it's not just sexual assault. It's bullying. It's harassment of every kind. And as attorneys who represent students, we want to hear from those parents. We want to hear from those students. We want to be proactive. So we're hoping that more resolution agreements that lead to more training will lead to a culture of people feeling more comfortable to come forward. What are your thoughts on that? I Carly Boyd: think that's great. If people can come forward, But I think it's if I come forward, what's, what do people do with that information? If I don't believe a university or a team or Greek life will actually do anything with my complaint, why am I going to come forward?  And I think that's the biggest part is, I think the negative view of Greek life is this hazing aspect. You have to be tough, you're hazed, that's just normal. Maybe your parents were in Greek life, your dad went through it, so you just deal with it because that's the culture. And I think that's the dangerous part of Greek life, is if I say something am I going to be looked at as weak or am I going to be kicked out? Am I going to be isolated? And maybe I'm at a different college, I'm out of state. I don't know anybody. And this was going to be my community. If I speak up what happens, especially if no one listens. So I'd love, the resolutions, I like the transparency. I like that people can report. But then looking to the institutions to actually act on what's being reported and doing it right,  Kristina Supler: Carly. You've just made me think about. there's a portion of the resolution agreement with Case that specifically is focused on Greek life. However, you were a collegiate athlete as well, weren't you?  Carly Boyd: I was supposed to be but my sister was. At a Big Ten school as well. So I went to a Big Ten school and I was about to be and I backed out at the last  Kristina Supler: minute. Well, you're still qualified to answer my question or share some thoughts. So I'm curious, and Susan, feel free to chime in as well.  Susan Stone: Do I ever not chime in? True. Very true. come on. Are we, is this not real talk?  Kristina Supler: It's real. It's real. For better and for worse, right? But I'm curious that this notion of training and bystander intervention and having students feel free to Terrific question. Come forward and report when they see something that isn't right.  Do you think there's really any difference between how sports teams handle these issues versus Greek life? Is there you know at the core some cultural differences between the different environments? Or do you think it's the same foundational issues in terms of helping students understand what resources are available and how they can participate in a process if they choose to.  Susan Stone: That's so deep. Because basically, are you asking, is it the type of organization or is it just changing group think in general?  Kristina Supler: Exactly, because I'm thinking, what's the difference between a sports team and a fraternity or sorority if it's You know, there are obviously many differences, but in terms of these types of issues, what are your thoughts, Carly? Like a band.  Susan Stone: Does it really matter? Are we always picking on one type of organization for this? Or is it endemic to certain types of groups? I don't know. This is deep. Carly Boyd: I think it is. I'll go back to the sports versus their Greek life. I think sports has such a different environment because if you speak up, are you now going to be the starting position in your college team? Yeah, you speak up. And if you're not starting, are you then not getting to the next level? Are you not going to  Kristina Supler: Fear from retaliation? Right?  Carly Boyd: I think that is a much. Worse fear in sports is that retaliation. There's another person there to take your position on the team or on the relay if you speak up. And how easy it is to know. Yes, you didn't practice as hard. There's no measuring that. And all of a sudden, why would I speak up Greek life? If you speak up, you might have social implications. You're going to remove yourself from that fraternity. And I use the term fraternity for both sorority and fraternity. But I don't think there's as much future implications there if you are removed from Greek life. And I think that's where sports teams are different. I think that's where they foster a lot more is because they have a lot more on the line. Maybe, they've trained their whole lives to be there. They want to make their parents proud. They have this persona. I think that's where it's such a different mentality. Kristina Supler: Interesting. Well, and sports teams are also inherently competitive, Whereas Greek life isn't supposed to be, in an ideal way.  Susan Stone: Correct. Well, it's the opposite. It's fostering community and a family relationship.  Carly Boyd: That's absolutely correct. And I think, I do think that sports teams have both of that. When I was going to college and I decided not to swim, I did turn to the sorority life for that family. I was going out of state to a college and I wanted someplace where I could belong and meet people. But it is less competitive. I think there's a lot, there's a different, there's a different, that fear of retaliation, you are correct in how to look at that. I still  Susan Stone: wonder if at the heart of most claims is the root is drinking. The sexual assault, maybe even the bullying, feeling a little more comfortable to let certain words out of your mouth or treat someone in a different way that if you were sober, would you behave that way? From your work on the campus, how do you see? the drinking and the drug use. And do you agree with me that at the heart of it all roads lead to consumption?  Carly Boyd: I would imagine if you looked at the cases, where there's alcohol is a lot higher when there's not alcohol. And I think that's the hard part with Greek life is in Greek life, you have specific purposes of putting Fraternities and sororities at a social event, right? That's a very specific thing you do each fall, each weekend. And then there's alcohol at these events. So you're already putting yourself in a position of alcohol and partying. I believe if it's all done correct, it can be monitored and done right. But again, it goes back to, are people going to actually follow that? So you can have as many policies as you want as to managing alcohol, monitoring it. I don't see it as an issue necessarily. But I also wasn't there to see it on that level. I'll put that out there. So I was as an advisor knew what we approved what they came to us about. That was our role. And that's what we handled. if it's done right, you're get you're having sober monitors. You're having sober drivers. You're there was rules to prevent anything that goes wrong. Because I do believe it's around alcohol.  Kristina Supler: In your experience, Carly, how effective is bystander intervention training? Do you see students really taking that training to heart and implementing it? Carly Boyd: When it comes to bystander intervention training, I don't have as much knowledge on that and what is happening with that on campus or what maybe, if it's happening, I'm not realizing that's what it's called, I'll say. So what is, to you guys in your experience, what is a bystander intervention training specifically? Susan Stone: Teaching people to intervene if they see a buddy who's drunk, making sure that the person gets home safely, reporting if you see something happening that's concerning to  Carly Boyd: you. I think those are very important trainings, because I think, I was thinking about this, these are still college students that are young. They all come to college with different experiences and backgrounds. And they may not have the tools. They may not have never drank before. They've never been in those situations to have those training, at least planted in their mind of what they would do when they see it. And I think having more of those trainings and exposing people to those methods is beneficial to everybody. Kristina Supler: I would agree. I guess as a parting, note, Carly, what would you, for our student listeners out there, what would you like them to know or hear going into, being at the beginning of this school year?  Carly Boyd: I think it's important for the students to know that people do care. These resolutions are put into place to protect their students and that people are listening and they have heard and that there is, people looking out for them. They want to know if there are issues. They want them to be safe and that you can be a college student, you can be in the Greek life and enjoy it and not feel pressure or feel unsafe.  Susan Stone: One of the many joys of being a partner at KJK and working with attorneys like you, Carly, is that you mix your professional experience working with families and your personal life, working with people, volunteering, hoping that there are better relationships, because really that's what you are. You build relationships and when they're ending, you make sure that they end in what I would call a respectful way.  So thank you, and thank you for being on our podcast and enjoying a little student athlete defense time. Kristina Supler: Thanks Carly. Thanks for having me. 

SMV6: Refinery Ventures Managing Partner Tim Schigel shares how he found “Lightning in a Bottle” and hit $50M in revenues in 4 years at ShareThis.This episode of the SmartMoney Ventures Podcast features Tim Schigel, Founder and Managing Partner of Refinery Ventures who invests in early stage companies based on his own experience as Founder of ShareThis, where they hit $50M of revenues in 4 years.  Also as an investor in Advertising.com, they achieved $150M in revenues in year 5.  The story illustrates the immense value of having hands-on experience working in a company with an extremely rapid growth trajectory.  It can be a bumpy ride, but once you've experienced it, you'll never go back.  Tim Schigel is the Founder of ShareThis, Founding Board Member of Cintrifuse, a fund of funds, and Founder & Managing Partner of Refinery Ventures.  He is a recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award.  Tim has invested in many successful companies including dotloop (acquired by Zillow), Advertising.com & Third Screen Media (both acquired by AOL/Time Warner), and BuzzMetrics (acquired by Nielsen). Tim holds a Bachelors of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and serves on the Advisory Board of The Institute for Management & Engineering (TiME) at Case Western.  

I had a Russell Case on the podcast today. I'm such a fan of his artwork. He captures the Southwest in a way that few others do. In this podcast, we delve into what it means to paint and how he tries to paint like how a musician makes music, which is a very interesting concept to me. We cover the struggles that he had to go through to get where is today and how all of these experiences, while difficult, made him a better artist.Russell will be the first to tell you that it doesn't happen overnight. We had a long discussion about what it takes to become a professional artist. I think Russell's words in this podcast are valuable to painters of all skill levels and I enjoyed it a lot. Russell Case on episode 251 of Art Dealer Diaries Podcast.

