Podcasts about Duke University

Enlace del curso: https://behindtheknife.org/premium/repaso-para-el-examen-de-certificaci-n-en-cirug-a-generalBehind the Knife es el podcast quirúrgico líder en el mundo y una plataforma de educación quirúrgica. Nuestra misión es crear contenido innovador de educación quirúrgica que sea accesible para todos. Estamos muy emocionados de expandirnos al público hispanohablante y ofrecerles 4 episodios de muestra de nuestro Curso de Repaso para el examen de certificación de Cirugía General.Hoy, escucharás un caso de muestra de este curso de repaso en audio, que incluye 100 escenarios.El curso tiene un formato emocionante y completamente único. Cada uno de los 100 caso consta de dos partes. La primera parte es un caso oral perfectamente ejecutado que imita la realidad. Cada caso tiene una duración de cinco a siete minutos e incluye una variedad de tácticas y estilos. Si logras alcanzar este nivel de desempeño en tu preparación, seguramente aprobarás el examen de certificación con éxito.La segunda parte introduce comentarios de alto rendimiento para cada escenario. Estos comentarios incluyen consejos y trucos para ayudarte a dominar los escenarios más desafiantes, además de una enseñanza práctica y fácil de entender que cubre los temas más confusos que enfrentamos como cirujanos generales. Estamos seguros de que encontrarás este enfoque único de doble formato como una forma altamente efectiva de prepararte para el examen.Nuestro contenido está disponible en nuestras aplicaciones para iOS y Android y en nuestro sitio web (behindtheknife.org). Por favor, consulta las notas del programa para más información. Nos encantaría escuchar tus comentarios sobre este episodio enviando un correo electrónico a hello@behindtheknife.org y apreciamos tu ayuda para difundir la palabra entre tus colegas si disfrutas del material.Este contenido incluye 97 descripciones operatorias para todos los procedimientos comunes —y la mayoría de los poco comunes— incluidos en el Currículo de Cirugía General SCORE. Cada descripción está diseñada para ayudar a los candidatos a prepararse de manera eficaz para el Examen de Certificación en Cirugía General.presentadores de podcast:- Auri P. Garcia Gonzalez, MD PhD nació en San Juan, Puerto Rico, y se trasladó a los Estados Unidos en el 2012 para sus estudios graduados. Actualmente, es estudiante de post-grado en cirugía general en Duke University.- Diego Schaps, MD, MPH es un residente de cirugía general en Duke y nació en Miami, en el estado de la Florida. Sus padres nacieron en El Salvador.Disclaimer: Los productos de contenido de Behind the Knife son únicamente para fines educativos. No diagnosticamos, tratamos ni ofrecemos consejos específicos para pacientes.------Behind the Knife is the world's leading surgical podcast and surgical education platform.  Our mission is to create innovative surgical education content that is accessible to all.  We are very excited to expand into the spanish audience and bring you 4 sample episodes of our General Surgery Oral Board Review Course which will be released over the course of the next week.Today, you'll hear a sample scenario from this comprehensive audio review course which includes 100 scenarios.  The course has an exciting and entirely unique format. Each of the 100 scenarios includes two parts. The first part is a perfectly executed oral board scenario that mimics the real thing. Scenarios are five to seven minutes long and include a variety of tactics and styles. If you're able to achieve this level of performance in your preparation, you are sure to pass the oral exam with flying colors.The second part introduces high yield commentary to each scenario. This commentary includes tips and tricks to help you dominate the most challenging scenarios in addition to practical, easy to understand teaching that covers the most confusing topics that we face as general surgeons. We are confident you will find this unique dual format approach a highly effective way to prepare for the test.The course contains crisp, concise operative descriptions that cover all SCORE common topics and and most SCORE uncommon topics.Our content is available on our iOS and Android apps and website (behindtheknife.org).  Please check the show notes for more information. We would love to hear your feedback by emailing hello@behindtheknife.org and appreciate your help spreading the word to your colleagues if you enjoy the material.Hosts:- Auri P. Garcia Gonzalez, MD PhD was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico and moved to the US in 2012 for graduate studies. At present, she is a surgical resident at Duke University.- Diego Schaps, MD, MPH is a general surgery resident at Duke and was born in Miami, Florida. His parents were born in El Salvador.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

LIVE from ILADS: Tick Boot Camp reconnects with Nicole Bell, CEO of Galaxy Diagnostics, for a focused conversation about one of the biggest challenges in Lyme disease and tick-borne illness: getting an accurate diagnosis. Bell breaks down the differences between antibody testing, antigen testing, and PCR-based direct detection while explaining why stealth pathogens such as Borrelia, Bartonella, and Babesia can be so difficult to find. She also introduces Galaxy's BBB Direct Detect digital PCR testing, discusses emerging findings involving Babesia species, and explains why a negative antibody test doesn't always tell the entire story. For Bell, the mission is deeply personal. Her husband, Russ, initially tested negative for Lyme disease and was later diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease before his family ultimately discovered tick-borne infections were part of his complex illness. That experience helped redirect Bell's engineering and medical technology background toward improving diagnostics for other patients searching for answers. This interview was recorded live at the ILADS conference, so you may hear some of the energy and background activity of the event throughout the conversation. Why Can Lyme Disease Testing Be So Difficult? Bell begins by explaining one of the fundamental problems with diagnosing Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections: many of the pathogens clinicians are searching for can be difficult to detect. Some occur at low levels in the bloodstream. Others may migrate into tissues or circulate intermittently. Historically, much of tick-borne disease testing has therefore relied on indirect detection — looking for the patient's immune response rather than directly detecting the organism. Antibody testing can provide useful information, but Bell explains why interpretation can become complicated. A patient's antibody response can vary depending on factors including: Timing of infection Individual immune response Immune suppression or dysregulation Previous exposure Previous treatment Medications that suppress immune activity Cross-reactivity Whether an infection is current or historical This is why Bell views antibody testing as one tool rather than the entire diagnostic toolbox. Antibody Testing: Detecting the Immune Response Antibody testing is an indirect testing method. Instead of looking for Borrelia itself, for example, the test looks for evidence that the patient's immune system has responded to it. Bell discusses IgM and IgG antibodies and why timing matters. IgM antibodies are generally associated with an earlier immune response, while IgG responses can take longer to develop. In Lyme disease, that delay creates a particular challenge because early diagnosis and treatment can be especially important. Some infected patients may mount a strong measurable antibody response, while others may produce a weaker or delayed response. Bell points to research showing how dramatically immune responses can differ even under controlled experimental conditions. This creates an important distinction: A test of the immune response is not necessarily the same thing as a test for the pathogen itself. When Antibodies Don't Tell the Whole Story Bell uses her husband's experience to illustrate the stakes. Russ had likely been ill for years before his most significant symptoms emerged. By then, Bell says his immune system was dysregulated and his overall antibody levels were low. His Lyme testing was negative, and his worsening cognitive symptoms ultimately led to an Alzheimer's diagnosis. There is also another side to antibody testing. A person may have antibodies because of a previous infection even when the original infection is no longer active. That can make it difficult to determine whether persistent symptoms are associated with an ongoing infection, an undiagnosed coinfection, immune dysregulation, or another process. Bell's point is not that antibody testing has no value. It is that complex tick-borne illness may require more than one diagnostic tool. Antigen Testing: Looking for Evidence of the Pathogen The conversation then moves from indirect testing to direct detection. One method is antigen testing. Rather than measuring the immune system's response, an antigen test searches for a component associated with the pathogen itself. Bell discusses Galaxy's work with a urine-based Lyme disease antigen approach designed to capture and concentrate a protein shed by Borrelia. Why urine? Bell explains that Lyme-causing Borrelia may not remain abundantly present in the bloodstream. A pathogen-derived protein, however, may be filtered through the kidneys and become detectable in urine. Galaxy continues to work on direct-detection approaches to Lyme disease testing as it pursues broader clinical adoption and regulatory pathways. PCR Testing: Searching for Pathogen DNA Another form of direct detection is PCR testing. PCR looks for genetic material from the pathogen rather than relying on the patient's antibody response. Galaxy uses PCR-based approaches for pathogens including: Borrelia Bartonella Babesia But direct detection presents its own challenge. These organisms may occur at extremely low levels in a sample. A patient can be infected while very little pathogen DNA happens to be circulating in the particular blood sample collected that day. That is where digital PCR, or dPCR, becomes especially interesting. The Three B's: Borrelia, Bartonella & Babesia Bell introduces Galaxy's approach to what Tick Boot Camp often calls the Three B's: Borrelia. Bartonella. Babesia. As patient and clinician awareness of tick-borne illness has evolved, these three pathogens have become increasingly important to the conversation around complex cases. Galaxy's BBB Direct Detect digital PCR testing is designed to directly detect DNA from Borrelia, Bartonella, and Babesia. Unlike an antibody test asking whether the immune system has responded to a pathogen, direct PCR testing asks a different question: Can we find genetic evidence of the organism itself? How Digital PCR Searches for Low-Abundance Pathogens Bell gives a simple analogy for understanding digital PCR. Imagine searching for a needle in a haystack. Traditional PCR is trying to identify a tiny amount of pathogen DNA — the needle — among an enormous amount of human genetic material — the haystack. Digital PCR effectively divides that haystack into thousands of much smaller piles and examines them individually. That partitioning can make it easier to detect extremely small amounts of genetic material. Galaxy also uses a culture-enrichment step for Bartonella. The blood sample is placed in an environment designed to encourage Bartonella growth before PCR analysis, increasing the amount of target material available for detection. Learn more about Galaxy Diagnostics' direct-detection technology and its approaches to Borrelia, Bartonella, and Babesia testing. Why Are We Seeing So Many Coinfections? Tick Boot Camp and Bell also discuss an observation that has become increasingly common in patient interviews: many people with complex chronic tick-borne illness aren't reporting only Lyme disease. Instead, patients frequently describe combinations involving the Three B's and other infections. Why? Bell says several factors may contribute. Diagnostic technology has improved. Clinicians have become more aware of coinfections. Ecological research indicates ticks can carry multiple pathogens. But Bell raises another important possibility: patients carrying multiple pathogens may also be among those who become the sickest and therefore are disproportionately represented within chronic illness communities. That distinction matters. Observing many coinfections among severely ill patients doesn't necessarily mean every tick-borne disease patient has the same microbial picture. Bartonella, the Immune System & the Tipping Point Bell discusses Bartonella as an example of the complexity surrounding infection and illness. Exposure may be more common than many people realize, and Bartonella has multiple potential vectors and reservoirs. Bell describes a hypothesis in which some people may harbor an infection while their immune system keeps it under control. Then another infection, environmental exposure, significant stressor, or other immune-disrupting event may alter that balance. A person who had previously remained relatively healthy may cross what Bell describes as a tipping point and begin experiencing significant illness. This raises questions researchers are still working to answer. Were multiple infections transmitted simultaneously? Did they occur through separate exposures? Was one infection already present before another destabilized the immune system? Bell emphasizes that the answer may differ from patient to patient. Emerging Questions About Babesia Some of the most intriguing discussion in this interview involves Babesia. Bell explains that research associated with the North Carolina State University team has identified Babesia species in complex patients beyond the organisms traditionally emphasized in U.S. human babesiosis. She specifically discusses findings involving Babesia odocoilei and Babesia divergens-like organisms and contrasts those findings with expectations surrounding Babesia microti and Babesia duncani. Bell also discusses the possibility of low-level parasitemia — infections involving pathogen levels that may be much lower than the classic severe presentation clinicians associate with babesiosis. These emerging observations raise important research questions about Babesia species, their prevalence, their role in human disease, and whether existing diagnostic assumptions capture the full picture. Bell is careful in the interview to distinguish between what Galaxy's current assay detects and what researchers may suspect based on sequencing and related scientific work. Nicole Bell's Personal Mission Bell's work in tick-borne disease diagnostics grew out of an experience no family wants to have. Her husband, Russ, developed neurological and psychiatric symptoms, including cognitive problems, anxiety and hallucinations. Despite Bell specifically requesting Lyme disease testing early in his illness, his initial test was negative and his diagnostic journey eventually led to an Alzheimer's disease diagnosis. Bell later documented her family's experience in her memoir, What Lurks in the Woods. Today, she brings her engineering background and personal experience together in an effort to improve the diagnostic tools available to clinicians and patients. From MIT & Duke to Galaxy Diagnostics Nicole Bell is CEO of Galaxy Diagnostics and an engineer with extensive experience in medical devices and diagnostics. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT and a master's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University. Before joining Galaxy, she worked in technology and medical-device development, including leadership roles involving diagnostic platforms and FDA submissions. Bell became CEO of Galaxy Diagnostics in 2024, bringing together her professional background in engineering and diagnostics with the lessons learned through her husband's illness. The State of Lyme Disease Research Bell is also the primary author of The State of Lyme Disease Research in the United States for the Center for Lyme Action. The paper examines gaps in Lyme disease research and outlines recommendations involving fundamental science, diagnostics, prevention, treatment, and research infrastructure. In this interview, Bell references one particularly important issue explored in that work: delays in Lyme disease diagnosis and treatment are associated with a greater risk of patients experiencing persistent symptoms. Better testing isn't simply about producing a more sophisticated laboratory report. It's about helping clinicians get patients appropriate answers earlier. Key Topics in This Episode Lyme disease testing, Lyme diagnostics, Nicole Bell, Galaxy Diagnostics, Borrelia testing, Bartonella testing, Babesia testing, Three B's, BBB Direct Detect, digital PCR, dPCR, PCR testing, antibody testing, antigen testing, direct detection, indirect testing, stealth pathogens, Lyme disease antibodies, coinfections, polymicrobial tick-borne disease, low-abundance infections, Bartonella culture enrichment, Babesia microti, Babesia duncani, Babesia odocoilei, Babesia divergens, chronic Lyme disease, diagnostic delays, and tick-borne disease research. About This LIVE from ILADS Interview This short-form conversation was recorded in person at the 2025 International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society Annual Scientific Conference, From Terrain to Treatment: Advances in Vector-Borne Illness, held October 9–12, 2025, in San Antonio, Texas. Because these interviews were recorded live at the conference, they have a different feel from Tick Boot Camp's traditional long-form virtual and studio conversations — shorter, focused, and surrounded by the activity of one of the world's major gatherings of Lyme and tick-borne disease clinicians, researchers, advocates, and innovators. Explore all Tick Boot Camp LIVE from ILADS interviews. More from Tick Boot Camp Hear more conversations with Lyme disease doctors and healthcare professionals about testing, diagnosis, treatment, and complex tick-borne illness. Explore the Tick Boot Camp Podcast for interviews with patients, doctors, researchers, advocates, and innovators working to improve understanding of Lyme disease and help people move toward recovery.

Outline and Show NotesTapping the Power of Gen Z with Robyn FehrmanPower Quote: Leadership is the secret sauceSponsor Spot 1:I'd like to thank Kaleidoscope Adventures for sponsoring today's show. Lots of companies can help you organize class trips, but Kaleidoscope helps you organize adventures – because isn't that what student trips should be? Kaleidscope is a full-service tour company offering a range of adventure opportunities and they excel at customizing trips based on your unique context, needs, and goals. Kaleidoscope offers exceptional travel experiences for students (and their group leaders). Thinking about student travel? Reach out to Kaleidoscope using the link in the show notes.Show IntroGuest Bio: Robyn Fehrman is Executive Director of Teach For America North Carolina and has dedicated her career to scaling impact enterprises and catalyzing systems change toward a vision of an excellent education for all. For the last 15 years, Robyn has worked at the intersection of education and innovation locally, nationally, and globally. Prior roles include Founding Partner of LearnerStudio, President & CEO of Enactus, and Managing Director of Duke University's Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship.  She also served as Executive Director of Teach for America Eastern North Carolina. Robyn is a lifelong North Carolinian who resides in Durham with her husband and two children. She earned her Master of Public Administration and Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Warmup questions:We always like to start with a celebration. What are you celebrating today?Is there a story that will help listeners understand why you are doing what you do?Questions/Topics/PromptsI was born in 1963, which technically makes me a boomer. My wife was born in 1965, which makes her Gen X, and I tease her endlessly about this difference. The point is, the generations are not cut and dry. Before we wade into generational differences, what do we need to keep in mind?Is the acceleration of technology creating more compressed generations?[I think what will make this episode stand out is looking at the generational and hierarchical differences from multiple perspectives] Schools are filled with multiple generations. The most recent generations comprise the student population, but when we think about teachers, building administrators, and district leadership, generational “hierarchies” can quickly break down, so it's not just boomers supervising millennials, the reverse can also be happening. I'm not sure what the best way is to approach this, but let's dig in…Sponsor Spot 2:I want to thank IXL for sponsoring this podcast…Everyone talks about the power of data-driven instruction. But what does that actually look like? Look no further than IXL, the ultimate online learning and teaching platform for K to 12. IXL gives you meaningful insights that drive real progress, and research can prove it. Studies across 45 states show that schools who use IXL outperform other schools on state tests. Educators who use IXL love that they can easily see how their school is performing in real-time to make better instructional decisions. And IXL doesn't stop at just data. IXL also brings an entire ecosystem of resources for your teachers, with a complete curriculum, personalized learning plans, and so much more. It's no wonder that IXL is used in 95 of the top 100 school districts. Ready to join them? Visit ixl.com/assistant to get started.Closing questions:What part of your own leadership are you still trying to get better at?If listeners could take just one thing away from today's podcast, what would it be?Before we go, is there anything else that you'd like to share with our listeners?Where can people learn more about you and your work…Summary/wrap upLead with learning about them and creating a sense of belongingRisk averse and need for security – frame as assetsSpecial thanks to the amazing Ranford Almond for the great music on the show. Please support Ranford and the show by checking out his music!Ranford's homepage: https://ranfordalmond.comRanford's music on streaming services: https://streamlink.to/ranfordalmond-oldsoulInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ranfordalmond/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ranfordalmond/Sponsor Links:IXL: http://ixl.com/assistant Kaleidoscope Adventures: https://www.kaleidoscopeadventures.com/ digiCOACH: digiCOACH.com CloseLeadership is a journey and thank you for choosing to walk some of this magical path with me.You can find links to all sorts of stuff in the show notes, including my website https://www.frederickbuskey.com/I love hearing from you. If you have comments or questions, or are interested in having me speak at your school or conference, email me at frederick@frederickbuskey.com or connect with me on LinkedIn.If you are tired of spending time putting out fires and would rather invest time supporting and growing teachers, consider reading my book, A School Leader's Guide to Reclaiming Purpose. The book is available on Amazon. You can find links to it, as well as free book study materials on my website at https://www.frederickbuskey.com/reclaiming-purpose.html Please remember to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast.Remember the secret to good leadership:Be intentional in choosing how you will show up for othersBe fully presentAsk reflective questionsAnd then just listenDon't overcomplicate it, the value is in the listening.Have a great rest of the week!Cheers!Guest Links:NC TfA: https://www.teachforamerica.org/LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/25076507/admin/dashboard/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tfa_nc/?hl=en 

Want to rebuild bone strength, relieve joint pain, and prevent osteoporosis after 40?In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Jocelyn Wittstein, a leading orthopedic surgeon from Duke University to explain what every woman over 40 needs to know about bone health during menopause.Dr. Jocelyn Wittstein is an orthopedic surgeon specialized in sports medicine and associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at Duke University School of Medicine.Dr. Wittstein is co-investigator with Dr. Anne Ford of Duke Women's Health for the Duke Musculoskeletal Systems of Menopause Registry. She is president of the Forum: Women in Sports Medicine, co-author of The Complete Bone and Joint Health Plan and a mom of 5! Her husband is also an orthopaedic surgeon.Dr. Wittstein breaks down: How estrogen loss affects bones and jointsWhy frozen shoulder and arthritis spike after menopauseHow to reverse bone loss with strength training and nutrition When to get a DEXA scan (and what it tells you) What foods and supplements support stronger bonesWhether hormone therapy or GLP-1s can help

APTA President Kyle Covington is an associate professor and director ofeducational innovation and post-professional education for DukeUniversity's Doctor of Physical Therapy Program, including the FacultyDevelopment Residency accredited by the American Board of PhysicalTherapy Residencies and Fellowships.Covington is a board-certified clinical specialist in neurologic physicaltherapy. He earned a Bachelor of Science in health and exercise sciencefrom Wake Forest University, a doctor of physical therapy degree fromDuke University, and a PhD in educational research and policy analysisin adult education from North Carolina State University.He has extensive experience in clinical and didactic curriculum development, with a focus on integratedcollaborative learning models. His research explores clinical learning partnerships and best practices ineducational assessment in health professions. Covington previously served as president of APTA NorthCarolina (2016-2019) and has been a delegate to APTA's House of Delegates for 12 terms.