In this episode, Katie Reynolds, Director of Data Management, Analytics, and Visualization at Case Western Reserve University draws on her experience with building a data community across various universities to underscore the importance of data governance amidst extensive regulatory requirements.As we explore the rapid evolution of technology and AI, and the pivotal role of data governance communities in expediting the journey towards effective data governance in higher education, Katie's journey highlights the power of shared experiences, from success stories to challenges, and the insights gleaned from interacting with other universities. Three reasons you should listen to this episode:Grasp the complex dynamics and importance of establishing a data community in higher education, and the integral role of data governance in this context.Learn about the transformative power of data governance communities in propelling the journey towards effective data governance in higher education.Gain insights into the rapid advancements in technology and AI and their implications for the future of data governance.ResourcesConnect with Katie on LinkedinEnjoyed this Episode?Be sure to follow us so you never miss an update. You can leave us a review on Apple or Spotify, and share it with your friends and colleagues to help others learn more about the importance of a data-first digital transformation approach.Have questions? You can connect with us on LinkedIn. For more updates, please visit our website.

Show Notes: Ruth Hertzman-Miller, a member of the Harvard and Radcliffe class of 1992, graduated with a degree in biology and went on to a career in medicine, completing a residency in internal medicine at Cambridge City Hospital and a fellowship in health services research in Los Angeles. After returning to the Boston area, she worked as a physician at Cambridge Health Alliance and then at NewBridge, a retirement community. Ruth discussed her journey since graduating, reflecting on the unexpected twists and turns it has taken. Ruth made the difficult decision to switch from medicine to music four or five years ago. She took catch up courses at a conservatory in Boston and is now doing a master's in composition. Ruth is a pianist and choral singer and was inspired to pursue music again when her seven year old daughter joined North Cambridge Family Opera. An Education and Career in Medicine She didn't know what she wanted to do with her life when she went to college, but her dad and grandfather were both psychiatrists, so she figured she'd take some premed courses and see what happened since she liked science and helping people, but she also got to take electives in other subjects like music. In medical school at Case Western, she was interested in the clinical aspects of the program where she was assigned to a pregnant woman and followed her through delivery and the baby's first year of life, but along the way, she had many doubts about how much she wanted to be in the program.  At the end of her internship year, she went to her residency director and was considering quitting, but he talked her into staying.  Balancing Family Life and Work After the birth of her first child, she found it difficult to focus on both the intense schedule of work and study and family, but she finished her master's and eventually made the decision to pursue a master's in music and wrap up her medical career. Ruth balanced work and motherhood for many decades. Initially, she worked at Cambridge Health Alliance and then various medical but non-clinical jobs such as the Joslin Diabetes Clinic and the Hearst Company, and then at EBSCO Publishing. While she was in non-clinical positions, she worked clinically one day a week at Cambridge Health Alliance and then at various sites within Hebrew Rehab, finally landing at the NewBridge retirement community. When she decided to cut down on her work and dedicate more time to music, she kept her one day a week job at Hebrew Rehab and started studying for a certificate in music. Studying Musical Composition and Theory Ruth discusses her experience studying composition and writing music and what was included in  the coursework. As a composer, she is interested in exploring the form of music. She studies what has been done in the past, the many options and choices available, and considers how she can create something new. She refers to Mozart and Haydn, who approached their compositions differently and how they did so. Ruth is not expecting to make a professional career out of her work, as it is difficult for a composer to make money, but instead, is more interested in exploring new forms and having her work performed. Video game music and film music are some of the biggest markets for composers; however, Ruth is not particularly interested in these areas. She is more interested in writing for small ensembles such as string quartets, for which she can find performers without much difficulty. She also talks about the place of AI in composing music, and how it can provide inspiration but needs human intervention to create a finished product.  The Creative Process of Composing Music When asked if composing music feels three-dimensional, or if it has different mental qualities, Ruth answers that this is subjective and depends on the individual, but it is likely that the experience of composing music entails a combination of physical and mental elements. It requires both the ability to think in abstract terms, as well as the creative ability to visualize and construct musical ideas. It is a process that is both intuitive and analytical, where the creative elements of music are balanced with the technical aspects of composition. Ruth talks about the creative process behind composition. She explains that she typically has a broad idea, such as writing a piano piece with two players starting at opposite ends of the piano, and then breaks it down into smaller details such as melody and harmony. She then works on generating variations on the material and figuring out the logical progression of the piece. She explains that she usually isn't trying to express something that can be explained in words, but rather it is usually a feeling or an exploration of the music itself. She uses the example of a recent project to explain the process. Ruth also  talks about conveying emotions through music. For some pieces of music, the goal is to introduce the theme to the audience and have them understand it through the different changes in the music. At the opposite end of this, there is writing an opera scene where the focus is more on portraying the emotions. Professors and Courses of Influence Favorite professors and courses from Harvard include Luise Vosgerchian's course on the Development of the String Quartet and John Stewart's course on Introductory Music Theory. She also talks about her more recent professor, Lyle Davidson, who happens to be in the same tradition of Luise Vosgerchian. Other favorite courses include Biology of Fishes with Karel Liem, Scientific Ethics with George Whitesides, Moral Reasoning with Thomas Scanlon, and Marjorie Garber on Shakespeare. Timestamps: 01:41 Pursuing Music After a Career in Medicine  05:19 Motivation and Commitment During Medical School  09:57 Medical Training and Fellowship  16:28 The Process of Studying Composition  20:28 Composing and Making a Career in Music 25:32 Reading and Generative AI in Music Composition  28:03 Exploring the Creative Process of Composing Music 36:05 Music Study and Harvard College Professors  Links: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ruthhertzman-miller3349/videos

Lay of The Land's conversation today is with Artur Grabowski — co-founder of Extendify.Artur emigrated from Poland to the Cleveland area at the age of 8 — where he later attended Case Western and got exposure working both with a hardware measurement instruments company and a Silicon Valley software startup that later became a unicorn. Artur then transitioned to the business world working with KeyBank's investment banking team in Cleveland and with the startup ecosystem while at Silicon Valley Bank in the Bay Area. After completing an MBA at the University of Chicago, Artur returned to San Francisco to join Adobe where he lead acquisitions and investments, and launched Adobe's early-stage investments through the Fund for Design. Artur then returned to Cleveland and joined Automattic, the company behind WordPress, to lead acquisitions, investments, and strategic initiatives.Most recently, in 2019 — and where we'll spend most of our conversation today — Artur left Automattic to co-found Extendify where they are a mission to help web hosting companies deliver delightful WordPress experiences and has since raised venture capital in support of this mission, with the initial investment led by Village Global, and subsequent investment from a variety of angel and strategic investors, including his former company, Automattic.WordPress powers an almost unbelievable 43% of websites on the internet today and Artur is set on supporting those in this goliath ecosystem! Artur has great perspective on the landscape of the internet, building a fully remote company before it was the popular thing to do so, venture, and I feel has a refreshing and unique take on many aspects of the entrepreneurial journey — please enjoy my conversation with Artur Grabowski!--Learn more about ExtendifyConnect with Artur Grabowski on LinkedInFollow Artur Grabowski on Twitter @arturgrabo--Connect with Jeffrey Stern on LinkedInFollow Jeffrey Stern on Twitter @sternJefeFollow Lay of The Land on Twitter @podlayofthelandhttps://www.jeffreys.page/

This week, Joshua Holland looks at how the madness that's taken root among House Republicans may prove to be a decisive advantage for the Biden team. The Max Burns joins us to talk about how Elon Musk's capricious, conspiracy-driven mismanagement of Twitter is the best thing to ever happen to advocates of greater transparency on giant tech platforms--and how Musk is about to run headlong into even more problems as his user base declines and regulators around the world sharpen their tools.Then epidemiologist Stephanie Langel, who teaches at Case Western, helps us understand whether we can just wish an end to a deadly and exhausting pandemic that continues to kill thousands of Americans each week. PlaylistBryan Paul Bell: "Devil's Gotta Dance"The Ting Tings: "That's Not My Name"Snoop Dogg: "My Medicine"

Welcome to Episode 110 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball. It's time to talk about the Mideast Region, now known as Region 7 and home to some of the best teams in the nation. In order: AMCC (at 2:40) Mount Aloysius looks to defend their title with one of the best two-way players in the entire region Penn-State Behrend has a deep staff and a solid offense that should challenge the Mounties for the title again La Roche what happened?!?!?! MIAA (at 10:10) THE OLDEST CONFERENCE IN AMERICAN COLLEGIATE ATHLETICS finally has some real competition at the top, with Hope and Kalamazoo now legitimately challenging Adrian who ran the show for over a decade NCAC (at 19:20) Denison has a ton to replace but still looks capable of being a legit regional contender Wooster also lost a lot to graduation but the offense should be elite once again Wittenberg continues to ascend and should be in the mix at the top of this conference sooner rather than later OAC (at 32:18) Marietta just had one of the most dominant seasons in D-III history and now has to replace almost the entire lineup; good thing the entire rotation is back! Baldwin Wallace is loaded again and may be primed for another World Series run The rest of this conference has seen some serious shuffling recently making it very difficult to know who the next batch of teams will be pushing for spots in the conference tournament PAC (at 46:20) Washington & Jefferson continues to be the class of this conference don't you dare sleep on Grove City, though!!! Allegheny comes in from the NCAC and should compete right away LET'S TALK ABOUT WAYNESBURG ALUM MASON MILLER UAA (at 58:50) Case Western has some extremely exciting young talent and has most of the offense back; they should challenge for another UAA title and have a great chance to get back to the postseason We conclude (at 1:03:00) with our player and pitcher of the year picks, and our teams to beat. Then we say goodbye.  Follow us on Twitter @d3baseballpod (DMs are open if you want to reach us there) and @CespedesBBQ.  Send us your best D-III stories or any other comments or questions to thed3baseballpodcast@gmail.com Subscribe + rate/review on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-podcast-about-division-iii-baseball/id1342691759  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uk8q4iUrMUZRriKM1Akfx?si=b6820eb311f847f1  Support us on Patreon -- this will never be behind a paywall but we appreciate any support to help cover our podcasting hosting fees and all the hours we put into making these pods possible! https://patreon.com/user?u=87461961&utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=join_link 