“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.” – Wayne Gretzky, ‘The Great One' A fellow like me rarely gets to interview the chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on his show, let alone get the opportunity in the first place. The statistics say that it is a near-zero probability. The Brian D. O'Leary Show is a relatively small podcast. It's growing, though we mostly talk about sports on the show these days. Nevertheless, it happened. He came on our show. The guy we had zero chance of booking took time out of his day to join us. On Friday morning, we were fortunate to interview David M. Rubenstein, author of the new book, “INSIDE THE OWNER'S BOX: Conversations on Power and Leadership in Sports” (Simon & Schuster / September 22, 2026). The conversation centered on sports, however. Not foreign policy or politics. Rubenstein is indeed the chairman of the CFR, a prestigious think tank that includes politicians, high-ranking government officials, bankers, lawyers, businessmen, professors, and prominent media figures. To sports fans today, though, he is probably better known as the owner of the Baltimore Orioles, a club in which he bought a controlling interest in 2024. A Baltimore native, Rubenstein said buying the Orioles was a philanthropic gesture to lift up his hometown. This is precisely the type of sports-related traditionalism we champion here on our platform. Local owners. Local interest. Local passion. Real rivalry. Real competition. Cities and communities need something to believe in. When I was growing up in Portland, we believed in the Blazers. “Blazer Believer” signs and t-shirts were ubiquitous in the Rose City during the heyday of the Trail Blazers. We believed. Winning a lot certainly helped, though the Trail Blazers have only won one World Championship. Portland's love affair with the Blazers was about the people. Not only the players and coaches, but the ownership. Owner Paul Allen was not from Portland. He was from the Seattle area, but he gave Portland a huge gift and a huge lift by buying and investing in its basketball team. The city government never appreciated the gift Allen gave the city and the fans. Perhaps Rubenstein can give Baltimore what Allen gave to Portland. Hopefully the politicos don't squander the gift like what happened in Portland. Baltimore and Portland have both fallen on hard times thanks to societal unrest, poor leadership, and virtually zero accountability. HBO's series The Wire showed a side of the Charm City that most Baltimoreans would prefer not to see and certainly don't care to address. Portland was parodied in the sophomoric Portlandia, starring Saturday Night Live's Fred Armisen. That series left many longtime Portlanders shaking their collective heads in disgust and bewilderment. “We're nothing but a punchline,” said many. To be fair, there may have been a chuckle here and there from those who watched on occasion. The producers of Portlandia even had a paid subscriber to UNRELENTING and guest on our show, Dwight Jaynes, guest-star in their program. In Portland, there was also Grimm, an NBC show that yours truly had a bit part in. One scene. One episode. But that show was literally the fairy-tale version of the Rose City. Again, take the shots on goal. You might not put everyone past the goalie, but as Gretzky said, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take. Fight for your city, your state, your country, if you believe in it at all. Fight for your family. A remnant out there still fights for and has passion for their hometown. At its core, it's a patriotic instinct. The problems in today's cities are bigger than money. Solving them requires effort, vision, and passion. Portland has a few patriotic citizens. Some have vision, some have passion, and a few are willing to make the effort. Not enough, however. In Baltimore, David Rubenstein is the man of the hour. He's trying to turn around the city that he was raised in. His first step was buying a controlling interest in the Orioles in 2024. When Rubenstein grew up, Baltimore was the 9th biggest city in the nation, approaching 1 million residents. It's a little more than half that size now. For generations now, Baltimore's biggest export has been its people. In our short interview, Rubenstein and I touched on some important topics. We talked about the Orioles' history of largely Baltimore-connected owners, the challenges of building a winning franchise, and the disappointment of a recent playoff elimination despite increased payroll, major stadium upgrades, and an injury-plagued 2026 season. Rubenstein explained modern sports ownership structures, including the role of a controlling owner, growing private equity participation through minority stakes, and his firm's (Carlyle Group) sports investments, including a recent investment in the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks. He also addressed my question about the rise of legalized sports gambling, which led to his take on the integrity risks of prop bets, and the need to educate and police players. One takeaway In his book, Rubenstein writes: I am pleased that I made the investment. I think it did—and will—help with the ongoing rejuvenation of Baltimore. I reconnected with my hometown and friends from my youth. I learned more about a sport that I had relished as a boy. And I felt that I was part of a team of professionals trying hard to bring glory back to Baltimore. I hope he is correct. And I hope he is successful. For Baltimore. For sports. For the nation. *** Buy the Book Click the link to buy at Amazon. “INSIDE THE OWNER'S BOX: Conversations on Power and Leadership in Sports” (Simon & Schuster / September 22, 2026). *** About the Episode Chapters ♦ Meet David Rubenstein ♦ Baltimore Roots and Civic Pride ♦ Adley Rutschman Trade and Baseball Fandom ♦ Baltimore Baseball History ♦ Private Equity in Sports ♦ Fans and Community Identity ♦ Sports Gambling and Integrity ♦ Local Owners vs Outsiders ♦ Orioles Season and Next Year ♦ Camden Yards Renovations ♦ Roster Notes and Wrap Up *** About the Guest DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN is an investor, philanthropist, interviewer, author, and historian. He is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of the Carlyle Group, one of the world's largest and most successful private investment firms. Established in 1987, Carlyle now manages around half a trillion dollars from twenty-eight offices around the world. Mr. Rubenstein has served as chairman of the boards of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Duke University, and the Smithsonian Institution. He is a Baltimore native and is the chairman, CEO, and principal owner of the Baltimore Orioles. You'll also see him hosting The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations on Bloomberg TV and PBS, Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein on Bloomberg TV, Longevity with David Rubenstein on Bloomberg TV, and “America's Book Club” on C-SPAN. Rubenstein is the author of five books published by Simon & Schuster. *** Support UNRELENTING The globalists bought the politicians, funded the academic economists, and captured the corporate press to sell you out. UNRELENTING is where we punch back. You need this publication because you cannot fight a war if you don't know who sold you the weapons. The corporate press is paid to pacify you with distractions while the managerial class snuffs out your heritage. Subscribe because we don't just complain about the decline—we name the architects. 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In this episode, Saranne discusses the often-overlooked importance of silence in our daily lives, drawing from her personal experiences with sound sensitivity due to chemotherapy. She shares intriguing research on how silence can benefit our brains, reducing stress and associated health risks like cancer. Saranne highlights the stimulating effect of sound on our fight or flight response, increasing stress hormone levels like cortisol, and brings attention to an insightful study from Duke University, which suggests that silence can foster the growth of new brain cells and enhance our thinking abilities. The episode also highlights ways individuals can incorporate silence into their daily routines.2025 People's Choice Podcast Awards Best Health Series FinalistRanked the Top 5 Best Cancer Podcasts by CancerCare News in 2024 & 2025,and #1 Rated Cancer Survivor Podcast by FeedSpot in 2024 to 2025. Beating Cancer Daily is listened to in 150 countries across 7 continents and features over 420+ original daily episodes hosted by Stage IV survivor Saranne Rothberg. To learn more about Host Saranne Rothberg and The ComedyCures Foundation:https://www.comedycures.org/ To write to Saranne or a guest:https://www.comedycures.org/contact-8 To record a message to Saranne or a guest:https://www.speakpipe.com/BCD_Comments_Suggestions To sign up for the free Health Builder Series live on Zoom with Saranne and Jacqui, go to The ComedyCures Foundation's homepage:https://www.comedycures.org/ Please support the creation of more original episodes of Beating Cancer Daily and other free ComedyCures Foundation programs with a tax-deductible contribution:http://bit.ly/ComedyCuresDonate THANK YOU! Please tell a friend whom we may help, and please support us with a beautiful review. Have a blessed day! Saranne

Born Aware: Stories & Insights from Those Spiritually Aware Since Birth with Diane Brandon Diane Brandon facilitates, teaches, reaches, encourages, and inspires others, often helping others transform their lives in positive ways.  She works with others one-on-one and in groups via classes, workshops, and seminars, and is an expert on Intuition, Dreams, and the Born Aware Phenomenon, a term she coined.  Diane infuses her work with enthusiasm, her signature humor, and thought-provoking insights. Born and raised in New Orleans, Diane has been spiritually aware since birth (literally), has had a lifelong interest in metaphysics, and has been an avid student of it for over 45 years. She has been a member of Intelligentsia Metaphysica, Mensa, and Institute of Noetic Sciences. She is an alum of a high school for academically gifted in New Orleans (Benjamin Franklin Senior High School), has an A.B. in French from Duke University, did Master's work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures, and attended TUTOR, a language institute in Geneva, Switzerland for French studies. Diane hosted “Naturally Vibrant Living with Diane Brandon” on Web Talk Radio and Blogtalkradio.com and “Vibrantly Green with Diane Brandon” on Ecology.com, in addition to appearing as a guest on several radio and TV shows nationally. She regularly appeared as a guest dream interpreter on the syndicated radio show, “Your Time with Kim.”  She formerly hosted “Living Your Power” on the Health & Wellness Channel of VoiceAmerica.com. Diane has facilitated a seminar on Business Intuition at the Rhine Research Center, in addition to speaking on dreams there, and has spoken on Intuition at the Mensa Annual Gathering. Diane's Intuitive Counseling work led to writing.  She's cited in “The 10 Most Common Nightmares Interpreted” in Business Insider and has contributed articles to Connexions (“Wholism and the New Age,” “Guided Meditation and Regression,” and “Paths to Empowerment”), Innerchange Magazine (“The Dance of Personal and Spiritual Growth:  Syncing Up the Levels,” “Experiential Spirituality and Contemporary Gnosis,”  “Shamar's Journey of Love,” a children's story, “Heart-Centeredness:  A Healthy and ‘Whole'some Meeting of Science and Spirituality,”  “Unwrapping the Wonderful Gift of Dreams,” “Musings On Ghosts, Apparitions & the Veil Between Realities,” “The Misguided Imperative to Be Positive,”  “Intuition – An Intuitive's View,” “Befriending Your Other Self — Plumbing Your Depths and Amplifying Self,” and “The Loss of Two Beloved Giants”), to The Art of WellBeing (“Exploring Your Dreams for Wellness”),and The Journal of Tar Heel Tellers (“Vocal Tips for Storytellers”), and is a Contributing Author to The Long Way Around: How 34 Women Found the Lives They Love (© 2000, Carolina Women's Press) and Speaking Out! (© 2005, Insight Publishing). She's the author of four books: Born Aware – Stories and Insights from Those Spiritually Aware Since Birth (which endorsements called “brilliant” and “groundbreaking”), Dream Interpretation for Beginners — Understand the Wisdom of Your Sleeping Mind, Intuition for Beginners — Easy Ways to Awaken Your Natural Abilities, and Invisible Blueprints: Intuitive Insights for Fulfillment.  She has also written insight pieces on “The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,” “Choosing Hope—Some Thoughts on September 11, 2001,” and “Disasters in Myanmar/Burma and China — Thoughts and Lessons.” Diane is also a Corporate Consultant, as well as an Actor, Singer, Voice-Over Artist, and Voice Teacher and is included in the 1997-1998 Silver 25th edition of Who's Who in the South and Southwest.   https://www.dianebrandon.com/ Call In and Chat with Deborah during Live Show: 833-220-1200 or 319-527-2638 Learn more about Deborah here:  www.lovebyintuition.com

Is classical liberalism losing ground in America?Duke University professor Dr. Michael Munger joins me to discuss constitutional government, public choice, tariffs, free trade, and the institutions underlying a free and prosperous society.We explore why restraints on government matter even when they prevent our preferred political outcomes, how political incentives shape policy, what tariffs actually do, and why institutional “friction” can sometimes protect against bad collective decisions. Mike first joined the show in 2023 to discuss whether capitalism was sustainable in America. This time, we tackle an even broader question: Can America maintain the classical-liberal institutions that allow freedom and prosperity to flourish?Find more at VanceGinn.com.

We often wait for the perfect conditions to feel joyful, but joy rarely arrives as expected. In today's episode, Kate Bowler and Ryan discuss three surprising signs that something might bring you real joy and how to become more open to recognizing it. They also talk about the difference between joy and happiness, what the Stoics thought about contentment, and our obsession with optimizing everything. Kate Bowler is a four-time New York Times bestselling author, award-winning podcast host, and professor of religious history at Duke University. She is the host of the podcast Everything Happens, where she has honest conversations about grief, joy, faith, love, and the realities of being human.Grab signed copies of Kate's books Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved, No Cure For Being Human (And Other Truths I Needed To Hear), and her latest book Joyful, Anyway at The Painted Porch | https://www.thepaintedporch.com/Follow Kate Bowler: Instagram, YouTube

Originally released in 2024, this episode features the late Dr. Vladimir Maletic in conversation with Drs. Andy Cutler and Stephen Stahl about the clinical significance and neurobiology of anhedonia. They discuss its different dimensions, how it differs from emotional blunting, its relationship to functioning and treatment response, and practical approaches to assessment and treatment. The episode highlights why recovery from depression requires restoring interest, motivation, and pleasure—not simply reducing negative symptoms.  Vladimir Maletic, MD, MS, was a clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Greenville and a consulting associate in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Duke University. Board certified in psychiatry and neurology, his areas of expertise included the neurobiology of mood disorders, schizophrenia, pain, and sleep–wake regulation.  Stephen M. Stahl, MD, PhD, DSc (Hon.), is a psychiatrist, psychopharmacologist, and internationally recognized educator in clinical neuroscience and psychopharmacology. He is the author of widely used educational resources, including Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology and Stahl's Prescriber's Guide, and his work focuses on translating complex neurobiology and treatment mechanisms into practical clinical concepts for mental health clinicians.  Andrew J. Cutler, MD, is a distinguished psychiatrist and researcher with extensive experience in clinical trials and psychopharmacology. He currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer of Neuroscience Education Institute and EMA Wellness. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York.   Fall Congress  Get $100 off NEI Fall Congress registration with code POD26. Go to https://nei.global/fall to sign up today!  Membership  As a valued NEI Podcast listener, Dr. Cutler's offering you 20% off new NEI Membership with code CUTLER20. Go to https://nei.global/member and join now!  Never miss an episode!

Book: Green Glitter Girl Website(s):  www.Greenglittergirl.com Connie Jones, a psychotherapist who survived profound childhood trauma, is showing readers how understanding the brain and nervous system can become a powerful step toward breaking patterns that trauma leaves behind through her own true story, Green Glitter Girl: A Journey of Hope and Trauma Recovery. Please refer to the press release below for additional information and let me know if you would like to see a copy of Green Glitter Girl for interview and/or review purposes. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Therapist Turns Personal Trauma Into Roadmap for Hope, Healing and Self-Compassion ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 31, 2026 — Psychotherapist Connie Jones was just 3 years old when she unknowingly watched her younger sister die. Born to severely depressed parents, Jones would go on to experience abuse, neglect and medical emergencies that extended into adulthood. Decades later, as a therapist, Jones began recognizing the ways extreme stress can shape the nervous system and keep trauma survivors trapped in patterns they may not understand. Her deeply personal journey and clinical perspective come together in Green Glitter Girl: A Journey of Hope and Trauma Recovery. Jones wrote the book to help readers understand the neurobiology of extreme stress while finding greater self-awareness, self-compassion and hope. Many of her patients, she says, have found that understanding their own responses helped liberate them from long-standing patterns. Through the lens of nervous system science, Green Glitter Girl explores how trauma can reshape the body and why recovery is not simply a matter of “getting over” what happened. Instead, Jones examines the process of reclaiming a sense of safety, connection, voice and self. In the foreword, Stephen Porges, Ph.D., creator of Polyvagal Theory, describes Green Glitter Girl as a story that illustrates the human nervous system's capacity to adapt, survive and ultimately heal. “I want to instill hope that, although readers may feel overwhelmed and stuck within their limited beliefs and self-sabotaging habits, they can be free from them,” Jones said. Green Glitter Girl: A Journey of Hope and Trauma Recovery Publisher: Torchflame Books ISBN-13: ‎978-1611536102 Available from: https://www.amazon.com/Green-Glitter-Girl-Journey-Recovery/dp/1611536103 TIP SHEET The press release above may be published in part or entirety by any print, broadcast or internet/digital media outlet or used by any means of social media sharing. Reviews, photos, links to previous interviews and Q&As are available upon request. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Connie Jones is a psychotherapist with 34 years of experience. A graduate in psychology from Duke University, she developed her individualized approach to psychotherapy in her private practice. As a survivor of early childhood trauma, she has been a prized resource for her patients struggling with their own trauma. She lives in St. Louis with her husband of 30 years, Harry. For more information, please visit https://Greenglittergirl.com.

In episode 34 of Recsperts, I'm joined by Raghav Saboo, Staff Machine Learning Engineer at DoorDash and Tech Lead for Personalization and Search for New Verticals — groceries, convenience, retail, alcohol, pet supplies and more, beyond the original restaurant vertical. We discuss the particular challenges of personalized recommendation, ranking and search in quick commerce, recent trends in generative recommendations and the application of Semantic IDs to item ranking and query reformulation. Raghav's path into recommender systems started in chemical engineering before he moved into ML consulting, a Master's in Statistics, Machine Learning and Econometrics from Duke University, and building LLMs for new language launches on Amazon's Alexa AI, ahead of joining DoorDash.We start with the marketplace itself: DoorDash connects consumers, merchants and couriers, and growing it means balancing the interests of all three so that the platform stays healthy for everyone on it. Raghav walks me through how his team frames the consumer side around three pillars — familiarity (surfacing what a consumer already trusts), affordability (matching price sensitivity and timely deals) and novelty (introducing new items and categories without adding friction). From there we get into how DoorDash uses LLMs to build "memory blocks," structured natural-language representations of a consumer organized around semantic domains like dietary preference, pet ownership or trusted brands, and how these feed LLM-generated collections that get resolved into real items through embedding-based retrieval.We then turn to DoorDash's move to generative approaches, centered on Semantic IDs: hierarchical product identifiers learned through recursive clustering of item content embeddings, forming a taxonomy that captures attributes a human-built catalog structure might miss — as Raghav puts it, "within e-commerce, items really carry a lot of meaning." He walks me through two production use cases: replacing dozens of taxonomy-based dense features in the ranking model with Semantic ID n-gram aggregations while improving online metrics, and using Semantic IDs for query reformulation in search, letting the system traverse a learned hierarchy to refine or diversify a query. This connects to DoorDash's own paper on the topic and to a broader conversation about why search, recommendation and agentic ordering — DoorDash's own "Ask DoorDash" — are converging on a shared substrate of Semantic IDs and consumer memory, while today's app surfaces still need to grow more flexible for that convergence to feel seamless.We close with a preview of the RecSys 2026 tutorial "Recommender Systems in Delivery Platforms: Challenges, Solutions and Learnings," which Raghav is co-presenting with Wolt's Paavo Camps and myself, and his advice for navigating a field that reinvents itself every quarter: be honest about whether that pace suits you, use AI agents to filter what's worth your attention, and build the judgment to recognize dead ends early.Enjoy this enriching episode of RECSPERTS – Recommender Systems Experts.Don't forget to follow the podcast and please leave a review.(00:00) - Introduction (02:19) - RecSys 2026 Tutorial Preview (03:23) - About Raghav Saboo (10:47) - Working on Amazon Alexa AI (14:13) - About DoorDash (16:31) - Operating Model of a Multi-Sided Marketplace (20:45) - Affordability, Familiarity and Novelty (34:01) - Advantages of LLM-based Consumer and Item Profiles (46:53) - Generative Recommendations (59:21) - Semantic IDs for Item Ranking and Query Reformulation (01:19:49) - Agentic Shopping vs. Conversational RecSys (01:29:39) - Tutorial on Recommender Systems in Delivery Platforms (01:34:05) - Closing Remarks Click here to view the episode transcript. Links from the Episode:Raghav Saboo on LinkedInRaghav Saboo's SubstackUsing LLMs to Infer Grocery Preferences from Restaurant OrdersBuilding Ask DoorDash (Part 2): IntelligenceBridging Affordability, Familiarity, and Novelty (KDD 2025)Building a Unified Consumer Memory for Personalization at ScaleOffline LLMs, Online Personalization: Generating Carousels at DoorDashRecSys 2026 TutorialsWorkshop on Unified Search and Recommendation (USRW) 2026Papers:Xu et al. (2026): One Hierarchy, Two Systems - Semantic Product IDs for Discovery-Surface Ranking and Search-Page Query Reformulation (RecSys 2026, USRW Workshop)Xi et al. (2026): Mine and Refine - Optimizing Graded Relevance in E-commerce Semantic Search Retrieval (CIKM 2026, Applied Research Track)Chen et al. (2026): Joint Optimization of Relevance and Engagement in Multi-Task Ranking for E-Commerce with Efficient LLM Supervision (SIGIR Industry Track)Sinha et al. (2025): Mind the Gap - Bridging Behavioral Silos with LLMs in Multi-Vertical Recommendations (RecSys 2025 GenAI Workshop Talk)Das et al. (2024): Applications of LLMs in E-Commerce Search and Product Knowledge Graph - The DoorDash Case Study (WSDM 2024)General Links:Follow me on LinkedInFollow me on XSend me your comments, questions and suggestions to marcel.kurovski@gmail.comRecsperts Website

Was today a good day? Did my kid seem happy? If the answer is no, even a little, it can feel like the whole day failed, like you failed.Dr. Becky sits down with Kate Bowler, a professor at Duke University, to make the case that happiness might be the wrong thing to optimize for in the first place. Happiness, Kate argues, is really just ease: a hundred small circumstances lining up so nothing feels hard. Which means chasing it for your kids can quietly turn you into what Kate calls a professional happiness manager, smoothing every rough edge before it reaches them.Joy is different. It doesn't need conditions to line up. It shows up in weird obsessions, a dumb dance in the kitchen, a dry pasta fight, a moment at the worst point in Kate's own life (she spent years navigating a serious cancer diagnosis) when something good found her anyway. Kate and Becky talk through what kids already understand about joy that adults forget, why so many moms don't believe joy is even available to them, and a practical exercise Kate uses to name the resentments that quietly block it.Read A Blessing for Parents Who Are Trying, adapted from Kate Bowler's latest book, Joyful, Anyway.*Thank you to our partners for making this episode possible:Skylight: Get $30 off a 15-inch Skylight Calendar at myskylight.com/beckyGirl Scouts: If you have a daughter in kindergarten through 12th grade, visit girlscouts.org to learn moreYoto: Get 15% off your order with the code DRBECKY15 at YotoPlay.com. New customers only, ends October 31, offer valid on select products only. Terms apply.Care.com: For a limited time, you can use the code BECKY35 to save 35% on a Care.com Premium Membership.*Offer applies to initial term of Care.com membership subscriptions. Not applicable to add-on features or non-renewing access fees or services. Expires 10/31/26. Care.com does not employ or place any caregiver. Background checks are an important start, but they have limits. Visit www.care.com/safety. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.Today's podcast unpacks the importance of ownership and equity, and how the world's largest private equity firm (source: PEI 300) has helped create a culture of ownership within its portfolio companies and more broadly across the industry.With the backdrop of KKR's studio in New York and the firm fresh off the heels of celebrating its 50th Anniversary, we sat down with KKR's Co-Head of Global Private Equity Pete Stavros for a live conversation during AGM's RIA Field Trip to discuss how culture can be a competitive advantage and how it defines much of what KKR does both internally and with its portfolio companies. Pete has not only been a leading private equity investor at one of the industry's largest firms, but he's also been a pioneer in one of the industry's most important initiatives: enabling employees of private equity-backed companies to share in ownership of the companies where they work.The firm's Broad-Based Employee Ownership has delivered on its promise in many ways, with KKR's recent 14x (and $4.75B) exit on CoolIT providing all 650 CoolIT employees with cash payouts that ranged from approximately one year to more than eight years of annual pay, which, as Pete noted in our conversation, was “life-changing for many employees.” Pete and I had a fascinating conversation about the culture of ownership at KKR, the evolution of the firm's private equity platform, why it's so important to make employees owners, and how it's created a ripple effect in the industry. We covered:KKR's “we not I” culture.Why the most important trend in private equity going forward will be a shift from “balance sheet and income statement arbitrage to total cultural transformation.”Why and how culture is an advantage — and how KKR sustains its competitive advantage.The power of a scaled platform and why the division of labor is important as firms grow.What Pete means by “persistence in process.”How can companies encourage people to act like owners, and why is it so important for employee retention and productivity?How can sharing equity ownership be used as a tool to change culture?The impact the private equity industry can have through its ability to cascade change.BioPete Stavros (NewYork) joined KKR in 2005 and is Co-Head of Global Private Equity. This includes oversight of assets across Europe, Asia and the Americas and traditional large and mid-cap private equity, core and growth equity. Prior to this role, Pete served as Co-Head of the Americas Private Equity platform. He is a member of several investment committees at KKR. As an investor, Pete has helped lead a number of successful investments across sectors and sizes, including HCA Healthcare, Nielsen, Gardner Denver / Ingersoll Rand, Capsugel, Capital Safety, Hyperion, Flow Control Group, Charter Next Generation, Minnesota Rubber and Plastics, Geostabilization International, Crosby Group and CHI Overhead Doors. Prior to becoming Co-Head of Americas Private Equity, Pete led the Industrials industry team where he pioneered an innovative employee engagement and ownership model. This approach has been successfully implemented at more than 90 KKR companies and has positively impacted more than 200,000 workers. Pete is the Founder and Chairman of Ownership Works, a non-profit focused on building a worker ownership movement globally and enhancing the financial resiliency of the workforce. The goal of Ownership Works is to create more than $20 billion of wealth for working families over the next decade. Pete is also the Founder and Chairman of Expanding ESOPs, an organization focused on dramatically expanding the number of Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) in corporate America. Prior to joining KKR, Pete was an investor with GTCR Golder Rauner, where he was an investor in the healthcare sector. He holds a B.S. in Chemistry, magna cum laude, from Duke University and an M.B.A. with high distinction, Baker Scholar, from Harvard Business School.Thanks, Pete, for sharing your wisdom, expertise, and passion on private equity and making everyone an owner. Show Notes00:00 Live From AGM Field Trip at KKR Studio In NYC00:29 A Message From Ultimus Fund Solutions02:00 Meet Pete Stavros02:09 The Story of Joining KKR02:33 From Interviews To NYC03:08 All About Collaboration03:02 A No Star Culture04:03 How Culture Is Sustained04:43 Ritz-Carlton Analogy05:23 No Star Culture05:29 Culture Shapes Investing05:54 Platform Resources Edge06:24 Capital Markets Bench06:41 Macro And Ops Experts06:52 Making Resources Work07:52 Consistency And Process08:40 Evolving Value Creation08:46 Gardner Denver / Ingersoll Rand Case09:25 Value Engineering Method10:09 Warehouse Teardown10:54 Customer Feedback Loop11:25 Sixty Million In Savings11:50 Culture As The Next Frontier12:16 Defining Transformation12:27 Workforce Crisis Stats13:08 Problems Are Global14:28 Underwriting Culture Risk15:12 Leadership Makes It Work16:00 Ownership Done Right17:06 BBEO Origins19:10 Early Mistakes Learned19:30 Scaling To 85 Companies19:59 CoolIT Exit Results20:48 Closing The Wealth Loop21:12 Financial Literacy Journey21:45 Truck Loan Lesson23:39 Building Resilience Stack24:15 Exit Support Package24:37 Industry Adoption25:40 Ownership Works Launch27:04 Street Loan Cautionary Tale28:00 Why Share The Playbook30:02 Taking Ownership Global30:56 International Rollout31:31 Local Culture Differences32:15 State Of Private Equity32:40 Is Software Dead33:09 KKR Software Approach34:26 AI At Portfolio Scale34:55 One Hundred Thirty Tests35:35 Buying The Fear Trade35:49 Accounting Is Not Dead37:08 Closing ThoughtsA Word from Our Sponsor, UltimusThis episode of Alt Goes Mainstream is brought to you by Ultimus, the full-service fund administrator and transfer agent powering asset managers in private and public markets. As alts go mainstream, you need real expertise to handle complex fund structures, connect with key distribution partners, and handle sophisticated compliance, reporting, and transparency demands.That's Ultimus: high-tech, high-touch solutions for over 450 clients and 2,500 funds with $775B in assets under administration. Backed by an expert team of over 1,200 employees, they place client service at the core of their business, helping you navigate complexity during your fund structuring or launch and then supporting you through every stage of growth. Whether you're already in the market or thinking about entering private wealth, you can trust their team's deep expertise in retail alternatives to help you reach your goals.Learn more at ultimusfundsolutions.com or email info@ultimusfundsolutions....

Don't experiment on your own revenue with broken game mechanics. Get our guide "Core Drives in the Wild" to learn how to apply real behavioral science to your product: professorgame.com/WildCD Episode Summary Kristen Berman, behavioral scientist and CEO and co-founder of Irrational Labs, argues that personalization is overrated in product design, and she brings the experiment to back it up. She walks through a published onboarding test with Headspace where asking new users a few questions and then recommending the same Basics course to everyone doubled course enrollments, outperforming both the personalized recommendation and the version with no questions at all. She is just as direct about the limit: enrollments doubled, yet people did not meditate more, because the rest of the product never reinforced that first commitment. Listeners come away with a barriers-and-benefits lens for any signup flow and a clear order of operations: get the fundamentals of human decision making right first, then layer personalization on top. About the Host Rob Alvarez is Head of Engagement Strategy, Europe at The Octalysis Group (TOG), a leading gamification and behavioral design consultancy. A globally recognized gamification strategist and TEDx speaker, he founded and hosts Professor Game, the #1 gamification podcast, and has interviewed hundreds of global experts. He designs evidence-based engagement systems that drive motivation, loyalty, and results, and teaches LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® and gamification at top institutions including IE Business School, EFMD, and EBS University across Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Key Takeaways Headspace's onboarding experiment with Irrational Labs doubled course enrollments by asking new users a few questions and then recommending the same Basics course to everyone, with no personalization behind the answers. Personalization pays off when the match is right and loses the user when it misses, and a handful of signup questions rarely reveals enough to get it right. Kristen Berman's advice: design first to avoid getting it wrong. Doubling Headspace course enrollments did not get more people to meditate. The enrolled course sat at the bottom of a list instead of on the Today tab, which shows that fixing one step of the funnel does not fix the next one. Forced choice beats a Continue button: in an Irrational Labs experiment, showing Accept or Decline led more people to accept, because the cost of saying no becomes visible instead of staying hidden behind an X. A meta-analysis from around 2020 found no effect of personalized health feedback on behaviors ranging from smoking to physical activity. With reminders, whether you send them and how often matters far more than small copy changes. Duolingo times reminders to the hour a user signed up, and Netflix improved its recommendations by moving from five stars to thumbs up or down so more people rated. Past behavior is the most reliable personalization signal. Topics Covered 0:00 - Doubled enrollments, no more meditation 0:13 - Meet Kristen Berman of Irrational Labs 2:56 - Where irrational decisions cost the most 5:06 - Why game designers get to be paternalistic 7:48 - Forced choice: accept or decline beats continue 10:02 - Friction versus motivation in fintech and health 13:58 - The Headspace onboarding experiment setup 17:45 - Non-personalized questions doubled course enrollments 19:46 - Why more enrollments did not mean more meditation 22:21 - Pre-commitment, lost streaks and why willpower fails 25:24 - AI personalization and the health meta-analysis 28:44 - Reminders, Duolingo timing and Netflix ratings 32:08 - Where to find Kristen Berman Don't experiment on your own revenue with broken game mechanics. Get our guide "Core Drives in the Wild" to learn how to apply real behavioral science to your product: professorgame.com/WildCD About Kristen Berman Kristen Berman is a prominent behavioral scientist and the CEO and co-founder of Irrational Labs, a leading behavioral design firm in Silicon Valley. Irrational Labs partners with top companies such as Intuit, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Meta, and Microsoft to drive behavior change for the greater good. Kristen's expertise in behavioral economics began as a founding member of the behavioral economics group at Google, where she worked with over 25 teams to launch innovative interventions, and she went on to co-found Duke University's financial decision making lab, Common Cents. She also publishes Product Teardowns, a Substack where she takes apart a popular app in about five minutes to show how a behavioral scientist thinks about design, pricing, incentives, and loyalty. Find the Guest Online LinkedIn kristenberman.com Product Teardowns on Substack Irrational Labs Irrational Labs case studies Mentioned in This Episode Lessons on habit formation from an experiment with Headspace Headspace onboarding experiment recap by Purchasely, the third partner in the study BJ Fogg's Behavior Model (motivation, ability, trigger/prompt) Ulysses contracts and pre-commitment Forced choice (Accept or Decline versus Continue) Meta-analysis on personalized health feedback (circa 2020) Duolingo's reminder timing, Netflix's move from five stars to thumbs, and Uber Eats notifications Core Drives in the Wild guide Free Resources and Get in Touch Core Drives in the Wild: Professor Game Free Guide Get Daily Value on Your Email Let's chat about your gamification project YouTube LinkedIn Instagram Facebook Start Your Community on Skool for Free Ask a question

In Part 2 of our discussion on Henry David Thoreau's Walden, editor Jedediah Britton-Purdy returns to discuss misconceptions about the author's philosophy, the balancing act of isolation and civic duty, and Thoreau's possible influence on important figures including Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Jedediah Britton-Purdy is Professor of Law at Duke University and a scholar of environmental and constitutional law. His books on environmental themes include After Nature and This Land Is Our Land. He has also written about Henry David Thoreau in venues including The Atlantic, The Nation, and n+1. He grew up in West Virginia.To learn more or purchase a copy of the Norton Library edition of Walden and Other Writings, go to https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393870701. Learn more about the Norton Library series at https://wwnorton.com/norton-library.Have questions or suggestions for the podcast? Email us at nortonlibrary@wwnorton.com or find us on Twitter at @TNL_WWN and Bluesky at @nortonlibrary.bsky.social. 

Serena Kerrigan, known as SFK, is the founder of Let's Fcking Date and author of the brand new book Let's Fcking Date: Become the Prize, Enjoy the Ride, and Never Settle Again. She is a Duke University graduate, a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and the creator and star of Peacock's Older Hotter Wiser. Her book is the dating bible for women who want love, have standards and are done apologizing for either, releasing September 22, 2026. In this episode of Running With Wolves, Savannah sits down with Serena the day before her book launch to talk about building a global brand around radical confidence, what it means to show up as the prize and how Let's F*cking Date went from a digital series to a community of over a million people. Here's what this episode covers: What Let's F*cking Date actually is and how it became a card game franchise, sold-out live shows, a Peacock series and now a book Why Serena built her entire brand on the premise that you are already the prize and never once positioned it around fixing women The real tools inside the book including the List, the 3P Theory, the Roster, the F*ck No Funeral and the Glue What the Let's F*cking Date community is really built on and why it's something no competitor can replicate Let's F*cking Date is available for pre-order now at https://letsfuckingdate.com, releasing September 22, 2026. Connect with Serena on Instagram at @serenakerrigan. Apply to work with Savannah HERE: http://bit.ly/applywlfpodcast or DM her on Instagram @itssavannahjordan ( / itssavannahjordan ) with your takeaway. Serena Kerrigan, Let's F*cking Date, you are the prize, dating book, female founder, Forbes 30 Under 30, book launch, self worth

Psychological factors like a person's thoughts, beliefs and emotions can exert a strong influence on rehabilitation outcomes for people with chronic musculoskeletal conditions. When a person has pain, they might feel scared to move or convinced that moving in a certain way will damage their body. Today's discussion focuses on how a person's thoughts about shoulder pain can change over an 8-week exercise-based rehabilitation program, and the implications for how musculoskeletal rehabilitation clinicians approach discussions about fear and moving with the patients you work with. Dr Courtney Mears and Dr Matthew Heindel discuss their recent JOSPT publication (linked below).Dr Mears is a physical therapist at the University of Southern California, and a researcher in the Clinical Biomechanics Orthopedic and Sports Outcomes Research Lab. Her research focuses on understanding the relationship between psychosocial factors, shoulder pain, and functional outcomes.Dr Heindel is a physical therapist, and a postdoctoral associate at Duke University's School of Medicine, where he studies the neuroimmune mechanisms of chronic musculoskeletal pain. Dr Heindel completed his PhD on the mechanics of pain and muscle dysfunction in rotator cuff tendinopathy in 2025 at the Clinical Biomechanics Orthopedic and Sports Outcomes Research Lab at the University of Southern California.------------------------------RESOURCESChanges in pain-related fear: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2026.13563OSPRO yellow flag assessment tool: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2016.6487

Get ready to explore the intersection of academia and the paranormal!

On today's show, Rachel Keith talks to Duke University assistant professor Dr. Justin Leroy about his new book, The Lowest Freedom — Racial Capitalism and Black Thought in the Nineteenth Century. We discuss American history in the context of prominent Black authors like Wilmington's own David Walker, along with Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells.

Can digestive enzymes help with IBS symptoms? What about enzymes that target specific FODMAPs? In this episode of The Gut Show, we're talking with Jocelyn Wells from FODZYME about digestive enzymes and their role in breaking down FODMAPs. We'll explore what digestive enzymes are, how they work, and how targeted enzyme therapy may help with digestion and IBS symptoms. We'll take a closer look at enzymes designed to target specific FODMAPs, discuss whether using an enzyme supplement means you're actually deficient in that enzyme, and whether enzyme therapy can be effective when it doesn't target every FODMAP group. If you're a clinician wanting FODZYME samples and resources for your practice, you can request them here.    In this episode, we cover: Behind the scenes [1:53] Today's guest [3:35] What are enzymes? [4:39] What are the different types of enzymes? [6:14] If an enzyme works, does that mean you are deficient? [10:59] Targeted enzyme therapy [17:57] Specific enzymes for the different FODMAPs [22:07] Inulinase [23:40] How do these enzymes work? [28:24] Is it a bad thing to not have that fermentation process? [31:18] Does it actually work if it doesn't target all of the groups? [34:31] Can we bypass this and just put these microbes in the gut? [40:28] Access to dietitian team [43:42] Have your provider request free samples for their office [47:32] What's coming up this season [50:05]   Mentioned in this episode: What's your poop personality? MASTER Method Membership Clinicians can request free FODZYME samples for patients at providers.fodzyme.com/hcp-sample-request Customers can save 20% off your first FODZYME subscription order at fodzyme.com/foodfreedom   About our guest: Jocelyn Wells, MS, RDN, CSDH, is a Registered Dietitian specializing in gastrointestinal nutrition. She holds a BA from Duke University and an MS in Clinical Nutrition from New York University. She currently leads clinical strategy and partnerships at FODZYME, a digestive enzyme for FODMAP intolerance, where she oversees HCP education, clinical research, sales, nutrition communications, and professional collaborations. Her work focuses on advancing evidence-based nutrition care to improve patient outcomes and quality of life.   Thank you to our partner: If you're dealing with GI issues like IBS, SIBO, EoE, IBD, or IMO, you may have heard of the elemental diet. mBIOTA Elemental is a clinically proven, short-term liquid nutrition protocol that provides essential nutrients in their simplest forms, allowing much of the GI tract to rest and reset. It's a nutrition-based alternative to antibiotics for managing GI conditions. Developed by a patient and her doctors to improve the patient experience — without sacrificing effectiveness. Learn more at mBIOTA.com and save 15% on the two-week protocol with code GUTSHOW15.   Connect with Erin Judge, RD:  Instagram TikTok Work with Erin FREE symptom tracker  

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Barry Harvey is back with a book that puts madness, theocracy, and anarchism in the title. It's a collection of essays developed over his career, and beneath them all sits one assertion: the church is not a subsystem of civil society. It has its own integrity, its own allegiance, and its own context for rethinking how it relates to everything else. The preface opens with Justin Martyr noting that second-century Christians were charged with madness for putting a crucified man right next to God. Barry's point: if the church has a healthy understanding of itself, it already is a resistance movement — rooted in scripture, liturgy, and tradition, and located, as Bonhoeffer put it, in the middle of the human village. We got into ecclesial solidarity and the ordo amoris (and the administration official who thinks he can do Catholic theology), the American form of cheap grace, the neoliberal collapse of state and market into one thing, and then — because Barry has multiple music degrees and I have no self-control — Bonhoeffer's polyphony, Tolkien's Silmarillion, the long defeat, eucatastrophe, and Gandalf's ecclesiology. I skipped every one of my Richard Rorty questions the moment Tolkien came up. I regret nothing. You can WATCH the conversation on YouTube Dr. Barry Harvey is Professor of Theology in the Honors College and the Department of Religion at Baylor University, where he has taught since 1988. He holds an MDiv from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a PhD from Duke University. His new book is Madness, Theocracy, and Anarchism: Political and Cultural Reflections on the Church. JOIN OUR OPEN ONLINE CLASS: The Empire Christ Couldn't Keep⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Ever notice how Christian nationalism gets talked about like it's some bizarre new glitch in the faith? It isn't — it's a 2,000-year-old arrangement wearing new clothes, and once you see how the pattern works, you can also spot the Christ who keeps slipping free of it. Join theologian Joerg Rieger and Tripp Fuller for The Christ Empire Couldn't Keep, a free six-week online class tracing the holy alliances, imperial creeds, and stubborn resistance that have shaped Christianity from Paul to the present. You'll get six lectures from Joerg, six live Q&As, weekly readings from his book Christ and Empire, and a community of fellow troublemakers thinking it through together. It's free to join, every session is recorded, and it kicks off Thursday, August 27. Grab your spot at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠HomebrewedClasses.com.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ This podcast is a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Homebrewed Christianity ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠production. Follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠the Homebrewed Christianity⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Theology Nerd Throwdown⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, & ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Rise of Bonhoeffer⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ podcasts for more theological goodness for your earbuds. Join over 75,000 other people by joining our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack - Process This!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get instant access to over 50 classes at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.TheologyClass.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow the podcast, drop a review⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, send ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠feedback/questions⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or become a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠member of the HBC Community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

photo by Gabriel Lopez (augmented with a grey and a black cat by Michael M): https://www.pexels.com/photo/spectacular-lightning-storm-over-a-river-at-night-37895958/ Published 14 September 2026 e568 Michael and Michael discuss AI Vision invisibility techniques, set flavors to stun with Le Creuset's Star Trek inspired cookware, enjoy LEGO Ideas projects, review Audio Intelligence features and a whole lot more! Michael and Michael get together while Andy is away and kick things off with a story about making cars invisible to AI.  This discussion reminds Michael R of other examples such as clothing or glasses that aid in obscuring visual algorithms.  Michael M is reminded of a story the Games at Work team covered about Duke University's work on an “invisibility cloak”. The next dish on the menu deals with a fun mashup between cookware maker Le Creuset and Star Trek.  A wonderful article from Wired chock full of puns boldly goes where the cohosts did not dare.  I'm a chef, not an away team member, Jim!  How they missed a saucer separation is really beyond us.  In the attached show notes, you can delve into the differences between a Trekker and a Trekkie – but consider yourself warned.   Then, a couple of pieces about LEGO, specifically the LEGO Ideas that have reached 10,000 community votes, and are up for consideration to be made available for purchase.  Michael M highlights his favorites from the recent batch of contenders, focusing on Lion-O and his ThunderCats team.  The 1950s diner with it's lighting kit for all the neon decor is also fantastic. This was the week for new announcements from Cupertino – and the cohosts picked up on two interesting pieces.  First, a set of cases for the new iPhone Duo that hearken back to the color language of the iBook.  And second, a take on the privacy for the Audio Intelligence features for the new Apple Watches. The team wraps things up with the 40th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and a sidescroller game celebrating the 900th anniversary since the last time the Bayeux tapestry was in England.   Who is your favorite ThunderCat?  Have your bots

From evidence to practice: factors influencing the implementation of cord blood treatment for cerebral palsy in the United StatesMadison C B Paton, Joanne Kurtzberg, Jessica Sun, Sarah Reedman, Remy Blatch-Williams, Michael Fahey, Iona Novak, Megan Finch-EdmondsonAbstractBackground and aims: Cord blood infusion is an emerging treatment for cerebral palsy (CP) currently offered in the United States through clinical trials and an expanded access pathway. This study aimed to understand the barriers and facilitators influencing implementation of cord blood treatment for CP, to help inform future implementation efforts.Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with US professionals involved in the cord blood treatment program for CP at Duke University and a collaborator site. Data were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis.Results: From 16 interviews, 5 themes were identified capturing patterned barriers and enablers. Key facilitators included boundary-spanning clinical leadership, interprofessional coordination, dedicated resourcing, responsiveness to community demand, an established safety profile, and a strong research culture. Barriers included the need for cross-disciplinary expertise, uncertainty regarding efficacy evidence, funding and regulatory constraints, and system-level challenges. Participants described that many barriers were overcome to establish the program, while acknowledging that others may persist and are context dependent.Conclusions: Findings highlight that implementation of cord blood treatment for CP is feasible within specialized settings but contingent on local infrastructure, governance, and workforce capacity. Identified facilitators align with established implementation strategies and offer transferable insights, while underscoring the need for regulatory approval, ethical oversight, and system-level supports to enable equitable and sustainable access to emerging regenerative therapies for CP.Keywords: barriers; cerebral palsy; cord blood; facilitators; implementation.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42571975/