Admiral Mike “Nasty” Manazir is a veteran Top Gun fighter pilot, a U.S. Aircraft Carrier Captain, and a two-star admiral (USN, Ret.). He's written a terrific book on leadership: “Learn How To Lead To Win” which Hugh inhaled and got the admiral to discuss at length both on-air and off this AM. Listen to it all. Plus, law professors of Left and Right — UT's Steve Vladeck and Case Western's Jonathan Adler joined Hugh to discuss #GarageGate as did Punchbowl's Jake Sherman, Axios' Josh Kraushaar, and USA Today's Francesca Chambers. BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/Learn-How-Lead-Win-Leadership/dp/B0BRZ7DWS8See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Videos: 6 minutes ago : Elon Musk Shared Terrifying Message (8:39) You're Not Going To Believe This! | Mark Steyn & Eva Vlaardingerbroek (3:03) Tulsi Gabbard News Live/ Tulsi Shares The True Reason Of Her Exit (3:13) Neil Oliver – ‘…it's a toxic hell…' (START @ 9:00) So THIS is how they plan to screw these companies, from inside out | Redacted with Clayton Morris (2:48)   Pomegranate juice found to combat systemic inflammation throughout the body University of Bologna (Italy) & University of Auckland (New Zealand), November 18, 2022 The researchers from the University of Bologna and the University of Auckland looked at the effects of the juice of the pomegranate in particular, which has already been shown to help conditions like diabetes, atherosclerosis and prostate cancer. Chronic inflammation, a response by the body to infection and tissue damage, has been linked to the development of disorders such as inflammatory bowel disease, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and psoriasis. After analyzing an extensive number of existing studies on pomegranate, they found plenty of evidence that shows pomegranate juice can indeed help inflammation-related diseases, although they pointed out that a definitive relationship has not been officially established. Most of the scientific research on pomegranate's health benefits has been carried out on cell culture or animal models, they point out, and clinical trials with humans are generally lacking. They found that pomegranate seems to show the most promise in fighting cardiovascular diseases, metabolic syndrome and diabetes, but the researchers urge care, calling on further studies to determine its specific effects and explain why the fruit juice seems to help chronic inflammatory diseases. A Case Western study published in the Journal of Inflammation, for example, found that the extract of pomegranate significantly inhibited the buildup of damaging proteins associated with Alzheimer's disease by as much as a half. This effect is being attributed to its ability to protect against the oxidative stress that leads to beta-amyloid deposits. Researchers have also demonstrated its potential to help those with prostate, colon and breast cancer. In studies where tumor cells were treated with pomegranate, cell migration dropped and the cancer was stopped from spreading to other areas of the body. Pomegranate juice came out on top in a study of beverages known for their antioxidant content carried out by the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of California – Los Angeles's David Geffen School of Medicine. While all of the beverages examined – blueberry juice, acai berry juice, green tea, white tea, Concord grape juice, orange juice, pomegranate juice and red wine, had impressive amounts of antioxidants, pomegranate juice outperformed them all when it came to polyphenols and protective benefits. Its antioxidant potency composite index was a full 20 percent higher than any of the other drinks that were put through the rigorous testing. (NEXT) Handful of walnuts daily cuts risk of asthma University of North's Carolina, November 20, 2022 Here's another reason for you to eat more walnuts as a type of vitamin E, found in these nuts, may prevent the risk of asthma attacks by reducing airway inflammation. According to researchers, sufferers of a common breathing condition, taking it as part of the study, were also found to have less sticky mucus in their lungs. Gamma-tocopherol is a major form of vitamin E, which is abundant in nuts like walnuts and pecans and in the legume peanut, as well as seed oils such as corn, soybean and sesame. Senior study author Professor Michelle Hernandez from the University of North's Carolina school of medicine said epidemiologic data suggested that people with high amounts of vitamin E in their diet were less prone to asthma and allergic disease. The team randomly analysed participants into two groups, one that received gamma tocopherol supplement and other that received a placebo for two weeks. After a three-week period break, the findings indicated that when people were taking the vitamin E supplement, they had less eosinophilic inflammation. In addition, those who were taking vitamin E were also found to have lower levels of proteins called mucins, which affect the stickiness of mucus. Mucins are often elevated in asthmatics. (NEXT) Using vapes may set the stage for dental decay Tufts University, November 23, 2022 A vaping habit could end up leading to a tarnished smile, and more frequent visits to the dentist. Research by faculty from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine found patients who said they used vaping devices were more likely to have a higher risk of developing cavities. With CDC surveys reporting that 9.1 million American adults—and 2 million teenagers—use tobacco-based vaping products, that means a lot of vulnerable teeth. The findings of this study on the association between vaping and risk of caries—the dental term for cavities—serve as an alert that this once seemingly harmless habit may be very detrimental, says Karina Irusa, assistant professor of comprehensive care and lead author on the paper. The study was published in The Journal of the American Dental Association. Irusa says that the recent Tufts finding may be just a hint of the damage vaping causes to the mouth. “The extent of the effects on dental health, specifically on dental decay, are still relatively unknown,” she says. “At this point, I'm just trying to raise awareness,” among both dentists and patients. This study, Irusa says, is the first known specifically to investigate the association of vaping and e-cigarettes with the increased risk for getting cavities. She and her colleagues analyzed data from more than 13,000 patients older than 16 who were treated at Tufts dental clinics from 2019-2022. While the vast majority of the patients said they did not use vapes, there was a statistically significant difference in dental caries risk levels between the e-cigarette/vaping group and the control group, Irusa found. Some 79% of the vaping patients were categorized as having high-caries risk, compared to just about 60% of the control group. The vaping patients were not asked whether they used devices that contained nicotine or THC, although nicotine is more common. It's also been observed that vaping seems to encourage decay in areas where it usually doesn't occur—such as the bottom edges of front teeth. “It takes an aesthetic toll,” Irusa says. (NEXT) Study finds link between foods scored higher by new nutrient profiling system and better long-term health outcomes Tufts University, November 22, 2022 The idea that what we eat directly affects our health is ancient; Hippocrates recognized this as far back as 400 B.C. But, identifying healthier foods in the supermarket aisle and on restaurant menus is increasingly challenging. Now, researchers at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts have shown that a holistic food profiling system, Food Compass, identifies better overall health and lower risk for mortality. In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers assessed whether adults who ate more foods with higher Food Compass scores had better long-term health outcomes and found that they did. Introduced in 2021, Food Compass provides a holistic measure of the overall nutritional value of a food, beverage, or mixed meal. It measures nine domains of each item, such as nutrient ratios, food-based ingredients, vitamins, minerals, extent of processing, and additives. Based on scores of 10,000 commonly consumed products in the U.S., researchers recommend foods with scores of 70 or above as foods to encourage; foods with scores of 31-69 to be eaten in moderation; and anything that scores 30 or below to be consumed sparingly. For this new study, Food Compass was used to score a person's entire diet, based on the Food Compass scores of all the foods and beverages they regularly consume. For this validation study, researchers used nationally representative dietary records and health data from 47,999 U.S. adults aged 20-85 who were enrolled between 1999-2018 in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Deaths were determined through linkage with the National Death Index (NDI). Overall, researchers found that the mean Food Compass score for the diets of the nearly 50,000 subjects was only 35.5 out of 100, well below ideal. “One of the most alarming discoveries was just how poor the national average diet is,” said O'Hearn. “This is a call for actions to improve diet quality in the United States.” A higher Food Compass diet score was associated with lower blood pressure, blood sugar, blood cholesterol, body mass index, and hemoglobin A1c levels; and lower prevalence of metabolic syndrome and cancer. A higher Food Compass diet score was also associated with lower risk of mortality: for each 10-point increase, there was a 7 percent lower risk of death from all causes. Food Compass also boosts scores for ingredients shown to have protective effects on health, like fruits, non-starchy vegetables, beans and legumes, whole grains, nuts and seeds, seafood, yogurt, and plant oils; and lowers scores for less healthful ingredients like refined grains, red and processed meat, and ultra-processed foods and additives. “We know Food Compass is not perfect,” said Mozaffarian. “But, it provides a more comprehensive, holistic rating of a food's nutritional value than existing systems, and these new findings support its validity by showing it predicts better health.” (NEXT) Acupuncture can relieve lower back and pelvic pain often experienced during pregnancy Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, November 21, 2022 Acupuncture can significantly relieve the lower back and/or pelvic pain frequently experienced by women during their pregnancy, suggests a pooled data analysis of the available evidence, published in BMJ Open. And there were no observable major side effects for newborns whose moms opted for the therapy, the findings indicate, although only a few of the published studies included in the analysis evaluated outcomes, such as premature birth, note the researchers. To add to the evidence base, the researchers trawled research databases for relevant clinical trials that compared the pain relief afforded to pregnant womengiven acupuncture, alone or when combined with other therapies, with other/no/dummy treatments, as well as the potential impact on their newborns. The final analysis included 10 randomized controlled trials, involving 1,040 women. Every study was published between 2000 and 2020, and carried out variously in Sweden, the UK, the U.S., Spain and Brazil. The moms-to-be were all healthy, 17 to 30 weeks into their pregnancy on average, and had lower back and/or pelvic pain. Pooled data analysis of the trial results for nine studies suggested that acupuncture significantly relieved pain during pregnancy. Four of those studies reported on the potential of acupuncture to restore physical function, and the results showed that this was significantly improved. Quality of life was recorded in five studies. When the results of these were pooled, the findings suggested that acupuncture significantly improved this too. Pooled data analysis of four studies indicated that there was a significant difference in overall effects when acupuncture was compared with other or no interventions. The researchers conclude that acupuncture merits closer attention for its potential to ease pain at a time when it's preferable to avoid drugs because of their potential side effects for mother and baby. (NEXT) 6 Health Benefits Of Rutin, And Where To Find It GreenMedInfo, November 24, 2022 Rutin is an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory powerhouse found in a variety of delicious food that may boost your health via multiple avenues, from promoting healthy circulation to providing pain relief. Rutin is one of about 4,000 types of flavonoids that are found abundantly in plants. Also known as rutoside and vitamin P, rutin is a flavonol that acts as an active constituent in tea leaves, apples, buckwheat, most citrus fruits and passion flower, for example, with nutraceutical effects that have been valued since ancient times. Medicinal plant compounds often have a range of biological activities that are both impressive and varied. Rutin is no exception, with a number of pharmacological activities that include: Six Top Reasons to Try Rutin Rutin is perhaps best known for its ability to ward off oxidative stress via potent antioxidant properties. This makes it valuable in a number of disease conditions and even as a tool for healthy aging. Rutin, for instance, reduces skin aging by strengthening dermal density and elasticity, and is found in more than 130 registered therapeutic medicinal preparations. GreenMedInfo.com has additionally compiled nearly 70 pharmacological actions related to rutin, along with 136 diseases that it may be useful for. Some of its top health benefits follow. Protection From Neurodegenerative Disease Rutin has demonstrated benefits to the central nervous system, including prevention of neuroinflammation, anticonvulsant activity and antidepressant effects. Rutin may be useful for recovery after stroke and also shows promise for Alzheimer's disease. With an ability to cross the blood-brain barrier, rutin may benefit the cognitive and behavioral symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases and helps to remove the inflammatory component of neurodegeneration. Relieve Arthritis Pain Rutin not only has analgesic and antinociceptive effects but also antiarthritic effects, making it an ideal natural option for arthritis.The plant compound has been found to suppress oxidative stress in people with rheumatoid arthritis,while also inhibiting both the acute and chronic phases of inflammation in an arthritis rat model. Antidiabetic Effects Rutin has beneficial effects on the endocrine system, including antidiabetic and anti-hypercholesterolemic effects. Rutin helps fight diabetes by decreasing carbohydrates absorption from the small intestine, increasing the uptake of glucose into tissues and stimulating the secretion of insulin from beta cells, leading to antihyperglycemic effects as well as protection against the development of diabetic complications. Rutin is also useful for protecting against age-related metabolic dysfunction, with research suggesting it inhibits age-related mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress, as well as endoplasmic reticulum, or ER, stress, which is related to proteins that are not properly folded. Promote Healthy Circulation and Reduce Blood Clots Consuming rutin, either from foods or supplements, may be an effective way to block the formation of blood clots. Research by Harvard Medical School researchers suggests that rutin is effective against both platelet-rich clots that form in arteries and fibrin-rich clots that form in veins. Rutin was found to be a “champion compound” for inhibiting protein disulfide isomerase (PDI), which plays a role in the initial stages of clot formation. A nano-formulation of rutin was also found to exert powerful antithrombotic effects by inhibiting PDI,while rutin may also augment the production of nitric oxide in human endothelial cells, which is useful for blood pressure and cardiovascular system health. In terms of improved circulation, rutin is a venoactive compound, which means it may be useful for symptoms of chronic venous diseases (CVD). The compound has been demonstrated to reduce severity of lower leg pain, leg cramps, heaviness and itching, as well as edema (swelling), in people with CVD. Anticancer Effects Rutin's anticancer properties have been extensively studied. In human leukemia cells, rutin led to a significant reduction in tumor size, and it's known to inhibit cancer cell growth by cell cycle arrest and apoptosis. It also inhibits proliferation and metastasis of colorectal cancer cell lines and shows promise for use in ovarian and color cancers, as well as neuroblastoma. Support Gastrointestinal Health Rutin has antiulcer effects, as it inhibits the gastric proton pump that sends acid to your stomach. It also has potential against inflammatory bowel disease, not only due to its antioxidant effects but also by suppressing the release of proinflammatory mediators and the expression of inflammatory proteins. Top Sources of Rutin As noted in the Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal, “An ancient saying ‘an apple a day, keeps doctor away' seems to be true as rutin, one of the important constituents of apples, has a wide array of biological activities.”

On this episode of THE SETH WILLIAMS SHOW W/MIKE CHESELKA, local author and radio personality TOM KELLY along with local attorney and Case Western grad Will Spiegelberg join Seth and Mike for a lively and spirited debate coinciding with the 59th anniversary of the John F. Kennedy assassination. Tom Kelly hosts a show on 1420am THE ANSWER, Will Spiegelberg has debated President Kennedy's assassination at numerous high schools and colleges all across Ohio. Don't forget to pick up your t-shirts as well. www.thesethwilliamsshow.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/cmspn/message

It's Election Week in America -- the perfect time for our first no-holds-barred debate...(0:00:01) Introduction. Spencer goes door to door in Reno. Justin stumps for the Scripties.  Click here to vote! Voting closes Sunday at midnight, and the winners will be announced next week. (0:05:44)  The Break. Results from Quinnipiac's Criminal Competition and Loyola's National Civil Trial Competition. Can Spencer get Justin to take some truth serum?  (0:10:11) Preview - All Star Finals.  Liz Boals tells us when she first felt at home at Stetson, what she has planned for EATS, and why she has so many jumper cables in her office. (0:24:59) Preview - Case Classic with Lauren Tuttle. Did you know Case Western finished 5th in the 2022 Gavel Rankings? That they just did their first Fall external tournament? Or that they enter five teams in their competition?  (0:33:34) The Debate. Whose rankings are better, Fordham's TCPR or  Hofstra 's Gavel Rankings? We let Adam Shlahet and Jared Rosenblatt settle this in the only appropriate format: a trial. (1:12:19) Here's Some Advice. Spencer goes below the belt.