Armando Besio"Il bello dell'orrido"Prosegue con un calendario autunnale “Il bello dell'Orrido”, rassegna curata da Armando Besio che propone conversazioni con protagonisti della cultura contemporanea. Inserita nel progetto BAC Bellano Arte Cultura, la nuova stagione porta sul palco del Cinema di Bellano (a ingresso gratuito, ore 18.00) gli incontri con Andrea Vitali, Ben Pastor e Bruno Giussani: dialoghi aperti, nei quali il racconto individuale degli ospiti si intreccia a temi collettivi – poesia e quotidianità, passione per il thriller e per le storie noir, innovazioni tecnologiche e resistenza digitale – in un continuo rimando tra parola, poesia e pensiero critico. Proseguendo il filone dello scorso anno, sabato 26 settembre torna sul palco Andrea Vitali, con l'incontro “Le migliori poesie della nostra vita”: il confronto tra Vitali –  vero e proprio “ospite di casa” – e Besio si sposta dal romanzo (tema affrontato lo scorso anno) alla poesia. La scelta dei componimenti è guidata dall'introspezione, alterna sentimenti di dolore e perdita a desideri e speranza di consolazione. Un appuntamento che è ormai una felice consuetudine letteraria, supportata dalla conoscenza di lunga data dei due interlocutori. Nato a Bellano nel 1956, Andrea Vitali ha studiato medicina all'Università Statale di Milano e fino al 2008 ha lavorato come medico di base a Bellano. Dopo quel momento ha dedicato tutto il suo impegno alla scrittura, tornando eccezionalmente all'attività medica solo nel 2020 durante la pandemia. Come scrittore ha esordito nel 1989 con Il procuratore, premiato con il Montblanc, e da allora ha pubblicato senza interruzioni numerosi romanzi, principalmente con Garzanti e Rizzoli. Prolifico e costante, con la sua scrittura ha costruito una vera e propria “commedia umana”, quasi sempre ambientata a Bellano, dove ironia e malinconia si intrecciano: la grande Storia resta sullo sfondo, mentre il paese, con le sue contraddizioni, le sue singolarità e le sue relazioni personali e affettive, diventa il cuore pulsante dei suoi racconti. Accanto ai romanzi, Vitali ha sperimentato anche altre forme di scrittura: per l'editore Cinquesensi ha firmato diciannove libri, corredati dalle illustrazioni di Giancarlo Vitali, suo amico pittore (di cui è stato medico curante). A breve sulla RAI andrà in onda l'attesissima serie tv, ispirata ai suoi romanzi e alla figura del giovane maresciallo dei carabinieri Ernesto Maccadò. Si prosegue sabato 24 ottobre con una serata dedicata a Ben Pastor, scrittrice noir di fama internazionale e docente di scienze sociali nelle università americane: “La signora in giallo” è il titolo dell'incontro, che si concluderà con una gialla risottata in compagnia dell'autrice e del pubblico. L'occasione editoriale è data dall'arrivo in libreria de Lo specchio del pellegrino(Sellerio, 2026), ultimo romanzo con Martin Bora, uno dei personaggi più amati nei gialli storici pubblicati da Sellerio. Il protagonista è infatti un ufficiale della Wehrmacht tedesca, collaboratore dei servizi segreti, diviso tra l'obbedienza alla divisa e l'avversione agli orrori del nazismo. Ben Pastor, nata a Roma ma naturalizzata americana, è considerata tra le voci più autorevoli del giallo storico contemporaneo e una delle scrittrici capofila del cosiddetto "Postmodernismo", come attestato anche dall'apprezzamento e dagli studi del principale critico letterario statunitense, Fredric Jameson, della Duke University. L'appuntamento conclusivo, intitolato “Manuale di resistenza digitale”, saràsabato 28 novembre con Bruno Giussani, giornalista, podcaster e per vent'anni direttore europeo e curatore globale delle conferenze TED. Punto di partenza del dialogo con Besio è La mente sotto assedio. Come non lasciarsi manipolare nell'era dell'intelligenza artificiale (Edizioni Casagrande, 2026), un saggio che indaga la nostra complessa relazione con l'intelligenza artificiale e le tecnologie algoritmiche, capaci oggi di raccogliere i nostri dati, analizzare le nostre emozioni e persino falsificare la realtà attraverso testi, suoni e immagini ingannevoli. Giussani porta a riflettere su questi cambiamenti in atto, e propone un atteggiamento personale e collettivo di “resistenza digitale”, per imparare a decifrare questi meccanismi e a usare le nuove tecnologie senza esserne utilizzati.  Un incontro utile ad ampliare la visione sullo sviluppo della tecnologia e ad analizzare i suoi possibili utilizzi.  PERCORSO BAC BELLANO ARTE CULTURACome già negli scorsi anni, gli appuntamenti al cinema sono preceduti dal percorso accompagnato a cura dei Custodi del Patrimonio di Bellano alla scoperta dell'itinerario BAC: Orrido di Bellano, San Nicolao Arte Contemporanea, Museo Giancarlo Vitali, Chiesa di Santa Marta, Chiesa dei Santi Nazaro e Celso. Prenotazione obbligatoria a custodipatrimoniobellano@gmail.com Cinema di Bellano - inizio ore 18.00,ingresso libero.sabato 26 settembreAndrea Vitali Le migliori poesie della nostra vita sabato 24 ottobre Ben Pastor La signora in giallo sabato 28 novembre Bruno Giussani Manuale di resistenza digitale Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

September 11, 2001, changed Bob Ellis's life, just as it changed mine. Bob was working at the Pentagon that morning and had walked out of the building only minutes before Flight 77 struck the area where his meeting had taken place. You will hear how he immediately became part of the response, helping organize emergency supplies and support for those working at the Pentagon. We also compare our experiences from two different locations that day, Bob at the Pentagon and me at the World Trade Center with my guide dog Roselle. Twenty-five years later, our conversation is about more than remembering 9/11. It is about leadership, teamwork, service, controlling fear, and deciding what we do with the life we have been given. I believe Bob's story offers lessons we can all use when the unexpected happens. Highlights: 05:29-Bob shares how his early life and military support career shaped his path. 23:53-He recalls realizing the first World Trade Center strike was not an accident. 32:59-Bob describes being just 300 yards away when the Pentagon was hit. 37:00-He explains how he helped organize emergency relief supplies within hours. 1:03:54-Michael reflects on survival, fear, and the responsibility to move forward. 1:06:55-Bob shares the lasting life lessons he took from September 11. About the Guest: Bob Ellis is the Vice President, American Logistics Association responsible for Exchange, MWR, Food Service Operations. The native of Fort Walton Beach, Florida began his career with AAFES in 1972. From 1972 through 1984, he held retail management positions as a Branch Manager, and Operations Manager Main Store. In 1985, Ellis began a string of assignments as an Exchange General Manager trainee at Fort Belvoir, VA, and Exchange General Manager, Fort Hamilton, NY and Carlisle Barrack PA, (Army War College). Assignments as Area Retail Manager and General Manager at the former Japan Area Exchange ran from 1989-1992. In 1992, Ellis was transferred to Travis AFB in California as Retail Manager, Main Store. In 1994, Ellis was selected for the General Manager's position at Travis and spent three years assisting in the design and new construction effort of the largest retail Main Store ever constructed by AAFES. From 1997 to 2002, Ellis held the position of Director of AAFES' Washington Office, serving as the principal representative of the Commander, AAFES to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Departments of the Army and the Air Force, Congressional offices and industry representatives. Notable among his accomplishments, Ellis was instrumental in spearheading AAFES support to the Pentagon after the attacks of September 11th. Within 48 hours of the event, AAFES established a mobile exchange in the shadow of the impact site to support rescue workers and investigators with critical need and personal comfort items. After Washington, Ellis moved to AAFES Headquarters' in Dallas to assume the Vice President Specialty and Consumables position. In this role, Ellis was responsible for the SD-C Category Team Managers/Buyers. In August 2003, Ellis took his a position as Vice President of Corporate Planning and Communications where he managed the development of AAFES long range and contingency planning programs, oversight of corporate public affairs and ensured compliance with Department of Defense policy guidance with the goal of preserving and protecting the exchange benefit for soldiers and airmen and their families around the globe. Bob joined the ALA on 31 July 2006 where he continues to serve a role in military resale supporting Exchange, MWR, and Food Service, operations still serving military resale over 51 years continuous service. Ways to connect with Bob**:** You can find more benefits how Branded Riches can help you build your Brand, Product, Business, and Yourself at https://www.BrandedRiches.com   Connect:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/neryk-davydov Branded Riches Audiobook by Neryk Davydov https://www.audible.com/pd/Branded-Riches-Audiobook/B0GCP9MMRB Branded Riches Book https://www.amazon.com/Branded-Riches-Increase-Income-Irresistible/dp/1987753836 $5 Free Gift for Creating A New Ovato Wallet    www.ovatoCoin.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/ 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? 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We're going to help commemorate the historic events of September 11, 2001. Yes, they're definitely historic, although not necessarily the most positive things that have ever happened. But as many of you may know, I was in the World Trade Center working on September 11, 2001, on the 78th floor of Tower One, and escaped with my guide dog. I've delivered a speech about that, which we put in the first episode of this podcast series back in August of 2021. But this Friday, episode 472 is going to have an updated speech that I delivered just a few years ago at the Marshfield, Missouri Cherry Blossom Festival. That festival is a yearly event celebrating different kinds of things that have happened in American history, and I was invited to come and speak, which I did. I'm going to put that speech up for you as episode 472. I think you'll find it enlightening. It'll teach you something about blindness and blind people. It'll tell you my story, and it'll give you some inspiration that I hope you will find helpful. Next Tuesday, september 8, Michelle Abraham is going to interview me. Michelle is with Amplify You, the company that does all of our back office stuff and helps me with the editing and other things regarding the podcast. Michelle owns her own podcast, and she is going to interview me about September 11th and other kinds of things relating to what I've learned and things that have happened over the past 25 years. She's also going to be putting this up on her podcast Amplify You, so you can find us in a lot of different places. On September 11th, I'm going to chat with Bob Ellis. Bob was in the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and had literally just walked out the door of the Pentagon when the plane crashed into the Pentagon and did the things and the damage that it did, and of course generated all the things that occurred at the Pentagon. On the 15th of September, I'm going to come back and have a conversation with all of you about lessons that I've learned over the past 25 years, and just reminisce a little bit about all of that. While the podcast is occurring on September 11th, I will be actually in Kilgore, Texas, doing a speech about September 11th. So lots of things going on, I hope you listen to these episodes. I hope that you'll tell everyone that you can about them. I really enjoy all of the support that you've given us over the years, and we're going to continue to do things with Unstoppable Mindset. And of course, as always, if you'd like to come on or know anyone who would, please let us know. We're always looking for guests. Thanks very much. We'll see you on Friday with the first of these four episodes. What if the biggest thing holding you back isn't what's in front of you, but rather what you believe? Welcome to Unstoppable Mindset, where inclusion, diversity, and the unexpected meet. I'm your host, Michael Hingston, speaker, author, and advocate for inclusion and possibilities. This podcast explores how the beliefs we carry shape the way we live, lead, and connect with others. Each week, I talk with people who challenge assumptions, face adversity head-on, and show what's possible when we choose curiosity over fear. Together, we focus on mindset, resilience, and the small shifts that lead to meaningful change. Let's get started. Hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of Unstoppable Mindset. You are listening to us today, or at least I'm assuming you're listening just when this came out. But whenever you're listening, it is today, September 11th, 2026, which is needless to say, a special day. If you have kept up with my podcast from the beginning, you know that I worked in the World Trade Center on September 11th, and ever since then I've been a public speaker, traveling the world, talking about trust, teamwork, leadership, the human-animal bond, and a variety of things. But recently, I met Bob Ellis. Michael Hingson  04:40 Now, Bob, as it turns out, on September 11th worked at the Pentagon, and I have not ever really had the opportunity to talk with someone who was at the Pentagon, especially on September 11th. But we get to chat about that today, and Bob knows our rules, which are basically. He sent me a series of questions that he wants to cover, but we are doing this as a conversation, so we'll probably talk about a lot of the things that he specifically sent. But we can go any old way that Bob wants to go, so that's what we'll we'll make this really fun. And I'm really looking forward to having the opportunity to talk with Bob. So again, welcome to September 11th, and Bob, I want to welcome you to Unstoppable Mindset. We're really glad you're here, Bob Ellis  05:28 Michael. Thank you for inviting me. I know you you've inquired several times, and I've debated it, and and I was just holding it for the right time, and this is the right time-the 25th anniversary of the event. Michael Hingson  05:40 Yeah, it is, and and and as as we've said, if you find anybody who needs a a speaker to come in and speak, let me know. But but for now, we get to chat about you and and hear your story, which I think is the important thing. I think we'll probably talk about both of our stories in the course of the day, no doubt about it. But I really am glad that you are here and that you are able to to talk with us today and and and talk about things. So let's start the way I love to start with people. Let's start at the beginning. Tell me kind of about the early Bob growing up and so on. Let's start with that. Bob Ellis  06:17 Well, I I grew up in let's say grew up until I was four years old. I lived. I was born in Pensacola, Florida. Lived in the Panhandle. Mother and father got divorced, and we moved to Norfolk, Virginia. And it was just my my mother and I until I was 14 years old. And I found out about my dad and found some letters from him and insisted to go see him. And so, between 14 and 15, I made a couple of unauthorized attempts to to make my way to Florida. On the third attempt, I made it, and it was quite a surprise for my father. Ended up living with him and being my closest friend up until I had he had grandkids, we had kids, and so I lived and grew up in the Destin, Fort Worth, Fort Walton area. Went to work, and this is where the story begins. I went to work at Eglin Air Force Base as a as a janitor in a gas station for the Army Air Force Exchange Service, so that I could continue to play high school football and practice, was a great job. It was an opportunity to work with the military, be around the military, and I took great pride in that feeling that that that that while I I wanted to go into the air force and I wanted to fly jets, that opportunity just never presented itself because the Vietnam War was going on and they were banking pilots instead of taking pilots. Anyway, I I ended up staying with the Army Air Force Exchange Service for 34 years. I moved all over the world. I've seen the every AOR and every combat scenario since the Vietnam War. Not in the Vietnam War, but I was in the refugee program, helping with the resettlement back in 1972, 1973. Spent the rest of my career going wherever they sent me, and and and that was from Tokyo, Japan, to to Tuli, Greenland, to California, and ultimately to to Texas. Michael Hingson  08:30 I remember during the Vietnam War, someone called me one day. I was a student at UC Irvine, and there was a refugee camp fairly close to the university, and someone said, and someone said, "There's a blind young man at the sent at the refugee center, and we should go see him. And so we we bought a transistor radio for him and went out to visit with him and spent some time with him, and I never got to see him after that. But I hope I hope he did well. He he seemed like he was doing okay, but he was a little bit lost, needless to say, because it's a whole bunch of people. There are no a lot of people who knew much about blindness and blind people, but I would presume he did reasonably okay. I hope so, but that was the only time I specifically had an involvement with him or anyone at the refugee camps. Later, when I met my wife Karen, she lived, I think, a door down, and she and her parents lived a door down from a Vietnamese couple, and he was a tailor and actually made her wedding dress, which was kind of cool, and so we got to spend a fair amount of time with the Voo's, which was was good, but what's. Interesting for me now, with with now being well so many years later. In November, I will be going to do a speech in Hanoi, so I'm really looking forward to to going over there and and experiencing it. At least it'll be a little bit cooler then than it probably is now. So we'll see, but it'll be it'll be pretty enjoyable to go and again see a different a different part of the world, and I I think we'll be fine. At least that's that's that's the plan. Bob Ellis  10:34 That that that that tour that I had at Eglin Air Force Base with the refugees, will come back to to to 911 2001 and the experiences that I had at that refugee camp replicated in the Pentagon park and lot there in 911. So we'll get to that. I'll explain it further. Michael Hingson  10:56 Yeah, I'm sure it was a a great a great lesson. Where did you do college, or did you Bob Ellis  11:03 went to went to Duke University and the University and the University of Maryland? Michael Hingson  11:10 Okay. Well, at Bob Ellis  11:12 least much of it was correspondence as well, only because I was deployed for for so many years back to back, 17 moves in 34 years. Michael Hingson  11:22 Wow, Duke University. At least you didn't go to one of those other schools in North Carolina. Boy, talk about talk about rivalries and basketball. What a what a group down there. Bob Ellis  11:35 Oh, I know, I know. Michael Hingson  11:38 I once spoke in Kentucky, and the Wildcats were in the NCAA championship that year, and I was asked to speak at an event on the night of the championship. But I was told I had to end by 630. I could not go one second past 630 because the gym I was speaking in was going to clear out. Well, I ended in time so that at 630, what they said was absolutely true. That gym cleared out. Everybody went home to watch the game. Bob Ellis  12:09 That's that's sports. Michael Hingson  12:11 Not sports. It is, but it's okay. I I learned a lot down there and got to meet a number of people, and so it was it was a lot of fun to to do it, and then years later I was in North Carolina when NC State and UNC were playing to see who was going to go into the championship. So again, pretty interesting world, and and sports ruled everything then, so it's okay. It Bob Ellis  12:43 hasn't it hasn't changed at all because my my my daughter I got her graduate studies done at NC State, and it hasn't changed a bit. It's just I'll bet it's just crazy as it's when was 20 3040 years ago, Michael Hingson  12:58 and it shall ever be, won't it? Bob Ellis  13:01 Yeah, yeah. Her undergraduate degree was at University of Texas. This was my son's, and she went on to NC State, and and he went on to medical school in in Houston. Michael Hingson  13:16 Okay. Well, UC Irvine, when I was there, had the championship water polo team, but that's what we had. But they started basketball while I was there, although it wasn't anything huge. But a couple of years ago, they made it to the Sweet 16, and that was kind of fun for UC Irvine. One of these days, it'll go all the way. Bob Ellis  13:40 Yep. Michael Hingson  13:41 Well, anyway, so you you went to college, and and what did you major in? Bob Ellis  13:45 Political science. Michael Hingson  13:47 Okay, political science Bob Ellis  13:48 and business management. With a with my two aspirations, I wanted to. I really wanted to major in in aviation science, but that that wasn't offered. So that's political science and business science, business law. Michael Hingson  14:06 But you were working for the Army Air Force Exchange Service. What is that exactly? Bob Ellis  14:11 Yeah, it's a it's it's it's a non-appropriated funded Service provided all goods. I think of it as the the Walmart or the Target of of the civilian sector, except the Army Air Force Exchange Service has stored everything from stores, every business that you can think of therein, from stores to convenience stores to gas stations to beauty shops and barber shops to dining facilities, franchise Burger Kings, anything that a soldier and his family needs at the base or overseas or in the combat arena, where we were there with it, providing it. It's been a great career. Michael Hingson  14:59 Did you? Do you have any involvement with, especially here in the U.S. the the Randolph Sheppard programs, the blind vending stand operations at any of the facilities? Bob Ellis  15:09 Yep, sure did many many times. We're still working with it. There's there's some issues present right now under the Randolph Shepherd that they're looking at. I don't know what what's going to change, but yes, sir, we were very, very close to that. Michael Hingson  15:24 Yeah, I know there. The current government's looking at it; they want to scale a lot of it back, which would, I think, not be a good thing. I think there's a lot of reasons to keep it, but we'll see. We'll see. We'll see how it goes. But I, the closest I ever came to dealing with anything from AAES was I was invited to speak once at an organizational meeting of the National Property Managers Association in the military. Are you familiar with that? Bob Ellis  15:56 I am. Yes. Michael Hingson  15:57 And when I was asked to come, the Speakers Bureau didn't do a good research job because they told me, "Oh, it's the people who rent apartments and all that. When I got down to the to the event, I will say that the National Property Managers Association certainly serves a nice breakfast. But anyway, the conversation just didn't seem like what I what I was expecting. So I asked somebody, and they told me that the organization was the organization that had complete jurisdiction over anything physical that the government owned, and Bob Ellis  16:30 absolutely Michael Hingson  16:31 that that changed my grass. Sorry, Bob Ellis  16:34 right down to the grass, right down to the grass and the concrete. Michael Hingson  16:37 There you go. Well, it also changed my speech in 10 minutes, but it was fun. They invited me back the next year, so that was good. But it's it's fun when you're you're planning to do a particular speech, and suddenly it turns out it's got to change. It's good to have the flexibility to do that. But I'm I'm glad I had the opportunity to do it, and hopefully we'll have opportunities to do it again, but you have served a lot of different kinds of of services within AAES, and and I assume that's all worked out pretty well. Bob Ellis  17:14 That that worked out very well. Yep, I had I started at the bottom and and climbed as close to the top as I possibly could, but Michael Hingson  17:23 you eventually got the the highest medal that was available for civilians when you retired or after you retired. Bob Ellis  17:31 No, the highest award that I ever received was from my man over the Pentagon 911 support program, which was a nice medoris civilian award. Michael Hingson  17:46 Okay, where is your favorite place to live in the world? Or is that really easy to say? I mean, you've been all over the place and seen a lot of different kinds of places. Don't know how much you got to two of them, but anyway, Bob Ellis  18:00 it wasn't the two places that I that I went overseas, which was Japan and Greenland. Those were the longest tours of my life. Beautiful country in Japan, and and great facilities and support in tuning Greenland. But I would I would guess throughout the United States, I had a great assignment at the Army War College, and I had a great assignment at Travis Air Force Base here in Michael Hingson  18:26 California. Yeah, Bob Ellis  18:28 yeah. Michael Hingson  18:30 I've spoken. Bob Ellis  18:30 My son was born in Japan. He's dual citizen as a result on the Air Force Base, and my daughter was born in California. So it was a great time, mainly because the kids were younger and and and and we were in great climate areas. Michael Hingson  18:48 When people ask me what my favorite place in the United States is, I say everywhere. I I just enjoy meeting people wherever I go in the U.S. It's so many different cultures and customs and ways of doing things. It is so fun to to see all the different places and see how they are. People ask what I like, where I like outside the U.S. And so far, it's been New Zealand. I would say is probably the best, but Japan has to be up there too. I've really enjoyed being in Japan. I've been there a couple times, and I thoroughly enjoyed Bob Ellis  19:23 it. I, I had, I think the most the the greatest thing about the assignments was some of the people I I got to to meet in in my in my tours. One of them would be the Crown Prince of of Thailand, who who is now the king of Thailand, King Rama, got to meet him when he was a pilot, and supported him when when I was at Yokota Air Base, and multiple other celebrities. I I had the opportunity as a kid to attend the funeral. For Douglas MacArthur, and and his his memorial was right across the street in North Virginia from where my mother worked. And 20 years later, I had the opportunity to to meet mrs. Mcarthur, Jean MacArthur, at Gracie Mansion in New York, and I I I wrote protocol. I when it came time for her to to meet me and meet meet her, I got down on one knee and I held her hand and I said, "I want to tell you a little story, ma'am. And she said, "Well, certainly, absolutely. And I told her the story how when the general had died in in 1964, I was required by my my mother to go to the funeral, and the most fascinating person I'd ever seen in my life was herself, and she just got she just turned red. Well, long story short, I was at an army command at Fort Hamilton. The next day, the the group the the installation commander called me over to his office, very angry, but he wanted me to know that I was going to be the first civilian aide for the old lady, which was mrs. Mcarthur, and he had to take one of his lieutenants off. And I got to know the family and and the Mcarthurs as a result of that. So lots of opportunities, just absolutely amazing. 911, and we'll get to it. I got to meet President Bush momentarily, but I I got to meet him and have a short conversation. Michael Hingson  21:32 I got to meet him in 2005. We went to the Oval Office, and we were supposed to have a two minute photo op, but he kept wanting to interact. We ended up talking for about 15 minutes. He kept the Italian ambassador or prime minister waiting, but it was a was a great conversation. I very much enjoyed having the opportunity to meet with him. Bob Ellis  21:53 Yeah, he was remarkable. Michael Hingson  21:54 Yeah, in in so many ways. If Speaker 1  22:00 you enjoy Unstoppable Mindset and would like to help us continue bringing these conversations to you each week, we've created a way for you to support the show. Your contribution helps us cover production costs and continue sharing stories, insights, and ideas that inspire people to live with purpose and possibility. If supporting the podcast feels right for you, you'll find the link in the show notes. Thank you for being part of the Unstoppable Mindset Community. Michael Hingson  22:33 So that's that's pretty cool. So as you were going around to all these different places, what would you say you were learning. Bob Ellis  22:41 I was learning business. I was learning relationships. I was learning marketing. Pretty much anything that you wanted to do as a general manager or a vice president, the exchanges let you do it. You know, until you got too far gone, and they they reel you back in. But I love being able to run multiple businesses on the installation, and and be accountable for them, and run them at a profit, and and at the end of the day, do great things for military families. Michael Hingson  23:16 Wow! So you um, you you've you've had a lot of challenges and and had to learn a lot of different things. Needless to say, but I would would think that you've you've been able to to keep a lot of that and use it. And you know we've referred to September 11 th, and so let's let's get to around that time. The first thing I would ask, and people have asked me, but you're in a better position in theory than I. Did you have any inkling that something like September 11th was going to happen? Bob Ellis  23:53 Well, actually, September 11th was was happening. I left for work about 4:30 in the morning. I lived out in the suburbs in Centerville, Virginia, and it was one of those days that you just wished you didn't have to go to work. It was the as the sun was coming up, it had a little cold breeze to it. The skies were blue. It was just one of those days that you just wanted to sit out in the yard and and relax or go bicycling, whatever. But I did my duty and I drove in to the Washington D.C. area and reported to my office on time, which was right around 5o'clock. My staff showed up around six and some at seven, and my secretary came in, and I don't know exactly what time it was, but it was shortly after, right around 9o'clock in Eastern Time, when the first airplane had hit the the trade center. Michael Hingson  24:49 Yeah, Bob Ellis  24:49 846-940-6846, Yes, right, 846. Yeah, and and so I I went in to look at the. The the television monitor standing there it was just her and I at the time and and and I said that's not an accident and she says how do you know that I said look at the skies that was an airliner they were talking about it was a little small private aviation well I'm a pilot I've been a pilot for 40 years 41 years I knew exactly, you know, that that where it was, what it was doing, and that wasn't a it wasn't an accident. And and my inkling was is that I was in a in rented space in Arlington, Virginia, because we had been moved out because the wedge that got attacked was the one that was still under construction. My office had not been completed there, and and I had a meeting in that wedge at 9o'clock that morning. And my secretary said to me, "You know, Bob, the Pentagon is next. And I paused for a minute and I looked at her and I said, "How in the world could you even imagine that, you know that that that's a fortress? Who would be crazy enough to attack the Pentagon? And she says, I I just I don't want you to go over, you know, just just just do it by phone, which I I probably could have done. And I said, No, I'm I'm going to go over there. If they're going if they're going to attack the Pentagon, I'm going to go down with it, and that was kind of my philosophy. So, in the back of my mind, seeing that airplane hit the Trade Center and her telling me that certainly made me wonder if it wasn't a possibility. Michael Hingson  26:33 So, you didn't. You don't think that anyone, and I've never heard of any such, but that anyone had any advance notice? There wasn't chatter. There wasn't anything that made people suspect what might be getting ready to happen. Bob Ellis  26:47 No, I I I think that is the the worst our country has ever been off guard. It reminds me of you know the the attack on Hawaii and that you know in in Pearl Harbor. We were completely unprepared, and I thought we were completely unprepared on 911. And in fact, after the attack, I knew we were unprepared when I saw the two jets fly over with no armament on the wings. So no, I don't think anybody had any idea. Michael Hingson  27:18 Well, the other side of it, and I've talked about this in in some talks I've given. I talk a lot about trust and teamwork, and like it or not, one of the things that I observe is you had 19 terrorists who functioned well enough as a team that they didn't talk about it. They didn't let anything come out. So no matter how much armament or whatever we might have had, I'm not sure whether we could have predicted that on September 11th, what occurred was going to happen. Bob Ellis  27:49 You know, all the indicators were there. You know, those those 19 trained at private airports, and they and during their training, it was it was reported multiple times that all they were interested in was taking off, not landing. I mean, first clue, you know. Okay. Why would you just be interested? He's taking off an airplane, and and I always found that very curious, and I'd heard it several times. That should have set alarm bells off. Should have. It didn't. Apparently, it did. Michael Hingson  28:20 Good point, and you know the the thing is though that, as as you pointed out, who would have thought that anybody would attack the Pentagon, the fortress that it was? Who Bob Ellis  28:33 yeah, Michael Hingson  28:33 who would have thought? So again, you can only go by what you got, and so nobody, I think, would have ever imagined that. Well, of course, the first plane hit the World Trade Center, and at first, people didn't really know what happened because there were really not very many people who who saw it. In fact, we only have the few photos that were taken by the French photographers who were there for something else, but then a little after nine, the second plane hit, and that changed the dynamic and changed the perspective a lot. Although a bunch of people who started seeing it on TV thought it was just a movie, and it wasn't true, but the second plane hitting changed the attitudes. I think for most people, and that's when people knew something was going on. Bob Ellis  29:24 Yeah, I didn't know anything about the second trade center. I had left my office in Crystal City, and I had headed to the Pentagon. And the meeting, the meeting that I had was with the Army Personnel Chief and several other folks. And as it turned out, that is exactly the window that the airplane flew into. That was ground zero for the for the for the target for the airplane going in just above the first floor for the Pentagon. So I didn't know anything. I was I was trapped at that point. I was trapped. Couldn't go um. Wouldn't go um. Didn't want to go um. And I had lived in New York City for five years, and I was my biggest. I was always impressed by the New York City Fire Department. I mean, they're they're just walking heroes if you've ever seen them. I mean, they were like they were like giants when you got next to them, and that they would they were just superhumans. And I always wondered upon the top floors how in the world you would get a fire put out at the top of the World Trade Center, and and I did not know until two days later when I made it home. That was my first question to my family: How did they get the the fire out at the top of the World Trade Center? And I and and it was repeated to me centers, and I said, What are you talking about? Centers in my family, and they said, "Bob, the World Trade Centers are gone. I said, "I don't understand. How could they be gone? And that was that. That was you know two days later that I found out about that. It was quite a shock to me to learn what it actually while I was on on the Pentagon mission. Michael Hingson  30:58 Well, when the first plane hit. Well, in the second plane, the firefighters were going up the stairs carrying all their equipment, and I had had had known about that and asked people, "Well, why are you or would you be carrying equipment? Because I met I I didn't meet the FDNY people ahead of the World Trade Center attacks, but I did meet with other people to learn about emergency preparedness and so on because I felt as the leader of an office, it was my job to know because I wasn't going to be able to read signs, and I love information, so I was trying to learn all I could, and they told me that where would if you if you had equipment stored in the in the towers, then people would go to it. Firefighters would go to it and get the the equipment. What floor do you put it on? Because no matter what floor you put it on, what if the fire broke out one floor below? You know, you can't get to the equipment. So the only way they could get up the stairs to fight the fires was to carry all of the equipment with them, yep, yep. Not enough is said about those guys in history. No, and I met a number of them coming up the stairs as we were going down, and they wanted to escort me down, and I didn't want them to do that because I knew they were a team, and I I pushed back pretty hard and said, no, you guys go up and we'll go down unless we can help you fight the fires, and they said no. The reason they eventually let me go down without any assistance was I had a friend with me who could see, and I said, "Look, David can see. Don't worry about us. And David and they turned to David and they said, "You're with him. And David said, "Yeah, leave him alone. He's fine. So we went on down, and they went up. I don't know whether the people we interacted with made it down or perished up above. It was about 10 after 10 after nine or so when we got to the 30th floor where we met them. So it was another hour and almost 20 minutes before the tower collapsed, but I don't know where the firefighters were, or how many people from the groups that we interacted with perished, or if they all made it out. I don't know, but Bob Ellis  33:12 yep, I I memorized all those numbers. You know, 189 between the airplane and the Pentagon, 200 injured, but 189. 189 total were 64 on the airplane, 125 in the Pentagon, and I'll never forget those numbers. Yeah, I'll never forget the time. I looked at my watch at 9:17, and and I have to tell you that on 9/11, I always sit very quietly until I get past 917, not 937. I'm sorry, 937. Michael Hingson  33:48 So Bob Ellis  33:48 in the morning. Michael Hingson  33:49 So, how close were you to where the plane came into the Pentagon? Bob Ellis  33:56 About 300 yards. When when it was clear that the meeting wasn't going to happen because the air traffic control system had been shut down. They released us to go back to our our offices, and I was going out the front door. I left about 930. It was supposed to start at nine 930. The generals said we'll just reconvene, and and I agreed. And from his office on on the south portico, I was walking out the front door. Literally, I heard the engines spool up. I had been in the AOR in rail combat munitions, and and I've heard cruise missiles, and and I could hear this one spinning up, and I thought it was a cruise missile, and so when it hit when it hit the building, it was just it was just a horrendous sound. But my first impression was to run to it to see what happened, what what what caused that, and there was nothing there. It was just four or five cars burning and smoke billowing out of the building. And and the the rest turned into a you know a rescue and a a recovery. Michael Hingson  35:08 AOR is what Bob Ellis  35:10 the area of responsibility. Michael Hingson  35:13 Okay, area of responsibility. Okay, Bob Ellis  35:16 yeah, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, wherever we are, it's it's N A O R, and that's your A O R. That's state. That's where you are. So that that's where I encountered first first and only live person coming out of the building, and which was a which was a really big surprise. But I knew that there was something that I I had to do, and and one of the things was to, if he needed assistance, getting him assistance. And there were several people. He was he was he was burned third degree burns over his whole body. He lived. I said one prayer was for him. And as it turned out, he became a a great ambassador. Turned out to be a great friend, and is actually back in the Pentagon to this day, just steps away from his old office as a civilian, went went back on a presidential appointment. Michael Hingson  36:09 So, you mentioned the general a while ago. Was did he survive? Bob Ellis  36:15 No, he was the he was the highest ranking person that we lost in in the entire encounter, and it was the entire office was just instantly vaporized. So he did not survive. Michael Hingson  36:33 Well, so you heard the engines revving up, and you went after you heard the explosion and so on. You went over to see what was going on, and then what did you do? Because it certainly had to be a major surprise and a shock by any standard. Bob Ellis  36:49 Yeah, I went that side of the building, saw the hole in the building, kind of convinced myself it was a cruise missile, but I never heard such a loud engine noise. As it turned out, it was it was two big engines off of a 757 200, and so I immediately tried to figure out you know what can I do? What should I do? Should I even be here? And that's when I saw the colonel coming out of the building, and I was able to walk with him and four others over to the the road, the Washington Boulevard that goes around the Pentagon, and and I sat down on the telephone pole, a light pole that the airplane hit going in. Now I'm a pilot, and and I have to tell you to take an airplane going at Mach point eight seven, and hit a target, hit the building, and not hitting the ground was just absolutely amazing to me. So as they got the colonel into an SUV and and and got him out of the the scene, I sat there. Just it was almost like a movie I was watching. The triage was being set up. The Pentagon was burning. The emergency services units were starting to show up, and we had very intermittent phone capability. And I had I had a a friend, my my the commander that I worked for in Dallas at the time. This secretary's husband was a bodyguard for Secretary Rumsfeld, and and Secretary Rumsfeld was actually carrying litter patients, carrying people out of the debris area and out of the offices. He was actually helping people, and he he realized that something needed to be done. So he gave Jerry a note, a piece of paper. We called them snowflakes, but it was a tablet, and he had listed what needed to be done and what needed to be done now. And Jerry found me sitting over there and gave me that that piece of paper, and it had everything listed on it. He wanted a a tactical field operation in place. He wanted it now, not yesterday. He wanted something in the interim, and it was to provide emergency relief supplies. So I I sat down on that telephone pole and I called our our local dist not local our largest distribution center in the world was down in Newport News, and I got the director on the phone and I said, I have an official order from you coming from the Secretary of Defense, and and don't override, don't just just follow my instructions until we can get to the commander at AFIS headquarters, and so I gave him the list. I just gave him the full list of things that we needed to get rolling, and I called another gentleman that was just across the river, the American Logistics Association, which owned all of the brokers and manufacturers, and I gave him a list of stuff that we needed now, like Gatorade boots. the The surface was over 2000 degrees, and the emergency service boots were melting almost upon contact. So I had I had 1000s, hundreds of 1000s of dollars of equipment. And supplies coming in, and we set up the USO tent, put everything in the USO tent. We raided all the stores in the in the Washington D.C. area. I was able to contact the region manager, and I told him, you know, what we needed to take it off the shelf, put it in the back seat of the cars, don't account for it, and get it to me. And that's what we did the entire first night was setting up the USO trailer, and the next morning I had two tactical field tractor trailers coming up the ramp just as the sun was coming up, and they were loaded with supplies, and that's what stayed in place for the next two months. Over $2 million worth of merchandise, emergency recovery type merchandise, everything from linens to the towels to eye wash, and and and we had to actually have some special boots made out of leather for the dogs because the dogs' feet were so it was it was quite an operation. We ended up well running within within 24 hours of the attack, Michael Hingson  41:04 why is it that you are able to stay pretty focused through all of this? Bob Ellis  41:08 I you know I you know I I've often asked that question. I wanted to go home. Alls I could think of is my kids, my wife. What what are they doing? What are they thinking? They're watching this on the news, and I had I had drifted over to which my car was very close, and it was taped off. The parking lot was taped off. It was a crime scene. There was no going anywhere. There was no transportation. If I wanted to walk 40 miles, I guess I could have, but because I couldn't go anywhere, I had to do something there on the scene, so that's that's that's what I did, and and it wasn't until the next day when the phone started working again, our two star in Dallas was able to get through to me on on my BlackBerry, and he wanted to know what the situation was, and and and I told him, and and he said, what what are we going to do? And I explained to him what we had done already, and he says, "How did you do all of that? I said, "I picked up the phone and I told him I was working for Secretary Rumsfeld, and this is the order. And and he says, "How are we going to pay for all of this? I said, "Sir, this is our finest hour. We're not. We're going to donate. These are all donating goods, and and it really was an interesting. I I just I just don't know. I was compelled. He he he ordered me on that second day to go home, and and I said I had no way to go home. And he said go to the motor pool. I'm going to call the motor pool. He had been the commander of the Air Force One Squadron, so he had a lot of connections in Washington, and he he got me a car, and I went home long enough to change clothes and and and to come back out. So it was it was just out of adrenaline, I think. Somebody had to do something, and and everything that I've told you here today is not written anywhere in history. I own every bit of what happened in in in that story, other than some of the people that were working there. Michael Hingson  43:07 What phone did you use that first day? You said you're you're it was the second day or the next day that you're phoned. So how were you able to communicate? Bob Ellis  43:17 We had Blackberries, and and until the networks got completely overrun, we were able to use it. And and so by the second third day, we we had pretty consistent communication, because the the the commander called me back that same morning, and and he said, you know, he said, how come you haven't been home? And I explained to him, and he says, "Will you do me one favor? And I said, "I would. He said, "Will you go back into the building? Said, "Sir, the building's on fire. He says, "Well, well, you get in the front, and I'm looking at it. He was looking at it on television, and the military clothing store was in the very front, within 100 feet, probably of that door that I went out of. And he says, "Would you see if our people survive, and if the store itself survived? It was sitting near the the area. I went in the store. I went into the building, into the burning building, and was able to look in the door, and I could see that the the room was full of smoke, and the door was locked. So I told him I would assume that our people made it out, alive and okay. And they say that was a, and they did, and they absolutely did. And in fact, everybody that that that that had any kind of supervisory capability around the Beltway, they volunteered to come over and work for me and and operating that facility for 2024 hours a day, seven days a week. Wow! So and not and not to shorten the the question, I wasn't there, but because of what I was doing in the in the Pentagon, my old homestead was at Fort Hamilton. Fort Hamilton picked up the same thing and went over to the Trade Center area, and they gave them a place to put a mobile. Food truck, and they brought supplies in and pretty much supported the firefighters and the and the and the police there. So so we had quite an operation going for a long time. Michael Hingson  45:11 Yeah, and and needed to, but it was interesting and commendable that in both places people were able to focus, and were able to carry out missions. I know at the World Trade Center when the two towers collapsed. Of course, it was it was unexpected, but we know now, of course, why they collapsed. It wasn't that the planes hit; it's that they were they were full of what 36,000 pounds of jet fuel each, and that exploding jet fuel is what damaged the infrastructure of the buildings to cause them to be able to collapse. But as well as at the Pentagon, but very quickly people were able to start to move and deal with issues and put procedures in place that were able to, I'm sure, keep more people from perishing and keep kept more people being able to focus throughout the whole the whole sequence of events. It it certainly was very scary, but it is something that that people like you were able to do. I know for me, the reason I was able to focus was because I had learned what to do in an emergency at the World Trade Center. I spent time with people and I learned how the whole building was structured, so I knew when the building tipped, why it tipped, and and things like that. You Bob Ellis  46:40 felt it. You you felt it. Michael Hingson  46:43 Oh yeah. Oh my god. We moved probably at least 20 feet, and then it came back, and oh my Speaker 2  46:48 god, it Michael Hingson  46:48 got vertical again. It got vertical again, and then a few seconds later, it dropped about six feet because the expansion joints went back to their normal configuration. But Bob Ellis  46:59 we uh we we knew from 937 till about 5o'clock that evening there would be no more survivors. It was over, and and and the dogs were getting depressed because they were they were they were not cadaver dogs. They were recovery dogs, and they were used to fight. And we we actually had ceremonies for the dogs every day, where we sewed flags onto their collars, and they had special water and special food. So they played a big, big role in morale, mine especially. Michael Hingson  47:33 And at the same time, I know people had to do drills to keep the dogs focused because they weren't able to find people, as you said, so they had to do things to give them something to find to keep them happy, which was was so important. Bob Ellis  47:50 Yeah, that we had two two tractor trailers lined up. It was just just two 300 feet from where you went into the damaged area of the Pentagon, and those dogs and their handlers would get up underneath those trailers and sleep, and they would play with the dogs. We actually had some carpets brought out, tarps brought out, and that's kind of where that was kind of their headquarters during 911. We had to make it up as we went along, and and the other interesting part of this story is in 1972 at the at the refugee camp, I was sleeping in the back of a van because there was just no way to go home. It was too it was too far to drive home to turn around and come back at 8o'clock the next morning, and I heard somebody knocking at the door, and and and I and I opened up the door, and it was a military colonel in uniform, and there was a civilian standing there with him. And he says, "Are you part of this operation? And I said, "Yes, sir, I am. He said, "Who are you with? And I said, "The Army Air Force Exchange Service. And and he says, "You're not provided any other facilities. This, I said, that was my choice. And as it turned out, I was speaking to Secretary Rumsfeld during his first administration as Secretary of Defense, and it was interesting that when he found out that what I did in in that program, I won the Indo Indo China Award for service, and then of course you you move ahead to to 2001, and we we knew each other. I had briefed him several times, and we we knew each other in the Pentagon. And that day, he knew that I would know what to do for the support role, and that's why he sent the letter up. And as it turned out, when he retired and and left the Pentagon, he was on a book tour, and and the the general secretary and myself got an invite to come to the book tour with him and and have lunch with him. And he handed me a book and he said, "I want you to have this, but I don't want you to open it up until you, Bob. I don't want you to open it up till you get home. I don't want you to give it to your wife. And and it was like this. Sure, I'm not not a problem, and so I got I got home. You know, this is this is 10 years later, and handed the book to her, and I said, "Open it up. I'm not wasn't allowed, and there's a nice thank you page on the front from Secretary Rums for allowing him to use me on 9/11, and you just you just that's the best reward that I could have ever ever expected. A guy that I just idolized to do that. Michael Hingson  50:26 When you got home, so you weren't able to talk to your wife before you got home, or did you ever get communication so you could call her? Bob Ellis  50:33 No, I didn't. I when I finally got the phone back up and running and got in the car. I had lost the battery, so I said, "I'm gonna be home in in an hour. I'll just be there. But General Wax called up, and she answered the phone. She went. She went sometime during that day and pulled the kids out of the private school, brought them home. She could see my car. It was a yellow SUV, and she could see it in the South parking lot in the news choppers going around. She said that was my car where my spot was, and General Wax got her on the phone and she and and she answered the phone and he said this is C J Wax and she thought that was the call. She thought that was it, and she alls I could do was drop to my knees and and and C J said and it's it's okay. I've ordered him to come home. He's all right. He's running. He's running a a program for us for for recovery. And if he's not there, he should be there shortly. And then by the time I got there, I got to the front step. I'm asking the question about the World Trade Center, how they got the fire out, and I was ordered that I could not go in the house because I smelled like smoke. So, so two minutes before that, I was the most important person in the world, and and then all of a sudden, I was I was back to Bob, and I wasn't going to wear that that suit in the house to to smoke it. So anyway, that's that's how she found out. He he called her up. I asked him. I think I asked him if he would get in touch with her at our last conversation, and he did. Michael Hingson  52:06 Soon after both towers collapsed, like a minute or so later, I called and got through to my wife Karen. I had talked with her before we left our office, and then when we got downstairs, I couldn't get through to her because the circuits were busy, and it was obvious that everyone we learned later was saying goodbye to loved ones, and so the circuits were busy. So after both towers collapsed, I was able to get through to her, and as I tell people, there were tears on both sides of the phone at the when that conversation started, but she was the first one who told us how two aircraft had been crashed into the World Trade Center towers, one to the Pentagon, and at that time, the fourth one was apparently still missing over Pennsylvania, and of course, then it crashed at Shanksville. Bob Ellis  52:52 I love it. Michael Hingson  52:54 Yeah, but we, you know, we talked, so she knew I was okay. Then a friend of ours, Tom Painter, who had been a friend of Karen's at high school out in California, but Tom, over the years, had ended up moving to New Jersey. He came down to stay with her, not knowing until he arrived whether I was in the office that day or out with a customer or what was going on. And of course, then she told him, and so he drove her to the train station to pick me up. When, when I got back out to Westfield, we went home. And you talk about with with dogs. We got in the house, and I took Roselle's harness off because I was going to take her out, and she would have none of it. She ran off, grabbed her favorite tug bone and started playing tug of war with my retired guide dog Linny, and I talked to the veterinarians at Guide Dogs for the Blind in San Rafael the next day, and they said, "Did anything threaten her? And I said, "No, not directly. And they said, "That's why she ran off because it was over. Nothing threatened her. Bob Ellis  53:58 Comfortable. Michael Hingson  53:59 She, they don't. Dogs don't do what if like we do, and so she was comfortable. She was happy. She wanted to play, and then then she did go out. But by the same token, the the whole point was that she was able to deal with with all of it and was able to to focus. Then we got her outside and and came back in, and she ate and and all that. But the the the thing is that she focused all day, and and she did a a wonderful job. And the reason that she focused and did so well was mainly because I worked at keeping her focus by telling her every chance I got. You're a good girl. What a good dog! Good dog. You're doing a great job. Keep going. I did that all the way down the stairs in the World Trade Center, and I was very deliberate about that because I knew she had to sense the fear and what was going on, and I wanted her to know that I was okay and I was going to be there for. Her, which is of course what teamwork and support is all about. You understand that very well. You you proved it in so many ways. I kept working with Roselle and kept her focused, and you know it all it all really went well. I still think one of the most relevant things for me in the World Trade Center. I went down the stairs with a guy named David Frank. David was from our corporate office in California, and David and I were going to be conducting sales seminars that day, teaching some resellers how to sell our products. And we got down to about the 50th floor, so David was there to talk about the the pricing and so on. I was going to do the majority of the presentation because I was going to be their technical contact, anyway, and we got to about the 50th floor, going down, and suddenly David said, "Mike, we're going to die. We're not going to make it out of here. And as I tell people, since I got a teaching credential, I had learned all about the secrets of how to yell at students. So I just said, "Stop it, David. If Roselle and I can go down these stairs, so can you. And he then immediately said that I brought him out of his spunk, and he told me that later as well. But what he told me was that he wanted to walk a floor below me on the stairs and shout up to me everything that he was seeing. He had to take his mind off of what was going on, and so he asked if I cared, and I said, "No, go ahead. That's what you need to do. That's fine. So I got like down to the 48th floor, and he yelled, "47th floor, Mike. All's clear here. Going on down. So we went down several floors that way. Eventually, I got to 45, and he was 44th floor. This is where the Port Authority cafeteria is not stopping. And the reason I mention it is because I think what David did is one of the unsung things that is so important from September 11th. He kept shouting up to me everything that he saw, but the reality is, anyone in the sound of his voice heard that there was someone who was okay going down the stairs, and he had to keep panic out of people's senses for so many individuals, because they just heard him, Mike, 43rd floor, all's good here. Going on down the stairs, all the way down the stairs. He had to have been able to keep so many people focused because he was able to keep his mind off of what was going on by shouting to me, and I think that that's so important, and so I'm. I always tell that story. I've been telling it for many years now because I want people to know what he did to keep so many people focused going down the stairs, and he had to have done that. Bob Ellis  57:31 Well, you know, I have. That's that's the first I've heard that, and and and and I read everything that I followed your story very closely, as well as the colonel who I was so close to, but there there are a couple of stories that are just never mentioned, not talked about, and one of them where we had to do every day. There was an update that the military gave the families an update as to what is happening, what was found, what was recovered, what to expect, and they would bring the kids in to listen to these brutal military briefings. I mean, just you know, these were these were soldiers, these were these were combat folks, and this is the way they briefed. And the therapy dogs were brought in, and there wasn't but about a dozen of them, and I will never forget not only the kids on the floor with the arms around those dogs, but some of the adults were as well. And I thought, what what a moment! That was the most touching moment of my entire life witnessing that. I mean, I could have done without it, but it was it was a very special moment. And then the the other thing that the world doesn't know about is on the second day, I got a I got a phone call from Secretary Rumsfeld's office that the VA was completely out of coffin flags. We had nothing in inventory to to cover the remains or the caskets for burial, and what could I do? And and right right from the Pentagon parking lot, I I called one of the buyers that bought American flags in Dallas, and then I asked her who do you get flags from, and she says it's American Flag Company. I'll give them credit for that, and and I said you need you need to get their entire inventory. We need to get it flown in, whatever expenses cover it, and get them here. The Pentagon doesn't have them, and New York doesn't have them. And those flags came in. They were they were there about that midnight that that that night. Now boxed up, thrown in the bag box, whatever tape they were bound, but everybody that came out later, you know, the recoveries as we got deeper into the debris, that had a had a flag that that came that came from us in the as well as at the Pentagon, and they put two very big special flags in there. I mean, like you see flying over a car dealer. And they hung that on the side of the Pentagon. And if you look at any of the any of the news willers of that time, it was on day two that flag was hanging that that came in with the rest of the other flags. So it was it was quite impressive. You never know what the next moment was going to bring you on you know from my side and and and can I meet the challenge? That was what I constantly worry about. How could I let any of this down? And I've got to do something. And and we were making it up as we went along. Michael Hingson  1:00:33 Yeah, that's all you could do. And so when I go back to Bob Ellis  1:00:37 to to this to this day, you know, we go back. They've got 184 markers. I don't know how many people attend it, but it's it's right in that zone, right outside the building, in that grassy area where they they they've made that memorial. And 184 people, to include I think two infants, are are memorialized there forever, which is very touching. It was a that was a hard place to go back to. Still was New York City when I went to it because I'd never I had never been 20 years 20 years yet 18 years before I ever went to to New York City to see the recovery there. I've never I've not been to the to the to the Pennsylvania field. I plan to go. I want to go. Just hadn't been convenient to get there, but but if I do that, I will have seen all all the sites. Michael Hingson  1:01:26 Yeah, I haven't been to Pennsylvania either. In 2017, I did make it to the World Trade Center Museum. In well, so we moved out of Westfield, and I moved back to California in late January, beginning of February of 2002, to work for Guide Dogs for the Blind and and speak from there. And traveled around and speak. Karen was there for a couple more months selling our home, and then she came out. But in May of 2002, Roselle was going to be honored by Hart's Mountain, the pet food and pet supply company. So, so we went back to New York, and while we were there, I met one of the police officers with with one of the service with one of the rescue dogs that that had been around the World Trade Center, and he arranged for us to get in a vehicle and drive down into the pit that was where the World Trade Center was, and they had built an artificial, well, a temporary road, and they were bringing things up, but we got to go down to what would have been the seventh sublevel, the bottom of the tower, and it was just a for me just imagining it standing in that dirt area in a hole seven stories deep and remembering what what it was like, and then in 2017 I went to the World Trade Center Museum and got to spend a little bit of time there, and of course everything had been rebuilt. The reflecting pool was there, and so on. But it was nothing like what I remembered from having been in the World Trade Center, and I walked around with someone who was able to be aware and describe what was where we were and what was above us, or what part of the building we were in as we walked through the complex. But of course, it was totally different. So it was it was such a strange feeling to experience all of that. But we did it, you know. And so now I've been to the museum, and actually there is a there's an animal exhibit in the basement, and Roselle's collar is is part of that exhibit. We donated that to oh Bob Ellis  1:03:50 really, oh really, oh God, I I was I was thinking that when I asked you that question earlier today, and I was thinking about that that has got to be remarkable, you know that that that's what touched me so much at the period. That the fact that the two of you were such a team, and I read everything that newspapers printed and watched. I guess there was some there was some CBS specials and so forth too, where you were interviewed, and it was it was just it was just absolutely amazing. Michael Hingson  1:04:21 Well, it is. you know, it is a an awe-inspiring sort of thing. And you know, people always say, you know, don't you feel guilty about surviving when so many people didn't? And and I said, no, I I didn't have any control over that. But what I do have control over is having been a survivor. What am I going to do about it? It's my responsibility to decide how I'm going to deal with moving forward after something like that. And of course, the opportunity opened to travel and speak, and so I've been doing it ever since. And I believe my job is. Is to educate people about what happened on September 11th, and let them know t