Lung cancer research is often centered at large, urban academic medical centers. But what research and treatment options are available for those patients with lung cancer who live in rural areas? In this episode of Lung Cancer Considered, host Dr. Narjust Florez discusses the state of rural lung cancer care and research with Dr. Debora Bruno, a thoracic medical oncologist at Case Western in Cleveland. Dr. Bruno worked in rural Nebraska for three years after the completion of her fellowship where she was able to help establish a multi-disciplinary clinic for patients with lung cancer. Also participating in the podcast is Dr. Gabrielle Rocque, associate professor of medicine at the O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama. Dr. Rocque has a strong interest in the interface between community oncology practices and academia.

We talked with Professor Hamid Charkhkar from Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland VA Medical Center and Anna Smith, a former Case Western student and research assistant in Professor Charkhkar's neuroprosthesis group. We discussed the importance of being open to feedback from all stakeholders for human-centered research, how to translate that into holistic treatment strategies personalized to individual users, and about the impactful neuroprostheses that integrate sensory abilities being developed by Hamid's lab. Anna highlights her experience learning that “I don't know” is a valid answer in research while Hamid reminds us that things not going according to plan is an expectation in human research. Connect with Hamid! Hamid's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charkhkar/ Hamid's Profile: https://www.aptcenter.research.va.gov/staff/investigators/charkhkar/ Connect with Anna! Anna's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aks174/ Connect with BOOM! Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook: @biomechanicsonourminds LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/biomechanicsoom/ YouTube: Biomechanics On Our Minds Website and shop: biomechanicsonourminds.com Resources Bit of BOOM: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-021-00966-9

On this episode of Free Range, Mike Livermore speaks with Jonathan Adler, a law professor at Case Western who writes on environmental law, federalism, and regulation. In 2020, Brookings Institution Press published Adler's edited Marijuana Federalism: Uncle Sam and Mary Jane. Livermore and Adler begin their discussion on the topic of federalism and environmental law. Generally, Adler highlights sees the federal government as best focused on transboundary issues while states focus on issues with more localized impacts (00:49 - 02:50). Adler lists several benefits of states as venues for environmental policymaking, including variation in geography, economics, and industry as well as differences in values (02:50 - 04:35). He also highlights the value of experimentation in this regard (04:35 - 05:30). Alder also notes the distinction between decentralization as a policy matter and decentralization as a legal matter (05:30 - 06:56). Livermore notes the large role played by the federal government under existing law for locally oriented pollution. Adler offers some thoughts on the origins of this situation, mentioning the lack of jurisdictional thought when statues were passed as well as the deserved skepticism towards state and local governments as a result of the Civil Rights Movement (06:56 - 10:37). Adler hopes that today's states are different from those in the 60s and 70s (10:37 - 10:52). Adler offers some suggestions for policy reform (12:50 - 16:35) and the two discuss potential political barriers (16:35 - 21:47). Livermore introduces a discussion about injustice and public choice failure at the state level. He mentions our renewed emphasis on environmental justice issues, and Adler argues that while states can fail, so can the federal government (21:47 - 32:40). Adler and Livermore turn to experimentation and state variation (32:40 - 42:01). Livermore notes his view that the Brandeisian idea of “laboratories of democracy” is inapt; that a better way to view this process is as innovation. Adler agrees with the concept of innovation and discovery, emphasizing the discovery side. It's not experimentation in the sense that it is controlled, it is rather a discovery and learning process as a result of variation and observation (42:01 - 48:06). Livermore requests Adler's thoughts on federalism versus localism and decentralization more broadly. Adler responds with the idea that different communities have different priorities; there is no one size fits all. He mentions that when local communities are given autonomy and control, they often discover and innovate in ways that have important environmental benefits. In terms of legality, the extent to which this is viable varies from state to state (48:06 - 53:36). Livermore and Adler return to the earlier, more legal discussion around litigation over climate damages. Livermore explains a recent Second Circuit decision which led to a preemption-like result, asking Adler to discuss the stakes of the difference between federal common law and state common law, displacement versus preemption, and his thoughts on the Second Circuit decision. Adler argues that, although from a policy perspective, climate change is better suited to national rather than state or local solutions, from a legal perspective, the Second Circuit's holding that these suits were preempted was unjustified (53:36 - 1:02:34). The final question the two discuss is the intersection between environmental federalism and political polarization. Adler argues that principled federalism can help depolarize because it can lessen the stakes. Unnecessary centralization magnifies polarization. Adler is careful not to generalize, recognizing that there is no one answer that will solve everything. However, he states that if we can allow centralization and decentralization where they are most fit, we might be a few steps closer to arriving at agreement on environmental policy (1:02:34 - 1:07:52).

Robert Appel is a man of fine taste who enjoys music. He is a U of M Wolvervine who went to Case Western for his DMD and now practices as a dentist in Humble, Texas.  We talk about his journey to Texas and how he tries to find his niche in his area.  We discuss the fun of both firing employees and firing former practice owners.