What if the water coming out of your kitchen faucet contains chemicals specifically engineered not to break down, and the protections designed to remove them are now being rolled back? In this Fatal Conveniences episode, Darin dives into PFAS, the so-called "forever chemicals" used for decades in nonstick cookware, waterproof clothing, food packaging, firefighting foam, and countless everyday products. Their incredibly strong carbon-fluorine bonds make them extraordinarily useful, but also allow them to persist in the environment and human body for years. Darin breaks down the regulatory battle surrounding America's first legally enforceable federal drinking-water standards for several PFAS chemicals. He walks through the original 2024 EPA rule, subsequent efforts to delay or rescind portions of those protections, the court battle surrounding those changes, and why he believes the story represents something much larger than bureaucratic policy. He then traces the history back decades, discussing internal industry documents, early toxicology findings, allegations that companies withheld troubling information, and a 2018 controversy involving a federal PFAS health assessment. For Darin, it's another example of a familiar pattern: dangerous information emerging slowly while the public continues to be exposed. But this episode isn't about becoming afraid of your faucet. It's about understanding the problem so you can take action. Darin's message is simple: don't wait for corporations, regulators, or politicians to protect your health. Understand your exposure, learn what the science says, and take practical steps to protect yourself and your family. What You'll Learn What PFAS "forever chemicals" are and why they persist for so long How PFAS became embedded in everyday products and the environment Why the carbon-fluorine bond makes these chemicals so difficult to break down How PFAS can accumulate in the human body over time What the EPA's original 2024 drinking-water standards attempted to regulate Why parts of those federal PFAS protections became the subject of a regulatory and legal battle How proposed changes could delay compliance and eliminate several PFAS limits What historical internal documents revealed about early industry knowledge of PFAS toxicity Why Darin sees today's regulatory battle as part of a decades-long pattern Why understanding your own exposure and taking action matters regardless of what happens in Washington Chapters 00:00:03 – Welcome to SuperLife 00:00:34 – Sponsor: Bite 00:02:49 – Forever chemicals may already be in your blood 00:03:13 – The federal PFAS drinking-water rule and what happened next 00:03:44 – Why this episode isn't about being afraid of your faucet 00:04:07 – Stop waiting for someone else to protect your health 00:04:30 – PFAS as the ultimate Fatal Convenience 00:05:22 – The nearly unbreakable chemistry behind forever chemicals 00:05:57 – How PFAS entered everyday life 00:06:27 – Why your body struggles to eliminate these chemicals 00:06:57 – How long PFAS can remain in the body 00:07:20 – We built a civilization around a molecule with no exit plan 00:07:46 – PFAS contamination in America's drinking water 00:08:15 – The EPA's historic 2024 drinking-water standards 00:08:48 – How little PFAS it takes to trigger regulatory concern 00:09:56 – The original deadline for water utilities to comply 00:10:54 – Sponsor: Manna Vitality 00:12:49 – The PFAS rollback and what happened behind the scenes 00:13:16 – The attempt to erase standards through the courts 00:13:42 – The Safe Drinking Water Act's anti-backsliding protection 00:14:18 – The court refuses the EPA's request 00:14:49 – The 2026 proposed PFAS rule changes 00:15:33 – Why delaying compliance could affect millions of Americans 00:15:59 – The bigger story behind the PFAS rollback 00:16:35 – What internal DuPont documents revealed 00:17:12 – Toxicity findings, birth defects, and what the public was told 00:17:49 – The historic EPA penalty against DuPont 00:18:24 – The 2018 federal PFAS report controversy 00:19:03 – Why Darin believes the same pattern continues today 00:19:53 – The 60-year history of PFAS exposure 00:20:18 – What are forever chemicals actually doing to your body? 00:20:26 – Cancer risk, immune suppression, and the science coming next 00:20:36 – Can PFAS exposure happen through your shower? 00:20:44 – How to filter your home and protect your family 00:20:50 – Why Darin says we can't wait for government action 00:20:58 – Continue the full PFAS investigation on Patreon 00:21:19 – Take back control of your health Thank You to Our Sponsors Bite Toothpaste: Go to trybite.com/DARIN20 or use code DARIN20 for 20% off your first order Manna Vitality: Go to mannavitality.com/ and use code DARIN12 for 12% off your order. Join the SuperLife Patreon: This is where Darin now shares the deeper work: - weekly voice notes - ingredient trackers - wellness challenges - extended conversations - community accountability - sovereignty practices Join now for only $7.49/month at https://patreon.com/darinolien Find More from Darin Olien: Website: darinolien.com Instagram: @darinolien Book: Fatal Conveniences Platform & Products: superlife.com New Show: Roadmap to Happiness Key Takeaway "We built an entire civilization around chemicals designed to never break down, and now they're in our water, our environment, and our bodies. But the answer isn't fear. It's awareness followed by action. We cannot control what a chemical company knew decades ago, what regulators decide tomorrow, or how quickly government moves. We can control what we bring into our homes, what we put into our bodies, how we filter our water, and how seriously we take our own health. Don't wait for someone else to save you. Learn what's happening, find the solutions available to you, and take your health back into your own hands." Bibliography/Sources: The 2024 Rule and the Rollback E&E News / POLITICO. (2026, May). EPA to roll back PFAS limits for drinking water . https://www.eenews.net/articles/epa-to-roll-back-pfas-limits-for-drinking-water/ Harvard Law School Environmental & Energy Law Program. (n.d.). EPA issued first national drinking water standard to protect against PFAS exposure . https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker/epa-issued-first-national-drinking-water-standard-to-protect-against-pfas-exposure/ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2024, April 10). Biden-Harris administration finalizes first-ever national drinking water standard to protect 100M people from PFAS pollution [Press release] . https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration-finalizes-first-ever-national-drinking-water-standard U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2025, May 14). 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How the chemical industry deployed the disinformation playbook on PFAS . https://blog.ucs.org/genna-reed/how-the-chemical-industry-deployed-the-disinformation-playbook-on-pfas/ University of California, San Francisco. (2023, May 31). Makers of PFAS 'forever chemicals' covered up the dangers . https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2023/05/425451/makers-pfas-forever-chemicals-covered-dangers Health Science IARC Monographs Working Group. (2023, November 30). Carcinogenicity of perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid. The Lancet Oncology . https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(23)00622-8/abstract International Agency for Research on Cancer. (2023, December 1). IARC Monographs evaluate the carcinogenicity of PFOA and PFOS . https://www.iarc.who.int/news-events/iarc-monographs-evaluate-the-carcinogenicity-of-perfluorooctanoic-acid-pfoa-and-perfluorooctanesulfonic-acid-pfos Ragnarsdóttir, O., Abdallah, M. A.-E., & Harrad, S. (2024). Dermal bioavailability of perfluoroalkyl substances using in vitro 3D human skin equivalent models. Environment International . https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/en/publications/dermal-bioavailability-of-perfluoroalkyl-substances-using-in-vitr/ University of Birmingham. (2024, June). New study confirms forever chemicals are absorbed through human skin . https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/new-study-confirms-forever-chemicals-are-absorbed-through-human-skin-1 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2024, April). PFAS national primary drinking water regulation — Questions and answers . https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2024-04/pfas-npdwr_qa_general_4.9.24v1.pdf Home Filtration Evidence and How-to Duke University. (2020, February 5). Not all in-home drinking water filters completely remove toxic PFAS [Press release]. EurekAlert . https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/694230 Environmental Working Group. (2025, September). PFAS in drinking water: What you need to know . https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2025/09/pfas-drinking-water-what-you-need-know Herkert, N. J., Merrill, J., Peters, C., et al. (2020). Assessing the effectiveness of point-of-use residential drinking water filters for perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs). Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 7(3), 178–184 . https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00004 Tap Score. (n.d.). Quick guide to NSF certified filters for PFAS . https://mytapscore.com/blogs/tips-for-taps/quick-guide-to-certified-filters-for-pfas State Action Ballard Spahr. (2026, June). EPA rolls back PFAS regulations, states fill the gap . https://www.ballardspahr.com/insights/alerts-and-articles/2026/06/epa-rolls-back-pfas-regulations-states-fill-the-gap Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. (n.d.). PFAS drinking water standards: State-by-state regulations . https://www.bclplaw.com/en-US/events-insights-news/pfas-drinking-water-standards-state-by-state-regulations.html

Episode No. 775 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features art historian Richard J. Powell and curator Danielle Canter. Powell is the author of "Colorstruck! Painting, Pigment, Affect," which was just published by Princeton University Press. The book examines the historical and cultural work color does in the work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists such as Jacob Lawrence, Alma Thomas, Sam Gilliam, Hervé Télémaque, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, and Nina Chanel Abney. The book builds on Powell's 2022 National Gallery of Art Mellon Lectures of the same title. Bookshop and Amazon offer "Colorstruck!" from $46-61. As discussed on the program: Powell's Mellon Lectures may be viewed here; The Amistad Research Center, Tulane University collection of Jacob Lawrence works, including the Toussaint L'Ouverture series; Nina Chanel Abney, San Juan Heal (Lincoln Center wall); and "Matisse Alive" at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Powell, a professor at Duke University, is the author of numerous books, including "Going There: Black Visual Satire," "Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture," and "Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson." Canter is the curator of "Odilon Redon: Otherworldly Visions" at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. The exhibition spotlights Redon's works on paper, including charcoal drawings, lithographs, and pastels. It particularly focuses on Redon's fantastical world of tonal and psychological darkness, and also his luminous color. It's on view through October 18. A Getty-published catalogue is available from Bookshop and Amazon for $25. Instagram: Richard J. Powell, Tyler Green. Air date: September 10, 2026.

On revient avec les épisode solo, je sais qu'il vous plaisir beaucoup. C'est la version longue et parlée de ma newsletter (quoi!!! Vous n'êtes pas encore abonnés???).Il y a quelques semaines, à Lisbonne, je déjeunais avec Ariel, que mon amie Kenza m'avait présenté. La discussion arrive sur la nuance, que je défends depuis vingt ans comme la posture juste dans un monde polarisé. Je me sentais plutôt fin en le lui expliquant. Il m'a répondu qu'il n'était absolument pas d'accord, que beaucoup de sujets ne méritaient pas d'être pondérés mais combattus. Je suis resté silencieux dix secondes, ce qui est très long, et je n'ai pas su quoi répondre.Quinze jours de lectures plus tard, des sociologues, des psychologues politiques, des historiens des sciences, j'ai compris que la question était beaucoup plus dérangeante que je ne le croyais.Dans cet épisode, nous parlons d'un article de sociologie qui s'appelle littéralement « Fuck Nuance » et des trois pièges dans lesquels je me suis reconnu. De cette étude sur l'Amérique d'avant la guerre de Sécession où les gens les plus fins du débat sur l'esclavage sont ceux qui avaient trouvé le moyen de ne pas conclure. Du mémo interne de l'industrie du tabac qui dit « le doute est notre produit », et de ce métier qui consiste à fabriquer de la complexité à la demande. Des douze discours de retard climatique, dont aucun n'est climatosceptique et qui sont tous nuancés. Du moment où j'ai découvert que j'étais beaucoup plus intransigeant que je ne le croyais, et beaucoup plus arrangeant avec moi-même que je ne l'aurais jamais admis.J'ai questionné ce que ma nuance me coûte vraiment, ce qu'elle me rapporte quand je suis du bon côté du sujet, ce que je dois aux gens plus radicaux que moi dont je bénéficie du travail en gardant les mains propres, et ce qui s'est passé dans ma cuisine le jour où mon ami Thomas de Bon Pote a critiqué mes vols et où j'ai répondu à côté avec beaucoup d'élégance.C'est un épisode qui se retourne contre moi à peu près à la moitié, et je l'ai laissé faire. Si vous avez déjà dit « c'est plus compliqué que ça » en vous trouvant lucide, il est pour vous. Citations marquantes« Réclamer de la nuance, c'est le geste le moins coûteux du monde. On a l'air fin, on ne risque rien, et surtout on n'a rien dit. »« Sur l'esclavage, les gens les plus fins du débat étaient ceux qui avaient trouvé le moyen de ne pas conclure. »« Aucun de ces discours n'est faux. Ils sont tous nuancés. C'est exactement ça, le problème. »« Ma position raisonnable n'est pas neutre. Elle est financée par la réputation d'autres qui se brûlent. »« Une pensée qui ne vous coûte rien n'est probablement pas une pensée, c'est un confort qui a trouvé ses arguments. »Bonus : « J'ai nommé la machine et j'ai fonctionné dedans, dans le même paragraphe. »Idées centrales discutées1. Réclamer de la nuance ne coûte rien, et c'est bien le problème (≈ 04:00)Kieran Healy décrit trois pièges : ajouter des distinctions jusqu'à ce que l'idée n'explique plus rien, exhiber sa finesse comme un signe de goût, et surtout nuancer pour ne jamais conclure, donc ne jamais se tromper, donc ne jamais apprendre.Pourquoi ça compte : ça retourne complètement le prestige social de la position mesurée. « C'est plus compliqué » est toujours vrai, et c'est exactement ce qui le rend inutile.2. La nuance a historiquement servi à ne pas trancher sur l'esclavage (≈ 08:15)L'étude de Tetlock montre que la complexité intégrative la plus élevée se trouvait chez les modérés, ceux qui protégeaient le travail des blancs libres sans toucher à l'esclavage existant. Une position praticable et pas du tout morale.Pourquoi ça compte : c'est le contre-exemple qui fait tomber l'idée que raisonner de façon complexe serait moralement supérieur. Tetlock lui-même le dit.3. Le doute est un produit industriel (≈ 11:20)Le mémo du tabac, les cabinets de « défense de produit », les vingt-huit tactiques recensées sur cinq industries. Personne ne ment, on multiplie les études et on réclame davantage de recherches avant toute décision.Pourquoi ça compte : un mensonge se réfute, un doute s'installe. Et ça touche deux fois plus fort ceux qui s'estiment peu informés, donc ceux qui ont le moins de moyens de se défendre.4. L'équilibre journalistique produit un mensonge sur l'état du savoir (≈ 14:20)Présenter deux experts qui s'opposent dégrade la perception du consensus scientifique, même quand les gens ont le décompte réel sous les yeux. Et les douze discours de retard climatique, dont aucun n'est climatosceptique.Pourquoi ça compte : ça met en cause une pratique qu'on nous a apprise comme une éthique. Le déni pur n'est plus nécessaire, la nuance fait mieux le travail et laisse la posture de la personne raisonnable.5. Maximum de finesse sur les personnes, aucune complaisance sur les principes (≈ 23:30)En listant mes lignes rouges, je découvre qu'elles ont toutes la même structure : je refuse de réduire une personne à ses actes ou à une étiquette, et c'est ce refus même qui me rend intraitable sur le principe.Pourquoi ça compte : c'est la formule que je cherchais depuis vingt ans sans l'avoir jamais écrite. Et l'inverse, nuancer sur les principes tout en simplifiant les gens, est devenu la structure du discours qui monte partout.6. Distinguer n'est pas pondérer (≈ 27:00)La précision distingue des objets qu'on confond, et c'est toujours un gain. La nuance pondère un jugement, et ça dépend du sujet. Sur Israël et la Palestine, ma position sur le principe s'est durcie pendant que ma finesse sur les personnes n'a pas bougé.Pourquoi ça compte : ça prouve qu'il s'agit de deux axes séparés et pas d'un curseur unique entre mou et dur. Et ça donne une réponse à ceux qui confondent comprendre une question et pondérer une réponse.7. Le vrai critère, c'est de savoir qui paie (≈ 37:45)Deux tests qui tiennent. L'irréversibilité, parce que la nuance est un luxe qu'on peut s'offrir tant qu'on peut corriger. Et la position de celui qui parle : le condamné ne nuance pas, la femme enceinte ne nuance pas, le bouc émissaire ne nuance pas.Pourquoi ça compte : trois sujets, l'esclavage, l'écologie, le patriarcat, une seule variable qui change, et ce n'est pas la qualité de mon raisonnement. C'est ma place dans l'économie de mes intérêts.8. La finesse n'est pas un caractère, c'est un dispositif (≈ 56:40)America in One Room et la science de la délibération : les mêmes personnes deviennent capables de nuance quand le cadre existe, et polarisent quand il n'existe pas. Ce n'est pas le contact qui produit la finesse, c'est le cadre.Pourquoi ça compte : un tempérament ne se reproduit pas, un dispositif oui. Et ça explique ce que je fabrique depuis neuf ans avec ce podcast bien mieux que n'importe quelle qualité personnelle.Questions structurantes de l'épisode (s'il devait y en avoir)Est-ce que je vois mieux quand j'ajoute du nuage, ou est-ce que je vois moins ?À quel moment ajouter des distinctions cesse d'affiner une idée et commence à la détruire ?Comment expliquer que les esprits les plus fins du débat sur l'esclavage soient ceux qui n'ont pas conclu ?Pourquoi fabriquer du doute est-il plus efficace que mentir ?Est-ce que ma nuance est une position intellectuelle, ou juste la justification élégante d'un tempérament qui déteste le conflit ?Existe-t-il des sujets sur lesquels je refuse absolument d'être nuancé, et qu'est-ce qu'ils ont en commun ?Quelle est la différence exacte entre distinguer et pondérer, et pourquoi tout le monde croit faire la première quand il fait la seconde ?Sur quel étage d'une conversation politique se joue vraiment la manipulation : le besoin, le récit causal ou la solution ?Qu'est-ce que je dois aux gens plus radicaux que moi, ceux dont je bénéficie du travail en gardant les mains propres ?Ma nuance m'a-t-elle déjà coûté quelque chose, et sur quels sujets exactement ?Comment reconnaître de l'intérieur une lucidité systémique d'une auto-indulgence bien argumentée ?Et si ce que je défends depuis vingt ans ne s'appelait pas la nuance mais l'humilité intellectuelle ?Références citées dans l'épisodeRecherches et articlesKieran Healy, « Fuck Nuance » (2017, Duke University) : la thèse centrale de l'épisode, les trois pièges et l'image de la carte plus petite que le territoire. ≈ 04:00 [À VÉRIFIER : article paru dans Sociological Theory, à confirmer]Philip Tetlock, étude sur la complexité intégrative dans le débat sur l'esclavage (1994) : les écrits des grandes figures américaines d'avant la guerre de Sécession, quatre camps, scores les plus élevés chez les free-soilers. ≈ 08:15David Michaels, épidémiologiste, ancien directeur de l'agence américaine de sécurité au travail : la fabrication d'incertitude comme métier, les cabinets de « défense de produit », amiante, benzène, plomb, chrome, plastiques. ≈ 12:00Naomi Oreskes, historienne des sciences : la même poignée de scientifiques successivement sur le tabac, les pluies acides, le trou dans la couche d'ozone et le climat. ≈ 13:00Revue comparant cinq industries (tabac, sucre, charbon) : vingt-huit tactiques distinctes recensées, dont cinq communes à toutes. ≈ 13:30 [À VÉRIFIER : source à identifier]Expérience sur plus de 6 000 personnes : l'exposition à ces messages augmente l'incertitude ressentie, effet deux fois plus fort chez ceux qui s'estiment peu informés. ≈ 14:30 [À VÉRIFIER]Derek Koehler : présenter deux experts qui s'opposent dégrade la perception du consensus scientifique, même avec le décompte réel des experts sous les yeux. ≈ 15:00William Lamb et son équipe, les 12 discours de retard climatique (2020) : déplacer la responsabilité, pousser des solutions non transformatrices, insister sur les effets négatifs des politiques, capituler poliment. ≈ 16:00Linda Skitka, vingt ans de travaux sur la conviction morale : engagement et indépendance face à l'autorité d'un côté, intolérance et mise à distance sociale de l'autre. ≈ 35:30Travaux sur l'intolérance dogmatique : plus forte aux deux extrêmes qu'au centre, en Europe comme aux États-Unis, à gauche comme à droite. ≈ 36:45 [À VÉRIFIER : auteur non nommé]Deux expériences sur 2 700 personnes, effet de flanc radical : la présence d'une frange radicale augmente le soutien à la frange modérée du même mouvement. ≈ 44:00 [À VÉRIFIER]Enquêtes nationales autour du blocage du périphérique londonien par Just Stop Oil (novembre 2022) : le soutien à une organisation écologiste plus modérée monte dans les deux semaines suivantes. ≈ 44:45Tenelle Porter et Karina Schumann : les personnes à haut niveau d'humilité intellectuelle s'exposent volontairement aux positions adverses. ≈ 55:00Quatre expériences préenregistrées sur 1 668 personnes : l'humilité intellectuelle prédit moins de polarisation affective et la volonté d'aller vers celui qui pense autrement. ≈ 55:30 [À VÉRIFIER]John Dryzek et son équipe, « la science de la délibération » (Science, 2019) : jamais autant d'occasions de s'exprimer, jamais une qualité argumentative aussi basse. ≈ 57:00America in One Room : plus de 500 électeurs américains, un long week-end, cinq grands sujets, dépolarisation forte. ≈ 58:00Revue de littérature 2023 : les échanges dépolarisent avec un cadre délibératif et polarisent sans. ≈ 59:00 [À VÉRIFIER]Documents et conceptsMémo interne de l'industrie du tabac, « le doute est notre produit », rendu public lors des procès américains des années 90. ≈ 11:20Le calculateur d'empreinte carbone individuelle, BP avec l'agence Ogilvy (2004). ≈ 46:00L'expérience de Milgram, citée par Skitka : la conviction morale est la ressource qui manquait aux participants. ≈ 35:45La fenêtre d'Overton, évoquée à propos de l'effet de flanc radical. ≈ 44:15Étymologies : nuance / nubes (le nuage) et radical / radix (la racine). ≈ 02:30 et ≈ 43:00Loi de 1905, loi de 2004 sur le voile à l'école, loi de 2010 sur le visage couvert. ≈ 21:00Personnes et figures citéesAriel, rencontré par l'intermédiaire de mon amie Kenza : le déjeuner à Lisbonne qui déclenche tout l'épisode. 00:00 et ≈ 59:50Emmanuel Kant : « ne jamais traiter quelqu'un uniquement comme un moyen ». ≈ 39:00Spinoza : la joie comme passage à une puissance d'agir supérieure, la tristesse comme ce qui la diminue. ≈ 62:30Thomas Wagner (Bon Pote) : mon ami qui me reproche mon empreinte écologique, et mon flanc radical dans ma propre cuisine. ≈ 45:30José Bové : les McDo brûlés, « quel abruti », et le fait que j'avais tort. ≈ 43:30Guillaume Pley : un exemple de sujet sur lequel je ne pondère rien du tout. ≈ 12:00Patrick Bruel et Nicolas Hulot : cités à propos de « il avait tellement de succès qu'il n'en avait pas besoin ». ≈ 22:30Timestamps clés00:00 · Le déjeuner qui m'a démontéLisbonne, un restaurant libanais, et un ami d'amie qui me dit que ma nuance n'est pas une qualité. Dix secondes de silence, et quinze jours de lectures pour comprendre pourquoi il avait raison.02:30 · La nuance, c'est littéralement le nuageNubes, en latin. Ce qui adoucit les contours et rend les bords moins nets. Très beau en peinture, plus embêtant quand il s'agit de savoir qui a raison.04:00 · Fuck NuanceL'article de Kieran Healy et les trois pièges dans lesquels je me suis reconnu. Comment on ajoute des distinctions jusqu'à n'avoir plus rien à expliquer, et pourquoi une carte est utile parce qu'elle est plus petite que le territoire.08:15 · Les gens les plus fins du débat sur l'esclavageL'étude de Tetlock sur l'Amérique d'avant la guerre de Sécession. Les scores de complexité les plus élevés se trouvent chez ceux qui avaient trouvé le moyen de ne pas conclure. Le passage qui m'a fait le plus mal.11:20 · « Le doute est notre produit »Le mémo du tabac, les cabinets payés pour fabriquer de l'incertitude, et la même poignée de scientifiques sur le tabac, l'ozone puis le climat. Un mensonge se réfute, un doute s'installe.14:20 · L'équilibre journalistique fabrique un mensongeDeux experts qui s'opposent à l'écran, et le consensus scientifique qui s'effondre dans la tête du spectateur. Puis les douze discours de retard climatique, dont aucun n'est climatosceptique et qui sont tous nuancés.17:30 · Et si ma nuance n'était que mon caractère ?Cinq cents conversations en neuf ans et un espace où le désaccord frontal n'entre presque jamais. Je me raconte que c'est une ligne éditoriale. Il y a du vrai. Il y a aussi que ça m'arrange.19:50 · Mes lignes rougesLes sujets sur lesquels je refuse absolument d'être nuancé. Le racisme, l'avortement, les viols et les incestes. Et pourquoi la blague est le format où ça s'installe sans avoir à se défendre.23:30 · Ce que mes intransigeances ont en communJe ne crois pas qu'il existe des monstres, je crois qu'il existe des gens qui font des choses monstrueuses. Et c'est précisément ce refus de réduire les gens qui me rend intraitable sur les principes.27:00 · Distinguer n'est pas pondérerDeux opérations qu'on range sous le même mot. Israël et la Palestine, le vote d'extrême droite, et la règle que je cherchais depuis le début.30:15 · Besoin, récit causal, solutionL'outil que j'essaie d'utiliser quand une conversation part mal. Et l'étage du milieu, celui que personne ne regarde, où se joue presque toute la manipulation politique.34:50 · Le prix de l'intransigeanceSi vous écoutez cet épisode en concluant qu'il faut être plus dur, j'ai raté mon coup. Ce que produit la conviction morale, du côté lumineux comme du côté sombre.37:45 · Le vrai critère, c'est de savoir qui paiePourquoi l'éthique et le bon sens ne tiennent pas comme critères, et les deux qui tiennent. Le condamné ne nuance pas. La femme enceinte ne nuance pas.42:30 · Ma nuance est financéeCe que je dois aux gens plus radicaux que moi, et la réponse est à peu près tout. José Bové, Just Stop Oil, et l'effet de contraste mesuré.45:30 · Ce qui s'est passé dans ma cuisineMon ami Thomas me reproche mes vols, et je réponds à côté avec beaucoup d'élégance. Comment BP a transformé une question politique en comptabilité morale individuelle, et comment je suis tombé dedans en le sachant.49:15 · Ce que la nuance me coûte pour de vraiDe l'argent, des malentendus, des soupçons dans les deux directions. Et le détail qui fait mal : le coût est nul exactement là où je suis le bénéficiaire.51:30 · Le seul endroit où je n'ai pas de réponseUn sujet est remonté tout seul, sans que je le convoque. Et les deux manières de rater un aveu, dont celle qui consiste à s'en servir comme monnaie.54:15 · Le vrai nom de ce que je défendsCe n'est pas la nuance, c'est l'humilité intellectuelle, et ce sont deux axes complètement séparés. On peut être radicalement engagé et humble. On peut aussi être parfaitement nuancé et parfaitement arrogant.56:40 · La finesse n'est pas un caractère, c'est un dispositifAmerica in One Room, la science de la délibération, et ce que je comprends enfin de ce que je fabrique depuis neuf ans avec ce podcast.59:50 · Ariel avait raison, et pas là où je croyaisLe même geste devient un alibi quand je le tourne vers moi. Et les cinq choses que je ressors de tout ça.1:01:30 · Trouvez votre ligne rougeSpinoza, la joie comme puissance d'agir, et l'exercice désagréable que je vous laisse. Êtes-vous du côté de ceux qui paient ou du côté de ceux qui commentent ?Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

The apprenticeship model of academia requires more than just passive learning from students. How can applicants seeking entry to selective programs demonstrate that they have the ability and ambition to contribute to their desired fields? Amy and Mike invited professor Robert Malkin to consider what student research matters the most to colleges. What are five things you will learn in this episode? What are the different forms of research high school students have access to? Why are in-person lab experiences becoming increasingly valuable for high school students? What are the biggest mistakes students make when trying to find research or lab opportunities? How can students approach professors, universities, or labs even if they don't have prior experience? What makes a research experience truly meaningful from a college admissions perspective? MEET OUR GUEST Dr. Robert Malkin is a Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering and Global Health, Emeritus at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He is also the Founder and Executive Director of the International Research Institute of North Carolina.  Previously, he was the Herbert Herff Professor of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee, and The University of Tennessee. Before moving to Tennessee, Dr. Malkin was a professor of Electrical Engineering at The City College of New York and a member of the graduate faculty at The City University of New York and a research associate at Columbia University. Dr. Malkin was the founder and Director of Engineering World Health and The Global Public Service Academies, organizations dedicated to improving healthcare in the developing world. Dr. Malkin received his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Duke University in 1993. Prior to attending graduate school, Dr. Malkin taught English in Thailand, worked at EM Microelectronics in Switzerland designing integrated circuits, worked for Cordis Corporation designing pacemakers, and worked for Sarns Incorporated designing heart-lung machines. Dr. Malkin served as an expert advisor to the World Health Organization's Advisory Group on Healthcare Technology, Advisory Group on Innovative Technologies, and on the World Health Organization's subcommittee on medical equipment donations. Dr Malkin received the BS degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Michigan in 1984. Dr. Malkin has received numerous awards, including service awards from The Republic of Nicaragua; EM Microelectronics and Cordis Corporation. He was named an Engineering Hero Award by IEEE and received an Outstanding Faculty Research Award from The College of Engineering, an Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association, and an award for Innovation and Excellence in Undergraduate Education from The President of The City College of New York. Currently, he serves as the Founder and Executive Director of IRI, wherein they provide STEM remote research opportunities to students around the world with the goal of empowering young minds that can potentially advance human knowledge, especially through their peer-reviewed journal publications. Bob can be reached at robert.malkin@duke.edu. LINKS International Research Institute of North Carolina RELATED EPISODES HOW STUDENT RESEARCH IMPACTS COLLEGE ADMISSIONS CREATING A PASSION PROJECT CULTIVATING AND RECOGNIZING ACADEMIC CURIOSITY FINDING YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF IN THE PATH TO COLLEGE ABOUT THIS PODCAST Tests and the Rest is THE college admissions industry podcast. Explore all of our episodes on the show page. ABOUT YOUR HOSTS Mike Bergin is the president of Chariot Learning and founder of TestBright, Roots2Words, and College Eagle. Amy Seeley is the president of Seeley Test Pros and LEAP. If you're interested in working with Mike and/or Amy for test preparation, training, or consulting, get in touch through our contact page.  

In Part 1 of our discussion on Henry David Thoreau's Walden, we welcome editor Jedediah Britton-Purdy to discuss the relevance of Thoreau's questions about modernity to today's AI debate, the similarities and differences between Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, and common misconceptions about Thoreau's life in the woods. Jedediah Britton-Purdy is Professor of Law at Duke University and a scholar of environmental and constitutional law. His books on environmental themes include After Nature and This Land Is Our Land. He has also written about Henry David Thoreau in venues including The Atlantic, The Nation, and n+1. He grew up in West Virginia.To learn more or purchase a copy of the Norton Library edition of Walden and Other Writings, go to https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393870701. Learn more about the Norton Library series at https://wwnorton.com/norton-library.Have questions or suggestions for the podcast? Email us at nortonlibrary@wwnorton.com or find us on Twitter at @TNL_WWN and Bluesky at @nortonlibrary.bsky.social. 

We need to talk about clip culture; our host Bakari went viral this week for comments he allegedly made about Angie Nixon. Are these content creators twisting Bakari’s words to fit their narrative? Or does our host need to be checked? We’ll have influencer Nikki Freestyle on for a friendly debate. Watch Nikki’s video about Bakari and follow her @iamnikkifree on all platforms: https://www.instagram.com/p/DcmHUcYvuPU/?hl=en Join hosts Angela Rye and Bakari Sellers for episode 147 of Native Land Pod. We are 61 days away from the midterm elections. Welcome home y’all! FYSA HEADLINES – At the FBI, a history of hiring prostitutes or stealing from a former employer may no longer be a barrier to being hired. – Mehdi Hasan challenged Hunter Biden on his comments about Kamala Harris, “She’s not a good politician.” – Former Temptation Island contestant Angel Victoria Murdock is facing allegations that she spent nearly two years pretending online to be a student in Duke University’s Physician Assistant Program. – 'Rich Dad Poor Dad' self-help author Robert Kiyosaki is $1.2 billion in debt – Community Organizer Ethan Khorana helped erase $1.2 million in medical debt for Cuyahoga County residents in just two months. – Laura Loomer doubled down on her racist comments toward Black Democratic officials, and defended her use of the phrase, "ghetto Black bitches." – 20 year old Pierre Damas Bel, a Haitian migrant college student, took his own life after losing temporary protected [immigration] status. LINKS AND RESOURCES Learn more about the fantastic work of Undue Medical Debt: https://unduemedicaldebt.org/ Better Future for Cuyahoga Campaign: https://www.instagram.com/betterfutureforcuyahoga/ IN THIS EPISODE: 00:00:00 Intro 00:03:35 Rundown 00:05:55 FYSA Headlines 00:36:10 Bakari Called Out for Angie Nixon Comments 01:03:10 Laura Loomer Throws Racial Slurs 01:11:12 Reflections & CTAs SUBMIT A QUESTION Have a question for our hosts? Send a 60-second video to @nativelandpod and they may answer it on the show! Tutorial video for submitting questions: http://www.instagram.com/reel/C5j_oBXLIg0/ —--------- We want to hear from you! Send us a video @nativelandpod and we may feature you on the podcast. Instagram X/Twitter Facebook NativeLandPod.com Watch full episodes of Native Land Pod here on YouTube. Native Land Pod is brought to you by Reasoned Choice Media. Thank you to the Native Land Pod team: Angela Rye as host, executive producer, and cofounder of Reasoned Choice Media; Andrew Gillum as host and producer, Bakari Sellers as host and producer, and Lauren Hansen as executive producer; LoLo Smith is our research producer, and Nikolas Harter is our editor and producer. Special thanks to Chris Morrow and Lenard McKelvey, co-founders of Reasoned Choice Media. Theme music created by Daniel Laurent.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

ENTRE NA LISTA DE ESPERA DO VIVER DE RENDA: https://r.vocemaisrico.com/cb950398e4Você já se perguntou como surgimos, ou o que realmente nos torna humanos?De Charles Darwin aos dias de hoje, a teoria da evolução mudou para sempre a forma como entendemos a vida na Terra. Mas o que é evolução, afinal? E o que diz, de fato, a seleção natural? Por que ela não significa "sobrevivência do mais forte", mas sim "do mais adaptado"?Da origem da vida às grandes extinções em massa, o planeta guarda registros fascinantes de como espécies surgiram, dominaram e desapareceram. Dos dinossauros à megafauna, dos "elos perdidos" às espécies humanas que já existiram antes de nós, cada descoberta revela mais sobre os "experimentos" da natureza e sobre nossa própria origem.Mas a evolução não parou no passado: ela explica também o presente. Por que temos certas emoções? Somos naturalmente monogâmicos ou isso é imposição cultural? Até que ponto o livre-arbítrio existe, ou nossas decisões são, na verdade, determinadas por processos biológicos moldados ao longo de milhões de anos?E o futuro? A evolução ainda está em curso? A inteligência artificial pode impactar nossa própria biologia? E será que, um dia, a ciência vencerá o envelhecimento e a morte?Para responder estas e muitas outras perguntas, convidamos o Dr. Alberto Lindner, biólogo, mestre em Zoologia pela USP e doutor em Biologia pela Duke University, para o episódio 313 do podcast Os Sócios. Falaremos sobre Darwin e a teoria da evolução, extinções e espécies extintas, ancestrais humanos, biologia do comportamento e muito mais.Hosts: Bruno Perini @bruno_perini e Malu Perini @maluperiniConvidado: Alberto Lindner @betolindner

How does the body respond when we increase physical activity while trying to lose weight?In this episode of the Discover Strength Podcast, Luke Carlson is joined by Dr. Eric Trexler of Duke University to discuss one of the most important and provocative areas of exercise science: constrained total energy expenditure.Dr. Trexler explains the difference between the traditional “additive” model of energy expenditure and the constrained model, which suggests that the body can compensate for increases in physical activity by reducing energy expenditure elsewhere. The conversation explores what this compensation can look like—from changes in subconscious movement and resting metabolism to changes that occur during sleep—and why the effect may be particularly pronounced when exercise is combined with caloric restriction.Luke and Dr. Trexler also discuss what this research means for cardio, weight loss, physique athletes, and resistance training. Perhaps most importantly, they examine how we should think about the purpose of exercise when weight loss is not the best measure of its value.This episode offers a fascinating look at the complex ways the human body regulates energy—and why better expectations about exercise may ultimately help us stay active for the long term.Discover Strength offers free Introductory Workouts at any location across the United States. You can schedule your free Introductory Workout HERE !