In this episode of Real Talk, KJK Student Defense Attorneys Susan Stone and Kristina Supler are joined by Davida Amkraut, a College Consultant. They discuss test optional and test free methods of the college application process.  The conversation includes the advantages and disadvantages of test-optional and test blind college applications, the unspoken rules of navigating the obstacles of the college application process, and the best choices students can make to position themselves to build a stellar college application.   Links from this episode: Davida Amkraut: https://dha-edconsulting.com  Davida's Previous Interview:  https://studentdefense.kjk.com/2020/06/18/real-talk-podcast-covid-19-the-college-search/ Show Notes: The drastic change on the college admission process caused by the pandemic (01:11) Test optional versus test free: 2 terms that every American college applicant needs to know (02:12)  Why some colleges are reinstating test scores in their admission process, while the UC system and the Cal State system are maintaining  test free admission to address discrepancy (03:31) Using the ​​Common Data Set tool to determine whether or not you should submit your SAT scores to the college or university that you're applying for. (05:04) An unofficial list of universities that actually rely heavily on test scores of applicants (06:08) Why it is recommended for applicants to still take the ACT and SATs even if it's only the online simulation (08:22) When you should take the ACT over the SATs (08:56) Why taking the SATs is better for those who aren't confident in science (09:34) Digital SATs and why the college board is favoring this change as opposed to the paper and pen version (10:15) Controversy surrounding the shift to a digital SAT from the traditional testing (11:15) How students who opt for test free when applying to college fare among applicants who disclose their test scores (12:42) Why Advanced Placement (AP) classes are generally more advantageous than International Baccalaureate (IB) classes for college applicants (13:26) How meaningful extracurricular activities like sports can give your application a boost (14:26) Passion and authenticity are essential to becoming well-rounded students (16:42) Kristina Supler: Today's topic is the changing landscape with regard to standardized testing. We're here with Davida Amkraut who works with students on all aspects of the college application process. And for our listeners, you probably recognize Davida. She's been a guest before on Real Talk with Susan and Kristina.  Kristina Supler: Davida, we're so pleased to have you back today  Susan Stone: and you know what Davida, since you've moved, it's really fun seeing you on screen. We've really missed having you. So welcome back to our podcast.  Davida Amkraut: Thank you so much for having me again. It's a pleasure to be here.  Susan Stone: There's been a lot of changes with regard to the SAT and ACT. Can you get our listeners up to date? What are the hot issues and changes? And Just helpful tips that our listeners need to know for the, would it be rising juniors that really should pay attention or rising? Seniors or both.  Davida Amkraut: I would say both. And I say that since the pandemic, there has been huge shifts in the college admission process, largely because a huge population of the students were unable to test safely for their application season. Which led to many, many schools going test optional for the years following the pandemic. And that trend, some thought was going to be temporary. Davida Amkraut: And that, as soon as that, it was safe enough to test, test centers would open and colleges would revert back to their testing policies and things would just continue as normal. What we're seeing in the college admission world is that in fact, many schools are keeping that test optional.  Kristina Supler: Let me interrupt you. Kristina Supler: I apologize. But just for our listeners who are just new to the college journey with their children. Explain what it means for being test optional.  Susan Stone: Good question.  Davida Amkraut: Okay. So there are actually two different terms that our American applicants should know. The first one is test optional, which means that the student has the option to have their test scores considered. That means that they are able to include them in their application. If they want to. And they're also able to say no, this test score is not reflective of my academic potential and I don't want schools to have access to my scores. That's one option. There is also what we call the test blind or test free which has also taken off, which means that students don't have any option to submit scores. Davida Amkraut: They are, they are not going to be reviewed. And the University of California system and the Cal State system have now extended their test blind policy for a few more years,  Susan Stone: but you know what Davida,. I just have to talk to you about this because it appears. I just read an article to prepare for this podcast that the UC system has done a study and they actually think that they might consider going back to tests because they're finding that the overall caliber of students is lower and that the SATs are a good predictor of success. Have you read that study? .  Davida Amkraut: Well, there are a bunch of schools that are saying that, yes, this test is a predictor. MIT is one of those schools that actually has gone back to requiring test scores. They are saying that that helps them really understand the readiness of their students. Davida Amkraut: I think it really depends on who you're talking to. I think the real reason the UC system and the Cal State system went test blind is because of the equity issue. Because a lot of their population, there's a huge discrepancy between who can afford test prep and who can't. And the accessibility is not there for a lot of their population. Davida Amkraut: So that is one reason why that is such a big movement in the California area. Is that, and it's  Susan Stone: Can it stay that way. I mean, am I accurate in what I read about the UC system and the data that's come out of this decision? If you read that?  Davida Amkraut: Yeah, they've committed though. They have committed to the next year or two years to being test blind. Davida Amkraut: So they are not switching over any time soon in the next couple of cycles,  Susan Stone: If the test optional. Is it fair to say that for those schools that are test optional, that only students who get the 35 or 36. Or is the SAT still out of 1600 are going to submit their scores because, so it's sort of ridiculous. You're only going to see top scores.  Kristina Supler: And I would think an average score on the sat or act those students aren't going to submit it. Right. I mean, tell us what you see in your experience.  Davida Amkraut: So what you want most, what most families do and what most schools suggests and what most counselors suggests is that you go on the tool called a Common Data Set, which is something that colleges put out. They're required to put this out. And you go, and you look at the average SAT that of kids that were accepted to that said university or the average ACT and they will give you, the average. Davida Amkraut: And then you look, if your scores fall within that average, you should submit your scores. If they fall below the average, then that's your cue not to submit scores.  Kristina Supler: Isn't it? Isn't that a flag to the admissions officers to dismiss and score. It's probably below our average range.  Davida Amkraut: Yeah, they'll say that's below the average or it could also be that they couldn't test or there were other extenuating circumstances or that a student has test anxiety and they just started purchasing  Kristina Supler: Are they really having an open mind though, too, like the variability as to why students might not submit other than having a low score. Is that true?  Davida Amkraut: Well, I can speak to Johns Hopkins. So here, if you want some real data and Johns Hopkins is a very selective school or in the college world, we call it a highly rejective school. Davida Amkraut: They had half of their applicants in 2020 applied without test scores. Half of those admitted students came from the non submitter group. They accepted has without scores. Colgate the same thing. So it really depends on the school. Some schools are really, really test optional, which means that they do a holistic review. And some schools say they're test optional, but they prefer looking at scores, right. Davida Amkraut: They, like a school at Case Western reserve, they love scores, your, they love scores. And to them, they're very data driven school. And that's the word on the street. If you're applying to a school like Case. You're going to send, you need to submit scores. So it really depends on the institution. Davida Amkraut: I would say another school that is pretty authentically test-optional is Tufts. They sort of have the same statistics as Johns Hopkins. So it really, it's very, school-by-school a lot of schools, as you can imagine, don't really divulge all this data. Davida Amkraut: Because maybe they don't want to, but the schools that we have information on, we can see that half of the kids who do apply test optional are getting in test optional. My son is an example. He applied to all his schools test optional. He's a great student. He did terribly on his ACTs and that three hour test, I just didn't feel was a reflective of his potential. Davida Amkraut: And he got it to every single school he applied to. With distinguishment with, so I would say that scores are important, but you don't need them to set yourself apart in the admission process.  Kristina Supler: Sounds like you navigated him. Davida Amkraut: Well, yeah, he did great  Susan Stone: Davida before we transitioned to our next topic. Susan Stone: Cause I do want to leave space for what's coming for our listeners. Ultimately as someone in your position who shephards students through the process, do you still recommend that a student take a standardized test? If so, which one? And what are the differences?  Davida Amkraut: Okay. So I definitely recommend they give it a shot. Davida Amkraut: Right? I definitely recommend that. Then you don't have the should have, could have, would have, right. We, we never wanted the college admission process for there to be a doubt. Oh, I wish I would have at least tried to take that test. Maybe that would have, made the difference. Davida Amkraut: Take the test, try it out, try out both the act and the SATs. You don't even need to try them out in a real life situation. You can go online and you can sit for a test and then self in, and then you can then self score your yourself. And you can see which tests you've done better on.  Davida Amkraut: So the ACT versus the SAT is, oh, you know, a long standing difference. Act is notoriously known. If you are a fast test taker, which means that you can work well under pressure. That is the test for you. Right. It's a time task and it moves very, very quickly. And also as a test that doesn't necessarily test so much your analytical skills, but it tests, whether or not you can read for comprehension, if that makes sense. Susan Stone: Like an aptitude test, correct?  Davida Amkraut: Aptitude test  Davida Amkraut: Aptitude test like the LSAT yeah. Davida Amkraut: Correct. Correct. And also the ACT has a whole science section, which the SAT doesn't have. So if you're not, uh, like if you're not loving science, probably, that might be a sign for you to switch over to the SATs  Susan Stone: science section. Really a reading  Davida Amkraut: section. It's an interpreting more of data and graphs and information like that. Davida Amkraut: And if that's not your strong point, so some kids struggle with that also in a time situation, you might need that more time. I can move on to the sat, but. With the caveat that this whole sat is switching over to a digital format, right?  Davida Amkraut: Switching over to a digital format for our children, our students who are now current ninth graders. So if you have a child who is a current ninth grader, by the time they are taking tests in their junior and senior year, they are not no longer going to have a paper to pen edition. They are going to be completely digital. Davida Amkraut: The test will not be done at home. It will be done at a testing center. The college board is really pushing for it to be done in schools, not at testing centers and also during the day, so that schools could administer these these tests during the school day.  Davida Amkraut: The college board thinks that this is a great movement. And that it will eliminate a lot of things that were difficult with the paper to pen issue like shipping, like finding proctors, things like that. Many people in the test optional world who like really favor test optional, just say, this is a repackaging of a tool that is a two to three hour test. That is really not predictive of how a student is going to behave or learn in four years. Davida Amkraut: So. It's like again, and with everything there are debates and there are positives and there are negatives. Some students don't really work so well without paper to pen. Some students might not have some schools might not have access to enough internet to have these tests really support what they need to do in their schools. Davida Amkraut: So. It's going to be an interesting shift. And I think that your guess is as good as mine. Nobody really knows how it's going to take off. The first US debut of this will be in the PSA Ts in October of 2023. And then in 2024, the SAT is going completely digital.  Susan Stone: So basically my kids who are a little older, my last one is a sophomore rising junior won't be impacted. But Christina, yeah, this is your future. Kristina Supler: It was really interesting to see the impact of COVID on college admissions and visits and the testing. And I think as we continue on the changes are only going to continue. I'm wondering for students who elect not to take standardized tests for whatever reason, right? Kristina Supler: No judgment or who don't submit their scores. How do those students really stand out from the crowd of thousands and thousands of applicants to, to have their application pop?  Davida Amkraut: Right. So I like to think of the college admission process or the application as a stool. And you have different legs that support the seat of the stool. Davida Amkraut: So you have one leg is the rigor of curriculum that your child has taken advantage of, right? The school that they're applying to get to school profile, which says how many APs are offered, how many IBs are offered, what kind of scores those students have, whatever it is. Davida Amkraut: There's a school profile in the context of the school that your child attends, is he or she are they taking advantage of the rigor? Right? Is there, and  Susan Stone: I just wanted to run because I think this is important. You touched on it. Do colleges care. Cause I've heard many lectures on this aP v IB.  Davida Amkraut: So I will say some colleges prefer AP. I will say there are some I have had a lot of surprises with students who are very similar profile, but if they're an IB student versus an AP student, my AP students somehow always seem to have the advantage. That's my little sample. Like, I don't want to say that that's gospel, but that sort of, the trend that I notice but  Susan Stone: you know what, that's consistent with the school that my daughter attends that they chose to stay AP and they rejected IB because they noticed that you're a leg down from the AP kids. Davida Amkraut: Right. And I think also the curriculum for the IB is way more demanding and hard for schools to support. Right. And that's just also another piece to it. So I would say that one leg of the stool is that rigor curriculum. Another leg of the stool is your extracurricular activity. Davida Amkraut: What are the meaningful things that you're doing outside of the classroom. And when I say meaningful that aside from just sports. Right. Well, sports is a huge thing. I had a girl who was an equestrian and she literally had two activities cause there was no room in her day for another activity. If you're writing and you're, you know, working in the stables, that's about all you have. Davida Amkraut: When I say a meaningful activity, I'm saying that you don't belong to a club and you go once or twice. Right. Meaningful is that you are either assuming a leadership position you're seeing growth, whatever it looks like for each student. And I'm not going to argue, I'm not going to sit here and say that everybody has to be a president of a club. Davida Amkraut: And I think that's completely wrong because if we had a class filled with just presidents, it would be a terrible class because  Susan Stone: I want to make a caveat. And I want to see if you would agree with this. That when I went to a lecture once at a college on the admissions process. And basically what they said is, look, we have to fill our orchestra. Susan Stone: We have to fill our athletic teams. We have to fill our theater department. So let's say you have a student who is, I'm going to use equestrian, but they don't have a equestrian team. They might be more interested in that tuba player because they need a tuba player. Do you agree with that or disagree? Davida Amkraut: Totally agree with that. And I would imagine that that an equestrian probably is not going to apply to a school that doesn't have some sort of riding club or team. That's what I'm learning, but  Susan Stone: that's something that I feel very grateful in terms of the college planning process is that if you have a student who may want a broader college, that does not have an equestrian, then you say to that student in high school, you know, we that's great. Susan Stone: You want to do this, but you have to think about if you want to get into a different college what those colleges are looking for.  Davida Amkraut: Correct. And I also think for those students who, who like have that one interest, you can find things within your school day to do that sort of extends beyond the stables. Davida Amkraut: So I do think that colleges are looking for diversity, not only in ethnicity and race. They're also looking at diversity of interest as well. They want to see like the sort of well-rounded student. I also stress to my S my clients. You need to do what you love. You should not do something just because you think it's going to get you into college. Davida Amkraut: You have to still live your most authentic self. And I think that is really an important lesson for our youth. I mean, live your authentic self, but challenge yourself at the same time by joining new things. And that there's such a balance, strike that balance, but do it for the right reasons. Susan Stone: I'm going to give you one last question. And we will have to schedule you back cause we are not done with  Kristina Supler: college Devita,  Susan Stone: Do standardized test scores. Look, college is really expensive. Does it have any impact on scholarships?  Davida Amkraut: It used to be used as a metric to decide for merit pre pandemic. Davida Amkraut: They used to look at those SAT scores and these ACT scores and say, okay, I'm going to give this kid money. That has all shifted since the pandemic. And if schools are not, some schools might be using still the ACT and SATs, but most schools have migrated away from that in terms of their metrics.  Susan Stone: Oh, my gosh,  Kristina Supler: Davida, thank you so much for joining us today. It's been really wonderful chatting with you and again, such invaluable information for our listeners. So we'll have to do this again.  Davida Amkraut: All right. The pleasure was all mine, ladies. 