A Duke University program is training rural faith leaders to educate residents and provide relief during heat waves. Learn more at https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/ 

Most companies spend September and October planning for 2027, but they skip the part that actually matters: figuring out how their teams will execute on it. That's why we're revisiting this episode with Dr. Chuck Bamford, who walks through how to align strategy from the boardroom all the way down to compensation plans, daily activities, and the conversations your reps have with customers. He covers what separates strategy that gets executed from strategy that sits on a shelf, and why most execution failures have nothing to do with the strategy itself. If you're mapping out your revenue goals for next year, this episode is a must-listen before you finalize your plan. Dr. Chuck Bamford is the Managing Partner at Bamford Associates and an adjunct professor of strategy at both Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. He's worked with more than 170 organizations to design and implement strategy that actually drives behavior, and he's the author of many books, including The Strategy Mindset 2.0. Connect with Chuck: LinkedIn Website Resources mentioned: The Strategy Mindset 2.0: A Practical Guide to the Design and Implementation of Strategy Key takeaways from this episode: 00:00 – What it really takes to build strategy that doesn't fall apart the moment it hits the sales floor. 05:01 – Why most CROs treat strategy like a one-time event instead of the ongoing discipline it needs to be. 16:02 – What leaders often overlook when converting corporate KPIs into the specific daily activities their people actually execute. 18:40 – The mistake many CROs make when compensation plans quietly undermine everything their strategy is designed to accomplish. 54:43 – Why narrowing your competitive set to 3-5 competitors dramatically changes how your teams sell. 01:00:52 – A look inside how differentiation dies in strategy decks but comes alive in the three-foot conversation between your rep and a customer. Hosted by five-time CRO John McMahon and Force Management Co-Founder John Kaplan, the Revenue Builders podcast goes behind the scenes with the sales leaders who have been there, done that, and seen the results. This show is brought to you by Force Management. We help companies improve sales performance, executing their growth strategy at the point of sale. Connect with Us: LinkedInYouTubeForce Management

You fix other people's problems for a living. So when the problem is yours, why does asking for help feel like admitting defeat?As many as one in four lawyers are quietly struggling with anxiety, depression, addiction, or burnout. In the first decade of practice, it's one in three. And most are doing exactly what the profession trained them to do: perform, produce, and suffer in silence. In this episode, Gary sits down with Nicki Ellington of the North Carolina Lawyer Assistance Program to demystify one of the most powerful and least understood resources available to attorneys today. If you've ever wondered what happens when a lawyer picks up the phone and calls a LAP, this conversation is for you.KEY TAKEAWAYSUnderstand what LAP actually is, who it serves, and the full range of issues it addresses beyond substance use.Learn how confidentiality protects you and why calling LAP does not put your license at risk.Recognize the early warning signs of trouble long before a crisis hits.Hear why the biggest resistance is not the phone call itself, but the belief that you should be able to fix yourself.Discover why lawyer-to-lawyer peer support does what clinical care alone cannot.Understand why LAP works with you for as long as you need, without a time limit or a checkbox to close.Reframe mental health care the way you would treat any medical condition: ongoing, not one-and-done.If this episode moved you, share it with a colleague who needs to hear it. Subscribe to The Free Lawyer wherever you listen. And if something in you is whispering that it's time, reach out. To your state's LAP, to a therapist, to a friend, or to Gary directly at gary@garymiles.net. The first message is the hardest. It's also the one that changes everything.[00:00] — Why lawyers suffer in silence[03:15] — Nicki's path to serving lawyers[07:30] — What NCLAP actually does[12:45] — Confidentiality explained in plain English[17:20] — The full scope of what LAP treats[22:10] — Peer support and volunteer network[24:30] — Why lawyers wait too long to call[28:00] — What change looks like over time[32:00] — Building a life worth living[35:50] — The first call and next stepNicki Ellington serves as the LAP Counselor for the Eastern Region of the North Carolina Lawyer Assistance Program, where she provides mental health and substance use support to attorneys, judges, and law students. She helps high-functioning legal professionals access confidential care before struggles become crises, and walks alongside them as they build sustainable, fulfilling careers. A Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialist with a master's degree from Marymount University, Nicki trained intensively at Duke University in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. Two decades into her clinical career, she remains driven by a simple conviction: every lawyer deserves to build a life worth living.Would you like to learn what it looks like to become a truly Free Lawyer? You can schedule a complimentary call here: https://calendly.com/garymiles-successcoach/one-one-discovery-callYou can find The Free Lawyer Assessment here- https://www.garymiles.net/the-free-lawyer-assessmentWould you like to learn more about Breaking Free or order your copy? https://www.garymiles.net/break-freeAccess this free tool to identify your productivity time drains and move to purposeful strategy- https://upbeat-trailblazer-9238.kit.com/7c3c667ff1Check out the Elite Lawyer's Productivity System  https://www.garymiles.net/productivity

In Artifactual: Forensic and Documentary Knowing (Duke University Press, 2023), Elizabeth Anne Davis explores how Cypriot researchers, scientists, activists, and artists process and reckon with civil and state violence that led to the enduring division of the island, using forensic and documentary materials to retell and recontextualize conflicts between and within the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities. Davis follows forensic archaeologists and anthropologists who attempt to locate, identify, and return to relatives the remains of Cypriots killed in those conflicts. She turns to filmmakers who use archival photographs and footage to come to terms with political violence and its legacies. In both forensic science and documentary filmmaking, the dynamics of secrecy and revelation shape how material remains such as bones and archival images are given meaning. Throughout, Davis demonstrates how Cypriots navigate the tension between an ethics of knowledge, which valorizes truth as a prerequisite for recovery and reconciliation, and the politics of knowledge, which renders evidence as irremediably partial and perpetually falsifiable. Elizabeth Anne Davis is Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. * This episode is part of a special collaboration between the New Books Network and the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, a section of the American Anthropological Association. Together, we're highlighting exciting new work in Europeanist anthropology—featuring authors from across the field, including winners of the William A. Douglass Book Prize and contributors to the European Anthropology in Translation series published by Berghahn Books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In Artifactual: Forensic and Documentary Knowing (Duke University Press, 2023), Elizabeth Anne Davis explores how Cypriot researchers, scientists, activists, and artists process and reckon with civil and state violence that led to the enduring division of the island, using forensic and documentary materials to retell and recontextualize conflicts between and within the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities. Davis follows forensic archaeologists and anthropologists who attempt to locate, identify, and return to relatives the remains of Cypriots killed in those conflicts. She turns to filmmakers who use archival photographs and footage to come to terms with political violence and its legacies. In both forensic science and documentary filmmaking, the dynamics of secrecy and revelation shape how material remains such as bones and archival images are given meaning. Throughout, Davis demonstrates how Cypriots navigate the tension between an ethics of knowledge, which valorizes truth as a prerequisite for recovery and reconciliation, and the politics of knowledge, which renders evidence as irremediably partial and perpetually falsifiable. Elizabeth Anne Davis is Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. * This episode is part of a special collaboration between the New Books Network and the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, a section of the American Anthropological Association. Together, we're highlighting exciting new work in Europeanist anthropology—featuring authors from across the field, including winners of the William A. Douglass Book Prize and contributors to the European Anthropology in Translation series published by Berghahn Books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies

What happens an artist realizes that they can never be the only one with questions?From that reckoning, artist Eric Gottesman spent the next twenty-five years rethinking what an artist with a camera, or a big idea is actually for. In this conversation with Bill Cleveland, Gottesman traces his path from documentary photographer to collaborative image-maker in Addis Ababa's AIDS-affected communities, and eventually to co-founding For Freedoms, the artist-led initiative that has turned billboards, town halls, and even a Super PAC into tools for civic discourse.This is a conversation about authorship, collectivity, and the culture of inquiry at the heart of both artmaking and a thriving democracy.In this episode we explore:How asking the right question often matters more than delivering the right answer.Why Eric Gottesman says he has never made art alone. And why he thinks that's true for everyone.A “composite nation:” Drawing on Frederick Douglass, Gottesman is now developing projects that imagine an American identity built from multiplicity and complexity rather than a single official story.Notable MentionsPeopleEric Gottesman — Artist, educator, writer, and organizer whose collaborative work addresses nationalism, migration, structural violence, history, and civic life. He is a co-founder of For Freedoms.Wendy Ewald — Photographer and one of Gottesman's mentors. Her decades of co-authored photography projects challenge conventional divisions between photographer, subject, observer, and author.Hank Willis Thomas — Conceptual artist and For Freedoms co-founder whose work examines identity, history, media, popular culture, and representation.Claudia L. Peña — Executive director of For Freedoms, UCLA law lecturer, and practitioner of transformative and restorative justice. She appears with Gottesman and Thomas in the episode's Skoll World Forum excerpt.Baalu Girma — Influential Ethiopian journalist and novelist who disappeared after publishing Oromay, his critique of the Derg regime and its military campaign in Eritrea.Emily Shur — Photographer who worked with Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Gottesman, and Wyatt Gallery to create contemporary photographic versions of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms.Wyatt Gallery — Photographer, For Freedoms co-founder, and producer of the contemporary Four Freedoms project.Marc Bamuthi Joseph — Spoken-word artist, writer, librettist, and cultural strategist who developed the six questions at the heart of America, the Beautiful.aja monet — Poet, recording artist, storyteller, and organizer appearing in the October 3, 2026, America(!) the Beautiful(?) performance, which is part of For Freedom's America, the Beautiful project.Derek Goldman — Director, playwright, educator, and co-founder of Georgetown University's Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics. Gottesman and Cleveland cite his emphasis on care in cultural work.Ariel Fristoe — Founder and artistic director of Out of Hand Theater, whose work brings theater, social justice, and civic engagement together.Organizations, Institutions, and PlacesFor Freedoms — Artist-led civic organization founded in 2016. It uses public art, billboards, exhibitions, town halls, and artist commissions to encourage listening, inquiry, belonging, and civic participation.Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University — The center at Duke University where Gottesman began his work in Ethiopia in partnership with Save the Children.Save the Children — International humanitarian organization that sent Gottesman to photograph the effects of drought in Ethiopia shortly after his graduation from Duke.The Charles F. Kettering Foundation — The Charles F. Kettering Foundation, headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, operating foundation with a mission to advance inclusive democracies worldwide by fostering citizen engagement, promoting government accountability, and countering authoritarianism.Democracy and the Arts — The Kettering Foundation's focus area for integrating the power of the arts into democratic life locally, nationally, and globally.Corcoran School of the Arts & Design — George Washington University school where Gottesman serves as the W.W. Corcoran Visiting Professor in Community Engagement and where For Freedoms has been in residence.Future Currents — Organization that helps movement leaders prepare for uncertain conditions and collaboratively imagine more inclusive, just, and democratic futures.U.S. Agency for International Development — Federal agency to which evidence of the Ethiopian drought was submitted to help prompt an international aid response. The episode conversation takes note of the agency's dismantling and changed status.Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — The city in which Gottesman began collaborating with people living with HIV and with children whose parents had died of AIDS.Somali Region, Ethiopia — The drought-affected eastern region where Gottesman first confronted the power imbalances and ethical contradictions of humanitarian photography.Sheshatshiu, Labrador, Canada — Innu community where Gottesman later collaborated with Wendy Ewald and young residents on a cross-generational photographic and community-curated project.Projects, Artworks, and EventsFor Freedoms at the 2024 Skoll World Forum — The episode includes an excerpt from this presentation by Eric Gottesman, Hank Willis Thomas, and Claudia Peña about art, interdependence, democracy, and social change. The forum took place in Oxford (not London as stated in the podcast).Contemporary Four Freedoms — For Freedoms' expansive reimagining of Rockwell's four paintings. More than 100 participants created 82 images representing a broader range of American identities; its Freedom of Worship appeared on the cover of TIME.Question Bridge: Black Males — Collaborative project...

In Artifactual: Forensic and Documentary Knowing (Duke University Press, 2023), Elizabeth Anne Davis explores how Cypriot researchers, scientists, activists, and artists process and reckon with civil and state violence that led to the enduring division of the island, using forensic and documentary materials to retell and recontextualize conflicts between and within the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities. Davis follows forensic archaeologists and anthropologists who attempt to locate, identify, and return to relatives the remains of Cypriots killed in those conflicts. She turns to filmmakers who use archival photographs and footage to come to terms with political violence and its legacies. In both forensic science and documentary filmmaking, the dynamics of secrecy and revelation shape how material remains such as bones and archival images are given meaning. Throughout, Davis demonstrates how Cypriots navigate the tension between an ethics of knowledge, which valorizes truth as a prerequisite for recovery and reconciliation, and the politics of knowledge, which renders evidence as irremediably partial and perpetually falsifiable. Elizabeth Anne Davis is Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. * This episode is part of a special collaboration between the New Books Network and the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, a section of the American Anthropological Association. Together, we're highlighting exciting new work in Europeanist anthropology—featuring authors from across the field, including winners of the William A. Douglass Book Prize and contributors to the European Anthropology in Translation series published by Berghahn Books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

Dr. Thema describes the principles of matriarchy and shares her personal evolution with becoming a matriarch. Dr. Thema Bryant is a psychologist, author, professor, sacred artist, and minister who is leading the way in creating healthy relationships, healing traumas, and overcoming stress and oppression. Her life changing books include Matters of the Heart, Homecoming, Reclaim Yourself: The Homecoming Workbook, and The Antiracism Handbook: Practical Tools to Shift Your Mindset and Uproot Racism in Your Life and Community and they empower readers to connect with themselves and to others, exploring topics such as: control issues, emotional unavailability, practical activation activities, case studies, and teaching how to shift mindset and patterns around mental health, relationships, and liberation. Dr. Thema Bryant completed her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Duke University and her post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical Center's Victims of Violence Program. Upon graduating, she became the Coordinator of the Princeton University SHARE Program, which provides intervention and prevention programming to combat sexual assault, sexual harassment, and harassment based on sexual orientation. She is currently a tenured professor of psychology in the Graduate School of Education and Psychology at Pepperdine University, where she directs the Culture and Trauma Research Laboratory. Dr. Thema is an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and leads the mental health ministry at First A.M.E. Church in Los Angeles. Most recently, she was the 2023 president of the American Psychological Association (APA) and is the host of The Homecoming Podcast. Mixed & Edited by Next Day Podcast info@nextdaypodcast.com

Discussion: Dr. Holmes and Dr. Weiss discuss the John Hopkins and current Duke University studies on neuroinflammation and the brain, with specifics on the impact on the autistic brain. Dr. Weiss shares his personal story of stem-cell treatment and the impact on his young adult son with autism who went from having a few words at the age of 23 to living independently. Dr. Eric Weiss is a leader in advanced regenerative medicine and the co-author of Educating Marston. Founder of the North Florida Stem Cells Clinic, Dr. Weiss provides stem cell replacement therapy to treat various conditions such as Osteoarthritis (OA), Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), with a special focus on the treatment of Autism. Dr. Weiss co-wrote Educating Marston with his wife, Christine Weiss, as a memoir of their journey through programs and therapies to improve the quality of life of their autistic son, Marston. Trying seemingly everything under the sun, nothing clicked until they discovered stem cell replacement therapy in conjunction with intensive work at programs like the Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential. Once with limited verbal communication abilities, Marston can now hold a conversation and do so much more. With Educating Marston, Dr. Weiss is on a mission to help fellow parents of children on the autism spectrum and spread the word about stem cell replacement therapy as a treatment therapy for autism. Dr. Weiss and Educating Marston have been featured on local and national outlets including LA Weekly, Life & Style, Wake Up with Marci, and more. A graduate of Duke University Medical School, Dr. Weiss completed his general surgery residency in the University of California system and a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery residency at the University of Miami. Board certified in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (American Board of Plastic Surgery), Dr. Weiss is also a Fellow (FACS) in the American College of Surgeons, Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners, Member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) and the Greater Jacksonville Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, and a volunteer with “Hands Healing Hearts,” which makes annual medical missions to South America to perform reconstructive surgery on patients with birth defects. Dr. Weiss lives with his wife Christine in sunny Jacksonville, Florida.  Buy the Book HereEducating Marston WebsiteNorth Florida Stem Cells WebsiteMedical Daily Article 

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A new school year is about to start in many parts of the country. Going back to school can be exciting, but some students may dread it. Perhaps they are struggling with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, abbreviated ADHD. How can you recognize the symptoms of this problem? What are the most common misconceptions? In short, what are we still getting wrong about ADHD? When we talk about distractibility, trouble missing deadlines, forgetting where you left your keys, it is easy to relate. Likewise, when we look at kids with wiggles and short attention spans, do we see a child with ADHD or just a normal youngster? What constitutes ADHD? Does everyone have it, or is it an all-or-nothing condition? Expert John Mitchell explains that many people have some symptoms from time to time, but once a person is suffering from enough that it is affecting their ability to function, that is when a yes-or-no ADHD diagnosis is made. At The People's Pharmacy, we strive to bring you up‑to‑date, rigorously researched insights and conversations about health, medicine, wellness and health policies and health systems. While these conversations intend to offer insight and perspective, the content is provided solely for informational and educational purposes. Please consult your healthcare provider before making any changes to your medical care or treatment. How You Can Listen You could listen through your local public radio station or get the live stream at 7 am EST on Saturday, August 29, 2026, through your computer or smart phone (wunc.org). Here is a link so you can find which stations carry our broadcast. If you can't listen to the broadcast, you may wish to hear the podcast later. You can subscribe through your favorite podcast provider, download the mp3 using the link at the bottom of the page, or listen to the stream on this post starting on August 31, 2026. What We Get Wrong About ADHD One of the most common misconceptions about ADHD is that it primarily affects little boys who can't sit still. While hyperactivity can certainly make a parent or a teacher uncomfortable, the inattention aspect of ADHD could be more disabling in many instances. Moreover, girls too may suffer with ADHD. Though they are less likely to be hyperactive, they can often have difficulty focusing. Another popular myth about ADHD is that it is a pediatric condition. People think kids grow out of it. What we are beginning to see with more research into ADHD is that some people learn effective coping skills they can use as adults. Nonetheless, many older people who were not recognized as having ADHD when they were children may discover that their impulsivity and lack of follow-through, accompanied by anxiety, depression or migraines perhaps, could be a manifestation of this disorder. Failing to recognize the suffering of neurodivergent adults is another thing we get wrong about ADHD. How Do You Treat ADHD? A third misunderstanding about ADHD is that prescribing a stimulant medication is the only treatment necessary. While drugs such as methylphenidate (Concerta, Ritalin) or mixed amphetamines (Adderall) can be really helpful, there is a saying in the ADHD community: the pills don't teach skills. They do allow a person to focus well enough to learn some new skills they will need. Nonpharmacological approaches are important in conjunction with prescription medicine. However, adolescents with ADHD are much less likely to turn to drugs of abuse if they are taking properly prescribed stimulant medicines in the context of a thoughtful treatment plan. What Is the Role of Emotional Regulation in ADHD? Pediatric ADHD expert Paul Rosen describes another assumption that we can get wrong about ADHD. A child may appear to be doing fine, bringing home As, getting along well in school. But he describes “duck syndrome,” in which you see a duck gliding along the surface of the water. The motion looks effortless, but the duck is paddling like crazy. If it gets into an eddy or a current that's too strong, it can't keep up. These students are working much harder than is apparent and at some point, they encounter demands they can't meet. How will they respond to that frustration? Trouble with emotional regulation is not always part of the ADHD picture, but it isn't unusual, either. Some kids with ADHD respond pretty much as other youngsters do, but some seem like a super bouncy ball. Their emotions go very high and very low quickly, but they bounce back quickly as well. Still other children may be more like volcanoes. When faced with frustration, they explode, and it may take them many hours to return to baseline. Focusing on Warm and Fuzzies Parents sometimes assume that impulsive or explosive behavior is willful, but that is another thing we often get wrong about ADHD. Most of the time, such behavior is emotional. The child wants to be a “good kid” but may not know how to deal with these extreme emotions. Dr. Rosen recommends unconditional positive attention. He suggests that when parents tuck their ADHD children into bed at night, they appreciate one thing the child has done that day and one aspect of the child, separate from the behavior, that is wonderful. This kind of affirmation can help a youngster keep striving for the skills they will need. (In fact, it sounds like a helpful idea for any parent and child, regardless of whether either of them has ADHD.) This Week’s Guests John T. Mitchell, PhD Dr. John Mitchell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University. His research and clinical work are focused on ADHD across the lifespan. He has published peer-reviewed articles and chapters on longitudinal outcomes and the treatment of ADHD, as well as recently co-authoring Mindfulness for Adult ADHD: A Clinician’s Guide. The People's Pharmacy is reader supported. When you buy through links in this post, we may earn a small affiliate commission (at no cost to you). Dr. Paul Rosen Dr. Paul Rosen is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, affiliated with Norton Children's Medical Group. He currently serves as the Director of the ADHD Evaluation Services in the Division of Behavioral and Mental Health with Norton Children's Medical Group. Listen to the Podcast The podcast of this program will be available Monday, August 31, 2026, after broadcast on Aug. 29. In this week's podcast, Dr. Mitchell explains why people without ADHD react so differently to stimulant medication. He also describes the multimodal treatment ADHD study for which he served as investigator. What kind of career counseling could help young people find a good fit with the way their brains work? We also discuss the benefits and the challenges of mindfulness as a complementary approach to ADHD treatment.  You can stream the show from this site and download the podcast for free. Download the mp3, or listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

Dr. Thema's brother, Pastor, author, and activist Dr. Jamal Bryant joins her to discuss the personal and professional challenges of leadership. He shares his insights on thriving, making mistakes, and evolving. Dr. Bryant explores leadership as something we can learn, study, and grow into. Dr. Jamal Bryant embodies the rare balance of spiritual gifts and practical educational experiences that connects pastoral leadership and discipleship teaching with prophetic preaching and courageous social action. Dr. Bryant is equipped and poised to initiate theological revival, decisive commitment and rededication to the teachings of Jesus the Christ as the foundation for personal living, family stability and community development. Dr. Bryant is not only known as a riveting speaker but has earned a reputation as a social justice activist. Prior to pastoring, he served as the national youth and college director of the NAACP for six years, leading about 70,000 young people worldwide on non-violent campaigns. Dr. Bryant earned his Bachelor's Degree from Morehouse College and a Masters of Divinity from Duke University. He studied at Oxford University in Great Britain and earned a doctorate from The Graduate Theological Foundation. Mixed & Edited by Next Day Podcast info@nextdaypodcast.com