Today in the Big Chair... We have Adam Hutchinson! Listen as we discuss: Why he is into coaching?; having a Can-do vs Will Do attitude; Writing it as you go to make things easier; being Disciplined and Organized  ______________________________ Thanks for listening! Follow our host on Marlynn Jones, TheCareerSkillsArchitect on https://my.captivate.fm/dashboard/podcast/db7b0fcb-faf0-4ca7-bdec-6018fb02238e/LinkedIn,https://www.linkedin.com/company/career-skills-architect/ (LinkedIn,) https://facebook.com/careerskillsarchitect/ (Facebook), and https://www.instagram.com/mjones_careerskillsarchitect/ (Instagram). https://www.justeldredgemedia.com/ (This is a JustEldredge Media Production) ____________________________ Adam Hutchinson took the helm of Earlham Athletics on July 1, 2021, as the Quakers' new director of athletics. Hutchinson joined Earlham Athletics from Kean University, an NCAA Division III institution in Union, New Jersey. He has served as assistant director of athletics for internal operations and student-athlete development since October 2020. In that role, he coordinated and developed a comprehensive development program for over 400 student-athletes in the athletic department. In addition, he had oversight of diversity and inclusion initiatives for the department. Other duties included assisting with the oversight of internal business operations while developing policies and procedures that enhanced the academic success and graduation of every student-athlete.  While at Kean, Hutchinson also served as the athletics diversity and inclusion designee and was the point of communication between the NCAA national office, athletics department, the New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC), and campus with information around inclusive programs, emerging diversity issues and other related equity initiatives that needed to be shared or addressed. Hutchinson was the head men's basketball coach at Kean from October 2018 to August 2020. Hutchinson arrived at Kean before the 2018-19 season after working at Amherst College, Washington & Lee University, Case Western Reserve University, and Stevens Institute of Technology. At Amherst, he was an assistant men's basketball coach for one season with the Mammoths. Hutchinson's defense finished the season ranked No. 1 in Division III in defensive field goal percentage. Before Amherst, Hutchinson was the head men's basketball coach at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, for 14 seasons (2003-2017). During his time with the Generals, he became the second-winningest coach in program history with 154 victories and reached the ODAC title game in 2009 and the semifinals in 2014 and 2017. In 2008, he was named both the ODAC Coach of the Year and the VaSID College Division Coach of the Year. His tenure also saw losing streaks to Randolph-Macon College and Roanoke College snapped. He also had the reins for two seasons at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland (2001-2003) and Stevens Institute of Technology (1999-2001). With the Spartans of Case Western, he recruited two multiple-time All-UAA selections and the school's all-time leading scorer and rebounder. With the Ducks, the team saw improvements in wins and a third-place finish in the Skyline. A 1993 graduate of Amherst College, he played from 1989 to 1993 and earned a bachelor of arts degree in Black Studies. He earned his master of science in sports management from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst after receiving an NCAA Graduate Scholarship for Careers in Athletics (only eight awarded each year nationally based on distinction earned as an undergraduate).  Hutchinson earned a graduate certificate in Diversity & Inclusion from Cornell University in February 2020 and has been a guest speaker at the NCAA Division III Institute for Administrative Advancement since 2019. Born and raised in the Garden State, Hutchinson graduated...

This week, Dr. Jason Powers is joined by George Youngblood, LCDC, ADCIII, CCS. George is the Chief Executive Officer at Teen and Family Services and the founding Board Chairman of the Association of Alternative Peer Groups. He has been successfully counseling adolescents and families for over twenty years and will celebrate 30 years of uninterrupted sobriety.    George has provided training for the staff of several local school districts, including Spring Branch ISD, Katy ISD, and Houston ISD. He has provided outcome research for Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Health Science Center. He has also been a guest lecturer at Case Western, University of Texas, Texas Tech, and St. Thomas Universities.    George has had frequent appearances with local media to educate the community on issues related to substance abuse and other addictive behaviors. He has also trained hundreds of counselors and other mental health professionals on adolescent-specific counseling approaches. George received the 2012 Addiction Professional of the Year and Member of the Year awards from the Houston Chapter of the National Association of Addiction Professionals in 2013.   Click here to learn more about TAFS or purchase tickets to TAFS's 7th Annual Spring Luncheon Fundraiser https://www.teenandfamilyservices.org/events/spring-breakfast-2020    Topics Discussed: Why community is essential for Long-Term Recovery  Building relationships through shared experiences  How past survivor mechanisms become our Future Strengths  The importance of focusing on “Whole Health”   Connect with Positive Recovery Centers Online:   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/positiverecoverycenters/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PositiveRecoveryCenters/  Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/577870242872032  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/positiverecoverycenters/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/positiverecoverycenters/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4JcDF1gjlYch4V4iBbCgZg    Contact Positive Recovery Centers:   If you or someone you know needs help, visit the website, or call the number below to schedule an assessment. We are here to help.    Call: 877-476-2743 Address: 902 West Alabama Street Houston, Texas 77006 Website: https://positiverecovery.com  Services: https://positiverecovery.com/services/  FAQ: https://positiverecovery.com/faq/  ---  About Positive Recovery MD Podcast:   The Positive Recovery MD podcast is hosted by Dr. Jason Powers, Addiction Medicine Specialist and creator of Positive Recovery.    This podcast will not only inspire and motivate its listeners, but it will also provide the tools and foundation needed to thrive and flourish on their addiction recovery journey. Each week the Positive Recovery MD podcast community will come together to have authentic conversations around addiction, Recovery, and what matters – growth & progress, not perfection, all while developing positive habits for your life.    To join the community, visit https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/OtK48nO/dailypositiverecovery to sign up to receive the daily Positive Intervention that we'll review and gain access to EXCLUSIVE Positive Recovery content available only to Positive Recovery MD listeners.   About Positive Recovery Centers:   Positive Recovery Centers is a strengths-based addiction treatment program with locations across Texas. We offer a full continuum of care, from medical detox to sober living, all supported by an ever-growing alumni community network.    Our evidence-based curriculum blends the best of the old with the new, supporting our mission: that Recovery is best pursued when meaningful, intentional positive habits are formed through empowerment and resilience instead of negativity and shame

Our client Pavan studied at a small non-target school called Case Western. He realised that he wanted to get into banking towards the end of freshman year, but couldn't get any interviews. During senior year, after realizing his own strategies weren't working and that time was running out, he joined WSMM. Hear how he was able to secure an offer at an elite boutique despite his extremely late start with recruiting and being from a non-target school. Book a Virtual Coffee Chat with an Upperclassmen Who Secured an Offer: wallstmastermind.com/apply?utm_source=podcastep163

Dr. Jacob Stucki is an oral maxillofacial surgeon in residency at the Case Western Cleveland Program and he joins us today to discuss his experience of navigating medical school. He talks us through his program and the benefits of a dual degree, as well as what he's personally gained from his OMS residency thus far. We learn how different institutions structure their residencies and how Jake feels his medical studies are applicable to his OMS practice. Jake shares practical advice for dental students looking to follow a similar path and the philosophies that drive him to learn. We learn about the structure of shelf exams and USMLEs, including some great preparation tips! Tune in to hear more about Jake's medical school experience and find out how he's keeping up to scratch with oral surgery throughout!Key Points From This Episode:Dr. Jacob Stucki describes the medical program he's enrolled in at Case Western.Why Jake wanted to do a dual degree in dental school.What he's learned and gained from his OMS residency thus far.How the other med students perceive him when they discover he is a dentist.How different institutions structure their residencies.Advice for dental students who have decided to go on to do a six-year medical program.What Jake has done to make the most out of his time as a medical student.The benefits of being proactive with your learning.How Jake frames what he's learning as being applicable to his surgery.What shelf exams are and how Jake prepares for them.How Jake predicts his medical school experience will affect his OMS practice.How moonlighting has kept him up to scratch with oral surgery while studying medicine.Which clerkships Jake has done, is doing, and will do in the future.Jake's experience of working with patients in palliative care.The value of internal medicine.Jake's experience of preparing for his USMLE exams.Dr. Grant Stucki's experience of doing surgery rotations with other medical teams without having done other clerkships.Links Mentioned in Today's Episode:Dr. Jacob Stucki on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-stucki-ab19a593/Dr. Grant Stucki Email — grantstucki@gmail.comDr. Grant Stucki Phone — 720-441-6059United States Medical Licensing Examination —https://www.usmle.org/ 

Major news from one of the two largest competitions. And an inside story from the other.(0:00:33) Report Card: STAC Regionals. We celebrate the huge improvement in AAJ's tournament! Justin checks in with South Carolina's Brett Bayne. Spencer tries to explain why he was the only host  to need a ghost ballot (and explains how he avoids confrontation in everyday life). And we discuss whether AAJ's 2022 success is sustainable.  (0:27:37)  The Break. We congratulate the 20 teams headed to STAC Nationals!  (0:30:07) NTC Nationals. We go inside one of the most heartening stories of the season -- the 72 hours that changed NTC Nationals. It's a victory for community collaboration and TYLA responsiveness. Case Western's Bradley Oaumbo joins us.  (1:02:00) Motion in Limine with South Dakota's Laura Rose. Laura tells us how she built a huge program at a school with such a small student body, introduces us to chislic, and reveals how she will defeat her father when South Dakota and Ohio Northern eventually face. Then she judges a motion in limine. We entered 4-4; who will take the lead? (1:26:30) Since this episode was already lengthy, we are saving the Main Interview for Episode 25. But we finish with a few hints about next week's illustrious guest...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! Learn more about Michael Scharf, Co-Dean since 2013, Joseph C. Hostetler and BakerHostetler Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and Managing Director of the Public International Law and Policy Group, a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated NGO. Dean Scharf utilizes his international law expertise to help grow and manage Case Western's foreign legal studies program, which includes robust LLM and SJD enrollment annually. Dean Scharf explains the ways that the international students in these programs enrich the experience of the JD students and actively engage with the law faculty, and the benefits that the Case Western degrees provide for the international graduates, who stay closely connected to the law school after graduation. He shares suggestions for other law schools seeking to maximize their success in starting and maintaining similar programs, and the significant benefits of doing so. Dean Scharf is also a convincing advocate for the leadership model of co-deans! Thank you so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for your EdUp time! Connect with your host - Patty Roberts ● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us! ● Join the EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow EdUp on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thanks for listening!

Welcome to Episode 88 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball. It's time to talk about the traditionally loaded Mideast Region, now known as Region 7, which is still basically the same minus the HCAC. In order: AMCC (at 2:20) We finally got a new champ in this conference as Penn State-Behrend won it last year and are the favorite again 2022 La Roche should still be contenders but a lot of new faces are gonna have to step up MIAA (at 12:10) Adrian is way more loaded on offense than on the mound, which is a little different than usual for the Bulldogs Kalamazoo, Hope, and Calvin should definitely challenge Adrian in THE OLDEST CONFERENCE IN AMERICAN SPORTS NCAC (at 23:30) Denison looks to defend its conference title with one of the best pitching staffs in the region but have a lot of offense to replace Conversely, Wooster should have one of the best offenses in the country (again) but will need a lot of arms to step up Allegheny and Wittenberg should be solid as well OAC (at 37:20) Marietta is fully back to juggernaut status with an outrageously deep lineup and two of the best pitchers in the region Mount Union has their entire squad back after a breakout '21 and could challenge the Pioneers Baldwin Wallace looks the strongest among the rest of the conference, but keep an eye on Heidelberg, Ohio Northern, and John Carroll PAC (at 48:10) Washington & Jefferson look excellent once again and we're eager to see them compete out of conference again UAA (at 55:50) Case Western looks as balanced as they've been in a while and might be playing THE toughest schedule in the country We conclude (at 1:03:20) with our player and pitcher of the year picks, and our teams to beat. Then we say goodbye.  Follow us on Twitter @d3baseballpod (DMs are open if you want to reach us there) and @CespedesBBQ.  Send us your best D-III stories or any other comments or questions to thed3baseballpodcast@gmail.com Subscribe + rate/review on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-podcast-about-division-iii-baseball/id1342691759 

In this episode of TimeOut With The SportsDr, Dr. Deborrah Hyde joins the podcast. Born in 1949 in Laurel, MS, Dr. Hyde received her BS with honors from Tougaloo College in 1969 and her MS in biology at Cleveland State University. Despite being told in medical school that she was not qualified to compete with "better-prepared" nonminority students, Hyde received her MD from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1977, earning election into the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society. The next year, she began neurosurgery residency at Case Western under Dr. Robert A. Ratcheson and Dr. Robert F. Spetzler, finishing in 1982 as the program's first female graduate. In 1985, Hyde became the second African-American woman certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and in 1991 she established the Beacon of Hope Scholarship Foundation for underprivileged youth. She has subsequently continued a distinguished career for 38years in private practice in West Hills, CA. Follow Me: Instagram: DrDerrickTheSportsDr Facebook: Timeout with the SportsDr Email: thesportsdoctr@gmail.com Website: https://www.drderrickthesportsdr.com/ Follow Dr. Hyde: Facebook: Deborrah Hyde